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Alex 7mo ago 💬 1

Handstand pooping

Alex 7mo ago

Been a while.

Bitcoin still good.

Training for marathon.

Still lacking fulfillment.

The 9-5 exhausts me.

Alex 11mo ago

I haven't posted here in a hella fortnight. I just lost a hockey game and my nipples are a bit chafed. What up.

Alex 2y ago

Happy holidays, Nostr 🤒

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Alex 2y ago

I can't wait until I can just spend all day every day making tasty food for the people I love. One day.

One day.

Alex 2y ago

Simply ain't feelin' it

Alex 2y ago

Just another few photos of things that have made me happy recently. I've been very very busy lately and I think I'm realizing that being busy - even if it's having a packed social schedule or doing things that make me happy outside of work - is very good for me.

This may seem like common sense to a lot of folks, but I'm just now trying to learn that I matter and that I deserve to look after my own happiness too. I don't do great when I lounge and languish and only offer my emotional capacity to other people. But I have been doing great these days that I've had packed with STUFF and EVENTS and SOCIALIZATION.

Introspection is nice.

Take care of yourselves, and take care of those around you if you have the spoons to do so. Have a wonderful evening 💕

Alex 2y ago

Another game, another win - the team played great. I'll get my first goal eventually but my arm is still killing me from so much practice.

I really hope my team doesn't get promoted from the bottom league while I'm still learning 😅

#hockey #grownostr

Alex 2y ago 💬 1

Small photo dump from some recent good times.

#foodstr #grownostr

Alex 2y ago

Forearm/elbow is KILLING me - I think it's tendinitis from practicing slapshots too often during hockey. Anybody know of how to manage this?

Alex 2y ago 💬 2

I've got a bit of a moral dilemma going on inside me right now.

It's amazing to witness all of the development happening around #Bitcoin and #Nostr right now. I really love catching up every day to see what's in the works and what's being made - things are moving at a crazy rate. I think these tools will really advance society and encourage adoption of the ideals of freedom and self-detemination on a broad scale.

But there is absolutely a selfish part of me that wants these things to take off so that the value of bitcoin will allow me to exit the rat race, retire young, become self-sufficient, live comfortably, and set up my kids for success (if I ever have any). I feel guilty for wanting to see broad adoption and success for reasons that can be perceived as wholly lazy and self-serving.

I consciously realize this guilt was largely taught to me by the nature of our economy and American work culture, but it's hard to shake the subconscious negativity I feel towards myself because of my human desires. I mean, retirement is the goal for a lot of people, but I feel guilt for... wanting it sooner? for wanting it to come easier? for not wanting to continue devoting my time to institutions and businesses I don't believe in? Logically this negativity makes no sense.

I hope one day I can be nicer to myself.

For now I'll just keep watching Nostr blossom and keep living like the bitcoin I hodl doesn't exist.

Replying to

jb55

Has anyone read diaspora? I haven’t read any greg egan and was thinking about starting with this one. #bookstr #scifi

Alex 2y ago 💬 1

A lot of Egan's novels feel hard to digest/get through because of the density of his ideas and explanations, but Diaspora is one of my favorites.

His short stories are way better for me personally, I'm a big fan of the compilation Axiomatic.

Alex 2y ago

11 hours of shopping and work later and we ended up with 7 jars of vegan kimchi (doengjang and vegan fish sauce in place of dried fermented shrimp and regular fish sauce), 4 jars of pickled beets, and 4 jars of pickled shishito peppers and carrots.

Incredibly rewarding and satisfying stuff! Plus munching on fresh kimchi was a treat like no other.

#foodstr

Alex 2y ago 💬 1

I'm going to make kimchi with a friend this weekend, but they're vegan and so we won't be using fish sauce or salted fermented shrimp - I'm thinking of using mushroom powder for umami

Does anyone have any tips for vegan kimchi?

#foodstr

Alex 2y ago

What a rip-off these don't taste like ribs at all

Alex 2y ago 💬 1

I'm in my late twenties and I don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

As a kid I was pushed towards "successful" (STEM) fields and that's all I've ever known to be acceptable. Undiagnosed ADHD made it hard enough just to keep working towards the finish line, let alone to explore other things in depth.

I struggled to get here, and now that I'm here, all I know is that I don't want to be here.

But I've got so much financial anxiety that I'm frozen in place, unwilling to take a leap into something new because where I am now is, at the very least, stable.

I want out, but I'm scared. I don't know where to go. I desperately want to be doing something that makes me happy, but I dont know how to figure out what that is.

Lots of thinking lately, but not much progress. One step at a time, I suppose.

Alex 2y ago

Lately I've been having pretty intense dreams about long-distance running. I'm talking like marathons and ultras. The thing is, I've never run longer than 4 or so miles in my life. I haven't run consistently since I did cross country in middle school.

I want to take this as a sign, but my inconsistency in establishing a running routine in the past is leaving me hopeless before I've even started.

Maybe I'll think about trying again once the temperature and humidity drop off again for the year.

