{"id":620,"date":"2016-09-12T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2016-09-12T21:07:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T02:07:34","slug":"update-for-9112016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/update-for-9112016\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 9\/11\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Health<\/strong> &#8211; I was sick last week starting Tuesday&#8211;some kind of cold or flu, I think, with a sore throat, congestion, aches, a bit of spaciness, and a fever&#8211;and it threw off most other things I was planning to do. The worst was Tuesday night, when I took a nap after work and then spent an hour trying to will myself out of bed. Wednesday was better, but I took the day off of work, and then I worked from home on Thursday to spare people my germs, but that was annoying, so I went back in on Friday. I&#8217;m mostly better now with just a little congestion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Life maintenance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Diet<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; Two weeks till my home blood test to see if the TLC diet, or my half-hearted version of it, is doing anything for my lipids in the face of my Humira. After stalling for a few weeks, my weight began dropping again last week, which was probably the illness, so that&#8217;ll be my diet plan after TLC (not really).<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Exercise<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I gave myself the week off so my sickness wouldn&#8217;t get worse. I&#8217;ll get back to my walks this week.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Daily routine<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; There wasn&#8217;t much of one last week.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Housekeeping<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; After I finish this math program intro, I am definitely taking a week to clean up my apartment. I&#8217;m feeling crowded and a bit weighed down, and I think clearing up all the clutter would improve my outlook on life. For me, physical space tends to translate into mental space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Math relearning<\/strong> &#8211; As expected, I made some progress but didn&#8217;t finish, but I blame the sickness and the ways it disrupted my week, such as giving me an excuse to sleep at odd times. But apparently I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;ll take about a year to finish this thing, so one week down, 51 to go!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Books<\/strong> &#8211; I finished <i>Glasshouse<\/i>, which was okay but not as fascinating to me as <i>Accelerando<\/i>. The main character got sick at about the time I did, which did <i>not<\/i> help me feel better. Now I&#8217;m on <i>The Magician King<\/i> by Lev Grossman, and it was instantly compelling, like the first one in the series.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dusk<\/strong> &#8211; Since this week&#8217;s update was kind of a downer, here are some nice clouds for you, from Saturday.<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-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=\"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 style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BKR0Ug1hcQO\/\" target=\"_blank\">A photo posted by Andy Culbertson (@thinkulum)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-09-13T01:54:28+00:00\">Sep 12, 2016 at 6:54pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\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>Life updates Health &#8211; I was sick last week starting Tuesday&#8211;some kind of cold or flu, I think, with a sore throat, congestion, aches, a bit of spaciness, and a fever&#8211;and it threw off most other things I was planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/update-for-9112016\/\">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":[89,117,112,124,35,111,88,58,100,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-daily-routine","category-diet","category-dusk","category-exercise","category-health","category-housekeeping","category-life_updates","category-math-relearning","category-project-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}