Been teaching myself Taekwondo lately through YouTube. I started lifting weights and wanted to include martial arts to keep things interesting. I did Taekwondo when I was a kid but quit after getting to yellow belt because it was too difficult for me at the time. Now, I like the challenge.
I bought a 1964 Shasta Astrodome that I’m gutting and converting into an off-grid capable tiny home. It’s not a full restoration but I am keeping as much of it a close to original as possible.
Riding road bikes in a group at a faster than I’d move alone speed. It’s a ton of fun even if my entire body is sore the next day.
Only like 3 long weekend rides in the last month and my body already feels significantly stronger than at the start of the season. Specifically I got dropped on the hills 3 weeks ago, now I can mostly keep up.
My wife and I recently went to Spain to stay with our friends and we just signed up for some Spanish classes at our local community college.
GDScript for the Godot game engine. I’m passable in Python and Lua for some basic things, but I’ve been obsessed with a game idea. I refuse to use AI for anything more than maybe prototyping, so I’m essentially learning what I need to as I go since I’m a one-man-band.
My husband showed me how to solder yesterday ! (although I only did the soldering for the piece we used to test whether our pinout was correct, he did the two final solder points so that it’s not as jank as my attempt)
I’ve been working on setting up proper terrarium lights with all the fancy bells and whistles - zigbee controlled, waterproof, and everything is covered so that my snake can’t meddle with it. Got one side of the terrarium done already so I’ll be working on the second one later today ^^
So many things. Got my bloodworks done, severe Vitamin D defficiency and mid-low Vitamin B12 (normal, but Claude told me I should take supplements anyway).
Got a psych exam scheduled in 2 months from now, have to survive increasing hostility at work until then, my father’s delusional bullshit, and not quit or off myself.
Trying this experiment with an overly elaborate system I designed. I’m trying to juggle these 4 mental loops, to try and artificially force myself to be aware and to function optimaly. So far, I’m always undersleept, I can’t really juggle even one.
I don’t understand how normies do it. I just want to do what I’m supposed to, and get out of everyone’s way.
are you vegan, b12 is more found in people who dont eat meat, or have celiacs, or somehow tapeworms. vit D is pretty common if you are not living in the equator. i had pretty low vit d as well for a number of years, but the last one had was skewed to “normal” because i had taken vitd vitamins before the test. you probably checked AI1C, glucose , choesterol and triglycerides too?
No, I didn’t. I just did the bloodworks to see if there is something impairing me besides whatever diagnosis I will have once I’m examined.
B12 and tapeworms is concerning. It would be quite hard to check for tapeworms right now, and our cats could just bring it in.
I am not vegan, though that is a future goal. I eat meat basically every day, the canned stuff.
My B12 is still above defficiency range, but I decided to take B12 anyway. My D-Vitamin is several times bellow defficiency range.
Something very much is horribly wrong with my guts, might be celiacs, might be something else, but everything I eat just comes right back up my throat, even water. I have a constant cough, and upset guts often.
So what can I say? It will take forever to accumulate enough money to get it all checked out.
If your having gut issues you might want to try a experimental elimination diet. Choose one bio complete food. Eat only that for a few weeks, see if your gut issues resolve. Then reintroduce other foods slowly until you find your triggers. There are some good books on doing this type of protocol, just choose a food with no known inflammation or intolerance
Also - if your optimizing, look at your last lipid panel take the tg/HDL ratio, if it’s greater then 2 you have less then optimal insulin sensitivity and working on your metabolic health would have good dividends (probably mood and anxiety too)
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Been trying my hand at speed running Subnautica. My PB in 100% glitchless hardcore is 4:02. Horrid time.
FreeCAD. I have a 3D printer and it’s nice to make my own models for things. I learned a bit of Blender, but have found that’s a lot better for me just to edit existing STLs I find online. For making things from scratch FreeCAD gives me better tooling to make changes and iterate design, while also being a lot more easy to stay precise with measurements.
FreeCAD is so fun! I recently learned it because I finally found one use-case where 3d printing a part makes sense AND there isn’t any pre-made model available online. It was a tunnel to connect my snakes two terrariums and it needed to have very specific sizing, spacing and for aesthetics I wanted it to be hexagonal.
I really hope I find another reason to 3d print something soon. Because I don’t really have fun in 3d modeling things just for the sake of it haha
I’m starting to properly learn Bash scripting.
I know a little bit of it from simply scripts I’ve made in the past, but apparently some techniques I use are pretty inefficient or just wrong.
I think I’ll be fun and useful to learn.
i recently finished my electronics engineering capstone project! it’s a scratch-built midi keyboard heavily inspired by the moog model D. i got a 93% :)
I want to switch from taking pictures on a smartphone to using a small DSLR, which has brought me into a rabbit hole of photography. So, now I’m seriously considering taking up photography as a hobby and learning all there is to know about taking pictures.
Careful now. First couple hits of photography are cheap. Then you’ll want new lenses, and eventually find yourself becoming semi-pro to feed your new addiction.
Oh I am right behind you on this journey I think. I love hiking and have found myself taking more and more pictures when I do. The more pictures I take though, the more dissatisfied I am with my smartphone camera.
interesting, I found that for landscapes, my phone was simply so much easier and roughly as good as my DSLR
I brought my DSLR on trips for high shutter speeds, zoom, and low light. taking wide photos during the day? just snap with the phone while the canoe is on your shoulders
Just watched a very funny animated sketch about photography as a hobby and it sums up exactly all my fears about buying a camera.
I really like my old canon 700D. It wasn’t top of range 10 years ago when it came out, but it’s reliable. Ive kept my spending on it low-ish. Mostly focusing on macro photography. I’ve been thinking about getting a 400mm lens for it but I decided I really ought to do more with less, if I can.
Enphase University is something I’m in the middle of (60% done). On Monday I’m replacing the meter base and mast and installing an Enphase System Controller 3 along with an IQ Combiner 5 and getting everything wired up so I can keep moving on my solar panels.
Finished putting in my garden yesterday. Two types of winter squash, two types of summer squash, two types of cucumbers, two types of tomatoes, some watermelons and some cantaloupe. All in an area about 12 ft X 12 ft. Have a couple zigbee soil moisture sensors and a zigbee hose valve so when the soil moisture gets low HomeAssistant can water things when needed.
Had 25 hours under water to capture footage last month. Now I have to spend the rest of the year editing video. Still trying to get over whatever I caught from the college kid on the flight home as well. He wore a mask in the terminal and took it off on the plane…
I’ve gotten back into exercising. I’m starting to see some results in strength and endurance. I’m also a lot more physically tired because my body isn’t used to this kind of exercise.
I made a slow game where you get 12 action points twice a day to go slay monsters and stuff. It’s coming together nicely but I have no idea what to do with it.
Screenshot per request (it’s really sort of clean clean, with lots of information. Only graphics is the map that your character can see) I’m not at home ATM.
Screenshot please! I’m curious what it looks like.
Thank you mysterious_cake!
Here’s the intro screen where you connect:
and the game page:
I have 4 classes with actions and spells, guess I might put it online to see if there is interest for such an oldtimer game style.
It definitely longs for some more CSS but I like an idea of an online game which is not designed to take up as much of its players’ as it is possible.
😁 I’m no web coder but I think you’re right, but for that I probably have to rewrite the whole map, it’s a mess bleeding over in all other <table> stuffs.
