Scientia potestas est Society of the Wise • Est. 1775   The Folly Russell Square London, WC1B 7ZF     30th June, 2024   Dear Sara, Yes, all right. Start with four pages, and we'll go from there. Preferably by tomorrow, and no later than Tuesday.   Yours,   Thomas Nightingale   Detective Chief Inspector, Metropolitan Police Acting President, Society of the Wise       Wait. Wait up. Did he just... actually assign me homework? Like, real homework?   I kind of asked for that one, didn't I...

Is the bumblebee jasper the yellow and brown ones? Very fascinating stone!

30th June, 2024     Dear Inspector Nightingale, Would you accept English and A5 pages? My Latin isn't up to it.     Sincerely,   Sara Kingdom   Trainee at Large, Society of the Wise    

Hat a nice thing to do with them. Ive seen some really cool hanging decorations made from origami animals recently.   

At least you died doing what you love. ❤️ 

Right, well I'd like to develop a posture that doesn't cause my stomach to stick out a lot and that relieves some of my back and knee pain and makes walking more efficient. And yeah, I'd like bigger glutes for aesthetic purposes since I'm not in love with my current flat wide flabby look, or the way that trousers fit so badly because of it. I'm vain and racist and classist like that.      I don't know what the reason for the theoretical disactivation is, but a few days of activation exercises and some focus on using them when I walk (and focusing on a more neutral pelvis which also seems to *allow* me to to use my glutes more) and my walking feels a lot less strained and inefficient. There cannot be that much difference in strength, so maybe it is just a more functional way of moving for me.     So why is it I get so tired standing or sitting up without support? Just muscular endurance? Surely that's not totally unrelated to strength?

Ok, "in my grasp" is a wild overstatement, but I used to know like a tiny bit. But then the knowledge was indeed dragged into the depths of my brain, to be lost forever in the memory dump. 😄  

Thanks, it was great! Forest bathing, ocean meditation, delicious food and anime + videogames to round out the evening. Truly a delightful day.    ~~~   Uh, well, I messed around on my phone instead of spinning yesterday morning but I did get out for my ride. The weather wasn’t very friendly, it was spitting rain but not enough to actually help the plants, not even what you’d call drizzle, and still hot! I mean, “hot,” like low 20s, but still.    I got a bit grumpy because there was a trio of other cyclists that kept passing me and then  I’d take it slow, stay behind someone taking it easy for a while, let them get out of sight, but I’d inevitably catch up to them again so like. I’m not travelling slower than you, Broseph. But the couple times I took advantage of us all being at a road crossing together to take the lead, they immediately put on a burst of speed and pass me going all aerodynamic position and working hard and then like 200m down the trail it’s back to around 5% slower than I wanted to ride. Look, I’m sorry I like to slow down for road crossings and take it easy when I’m passing folks out walking the dog. I may be a chubby 40-something woman but I’m not actually slow. Fortunately, they were heading out farther than me and I didn’t see them on the way back.    I had a lovely time at the rocky, rainy beach. Didn’t see much wildlife (sometimes there’s huge jellyfish here!) but it was so restful. Too restful, maybe - I tried to meditate and kept drifting off. Not sure whether to give myself a star for that or not, haha. I thought about stopping by a native plant nursery 15 minutes away, but I stayed kinda long at the beach, and with that plus weather worsening plus the thought of plants bouncing around in my bike basket for 90 minutes plus the fact that I don’t have a lot of room in the budget, I decided to skip it. There was a lovely little wildflower in the park, though, that I’m gonna see about adding to my garden eventually. Harvest Brodiaea, Brodiaea coronaria.    I was thinking as I rode, I’ve actually been managing to get out on the rail trail once or twice a month this year. Usually I manage once or twice a season at best, and sometimes just once or twice a year. It makes me happy!   Pics under the cut     Week 2 Roundup   Exercise: 🌟🌟 Meditate: 🌟 Fun money: 🌟 Home & Hobbies: 🌟   Bonus   Adventure: 🌟 Forums: 🌟 Photos:  🌟 Tour de Fleece: ❎❎❎❎❎❎🚴‍♀️   Running total: 24 🌟   Now time to get those damn tomatoes in the ground!

Not just people! But still weird.   Why is it that some lessons refuse to stick? 🤔 Congrats on the unsuspension!