Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of August! 
Some discussion ideas:
- How was your week?
- Do you have some plans for next week?
- Do you have some tools or resources that you want to share?
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Summer vacation activities
暑期活动
Shuqi huodong
Good luck with your goals! 
I am learning how to use Emacs in order to use org-mode (in Emacs) for note-taking. Look it up if you haven’t heard of it, it’s pretty cool and been around since the early days of computing
Sounds cool, I am in the market for a new note-taking tool so I will check it out. Another comrade recommended Logseq recently
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Bought a watermelon at the supermarket instead of beer.
I haven't checked in a couple weeks, but things are still going good.
Still trail running early in the morning. It's completely dark now, which is kind of cool. Feels almost like running inside an orb of light because I can't see anything past what my headlamp hits. Saw a deer twice and we freaked each other out a bit.
I actually weighed myself for the first time in 4 or 5 months. I did gain some weight back, but way less than I thought. I'm at healthy weight, I just don't want to slip back into old habits and lose all the progress I made last year. I'm going to start weighing in once a week just to see how things are going and decide if changes need to be made.
This week was miserably hot, it was 30C in my apartment all week. I had a bunch of stuff to finish before vacation so it was stressful. But I went running on 4 days in a row 
I am on vacation for the next 2 weeks so improvement will not be a top priority. I can be productive all year but this is the only time when I can do nothing 
Had a good week, but got a mild injury, so I'm switching from running to biking for cardio for a couple weeks, training for a rugged trail half mara in Sept. I'll continue daily Russian lessons in Mango (free app through the local library), chess practice in lichess, sudoku, and hoping to finish State and Revolution in the next couple of days.
Get some, comrades!
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