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IlliniDave wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2024 6:59 am

I feel and look pretty good and the numbers tell me I am empowered to make a meaningful difference in my own longer-term health and well being

Congratulations Dave, your efforts to turn around your health have been inspiring! Enjoy your season at the hideout!

I’m not in a settling phase anymore, although a part of me would like that. I’m in a scouting phase. It’s great that FI is within reach. At best it allows me not to think about what I’ll have to do to earn money in the next months. At worst, it makes me feel a bit detached, a bit loony. Perhaps sti...

Thanks delay. Priorities change for sure. But changes can be planned for thoughtfully instead of making changes unilaterally, way past deadlines and with no regard or backup plan for the projects and people you are supposedly responsible for. That's just poor leadership. And personally, I am annoyed...

2024 update 19/52 I’m back from the hiking trip. My cyst was a bit sore the first couple of days but didn’t re-swell and kept getting better over time. It’s still there, not fully healed, I’m going to give it at least another week before going back to swimming and running, but I’m over the hump. Bu...

2024 update 18/52 I’ve been nursing my cyst, it’s a lot less angry, but still a bit swollen and sore. And purpleish. But much better. I can actually bend my leg again. I’ve been trying to walk as little as possible to let it deflate as much as possible before my hiking trip. Leaving tomorrow, we’ll...

2024 update 17/52 Kind of a crappy week. I’ve had a Baker’s cyst behind my knee for several years. 95% of the time, it’s just a tiny bump that doesn’t bother me, sometimes it swells up a bit and gets tender but not a big deal. But for the second time in 5 years, it’s swelled up to about the size of...

2024 update 16/52 I spent the week on my brother’s farm, a lot of prep work before planting (setting up strings for the tomatoes in the green house, prepping beds in the field, adding fertilizer, incorporating the fertilizer in the beds, setting up new irrigation lines, covering the beds with plast...

I've returned new shoes before that didn't work out. Check the return policy of the stores you go to. Some are more generous than others. For example, the store REI lets you return new shoes for up to a year if they don't work out. Good to know, thanks! I fear return policies aren't as liberal here...

delay wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:55 am

Knee pain is a curious subject.

It really is. One week of no running, but the knees are still grouchy...
It's good that your knee pain goes away after the first km, that sounds right, whereas mine tends to get worse during the runs...

2024 update 14&15/52 Busy week 14, I missed an update. Week 14: Once again, too many changes of location. I moved from Town 1 to City 2 to stay with my friends and their two toddlers. I am really enjoying spending this much time with them, they are great people who seem to have a healthy relati...

2024 update 13/52 This week was too many places, too much time on trains. I went from my grandma’s to my parents’, then back to my place in Town 1, spent Saturday night at some friends’, Sunday morning egg hunt with their kids, cleaning up my apartment to move out on Monday, then off to City 2 wher...

2024 update 12/52 Not a very eventful week. I spent the week at my grandma’s. Managed to fit 3 runs, still plugging along, increasing my running time by 10% every week. Also did 3 bodyweight sessions. I spent time with cousins and hung out. It’s a part of the family I don’t know well because my mom...

2024 update 11/52 I spent the week on my brother’s farm to help him out. He is starting a biointensive garden farm on a 1-hectare plot that is lent to him for three years as part of a learning scheme. He also has two 300 sq m polytunnels. The starts he had ordered weren’t ready yet because the weat...

delay wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:20 pm

Best of luck with the agency!

Thanks delay!

Sounds like a great opportunity loutfard! Good luck, hope it works out the way you want!

2024 update 10/52 This was a better week. Progress was made. I have finally officially been approved as a subrecipient, and the proposal is getting finalized. Of course, this is balanced by two new curve balls. Since this will be a new award, I can’t start work until the grant money actually gets t...

@NewBlood this was the Tesla bio they had at my local library. Thanks! bummer, I can't find it on Libby... And thanks for the support! My sister once again got drunk and lost her purse on Friday. She was a total wreck when her boyfriend picked her up, and for the first time she said she's open to g...

Congrats Seppia!
Welcome back to the EU! I also love being within a couple of hours of family and friends, it makes it a lot easier to be there for big milestones.
Amsterdam sounds pretty awesome.

Smashter wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:15 pm

Read a biography of Nikola Tesla. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Which one was that?

Good luck with your sister, that sounds really hard to deal with.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, I just saw this, posted as a response to Jordan Peterson on twitter:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co2-emissions-vs-gdp

Looks like Jean is right.