[TimovieMan]

Now that September is here, and the kids have to go back to school again, it's time to fall back into the regular non-vacation routine.

 

Except this time around, the routine is slightly different.

 

The kids' hobbies have changed their timetables slightly, and particularly TimovieDaughter has expanded on her hobbies quite a bit by also wanting to play football now.

TimovieSon has football practice twice a week, goalkeeper practice once, and a football match on Saturday morning. This is more or less the same as last year.

TimovieDaughter now has football practice twice a week, a football match on Saturday morning, swimming practice once a week (there's overlap with football for the second swimming practice), two music classes each week, and piano practice once.

 

That's busy as fuck, since there's *something* every day of the (work)week. We've only got Sundays off now.

 

TimovieDaughter will have to make a decision by the end of the year, though. One of the hobbies has got to go. Preferably the music since it's not like she practices often at home unless being nagged about it by us.

 

 

But not only are the kids' schedules busier now, Mrs. Movieman has just switched jobs. Her first day was yesterday.

And while she's working a lot closer to home now (biking or even walking distance), she's got a bit more responsibilities to take on than in her previous job, and everything is new, so she has a lot coming at her right now.

That also means that we still have to get a handle on what her routine will look like from now on.

 

 

So, juggling all this will prove a challenge, especially if I want to keep up with everything.

 

 

This challenge for me will be as follows:

	Bad	Poor	Ok	Good	Excellent	Frequency	Notes
Intermittent fasting	< 14 hours	≥ 14 hours	≥ 16 hours	≥ 17 hours	≥ 20 hours	Daily
Calorie intake	> 4000 cal	> 3000 cal	≤ 3000 cal	≤ 2400 cal	≤ 2000 cal	Daily	Ballpark figures are good enough
Curfew	≥ 1.30 am	≥ 1.00 am	< 1.00 am	< 0.30 am	< 0.00 am	Daily	Add 2 hours before non-working days
Sleep	< 5h 30m	< 6 hours	≥ 6 hours	≥ 6h 30m	≥ 7 hours	Daily	Fitbit numbers - naps count for half
Avg. sleep	< 6 hours	≥ 6 hours	≥ 6h 15m	≥ 6h 30m	≥ 6h 45m	Weekly	Fitbit numbers - naps count for half
Steps	< 6.000	≥ 6.000	≥ 8.000	≥ 10.000	≥ 12.000	Daily	Fitbit numbers
Avg. steps	< 9.000	≥ 9.000	≥ 10.000	≥ 11.000	≥ 12.000	Weekly	Fitbit numbers
Workouts	≤ 1	> 1	> 2	> 3	> 4	Weekly	Mini-workouts: 1/10 per exercise
Distance	< 15 km	≥ 15 km	≥ 20 km	≥ 25 km	≥ 30 km	Weekly	Walk to Mordor distance

 

Similar to the previous challenges, but with minor tweaks to the curfew and the workouts, giving me ever so slightly more slack the coming weeks.

 

And the weight is no longer part of this log.

 

Which is not to say that I'm now maintaining. Just that I'm not going to fret about the week-to-week weight changes. I'm doing the weight loss PVP again, so losing 10 pounds to reach my second weight milestone is now a general two-challenge goal.

[Snarkyfishguts]

Following! Considering your schedule, I'm really glad you're utilizing our PVP as a weight loss tool to give yourself more time to make your goals. Also, you're fun to have around  

 

 

[TimovieMan]

Monday:

 

Had a busy morning at work. My lunch break got postponed a bit because of this. Still went for a long walk, so I got my steps in. But my entire schedule had shifted a bit, and I simply didn't have the time to add in a workout as well. Will try again on Wednesday (since today is not an option).

 

 

Today:

 

Short night's sleep. Again. Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition is to blame. Again.

Le sigh.

