Congrats on the initial exercise goal! What is the long term one??

Reading before bed is key. Dual benefit of getting more reading done and makes you sleepy in a way staring at your phone just doesn’t

Kind of an off week for me so was far less productive than usual. Combination of a frustrating period of work and some hard to pin down stresses. It was a relatively social week however, so gotta take that as a win at least.

I did accomplish some things however:

• baked bread for the first time
• 7 months without drinking
• did some reading on imperialism and feel like I got a better grasp on it now as far as it being the “highest stage of capitalism” instead of just the more popular use definition
• made some progress on two songs I’m writing for a folkish side project
  • one I’m pretty excited about as it uses Reich’s phasing ideas but it’s the first time I’ve done that with guitar. Results are turning out cooler than what I imagined in my head :]
• now actually halfway through Infinite Jest (yes, I know har har whatever it’s actually a good book though)

Things I majorly fell off on:

• exercise went WAY down. I think I only exercised like once this week and zero yoga
• daily instrument practice skipped three days in a row
  • I’m usually okay with one day skipped now and then but three is a legitimate progress problem
• only went for a walk a few times this week so did not get outside nearly as much as I want to
  • this prob didn’t help with my lack of motivation
• had an unexpected high medical expense which SUCKED

For this week:

• get back into my exercise/yoga schedule
• planning to read a bit more on China to get just slightly familiar with things like socialism with Chinese characteristics, Chinese Dream, etc… just like a rough overview of the guiding values of the Xi period
• want to get to at least page 600 of infinite jest as I need to finish it by the end of August so I can move on to other stuff on my backlog
• want to come up with some more exercises for guitar that can be done away from a guitar (on vacation from home this weekend)
• want to continue trying out some new stuff for my hair as I’m kinda embracing the curly girl journey lifestyle at the moment (I am a man lol)

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But now we will never get a sequel to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom…

Ngl this was something I already thought was the case… lol. I’m always way off with any Vietnam news. Gotta get more familiar with modern Vietnam

They said “plenty of vegetable alternatives” not “eat only soy”

I always have some issues with these huge expansion mods using openmw on my Mac. I’m wicked tempted to buy a steam deck for this purpose but I would 100% only play morrowind and fallout new Vegas (other games do not exist) on it so it’s hard to justify buying one…

Always impressive how amazing these mods look though

lmao okay tech evangelist

fellow spy kids toothpaste user I see!

probably won’t be used by a lot of people aware of it simply cause it takes longer to write @thundermail than @gmail which I totally understand

Landlord is an occupation? Not familiar with any labor they do