Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

The Two Ghosts I either lift at Parc or at Orem Rec depending on the day. But when I go to lift at Parc pre-dawn, there has always been this couple that is running on the treadmills in pitch darkness.  It's super creepy. Are these NPCs? Ghosts? No matter. Lights ON, WAKEY WAKEY EGGS AND BAKEY. If you wanted to run in total darkness, there's this thing called "outside", and it has cool coyotes and shit.  Slides and Hoodie Guy It's July, and currently hotter than Satan's sweaty armpit. But this guy is lifting in a hoodie and sweats, and is wearing slides and socks. If he's the only one in there, the fan will be off. ???? The gym is lucky I wear more than just my Janji half tights this time of year. And why lift in slides? Do you want to die? I Have Chosen The Dumbbells For My Cell Phone's Perch This lady always puts her cell phone ON TOP OF A PAIR OF DUMBBELLS, WHILE THEY ARE ON THE RACK, and then goes to lift with a different set of dumbbells. She does ...

All around me I see nothing but people settling.  I will never do this. Either I find her or I die alone wishing for her and searching for her in the next life.  There are no compromises and no exceptions ever. I will never do what everyone else is doing. I'd rather lie in the dirt and let the earth reclaim me. 

You will die alone in a basement apartment with 27 cats. Others will always recognize your many flaws. There are no silver linings on those dark clouds above you. Your final memory will be choking to death on a chocolate chip pancake smothered in syrup and whipped cream while at an IHOP in the middle of Indiana. The spider you couldn’t get last night in your bathroom is currently laying eggs. When you lie awake tonight, always remember that no one is ever going to love you. Your mom. Your friends have an extra group chat without you in it. You will sneeze during a job interview and a visible amount of saliva will land on the interviewer's desk. Your friend will get an empty slot on their Super Duolingo plan and will give it to another friend instead of you. You can’t just wait on the pizzle and on the dizzle. You must also wait upon the shizzle. Do not commit tax fraud. That is a felony. Just because it’s moral doesn’t mean it’s legal. It is not advisable to commit se...

Take Vyvanse: ok uwu Take caffeine (not even coffee or preworkout) because you're an endurance athlete who doesn't want to mess with your heart rate like Vyvanse would or have that intense of withdrawals: OMG ADDICT ALERT AAAAAAA My GPA shot up to 3.98 when I started managing my ADHD-PI with caffeine. I felt like for the first time since early elementary school, my output actually matched my intellectual ability. My dreams are finally happening because the disorder isn't controlling me anymore  except for with the messy apartment thing, which I AM working on. 

you are blasting Pierce the Veil and Three Days Grace and Children of Bodom while drawing and you are FREAKING FIRED UP HOLY HELL  I'd better sleep a lot tonight because tomorrow is going to suck. But this was intentional -- with water park crowds amping up, I knew I wasn't going to get writing and coding done until after dinner, so I had to fight against the exhaustion preemptively.  Pierce the Veil: So Far So Fake Pierce the Veil: King for a Day Pierce the Veil: A Match Into Water Three Days Grace: Animal I Have Become Children of Bodom: Bodom Beach Terror Straight Line Stitch: Dark Matter Children of Bodom: Don't Stop at the Top  Eleine: Death Incarnate  Somebody wake me from this nightmare I can't escape this hell

turns out this store sucks and hardly stocks anything. why do people always rave about it?  - no hillshire farms spicy calabrese salami snack plates. I eat like 4 of those per week.  - no crystal light energy variety pack. I go through 16 packets each week.  - no dole LIGHT pineapple juice, which I drink daily because it saves me 60 calories compared to the normal one.  but at least they have silk vanilla soymilk...? going to the grocery store is a waste of time, yes. but... why did I buy this garbage?  might switch to walmart or target...

