I'm super drowsy even though I had some caffeine. I'm drinking lots of water and eating healthy foods, but is there anything else I can do in the meantime?

How do you make yourself feel better after a poor night of sleep?

Edit: It went well! The director even said, "we should just hire you now!" However, I have one more panel interview. Time for a nap.

I'm nearly finished rereading 1984 and my appetite for dystopian books is whetted. What are some other great ones I should check out?

I’ve seen this recently and have been wondering. My guess was that I’ve upvoted this user three other times but that’s probably way off.

Meet reports are something I enjoyed quite a bit from the other place, so I thought I'd do one and hopefully get the ball rolling on Lemmy.

Last Sunday was the Rocky Mountain State Games meet. It was my sixth meet overall and my third after moving to Colorado. It seems like the competition in Colorado is much tougher than it was in Texas as I haven't placed above 5th place since moving here lol.

I trained for about 9 months total for this competition. My meet prior to this one was 1 October, 2022. My training was broken up this time around by an injury and a 2 week trip to Japan that involved minimal training (bands only). The injury was an SI joint issue that crops up once or twice per year that required me to do easy sessions for 2-3 weeks. The program I run is Sheiko Gold. It consists of going up to RPE 8 on hard days and RPE 7 on recovery days. Due to my injury, probably half of my training was easier recover days. I fully expected my strength to decrease due to this.

The meet was held at the D1 training facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The warmup situation was mostly good - plenty of squat racks to go around and most people were able to get their own. As usual, my wife came along with me to serve as my coach for the meet.

Squats went better than expected. I opened at 155 kg but jumped the squat command and got 3 red lights. It was a very snappy lift so I decided to increase 10 kg to 165 kg. 165 moved pretty well, at RPE 7 weight, but I decided to play it safe for the next lift and only increased 2.5 kg to 167.5 kg. This last attempt was more difficult, at an RPE 8, but I think I could have jumped 5 to 7.5 kg and still have gotten it.

Bench was fun. This was the lift I was expecting to set a PR on. I opened at 115 kg, which felt great, so I increased to 120 kg. This was a little more difficult than expected, but I really wanted a PR so I increased 5 kg more to 125 kg. Here, sadly, I got stuck halfway up and missed the lift. I think I could have gotten it on a better day.

Deadlifts were the most interesting lift! I opened at 175 kg, smashed that attempt and was expecting to go to 185 kg. My wife accidentally told the people at the desk my third attempt weight even though I was only going for my second attempt at that time. So I made a big jump from 175 kg to 192.5 kg. 192.5 was a dream weight and I didn't think I could get it. Other athletes were screaming at me, hyping me up. I got it! It was an absolute grind but I got it. Needless to say, I didn't come out for a third attempt.

Overall, it was a fun meet so I'd say it was successful. I didn't lose too much strength although I didn't train super hard for it. I'm looking forward to the next on in February, and plan on working a lot harder for it!

Videos:

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To be more specific, my parents raised my siblings and me to "respect" them, saying "yes sir, and "no ma'am" to everything they said. Spankings, all of that. Typical super conservative evangelical parents. Before I learned better, I was that way too. I went to college and since then have embraced the left more and more.

They'll say things now and then that are really distasteful politically. Today I made an Instagram post about DeSantis lying about liberal states allowing post-birth abortions and I got several family members railing against me. I'm tired of staying quiet when this happens. I think that, because how my parents raised me, I'm afraid to speak my mind to older family members. Fuck that though.

Has anyone else had this experience? I wonder if therapy would help. I just don't know how to explain it.

I run Gentoo, which has a telemetry use flag. This will enable telemetry for a number of packages.

I hate telemetry on non-FOSS software like Windows, but is there real harm in doing it with FOSS software? I like to think I'd be helping the devs create better software.

https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/telemetry

Speceficially the telemetry use flag. On one hand, fuck telemetry, but on the other hand, I trust FOSS developers to do the right thing vs the likes of Microsoft and Google.

https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/telemetry

My wife and I moved to the area a few years ago but still haven't gone on one of these. It looks like there are a ton of them, so I'm wondering if you folks know of any good ones?

I haven't gotten an update in about a week which is strange for me. I've had this dependency conflict for a while:

WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:

dev-python/docutils:0

(dev-python/docutils-0.20.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 (-pypy3) - python3_10 (-python3_12)" conflicts with <dev-python/docutils-0.20[python_targets_python3_11(-)] required by (dev-python/sphinx-5.3.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-doc - latex -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11 (-pypy3) -python3_10"

Would that prevent me from getting updates? I'm able to install things just fine.

This meta analysis found that creatine has a trivial effect on muscle growth. However, Greg Nuckles says that this study is actually saying that creatine helps you build muscle up to 1/3 faster.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CumSxEkOiCw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I’m a little disappointed by what the study found but Greg’s thoughts kind of make sense.

I hate having to work on my R720 because getting it back into the rails is a major pain in the ass. It barely fits, so I have to wrestle with it for half an hour to get it to fit.

Is there a trick to this?

I usually take a box of pop tarts and eat a few of them throughout the day but I"m getting tired of those and am looking for something new.

I've been competing for a few years, with a two year break during Covid. I'm at

• Squat: 380 lb (172 kg)
• Bench: 270 lb (122 kg)
• Deadlift: 424.4 lb (192.5 kg)

I've actually gotten weaker since I hit those numbers last October due to some back tweaks and time off for a trip, but I'm hoping to match those squat and deadlift numbers and get a 127.5 kg bench (281 lb) at my meet on the 23rd.

Longer term, I have my eyes on 405 lb (183 kg) squat, 315 lb (142 kg) bench, and 500 lb (227 kg) deadlift.

How about you?

Any time I try to comment, I get a language not allowed error.

Anyone else get this?