Replying to

Derek Ross

I have never heard of chip and putt places before. Would it be essentially a practice green or a very, very short par 3 course?

Alex 2y ago

Yeah, exactly a very short course! Sometimes it's called pitch and putt as well. 9 to 18 holes, all of which are 20-50 yards. All you need is a wedge and a putter, and a full 18 will take maybe an hour to walk through. It's really refreshing!

Replying to

Derek Ross

I haven't done a #grownostr post in a while. Let's talk about my love for #golf

I come from a golfing family, mostly on my mother's side. My grandparents played, my uncles and aunts all played, my cousins played, my parents played a little, and I played. My grandfather and my uncles were the ones winning all of the local tournaments, so I had big shoes to fill coming from a golfing family.

My grandfather, the patriarch of our golfing family, got me into golfing at the age of 10. Well, at least he tried. He took me to the range to hit some balls. At the end of the night, as it was getting dark, he said he would go out and hit all of the balls back so that I could hit them one more time before we headed home. He ended up hitting my with a golf ball. It was probably my fault for not paying attention 😆 I didn't play again for 2 years.

Now at age 12, it was time for me to live and breathe golf. I played 18-27 holes a day in the summer. My mother dropped me off at 8:30am on her way to work, I met my cousin and sometimes a friend or two, and we played golf all day until we got picked up at 5pm after our parents got off of work.

When I turned 16 and could drive, I was doing essentially the same thing. I would drive myself to the course and play all day, then hangout with friends in the evening.

I played and won various tournaments as a teenager. My cousin and I were best friends, but always highly competitive with one another on the golf course. We played together and against one another often.

In college, I rarely played golf, focusing my time on other things (not school work).

After college though, I joined my family's league team and was able to find the time to play once a week and a couple league or family tournaments a year. It was truly a wonderful time, being a young adult, playing golf with my cousin, uncles, and grandfather on weekly basis. It was great bonding time all around a sport that we loved. I will always cherish these good times and amazing memories we had together.

Our grandfather invited my cousin and I to The Master's down in Augusta, Georgia one year and wow, that was a hell of an experience. Actually, I think that was Katie and I's one year dating anniversary week. Oops.

Throughout my 20's and 30's I played a couple times a month and maybe one or two tournaments a summer. It was hard to find time to play now that I was married had a family. I don't know how my family did that when they were my age.

I haven't played golf for 3 years. I hurt my back playing in May of 2020. I wanted to heal up and take time off, hopefully to play again. Last summer I had surgery and was unable to play. I could probably play this summer if I tried. Maybe I'll go hit some balls some evening.

I still have the golf clubs that my grandfather custom made for me when I was 18. They are Ping Eye 2 clones called Tour Model 2. They shafts in the mare stiffer and men's stiff flex and the shafts are one inch longer than regular men's length. I could probably use a technology upgrade at some point if I ever decided to play again, but I just can't see myself playing golf with any other club. My grandfather passed away back in 2009. To me, the clubs are part of his legacy.

Even if I don't play now, I have friends that are getting more into the game and look for me often for teaching or lessons. I know a lot about the game and swing mechanics, having my grandfather in my ear most of my life, always teaching. I love to help my friends and talk about golf, even though I don't play right now.

Oh, I almost forgot! I worked at the local country club for several years in my late teens and early twenties. I worked inside the pro-shop and I also worked out on the grounds, mowing greens and tees, as well as doing tons of other manual labor. The pro-shop work was easier, but the greens work was more fun.

Do you play golf?

Alex 2y ago 💬 1

My dad and my maternal grandpa both played golf and tried to get me into it at a young age. I would occasionally play the course at my grandpa's 55+ living community, and every year my dad and I would enter a father/son tournament that my next door neighbor helped to organize. We never did very well, but we always loved the time spent together and the hot dogs we ate at the turn.

In middle school I did a learn to play summer camp program. One of my instructors only had 2 fingers on one hand and was an incredible golfer. This was at my local golf center that had a 9-hole par 3 course that circled the driving range. That place has been closed down for years now and I miss it a lot.

I still have and use a set of clubs my dad got me in high school - one of those sets that isn't "name brand" that was probably bought from a big-box sports store. They still get the job done though!

A few years ago I got back into playing regularly at a short municipal course before I moved, but stopped playing again after the move.

These days, a new friend of mine got me back into golf via chip and putts - something she is vehemently trying to get rebranded to "medium golf", since it is between regular golf and mini golf. I'm not playing the big courses but I'm playing more consistently than ever before, and having some good fun with friends. Maybe one day I can convince them to move up from medium golf and we can play a full course together!

Alex 2y ago 💬 1

Just tried a little test stream on zap.stream - it was a fun time. Peglin and Overwatch.

Didn't feel the pressure of needing to focus on metrics or whatever, just wanted to play games and chill with whoever came through. I don't know why nostr continues to be so mentally refreshing for me, it just does.

If you came through and watched, even for a bit, thank you. It was fun, I'll do it again sometime soon.