 

 

My start of "zero week" so far:

	Week 0
	M	T	W	T	F	S	S
Intermittent fasting
Calorie intake
Curfew
Sleep
Avg. sleep	5h22
Steps
Avg. steps	12.1K
Workouts	0.0
Distance	7.26 km

 

 

 

The song I'm picking now is from a band whose name I've known for decades but I never really looked too closely at their discography.

That changed when I saw them live at the Alcatraz Festival last month. In my preparation, they'd already come across as "these guys are better than I thought", but then they also gave one of the better performances of the festival, and that made me sit up and take notice.

Especially because I see and hear a lot of similarities with the band Paradise Lost (who I love). Both bands started in the doom metal genre, but evolved over time and incorporated different styles, leading to a rich discography. This song in particular is a favourite of mine now:

 

Amorphis - House of Sleep

 

[Sovalis]

Here to follow along!

[DarK_RaideR]

Came for TimovieTunes, stayed for the spreadsheets.

[TimovieMan]

Good news and bad news.

Let's start with the bad: again no workout on Wednesday. I'll try again on Friday. And I really need to start the DailyDare exercises again...

The good: we have successfully convinced TimovieDaughter to give up music. Took some convincing. "But I super-enjoy it!" "If you really super-enjoyed it, you'd practice more!" 😅

 

That means that the kids don't have any activities on Wednesday afternoons, which makes working from home easier - especially these first couple of weeks when the missus needs to be at the office more. It also makes Thursday evenings and Saturday noons less hectic.

Plus it'll save us the monthly rent on the piano AND clear out one of the larger pieces of furniture in our living room... 🤣

 

My week so far:

	Week 0
	M	T	W	T	F	S	S
Intermittent fasting
Calorie intake
Curfew
Sleep
Avg. sleep	5h21
Steps
Avg. steps	11.4K
Workouts	0.0
Distance	14.89 km

 

Oh look, I got into bed at a decent time for once... 😇

Yes, I know that so little sleep isn't healthy.

 

Didn't make my 16-hour fasting window yesterday. Didn't even make a 14-hour one. But I'm compensating with a 24+ hour one today... 😁

 

 

 

 

Let's talk movies for a bit.

I love director Terrence Malick's philosophical / poetic approach in films - it has resulted in 'The Thin Red Line' for instance, a perfect companion piece to Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan' that released in the same year. But unfortunately, some of his films have parts that are simply "out there". 'The Tree of Life' provides one such example. That's a movie that I simply didn't "get". I know Malick was angling for spiritual themes, but I couldn't really connect the parts with the birth of the universe and emergence of life on Earth to the rest of the movie. I just didn't "get" it.

However, one of those sequences was still jaw-droppingly brilliant. Images of the universe set to a classical opera piece - where the combination of the powerful music and the gorgeous visuals lead to an awe-inspiring movie moment.

I still didn't "get" the context of it all, but my God, this bit was beautiful...

 

Zbigniew Preisner - Lacrimosa

Movie scene:

 

Zbigniew Preisner - Lacrimosa

Full song:

 

I still haven't decided on a #2000 for my list, a song to open with. I have a #1000 (Daft Punk's 'Tron: Legacy Overture'), and I have a #100 (Carl Orff's 'O Fortuna') as milestones. I'm thinking this here might make an epic opener for the #2000 spot.

Plus, it'll undoubtedly elicit some "WTF?"-looks from the kids... 🤣

[Shello]

Following - good luck on your new routines!  

[Waanie]

Following - I had never heard of Amorphis, and I quite like at least some of their songs now . I hope that the new routine will settle soon!

[Rookie]

I love your spreadsheet! 

 

I call getting TimovieDaughter to drop music a huge win lol you're schedule is so jam packed 

[deftona]

Following! I love the grading for this challenge, such a good idea. 

[Salinger]

Do you have a fave or top three fave directors?

 

hello btw here as always 🤘🏼

[TimovieMan]

On 9/6/2023 at 5:05 AM, Sovalis said:

Here to follow along!

Thanks!

 

On 9/7/2023 at 1:48 PM, DarK_RaideR said:

Came for TimovieTunes, stayed for the spreadsheets.

