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Wednesday, April 24th:

Forgot to post last week. Did these on Thursday: 60 seconds tree pose hold - 🐝 (TWICE! 60s left leg, 60s right leg!) 40 side-to-side jumps - 🐝 And then I thought I'd be launched again, but it stalled. Again. 🤦‍♂️ New attempt this week: 40 squat hops on the spot - 🐝 40 lunge punches - 🐝

Monday, April 22nd: Tuesday, April 23rd:

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Tuesday 23 April Cooking: Made me a breakfast burrito wrap and another to take to work for lunch. Got a sudden invite from a friend I've been trying to meet for a while now and we met for ramen dinner after work, but was still hungry late in the night and after a workout, I made myself a quick salad since I'd already chopped the lettuce to be stored for future wrap use. Scoring the full three points for the day. Charisma: As mentioned, met with said friend and had a nice evening out. Fitness: Did my workout later in the evening, adding one extra rep on each set to slowly do a progressive overload before I raise the weight and bump down the reps again. Media Production: This habit of hearing the album early on at work with my coffee while things are still quite helps a lot get it out the way. Made the post later in the evening and also got to listen to another album from my backlog, so overall success.

I do this from time to time. not that im a big user anyway, but it is far too easy to doom scroll on there and screw over your mood for the entire day/week. My preffered cure for brain bad chemistry days. Good music. Hopefully one of the above is to your taste 😄 sadly i had to make the choice many years ago (due to the CFS) between either being well informed on current events or my mental and physical health as my mood effects my health and energy levels so massively. I stick my head in a news site vaguely once a month (energy permitting) its all i can manage. So im not 100% on which piece of news it is (seems hard to pick at the moment to me) but sending big hugs

Week 4 roundup! Run 🌟 Additional Movement 🌟 Music practice 🌟🌟 Nature Appreciation 🌟 Meditation Bonus? Sociability Adventure runs 🌟 Photos 🌟 Running total 28 🌟 I gave myself two stars for music. Between 3 rehearsals and plenty of home practice I logged between 8-9 hours this week! MIL is singing with my choir for this concert, so we practiced together on one of my short workdays. It’s nice to have that time with her and feel like we can develop a relationship of our own, not just the relationship-by-proxy through Mr. Radost. Even with all that time spent making music, I carved out an Adventure Saturday! Sibling B took dinner duty and just as well because I didn’t get home until after 5. I went out to the Far Lake, which is on a lovely rail trail, about 2 hours away by bike. Every time I get out there I go “Why don’t I do this more often???” …and then I have to get back on the bike to get home and oh, that’s why. 😅 I tried a new trail. I found it searching for “running trails in [area]” and it was listed as an 11k loop…but I realized when I was there that although the new-to-me trailhead was around the middle of the park, not far from my favourite bike rack and viewpoint, the loop was meant to start at the park entrance and follow the rail trail for about half the distance. BORING! I took the Cedar Grove trail and then headed on what was supposed to be a 2-3 km creekside trail to take me back to my bike but morphed into the far side of the lake loop, whoops. I love the creekside trail though, it’s beautiful twisty single-track without too much elevation change, dodging tree roots and mud puddles. I think it was around 8k again, but much more challenging than last week! @Mad Hatter I know 8k is An Achievement in itself! But also I have been aiming to up my distance to around 12 by the end of May, so I’m feeling a bit behind schedule, haha. It was beautiful sunny spring weather when I started in the morning, but clouds rolled in as I was in the trees. I had hoped to take a proper rest with a picnic lunch and a good book but between how long it took me to get back around the lake and the way it was spitting rain I settled for a speedy sandwich and like five minutes of just sitting and appreciating the stormy sway of the trees across the water. Got a few pics under the cut. Oh! And when I got home Mr. Radost had picked up the bisexual pop rocks Oreos I’ve been desperate to try! They’re such a weird treat, I love them!

2024 - Year of Progression Word of the Year: Consistency Sleep: 11 Hrs Water: 2/4 Meals: 9:30am - Coffee 11:30am - Coffee, Cereal, egg white omelette, greens drink 3:30pm - Coffee,chick-fil-a sandwich, cookie 6:00pm - Fish, quinoa, broccoli, cookie 10:30pm - Protein Cookie Fitness: Lift Day Language: 1 Portuguese Lesson 1 Spanish Lesson 1 Japanese Lesson Reading: 15 min Meditation: 5 Min Notes: Another Lift Day done, getting back on track. Training Notes: 2 Positives - - increasing on lifts - shoulder is getting better 1 Negative - - need to increase range of motion on shoulder with PT exercises.

I was so excited when I saw her in Bill & Ted Face the Music. George Carlin is not an easy act to follow, and she not only fully owned that role, she killed it. 🤘🏻 One of the reasons I enjoy volunteering is the special kind of comfort that can only ever be felt when in the company of people who understand why a certain piece of political news is devastating, without needing it explained to them. That they also are devastated is secondary. The important thing is that they get it.

