Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

I used to have a spotless apartment in 2019 -- it was a resolution I made to myself. Got out of the crappy Avenues, into a brand new fresh luxury apartment, and kept it spotless. But, I did this in an unsustainable way, cleaning for hours a week. It was often 3-4 hours on Wednesdays and 3-4 hours on Saturdays. Wednesdays I'd get to bed way too late. Saturdays I'd often lose a huge chunk of the day to cleaning, not getting out of the house until the shadows were lengthening. BUT, it did feel pretty amazing to live in such a clean place.  Grad school happened, and I could not hold it. I slipped and it became messy, and it's been that way ever since.  When I read Atomic Habits, I started cleaning a tiny bit every day. When my friend recommended to me the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, I realized that I could both read (for improving my writing and for fun!) and clean at the same time. Every single day.  But it still stayed messy. I was cleaning every day, sure, but it wasn...

No seriously. They're not wrong that the theme parks will likely improve underneath Josh, but the dude still laid off a bunch of people from Disney. So he's not some saint.  Even so, and even when they insist you can't tour epic in one day (you can), I like that website a lot. It's my favorite source of Disney parks info. DFB is also good but it's more clickbaity. 

Still upset over losing one of my writing groups.  My other one is fantastic, so I'll be just fine, but I still keep spinning over this. Did those six years mean nothing  to you people? I thought we were friends.  I guess not.  But the weak will purge themselves. If you weren't dedicated, and you quit when it got hard, then you didn't care enough and you will reap the consequences of that.  When you love something, you dedicate yourself to the pursuit of excellence in it. There is no other option. There is no other choice. You do not bend or break when it gets difficult. It does not matter if you suck. It does not matter if you fail. You pursue and you charge forward and you do not make exceptions or excuses.  In the end, the ones who did not quit are the one who will achieve their dreams.  "It's not the tree that forsakes the flower, But the flower that forsakes the tree."  I don't have a lot of patience for quitters. There is no forgiveness for ...

The hardest part was honestly the ordering of various steps, such as the steps of TLS. I feel that I need to review it a lot more, especially for when I do CompTIA. Since unlike THM, it is fully closed-book and closed-internet. RIP.  TIME BREAKDOWN Part 1 12:10-12:25 Part 2 1:00-1:15.  Part 3:  1:26-1:36  Part 4 1:41-1:58 (17 minutes, RIP)  Part 5 2:09-2:28 (19 minutes; oof)  Part 6 2:35-2:55 or so SCORE: 580/600

I can't do the Serpentine Slides anymore. The backscratching is worse this year than ever before. All the duct tape is gone, replaced by what appears to be new caulking that has not been properly sanded. It cut into my back and left me with welts all across it. It hurt to lay down shirtless, but having a shirt on made it generally okay.  I don't know what the hell is going on, but it looks like it's going to be just me, the speed slides, and the pipeline tower from now on.  Oh and Pipeline was only running ONE. SLIDE. What the heck? Two of them were totally dry. 

Before the Farmington Half, both the night before and the morning of, I drank a packet of LMNT electrolyte drink mix. My mom had gotten me them for Easter.  Cramping? None. Calves felt a tiny bit weird last 2 miles so I didn't pick up the pace that much. But I still cut down from around 6:50/mile to 6:40/mile. No feelings of being faint either, which is huge as someone who can't really eat a lot before races and has to eat everything after finishing.  They are REALLY salty, and that's the whole point. I'm converted.