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Cake day: June 8th, 2025

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  • oh god it sucks. I bought a bunch of clothes and then gained 15lbs and now everything looks like shit and i am having a devil of a time taking the weight back off again!!!

    I do fine for a day or two and then one day i go off the diet and lose all my gains.

    I have been reading to distract myself but it isn’t working very well I just ate a huge 700+ calorie salad with protein mix ins 2 hours ago and i’m ravenous. I don’t even know what i want, not salad and not oatmeal though

    and we are going on vacation soon ughhhh

    solidarity

    edit: made some tofu in the air fryer. 250 calories of protein and olive oil and fried, happy





  • hell yeah!!

    I’m reading a really great sci fi book right now called Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell and it gets pretty close to this in the futuristic setting. It still has he/she/they pronouns but everyone just picks what they want to be and uses gender markers on their clothing to let folks know how to refer to them.

    It would be neat to see what it’s like pushed even further. I know i like being a she/her but i imagine that’s just because of the gendered world i spent my whole life in.








  • I absolutely adore keeping the fire going. I was a white man for decades so i’m not dodging the allegations. I have never been camping where i was not the last person awake and always keeping the fire just right until all the wood was gone.

    It’s all about the air flow. Too much and everything burns too quickly in a roaring furnace, too little and you have no light and not enough heat. By constantly adjusting the logs you can maintain the proper air flow to keep everything just right. Rotating a log to present fresh wood to an eager flame here. Squeezing two logs a little closer to reduce the oxygen and trim things up there. A proper fire adjusting stick (and a backup) is crucial.

    Give me a stack of seasoned wood, a k-bar, a magnesium fire starter and a comfy camp chair and i’m in heaven from the time the sun sets until the wood runs out.