That is genuinely impressive. That length of time requires a level of stubbornness, restraint, and sheer endurance that I can only hope to aspire to. I hope you had more good days than bad and that you have many, many more good days together from here on.

My Genesys GM uses World Anvil to document the campaign setting and all the worldbuilding (and it is awesome - I've encountered fantasy writers who could learn from this) and I have noticed that trying to access some of the pages on my phone or chrome book is painful. My working theory is that the world anvil site is horrifically bad at adapting to mobile devices, and that might be what you're running into on the iPad. If that's the case, you might be able to save yourself some headaches by sticking to the computer? While it generally is a bad idea to completely ignore most of one's surroundings, there's a peaceful kind of stillness in focusing on that one single metaphorical tree that is standing so close it blocks out everything else. Scrutinize the imaginary bark, touch the non-existing leaves and enjoy the fact that you have a moment to really look closely at something for once. The moment will end, eventually at some point, but until it does, there's nothing wrong with embracing it.

We'll add this to the list of indicators that Spinoza was a genius.

Overall feeling considerably better about everything today, despite not sleeping as much as I should have. Good quality sleep, just not enough of it, which is my standard these days. I had a surprisingly good day at work. Had a brief encounter with the Drama Llama in an early afternoon meeting, and handled it much better than last time (admittedly not difficult to do), and genuinely shrugged it off immediately after. Last week, after my little meltdown, H. patiently reminded me that since Drama Llama isn't actually above me in the hierarchy, I don't actually have to do what she wants, or even respond in kind when she pushes back against what I want to do. I can simply do what I'm supposed to do and leave it to her to figure out how to deal with it. So I'm testing that approach now. I'm also deliberately skipping the gym visit this evening to save energy and to do other mental-health things. Right as I left work, H mentioned that he really wants to have a quiet evening by himself, with as few interruptions as possible, since he also feels drained and needs to recover after the large amounts of socializing this weekend. So now he's sitting with his gaming PC in his room and I'm sitting with mine in my room, and he will let me know when our dinner gets here, and we will both have as much solitude as we can for the rest of the evening. Rivendell, here I come!

Kristen Schaal is a goddess. A strange goddess of strange humors, voice to some of our favorite characters, and a wild muse. I could list her many accomplishments but I am only one man, and her accolades are so heavy. The clips below of her stand-up, they're fucking weird . Fair warning. The slayer goddess befuddling us for 8:41 in her set from 2022. Schaal slaying for 21:14 at Comedy Central's full set "Making Love to George Washington. 2010ish I think?? [AI images generated via Dezgo AI with the prompt "The comedian Kristen Schaal as a vampire slayer. She is wearing a complicated dress and wielding a crossbow."] Slayer Training Lore Reading in bed by 11pm - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲 Meditation Ass on meditation pillow - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲 Bodhrán meditation 3x/week ✅🔲🔲 Strength Squat - 75% 5x3 Front Squat - 60% 3x5 Paused Single Leg Extension - 75% 5x5 Yoga Life Stuffs Going on a FB diet for a month or so because Weltschmerz isn't useful when I'm upset and impotent to affect change. Writing letters to elected officials (likely a useless gesture), and volunteering in local queer groups, but sobbing over news and social media isn't helping anything. Korean food is amazing, and I had Jap Chae after a mediocre convention I visited last weekend. The convention was mostly an excuse for people to try beat sabers, but I hate people so even that was mostly an annoying thing to suffer through while waiting for delicious sweet potato noodles and Korean beef.

No, no, no, solidarity is not a good description. Stubbornness. We both have a firm belief that the other person can live up to their press releases and we are going to make this work, dammit. That said, we have been actively working on building a good relationship for a long time. Things are now to the point where I worry about something bad happening instead of worrying about how to fix things. --------------------------- Monday worked out better than I expected. I did a familiar core workout. I felt my abs engage and work without protesting. Work continues to have more volume of tasks coming in than I can do. I am trying to do a bit more triage so that the older things do not come around to bite me. Instead of being overwhelmed I am refusing to look at the whole list of things I should be doing. Maybe not the best approach, but it's what I have at the moment. I was looking forward to going to my spinning group to connect with people. That was great. The host gave us a tour of her extensive garden. She keeps bees and chickens too. As we walked over to the hives, one of the group noticed a swarm of bees on a tree. They were just hanging out, coating the trunk of a small tree. Not flying around or doing much. Luckily, the host had an empty hive. She suited up and moved the bees into the hive. Most of us went inside for that part, just to be safe. I brought along a bag of silk roving to give away. I bought it a long time ago. This is the roving that I discovered has noils in it. Great if you want textured yarn. I want smooth yarn, so out it goes. Chris was delighted to see the bag of silk because she wants to do silk dyeing. I told her she could just have it, but she didn't feel right about that. It turned out she just accidentally purchased a wholesale quantity of pearl-infused cellulose fiber. This was the first time I had heard of such a thing. It is white and shiny. I took home a good chunk of it. I'm looking forward to seeing how it spins up and how it blends with alpaca.