I quit band after sophomore year of high school and am still mad at myself for doing it. I restarted doing university band in college (non-audition), but I sucked. Like I just wasn't good.  The problem is that after missing those formative years, people are just like  It's okay!!!! you can still play! ^____^ just do like a cute lil community band! and play on holidays! uwu uwu playing at the pro level? ohhhh you had to go to a conservatory for that! it's far too late for THAT now! ^_____^ but why would you want to? it's better to just have funnnnnnnn!~~~ Now, I did like my community bands and the people I met, but I also started to get super demotivated. It sucked to drive 45 minutes in commuter traffic to get to band. When I got a closer one, the schedule kept shifting on me which eventually just stopped working so I wasn't able to go anymore, and I lost motivation even when my schedule shifted back. And since it wasn't a competitive environment, I was not mot...

My brother seems to think I'm hardcore outdoors for some reason.  This is how my life actually goes. Main pursuits:  1. TECH: Code and IT, electronics  2. ART and animation  3. Reading and writing speculative fiction 4. MUSIC 5. Games and game dev 6. Running, lifting, and yoga  7. Theme parks and their engineering  Secondary: I like learning about astronomy, dinosaurs, and languages.  Hiking is just cross training that I do sometimes. I don't know what is going on with this. 

I never liked lettuce. I forced myself to eat a bunch of salads in like 2021 in an attempt to lose weight. It was disgusting and it didn't work either. Only CICO made me lose weight which I started in 2022 because MATH is POWER . The only decent salads were those mexican salads with a bunch of corn and tortilla chips, but even those I couldn't finish before getting grossed out and stopping. Then just eating...the tortilla chips and corn.  I did not like burgers as a kid because a) the loma vista elementary burgers were actually pretty nasty, and b) burgers have lettuce. I did not realize that you could ask for no lettuce on the burger. This was like a revelation to me when someone told me and I love burgers now.  no lettuce tho  and do I get lettuce on my Taco Smell? lmao, no. I had lettuce on a sandwich a few months ago because it was a free work sandwich and eventually I just couldn't do it anymore and ended up taking it off.  and it's not like I eat any of the oth...

wakeup: 2 am  leave hotel in lone pine (best western frontier motel): 3 am arrive at portal: 3:35 am?  poop, get stuff packed, take photos... actually start hiking: 3:56 am summit: 12 pm (yeah) finish: 7:30 pm  thoughts:  probably not doing that again. apparently from 2012 I forgot how hard it was.  the starlight at the start is absolutely beautiful. holy crap. like stepping into the little dream world of mine where you can see into the heavens and every night there is a meteor shower. it was like that made real. you could see nebulae and so many stars.  by mile 10 or so, you start to think "I am never going to get off this mountain" because your brain is cooked but you have to get to the summit then all the way back down  my watch said 22.2 miles, not 22, and that extra 0.2 sucked i almost got eaten by a horsefly at the summit, but was saved by a brown bird  i was farting a lot. so much freaking farting. eventually i had to stop because it was go...

Maybe I should be a med school cadaver after I die, unless Bryan Johnson discovers eternal mortality or something.  Imagine haunting a bunch of stressed out pre-meds. I've always respected people who work hard in school, so why not make their lives more exciting?  PATRICIA! YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED STUDYING FOR O-CHEM OOOOOOOOOOOO 👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻 ok if I make it to like 90 I'll get on a list, otherwise, sorry pre-meds

The first time I did Whitney, I didn't really get nervous about it.  I was just kind of...on Warrior Cats Forums and listening to T-Swift until we got out of the car. I mean, I don't think the internet was that good, but I was at least trying.  Then we hiked, I ate a crapload of food, got back down to the car, went back online. On the RP: "sorry I was gone all day, was on a hike to the top of a mountain!" then back in business.  Then we got some pizza I think?  IDK. It wasn't a big deal. I've always been an anxious person, but I did not worry about Whitney.  But in Utah, there's a ton of outdoors-as-identity types that have basically caused me to overthink it so badly. You've got to be THE HIKER, THE OUTDOORSMAN, and I'm just...not.  Sure, I can be described as outdoorsy. Outdoorsy nerd is an archetype and it's probably one of mine. But I think of myself as: Writer, artist, developer, IT guy, gamer, musician, engineer, coaster enthusiast, multi...

