Sleeping.
Telling myself I’ll go to the farmer’s market and then not doing it.
I know there is a wide variety of times but I feel like 2/3rds of the farmer’s markets near me are at inconvenient times for me. “3-7PM on a weekday” nope, “8AM-12PM on sunday” MAYBE if I wake up early and am feeling adventurous.
Working out. (I do it most weekdays, too).
I work in software, and I’ve seen far too many guys in my industry who are either skinny as a rail and surviving on Cheetos dust, or painfully overweight. Had several co-workers croak unexpectedly, at shockingly young ages.
It’s a real problem in the industry. People simply plop themselves down at their computers and forget to do anything else for an entire day.
I have kids, and refuse to let them lose their dad early, so I hit the gym for an hour in the mornings, at least every other day. I do a mix of cardio and weight training. I also never stay seated for longer than 45 minutes.
Seriously, guys… If you work in the software industry, make a habit of getting up and moving around. It doesn’t actually take much to reap enormous benefits just from staying more active.
I have an IT company, and believe the same. We’re all working remote, and we organize competitions regularly like who is doing the most interesting sports, making the most progress, being the most consistent, etc.
I think it’s also important for the long term sustainability of the team too, we want people to have healthy lifestyle balances and not burn out.
I started working out because I was super weak and just had a kid, and I realized there was a legitimate risk that I wouldn’t be able to pick up my own child, so I started doing some strength training and holy crap this is amazing. Then I went back to college and lost my workout schedule, but after college I started running the following super smokey summer and didn’t make much progress, but this summer I’ve picked up biking and I’m currently up to about 3 miles of extremely hilly biking every day.
I seriously forgot how fun biking is, and it’s also nice just how much healthier I feel from the regular fitness
Right? Just getting up and doing something is so important. Whatever works to keep people from being sedentary.
I’m 31 and I’ve always been on the nerdy side. I have ADHD which let’s me lose whole days really easy. I decided a long time ago that dripping out of college was probably the best thing that could have happened for my health. I eventually got a job working outside and I’ve never looked back. If only I didn’t have one of the (if not the) most dangerous jobs in America right now.
If only I didn’t have one of the (if not the) most dangerous jobs in America right now.
Is it being a lifeguard to Donald Trump? WELL DON’T LEAVE US HANGING.
Tree work. Super dangerous. Specifically, I climb the trees to trim/remove them.
I never had to before, always had reasonably active jobs. Supervisor role and middle age and a scolding from my doctor has made a difference.
I’ve been giving myself 20 minutes a day for the last six weeks. I haven’t really lost weight, but I do feel better.
I actually gained weight when I first got serious about the gym, and that worried me until my doctor reassured me that I was putting on muscle, not fat. These days, it’s pretty obvious in retrospect.
The real metric I pay attention to is blood pressure. As my dad’s getting older he’s been struggling with blood pressure, and I don’t want that to ever happen to me, so cardio is important.
Playing D&D
Pretty much same, but TTRPGs in general. I abandoned D&D after it became clear that Hasbro is going to continue making the game worse to squeeze money out of the fans.
I’m a bit out of date, but what prevents you from picking the edition you like the most and just sticking to it?
It depends on the edition, and whether or not you want to pirate or have access to new content or digital companion tools, either 1st or 3rd party.
4e is basically unplayable digitally now because of licensing issues for the companion technology. If you still have the books you could try, but it’s an edition that leaned heavily on the assumption that digital tools would be used.
5e scared off a ton of 3rd party creators with the proposed licensing changes last year, and their new 5.5 edition looks to not be very open at all in terms of creator content. You might as well play a spinoff system like the Kobold press 5e or the LOTR 5e.
3.5 and earlier is still possible but the content was mostly never digitized into a good online resource. You could still play pen and paper, but if you’re going back that far you might as well just play a more modern system that draws inspiration from the older D&D system like OSR or PF.
All that being said, it’s all still playable, it just doesn’t have much of a future if you don’t want to get sucked into enshittification, ads, and microtransactions that Hasbro has committed to transforming the game into.
Their kid was ill, their partner had a thing, they didn’t remember another event that they had previously agreed on, they said yes but they were thinking of another date, “is it for that game? I thought we were gonna play something else.”, that’s a long weekend week so they had out-of-state plans, etc… etc…
I sometimes feel bad for DMs.
Edit: If I say I’ll come, I will come, I’ll force myself. Otherwise laziness will get the best of me. Few things I own, better to keep my word.
Getting thoroughly zooted
