Commit and Push

What I think I knew but that this experiment has born out is that I am not going to make progress on everything every week. I have too many things that I want to accomplish and not enough time to do them all. At times I will deride myself for not having done a particular thing without giving myself credit for the other things I accomplished instead. It’s clear to me that 1) right now my creative energies are going towards writing instead of game development, and that’s ok. and 2) I need some amount of down time, where I can just be a vegetable and play a video game or watch YouTube and that’s ok as well.

On to the progress… I think its been a good week! I have not touched the game dev or music since last check in, but released a new podcast episode, recorded another one and made significant strides on writing. Also starting to see the health and fitness efforts show on the scale.

Game Development:

As usual I have lots of ideas here, but as I said, no actualy progress.

Lines of C# Code: 1280 (no progress)

Classes: 32 (no progress)

Writing:

I actual wrote three different evenings this week and added around 2000 words to my book, I am now officially over 11,000 words and I know that I have never wrote anything this long. And yet, I know that I am still in the infancy of the story so I don’t know what the goal word count should be. When I started I thought it would be between 50k and 100k but that is starting to feel too short to me so I’ll just have to see.

Current Word Count: 11,800 (+2008)

Podcast (F’ing Up the Ineffable):

As I mentioned, we released a new episode yesterday where we revisit the topic of AI. (And we’d love it if you’d go check it out!). We also recorded a new episode on Sunday about Wealth Inequality that should be released in about 3 weeks. I created more shorts than usual for the AI podcast but none of them did very well and some had 0 views so I’m still trying to figure out how best to use the YouTube algorithm to my favor.

Stats to Date:

Episodes Recorded: 9 (+1)

Episodes Published: 8 (+1)

Total Listens All Time (Podcast network/YouTube Long Form/ YouTube Shorts/Total): 167(+15) / 108(+15) / 1141(+189) / 1416(+219)

Music (Mistakes Were Made):

I have not touched my guitar this week so no update here. I am hoping to get it out and work on a couple of songs this weekend.

Songs fully learned: 9

Songs I still need to learn some parts (like solos that I am not very good at): 3

Weight loss / fitness:

Good stuff here this week! I didn’t binge eat any days, kept the alcohol consumption down and got all of my walks (3 x 1.2 km) and workouts completed. The stats are better and it resulted in a better readings on the scale as well. Next week I will do body measurements but it being the day after Thanksgiving and only having been a month since I did it, I am not expecting much in the way of change. I guess we’ll see because I have not really regularly measured by body before.
I realized that I never really described myself other than the numbers below so for those who don’t know me, I am a 6’0″ male, and 51 years old. When I have seen significant changes in my body I will post some before and after pics but I feel like its a way off before I feel comfortable doing that.

Current Weight 280.8 lbs (-3.4 lbs from last update/-9.4 lbs from start)
Average steps per day (via Fitbit): 5848 (+1479 from last week)
Average calories eaten per day: 2295 (-248)
Average calories burned per day (via Fitbit): 3283 (+90)

PRs (all are one set of five in lbs):

Squat: 200
Bench Press: 200
Bent Rows: 220
Deadlift: 245
Seated Overhead Press: 155
(No updates in PRs yet. With the reset, I will start to reach PR levels for squat and deadlift in about 2 weeks, the rest in about 4 weeks).