Verdict LogRide has me at 46 total experiences, with 43/56 attractions ridden. This is almost certainly the best I've done.  Actual times I exited rides Ran 4 miles on lagoon trail and showered at campground 9:50 terroride (yee) 10-10:15 cannibal  10:15-10:28 spider 10:28-10:35 wicked 10:44 rc (out) 10:53 re entry 10:58 blastoff 11:07 Sam 11:18 bat 11:26 bomb 11:39 ice (as in, I bought Italian ice and got brain freeze) 12:02 finished lunch which was mostly tendies and fries 12:09 time tinker  12:17 steamworx 12:29 wild mouse  12:47 air race 12:57 aces 1:02 tilt a whirl  1:11 space 1:26 colossus BREAK AND RECON 1:56 dracula 2:25 paratrooper but 2 cycles 2:39 centennial 2:56 sky Ride  3:07 musik 3:24 rocko 3:31 tidal 3:39 turn ICE CREAM @ PV 4:19 nuts PRETZEL 4:51 odysea BREAK TO LAB LAB but some kid puked so I only got the Pipeline tower (x2 shout, wipeout closed), Outrigger, and 20 minutes queueing for Liquid Lightning BURRITO 7:37 Merry go round 8:15-8:20i...

Rough draft of all the rides and activities I'm committing to. I generally skip anything that's awkward to do solo, like bumper cars or river rapids. I also skip anything where an adult cannot fit comfortably, even if you can fit technically and allowed as per park rules (basically Flying Tigers and Engine 86).  Some rides cannot be done solo, mainly the ferris wheel. And the train is CLOSED.  The hardcore version includes extra coaster laps at night.  The ultra hardcore version involves also doing all rides at Cherry Hill.  Lagooning A Tier: Cannibal, Nutcracker, Spider, Rocket Re-Entry, Rocket Blastoff, Wicked, Roller Coaster, Wild Mouse, Samurai, Bat, Bombora Sweaty: Time Tinker, Air Race, Space Scrambler, Tilt a Whirl, (Dinosaur Drop, Ladybug Bop = may skip), Flying Aces Lmao: Paratrooper, Rock o Plane Not Too Bad: OdySea, Steamworx, Sky Ride, Centennial, Dracula's Castle, Tidal Wave, Turn of the Century, Colossus Primordial: Primordial Lagoon a Beach: Outrigger,...

1. It's not freaking K2. The articles are greatly exaggerated about the difficulty. It's a normal hike with altitude that takes forever. It's not even mountaineering. And you don't need multiple days.  2. At the same time, you see unprepared people on the mountain. People get turned around at the switchbacks a lot. I've been on the mountain twice, and summited once, with a third summit attempt coming up, and there is often at least one person in my group that I'm worried about.  So basically: train seriously but don't freak out. 

Commute is a bit rough, and you have to wear pants, but it's only 2 days a week and public transport is still better than driving.  Otherwise, it's great. I'm very pleased. The engineering pipelines run smoothly - AND I'm FINALLY learning Google Cloud. Will hopefully learn Terraform as well.  Phew. 

Lifting, engineering study, and 18 mile long run done. Then time spent outside, going to Rowley's and Splash Summit. Then cybersecurity, music, art, and reading/writing, all done with relative depth. Cleaned while listening to audiobooks. Dinner, code, games, internet, maybe watch a quick show or movie, then sleep.  Sleep. After a week of only sleeping 6.5-7 hours a night, my body can finally sleep in as long as needed. As a result, even despite 240mg caffeine that morning, I slip into rest. Maybe in the morning, I will explore lucid dreaming and astral projection, but tonight I rest.  The cool sheets sink into me, and I sink into my soft mattress. I hold a pillow and rest my head on another pillow. My earplugs combine with the brown noise from Alexa and the hum of the ceiling fan to block out everything else. I'm in my comfiest clothes, light as possible for summer. The air conditioning is coming through.  Nothing matters anymore. None of all my fears, like: We're all go...

