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15-Cent

Gym [Fitness Center] on the Track
Fitness Center at Campbell Stadium

Meticulous record keeping of daily routines is prescribed for useful feedback; the checked habits suggest adjustments pointing in the right direction, toward enlightenment.

11-Xpan

Wilderness

Out here by myself in 2016 at a place almost totally inaccessible to normal people. Motorcycle stuck on that hill for several hours. There’s no water! Nowadays I stay home, look at the picture.
Trinity College Library, Dublin (abundant resources and signs of humanity)

He turned to Stephen and said:

—Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money.

—That reminds me, Haines said, rising, that I have to visit your national library today.

—Our swim first, Buck Mulligan said.”

Ulysses by James Joyce

10-Turn

Changing Weather

Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors your works. Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life for the toil of your labors under the sun.

Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, no planning, no knowledge, no wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 9:7-10

04-Ride

Atlantic -> Pacific

These two bicycled from one side of the USA to the other, just like this! Such a healthy duo!

Update 2024: I’m feeling fine. Getting energy back. Speech is still affected, but can at least communicate. Hoping focus on exercise and caloric restriction proves effective.

Update 2023: Doctor asks for me to take a look at the MRI. It is stable from before, not worse or better. The good thing is there is no contrast enhancement to suggest an ongoing active infection. Since steroids have not helped symptoms, think it is best to do another spinal tap (lumbar puncture) just to make sure there is no inflammatory process.