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I have tried Fastmail before, or at least I have attempted and always forgetting about it and letting the trial expire. Recently, I had decided to give it another go. The omg.lol service might have had something to do with it. I saw the announcement that they had partnered with Fastmail and you could use your omg.lol address, that made it more enticing.

I went and tried to sign up, and for whatever reason, I was having a hard time creating an account. Getting errors and such. I reached out to their customer service, and although they were always looking forward to helping me, I am desperate, I don’t like waiting. Turns out, I think, I don’t know, for whatever reason I was trying to create gabz@something, and it wouldn’t work, regardless of what I tried. Then I decided to try I gaby@something instead, and it went right through!

Chin-bum-bam!

Then it was a matter of adding my omg.lol to it and voilà. Probably I minor a feature, but been able to have notes and having them available in all of my devices and work computer is somewhat nice. There is also space for files and such. And to someone that tables between Windows, Mac and iOS, these small features are nice.

The iOS app it is not as bad as I remember it to be, and their web app isn’t awful either. And the best part, it is way cheaper than Ahoy 😉 😉

Today, I looked myself in the mirror and felt gross about myself. I haven’t had this feeling, so real in my head, in a while. I have always been aware that I need to get back into a much healthier lifestyle, but today I felt like I’ve hit rock bottom in a way.

Now, shall I publish these feeling on my blog or day one?

Over two months ago or so, I had joined a gym. The plan was to get beck into my fitness live style and all that jazz. Three to four weeks later, I canceled my membership. At the time — and perhaps still — I wasn’t feeling too comfortable to be in such a place. Also did not help that the place didn’t seem been taken cared for. This week, I started again, but at home, here it’s safe — allegedly.

And here’s the thing. When you are at the gym, you are physically and mentally — ideally — there. Once you're there, it is you and your thoughts, perhaps your music, iron, and sweat. When you are at home, well, I feel like there are more distractions, even if you’re by yourself. Maybe not distractions but temptations, you can stop and just sit on the couch, or go to the fridge and whatnot.

This has been my problem when working out at home, all the distractions and temptations. This week I found a way to make it work.

I need to keep the monkey, in my brain, occupied.

So, I have my ’routine’ and, if possible, I turn the tv, put Naruto on, and get to it! Yes, you could say this could be a distraction, true. However, I have already seen this anime show, and it is not playing for my entertainment, it’s for the monkey in my brain.

I am not certain that I ever want to go back to a gym, I mean, I like gyms, just not sure if I’m comfortable with them — yet. The idea is to buy equipment, little by little, and condition the garage as my home gym.

We shall see

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Luna, my 2-soon-to-be-3 years-old, truly knows how to troll me and push my buttons. She knows I loathe it when she calls me daddy, I’m not ‘daddy’, I am papá!

But every time I call her attention for something she’s not supposed to be doing or say,

Luna, no

I get the,

okay, daddy

🤬

I got my COVID booster shot yesterday and unlike the fort to doses, it knocked me down a bit. I had the shot yesterday, and apart from a sore arm, I had no other issues. Furthermore, I drank a lot of water last night, added some Emergen-C to it as well, just in case.

Sometime in the middle of the night, it started. Feeling like crap, body aches and shivering. I had a hard time getting out off bed this morning. And to make things worse, not only I was having body aches, but I am also sore from yesterday workout. Especially my legs, so moving around was tough.

Then I had some coffee, as you do, and some ibuprofen, next thing I know I am not feeling too crappy and started sweating, a lot. By 10:00 am, I was already feeling much, much better!

I did some leg stretches to help with the soreness, and I am pretty much myself again — ish. Still have a bit of a headache and I feel tired, which is reasonable, it is not like had a pleasant night sleeping. Oh, and my arm, it still hurts a bit.

All that said, I am alive and kicking.