[Jarric]

 

Another double update day.

 

Friday W1D5

Friday's adventure was a day in the office. I skipped Crossfit and slept in late, having got to bed at half midnight. I didn't feel too bad despite the heavy day before, but I focused on boring tasks which needed completing but didn't require too much energy.

 

In the evening WW cooked 'pepperoni pizza baked potatoes', which were great, and we chilled in front of the TV with the first episode in the new series of Taskmaster. 

 

I didn't get to doing any painting, which will put pressure on my trying to get this mini done this week now, but I updated here, calories were tracked at 2,450, and no money was spent.

 

Saturday W1D6

Yesterday's adventure was an attempt to beat my 10k PB, and I absolutely smashed it! Previous best was 52:47, but I knew from the times I've been putting up recently that I had a sub-50 in me, and despite the pace dropping off towards the end I managed 48:54

 

The run itself was great. I was listening to music at about 180bpm tempo, to try and keep my cadence up to that same level. It was cool and sunny, and running along the sea front promenade was dead flat for most of the way - couldn't have asked for better conditions.

 

After that I spent a while having a cup of tea and recovering before bouldering. Bouldering itself went ok, though I didn't really have enough left in my legs for some of the stuff I wanted to climb.

 

In the afternoon I picked up some new glasses. Whilst I was out I bought some mini paint, and then went to see about getting a zip fixed on one of my hoodies, so it ended up being a money spending day.

 

Mid afternoon we went for a meal with WW's mother, which I had a couple of beers with, and thanks to having already spent money in the day there was really nothing to stop me buying a few more beers later in the evening to have in front of the TV.

 

Calories were tracked at 3,875, but I didn't update here or do any mini painting.

[Heidi]

Just dropping by to say hi.

Sounds like a pretty good finish to the week overall, fellow Adventurer.  

[Jarric]

12 hours ago, Heidi said:

Just dropping by to say hi.

Sounds like a pretty good finish to the week overall, fellow Adventurer.  

 

Hi!

 

It was a good finish, thank  

[Jarric]

Sunday W1D7

Sunday's adventure was running our Ranger D&D game. Last session the party threatened an NPC and let him go, so the first thing he did was come back with some goons to try and kill them. And kill them he did; I think this might technically be my first ever TPK - apparently surprising the PCs whilst their in bed is a little unfair.

 

For reasons that the PCs don't know and which may be a significant part of the plot of this adventure, when they die they come back as alternate universe versions of themselves. Thus, after I senselessly murdered the bronze dragonborn cleric, the human cleric who thinks he's a wizard, the harengon monk, and the astral elf bard, a few weeks later they woke up on a rooftop as a brass dragonborn cleric, a human barbarian who things he's a wizard, a harengon barbarian, and a tabaxi astral self monk. 

 

In an extremely fitting revenge move they tracked down the man who had killed them, interrupted in his bed, and murdered him right back. But not before stopping for a spot of lunch.

 

The morning prior to D&D was spent mostly chilling out, though I did manage to leave the house to get my new glasses adjusted, and I did manage to resist spending any money whilst I was in town. In the afternoon I did some mini painting on the wizard I'm working on whilst watching High Rollers D&D, though I didn't finish him I've made some good progress.

 

Calories were tracked at 2,183, I updated here, and I got 3/3 Duolingo quests for the mini.

 

Week 1 stats

Decisionist: 7/7 days tracking calories. I hit a total of 21,740 for the week, and gained 1.9lbs (which feels surprisingly high, but we'll see if the next few weeks bear that out).

Hoardspoerson: 4/7 no-spend days, which I think is fairly respectable. This week I'd like to aim for 5.

Documancer: 5/7 days checking in here. Would like to be hitting all 7 on this really.

West Marches mini: 19/21 Duolingo quests completed

[Mad Hatter]

On 9/15/2024 at 11:08 AM, Jarric said:

Yesterday's adventure was an attempt to beat my 10k PB, and I absolutely smashed it! Previous best was 52:47, but I knew from the times I've been putting up recently that I had a sub-50 in me, and despite the pace dropping off towards the end I managed 48:54

Wow that's super impressive - congrats!

[Jarric]

20 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Wow that's super impressive - congrats!

 

Thank you! I'm really happy with it.

[Jarric]

Monday W2D1

 

Yesterday's adventure was clearing as much work as possible before 2 days off.

 

First thing was Crossfit - heavy thrusters (50kg or me) and legless rope climbs, which after half an hour was a bit boring to be honest.

