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Bouncing back into the game
Sometimes I just get so upset over simple, trivial things. I'll drop something and it'll roll into the one corner of the room that's hardest to reach. My phone will die 10 seconds before I get it plugged in to the charger. And suddenly all I can see in life is the endless queue of bullshit stopping me from ever getting anything done and I just want ( Read more... ) -
FODMAPS
I have chronic and sometimes severe stomach pain. I've gone through a few different dietary and other experiments, and I'm now looking at the FODMAPS diet. I have a good feeling about it, just from seeing its advocates talk. So many non-mainstream diets start with a rant about how we're being systematically poisoned by eating bad, impure, gross ( Read more... ) -
Diet phase 2
I set out to go on a ketogenic diet for a month. And I did. Go me! It was an interesting challenge and took me through a variety of entertaining mental and physical states. There were definitely some days of suck, but I was forewarned and had the support of a couple of highly knowledgable friends (who are also up-and-coming nutrition and psychology ( Read more... ) -
Bay to Breakers
Well! I walked a Bay-to-Breakers equivalent distance, which ended up following the actual BtB route about halfway. I got out there late enough that it had basically dissolved into a drunken ramble through Golden Gate Park (plus a rave off in the grove, for people who had given up on "racing" entirely). I even ran partway back! It was a good ( Read more... ) -
New diet experiment
I'm long recovered from my informative but unfortunate experiment with paleo eating, and I'm ready to try something new. Tomorrow I'm starting a low-carb ketogenic diet. I have a lot of reasons for doing this ( Read more... ) -
Bay to Breakers
It's almost a year since I made my carefully-considered foolhardy vow to do Bay to Breakers in 2014. I made it hoping to encourage and inspire myself, and it succeeded at that -- I made a number of efforts to get back into running. The efforts themselves failed. I still can't run 2 miles without serious joint pain, let alone 7 ( Read more... ) -
curses
One day I was walking home with a tote bag of groceries and cursed the foolish designers who made the straps just long enough for the bag to drag on the ground ( Read more... ) -
tarot
For someone who believes that tarot cards are a source of random input to provoke thought, I seem to get a lot of uncannily incisive readings ( Read more... ) -
asthma
I finally started talking to a doctor about the fairly obvious exercise asthma problems I've had ever since I moved to the Bay Area. If this had happened back when I was running it would have been a much higher priority, but for the past few years it's taken a backseat to my joint problems. Still, I'm glad I'm looking into it. And I received a ( Read more... ) -
214
My life is a little boring. But I don't think it has to be. For several years things were a bit of a mess, but now they're looking up. There are so many possibilities! Earlier this month, on the plane back from Boston, I made a list of 214 things I could do in 2014. It wasn't even hard! Perhaps I will post some chunks of my list here ( Read more... )