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10k is not easy to get if you're a desk worker. It's maybe 100 minutes on your feet. Does your fitbit give you idle-time reminders? That can make it easier, if you can find an excuse to get up for five minutes every half-hour.

Week 3: Day 3 The Patrician didn’t believe in unnecessary cruelty.1 He did not believe in pointless revenge. But he was a great believer in the need for things to be sorted out. 1While being bang alongside the idea of necessary cruelty, of course. Fitness Points 8 hours of sleep 5 Move Like a Snake: Rowing Interval Workout (5 points available) 3 Move Like a Snake: Workout Extras 3 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: liters of water 1 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: Bonus (2 points for 3 liters of water, the odd extra point for some sort of effort) Life Points 5 All Control Starts With the Self: Meditation (5 points available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Desk Habit Trigger (1 point available) 1 All Control Starts With the Self: Bedtime Habit Trigger (1 point available) 1 If You Can Stand the Excitement: Make a Detailed Daily Schedule (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task A (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task B (1 point available) 1 Learn the Words: Duolinguo (1 point available) 17 Productivity Bonus 2 Adulting Bonus 0 Writing Goal Bonus​ Total Points: 47 points

A Matrix vampire is a really good look, and one I aspire to myself. That does sound like a really good week.

Ha! Well, yes, the upside is more sleep. The downside is I slept through my alarm. The body's way of telling you, "Sleep, goddamn you!"

Good call on the rest, and don't stress over the food. You're trying to hit peak performance on Thursday. Fuel up, rest, race, recover, train.

There's a lot to be said for slipping activity into the general fabric of your day, like the 10k steps goal does. It may not be "impressive", but that's a pretty solid life plan, IMO.

Looooooooou! Don't die of flu!

Week 3: Day 2 Fitness Points 8 hours of sleep 0 Move Like a Snake: Rowing Interval Workout (5 points available) 0 Move Like a Snake: Workout Extras 2 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: liters of water 0 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: Bonus (2 points for 3 liters of water, the odd extra point for some sort of effort) Life Points 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Meditation (5 points available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Desk Habit Trigger (1 point available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Bedtime Habit Trigger (1 point available) 1 If You Can Stand the Excitement: Make a Detailed Daily Schedule (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task A (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task B (1 point available) 1 Learn the Words: Duolinguo (1 point available) 4 Productivity Bonus 2 Adulting Bonus 0 Writing Goal Bonus​ Total Points: 18 points

Yeah, the only reason I don't recommend it to people who haven't read any of the series before is that it relies so much on knowing who the characters are today, and how the city runs today. It's quite a book, though, isn't it? And deceptively serious. God, yeah, I need it. I really do.

I think I might actually die from lack of pie.

Week 3: Day 1 "Look out of the window. Tell me what you see." "Fog," said the Chief Priest. Vetinari sighed. Sometimes the weather had no sense of narrative convenience. Fitness Points 6 hours of sleep -1 bad life choices 0 Move Like a Snake: Rowing Interval Workout (5 points available) 0 Move Like a Snake: Workout Extras 2 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: liters of water 0 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: Bonus (2 points for 3 liters of water, the odd extra point for some sort of effort) Life Points 5 All Control Starts With the Self: Meditation (5 points available) 1 All Control Starts With the Self: Desk Habit Trigger (1 point available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Bedtime Habit Trigger (1 point available) 1 If You Can Stand the Excitement: Make a Detailed Daily Schedule (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task A (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task B (1 point available) 1 Learn the Words: Duolinguo (1 point available) 9 Productivity Bonus 2 Adulting Bonus 0 Writing Goal Bonus​ Total Points: 26 points

Week 2: Day 7 "Do you want a lawyer?" "No, I ate already," said Brick. "You eat lawyers?" Carrot said. Brick gave him an empty stare until sufficient brain had been mustered. "Um... what do you call dem things. They kind of crumble when you eat them?" Carrot looked at Detritus and Angua to see if there was going to be any help there. "Could be lawyers," he conceded. Sunday non-Vetinari special. Feeling a bit Brick-like. Fitness Points 4 hours of sleep-1 bad life choices3 Move Like a Snake: Rowing Interval Workout (5 points available)0 Move Like a Snake: Workout Extras 1 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: liters of water0 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: Bonus (2 points for 3 liters of water, the odd extra point for some sort of effort)Life Points 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Meditation (5 points available)0 All Control Starts With the Self: Desk Habit Trigger (1 point available)0 All Control Starts With the Self: Bedtime Habit Trigger (1 point available)0 If You Can Stand the Excitement: Make a Detailed Daily Schedule (1 point available)0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task A (1 point available)0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task B (1 point available)1 Learn the Words: Duolinguo (1 point available)2 Productivity Bonus1 Adulting Bonus 0 Writing Goal Bonus​Total Points: 11 points

BRB, off to hunt the internet for sounds.

That sounds about right for Vetinari. Clever and likable and very, very dangerous. Pretty well lately. Mostly on an upswing. Couple of little things that aren't really getting done much, or at least not as planned. (One of my goals, I'm still trying to figure out how to measure it and what to count, so it's kind of a work in progress.) I'm not quite hydrating enough. Doing better, but not getting the three liters I want to.