 

I was working from home, and was plenty busy trying to get a load of stuff squared away. It feels like crunch time, which seems to be a lot of the time these days, but at least some of the stuff I'm getting involved in is interesting.

 

I ended up working a bit late, and then was absolutely knackered. I spent far too long cooking a lamb chop stew that turned out to not be very good, and then just vegged on the sofa until bedtime.

 

Calories were tracked at 2,560, I updated here at lunchtime, and I didn't spend any money. No painting in the evening, which is particularly annoying because I've now discovered that this is also a goal for the West Marches mini this week, so it's effectively two failed goals (though I hadn't seen the new goal until this morning).

[DarK_RaideR]

On 9/16/2024 at 3:50 PM, Jarric said:

Last session the party threatened an NPC and let him go

THEY DID WHAT?!?!?

 

This didn't come up during this last session either, I'm just finding it out. The night assault was perfectly reasonable. Have no qualms about the TPK, the PCs brought this upon themselves  

[Jarric]

On 9/17/2024 at 2:25 PM, DarK_RaideR said:

THEY DID WHAT?!?!?

 

This didn't come up during this last session either, I'm just finding it out. The night assault was perfectly reasonable. Have no qualms about the TPK, the PCs brought this upon themselves  

 

Sorry, I thought you knew! I did mention it in passing, but for obvious reasons I don't think the rest of the party wanted to dwell on it

 

[Jarric]

Just realised I haven't updated today, and it's now bedtime. Will do a proper update tomorrow, but just wanted to say that I had a wonderful day on Tuesday and hit 3/4 goals.

[Jarric]

 

Tuesday - W2D2

Tuesday's adventure was a trip into London, to see the High Rollers live show

 

First thing was Crossfit - a longass EMOM of heavy thrusters and legless rope climbs (arms only, not drunk... unfortunately).

 

Did some painting in the morning, but didn't manage to quite finish my mini. Got in well over the 15 minutes needed for the West Marches side quest though.

 

Then up to London, where I spent an absolute ton of money on food and drink before and at the High Rollers show. Calories were tracked at 5,263 The show itself was amazing - so bizarre to see hundreds (maybe thousands?) of people turning up to watch some nerds play D&D. Great night.

 

Got home about half midnight and crashed straight into bed. Apart from the spending money, a successful day for goals too.

 

Wednesday W2D3

Wednesday's adventure was a nice walk at a national park, followed by a day chilling on the sofa with beige food. It was nice an relaxing.

 

No money spend (we did stop for beige food, but that's groceries, not part of the goal), updated here, and even finished my wizard mini:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ranger Hal]

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

Then up to London, where I spent an absolute ton of money on food and drink before and at the High Rollers show. Calories were tracked at 5,263 The show itself was amazing - so bizarre to see hundreds (maybe thousands?) of people turning up to watch some nerds play D&D. Great night.

It's pretty wild! I've only watched recordings of the Critical Role live shows, but if/when I get caught up, I'd love to see one in person. It always looks like there's such a crazy energy and I'd like to experience that at least once. I'm glad you had a good time!

 

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

and even finished my wizard mini:

He's amazing!

[Jarric]

14 hours ago, Ranger Hal said:

It's pretty wild! I've only watched recordings of the Critical Role live shows, but if/when I get caught up, I'd love to see one in person. It always looks like there's such a crazy energy and I'd like to experience that at least once. I'm glad you had a good time!

 

He's amazing!

 

It was definitely an experience! I sort of wish I'd got more involved with the community before I went - I've since joined the High Rollers Discord and it would have been cool to get to know people a bit before I went. Still had a fantastic time though.

 

Thank you! He was fun to paint.

[Jarric]

Thursday - W2D4

Yesterday's adventure was asking for a pay rise at work. I think it went ok, nerve wracking as it was - if you don't ask you don't get though. Will be at least a few weeks before I find out if anything's going to come of it.

 

Went for a gentle run first thing. It felt good, which is handy as I have Tough Mudder at the weekend and I really just wanted to take it easy and not injure anything.

 

Work was super busy - I'd only had 2 days off but I spent all morning clearing e-mails and working out what the hell I was supposed to be doing first. I did however get a new AI toy to play with at the end of the day, which I'm hoping will eventually make my life a bit easier.

 

In the evening I did very little - chilled out, watched TV, a bit of mini painting, and watched the latest episode of Taskmaster. It was nice and chilled.

