Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of August! bonfire This is a rare Monday edition since I was traveling yesterday.


Some discussion ideas:

- How was your week?

+ Do you have some plans for next week?

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[–] [S] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Let's go improvement mega, got the maintenance job been doing great. Boss loves me, staff loves me residents love me it's great. Been doing a lot of walking heavy lifting and so much sweating. When I got the time I listen to audiobooks and I'm also been eating less.

    Also talking some PLC classes at night, I wanna get a better job after this and I been encouraging my sibling to come along and also take some robotics classes too boot. When we both start working it'll be something good and all this effort will be worth it

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Reposting from my comment in the general mega: After a couple false starts, I finally made it 3 days without weed. To keep myself busy I've walked every day in the last week and read 3 books! Pretty confident in myself to keep going, I think the worst is over

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Congrats on the 3 day streak, keep it up and keep us updated on your streak! catgirl-salute rat-salute-2

    Which books have you read?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Tyvm, made it to 4 now lets-fucking-go

    I read a collection of short stories about WW1, but that was a bit depressing (shocked-pikachu ) so I switched to the Master and Commander series and I've been tearing through them. Would highly recommend

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I recently read All Quiet on the Western Front, which is a great short novel about the WWI, highly recommended if you're into that subject. Haven't seen the movie yet but it's on the list

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    The collection I just read had a few chapters lifted from it as standalone short stories actually. I've read it in its entirety before as well, though it's been a while. The recent movie was pretty decent for what it was, I enjoyed it pretty well but couldn't remember enough of the book to compare them directly

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Keeping myself distracted is the most important thing for me when I need a break. Once I'm through the first one or two days, its pretty smooth sailing from there.

    It sounds like you're over the hump, and being very productive at the same time! Good luck with your sobriety!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Its been a down year so far. After starting up working out again I had a couple of life things that threw me off course all over again. Haven't been to the gym or worked out for the past month and a half.

    I have picked up voice acting as a bit of a hobby. Just seeing what projects I can be a part of online.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Some good news, back to walking daily and trying to eat right (although today I had pasta, yesterday too). Also seeing about getting back to work soon somehow. Something wfh would be ideal, but I'm not sure how in demand those are and people fighting for them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I hit last week's goal of getting more sleep. What a difference it can make.

    This week is crazy with work and home life so I'm gonna set the bar low and just try to do the same again.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago

    Getting 8 hours of sleep and going to sleep on time is non-negotiable for me, I'm not one of those people who can wing it on 5 hours of sleep. I want to get better at my evening routine since it's crucial for good sleep

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I've been trying to get back into coding after more than a year on disability from my job due to burnout and some other mental health issues I've been trying to resolve. I switched my Linux window manager from MangoWC which still feels very alpha to Niri which is a lot more mature and polished. It feels like a good move and I've been updating my configs to make the move permanent.

    I've also been exploring some live coding. I've always wished I could make music in one way or another and live coding to do so is taking advantage of a skill that I already have. I first tried to get TidalCycles working, but failed so I fell back to Strudel which runs in a browser. I don't love that you can't run it locally though so I took another swing at getting TidalCycles working yesterday and was successful this time!

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