{"id":592,"date":"2016-07-18T00:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2016-07-18T00:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T05:35:46","slug":"update-for-7172016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/update-for-7172016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 7\/17\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; I spent most of last week&#8217;s time on this project learning Git, a version control system, which helps you keep track of the changes you make to your files, so I can post my code on GitHub, which is a code sharing site that uses it. I have a little more of that to learn, and then I can decide on my basic folder and file structure and start on the actual programming. I&#8217;m going to extend this phase of the project to this week so I can get all that out of the way.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wiki<\/strong> &#8211; My mind has been doing the thing where it squirms to get out of the cage of whatever I&#8217;ve been working on for an extended period, and this time that mostly looks like collecting a bunch topics to start wiki articles about, so after this phase of my math project, I&#8217;ll probably try posting something on a few of those. My vision for the site is to collect my thoughts and other products on a large variety of topics, so it would be nice to actually see more of that happen, especially since there are several topics that are of central concern to me that I&#8217;ve barely addressed on the site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diet<\/strong> &#8211; At long last, my cholesterol blood test is this Monday. I&#8217;ve told my boss I&#8217;m coming in late because I&#8217;ll need some extra time in the morning to run my home blood test for comparison, which will have the side benefit of giving me a clue about my results right away. Whatever the outcome, I&#8217;m going to keep limiting sugar and using substitutes, so last week bought sucralose (cheap) and xylitol (expensive) and mixed the remnants of my other substitutes together. Cooking experiments: my usual muffins, baked for 20 minutes and with sugar-free blueberry preserves smoothly mixed into half of them, which turned out pretty well; and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinkulum\/status\/754809578223611904\">grilling<\/a> chicken, asparagus, and squash on my George Foreman grill, which I&#8217;ve had for years and used about once.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ulcerative colitis<\/strong> &#8211; Okay, I&#8217;ve decided to try the gluten-free thing, which really I&#8217;ve been doing for at least the past couple of weeks, so I&#8217;ll go for another month to see if it clears up my symptoms. If it doesn&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll try going off dairy for a week because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1845668\/\">this old-ish study<\/a>, though it&#8217;s the only place I&#8217;ve seen milk connected with UC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daily routine<\/strong> &#8211; I didn&#8217;t try moving my devotions and exercise to the mornings last week because I want to see how I can organize my evenings better using ATracker, an easy time tracking app I started using last week, which is already giving me a better idea of where my time is disappearing to. I did managed to exercise some, which for now will consist of walks, push-ups, and planks (as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-you-can-stop-doing-sit-ups-1450722637\">replacement for sit-ups<\/a>, which I&#8217;ve never liked).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spirituality<\/strong> &#8211; Read a little more of Culadasa and Merton and listened to a little of <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.bookdesign.biz\/book\/4930\"><i>The Pursuit of God<\/i><\/a>. I tried a meditative devotion early in the week but ended up sleeping through most of it, which really I was expecting, and I was okay with it because Richard Foster is, but of course I don&#8217;t want to make sleep a regular feature of my devotions\/meditation, so maybe that&#8217;ll be motivation to regulate my sleep better. I&#8217;ve wanted to experiment with aromatherapy for a while, and this meditation stuff seems like a good excuse, so this weekend while I was buying xylitol at the Vitamin Shoppe, I looked around the aromatherapy section and decided to base my meditation combination on patchouli, because it smells exotic but not too weird and I don&#8217;t already associate it with other things, though I want to do more research before I buy anything.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anime<\/strong> &#8211; I watched an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/myanimelist.net\/anime\/16417\/Tamako_Market\"><em>Tamako Market<\/em><\/a>, which was funnier than I expected.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Video games<\/strong> &#8211; I haven&#8217;t played anything in a few weeks, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augmented_reality\">augmented reality<\/a> aspect of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/how-to\/how-to-play-pokemon-go\/\"><i>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/i><\/a> intrigued me, so this weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinkulum\/status\/754805312037662721\">I started that<\/a>, though I probably won&#8217;t play it much, since <i>Pok\u00e9mon<\/i> is the kind of game that has never interested me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Work<\/strong> &#8211; An interesting opportunity came up at work on Friday, but I don&#8217;t think I should say more about it here until things are more certain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Worship team<\/strong> &#8211; My team played this weekend, and for the first time in a few months we had a full team, thanks to some kind substitutes. Having all the instruments really makes a difference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Math relearning &#8211; I spent most of last week&#8217;s time on this project learning Git, a version control system, which helps you keep track of the changes you make to your files, so I can post my code &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/update-for-7172016\/\">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":[136,137,38,46,117,112,35,111,58,100,13,105,127,22,109,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-aromatherapy","category-blood_tests","category-cooking","category-daily-routine","category-diet","category-exercise","category-health","category-life_updates","category-math-relearning","category-programming","category-project-updates","category-sleep","category-spirituality","category-video-games","category-worship-performing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}