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I lost 30 pounds by adjusting what and when and how much I eat and sticking to it. 8/16 fasting schedule with smaller than usual portions, basically. I need to lose another 30 and have been avoiding exercising but I bought a pair of nerdy running shoes and try to walk 3 or 4 miles every morning just to make some progress in that area.

Spent way, way too much time on reddit while trying to remain sane despite the new and excruciating pressures forced upon my industry by the plague, and upon my soul by 2020.

I shoveled a lot of gravel and dirt (semi-recreationally... I have an online job, which is good because I'm not an efficient gravel or dirt mover). We now have a shed and a raised bed for tomatoes.

Since 2012 or 2013, I was lurking the PRF almost every single day. I made fewer than 200 posts on my original account so I wasn't a super active contributor, but I definitely read the shit out of the General Discussion and Crap/Not Crap boards and felt I had some sense of community here where I was with "my people". Not an easy thing to find, no matter who you are.

Once it started to sink in that the board wasn't going to return for a while (or ever, possibly), I tried to find other message boards that could fill the absence left by the PRF. I failed miserably at that.

Long before I was into punk rock, I was super into video games and heavily vested in online gaming communities. I came to despise the gaming community after a while though and left that world almost completely behind me when things like skateboarding, getting a car, girls, and playing music came to the forefront of my focus.

Like many during the pandemic though, I began to heavily devote myself back into gaming. It didn't take long after the few video game collecting forums I found and tried to integrate with to remember why I stopped all those years ago. With all that's happened in the last 10-15 years, I was surprised and appalled at how little the culture has changed. The same white-bred, suburbanite, conservative, and misogynist attitudes are all still there, except instead of whining about political correctness, it's now SJWs and cancel culture. Also, gamers generally have absolute shit taste in music and movies.

I'm DELIGHTED that the PRF is back. I was still here near daily even during its very noticeable decline in active users beginning in like 2017 when a lot of notable members migrated to the FB groups or whatever. Please don't go away again, leaving me to interact with dudes who think sufficient female representation in video games has always been there because a bunch of Tomb Raider games came out in the late nineties.

watched my daughter grow. She's almost 3 now, and she's brilliant. (obviously)
got promoted to lecturer at my small-fry university. Started taking teaching (even more) seriously, got pretty close to burnout a few times.
stopped using fb, but spent wayyy too much time on twitter. Hoping to get to a healthier place now that the PRF is back.

Had a baby with my girlfriend.

Edit: Did stuff. Still doing stuff.

DaveA wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 4:31 pmFinished and released my debut novel;

Well, if DaveA gets to post a link to his debut novel, I'm going to link to mine: The Dream of the White Elephant.

I just bought the last hardcover copy available on Amazon, DaveA. This better be good.

The biggest thing is my girlfriend and I sold our houses and went in on a brand new one together. Also, I traded in my Toyota Yaris for a new Hyundai Sonata. My Yaris was 11 years old, it's crazy how much car technology has changed.

I started and ended a music blog that turned out to be more work than I anticipated.

I started playing drums more often, I bought that Stick Control book which is fantastic b/c there's always something to play or work on in there.

Got shot #2 (Pfizer) this week.

That's about it. I'm glad this place is back.

Not to hijack thread, but...

Anonymous37 wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 7:46 pm

DaveA wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 4:31 pmFinished and released my debut novel;

Well, if DaveA gets to post a link to his debut novel, I'm going to link to mine: The Dream of the White Elephant.

Fuckin' ay! And your title came out around the same time too. That was one the craziest times ever for me what with the release coinciding with all of that emotional rollercoaster election shizz. Am still recovering. Since I have more than a couple bucks for a change, I bought yours too. It'll get read before the end of the summer. Cheers.