May 2024

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Hiya. Here we go again. Blogging Time!

Oh, books. Welp I’ve read 52 books this year so far… that was my little goal. But this week I only finished 3. 2 Hamish Macbeth ones, and another random harem-lit book. The Hamish’s are shortish, so no surprise, but the other was a little long. So I guess it’s okay. I don’t think I’m going to hit 200 unless I really get the bug for some book series I haven’t found yet… so there’s that. Oh well.

As to watching stuff… nah. Ain’t been doing much of that at all. Nothings been snagging my attention lately. If I do watch anything it’s mostly been background noise on YouTube. I did add a podcast to my potential list of listening things… it’s about Linux. Ah, how I’ve missed that type of conversation. I don’t think it gets its due… and I’m really hating, and have hated, the way Windows has been heading for several years. 10 was semi-fine, but 11 seems outright terrible with some of the things it’s doing. Now if I can get Linux to play nice with VR I might not even run windows at all anymore… I suppose I could do standalone, which luckily is an option for my headset, but things seem a bit smoother, and I have more options running it from a PC.

So yeah, lots of time in VR. It seems to sooth me. Heh, I even had a relaxing time over the last weekend one day. Met a new friend, and they had us just chill and do nothing… not even talking, just listening to some background music… It was very soothing. Yeah, I know, it’s weird. But I think the notion that we always must be active, even when your hanging out with someone can be a detriment, or even a burden. Sometimes you should just let go, and enjoy the moment for what it is. I tend to stare out at my little pond, watching the birds do their thing even while I’m in the middle of reading. It’s soothing. Just let it all go for a minute guys… the moment should be enjoyed. You can always go back to what you were doing in a little bit. Relax… it’s these little moments that make life worth living, because it resets you and gets you ready to live the rest of your life.

As for exercise and diet… welp it was an increase week… upped my reps by 20 again… I’m starting to solidly workout 30 minutes everyday instead of the 20 or so it had been before… meh… I get more audiobook listening in. I did also up my protein intake, and am still losing weight, so there’s that. I got off track for a little bit with some excess eating one day… gosh, it only takes falling down one time to put me back two weeks… oh well. I suppose I’ll just say it was helping me stabilize my body so I can lose weight while gaining muscle, heh. Tried out some new protein powder… seems fine. Tastes awful though, even the flavored ones. We got some little sample packs to try them out… bah. Plain is the worst, but even the flavored ones are a bit rough to swallow. Oh well. Had a bit better vitamins and stuff… so there’s that. All hail the Body Improvement Club!

As for my book… doing fine. Almost done… almost. I have additional writing I do on the side that kinda slows down the editing, but not a huge amount. So it should be out this year… maybe even in a month or two. There’s cover art that has been worked on, so I should be ready to go when I finish my edits up here soonish. So yay that.

Welp folks, that’s all I have for you this time. I hope you all have a great week.

TTFN

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Walk On

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Outsider Trilogy

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Poetry

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Update: You Must Be Drunk is published. Find it here. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X8KH6WM. Did some editing, looking good, if slow… back to it next week.

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Books, yup. So I finished reading 3 books this week. Surprisingly all harem-lit, and not awful. 2 because they had interesting worlds, and very little erotica… eh, I guess I’m getting icked out by some of the writing some people do for that these days. And the third one because it focused on the relationships in what I would call a “Love Focused” way. Big families, good times. Well, big families that care about each other and each person is a unique character not just a list of characteristics to ogle over. Anywho, fun.

Otherwise it’s been a week of “training”. A bit of a slog, but it should be done now. It’s work related, so I’m not going into detail, just something that needed to be passed. I’d done the same training previously, so nothing new.. though some had been updated since last time. It can be fun to learn things, though the newness from the previous iterations wasn’t there for me. Oh well. It’s completed. I found it stressful with a deadline though.

On the front of watching things… uh… nothing really stands out. I mostly spent my free time reading. The outdoors was good enough for my balcony reading time… so I did that. I’m boring I suppose.

Diet/exercise time. I visited friends over the weekend… and food was present. While I forwent desert, I still partook of a delicious meal…. Over much, heh. My weight went up higher than usual, but since I felt I lost too much weight from the week prior, I’m not terribly disturbed. I even included more protein powder this week as an experiment… I believe, though I could be mistaken, that my strength increased. The muscle soreness I get from exercise and my exertions at work were lessened. So that’s good. It’s an increase week next week, so we’ll see how that goes. I did get my weight back down to within a pound from the previous week even though I gained over my starting week weight, so again not bad. Visually I believe I have improved, so perhaps it’s just muscle weight. I’ll consider getting more protein in the diet again this coming week. The stomach muscles are starting to show up, and my arm muscles have continued to be doing well. It’s rather neat to observe ones own body shaping over time due to a diet and exercise. I’m excited to see what I can continue to do with this body of mine.

My book is still going well.. just a little left. YAY. Edits are minimal at this time.

A short update, but that’s all I have for now. I hope you all have a great week.