👍

 

On 9/7/2023 at 9:26 PM, Shello said:

Following - good luck on your new routines!  

Thank you!!!

 

On 9/8/2023 at 9:35 PM, Waanie said:

Following - I had never heard of Amorphis, and I quite like at least some of their songs now . I hope that the new routine will settle soon!

 Check out Wrong Direction, another of my favourites of theirs.

 

 

 

8 hours ago, Rookie said:

I love your spreadsheet! 

 

I call getting TimovieDaughter to drop music a huge win lol you're schedule is so jam packed 

We had already decided that TimovieDaughter would have to drop something  by January. Getting her to drop piano and music now is such a huge timesaver for us...

 

2 hours ago, deftona said:

Following! I love the grading for this challenge, such a good idea. 

Thanks!

I've been using this grading for several challenges now. Best idea I've had in a good long while... 😇

 

1 hour ago, Salinger said:

Do you have a fave or top three fave directors?

 

hello btw here as always 🤘🏼

Welcome!

 

Favourite director is without question Christopher Nolan.

Second and third favourites are harder. Maybe Frank Darabont and Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael.

I used to be a big Quentin Tarantino fan as well, but he became far too self-referential in his later films...

 

 

 

Workout on Friday didn't happen either. I'm kind of wondering how I did these before without running into time constraints. The new routine is not a well-oiled machine yet.

 

The lack of sleep caught up with me. Wanted to watch the Alcaraz vs Medvedev match. Fell asleep on the couch. At least I got to recover *some* sleep.

 

Today would've been an "under 2K calories" day, but the kids had some crisps in the evening, so naturally I had some too.

 

Tomorrow is going to be red across the board. We're meeting up with our friends again, so it's going to be another food extravaganza. And with the weather we have now, it's definitely going to be a barbecue. At least that means I'll get plenty of protein in... 😅

 

	Week 0
	M	T	W	T	F	S	S
Intermittent fasting
Calorie intake
Curfew
Sleep
Avg. sleep	5h43
Steps
Avg. steps	11.7K
Workouts	0.0
Distance	26.04 km

 

 

 

Here's a band I only discovered yesterday. I like what I hear, they have these '80s vibes, but the singer is also capable of more Nightwish-like classical singing. And they're Finnish. Of course  they're Finnish...  😅

 

Battle Beast - King for a Day

 

[Waanie]

9 hours ago, TimovieMan said:

 Check out Wrong Direction, another of my favourites of theirs.

I like it! I probably won't put it on at it's own, but it's nice variation for things like driving .

[TimovieMan]

Sunday afternoon was spent at our friends' house for a barbecue. And lots of appetizers. And a lot of dessert. And I had two rum-and-cokes and a lot of Ice Tea.

Also very few steps.

But at least I got a good night's sleep for once (got in bed relatively shortly after watching Coco Gauff win the US Open), and even managed to get my average sleep length over 6 hours for the week. With the amount of "less than 5h30 of sleep" days, that's quite the achievement.

 

So of course I followed that up with getting in bed at 2 am last night, so this week starts with another "red" sleep day. Blame the average rally length of the Medvedev-Djokovic US Open final.

And then I couldn't even get to sleep because it was just too darn hot in the house. Even though TimovieSon had crawled into our bed and I thus had to sleep in his - which meant that I could sleep in the coolest room in the house under an open window. No avail.

 

Oh well.

 

 

Week 0 summary

	Week 0
	M	T	W	T	F	S	S
Intermittent fasting
Calorie intake
Curfew
Sleep
Avg. sleep	6h01
Steps
Avg. steps	10.5K
Workouts	0.0
Distance	26.04 km

 

Eating was good, apart from Sunday but that was an expected "red" day. Weekly weigh-in was on Sunday morning, natch. 😅

Sleep was piss-poor all week. Let's chalk that one up to me playing Divinity: Original Sin. It's more of a reason than the US Open was.

