{"id":611,"date":"2016-08-22T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2016-08-22T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:32:08","slug":"update-for-8212016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/update-for-8212016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 8\/21\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Life maintenance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Diet<\/em> &#8211; After six-and-a-half long weeks, I&#8217;ve completed my gluten-free experiment, and with no improvement in my ulcerative colitis symptoms, I&#8217;ve concluded that gluten is not the problem, unless I&#8217;m super sensitive to microscopic contamination from restaurants, factories, utensils, and so on, which seems to me a flaw in the use of elimination diets for diagnosing things like gluten intolerance. So now I have only one diet running, the TLC diet, and it&#8217;s a relief to be able to eat mostly normally again and not worry about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celestesbest.com\/blog\/cooking-gluten-free-meals-for-guests-\/49b7ed8d-f09b-e74b-6150-53da761426e7\">being a burden on people<\/a>, though Heather and Jeremy were kind enough to accommodate me last week at the <i>Star Wars<\/i> marathon without feeling burdened; and if gluten had turned out to be the problem, as it is for many people, I would&#8217;ve worked harder to find ways to live with the diet in the future and not complain so much. And I would like to add that because of this experiment and against all my expectations, I have found a brand and variety of ice cream that can compete with Blue Bell, and it&#8217;s one of the few gluten-free foods I&#8217;m keeping in my diet&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breyers.com\/product\/detail\/113843\/fat-free-vanilla\">fat-free creamy vanilla<\/a> by Breyers, which needs no toppings and should be savored in thin slices. Cooking experiments: for the ice cream (no toppings needed, but they&#8217;re still allowed!), <a href=\"http:\/\/alldayidreamaboutfood.com\/2015\/01\/the-best-low-carb-hot-fudge-sauce.html\">this chocolate sauce<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyeating.sfgate.com\/healthy-substitutes-heavy-whipping-cream-2136.html\">half-and-half for the heavy cream<\/a> and with <a href=\"http:\/\/whatscookingamerica.net\/ChocolateSubstitutionChart.htm\">unsweetened cocoa and Smart Balance spread for the baking chocolate<\/a>, which all worked really well.<\/li>\n<li><em>Exercise<\/em> &#8211; Saturday morning, for the first time in about eight years, I used the weight machines at the gym, with the goal of figuring out the details of my workout, and my muscles are still sore. Now I just need to decide on a schedule (twice a week?) and settle on a workout logging app, and I can get my probably-doomed (since I&#8217;m on a calorie deficit) weight training program moving. Meanwhile, to my surprise, my daily walks are gradually speeding up as I get used to the rates I set on my metronome app.<\/li>\n<li><em>Daily routine<\/em> &#8211; Last week one of my main projects was to try to get to bed on time, which ideally is 9:00; and as usual when I really try, I succeeded at the beginning of the week and then pushed my bedtime back further and further as the week wore on; but I&#8217;ll try it again this week and maybe learn a little more about what it&#8217;ll take to become consistent. Time on social media still eats too much into time for more important things, so I&#8217;m gradually cutting it down to the sites I really care about that don&#8217;t completely suck me in, which basically leaves me with Twitter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; With a more relaxed diet and a renewed attention to my use of free time, I&#8217;ve managed to carve out more time to spend on this project; and so to continue the theme of ending long delays, after years of thinking it would happen one day, I&#8217;ve finally created a project on GitHub, a place for people to share computer programs they&#8217;re writing, and my GitHub project is the programming part of my math relearning project, a program I&#8217;m calling <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/thinkulum\/math-student-sim\">Math Student Simulator<\/a>. So far I&#8217;ve posted a brief explanation of the project and one of the scripts I&#8217;ll use to manage my code, which means I now have code out in public for other programmers to verbally rip apart like a pack of wolves, so &#8230; have at it, I guess! I&#8217;ve achieved enough momentum on this project that I&#8217;m able to think about it at times when I&#8217;m not physically at a computer, which is a state I&#8217;ve been hoping to reach, and it makes me think my progress will accelerate a bit. This week one of my goals is to post on the wiki a longer explanation of the programming aspect of my math relearning for people who want to understand why I&#8217;m doing it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Movies<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m watching more of these than usual right now, and the latest was <i>Jason Bourne<\/i> on Sunday with Tim. It was interesting, and I found I could follow its plot better than I normally can in a political thriller, and I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m getting better at paying attention or because it was dumbed down to my level.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dusk<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ll leave you with these. I went back to the park from two weeks ago and still didn&#8217;t get good pictures, but I did get some from the lake in another area of <a href=\"\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/update-for-652016\/\">forest preserve #2<\/a>.<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJZcRmphX70\/\" target=\"_blank\">A different area of forest preserve 2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-08-22T04:26:53+00:00\">Aug 21, 2016 at 9:26pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJZcvYZhlOf\/\" target=\"_blank\">The lake at forest preserve 2, dusk deepening.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-08-22T04:30:57+00:00\">Aug 21, 2016 at 9:30pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJZdIU0Bcxy\/\" target=\"_blank\">City lights next to the lake. Yes, the illusion of isolation is shattered. I really like the water tower in the center.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-08-22T04:34:21+00:00\">Aug 21, 2016 at 9:34pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 37.4537037037% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BJZdetOBSTd\/\" target=\"_blank\">The lake again, with an airplane high in the sky and some birds just above the water. I find the sight of distant clouds at the horizon deeply settling.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-08-22T04:37:24+00:00\">Aug 21, 2016 at 9:37pm PDT<\/time>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Life maintenance Diet &#8211; After six-and-a-half long weeks, I&#8217;ve completed my gluten-free experiment, and with no improvement in my ulcerative colitis symptoms, I&#8217;ve concluded that gluten is not the problem, unless I&#8217;m super sensitive to microscopic contamination from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/update-for-8212016\/\">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":[46,117,112,124,35,100,122,13,105,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-daily-routine","category-diet","category-dusk","category-exercise","category-math-relearning","category-movies","category-programming","category-project-updates","category-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}