• I started using Duolingo. I’m not sure if I can keep up, since it’s rather intense with 5 min/day. Also, no account, no notifications. I do not want those! I’m supposed to do it daily, but I’ll start with one day per week, and see if I even like that level of intense learning.

  • I’ve given up on my local Dutch library and lending ๐Ÿ“š online. It’s just too depressing. The only adults promoting online lending are those working for local libraries, not book readers. That says it all, I guess. Unless you’re under 18, it’s too limited, too expensive.

  • ๐Ÿƒ 19 km run-walk-run in 2ยผ hours. That long straight cobblestone road was mind numbing, but I did it! Stretching afterwards felt better than usual, because that’s what cobblestone does to a runner.

  • So many hurdles for reading e-๐Ÿ“š through my local library. After buying a โ‚ฌ160 e-reader (not Kindle, nor Sony), I still need to โ‘  pay a yearly subscription โ‘ก buy a Windows PC or Mac โ‘ข install Adobe Digital Editions. This is for people with time and money to waste ๐Ÿ˜’

  • 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