Trees don’t make you feel anxious or full of existential dread.
I mean, unless it’s stormy and one looks like it’s going to fall on you, which has admittedly happened to me.
But in general, trees don’t do that and I like that about them.
THIS POST IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO CURRENT WORLD EVENTS1Haha, naw. It’s totally related to it. But I am actually doing fine, here with my trees and nature and such..
Yes, the kind that basically just do phone calls and basic text messaging.
I think I may be going full hermit/retro-tech/minimal tech. I’ll probably be living in a cave and hunting fish with a hand-hewn spear in mountain rivers a year from now. With my Nokia flip phone in my pants pocket.
After my Rest Day™ yesterday, I felt compelled to do some exercise today. While I don’t mind running in the rain (I don’t like it, either), today it is more monsoon than light drizzle, so to the treadmill it was!
I opted to mostly walk, but after hitting 3 km, I ran until I hit the 30-minute mark, which gave me a total distance of 3.46 km. Exciting stats below!
Speed: 6.5-9.0 (6.5-9.0)
Incline: 1 (1)
Pace: 8:36 (8:36/km)
Time: 30:00 (26:05)
Distance: 3.46 km (3.03 km)
Calories burned: 262 (273)
BPM: 121 (130)
Parenthetical numbers are from the previous treadmill workout.
I saw a post on Mastodon that led me to this site and post lamenting the state of the web and calling for more people to do their own blog/thing on the internet, something I obviously support, having spewed nonsense right here for 20 years and counting.
There are some links to other sites at the end of the article, and this is by far the most amazing and awesome. Remember 1998? This blog does!
I leave you with this:
I was going through some old photos and came across this nice one from our trip to Barkerville in 2018, so I thought, what the hey, why not post it?
Because there was a 5.4 earthquake about 100 km northwest of the Lower Mainland.
I felt it as two brief rolling waves passing through the ground under the condo (which is on the ground floor). It’s been quite some time since I felt one, but my quakedar immediately pinged with the first rumble.
Yes, quakedar.
But I still got in some activity, as you can see.
This is my one political post this year. Enjoy!
Or so said Ben Werdmuller’s university employer.
I just love this very specific and absurd description of blogging and who it’s for.
I blog because I like writing, I like rambling, and I occasionally even have thoughtful or interesting and possibly witty things to say.
And what better place to say these things than on something I have direct control over? No one can come up to me here and say, “You’re not a teenage girl and you’re not even crying. What are you doing, you huge poser?” Well, technically, someone could say this, but I disabled comments on this blog years ago due to a bot problem I was disinclined to invest the time to resolve, since only bots wanted to comment.
Hopefully those bots are out there, somewhere, crying mechanical tears. And possibly blogging about it in binary code.
Today, I finally decided it was time to go outside, not to just touch trees, but to also run amongst them, so I got dressed1Not to imply I sometimes go out naked or anything. and headed to Burnaby Lake, with vague plans, dependent on the weather and how I felt.
In the end, I did another mini 2.5 km run to round out the last one, which featured the trip on the sidewalk. Today, there was no tripping and no running on sidewalks. Instead, I did a loop around the side trails and, unlike the previous run, I didn’t have to stop to take a break mid-way through.
I was slower, though, but given that it’s been 50 days since my last run outside, that’s to be expected. Everything went relatively fine, other than the obvious lack of stamina.
I wore my old Saucony Switchback shoes, since the Speedgoat 6’s are now falling apart and full of holes. They were ultimately a disappointment and I’m looking for new shoes that will not feature “goat” in the name.
Overall, this was a good return. The weather was mild at 9C, but two layers seemed right, given the intermittent light rain and wind on the walk to and from the lake (the lake trail was not breezy). I’ll go for another run on Friday and see if I can manage an actual 5K then.
Stats:
Run 907
Average pace: 6:15/km
Training status: Maintaining
Location: Burnaby Lake (CCW)
Start: 11:23 a.m.
Distance: 2.50 km
Time: 15:39
Weather: Overcast, light showers
Temp: 9°C
Humidity: 82%
Wind: light
BPM: 150
Weight: 170.1
Total distance to date: 6,390.0 km
Devices: Garmin Forerunner 255 Music, iPhone 12, AirPods (3rd generation)
Shoes: Saucony Switchback (n/a)
I’m not entirely sure, but I feel like it’s been so long since I ran outside (December 30, or 50 days) that I’ve become accustomed to it and am kind of avoiding running now.
For example, today is Wednesday–a run day! The snow is gone, the temperatures are mild, but the forecast calls for light rain, and I think, “I can’t run in that” like I’d melt or something.
But maybe if I just change into my running clothes and go out without a formal goal, I can test the waters, so to speak.
I will report back later with my success or lack thereof.
Also, filing this under “Health” since I may not actually do any exercise. 😛
I have tweaked some of the fonts on the site again (but not all of them, so there is a bit of a crazy quilt effect going on here).
Specifically:
Body font: JetBrains Mono
Heading 2 font (used for post titles): Ubuntu Mono
As an added bonus for me, because WP doesn’t “see” JetBrains Mono in the editor, it is using Bold Segoe UI at 17px instead.
I’m all about the monospaced fonts. For now. For today. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.
EDIT: I have already changed the Header font to Barlow Semi Condensed, mere minutes later.
EDIT 2: I've now changed the sidebar to JetBrains Mono and also made the background colour of the site blue, and the sidebar a greenish-yellow. Or a yellowish-green.
EDIT 3: I've updated the blue in the logo to make it a bit lighter and it seems WP just needed to cache the fonts, as the editor now shows JetBrains Mono, as nature intended. More tweaking undoubtedly to come.