So often I find the Hanged Man to be reflective of exactly this "you don't know what you don't know" moment. Here's a dude who has to hang upside down and crosslegged to see things differntly / better. It's not just a transition moment to me, but a perspective shift, and not really one we can always enact for ourselves, but one that has to be imposed on us by the universe or some external source (like reading a book or seeing a movie, or hearing the garbage get picked up -- the Universe is weird and random and often makes use of mundane details because --gosh! -- there are just so many of them). Air / Swords / Intelligence can always cut the weilder, and when taken with the (what was it, Hawthorn? I forget now, but you know which one I mean) ten card that represented burnout, I think this is indicative of a new perspective coming to you. I honestly think you've been through a seriously fertile few weeks, and that this lacuna of no-houseguest, no-Dave is exactly what will allow the perspective to percolate. Be easy with yourself. Throw away half-eaten things that were never for you inthe first place; eat good ingredients weirdly mixed; let the adulting happen in spurts and fits as it will. You are grand and the Universe loves you. ❤️

Maybe the Universe wants public philosphy and writing my novel to be my second job. I'm going to sit with that (while listening to Broken Boy Soldiers). I will have ten Star Trek & Philosophy one-sheets prepped and ready to go, with a page of Notes To Self on each one for things to remember when guiding the discussion. I am pretty certain that I could put this together as a "portfolio" and write a local group and ask for $15,000 to run it monthly (which would cover the cost of renting a room at the arts center next door, advertising and printing supplies, and my TA level salary). This has merit. I love the way the GroupThink happens here. ❤️

I've had a couple of days like that lately myself, where I'm just trying to make the macros fit together while still eating colorfully and getting protein. It's led to odd bedfellows: whey protein and Greek yogurt and riced cauliflower and spiced broccoli and, somehow, it fits my macros. Can't say I fully get how this happens, but, as you say, it could be worse.

#DruidApproved.

Pardon me, I'm going to sit in awe of the sheer solidarity that this statement represents.

You are so right. I have a lot of sympathy for Spinoza who turned down the offer of being a professor and chose to remain a lens-grinder and counted that as freedom. After I read Kim Tolley's Professors in the Gig Economy (a collection of really great essays), I had an a-ha moment that it wasn't just me and it wasn't just this town and or that organization -- academia is in its death throes and I would be better off launching my public philosophy series and writing a grant based on its success. This is not hyperbole: A community college adjuct professor in my town earn $750/credit hour or $2,250/course (IF the class doesn't get canceled, in which cse the lion's share of prep work and time commitment has already happened, but the professor gets paid nothing). A Teaching Assistant at my University makes $12,000 a year (and also gets tuition forgiven, but I don't really care about that since I'm nearly in a post-tuition moment). I could easily write a grant for the public philosophy series that is more in line with a TA income than an adjunct professor, and that's the moment that I knew that I would likely never join the academia circus. My long term plans were never about being "an academic," thank goodness. The only reason I'm a grad student now is becuase I have a sense of real urgency about the timeliness and importance of what I'm researching. I am looking forward to going back to having my intellectual investigations be a hobby amongst friends. You know how I love the Raconteurs, especially this album. Have you heard the live version of "Level?" It just blows me away, every time.

I'm picturing you sipping at your tea while everyone's doing shots and that's classy as heck. Rock on! You do you! Oh I saw a cool insta reel I wanted to try for meatless donair/gyro using brown lentils. It seemed easy enough. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3dFd_BuCzq/?igsh=cm5neGdlNGs3ZWgw Apparently you can do the same with red lentils for a tofu without soy.

Well done fitting in all that exercise. No wonder you didn't have time to read

How did the consultation go? This is not medical advice. I am not a doctor. Definitely talk to your physio. But here's my two cents (do you say two pence?). You can investigate potential muscle involvement. How does it feel to massage or foam roll around your knee? For example: How's your soleus, your gastroc, everything that attaches on the inside of your knee (the adductors, inner hamstrings, etc?) How's your quads, especially your vastus medialis and rectus femoris? How does it feel to trace the gastroc down or the adductors, hamstrings, and quads up? If you don't know what they're supposed to feel like, you can compare to your left leg. That may give you more precise information about where the problem is (and where to focus your efforts.) However, remember that having a muscle problem does not guarentee that that's the only problem. Also, how does it feel to jump in place? That may help you differentiate between high impact (shared with running and walking up inclines) versus particular movements or angles. Good luck!

Lm squats 3x8 bar+27.5kg ar push-ups 6,5,5 rows 50kg 6x3 curls 2x8 / laterals / 2x20 lm press 120 degrees 3x8 bar+13kg / rear delts 2x20 Band high pulls 2x20 Added 2.5kg on legs Added a rep on assisted ring push ups Added 1 set on rows Added 0.5kg on lm press but only did 2 sets