Author: the philosopher king

here we go. bubble bursting. how low will we go? fire sale on stocks! i hope you have extra cash on hand!

i’ve been reading about economics from a marketeer lately. interesting stuff. infuriating stuff. but i am my enemy’s best friend, as nobody ever said. so i learn this stuff. what did i learn? markets are a technology. a sociological tech, but nonetheless. and i had another realization. democracy was the first political manifestation of that tech. wow. mind. blown.

i walked 1060 miles last year. the low was january with 34 miles. the high was august with 171 miles. i’m quite proud of that number. overall i lost about 20 pounds. if my calculations are correct, i may have lost about 30 pounds and gained back about 4 pounds of fat, 4 pounds of muscle and 2 pounds of water (retained from creatine/beta-alanine). i consider that a pretty good year. now that i’m done with my cutting phase and started my bulking phase, i’m looking forward to maintaining my body weight right about 199 pounds while adding muscle and reducing my lipids. my goal for 2018 is to lose 12 pounds of fat and add 12 pounds of muscle. that’s very, very ambitious. it will also be very hard to measure. my plan to solve that problem is to get my body fat measured with dxa/dexa in january of 2018 and then again approximately 365 days later in january of 2019. i also need to come up with some intermediary measurements to keep me on track. for instance, measure my chest size, my bicep size and my thighs. i think i’ll spend some time doing that today.

i’m exhausted. i’ve been getting between 6 and 7.5 hours of sleep for the last several days, which is simply not enough. tonight will be difficult because i’m going to fall asleep early and the dog is going to wake me up at least 2-3 times. i need to make sure to prep her food before i sleep so i can just skip it into a bowl for her whole half-awake. maybe tonight is a xanax night?

texting with carl again. boy, i love you.

i saw a horrible accident. a car t-boned another car. they were going fast. nobody in the cars was paying attention. there was just a thud. no screeching tires. lots of air bags. ugh.

get the fuck out. this is what it says to me when it speaks. it’s done speaking.

goddamit! i have strep throat. well. i got penicillin. i will feel better soon.

i finally made the jump to ios 11. there was an app on the store to replace a 32-bit app that i needed. it was $4.99 … oh well. hopefully it will do the job. this os is quite responsive compared to ios 10. strange. i didn’t realize that would be the case. it appears, i am much less depressed now than i was a month ago. i have put on a few pounds of both lean muscle and fat. i’m quite happy about that!!

there was a problem. it took a few days but the hosting company finally fixed it. all good now. mind your own business. now go away!!