Steps were decent enough, but faltered over the weekend.

No workouts is a massive point of improvement for these coming weeks. Didn't even do the DailyDares either. Need a respawn on this.

 

 

Weekly weigh-in

 

Weight: 92.95 kg (+0.55)

Body fat: 22.1% (+0.1)

 

Measurement was before a day of heavy eating, but during a heat wave, so water retention is part of the issue. I couldn't take off my wedding ring, which is a good indication of this.

 

 

Walk to Mordor

 

Distance walked/swam this week: 26.04 km (16.18 miles)

Road to Mordor: total 546.8 miles - Rivendell to Lothlórien - Dec. 30 / 1 Yule - Night 6 since Rivendell - reached the crest of another low mountain spur. Turned southwest at descent.

 

 

 

 

Here's the title song of Paradise Lost's "One Second" album. A band that was probably the most influential death/doom metal band in the world just a few years prior to this release, suddenly had a shift in sound and made what is probably their softest album to date. With this arguably being their softest song.

While the band has spoken out against some of their releases during their "softer" era, I'm pretty sure that they still like this particular album. They played two songs off it when I saw them live last year. Including this one:

 

Paradise Lost - One Second

 

Is it me, or does singer Nick Holmes resemble Coldplay's Chris Martin a bit in this video? 🤣

[Salinger]

On 9/9/2023 at 10:33 PM, TimovieMan said:

 

 

Favourite director is without question Christopher Nolan.

Second and third favourites are harder. Maybe Frank Darabont and Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael.

I used to be a big Quentin Tarantino fan as well, but he became far too self-referential in his later films...

 

 

 

Ah nice!!

 

Cool choices. I loved Mr Nobody - not seen that in a long time tho...

 

My choices (if interested!)

 

1. Paul Thomas Anderson

2. Charlie Kaufman

3. David Lynch

 

 

❤️ 

 

[DarK_RaideR]

Paradise Lost got a lot of hate when they switched from their death/doom origins to more accessible goth stuff like this and I just don't get why (besides metalhead elitism, that is). They made some really good songs, they were commercially succesful and if I'm honest, I wasn't that excited when they switched back to heavier stuff with Beneath Broken Earth.

[Everstorm]

11 hours ago, TimovieMan said:

Sleep was piss-poor all week. Let's chalk that one up to me playing Divinity: Original Sin.

I see you are also a member of the "Just one more chapter" club.  Or the gamers' sister club "Just 10 more minutes".

[TimovieMan]

24 minutes ago, Everstorm said:

I see you are also a member of the "Just one more chapter" club.  Or the gamers' sister club "Just 10 more minutes".

I love the Civilization series. "Just one more turn" is very much constantly in effect.

 

Or in the case of Divinity: Original Sin: Just one more quest. Just one more battle. Just one more corridor to explore... 😇

 

 

 

  

8 hours ago, DarK_RaideR said:

Paradise Lost got a lot of hate when they switched from their death/doom origins to more accessible goth stuff like this and I just don't get why (besides metalhead elitism, that is). They made some really good songs, they were commercially succesful and if I'm honest, I wasn't that excited when they switched back to heavier stuff with Beneath Broken Earth.

I don't get that attitude either. Paradise Lost made their best work once they stopped being so extremely death/doom. Their first two albums are the ones I like least. And coincidentally, the first and last of their supposed "dork age" are my two favourites, "One Second" and especially "Symbol of Life" (which is a masterpiece).

[Chris-Tien Jinn]

On 9/5/2023 at 8:50 AM, TimovieMan said:

That's busy as fuck, since there's *something* every day of the (work)week. We've only got Sundays off now.

 

Wow.  Not sure that's sustainable, but I salute the effort.  

[Waanie]

9 hours ago, TimovieMan said:

I love the Civilization series. "Just one more turn" is very much constantly in effect.

There is no such thing as half a game of Civilization. There is just a full game and a lack of sleep...

