day 2 straight-edge

From tomorrow, I will be starting on an exercise regime.

Breathed pretty easy last night, was a little slow falling asleep, but damn good feeling to breathe normally, almost normally now.

It would have been impossible to do enough exercise to get any kind of results until I stopped drinking and smoking.

My metric of success will be when I have a whole day without nearly getting stuck for a few minutes with a muscle cramp.

Currently because I have been transitioning to some old school leather shoes, with nice flat barefoot soles, half of the muscles in my calf are seeing work they haven't had in years, I mean literally. Normal shoes barely give your feet any real work forward of the heel. I am walking properly, like the Chinese medicine saying "walk like a pigeon". Meaning that you relax your arch when lifting and let it spread out from the middle of your feet as you put the front part of the foot down first and let the toes stretch out to provide fine balance.

Those muscles are getting to be a bit more conditioned, and I should just point out to those who don't understand what the fuss about barefoot is, half the muscles in your calf are for actuating your toes and fore-foot. Normal thick heeled, padded modern shoes treat your feet like they are stumps with no articulation or inbuilt suspension.

It hurts a bit for a while, if you do too much walking for the condition of these under-worked muscles. And if you were like me, drinking like a fish, with overall malnutrition and B vitamin and electrolyte deficiencies, the reaction of the muscles is cramping. Which is because I am not getting enough salt for the amount of protein and energy in my diet. Salt is required for fat digestion, and fat gives you all-day energy, it is not the 3 hours and nothing of breakfast cereal, slathered in glue containing, refined, dead milk.

But for today, I am working on indra code mainly. I have discovered a ridiculous private key leak in upstream code that I have to fix.