Fonderthud

Been on the road for work over the past two months, 3 weeks on 1 off and 12 hour shifts, it's made running hard. Still managed to knock out at least something on the hotel treadmills half the mornings.

Heat and humidity has been crazy but I just set PR records for 1 mile, 5k, and 10k this morning. 20 minute drop in my 10k time to 1:11, not bad for my second 10k. Hoping if I keep at it this fall I can be sub 30 5k, sub 1:00 10k, and an accidental half marathon.

I use Alltrails and they cover Germany, from what I've seen an easy hiking trail is a good choice for running in general.

I have a second hand surface still running windows that I draw on. With a paper like screen protector I find it quite pleasant. Mines a 6 I think, runs Krita great I imagine it'd be even better if I ditched windows bloat.

Personal anecdote but free base nic 3mg/ml was low enough I quit without withdrawal symptoms. Salt nic, what's in most of the pods, hits harder than standard smokes for me and I had withdrawal symptoms when switching to freebase.

I finally got my wife to stop frequenting them with a moka pot and some flavored syrups. Homemade is comparable in flavor, bit less fat and sugar, and $1-2 per cup all in.

I use a Kingrinder, $50-100, milk warmer/frother, $30, moka pot, $30, and light roast Ethiopian beans. I just order in a big bag of beans for pour over and use the same for other drinks out of convenience. I've had cheap espresso makers before and the moka pot is close enough for mixed drinks.

Picked up a set of Timp 4, my Peregrines left my feet sore on my long runs, 5 miles now. Did the 5 mile run in the Timps yesterday, love the toe room and they didn't hurt my mid foot like Lone Peaks do. I still love the Peregrines they work great on more textured trails when I want to pretend I'm a goat.

Trails have been so darn wet around me I've only gotten out for 1-2 runs a week, probably for the best since I jumped right back to 5k for base runs after taking the winter off. Hopefully things dry out, I want mileage again. Spending a long Saturday morning running trails is just fantastic to me.

On Subaru and CVTs, I hate most modern automatic transmissions due to the rough shift and indecision but the Subaru CVT ain't bad at all.

I'm a big proponent of normal/semi obscure normal first name, weird middle name. John W Smith if you work in sales, J Wolfgang Smith if you're an author. Perfect compromise.

My best 5k was 51 minutes on trail, my watch says I can run a 5k in about 25 minutes. It's not happening, the trails weren't gnarly enough to double my pace, I'm just slow.

Yup, in the office we regularly hire engineers and scientists with a bachelor's, I've never seen anyone even care what tier of bachelor's. Some people go on to get licensed or a master's on the company dime but we also have lots of unlicensed never going back to school people in very technical demanding and high ranking positions.

I'm just a geologist with a bachelor's and am regularly supervising and training people with engineering PhDs. My work place quickly becomes task specific and degrees are worth less than years in the field a lot of the time, your mileage may vary.

I'd disagree with that. I see that the gains we've made in quality of life are often the result of literally fighting for change. The systems we live under are the result of incremental change over a long time and should be questioned and resisted when our ability to live a full human life is threatened. The systems we built 10 years ago are unlikely to be perfect, nevermind 200 years ago. There's a reason the US constitution has the amendment process. It is a living document we are ment to change to address the problems we face. Knowing what it took to get the changes in the past let us weigh whether the changes are worth it and the ruling class knowing we know our history means they know what's on the table.

If you choose to call living a life with a degree of awareness and the ability to be more than a profit generator far left so be it. However, I'm very fond of not working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, and dying from preventable illness due to gutted safety standards.