That is definitely a success! A lot of people fall down on their habits when they're sick, or need to make a little exception for some reason, and it's hard to know where the exception stops. Pushing through it, and especially doing it without even thinking about it, is a huge win.

Week 2: Day 6 Of course, there were various groups seeking his overthrow, and this was right and proper and the sign of a vigorous and healthy society. No-one could call him unreasonable about the matter. Why, hadn’t he founded most of them himself? And what was so beautiful was the way in which they spent nearly all their time bickering with one another. Human nature, the Patrician always said, was a marvelous thing. Once you understood where its levers were. One of my favorite Vetinari quotes. It's so hard not to like Vetinari. Fitness Points 7 hours of sleep 0 Move Like a Snake: Rowing Interval Workout (5 points available) 0 Move Like a Snake: Workout Extras 1 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: liters of water 0 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: Bonus (2 points for 3 liters of water, the odd extra point for some sort of effort) Life Points 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Meditation (5 points available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Desk Habit Trigger (1 point available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Bedtime Habit Trigger (1 point available) 1 If You Can Stand the Excitement: Make a Detailed Daily Schedule (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task A (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task B (1 point available) 1 Learn the Words: Duolinguo (1 point available) 6 Productivity Bonus 2 Adulting Bonus 0 Writing Goal Bonus​ Total Points: 18 points

300 yards is a bit of an endurance challenge if you don't swim much now, but mostly a matter of getting lung and arm conditioning back. The last could be trickier. That's gonna be something like a 30-minute/kilometer pace while dragging an extra 10lb. IIRC, that's not a competitive racing pace, just sort of a strong medium-pace swimmer, is the good news. Once you've got the conditioning for the 300 yards, you may be pretty close to that pace. You got a pool to train in? I'd say it's maybe two weeks of regular training to get the lungs back. If your front crawl's ever been sorta middling, that'll probably get you into the right range.

Week 2: Day 5 "Do I need a badge that says 'tyrant'?" Fitness Points 4 hours of sleep -1 for bad life choices 5 Move Like a Snake: Rowing Interval Workout (5 points available) 0 Move Like a Snake: Workout Extras 2 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: liters of water 0 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: Bonus (2 points for 3 liters of water, the odd extra point for some sort of effort) Life Points 5 All Control Starts With the Self: Meditation (5 points available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Desk Habit Trigger (1 point available) 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Bedtime Habit Trigger (1 point available) 1 If You Can Stand the Excitement: Make a Detailed Daily Schedule (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task A (1 point available) 0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task B (1 point available) 1 Learn the Words: Duolinguo (1 point available) 11 Productivity Bonus 1 Adulting Bonus 3 Writing Goal Bonus​ Total Points: 33 points

They are one of the great comedy double acts in literature.

The swimsuit thing... always sucks. I think it just helps to go, "This is part of the deal, and bodies, everyone's got one, so screw it". It's been a long time since I looked at the lifeguard test (never did it, but spent a long time sort of close to what I would have needed as a teenager). IIRC, the worst bit is treading water with a brick overhead, with some time and position requirements? The specifics of that one always seemed like it was an unexpectedly high strength requirement compared to the rest of the test.

Is it that you're letting the whole process drift later than it usually does and that it's taking longer to fall asleep when you get there? I guess the first thing I'd try is just getting the whole going to be process back at its regularly scheduled time. Sometimes if you run late, you get a second wind, and it doesn't help the sleeping.

Week 2: Day 4 Vetinari: Do you know why I sent Captain Carrot away just now, Vimes? Vimes: Couldn't say, sir. Vetinari: Captain Carrot is an honest young man, Vimes. Vimes: Yes, sir. Vetinari: And did you know that he winces when he hears you tell a direct lie? Vimes: Really, sir? Vetinari: I can't stand to see his poor face twitch all the time, Vimes. Vimes: Very thoughtful of you, sir. Fitness Points 6 hours of sleep5 Move Like a Snake: Rowing Interval Workout (5 points available)0 Move Like a Snake: Workout Extras 2 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: liters of water0 Merckle & Stingbat's Very Famous Brown Sauce: Bonus (2 points for 3 liters of water, the odd extra point for some sort of effort)Life Points 0 All Control Starts With the Self: Meditation (5 points available)0 All Control Starts With the Self: Desk Habit Trigger (1 point available)0 All Control Starts With the Self: Bedtime Habit Trigger (1 point available)1 If You Can Stand the Excitement: Make a Detailed Daily Schedule (1 point available)0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task A (1 point available)0 Know What's Going to Happen: Five minutes planning on Task B (1 point available)1 Learn the Words: Duolinguo (1 point available)7 Productivity Bonus1 Adulting Bonus 0 Writing Goal Bonus​Total Points: 23 points

That tallies with my more limited experience. About 1/4-1/3 women, and evenly distributed through the ranks, with a heck of a lot of senior women around. I think it probably does help that it's non-competitive. And it is pretty well-suited to women's bodies, more emphasis on the lower center of gravity than on strength.

I chose quotes carefully, for your sake, you know. I might just have to read it again. Gosh, I love that book.