 

No money spent, updated here, calories tracked at 2,847. mini painting done for West Marches - 4/4  .

 

[Jarric]

Busy weekend mega update!

 

 

Friday W2D5

Friday's adventure was finishing a big report at work that I really wanted out of the way. Otherwise it was a fairly chill day - yoga first thing, working from home, made curry for dinner, chilled and painted in the evening.

 

Calories tracked at 2,561, no money spent, updated here, painted some. 4/4.

 

Saturday W2D6

Saturday's adventure was a Tough Mudder!

 

Got up at 6, picked up a friend and got to the site just after 7. A bit of chilling out, eating, sorting gear and all of the usual race stuff, and the two of us were off on course. There'd be a brief thunderstorm the previous day, and the course had been open at that time for a corporate event, so the ground was pretty boggy. Not as boggy as it would be a day later, but that's a different story.

 

The course itself was fun. Tough Mudder is always good value for big-ticket obstacles, including Blockness Monster - a big pool of water with spinning blocks that you have to turn to help others get over - and Flying Monkey - a rig of incline monkey bars followed by some spinning rings to swong from over another pool of cold water. There's also a fair bit of running, though not as much as there should have been - we clocked the '10+ mile' course at 8.4 miles (13.5km).

 

We finished in 2 hours 20, had a finish line beer, and then as we went to shower and change it started to rain. Not wanting to hang around we headed to the pub for a burger before going our separate ways.

 

Knowing that I would be out in the evening I spent some time in the afternoon painting my gnome mini again, as well as washing myself and my clothes. In the evning we went out for our Pathfinder GM's birthday, where we played silly games and drank too much beer. Got home at half midnight and collapsed into bed.

 

Calories tracked at 5,569 (running gels, a big pub burger, and a few beers will do that. Mini painted, but no update here and I did spend money. 2/4.

 

Sunday W2D7

Sunday's adventure was marshalling at the Tough Mudder. Up at 6 again - a real struggle after the previous night - and back to site before 7 to get assigned my post. After plenty of waiting and quite a bit of confusion I was assigned to Creek Crossing, which was basically a river. There hadn't even been a marshal posted there when I ran, but there was so much more mud on course than the previous day and what had been a little jump over the river was now a full on slide in and wade out.

 

It was a fun day, watching people fall in the water and have a laugh about it. Lots of really lovely people, a few muddy hugs, and I managed to blast out 80s metal for the whole day while I was at it. The pack down was less fun, trudging through the mud taking down muddy fences, but it's all part of the job.

 

I got home about 6pm, showered, ate dinner whilst watching strictly, and headed up to bed not long after 9.

 

No money spent, and calories tracked at 3,940, but I didn't find the energy to update here or to paint anything. 2/4.

 

Week 2 scores

Decisionist: 7/7 days tracking calories. Finished the week at 25,814 (that's 3,688 per day!), and I gained 0.7lbs, which I guess is testament to how busy I was at the weekend.

Hoardsperson: 5/7 days without spending money. Not bad at all.

Documancer: 5/7 days updating here. The weekend let me down.

Cartographer: I've still only completed 2 minis, so I'm behind, but I'm getting there on the 3rd. I painted on 5/7 days, which is relevant for the West Marches mini.

[Jarric]

Monday W3D1

 

Yesterday's adventure was sorting out some of my stuff from the weekend. Not all of the stuff, you understand, just some.

 

Crossfit was clean and jerks - theoretically 5x3 at 65% of my max clean. I don't know what my squat clean is, so it ended up being 40kg x 3 x 3 and then 45kg (99#) x 2 x 3. We followed up with a workout of shuttle runs, hang power snatches, and wall walks, which I didn't complete in the 12-minute time cap.

 

Work was ok, pretty busy, but I was properly exhausted from the weekend. In the evening I got some stuff tidied away and did some washing up, but I was knackered and ended up on the sofa after dinner. I did update here and paint minis in that time though, so that's pretty good.

 

Calories tracked at a very reasonable 2,675, but I did cave in and buy a pepsi max at lunchtime to try and combat the fatigue so 2/3 goals for the day.

[Heidi]

21 hours ago, Jarric said:

Week 2 scores

Decisionist: 7/7 days tracking calories. Finished the week at 25,814 (that's 3,688 per day!), and I gained 0.7lbs, which I guess is testament to how busy I was at the weekend.

Hoardsperson: 5/7 days without spending money. Not bad at all.

Documancer: 5/7 days updating here. The weekend let me down.

