I used to complain about not having enough to write about. I now have so much to write about, that I don’t have time to write about it. And I’m not even a busy guy. Okay, well, let’s take this as an excuse to work on my brevity. Let’s start by constraining today’s post to two subjects only, and they will both be on the same theme.
First up is on my fitness. I’ve had a lot of soreness while trying to get back in shape. That’s to be expected, but I’m still going to complain about it. I’m so out of shape and so old and every time I lift, or do calisthenics, or just exist, my whole fuckin’ everything starts to hurt. Do you have any idea how annoying it is after spending just fifteen minutes doing leg exercises to then spend the next three days with your entire thigh-and-ass zone be so sore that you make old-man sounds each and every time you stand up? If you do, then you can come into this club. We’re drinkin’ diet sodas and rubbin’ ourselves down with Tiger Balm. No you may not rub down anyone else. My most recent addition to the “taking way too long to recover” team is my lats. I used to be able to do pull-ups, but this situation has me wondering, was I? They sure didn’t hurt this much then. Now I’m starting to wonder if I’ve been cheating at pull-ups. Have I ever actually engaged my lats before now? What are these dang muscles even doing all day? Apparently nothing. Now that I’ve registered that complaint, this check-in is actually about how… well, lately, it hasn’t been that bad, actually. I’m still getting sore, for sure, but it’s no longer making me rearrange parts of my schedule. My general overall recovery time is way quicker, like the next day is pretty rough if I’ve hit it hard, but then I’m fine.
Okay, the second bit is a follow-up on my slowly developing academic… career? Is that how people refer to this sort of thing? I have so many subtopics to get into about this, and many of those are very much top of mind for me. Today I’m going to focus on that Statistics class that I started. After complaining about not really understanding how the specific course I’m taking is meant to be paced, I’ve kinda started to find my own groove with it. And also, it’s really working for me. It’s working so much that it’s starting to build a bridge between other interests of mine, like the mathy bits of Economics. I got really good at spreadsheets in my last job, and had to do some spreadsheet magic and some math that I can now see was basically some diy amateur statistics. This manifests for me in a pair sad realizations, the first being how bad I must have looked at the very many times I got my diy stats wrong. The second comes from the other side, on just how many things I actually got right but then seeing salaries for jobs where this work is recognized and having to contemplate just how much less, how very much less I made for very similar work. Super cool. But this isn’t meant to end on a downer, and that’s all life in the past anyway. Life in the present has me rather enjoying the Stats class, and once again feeling like this scholastic adventure isn’t going to be another waste of time. I think I can do this thing. But I’ve got to speed up. Maybe I can use some stats knowledge to figure out how to better plan and pace my learning.
Alright, that’s it for today and probably until Monday.