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I do this from time to time. not that im a big user anyway, but it is far too easy to doom scroll on there and screw over your mood for the entire day/week.    My preffered cure for brain bad chemistry days. Good music.       Hopefully one of the above is to your taste 😄   sadly i had to make the choice many years ago (due to the CFS) between either being well informed on current events or my mental and physical health as my mood effects my health and energy levels so massively. I stick my head in a news site vaguely once a month (energy permitting) its all i can manage. So im not 100% on which piece of news it is (seems hard to pick at the moment to me) but sending big hugs

Week 4 roundup!   Run 🌟 Additional Movement 🌟  Music practice 🌟🌟 Nature Appreciation 🌟 Meditation    Bonus?   Sociability  Adventure runs 🌟 Photos 🌟   Running total 28 🌟 I gave myself two stars for music. Between 3 rehearsals and plenty of home practice I logged between 8-9 hours this week! MIL is singing with my choir for this concert, so we practiced together on one of my short workdays. It’s nice to have that time with her and feel like we can develop a relationship of our own, not just the relationship-by-proxy through Mr. Radost.    Even with all that time spent making music, I carved out an Adventure Saturday! Sibling B took dinner duty and just as well because I didn’t get home until after 5. I went out to the Far Lake, which is on a lovely rail trail, about 2 hours away by bike. Every time I get out there I go “Why don’t I do this more often???” …and then I have to get back on the bike to get home and oh, that’s why. 😅    I tried a new trail. I found it searching for “running trails in [area]” and it was listed as an 11k loop…but I realized when I was there that although the new-to-me trailhead was around the middle of the park, not far from my favourite bike rack and viewpoint, the loop was meant to start at the park entrance and follow the rail trail for about half the distance. BORING! I took the Cedar Grove trail and then headed on what was supposed to be a 2-3 km creekside trail to take me back to my bike but morphed into the far side of the lake loop, whoops. I love the creekside trail though, it’s beautiful twisty single-track without too much elevation change, dodging tree roots and mud puddles. I think it was around 8k again, but much more challenging than last week! @Mad Hatter I know 8k is An Achievement in itself! But also I have been aiming to up my distance to around 12 by the end of May, so I’m feeling a bit behind schedule, haha.    It was beautiful sunny spring weather when I started in the morning, but clouds rolled in as I was in the trees. I had hoped to take a proper rest with a picnic lunch and a good book but between how long it took me to get back around the lake and the way it was spitting rain I settled for a speedy sandwich and like five minutes of just sitting and appreciating the stormy sway of the trees across the water. Got a few pics under the cut.    Oh! And when I got home Mr. Radost had picked up the bisexual pop rocks Oreos I’ve been desperate to try! They’re such a weird treat, I love them!        

2024 - Year of Progression Word of the Year: Consistency  Sleep: 11 Hrs Water: 2/4   Meals:  9:30am - Coffee 11:30am - Coffee, Cereal, egg white omelette, greens drink 3:30pm - Coffee,chick-fil-a sandwich, cookie 6:00pm - Fish, quinoa, broccoli, cookie 10:30pm - Protein Cookie   Fitness: Lift Day   Language: 1 Portuguese Lesson 1 Spanish Lesson 1 Japanese Lesson   Reading: 15 min   Meditation: 5 Min   Notes: Another Lift Day done, getting back on track.   Training Notes: 2 Positives -  - increasing on lifts  - shoulder is getting better 1 Negative -  - need to increase range of motion on shoulder with PT exercises.

I was so excited when I saw her in Bill & Ted Face the Music.  George Carlin is not an easy act to follow, and she not only fully owned that role, she killed it. 🤘🏻       One of the reasons I enjoy volunteering is the special kind of comfort that can only ever be felt when in the company of people who understand why a certain piece of political news is devastating, without needing it explained to them. That they also are devastated is secondary. The important thing is that they get it. 

That is genuinely impressive. That length of time requires a level of stubbornness, restraint, and sheer endurance that I can only hope to aspire to.    I hope you had more good days than bad and that you have many, many more good days together from here on.

My Genesys GM uses World Anvil to document the campaign setting and all the worldbuilding (and it is awesome - I've encountered fantasy writers who could learn from this) and I have noticed that trying to access some of the pages on my phone or chrome book is painful. My working theory is that the world anvil site is horrifically bad at adapting to mobile devices, and that might be what you're running into on the iPad. If that's the case, you might be able to save yourself some headaches by sticking to the computer?       While it generally is a bad idea to completely ignore most of one's surroundings, there's a peaceful kind of stillness in focusing on that one single metaphorical tree that is standing so close it blocks out everything else. Scrutinize the imaginary bark, touch the non-existing leaves and enjoy the fact that you have a moment to really look closely at something for once. The moment will end, eventually at some point, but until it does, there's nothing wrong with embracing it. 