Cartographer: I've still only completed 2 minis, so I'm behind, but I'm getting there on the 3rd. I painted on 5/7 days, which is relevant for the West Marches mini.

FWIW, I definitely think 5 of 7 days for updates in the forums is a win, or at least a solid B.

Nicely done on the spending!

[Jarric]

14 hours ago, Heidi said:

FWIW, I definitely think 5 of 7 days for updates in the forums is a win, or at least a solid B.

Nicely done on the spending!

 

Yeah, I'll take a solid B!

 

Thank you! I spent a lot on Tuesday, but knocking out all of those little days of a quid here, couple of quid there, does add up as well. I worked out the other day that if I can save £1.50 every day by not buying a bottle of coke, that's £550 in a year that I'm better off by, and that makes it feel rather more significant.

[Mad Hatter]

On 9/23/2024 at 11:04 PM, Jarric said:

It was a fun day, watching people fall in the water and have a laugh about it. Lots of really lovely people, a few muddy hugs, and I managed to blast out 80s metal for the whole day while I was at it. The pack down was less fun, trudging through the mud taking down muddy fences, but it's all part of the job.

Sounds amazing!

[sylph]

3 hours ago, Jarric said:

I worked out the other day that if I can save £1.50 every day by not buying a bottle of coke, that's £550 in a year that I'm better off by, and that makes it feel rather more significant.

I like this framing quite a lot. It's easy to say "it's only X" in the moment, but thinking about it in the conglomerate helps give it a bit more impact, for sure.

[Jarric]

2 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Sounds amazing!

 

Yeah, it's certainly a nice way to earn myself a free ticket for next year.

 

1 hour ago, sylph said:

I like this framing quite a lot. It's easy to say "it's only X" in the moment, but thinking about it in the conglomerate helps give it a bit more impact, for sure.

 

It doesn't always work, but I try and bear it in mind because that's definitely a real chunk of money at the end of the year.

[Jarric]

Tuesday W3D2

 

Tuesday's adventure was an actual adventure - our Pathfinder game.

 

First thing was Crossfit though - a bloody stupid workout quite frankly. 27-21-15 squat cleans and burpee pullups, straight into 15-21-27 front squats and burpees to target. 20-minute time cap for the lot. Absolutely impossible. It's fine - I did 20 minutes of fairly intense exercise and came away almost unscathed (barring a thumb blister) - I just don't really see the point of that kind of workout.

 

Work was ok - mega busy and lots of meetings. It's dawned on me that I have a hell of a lot to do in the next few weeks, and not a lot of time to do it as I'm out for a conference and delivering a couple of webinars, as well as having a week off soon. It'll all come together somehow I'm sure.

 

Pathfinder in the evening was good. We had a fight with a big bunch of morlocks, our first proper combat since we levelled up, and once we'd worked out what the hell all of our new spells and abilities were we had a great time. Our only proper frontline fighter critically failed a will save and got enfeebled 3 (-3 to strength rolls which includes his attack rolls and damage rolls), but I discovered a spell scroll which allowed me to remove the condition and bring him back up. I got to use a stupid new spell which summons an albatross to bother your enemies. The druid cast what is basically an icy version of fireball with plenty of collateral damage. All in all, it was a lot of fun. No realy time for any adventuring after a full combat session, but that's nice sometimes too.

 

I somehow still managed a no spend day, and calories tracked at 2,371. Fairly low, but I'm saving up for a big night out on Thursday. Updated here, and managed a somewhat mindful walk home from work for West Marches. 4/4.

[deftona]

How have I missed this for weeks, I love Jarric challenges - it always seems like you fit so much into each day and that's inspiring. 

 

Good work on asking for a payrise, that took some guts and I really hope they come up with the goodies. 

 

9 hours ago, Jarric said:

I worked out the other day that if I can save £1.50 every day by not buying a bottle of coke, that's £550 in a year

 

Martin Lewis, is that you?!

[Jarric]

17 hours ago, deftona said:

How have I missed this for weeks, I love Jarric challenges - it always seems like you fit so much into each day and that's inspiring. 

 

Does it? I usually feel like I don't achieve much in a day! That's really got me wondering about how I see my days - thanks for that.

 

17 hours ago, deftona said:

Good work on asking for a payrise, that took some guts and I really hope they come up with the goodies. 

 

 

Martin Lewis, is that you?!

 

I'm not sure how I feel about this comparison

 

[deftona]

5 hours ago, Jarric said:

I'm not sure how I feel about this comparison