AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH.

Ill be honest, I’ve been procrastinating on this post a lot, hope you dont mind (‘_-_).

Who am I kidding I MADE THIS FOR MYSELF, WHAT AM I GETTING CAUGHT UP IN THAT FOR >:/.

I think.

It’s funny how I made this website in the first place honestly. I think I mentioned it before but im not sure if I hammered that home honestly.

Like, two years ago, I was watching a lot of NetworkChuck and came accross his video on making a website. He thought that everybody should have a website to share themselves through, an online identity, and I agreed.

So I made the site. Shoddily, mind you, but I made it.

I guess what strikes me about the creation of this wasn’t particularly how it came to pass, moreso my mind at the time of it’s creation. How I felt deciding on and doing it.

I was NOT having that good of a time (;-_-).

My mind was sort of at odds with itself, part of me really liked the idea, and other just didn’t want to go through the effort. Usually that means I just don’t bother with the idea at all, but I pushed past that, even given the fact that I’d decided that if I WERE to go through with this, I’d get a paid plan and domain wordpress.

I guess there’s that, a little sunk cost fallacy :p.

Still, the process itself was a little bit tedious, and the couple of days I spent dragging and dropping everything were okay. Not horrible, but took long and had several bumps along the way. Things often didn’t look how I wanted them on the site and I wanted more and more stuff added to it before starting the blog the further I added to it.

Despite the odd start though, I guess the need to make the site just outweighed the perceived difficulty. Honestly it wasn’t even particularly hard, just a bit grating at times, but i’m glad that I decided to pull through with this despite feeling off about the whole thing initially, because now that the train has been moving for so long I get to enjoy the benefits of that initial hurdle.

It’s something that pops into my head every once in a while. Nice thought.

Anyways, THE WEEK. Let’s get it out of the way really quickly.

The machine’s gears started spinning again, AKA the semester has now officially started, with lectures tutorials and worksheets. Not much to add there since it’s so early, but importantly…

WE FUCKING FINISHED THE PROJECT THOUGH :00000.

FINALLY

https://youtube.com/shorts/hcumlMM_7A4

Here’s a small short of the project in action if your interested, in the form of an unlisted youtube video.

As a small recap, you just play hide and seeker with two microbits, and an extra third (the “server”) sends the data to the pc through usb and it gets graphed. The pc file is turned on, as well as the seeker and server, then you turn on the hider (the one I put the phone down on the table to plug in) and the game starts.

You can KILL the hider as a seeker >:), but only if your close enough, and the server validates the distance.

There are more technicalities, but those were covered in the presentation we made for our tutor this friday. Main thing I’m happy about of course is that its OVER. It’s been occupying my headspace ever since we got it, and now that there’s one less thing to worry about, it feels so much better to do shit without it hanging around.

Also, the presentation and project was apparently really impressive according to the tutor, so that’s a nice too.

Now I need to actually haul my ass and do other stuff though. Not sure what yet though, my minds kinda scattered at the moment. Analysis paralysis on a wild scale. A couple of worksheets I gotta finish, THIS post that I was procrastinating on, a bunch of games I wanna play, maybe just read.

MOST OF ALL THOUGH,

I really wanna watch serial experiments lain, you know? I had a conversation with a friend about it, and I’ve been meaning to watch it for a while now, but never really got around to it. Just watched a video essay about it and called it a day.

BUT it’s been long enough for me to have forgotten it though (yea its been THAT long) so ill try sprinkling a few episodes in this week while I do other stuff.

Honestly, I talked to that friend about a lot of things. Like monster energy, do you guys realize HOW MUCH SUGAR IS IN SOME OF THOSE DRINKS????

Seriously, I was just drinking the sugar free original and white before I switched to my coffee breakfast, mind you BY PURE COINCIDENCE I DIDNT KNOW THE REST HAD SUGAR, and so for the two weeks since we’ve started the project I’ve just been letting myself have more meal deals to get me going.

I saw the other flavors another friend kept INSISTING were better than white and though “well maybe I should give it a shot”.

Needless to say, they were all amazing, all 3. At first it was the pineapple on the way to a project meeting, then pink in the morning at my local supermarket, and the third was finding out with the first friend that there was a PEACH FLAVOUR at the coop.

PEACH FLAVOUR.

This time around I was looking through the back though, and I just assumed in my mind they were all zero sugar cuz I’d seen a ton of the flavours online listed as zero sugar and only ever drank the zero sugar ones.

I glance from the description to the ingredients list regardless, and to my complete and utter fucking bewilderment, I see the sugar content.

52 grams of sugar.

FIFTY-TWO GRAMS OF SUGAR.

FIFTYTWOWHOLEGRAMSS??????? ARE YOUFUCKING NUTS???????????????

It was whiplash at an INHUMAN level.

The thing is, over the past two weeks I’ve been gaining a lot of weight, and eating a lot more too. I assumed it was just the natural consequence of losing the weight to begin with, but with this it makes so much more sense.

I even made a mental note of it before finding out the sugar count, cuz my hunger was THAT BAD. I kept asking myself EVEN WITH my reasoning why the hell I’ve suddenly been hungry enough to inhale SEVERAL MEALS in a sitting like I used to when I was in MIDDLE SCHOOL.

Well no shit your hungry, YOUR DRINKING A FISTFUL OF SUGAR EACH MORNING.

Listen, where they all great? Yes. But DAMN did I not know that information until WAY too late. The more you know I guess, I’m back to my regular breakfasts anyways so it won’t matter for until I need to get another can :v.

and I’m NOT getting those sugar cans next time.

To be clear though, before we end off that discussion, let me just make it clear that I’m not at all health crazy. As of late, I’ve been more just trying to figure out a better self image without the need to be health crazy, which I can tend towards at times, and I find sugar to just be the most obvious culprit.

Increased obesity since it’s inception, it’s addictive taste, the high calorie count, you know the whole deal. It’s preferable not to deal with, and if anything, I get to eat more like a glutton when I skip the regular soda for a sugar free one >:).

DONT get it twisted, my zero sugar drink is so I can eat EVEN MORE x).

Anygup, I think that’s all I’ve got in my system this time. Ima go read something, idk yet.

YOU KNOW, I havent read the book of disquiet since I last mentioned it, so I think i’ll give that a go.

For now though, enjoy this tadc parody https://youtu.be/iPw-01Sj4mY?si=9r5Hoo-GBDshI5Ok. I think the style is delicious.

Enjoy yourself, see you next week ^_^.