Freshman year: Imagine falling in love here! Imagine taking a walk with her - whoever she may be - hand-in-hand by the duck pond under a starlit night, listening to the stream. You could work on assignments together and be in love and know you'd spend eternity together! I'd practically skip around the campus just thinking about her when we're apart!  Senior year: I am going to blast ICP and ignore everyone because I am completely out of energy and this place is hopeless. Love my coursework though. But I relate to absolutely zero of these people. I'm done. CHECK OUT.  

I'm so sick of waking up, I just might fucking stop I've got red on my fingertips, and I'll stay cursed 'till I fucking drop  - Ghostemane

Or in the case of the Osmonds, put your entertainment complex somewhere else.  Not in Provo Canyon. Come on, really? I practically live up there. The peace of my summer Saturday long runs up there is one of the few things that's kept me going the past few years.  I didn't even know there was a "gravel pit", but it doesn't matter. The construction and traffic will ruin it. Hopefully, the groups keep fighting. Holy hell I hate politics.  Previously my opinion of the Osmonds was "yeah, they exist I guess" and now it's "who the hell are these people? Get away from our canyon." 

We interrupt my final coding block of the night (and I really need to wrap this up, I'm wiped) for a quick WTF moment.  Dude has been whining about TADC for weeks, but whatever. I love animation. I can tolerate it. I like the page overall.  Finally, this person watches the finale at the theater -- so they've watched all of TADC -- and they freak out about it. They hate Gooseworx, they hate the voice actors, and apparently it's a show for white queer people who don't care about anyone but themselves.  My brother in Christ. You watched the whole series. The entire show. You are just as bad as those of us who you are slamming.  Also, you're not progressive if you mock queer people. It doesn't matter what race they are. You cannot mock queer people as a whole, for being queer, and that's what you are doing.  LMAO  Unfollowed.  And I'm still a TADC fan and I like my little Gummigoo keychain plush.  What the hell? Unhinged. This person needs a job. And ...

I dropped Duolingo Japanese because they didn't integrate kana well. I hated having it as a separate tab. I also wasn't learning any grammar. I kept duo for Spanish though.  I tried Airlearn and thought it was good at first. Actually, it sucks. It advances too quickly and does NOT review well, if it reviews at ALL before testing. Terrible design.  Now I'm trying HeyJapan. So far, it makes sense AND you can watch anime clips, and I'm only on the free version rn too. 

First off, re Oliver Tree: I never had a strong desire to ride in a helicopter and I'm probably just going to avoid them forever now, barring a medical emergency.  I love airplanes though. Well, maybe not how cramped economy is, or how dry the cabins are, or how people always close their windows now, or that one time I got stranded overnight in Vegas.  But generally? Planes are enjoyable to me. I like when they drop in the air! And I like the uninterrupted study time (unless the person in front of me almost destroys my laptop by putting down their seat while I have my tray table up. Dude, really? Breeze extra legroom, here I come.).  I also love roller coasters, water slides, and carnival rides...obviously.  Carnival rides are actually statistically just as safe as fixed rides. Why? They've got to be inspected, by LAW, every time they're constructed. People blow out of proportion the rare incidents of negligence.  Two helicopters colliding? Miss me with that cra...

Think about the type of people who post deeply within coding communities. Not just lobste.rs (hell, I don't even have an invite and I'm just focused on lurking) but even stuff like Freya Holmer's YouTube channel, or open source projects, or various code forums.  Now think about LinkedIn bros. It is impossible to log into that hellscape of a site with your desire to live intact. Increasingly, Hacker News too, though it tends to have both types.  I'm with the lobste.rs crowd all the way. I would unironically rather get paid less and never climb the ladder at all, even stay at L2 forever (though I should HOPE I can become a senior) if it meant I got to dive deep into code every single damn day of my life.  I'm never going into management, unless it's designing and building my own theme park resort. I want to forget that LinkedIn even exists. I want to be so wrapped up in whatever I'm coding that the outside world fades away. 

