Advanced geothermal. Jacobin magazine. Emerging cancer treatments. The end-ish of the pandemic. The return of a true labor-orientated left. New melodic hardcore from Press Club. Finally fixing my bike.

I lost 20 pounds in 40 days, been overweight for the past 10 years or so.

For some unknown reasons, I brutally lost my appetite for junk food, sodas, etc.

It’s probably the first time in my life I am 100% certain I will reach my ideal weight. Just 3-4 more months to go.

It feels pretty good.

1) Seeing more and more articles about how we're currently in the "last hurrah" days of the US crypto-fascist right, and their increase of ever-more drastic and inflammatory rhetoric is just a symptom of that.

2) The horrific dismantling of Roe v. Wade might galvanize enough folks to flip historically Conservative "safe seats" and get a veto-proof House & Senate. Not holding my breath on that one tho.

3) Apple's upcoming, actually-new products (AR/VR thing, and the car)

I think I have a realistic chance of paying off my mortgage in the next 18 months. I'm excited about that prospect, but it's a tough one to be excited about, because it's such a slow grind that I can only really make progress on once a month.

Once that's done, I'm excited about the trip I'm going to take to celebrate (still undecided) and getting new windows (the current ones are trash).

The spotify song- and playlist-radio work surprisingly well for me right now. Maybe they improved the recommender system since I tried last time?

The possibility of getting a job in IT abroad :)

Nothing.