over the hump

[Damn, I started this post around 9:50 a.m. and still haven't published it...]

I wasn't able to do anything more about my exercise chart yesterday as I had a Friday full of errands (renew Costco membership card, get a haircut, etc.) and other things to do (finish scheduling posts for this blog through July... but there will be posts trailing through August before the blog goes dark). This weekend, I've got a few agenda items I want to get through before Monday, which is when I start my new work schedule and exercise schedule. This would include finishing up the exercise chart, finally learning how to use my Korean CGM (continuous glucose monitor), cooking my keto orzo (in the oven as I write this... I'm prepping it like Papa John's risotto, with mozzarella and pepperoni on top), and making keto grilled-cheese sandwiches (probably Sunday). I'm also getting the Squarespace site this weekend.*

As mentioned before, the new blog will be more personal and less political, less current-events oriented; there will likely be a subscription-free meme section where I might feature the types of memes I've been slapping up here (a combination of political and just-plain-humor), but the focus for me will me more on the retarded English (bad punctuation, spelling, etc.) of the memes. The new blog will see me back in teacher/storyteller/thinker/cook/artist mode, which will be a relief for my small-but-stubborn band of leftist readers who can't seem to pull themselves away despite all of my far-right, bigoted content. Except for the memes themselves, the new blog will feature a great deal more original writing and visuals, but since I publish my own stuff at a slow rate (it takes time to think things up, draft, review, then publish), that content will appear correspondingly slowly. For me, this all comes as a relief: it's a new phase in life, but there'll be no more self-imposed pressure to put out opinions on divisive matters. As a result, the new place should be a happier site than this blog, but then again, I might get all crotchety about people's misuse and abuse of language.

In other news, I'm taking a break from all of the diet drinks. After watching a Sten Ekberg video about kidney function, I'm going to rely on water, tea, and coffee** for a while, at least until my paranoia recedes.

Just a little update. You've seen no changes thus far, so I doubt this means anything.

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*It won't be ready for the public for a while, but come by and watch construction.

**I'm not a natural coffee drinker, and when I do drink coffee, it normally has to have a lot of cream and sugar. Traditionally, I've loved the smell of coffee but not the taste (and don't get me started about coffee ice cream). In most cases, I'd rather have hot chocolate. Otherwise, my hot-drink default is tea (or tisane, or thé infusion, etc.). But I have a bunch of leftover packets of Kanu Mild Roast Coffee (a popular Korean brand, concentrated), and I've got plenty of heavy cream, not to mention various faux sugars... which I'll use in moderation. For the kidneys. Not that I've had kidney problems up to now, but for diabetics, kidney health is a concern. Everything goes wrong when you ingest too many carbs.