or is it just not going out for dinner? Lol though. Not giving that up. If my friends are going out for food, so am I. They just weren't today so I doordashed some Rancherito's and DQ.  Ghost at 5:20 AM today. 100% daily value vitamin C and yep, 200mg caf.  But seriously, I studied engineering for 30 minutes, did Yoga with Adrienne for 6 minutes, lifted at the gym for about 45 minutes, then ran 18 miles with the last 2 miles under 7 minutes, then went to Lindon Aquatics Center for 2 slides and the lazy river, then went to Oremfest with a few friends, then studied cybersecurity on TryHackMe and did a few clarinet scales, then went to the church to practice piano for church tomorrow, then did Duolingo, then did art for 90 minutes, then did an hour of reading/cleaning and writing, and now I've only got two work blocks left, one which is 10 minutes of mind work and the other is coding, maybe an hour MAX, probably more like 30 minutes...ending with gaming.  And I haven't fal...

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. 

every time I listen to "Flashing Lights" by Kanye and he goes I'm more of the Trips to Florida I think about how I'm going to WDW in January and want to go to Orlando as much as possible. This pushes me to work harder. So, yay I guess? Let's feed the machine of CAPITALISM, apparently.  But the morning sun over Epic Universe or walking through the trees in Animal Kingdom or walking into Fun Spot on a starry night...or eating at the End Zone food court, browsing the menus, figuring out which line is the shortest, standing in MK mobile ordering cheeseburger spring rolls and a volcano dole whip... Hell yeah.  And the weather's so breezy Man, why can't life always be this easy? 

I'm sticking with Duolingo for Spanish and Norwegian, but with something like Japanese, Duolingo was just NOT working. The kana writing was disjointed and the grammar was not taught. I could not intuit it.  So even with the weird AI voice and AI generated images, Airlearn is legitimately better than Duo for Japanese. I might even try it for Tagalog just because I was burning out on Mango. Mango is super dry and I am pretty sure it's also  AI-generated. Or spoken by the most bored voice instructor known to mankind.  I need bite-sized, tiny tiny TINY lessons that fit into a busy day. I'm in no rush with language study, whereas I kind of am with other stuff, like art, writing, and code. Hell, I might even use AirLearn for chess instead of chess.com, but we will see. 

This starts tomorrow after lunch. So the 8 AM start and time requirements stuff do not count for that first day.  If I get a job this week, awesome. I'll accept it. But we cannot plan on such things.  Continue morning engineering block pre-gym, but make it a little bit longer. Focus strongly on PLCs, math, and Arduino.  Must start at 8 AM, but can do CYBERSECURITY first! Extreme focus on Leetcode/DSA/System Design/SQL (at least 3 hours) Bonus: Kaggle Bonus: Data Engineering upskill cloud certs? Then: Daily CS studies (at least 1 hour) This is our actual curriculum, AND we will do it AGAIN in the evening Secondary focus as a “Bonus personal projects block” Then: Daily graphics studies (at least 1 hour) again, do it AGAIN in the evening Yep, you guessed it. Daily games studies. (at least 1 hour) 1 hour only for job apps, but MUST do 5: 3 hybrid, 2 remote OR vice versa STRONG PRIORITY with GOVERNMENT When I say "again in the evening", it's because 7...

Each time I do this, I tell myself it's the last time. Hopefully, this time I really mean it.  What do I mean by this? Art, writing, coding, music, and such should all be done with extreme consistency and high duration, just like fitness. Sometimes I am forced to cut them short in order to interview prep, but I hate doing this, because my coding self-study should keep me sharp enough to not have to. And I think it would -- if I had mastered the routine a lot earlier.  I hate cramming and that's what it feels like I'm doing. I think after this one, I just want to stop. I want to study MY way. Concepts building on concepts. Nice and slow. No derails. Daily blocks as non-negotiable. I wouldn't skip the gym so why do I skip creating?

