Mental Notes & Random Musings

Today is the first day of my vacation. I always wake up on the first day of any vacation with a zeal to hit the gym. In my case since the covidpocolypse, “the gym” means an eight-foot by twelve-foot room at the end of the hallway from my bedroom. I was lucky, or smart, depending on how you look at it, that I had been garbage picking for gym equipment for years before the covidpocolypse hit so I had a serviceable set up with everyone else’s poor decision-making skills, and lack of space filled up for me. It included a used twice, maybe, Bowflex Ultimate with the leg extensions and even the 400lb upgrade. A set of Power Blocks that I did spend hundred bucks on from someone else’s poor decision-making bargain bin. I probably had spent another fifty bucks on accessories to make the Bowflex more gym like.  Yes, my vacations are dedicated to spending two to four hours a day working out instead of the usual hour and a half and a lot of walking around at work. Many would call this a waste ...

I understood Twitter, and I didn’t like what it had become, but when it gets right down to it, Twitter was a great platform before it became X. In the days when piles of us would watch Redeye, load Tweetdeck and troll, was some of the greatest times. Sure, we had the font of all racism running the country, and getting participation trophies because he was black and we all were racist, but we had a platform that just posted everything as it came in, and with hashtags you could see it all flow in the way you wanted it to. There were hundreds of add-on tools that would make it work the way you wanted it to. There were different apps that would help you post to Twitter, out of Twitter, or even use your feed to post back into Twitter. It was the most user friendly, manageable platform, and before Dorsey went mental, it was the freest speech platform at the time. I think this helped it stay together as long as it did and made it all that much more painful when they went full communist. Now t...

The switch between the 80s and the 90s was sudden and not very subtle for me. My irresponsible teen years melted into my irresponsible twenties. The music shifted from girl crazy glam metal pop, to winey everything sucks grunge metal. Speed metal and thrash metal was starting to mainstream, and movies were starting to become a pile of sequels with a banger now and then to then become a pile of sequels. The country had been under the leadership of republican presidents for the entire 80s, and the 90’s started two years away from being guided by a democrat that sat under a confederate flag while he was a governor, lecturing us for the rest of the decade about inequality. All, in all the 90s were still good compared to what we have been dealing with for the last couple of decades, but it was still radically different than the decade before it.  I was not particularly political at this point in my life, but I knew I did not like my two candidates. I voted for Andre Marrou in the 1992 e...

This was officially the last time I am going all-in for a Lighten-Up contest. I do well usually, and I am competitive and all, but the fact of the matter is I am just too old for this. This last round started affecting me in ways that I hadn’t noticed before. The creatine that I had been taking and stopped taking so I could drop all the water weight, appears to be more than just a vanity enhancer when I lift weights, but something that keeps my memory sharp too. This shouldn’t be any surprise, as despite all the shitheels trying to sell you some fountain of youth supplement or a memory enhancer, the only thing that has been proven to help memory as you get older, is creatine. It doesn’t hurt to help you keep your muscle, either. Musculature is no problem really, I can enhance my protein intake and get keep most of my gains, but for the love of God did I get sluggish and dare I say, absent-minded during this starvation session. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t lived it. I was gen...