19 years since I quit cigarettes. wake a bit ahead of alarm caf + hydro surge by 7:30a on-track w/shower, overdue shave, fresh clothes by ~8:30 brekarito 9:15 because holding off gym sesh until after Mrs tele-tech interview catch-up with thumb+cloud backups * * * Thinking more about what BASB (buildga2ndbrain) says about personal interests... Forte views these as the primary actionable units of life, as opposed to career/job-specific stuff. Job-specific notes do of course deserve thei... (...more)

20oz hydro surge, 100mg caf in anticipation of more coffee w/ breakfast out
Havana (pulled pork) Benedict vs. Santa Fe breakfast quesadilla / Rutherford Pancake House
an unimpressive blueberry scone / Varrelmann's German Bakery

housesitting wrap-up / depart
reconnect w/doggo+catto
leftover salad, chicken, drinks
Lincoln Lawyer S3 E3. There's another whole season to catch up with after this.

breakfast at Tiffany's Mauro / N Arlington litterbox defrost chx 1p: +100mg caf gym: 4 stam circuits, still remedial phase but I'm confident these were very near max-20-rep loads: Lat pulldown: (4x) 20 x 80# Leg press: (4x) 20 x 200# Shoulder press: 17 x 35# v; 20 x 30# h, 20x30# v, 20x30# h 29g /soy cocoa + 6g /pistachios I considered calling "hypertrophy day" but on review, that's NOT how the reco'd weekly schedule works! This startup phase is to ensure foundational strength ... (...more)

“ Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate! Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in hi... (...more)

hydro surge + caf by 8:30a brekarito Waking alarm to hydro / supplement / meal timing is all pretty higgledy-piggledy. My impulse was to blame that on housesitting "vacation brain" but now I think about it, probably more that the morning alarm has been suspended for well over a week now. The corollary to that: going to bed on time to get 8+ hours, i.e. falling asleep by 10:30. I've been getting lax about honoring the evening "start shutting down" reminder. Drinks, mariscada and mofongo ... (...more)