May 2025 Check-In
The older I get, the faster it feels the world is going. I’m not sure what to make of that, but alas, it’s happening and there’s not much I can do about it. May wasn’t a particularly noteworthy month, it just sort of was.
Hip Pain & Lack of Exercise
May was frustrating from a fitness point of view. I tweaked my hip playing hockey. It really limited what I could do. There were even some days where walking was uncomfortable. As I've gotten more into staying active, I get a little punchy not being able to go out and be active be it for walks, runs, or really anything.
I finally started feeling better towards the end of the month and was able to slowly get back into things. It's part of the curse of getting older, you recover slower...though it beats the alternative.
Beautiful Weather Out on the Porch
May was full of gorgeous weather that allowed me to be out on the porch. I love being able to be out there and there's often only a small window where the weather isn't unbearably hot and the mosquitoes aren't super bitey. I took advantage of it to work on my side projects, write, and go through my RSS feeds. As I write this, the temperature is in the high 80s, so hopefully the temperature drops a tad and I can get a few more days before the dog days of summer.
Monthly Round-Up
🏃🏼♂️ Fitness
- Running: 5 runs - 21.74 miles
- Walking: 26 walks - 32.07 miles
- Lifting: 7 sessions - 92,300 lbs.
📚 Reading
- Finished Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox
- Finished More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
- Finished Doom Guy: Life in the First Person by John Romero
- Finished Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
- Finished The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
- Started The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
- Started Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
✍🏻 Writing
Reading Logs
Week Notes
Blogging
- Wrote about losing Polygon
- Shared a cool video of Koji Kobura recreating GoldenEye pause music
- Wrote about a cool new feature in .NET 10
🎮 Gaming
- Started Clair Obsur: Expedition 33
📺 TV
- Continued Good Eats
- Continued Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Continued Andor
- Finished Season 2 of The Last of Us
- Finished Season 2 of Elsbeth
- Finished Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America