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25 july 2024

Sport / running

Did 28 minutes today, and it was fine. And I wasn't dead afterwards, which, like, progress. Turns out my doc was apparently possibly right when she said "it's going to be better, energy-wise" - except she was telling me to give it 3 months and I apparently needed 6.

Today was a fairly cranky day - I'm working on a fairly large patch in the realm of an even larger refactoring and, we'll get there, probably, but I had to fight Brainz all afternoon that were telling me that I really lacked refactoring skills (and in probably far more negative words). I pushed through, one step at a time, but it wasn't pleasant, and I needed a smol cry this evening after that. Meh.

Writever

But I caught up on Writever!

Writever July 22nd

The word for July 22nd was "Walk".

The vintage self-help books I found in my grandmother's trunk all have a similar theme: going for a walk is easy and can solve a ton of problems.

I'm not saying it can't, and the few times I did, it did help. But they vastly overestimate the "easy" part in a context where you need a pressurized suit, air bottles and magnetic boots to go for a walk outside.

Writever July 23rd

The word for July 23rd was "Maroon".

Stupid transmission errors, stupid Make-a-Wish AI. I had won a low-grade wish, so I wished for something realistic: twelve dozens macaroons. This is currently the 54th deserted island I'm marooned on in a row. 120 to go...

Writever July 24th

The word for yesterday was "Partners".

"Are you two married?

− We can only be registered partners for now. Our state just barely made robot wedding legal; we're still fighting for human/robot wedding.

− I'm sure we'll get there.

− I hope so. I can't wait to marry my human."

Writever July 25th

The word for today is "Dream".

Of all magic essences, Dream is considered the most powerful and the most dangerous one. The ability to conjure anything at all, no matter how small, big, complex or twisted, by the power of thought comes with the need to control one's nights with an unwavering consistency. Accidents happen way too often; thankfully, no mage has yet managed to Dream themselves out of the Enclave.

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24 july 2024

Pretty chill day today. Therapy was essentially celebrating recent wins, and also ranting about bad science (oops.) The celebrating felt important, and the ranting was actually linked to an explicit exercise, so fine by me.

Today was also the release of War Within WoW pre-patch, so I played a bit of WoW, re-set up my talents, that kind of things. And I finished the Traveler's Log for the month, which I had procrastinated on.

AlphabeticalZürich

I've done some AlphabeticalZürich stuff today too!

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23 july 2024

Long day today, because I started early because I was going to my gym training for lunch, and I might have over-compensated a bit, because I also finished late. All in all my day spanned 11 hours, and I was not away for 3 hours. Meh.

Sport / strength / weights

I went to Paula for training today - we had dealifts, rows, carry, squats and two-hand landmine press. It was good. AND the major milestone: I deadlifted 50kg! Six times in a row! And then 5 times! (I think I couldn't get the 6th on the second set. But brain was not able to count anymore then).

It feels like a huge achievement - partly because it was a "scary" weight. And, it was fine. Not EASY, but absolutely fine. I also noticed a "yeaaah that one had more back involved than I would have liked", and I fixed it on the following rep, and it also felt pretty good to feel what's suboptimal and to know to fix it.

Anyway: TODAY I REPEATEDLY LIFTED FIFTY KILOGRAMS. And that's fucking awesome.

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22 july 2024

Spent a significant amount of time today doing administrative stuff and trying to get numbers that reflect reality in a table. I now have the numbers reflecting reality in the table. I now have a screenshot of the numbers reflecting reality, even if I know that somewhere under the hood there is another lie hiding. I am tired and annoyed and THIS SHOULDN'T BE SO HARD. (yeah, I'm vaguebooking. deal with it.)

I almost skipped choir today because I didn't want to deal with entering the restricted building. So instead I message my choirmates to get support with that (and they were very supportive), and I still managed to go to choir. Identifying what is an issue and getting support for the specific thing that is an issue, instead of letting the issue being a blocker for the whole thing: a winning strategy, it seems. (Also :gasp: asking for help. Who would have thunk.)

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21 july 2024

Went to see Inside Out 2 today. I enjoyed it, although I found it messier than the first one. Also, hai, I'm Anxiety.

Writever

Caught up on Writever, despite the huge distraction that was US politics in the last couple of hours.

Writever July 18th

The word for July 18th was "Relieve".

"So this is Heaven?

− Yes, welcome.

− As in... eternal bliss?

− Not exactly. The only thing we do when you pass the Gates is relieving your from all your earthen emotional baggage. What you do next is up to you.

− Sounds close enough, to be honest."

Writever July 19th

The word for July 19th was "Sibling".

One of the earliest techs developed by our civilization was DNA testing. When you have 1/ strong genetic diversity rules 2/ 4000 siblings coming from the same clutch on average, that specific problem gets solved VERY FAST.

Writever July 20th

The word for yesterday was "Bissap".

Vampires lost a lot of their mystique when a particularly meddlesome young girl discovered they had switched from blood to bissap centuries ago with no other side effect than much better cholesterol levels.

Writever July 21st

The word for today was "Support".

QuanticStorage is not liable for data or information loss resulting from the use of the products in a manner that is not in accordance with the use cases specified in the documentation. In particular, due to the high risk of data transmission error, QuanticStorage does not support the usage of the products in teleportation appliances or any other present or future apparatus using physical matrix transmission.

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