• I find it difficult to switch between sketching, drawing and mosaic art (pixel art). They all ask for totally different mindsets.

  • Removed around 30 l of trash heap left behind by previous renters. I already removed 500 l of trash from the backyard more than a year ago. I guess they were too lazy to put the container at the curb. More likely, neighbors used the garden as a trash heap when no one lived here.

  • ๏ฟผListening to this weekโ€™s atp.fm ๐ŸŽ™a whopping 2 hours 22 minutes 9 seconds โณ

  • Two months ago I needed two full days to recover from my ๐Ÿ’‰ Now barely a full day, though I felt more tired after my ๐Ÿƒ than I usually do.

  • I’ve started using Day One (Classic) again to get myself to meet my personal goals. I can have three goals (priorities) at most; more is mere fantasy, not something that’s feasible in most people’s lives, including mine.

  • I had no idea there’s such a thing as creative non-fiction, IOW, fact-based storytelling with a more personal narrative. Examples are memoirs, personal essays, biographies, literary criticism, literary journalism. Personal essays are to memoirs what short stories are to novels.

  • Another โ€œhome invasion.โ€ This time by carpenters, to repair the damage done by the roof workers. ๐Ÿ 

  • Only two weeks before Iโ€™m fully ๐Ÿ’‰ vaccinated, though I expect a Pfizer โ€œboosterโ€ later this year if new variants threaten a fourth pandemic wave occurring.

  • ๐Ÿƒ 10 times 200 m, with 200 m recovery as intervals. Afterwards, I saw my โ™ก drop to 45 bpm. Must be the anticipation of being ๐Ÿ’‰ later in the day. It also used to happen on days I ran an important race: less appetite, lower heart rate, and a deep calm.

  • I’ve run over a year with my current ๐Ÿƒ shoes, obliterating the 1000 km limit I set for it, based on previous experiences. The support is completely wrecked, and I could as well run barefoot. Stillโ€”knock on woodโ€”I haven’t been injured in all that time, which is astonishing.

  • If I understood correctly, we can expect booster vaccines for the last quarter of 2021 to update our immune system to the plethora of new COVID-19 variants popping up all over the world. As I expected, this thing will drag out over a decade rather than be restricted to 2020 only.

  • If love for something turns into disgust or hatred, isn’t that a clear sign you haven’t truly separated from the thing? Both are strong types of emotions, or, bonding. Letting it go is also letting it be.

  • I did my longest RWR ๐Ÿƒ since a long time, and part of it on new (to me) terrain. Of course, I got lost, a bit, so the expected 16 km became 17 km, and I’m dealing with itches from brambles and nettles I encountered on a rarely used path. ๐Ÿ€ it started to ๐ŸŒง after I was back ๐Ÿ 

  • Reading the Command Line Interface Guidelines ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

    Yet with its creaky, decades-old constraints and inexplicable quirks, the command line is still the most versatile corner of the computer.

  • It’s probably smart to check with superior ๐Ÿ“Š if one isn’t sure if one is really tired or just playing tired out of laziness ๐Ÿฅฑ I find it hard to sense the diff. ๐Ÿƒ

  • My house has been invaded by two groups of workers at the same time. ๐Ÿ 

  • If I exclude walk breaks, I ran on average 6:24 min/km. 10 kph now seems almost doable for a 15 km ๐Ÿƒ at easy pace.

  • Time for my weekly interval ๐Ÿƒ training. This time 10 times 200 m (200 m recovery), at an average pace of 5:06 min/km. I felt I could’ve done 5 more, easily. Baby steps, though. Who knows, perhaps in August?

  • This time next week I will receive my second vaccine injection against SARS-CoV-2, supposedly protecting me against the Delta variant as well. It was originally scheduled for late August. It isn’t a perfect protection, so social distancing and hygiene rules will remain the same.

  • Cities Are Not Loud: Cars Are Loud, and Places Without Cars Are Quiet - YouTube I need to visit Delft to experience this silence.