{"id":529,"date":"2016-05-02T01:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T06:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2016-05-02T06:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:35:38","slug":"update-for-512016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/update-for-512016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 5\/1\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; I got through two pre-K modules (out of five) toward the end of the week and posted my comments for one of them, <a href=\"\/wiki\/Math_Relearning\/EngageNY\/PK\/Module_1:_Counting_to_5\">PK Module 1<\/a>, so my reading is moving faster now. I also posted some links to <a href=\"\/wiki\/Math_Relearning\/Introduction#Resources\">developmental math textbooks<\/a> for people who don&#8217;t want to slog through a P-12 curriculum. I&#8217;m hoping to get through the rest of pre-K this week and Kindergarten by the end of next week, and then I&#8217;ll take a break to focus on other projects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet<\/strong> &#8211; My blood test for cholesterol and a bunch of other things was Monday, so in a week or two I should find out if my low-carb diet helped. If it helped too much or too little, I&#8217;ll relax the diet. My cooking experiment this week was <a href=\"http:\/\/tastykitchen.com\/recipes\/desserts\/low-carb-no-bake-cookies\/\">low-carb no bake cookies<\/a>, which tasted much more like dark chocolate than like peanut butter, but I like them. Once I finish my Truvia, the next sugar substitute I want to try is maltitol, the one Atkins uses in their snacks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daily routine<\/strong> &#8211; The beginnings of my evenings last week went basically according to plan, and I got plenty of work done on my projects, but my discipline faded toward the end of the day, especially when the evening was interrupted by a nap, so I didn&#8217;t get to my walk most days or my devotions any day, and my bedtimes were as inconsistent as usual. I&#8217;m not sure yet what I&#8217;ll do to address all that this week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Clothes<\/strong> &#8211; So after I went to all that effort to buy new work clothes, my employer changed the dress code to allow jeans every day, starting Monday. I&#8217;ll either keep my usual clothing habits or save my dress pants for other purposes and buy some more jeans and a couple more casual work shirts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Socializing<\/strong> &#8211; I found out at the last minute that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TableTop_%28web_series%29#International_TableTop_Day\">TableTop Day<\/a> was going to be Saturday, so I didn&#8217;t do anything for it, unless you count <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/135779\/fake-artist-goes-new-york\"><i>A Fake Artist Goes to New York<\/i><\/a> at lunch on Friday, though I would have tried to play something with Tim after our dinner on Saturday if he hadn&#8217;t been too tired to stay. Sunday night I had dinner with some friends I hadn&#8217;t seen in a while, which makes me think about other friends I don&#8217;t see often that I might want to get together with.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Video games<\/strong> &#8211; My quest for online socializing through multiplayer games continued last week when I started playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runescape.com\/\"><i>RuneScape<\/i><\/a> while my new streamer who plays that game was streaming, which made him very happy, so maybe I&#8217;ll keep playing it, especially if Sumurai8 plays more often. I still haven&#8217;t applied to that <i>Minecraft<\/i> server, but games like that one appeal to me more than other multiplayer genres I&#8217;ve looked at, so I probably will, as long as I don&#8217;t feel I have to show up all the time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>TV<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mr._Robot_%28TV_series%29\"><i>Mr. Robot<\/i><\/a> continues to be fascinating, largely because it&#8217;s about hacking people (manipulating them, aka social engineering) as well as computers. I finally watched some anime on Saturday, the first episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/30276\/One_Punch_Man\"><i>One Punch Man<\/i><\/a>, since one of my online acquaintances likes it, and it was better than I expected&#8211;cleverer, sillier, more artistic, more thoughtful, and more thematically focused&#8211;so I&#8217;ll probably keep watching, though I want to sample a bunch of different shows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comics<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/this-saturday-is-free-comic-book-day\/\">Free Comic Book Day<\/a> is this Saturday, so this week I&#8217;ll be investigating graphic novels I might want to buy when I&#8217;m in the store.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Housekeeping<\/strong> &#8211; After many weeks of procrastination, I defrosted the hills of ice in my freezer on Saturday, and its contents are nicely organized now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Math relearning &#8211; I got through two pre-K modules (out of five) toward the end of the week and posted my comments for one of them, PK Module 1, so my reading is moving faster now. I also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/update-for-512016\/\">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":[102,113,90,46,117,112,88,58,100,36,105,115,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-clothes","category-comics","category-cooking","category-daily-routine","category-diet","category-housekeeping","category-life_updates","category-math-relearning","category-people","category-project-updates","category-tv","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}