Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

As a kid, I hated sports, but I did enjoy lifting weights with my dad in front of the TV, using these tiny little silver dumbbells. I also realized that I hated running less than other sports because it was exciting to see who could win a race, and it didn't involve getting hit by a flying ball. I joined XC in high school and grew to love running after only about 2-3 weeks of it. Despite being slow with zero athletic talent, I knew that I was going to push myself to be a great runner anyway, even if I had to work ten times as hard as everyone else. I went from slow to mid-pack and then immediately got injured.  I spent all of college injured, basically, hardly running. And I got super fat. Until 2022. Over the fall, I did a small cut, and I lost all the extra weight at a rate of 1 pound per week. And this time I have a tiny little 4-pack, though it can only be seen in harsh lighting because I still have too much fat around my midsection.  I have tried 3 separate times in my life to

And I hate them because I love water parks.  What do thunderstorms do? Shut down water parks.  In 2019 and 2020 we had so few thunderstorms that I didn't realize it's usually a daily thing in Utah summers. So, one of the biggest advantages I thought utah had -- fantastic summers -- turned out to be crap. This weekend is going to be significantly more difficult than expected because for some reason the stupid thunderstorms started showing up in early May instead of July and they haven't stopped.  Lagoon a beach doesn't open until noon and I don't think I want to try and squeeze cherry hill in beforehand. So I will barely be able to get on all of the rides before the storms hit. Assuming it even opens.  The crowds might be less but that's assuming they even open. All I want is sunshine, none of this thunderstorm BS. 

1. get 2 smart scales. One regular scale to measure your own weight, and one food scale to weigh your food.  2. get a fitness tracker device, like an Apple Watch 3. sync your fitness tracker device to the Cronometer app. you are now going to track every single thing you eat in Cronometer. forever. until you drop dead. no exceptions, except on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, or on major athletic days (i.e. running a full marathon or doing a 21 mile hike or something -- basically if you're going to be burning upwards of, say, 4000 calories).  4. start eating 500 calories under however much you are burning, every day. Cronometer synced with your fitness app will calculate how much you are burning. So if you burn 2500 calories a day, eat 2000 calories instead. weigh things with the food scale, look them up online if ordering from a restaurant, or just ballpark it if it's a local chain. Cronometer has a recipe feature if you cook regularly. you can eat at maintenance once

This morning: My scale stopped working and I wasted time trying to fix it.  I drove to the Orem Rec Center and found it closed due to a flood.  I went to my apartment gym and found it also closed for carpet cleaning.  How the hell can all three of these things go wrong simultaneously? 

Been tired and demotivated today but then this pops up on my FB feed. Awesome!

I think I've figured out the key now.  Drawing the shoulder means that your wrist is not used for anything  other than  holding the pen .  You have to re-wire your muscle memory to drag from your shoulder instead of your wrist. This is tricky. Also, you still need to maintain enough feeling in your wrist to hold the pen steady, but not so much that you accidentally wiggle it. 

Quick entry since I've gotta get to art and thesis work.  Best explanation so far I paid like $300 for this thing and I pay like $7 a month for a subscription. It is a cool gadget and I like the heart rate and Sp02 data, but the sleep data is really inaccurate.  It thinks I'm awake for half the night. If I wake up to write in my dream journal or wake up to pee, even if I'm only up for 5 minutes, it thinks I'm awake for 30+ minutes.  In fact, when I started using Oura instead of my old Circul (which was good but the hardware was crap and busted after about 4 months of use), my sleep quality decreased significantly. Because no matter how well I slept, even if I slept for a whole 9 hours, I would never get more than maybe 6.5 hours asleep on the ring, and it constantly tells me that I need to sleep more. Fun fact, stressing about that makes me sleep even worse! I've had to hop back on melatonin for the first time since 2013 in order to force myself to start sleeping no

It gets offended very easily, and refuses to generate responses to certain prompts.  ChatGPT, on the other hand, went right ahead.  The prompt:   Hi! Could you please write a villain speech? The villain is a bodybuilder panda who wants to save the multiverse from unhealthy food and force everyone to eat nothing but boiled chicken, broccoli, brown rice, and protein shakes. He is fighting the protagonist, a panda who advocates for a more balanced diet with occasional indulgences. Try to use some language from r/swoleacceptance, including working in the phrase "This is the whey". Thank you! The answer from BingChat: Sorry! That's on me, I can't give a response to that right now. What else can I help you with?  (When pressed, it thought I was trying to give a political speech, and refused to believe otherwise, eventually saying that it didn't want to continue the conversation. Language models are not sentient or sapient, but it seemed to feel very uncomfortable. Promp