i guess there's not much to report. i'm on instagram a lot more these days and when i'm not on instagram i'm usually working out!
fitness wise i've been losing about 5-6 lbs every week, which puts me about 100+ lbs lost within the last six months or so. i follow a pretty strict diet which doesn't allow very much (like I can't really even eat rice, or pasta or bread, not even tortillas). people ask me which is the best kind of workout and honestly it depends on the body, but a combination of HIIT workouts and long walks work for me. I average about 40 minutes of exercise every day. exercise is the only thing that keeps me sane (i hate my job and therefore walking is the only thing that mitigates a lot of the negative mental health impact of it).
i don't like my job very much (full disclosure: i work in admin) and i although I work with some nice people, i really don't like the industry i am working in. i enjoyed the tech industry a lot because of the wonderful people i got to meet from all over the world. within the span of a year i met people from india, china, japan, macau, thailand, india, singapore, poland, france, germany, and croatia. they were all wonderfully bright and intelligent, and each had their own take on the global technology community.
aside from that, that's pretty much about it. i try to keep abreast of all things tilde but in the last few years my job and my fitness journey have taken up a lot of my time. i still say hello to ~vilmibm and ~jumblesale and often pop in to say hello to ~caff. most of my time is found on our mastodon instance, where you can find folx like ~selfsame.
i plan to write more in june, when i'll actually have the time to write about some of the more interesting experiences i've had during the pandemic...
~joe
p.s. in the meantime, enjoy some sad, sweet mexican and portuguese music I compiled on apple music!