Woldan

Wear long socks or training pants. Didn't help as the bar was abrasive enough to eat those along with my skin. I'm pretty sure it would , its just that nobody ever tried that approach.

Fixed the problem of my barbells grip texture rubbing my shins sore when doing heavy deadlifts. With duct tape. Its true, there is no problem that can't be fixed with enough duct tape.

I had no idea Carpenter was a composer.

20x110mm anti materiel rifle.

Weeks ago I caught a wooden splinter from a board which embedded itself deep in my right side and while I'm 100% certain that I completely removed it I got a very strange local infection that would neither get worse nor better. Been to the doc but not even his best prescription antiseptics worked. Today I finally lost my patience, took my pocket knife, disinfected it and cut out that infected junk of flesh. Feels much better now, I should not have waited so long.

Thats a neat idea!

As a fellow night owl I share your pain. People view me as completely alien or think I'm a lazy bum when I wake up around 11 am - even though I was working till 4-5 am. Fact is I love the night, I have no problems staying fresh and awake without sunlight, I can concentrate MUCH better at the night. I even lift weights at 11pm and go for walks after midnight. I usually go to bed around 4-5 am and wake up around 10-11 am, I take a 1 hour nap around 5pm. Being self employed is awesome in this aspect. Oh, and fun fact, supposedly Adolf Hitler had the exact same sleeping rhythm.

Back in my military service time there was a time I slept only 3 hours per night for 12 days due to unfortunate circumstances (2 Combat simulations 2x 3 - days with no sleep followed by night guard post duties, nightly ''Gas alarms'' etc.). After a week I slowly started to feel the lack of sleep. The first couple of days I was just dead tired, but after a week my joints hurt, the world felt slowed down, my back hurt, I had slight tunnel vision, my hearing was impaired (everything sounded like under water) and I started to see things like bugs in the corners of my eyes, my heart was racing and I ate all the time. I also stopped speaking unless I was asked a direct question. Strangely any tiredness was gone, though I'm pretty sure I fell asleep with my eyes open multiple times per day. Funnily I could keep up with the drills. I also felt like a robot since I was too wrecked to think complex thoughts, I followed the orders of my drill sergeant like a machine without any second thoughts. I'm sure if he had ordered me to do something terrible I would have done it because at this moment my brain was too impaired to question any orders. After that my sleeping patter was wrecked and it took me a long time to get back to normal sleep. I never felt so awful in my entire life.

Did some room clearing with my shotgun and flashlight in my hands. Its half past midnight when I suddenly heard strange unfamiliar noises through my opened window, and then 5 minutes later inside my house. I'm used to the regular wildlife sounds around here but I've never heard such strange and loud noises since I moved here. This is one of those situations I'm glad that I have a proper firearm and I don't have to look around with a freaking butter knife or chair leg. Still couldn't figure out the source(s) of those sounds, I better check the garden now. If this is my last post its save to assume that it was the Boogieman stalking me.

Alcohol tends to screw up your sense of time.

Oversleeping doesn't make me feel tired, it makes me feel completely terrible, I get a really bad headache from just 1-2 extra hours of sleep, like a bad bout of hammering migraine that lasts for the rest of the day, and I feel sick. My blood pressure tends to drop a lot when I'm resting, my theory is that it drops to dangerously low levels when I'm sleeping too long and thats why my body tries to wake me up - low oxygen maybe? Thats probably why it is so hard to wake me up inside those 6 hours of sleep, people alway tell me I sleep like a corpse. Fortunately thats not a problem, I feel super energetic after I had those 6-7 hours of sleep. Does eating lots of food just before going to bed have a noticeable effect on your sleep quality?

I need exactly 7 hours which is 6 hours of night sleep + 1 hour nap after work, that on day with 2 hours of weight lifting or cycling and approx 8 hours of office work. On off days with no exercise nor work I'm happy with 5 hours total. Any more sleep than that wreaks havoc on my body, past 6 hours of sleep I start trashing and spinning around which makes me wake up every 20 minutes, 8 or more hours and I'll wake up with severe headache which will follow me for the rest of the day. I'd rather skip sleep altogether for one day than oversleep. I usually get extreme insomnia when I skip my daily exercise which means restlessness and feeling hyper, skipping exercise makes me feel like I do not need any sleep at all. Same goes for going to bed too early, like 3 hours before my usual nap time, if I do that extreme insomnia is guaranteed.

Found this little guy in my stone garden, a male sand lizard, he watched me relocate the stones and planting new plants, with a very skeptical look on his face. He watched me a couple of minutes, then he retreated back into the stone maze only to pop up somewhere else to watch me from a new angle. I even managed to catch him though released him quickly because I didn't want him to lose his tail. Then he fell asleep while hanging on a warm rock. I love my stone garden, it features two aggressive ant hills that wage horribly brutal wars every now and then, lizards, mice, mole crickets, all sorts of cool bugs, cicadas and centipedes.

So I overhauled the wheel bearings, checked the bearing balls for damage, cleaned the old grease + microscopical metal shaving gunk out and replaced it with special bearing fat. The wheels have at least 20% less friction now. The downside when working on bikes is seeing and handling those tiny parts, little bearings, the front axle has like 2 cm² actual bearing surface, the brakes are held by two screws. Stuff like that. I weigh 100kg and at specific parts of my cycling track I do speeds in excess of 110kmh downhill, there I always have to think about those tiny fragile parts. It really scares me.

Got my bicycle back from service and they forgot to check on the ball bearings. Now I have to do that myself. I also removed the vertical handle bar ends because they were just too draggy for such small gain in comfort. 90% of the time I'm using the triathlon bars anyway.

Are you yelling at kids to get off your lawn as well? Hey, its still a couple of years till I'm in my thirties.

Ah, I'm sitting in my comfy chair holding my favorite rifle (which I just cleaned and lubed) while listening to my favorite music. Life can be good sometimes.

Go away, lest you infect us all with elderliness!

Hey it was you guys who said that approaching the 30's means experiencing sudden fundamental changes. Guess as I'm turning into an old geezer I'm becoming a mellow nice guy.

Worked on some vegetables patches, after only 25 minutes of being exposed to an early April sun, far away from the equator, my arms instantly transformed into extra crispy chicken wings. Somebody fix the sun please, its clearly broken.

Its only cold the first three days or so, after that you'll adjust. The first day in Iceland I froze my butt off, wind, constant rain showers and temperatures around zero celsius even in summer with no way to get warm was hard, even with good gear you'll eventually get wet down to your bones. After a few days though I didn't even notice the rain anymore, I didn#t care about being soaking wet all the time and got used to being constantly exposed to the cold elements. You'll adjust if you have to.