[TimovieMan]

9 hours ago, Chris-Tien Jinn said:

Wow.  Not sure that's sustainable, but I salute the effort.  

There's a reason we *really* wanted TimovieDaughter to drop one of her hobbies.

And since TimovieSon has 3 classmates who all live nearby in his football team, we're taking turns in carpooling them to and from practice.

I agree that it wouldn't be sustainable otherwise. They're at that difficult age where they want to do ALL THE THINGS, but they're still too young for us to go "well take your bike and off you are then". 😅

 

1 hour ago, Waanie said:

There is no such thing as half a game of Civilization. There is just a full game and a lack of sleep...

Fortunately for me, this ended with Civ IV.

Civ V made some improvements, but had some other things that needed tweaking. Civ VI kept everything that worked in Civ V and expanded upon it, and in theory V and especially VI should be better than CIV, but for me personally, CIV is the greatest game in the series.

There's such a thing as making the games too complex and time-consuming. Some games are just far more fun when they're dumbed down a little... 🙃

 

Probably why I'd sooner go back to Championship Manager 01-02 with an updated database, than try any of the newer Football Manager games. They stopped being fun after 2007, since there was so much to do that it took you three hours just to advance to the next match. Back in CM01-02, you could finish an entire season in about eight hours...

[Harriet]

I like amorphis's Queen of Time album. Almost every song is good. I wasn't so caught by the other albums. Are the kids' activities difficult because you drive them everywhere? Or is it just other things like reminding them, paying for equipment, etc? 

[Salinger]

Hey Timo, how has your week started? x

[TimovieMan]

1 hour ago, Harriet said:

I like amorphis's Queen of Time album. Almost every song is good. I wasn't so caught by the other albums.

If their performance at the Alcatraz festival last month was any indication, they're an incredible live band! 😎

 

1 hour ago, Harriet said:

Are the kids' activities difficult because you drive them everywhere? Or is it just other things like reminding them, paying for equipment, etc? 

It's mainly that we need to remind them to get ready and then have to drive them everywhere. And the logistics of getting their jerseys washed in time as well.

In a couple of years it'll be a bit easier since we'll be able to let them go by bike, but now that's still a little iffy.

 

Sure, paying for equipment is a thing too, but that just limits their possibilities a little. "No, TimovieSon, you're NOT going to golf as your hobby. No, karting is out of the question. Football? Go right ahead." 😅

 

56 minutes ago, Salinger said:

Hey Timo, how has your week started? x

Monday night was a short one. I watched the US Open final between Medvedev and Djokovic, so I got into bed at 2 am on a workday. 😅

And then I couldn't get to sleep because of the heat, so I logged a night with only 4 hours of sleep.

 

Did go for an extended walk yesterday, and while I ran into some time constraints, I did do a strength workout. Just one circuit, but that's better than no workout. And I did yesterday's DailyDare exercise, so now I'll have to be consistent and keep doing them... 😇

 

Did well foodwise, too. A 22-hour fast (although that was after overeaty shenanigans), and less than 2.4K calories.

 

Fell asleep on the couch last night, and got into bed immediately when I woke up, so no Divinity: Original Sin but some much needed rest instead... 😁

 

Week so far:

	Week 1
	M	T	W	T	F	S	S
Intermittent fasting
Calorie intake
Curfew
Sleep
Avg. sleep	5h46
Steps
Avg. steps	14.4K
Workouts	1.0
Distance	7.37 km

 

 

 

 

Here's a song that has featured in every list I made (#78 in both 2004 and 2005, #45 in 2006 and #85 in 2016).

I only found out a couple of years ago that singer Richard Patrick is the younger brother of actor Robert Patrick. And of course, only now that I know do I see the family resemblance... 😅

And I only found just now that he served as a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails in the early '90s. It's funny how interconnected a lot of the artists that I like are... 🙂

 

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[Chris-Tien Jinn]

3 hours ago, TimovieMan said:

I did do a strength workout. Just one circuit, but that's better than no workout.