Since I tend to ignore all sensible advice anyway I won't read them at this point in time. 😄 My personal strategy is completely inverting the training pyramid and focus entirely on the fun specialized things and ignore the basics like eating sensibly. 🙄 I'm sure it will change one day.

Time to resurrect this thread and stop pretending it doesn't exist. 🙃   I feel better, kind of. The nightmares have stopped, the weather's improved. I do suffer from a certain pointlessness of my existence and lack of motivation, but my mood and energy are... fine. It's weird.   - Still playing the ninja dancing roguelike, but the claws of addiction have released me. Or maybe it's become less fun at the harder difficulties - it's now quite unforgiving and I don't seem to have the capacity to focus for that long... It annoys me.   - I'm embarrassingly only 4 pages into my sketchbook. Hey better than zero?   - Handstands are plodding along, with frustratingly slow progress, as is the wont of handstands. 😛 I wish they weren't so incredibly inconsistent. I'm trying to understand if I fail because of lack of endurance or lack of concentration but it's all a confusing mess. I'm trying to get rid of some bad habits to reduce the variables, and sometimes I think it's helping?   - I sat down yesterday and made myself a schedule. I know, craziness! My track record of following schedules ranges from instantly forgetting it to rage quitting, but I need to do something to get my time under control. I struggle for hours with getting started and then the whole day's somehow gone. Since I feel similarly blah about starting anything maybe a schedule will work this time? And if not maybe it will at least tell me something about how long everything takes.

Poetry is a bit like enjoying paintings in that everyone gets something different from the same piece. No two people will read the poem in quite the same way.  so theres no wrong way of doing it. Everyone has different taste and opinions and they're all equally valid. Everyone comes at a piece from their own perspective and life experiences, so will experience it differently.  personally short stories are not my cup of tea. They are just the wrong length for me to enjoy.

As expected, this past weekend I made it to Rivendell!   Doing no more intentional walking besides my daily stride to and from work, it took me little less than 5 months to cover the distance those fithy hobbitses did in a mere 27 days. Although admittedly, they had little else to do each day besides march forward, and some of that distance was done on ponies.   I've caught up on my LotR audiobooks too, just finished the merry making aspect of the Rivendell stay. Next up is the council of Elrond, where so many memes were born

If you want a more comprehensive guide with no sexually depraved jokes, the scientific principles of strength training and scientific principles of hypertrophy are the two books they put out. Very good.

Alas.   Lol I'm not so easily shocked but thanks for the warning. 😄

Sounds amazing!

Umm, how does one read poetry? I feel I'm too stupid to get 99% of it. Or too impatient. I like the one with fun facts about the body though! Simple mind. 😄

So, no shortcut, just try some. Makes sense.      Mike Israel/RP strength. Seems to be evidence based. Not that I can put any of it into practice while I keep crashing. I have a lot more theoretical knowledge than practical experience at this point. Saaaaaad. Oh, and if you decide to watch his YouTube videos I take absolutely no responsibility for any shock or offence you might suffer. He's a very offensive and inappropriate man. He just happens to know about lifting.