We'll add this to the list of indicators that Spinoza was a genius.

Overall feeling considerably better about everything today, despite not sleeping as much as I should have. Good quality sleep, just not enough of it, which is my standard these days. I had a surprisingly good day at work. Had a brief encounter with the Drama Llama in an early afternoon meeting, and handled it much better than last time (admittedly not difficult to do), and genuinely shrugged it off immediately after. Last week, after my little meltdown, H. patiently reminded me that since Drama Llama isn't actually above me in the hierarchy, I don't actually have to do what she wants, or even respond in kind when she pushes back against what I want to do. I can simply do what I'm supposed to do and leave it to her to figure out how to deal with it. So I'm testing that approach now.   I'm also deliberately skipping the gym visit this evening to save energy and to do other mental-health things. Right as I left work, H mentioned that he really wants to have a quiet evening by himself, with as few interruptions as possible, since he also feels drained and needs to recover after the large amounts of socializing this weekend. So now he's sitting with his gaming PC in his room and I'm sitting with mine in my room, and he will let me know when our dinner gets here, and we will both have as much solitude as we can for the rest of the evening.   Rivendell, here I come!         

Kristen Schaal is a goddess. A strange goddess of strange humors, voice to some of our favorite characters, and a wild muse. I could list her many accomplishments but I am only one man, and her accolades are so heavy. The clips below of her stand-up, they're fucking weird . Fair warning.   The slayer goddess befuddling us for 8:41 in her set from 2022.   Schaal slaying for 21:14 at Comedy Central's full set "Making Love to George Washington. 2010ish I think??   [AI images generated via Dezgo AI with the prompt "The comedian Kristen Schaal as a vampire slayer. She is wearing a complicated dress and wielding a crossbow."]     Slayer Training Lore  Reading in bed by 11pm - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲   Meditation Ass on meditation pillow - 5x/week ✅✅🔲🔲🔲   Bodhrán meditation 3x/week ✅🔲🔲  Strength Squat - 75% 5x3 Front Squat - 60% 3x5 Paused Single Leg Extension - 75% 5x5 Yoga Life Stuffs Going on a FB diet for a month or so because Weltschmerz isn't useful when I'm upset and impotent to affect change. Writing letters to elected officials (likely a useless gesture), and volunteering in local queer groups, but sobbing over news and social media isn't helping anything. Korean food is amazing, and I had Jap Chae after a mediocre convention I visited last weekend. The convention was mostly an excuse for people to try beat sabers, but I hate people so even that was mostly an annoying thing to suffer through while waiting for delicious sweet potato noodles and Korean beef.

No, no, no, solidarity is not a good description. Stubbornness. We both have a firm belief that the other person can live up to their press releases and we are going to make this work, dammit.   That said, we have been actively working on building a good relationship for a long time.  Things are now to the point where I worry about something bad happening instead of worrying about how to fix things.   --------------------------- Monday worked out better than I expected.   I did a familiar core workout. I felt my abs engage and work without protesting.   Work continues to have more volume of tasks coming in than I can do. I am trying to do a bit more triage so that the older things do not come around to bite me. Instead of being overwhelmed I am refusing to look at the whole list of things I should be doing. Maybe not the best approach, but it's what I have at the moment.   I was looking forward to going to my spinning group to connect with people. That was great. The host gave us a tour of her extensive garden. She keeps bees and chickens too. As we walked over to the hives, one of the group noticed a swarm of bees on a tree. They were just hanging out, coating the trunk of a small tree. Not flying around or doing much. Luckily, the host had an empty hive. She suited up and moved the bees into the hive. Most of us went inside for that part, just to be safe.   I brought along a bag of silk roving to give away. I bought it a long time ago. This is the roving that I discovered has noils in it. Great if you want textured yarn. I want smooth yarn, so out it goes. Chris was delighted to see the bag of silk because she wants to do silk dyeing. I told her she could just have it, but she didn't feel right about that. It turned out she just accidentally purchased a wholesale quantity of pearl-infused cellulose fiber. This was the first time I had heard of such a thing. It is white and shiny. I took home a good chunk of it. I'm looking forward to seeing how it spins up and how it blends with alpaca.