It’s not that I don’t have free time anymore, it’s that it usually comes in chunks of 0.2-5 minutes. There’s a puzzle hunt on now, Galactic, which has always been pretty good and I think it is this year but I barely know since I’ve only tuned in for a couple puzzles. Since the beginning of August, we have 6 weekends straight of visiting family (or once friends) or having them visit us.

Some other things that have been interesting:

• audio journaling; get my thoughts out easily. Curiously, I don’t seem to have many thoughts even when I think I do.
• TRE¹ is kinda neat. You do a couple exercises like a wall sit for 5 minutes, and then just kinda lie there while tremors shake through your body. Shaking feels important to me; I naturally do it sometimes; there’s something there. I don’t know what though.
• still taking voice lessons, sporadically. It’s still fun.
• new lifting records: 165 bench (2x8), 245 deadlift (1x5), 205 squat (2x8). These are nice milestones as my own weight is about 160. Much as I kinda don’t care, and I am very much erring on the side of caution, it is always fun to see number go up.
• our son’s in preschool. (pre-preschool?) it’s going as smoothly as possible, but changes are never easy at this age.

And I lost a good friend to cancer recently. You might know him; I won’t talk more on this public blog. That’s been hard.