Thursday, 23rd

 23.06.2022

I can't help but think that God watches over me, despite my many sins. Despite how crazy this blog is. It's not too crazy, it's just a training log with streams of consciousness poured on top. Just human experience.

Slept not at night, slept some during the day, by strange coincidence had all my repeatable quests cancelled or postponed today. Didn't eat much. Ate some bread in the morning. Yesterday I pretty much only had breakfast and leftovers from breakfast. Pretty sure it was over 2000 calories anyway, hehe.

Had a 20 gram of coffee moka pot. Over something like 220 grams of water. Didn't measure, I just made sure to not pour higher than the release valve. It turned out almost perfect, and I almost finished it already. I want more. I enjoyed playing a cute little melody made mostly from double stop (i.e. simple 2 note intervals, mostly thirds). The thirds can give you the most amount of "melodic flavor" in the song. I think that's one of the things that differs my music from a lot of other metal. Well, not really, considering how broad the genre is. There's definitely someone who uses very similar methods as me. In doom metal, too. My riffs aren't that melodic. I like making melodic parts that are just made of drawn out chords with a "solo"-style melody on top. Solos are really supposed to be improvisations, you know. This is more just a melody this way. I think I am gonna get a second coffee.

This morning I tried to launch FO76 and was unpleasantly surprised to realise it closes immediately after starting. After some googling I accidentally sstumbled on the app that controls my video card and it told me that it needs to be reinstalled. Took a lot of sweet time to get there. But I managed to finish it and open FO76 again. I think it had to ave broken during a short circuit, when I was playing through a large player this tuesday. You should plug the player in the same outlet. Although it does only really happen once in a while. And the option to put the system in the "sleep mode" came back. Curious. They had to have been connected. Didn't get ot play FO76 tho. I like this game a lot. It's so inspiring. Graphics are pretty insane. Too bad I didn't choose to buy RDR2 when it was on sale. And now I can't buy it the normal way at all. Hmm. Well, maybe it ten years I'll get to give it a nice playthrough, he he. I wish we could have 5G in this country. Maybe in ten years. The internet speed isn't really worth being subdued by evil. The Chinese better help us. I wish there was a good way for our two peoples to improve our connection. Perhaps I should find a chinese wife, and my sisters find chinese husbands, he he. (Joke, but, like, it's not impossible 😁) If I was Chinese I'd be proud of how ancient my country is, possible the oldest surviving nation out there (if you overlook the historical caveats).

Made another pot. Didn't wash out the little grains from the screw lines, so it started pouring out there, I had to take it apart and rescrew it.

pulpous pulp + -ous. Cf. also Late Latin pulpōsus. pulpous (comparative more pulpous, superlative most pulpous) 1. pulpy, soft - a random word of the day! I didn't realise such a word exists. Related to "pulpy".

Today I'm having a light bodybuilding-style workout. And I'l devote some attention to my weightlifting flexibilty as well. In about twenty minutes we'll start (it's 9PM), and I think we can be done before ten.

Workout

Some light dumbbell moves for upper body, some lower body gymnastic stuff.

Superset - 10 reps curls and 10 reps overhead press

6+6 kg dumbbells - 2 (super)sets

16 kg kettlebell + 16.5 kg dumbbell - 2 sets - curling is harder with the dumbell. Must be the levers.

Only taking about 2 minute breaks. Starting to sweat a tiny bit.

One arm curl 10 reps each hand and press the same

16,5 kg dumbbell - 2 sets

Can feel my obliques working. I believe monolateral moves to be very useful for when you have side balance issues. I don't have as many anymore, I had a lot in 2020.

Squats supersetted with rubber pulls - 15 reps each - 3 sets

And that's about it, only 50 minutes, feels too short and refreshing, as opposed to tiring and overstimulating.

Random pic of the day

En route from Kunming to Lijiang in Yunnan, China. Exact location unknown.