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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I run often, and unfortunately it’s a lot harder to stay thin as I’m pushing 40 than it was when I was pushing 20. And by stay thin I mean stay average.

    Kurzgesagt had a good video on exercise that basically talked about how, if you exercise regularly, your body basically doesn’t burn the calories the same. If you’re a couch potato and then you start to exercise, you will get a benefit, but then there’s diminishing returns from continuing to exercise, to the point your body now says “hey, this is my new normal,” and essentially burns the same calories whether you’re on the couch or exercising. There’s a lot more nuance to it in the video.

    It seems we’re all doomed to just get old.


  • Yeah, as a kid in high school, one of my go-to high snacks was an Entenmann’s All Butter French Crumb Cake (~1740 calories) and a half gallon of 2% milk (~950 calories). It wasn’t an everyday thing, but I’d house it no problem, and it wasn’t the only thing I’d eat that day. I also swam competitively, although as I’ve grown older I’ve learned that it’s essentially unrelated, and that your metabolism is just your metabolism, essentially regardless if your activity levels. I had trouble breaking 140 pounds at 5’8.

    That all stopped. It’s pretty incredible how it all just stops. I’m still fairly active, but I wouldn’t consider eating more than a serving at this point, and I instead have trouble cracking 165 (except from above this time). Oh well, this is life.


  • I know a couple people using it for mental health related reasons, under the care of a doctor. One goes for injections every couple weeks, the other gets these troches, meant to be placed buccally in the mouth. They both seem to experience positive effects from it.

    My experience is limited to the abuse half, but positive effects as well.


  • It’ll do that. It gets a terrible reputation, but it has both messed with my mind and also, 30m later, I feel fine.

    And putting the recreational side of the drug aside, it’s great in a clinical setting as well. I’ve been out of the EMT game for a bit, but I recall there being discussion of adding it to the repertoire of paramedics to deal with severe pain, as opposed to opiate administration. There are very few contraindications for ketamine, and nothing takes away pain like leaving your body behind.








  • Anytime I get my kids a snack or a bowl of cereal to cap off the night, I almost certainly take the dad tax (which in and of itself is a joke), but generally tell them that I checked and it was not poison.

    I also hide and scare everyone in my family, but that one is just for me. Sometimes I say boo without hiding, and that’s for them.