May and June are my favorite months of the year.  Taking a 1-mile walk at Lakeside Park, 80F. I am physically incapable of going at a fast pace. Instead, I feel weirdly calm and sedate. I feel like everything is going to be all right. I watch the lightest of warm breezes rustle through the flags and windcatchers of the nearby houses. The trees are all light or deep green, their flowers mostly gone. The first bits of cotton blow by, but only one or two.  I look at the pavilions of the baseball diamond, their blue cloth mostly still, and feel so at peace. It reminds me of kites at the beach. It makes me feel like I'm okay. I walk through a patch of shade and it is euphoric.   Soon, in two weeks or so, I'll be walking to Cherry Hill and looking at the little white flowers in the grass. I'll feel the rush of cold water pouring down on me as I sit on my tube and board Kodiak Canyon, with over 5 months of beautiful summer and fall ahead.  I just wish I knew why it felt so ...

...will never not be super confusing to me.  Why do people think that Apple Watches still have poor battery life like it's 2020? They no longer do. Apple Watch Ultra 2 lasts all day.  I ran the Disney 10K, including a wakeup in the 2 AM hour, in 41:05. I did return to my room for a brief charge while I speed-showered, and had fully charged it the night before. Even so, early entry to post close, until about 1 AM, the watch was fine. 23 waking hours.  And it charges for about the duration of me showering and getting dressed. Why would I want a watch on for a shower? The only showers that I have my watch on for are campground showers where I don't want it stolen.  I'm not a backpacker going out into the wilderness for days at a time, either.  Also, I get my HR, elevation, minutes per mile. What more do I need than this data?  I do 3 sports:  Running Lifting Yoga/Prehab And my Apple Watch Ultra 2 works out great for all three.  Plus, I'm a major geek...

I love stuff like this.  Just like all those little details. I want to step into this world. 

~ draft ~  I've been forced to taper (despite this being like...my D race) because of my plantar fasciitis (gross). Time to build a bulletproof soleus and gigantic dad-calves  Thursday tonight (Thursday), will prepare most of my gear, the rest will be prepared on Friday after laundry  continue PT for plantar fasciitis  Friday sleep extra (#funemployment)  study race course and make mental map only run 1-2 miles pack everything for race that I didn't pack on Thursday pack everything for Lagoon after, including wallet $$$ Friday night, make sure to eat something carb-heavy. pasta, noodles, pizza, etc.  Saturday Morning  very light core/yoga, about 15-30 minutes, in the AM trying to find the sweet spot between "not getting sick" and "not being weak". will attempt an electrolyte mix with 3 or 4 mini Honey Stinger waffles + 180mg caffeine. WELL BEFORE the race, ideally at around 4:00 AM  leave house at around 4:45 AM to arrive at 5:35-5:40 AM  5:4...

shitty, shitty course. I'm quitting this one faster than Dell IT because I want to actually learn, not spin my wheels  Coursera is starting to lose me. I don't know how much longer I will be paying for Plus.  No. No, we did NOT look at the lab environment in the previous section. The previous section was an intro to the course with no links and nothing... There was no website to access, no software to download, he opens a lab environment and does NOT tell us how to use it. This was clearly a lazy port and someone didn't bother to include the URL or software download.  Embarrassing.  Back to the drawing board for my Linux hypervisor quest.  Probably just going to do Linux Basics for Hackers and be a real edgelord

I've got to do this more. It's hard getting yourself pumped for a water park when it's cold out, though.  But like...just the austerity of the walls contrasted with the color of the slide, the oppressive feeling of being trapped...and yet at the same time you look out at the beautiful city lights and feel so safe . This video in general was hypnotic to watch. The blurry lights amidst the darkness outside. The way the top of that spiral slide is shrouded in darkness. It makes you feel tired, like you need to rest and sleep for the night. And yet, there's just this sense of mystery. What happens if I go down it? What if I come out the other side and I'm not here  anymore?