I do more of a 5 meal thing lately. I became very regimented over the last couple years.

Morning is a 2 hour procession of water, protein coffee, regular coffee, and oatmeal.

Late morning is a piece of Ezekiel toast with a light cream cheese spread and either smoked salmon or sliced chicken breast on it.

Early afternoon is often a full or half banana. Late afternoon is protein drink and either a banana or a rice cake with honey. These two mini meals bookend my workout.

Dinner is the wild card. Chicken, salmon, shrimp, scallops, tuna… all fair game. Usually with a vegetable and a an egg or half avocado.

Then my night snack is usually Greek yogurt with something mixed in. Mix ins range from Stur to blueberries to peanut butter… just depends on the day. I’ve also been known to do a hard boiled egg or two instead.

Ha, can’t comment on the name but it’s a flourless bread, using sprouted grains instead. It has good macros for a bread, too. I’m a convert from 88 cent Aldi loafs.

Ah, Jerome. A great example of man’s hubris.

Weezer’s Hash Pipe came to mind for me. The rest of the green album and much of their stuff is distinctly different.

I’m not here to condone smoking, but OP isn’t here for unsolicited advice either.

Natural Born Killers. I think it’s the whole “killer duo” and cultural obsessions that linked them together for me.

But it’s been a while since I watched NBK, too, so maybe I’ll have to do these two back to back!

I have not, but I’ll check it out some time. The trailer makes me think of NBK.

Idiocracy

There’s something about that close-to-home dystopian outlook that calms me. Now go away, I’m batin’!

How, even as seasoned veterans of experience, can we preserve a sense of wonder throughout our lives?

. . . truly contemplating the world — truly attending to and feeling wonder for it — can help dissolve the separations we artificially impose upon life.

Your post reminded me this short article, on maintaining wonder and awe through awareness. Its less about the comparison, and more about the appreciation.

The bigger concern typically comes from using non sterilized/distilled water. Overall, and with proper use and cleaning, it’s an effective and safe method of sinus cleansing.

Don’t miss a day once you start taking it. It’s not an instant relief med, but has to build in your system for about 24 hours. In my experience, for example, missing Tuesday meant a headache on Wednesday.

Zyrtec and Allegra, I believe, provide same day relief. But I still prefer Claritin myself, for various reasons.

On the other hand, the older I get, the more excited I am to greet the next day.

I also enjoy an earlier bed time than I used to, usually.

Ah damn, and it looks like almonds are grown mostly in California. Adding insult to injury.

California-grown almonds account for 80 per cent of the world’s commercial almond production.

(From https://davidsuzuki.org/living-green/the-best-plant-based-milks-for-the-planet/)

Sonic sage playlists FTW

Similar - I signed up for my Spotify account with a VPN, as it was only available in Europe / UK / something like that. Have been paying for as long as I can remember.

With our family account, we had a house account, wife, mother, grandmother, and myself. In reality, only 2 of those accounts really got used.

The family verification emails were definitely annoying. But the yearly price hike with few important feature improvements, combined with things like audiobooks being for the primary account only, caused me to re-eval.

Now, my wife is on a student plan on Spotify, and I’m trialing Tidal. I expect to stick with Tidal based on lossless and higher pay for artists. If I don’t, I’ll likely swing over to Apple Music. Switching and migrating playlists is pretty painless, overall.

In any case, I’m glad I’m out of that abusive relationship with Spotify.

I just switched from Spotify to Tidal, and am enjoying lossless audio. We’ll see if I stay or go here.

It’s fun to try a new algorithm, too. I used SongShift to transfer my tracks and playlists (have been using that app for 5 years or so now).

I have a Soda Stream and use powders. The trick is to turn your powder into a “syrup” first.

Mix your powder with 1-2 oz of water, stir it well (I use a hand held milk frother), and then put that into your bubbly water.

I’ve just started a Zulip POC and it’s been decent so far. Definitely resembles Discord.

Nah, it’s actually pretty dope. Scrub daddy, scrub mommy, and the scrub wand — I’m all in, baby.

Legit, the scrub daddy franchise is a lesson in great “KISS” product design.

OP — Plex is a step easier, as Plex brokers the connection. No reverse proxy. The same plus in this case can also be seen as a minus.

I’m still on the Plex bus, and it’s good for me and friends. Jellyfin will get there one day, but right now it’s just not quite feature complete enough for my use cases.