{"id":525,"date":"2016-04-25T00:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2016-04-25T21:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T02:22:05","slug":"update-for-4242016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/update-for-4242016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 4\/24\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ve paused my pre-K reading to address some unfinished business with my comments on earlier reading&#8211;extracting questions I might want to answer as I go through the curriculum. I&#8217;ll need at least a couple more days on that. I&#8217;m hoping the end result will be a procedure that will give me the kind of depth I want without taking too much time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong> &#8211; I guess the next person in line for the <i>Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/i> audiobook didn&#8217;t want it, because it became available on OverDrive again, so it&#8217;s once again in my possession. My boss, my coworker, and I are also reading Plato&#8217;s dialogue <i>Meno<\/i> for a lunch discussion in a week and a half.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet<\/strong> &#8211; Monday at last is the day of the blood test that will tell me if my low-carb diet is helping my cholesterol. I&#8217;ll reward myself with a cheat day, which will consist of a wrap at Chick-fil-A. Even if I decide to end this diet, I&#8217;ve gotten used to avoiding sugar, and I&#8217;ll probably keep doing that. My low-carb cooking experiment last week was <a href=\"https:\/\/recipes.sparkpeople.com\/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=62201\">peanut butter cookies<\/a>, which were good except for their crumbliness and the slightly annoying <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erythritol#Heat_of_solution\">cooling effect<\/a> of the erythritol in the Truvia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daily routine<\/strong> &#8211; I kept a record of my time in the evenings last week, and some of the main culprits in my schedule delinquency were dawdling after work, napping, and wasting time online, which I attribute to fatigue and apathy. I didn&#8217;t try to get up early to do my walk and devotions in the morning, and I&#8217;m going to put off that experiment for now. I&#8217;ve started thinking about the reasoning behind schedules and productivity to see how I could make use of it apart from a routine, though this week I&#8217;ll still try to keep my routine, if only as a catalyst for thought on the subject. I also want to come up with a procedure for my devotions so I&#8217;ll have more of a clue what I&#8217;m doing and I&#8217;ll be less motivated to sacrifice them when time gets tight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Video games<\/strong> &#8211; My <i>Skyblock<\/i> world with Jeremy is coming along, though there are major differences between normal <i>Skyblock<\/i> and the one on <a href=\"http:\/\/phanaticmc.com\/\">this server<\/a> that I&#8217;d like to sort out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>TV and movies<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Blade Runner<\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;ve been wanting to watch some cyberpunk, mostly for the scenery, so I got <i>Blade Runner<\/i> on DVD from Netflix, and I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinkulum\/status\/724399037902782465?cn=ZmF2b3JpdGU%3D\">liked it much better<\/a> than the first time I saw it.<\/li>\n<li><em>Doctor Who<\/em> &#8211; I finally got through season 2 of <i>The Sarah Jane Adventures<\/i>, so I&#8217;m back to <i>Doctor Who<\/i>, but while I was away, Netflix removed it from their streaming side, so I spent some time tonight arranging the DVDs in my queue.<\/li>\n<li><em>Mr. Robot<\/em> &#8211; Before I get back into <i>Doctor Who<\/i>, though, I&#8217;m trying out <i>Mr. Robot<\/i>, a series I&#8217;d ignored until Matt on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stufftheydontwantyoutoknow.com\/podcasts\"><i>Stuff They Don&#8217;t Want You to Know<\/i><\/a> recommended it for its conspiracy themes. I really like it so far, especially since its computer-related aspects don&#8217;t sound made up like they are in most Hollywood productions.<\/li>\n<li><em>Anime<\/em> &#8211; I took a step toward watching anime again by collecting happy shows from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/anime\/comments\/2xw0lb\/what_anime_do_you_watch_to_feel_happy\/\">this Reddit thread<\/a> and putting them in a list on <a href=\"http:\/\/myanimelist.net\/animelist\/thinkulum\">MyAnimeList<\/a>, along with some other shows I&#8217;d gathered over the years from various sources.<\/li>\n<li><em>Star Trek<\/em> &#8211; One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000707\/\">actors<\/a> in <i>Blade Runner<\/i> was in <i>Star Trek: Renegades<\/i>, which made me curious about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Trek_fan_productions\">Star Trek fan productions<\/a>, so I might watch some of those soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worship team<\/strong> &#8211; Our team played this week, and changes have been happening. We had a guest electric guitar player and a new trumpeter this time, and it was our drummer&#8217;s last week before he&#8217;ll be out of town for the summer. This week was also interesting because we accompanied the children&#8217;s and adult choirs singing the Newsboys&#8217; &#8220;We Believe.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Freelancing<\/strong> &#8211; My freelance jobs from last week had a couple of minor hiccups, but I still finished them in a couple of days. I really should do some invoicing soon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Birthday<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjculb\">My brother&#8217;s<\/a> birthday was a few days ago, and I&#8217;ve been negligent and haven&#8217;t wished him a happy birthday yet. I hope it was a good one, Michael!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Math relearning &#8211; I&#8217;ve paused my pre-K reading to address some unfinished business with my comments on earlier reading&#8211;extracting questions I might want to answer as I go through the curriculum. I&#8217;ll need at least a couple more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/update-for-4242016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38,89,46,117,112,107,110,58,100,122,105,115,109,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-blood_tests","category-books","category-cooking","category-daily-routine","category-diet","category-doctor-who","category-freelancing","category-life_updates","category-math-relearning","category-movies","category-project-updates","category-tv","category-video-games","category-worship-performing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}