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Drove to El Charito this morning with the kids and realized I had no cash and a new debit card with no pin. We landed at the trailer up the street, Killer Taco.

Tacos are big. Tortillas are thick and everything we had was pretty cheesy and greasy. Not your classic Central texas taco/breakfast taco, it's a unique thing they have going.

The tent and fan were comfy even in 95 degrees heat. It was def on the Tex-Mex side and not california, but reminded me of a departure from trad Tex-Mex like Torchey's or something.

All in all:

Nice place to sit and eat, the cooler the better

A little pricey, but 1 taco was enough

Gringo tacos for sure, but we'll likely be back

#weightloss #nospellcheck #noai

Started the pill this week. I've been trying to lose weight for the past two years seriously. I've biked thousands and run hundreds of miles, all at 250-280 lbs. I was in Vermont for a lot of it so lots of elevation. I've had some success, but not enough to get to 220 which is about where I should be for my size and body composition.

Spent three months in Japan where I really tried to change my eating habits. With all the walking I saw some results but in the end I'd always overeat and cancel any calorie deficit I'd created.

I keep reading about the miracle of GLP1 drugs and said if there were ever affordable pills I'd take them. There are now pills, and they are now relatively affordable for me.

The first day I actually noticed a change, not sure if it's placebo or not, but I noticed not feeling hungry when thinking about food. I also found it easier to stop eating or just not being interested in finding something in the kitchen to eat for fun.

I also have been getting sick after eating fatty foods; I hear this is common. Also, if I eat a lot, I stay full for a very long time; assuming this is the slowed digestion.

I've been tracking my weight pretty closely for a few months before I started the pill and was trying to change my diet, and generally speaking it goes something like this:

249, 255, 252, 248, 255

Those jumps are when I just overeat at a restaurant or at home because we have something really salty, or after a big ride. Essentially water retention, but it can be an upward trend, it's certainly not a downward one as it hovers around 250 week after week. I essentially eat my debt.

This week I notice

..., 249, 248, 250

That 250 jump was after a mexican food restaurant, where I ate chips and queso, a beer, and enchiladas. Normally I'd have eaten all the beans and rice too, and finished whatever my kids didn't eat. This time I ate much less, but I paid for it in getting more sick than I've been all week. And it wasn't fun to eat, I was forcing myself to eat because I felt guilty for buying all that food and not eating it... I honestly would have been just fine after the queso and beer... So eating is going to take much more planning, especially if I want to meet my nutrition goals.

So even on the low dose I'm on now, I can see how this works, and I see why it's so effective.

I'm trying to eat a lot of protein and excercise so that I won't lose too much muscle. Days are looking like:

• Bfast - eggs/eggwhites/pico/beans/toast
• Lunch - protien shake
• Afternoon - cottage cheese, sousvide chicken tenders
• Dinner - however I can make up the protien

I'm a programmer, so long rides/runs over lunch and 10 pushups every 30 minutes on a timer.

So that's my plan. It's not perfect by any means, but it's something I think I can stick to for now. I'm doing this so I can live longer. I have three kids and a wife, and I am passionate about life in general. I guess we'll see where this goes. I'll report here.

#recent-thought #probably-cringe

So, I just realized that I had ChatGPT designing a diy shelf for me and creating a Home Depot cart for a project tomorrow while claude code was reviewing a project at work, and I thought I'd blog about it on the blog framework that I had claude help me update yesterday.

All of these are things I want to do and things that would have taken a considerable amount of time and energy. And I still get to be involved in the important parts. The design, the building, the reviewing and ultimately the form the code takes, and what the blog says.

I've been wondering what a future with AI looks like, and I think it might look like having a fleet of helpers doing the things that take time so you can do the things you like... Maybe it won't be so bad after all!

We are a great collection of things both tangible and ethereal. We are a body, we are a mind, we are a brain, and we are a gut. We emit photons like a very dim firefly, this can be observed. It can be observed, our going out like an incondecent light which has lost power when we die.

But we can also love. We can worry. We can have intuition and jeolousy. Despair and disappointment.

These are connected, one affects the other. Joy can relax the body, breathing and smiling can bring peace.

Our dreams can leave an imprint on us. Lucid dreams, for example, are an experience; but the dreaming itself, is also an expericence. People with near death experiences sometimes report light or seeing their loves loved out before them in a sort of dream state.

Time is felt in the mind. It is relative in more ways than one. The DMV is slow, a night with your loved one is over in an instant.

I know a man who claims to control his dreams. He talks of a hundred year dream. That is, he attempts to dream for a length of one hundred years in a single night. Is it so?

Could a state exist that is a thousand year dream? A million year dream? Eternity? Where the mind makes time stop? Is it possible?

Steven King wrote a short story called "The Jump" that explores this idea. A mind in a state that provides the owner with the experience of eternity in a single microsecond. In his story it's horrific, but could it also be wonderful?

Could heaven be real, as real as our minds; could hell, as well be as real as our fears?

Could religion have evolved to configure this final state?

#emacs

Please point the best LLM you have access to at your .emacs.d directory. Make sure it has access to emacs source code. Now ask it to tackle that thing you wish emacs would do for you, but you just haven't made time to implement.

I predict the singularity will start in emacs.