After reflecting — and posting — about my current state of health, I’m still not entirely sure what I am going to do exactly. I need to come up with a plan and I need to get my motivation back.

That being said, today’s weight, 212 lbs. The goal is… I don’t know. I know I feel good at 190-195, and even better at 180-185. That’s a lot, but I’ve done it before. I’ve gone from 225 down to 190.

All I need is a bit of motivation and a lot of discipline, I seemed to have misplaced them both. So, if you see them, tell them I miss them. 😅

A few weeks ago I had my annual physical examination with also included some blood work. Upon visiting my primary physician it turned out that I am not quite dying — yet. Still and most definitely far from perfect but still, I’ll live. There was one thing that he found abnormal, something related to my cholesterol not the kind of problem that would necessarily cause a heart attack, but it can still be an issue.

He asked me to get a second round of blood work just to make sure. There’s always the possibility of a bad lab work. But if it was indeed high thenI would have to be under medication. Which, truthfully, I don’t want to do, I already have to medicate myself once a day and I don’t want to add yet another pill to my day. I know, like my dad, he takes like six different medications a day for various reasons, so one pill is nothing. Still, I don’t like pills.

I asked what could I to remedy the problem or prevent it from getting worse? In the back of my head I already knew the answer, though. He said, exercise and diet. Carbs and complex sugars are my biggest enemies. In my case, this means beer 😅

Today I got a called, regarding my second round, and it came back, not perfect, but I won’t need medication. The Doctor advised to up my exercise and work on my diet.

Ever since the pandemic, I have gone out of control. To make it even worse, I have barely been keeping up with my exercise routine. I haven’t been to a gym in a year or so. I have stopped working out at home or going for walks/runs.

I need to get serious and make serious changes. I am not as heavy as I’ve ever been, but I am getting there. Lower back problems are coming back too. I need to figure something out, need to incorporate some kind of routine with many new work schedule and cut out the breed (read beer).

• M: Too many free radicals. That’s your problem.

• James Bond: “Free radicals”, sir?
• M: Yes. They’re toxins that destroy the body and the brain, caused by eating too much red meat and white bread. Too many dry martinis!
• James Bond: Then I shall cut out the white bread, sir.

EDWARD FOX — M

SIR SEAN CONNERY — James Bond

“Never Say Never Again”

I love my HomePod, I really do, when it works. There are a few times though, when….

Today for example.

Me: Hey, Siri! Put a timer for 35 minutes.

Siri: …

Siri: hm….

Siri: I’m having trouble connecting to the internet. For more information, go to the home app.

Me (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Unplugged the HomePod, asked the watch for the timer.

Hey Siri, you’re in timeout 😤

The perfect email app or system, is the one you use. How do you know? Well, use it, use it how you will, with whatever client or application you will. Whatever service you will or not pay for. Just use it and do whatever the fuck. The rest, are just minor intricacies.

IN OTHER NEWS:

I got two more desk buddies.

Today we had a very Puerto Rican menu.

Rice and beans (with olives)

Bistec encebollado

With, tostones 😍, not fried though, oven baked, gotta keep it as healthy as possible 😅

Just missing some Puerto Rican beer and a flan 🍮

inessential: The Perfect To-Do System Is Not Just Around the Corner

There’s no getting out of this fact: these apps are all going to take more constant input from you than you’d wish for. They don’t take away the need for some amount of self-discipline to use them effectively.

Wondering if this the reason why I always fail at these systems. 😉

Vaccine administration in the US achieved a new daily record last week with over 4 million shots in one day. In addition, the US has fully vaccinated more than 61.4 million individuals (18.5% of the total US population) and 32.4% of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.

61.4 million, to me, sounds like a big number but that represents only 18.5% of the total US population, eighteen point five percent of the total!! I guess I have failed to grasp the magnitude of the US’s population if that makes any sense. It is a number I think very little about. Perhaps because I used to live on a little island for more than half of my entire life. The current population of Puerto Rico is 2.8 million, according to the latest United Nations data. So, yeah 61.4 million does seem like a lot but it really isn’t in the grand scheme of things.

Still though, over 4 million shots in one day, that’s two Puerto Rico’s 🙃 and then some.