All right. I think I slowly start looking somewhat more normal again. The damage has been done, but let’s see how much is fixable, right. What a waste of my life. Anyway. Let’s show off myself as I am now, both unshaven and shaven (yes that is very important, and no, I won’t listen to your feeble opinion on this matter):
Really badly shaven though, I have to say.
I think I look a bit healthier already and I’ve only been in Japan for two weeks now. Health-wise it has not been ‘laying me windeggs’. That’s another Dutch proverb. It means something gave you huge rewards or help or something like that.
Anyway, we’ll skip proverb class today.
Construction (noise pollution) hasn’t ceased to exist though, that’s a bit of a thing.
Well. I think I’ve been clean for 15 days now. I think this is day no. 16. October 11th was the first day so you do the math. The next day I arrived here in Japan.
So I essentially got clean and stuff by the usual way that I won’t even mention. Working out and quitting alcohol at the same time are somewhat complicated though. It’s weird to eat like half a cow and half the amazone and still feel depleted afterwards.
I didn’t eat that much, but I did eat a fair amount. It’s just how it is. But things turned out well; I don’t think my body is still lacking huge amounts of everything anymore. Maybe rest, but that’ll come later I guess.
Well at some point I’ll have to rest. We’ll see how that’s going to work. So withdrawal symptoms are almost gone. I’ve been cutting the lorazepam a bit and I’m not sure if that influences things, but between 5-7am I don’t feel that great. It’s probably 4-7am, which is also the time I first ever had alcohol withdrawal symptoms, some 12 years ago a few weeks after the first (and only) triathlon that I did. Cuz of reasons. You know. Smart folk and shit. If you want another rant, please let me know.
I can always do another one. Reprogramming it’s called and it’s really useful I guess?
I guess not huh.
Anyway, it’s combined with a lot of sports, sometimes that makes your sleep a bit iffy if you do it more than usual, after a big race or so.
Or after you’ve been a fulltime alcoholic (or beroepsalcoholist as we used to call it back in the day) for five years, and then suddenly start biking 4 hours a day 6 days a week.
So there’s a tiny bit left. It would not be weird, I’ve been taking extra lorazepam (1mg) around that time of the day for months and months, and now I’m not doing that anymore, so it’s probably going to take a little longer.
The rest seems semi-fine though. I’m not completely exhausted anymore after 4-5 hours of jumping around outside, so that’s good. Things are improving extremely fast in that respect.
I lost around 5 kg here, and 8kg in total. I’m not complaining. This seems to be going all right. If this pace continues I’d be around 103kg by the time I have to leave, which is a bit, I don’t know. These 10-11 weeks in Japan then essentially just barely will have undone the damage of the past 4 years in Taiwan, and only weight-wise.
Which just makes things even more awkward than they already are. So yeah, I don’t see myself doing a lot of touristy stuff, which is a bit of a pity. I should visit the Nintendo museum I guess, or whatever they exactly have, because that’s obviously very important.
Food wise most things here are really healthy, and often even low-fat by default. It’s not too bad. Of course that’s always been known, but still it’s good that it’s really like that, because it’s doing me pretty well.
It was about time I guess.
I’ll try to take some more pictures to please the bots that are fulltime visiting this blog.
Oh, I went into the sea for the first time in a decade plus. A few times by now. I figured that you can float without using any energy at all, and I’m around 40kg overweight. Maybe 35 by now, but you get the idea. It’s all technique. So if it takes you a lot of effort, then some practice might help.
I never really paid attention to that actually, but hey, why not. It really takes zero effort.
I don’t know. I don’t have much to say actually. My Japanese learning is not going well. I was a bit too tired. Now it’s going better, but it’s too late. A bit of a pity, but yeah, when you’re in your 40’s learning another language is actually quite the luxury, let’s be honest about that. It’ll really just take a few months, and yeah, ‘life’ (or ‘the overlords’ in my case) don’t necessarily allow for such liberties, often for serious reasons of course.
Ah yes. I came to my attention that people might actually have read my ramble on how to create inflation, which is kinda surprising. Some folk actually read it. Well it was an outline, and should be worked out in a bit more detail of course, blahblah, but blah. Well, did anyone try it? 😛
The basics aren’t that hard.
However I’d also like to point out it’s clearly written that one can do this ‘if you really want it’. There are pros and cons of course, but with the pros and cons being a bit different from mainstream economic thinking. Look I’m not a complete idiot.
And I was bored. So I gave myself a puzzle. It’s not easy to think up a real puzzle if you’re being bombarded with nonsense you know.
Anyway. What else is there to say. I’ve been predominantly tired, and probably will be for a while, although, again, things are improving heaps and tons, and in a really fast pace.
So I guess I’ll quit rambling and do something with the final few hours this day has.
See ya~
