T-Minus 182 Days
Monday, July 3, 2023
Perhaps I was over-caffeinated.
Perhaps I should have stayed in bed when I awoke near the 2 AM hour.
Perhaps I should not have kicked off that breadmaking session.
Perhaps I ought to get a shop fan.
My intention this morning was to lift weights and then head over to the BRC. In practice, I tried to squeeze in my strength routine between dough rises and I already see that my bake time drives right through my gym time. What ultimately torpedoed me is the thickness of summer in a garage coupled with the ramp down of the superset & bread forming combo and my failure to fire the engine up again.
I tried to go back. I did. But, I just felt...green. Unmotivated. Wondering why I was doing this? In a pursuit that requires so much determination, what is its payoff? While this is farcical, a part of me totally buys into this argument:
[YouTube Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRApcO6_FtA)
Of course, the mind can come up with a million ideas at the crossroads of nausea and the promise of relief. These can hardly be trusted.
Perhaps I should have prepped my day.
But, I do have a loaf to show for it.
## Resolutions' Progress
This may be a regular feature on this site. OK, this *section* will be a regular feature on this site. I mean, yeah, I've got an entire page dedicated to the resolutions and found a Jekyll plugin this morning, [*Last Modified At*](https://github.com/gjtorikian/jekyll-last-modified-at), specifically just so that I keep track with a timestamp as to my last update to that page.
Under my Intelligence section, I did a little shopping for my hobby goals:
1. **Establish a New Hobby!** Play With Electricity!
2. **Entertain ANOTHER New Hobby!** Custom & Salvage Computing!
For #1, I bought a cheap DIY Bluetooth speaker kit and a soldering iron KIT.
For #2, I bought this Arduino kit:
[YouTube Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jvITrAwBRQ)
And finally, I purchased a magnifying swing light that will contribute to the success of sboth.