u/joellevp

I am a slowish cyclist, working toward my own goals, but I am finding it relatively boring to solo cycle all the time.

I am wondering if there is anyone who wants to do a buddy cycle, perhaps? The expectation is casual and slow, and to just try and sprinkle in some fun outside of dedicated workouts and training. I am on a hybrid bike, not a roadie, if that is a concern.

As this is a brand new thing for me, I would like to keep the number to a minimum at first, to see if I like social riding. Sunday mornings are the safest, traffic-wise. I can't do nights because I have an early sleep schedule usually, and besides, working out at night leads to insomnia for me.

I was thinking to start once a month, early on a Sunday (around 6.30 - 7am), perhaps starting next month? We can test the waters then. I enjoy the Monkey Bean Cafe on Marine Drive, and we can use that as a place to meet, and perhaps even dine, if we feel up to it. As it is a popular cycle spot, we can all feel safe as we get to know one another.

If anyone is intersted, please DM me. I only use Reddit on Desktop and would ask to move it onto Discord for active organisation, if it gets to it, and people are intersted.

Does anyone else hear almost an amalgamation of 3 Doors Down songs in the intro song? I can't shake the notion.

Any groups on Discord who talk casually about books. Not necessarily in a Book Club way, but in a general way? I read, but in spurts, and don't have anyone to dive into ideas/thoughts with, in real life.

I read just about anything, fiction wise. As for non-fiction, I like the idea of it more than the reading of it haha. I have many history/science-related books in the NF pile, that I am taking very slowly.

If it matters, I am 37F.

If this doesn't exist, then I might make one, when I figure out how to actually use Discord lol

It frustrates me to no end that a lot of cars done have rear seatbelts that work, or at all.

They always say, it's okay it isn't legally required, and I'm thinking when did it come to that? It's for my safety. I'm not asking for a seatbelt because I'm worried about a police fine. Are drivers under the assumption that they are safe drivers, or that anyone else is?

Sigh. Rant over.

Been working up to triathlons this year by doing duathlons, working my way up the standard distances ladder for them. Just heading into a time trial for a sprint duathlon in August, with a standard distance in December. I'm building these up slowly for disability reasons we don't need to get into.

My concern is food more than physicality, and it is really affecting the confidence I have that I will ever complete it, or come out the other side of it feeling recoverable. Nutrition before/during/after training is always my limiting factor, that it has outpaced my insomnia as the leading hurdle.

I had a nutritionist but no matter how many lists and options I have, between the severe depression and the ARFID...I think I may as well just stop everything I have worked toward for the last 8 months, and that is a saddening thing to hear myself say.

So I ask, does anyone have tips?

I noticed that at just under 50% volume, I get about 17.3 hours of play time, on the JBL setting in the app. It's a lot shorter than advertised, and at louder volumes it get even less playtime.

Is that a product issue in general, or for me?

As the MC, we stumble upon ancient magic, follow it to some lengths and get to The Map Chamber where we meet the Keepers. The Keepers are watching the world through their old, forgotten paintings, because they don't seem to be up to date on things happening around the world currently.

Knowing of, and acknowledging, the urgency of things (and Percival hearing it for himself), they decide to slow everything down because they must discuss things and continue to shut you out - the person who has had to fight everyone and can actually do something in the world, and Prof. Figg out - the adult who can also make moves in the actual world.

They also send you on 'Trials'. To what end? Collect memories of things they can just tell you about and collect fragments of something that can open the last Magic of Pain vault under Hogwarts? I understand proving that one can wield the Ancient Magic (which MC has to have been able to do to even get to The Map Chamber), but why does the character have to be tested so much (to the point of dying) to do this. In this world, the MC is the only one in seemingly centuries, to have this capacity, and yet they have no qualms risking the death of a kid to follow their anxiety-fuelled rules. In the meantime, the other vaults of magic were accessed just fine. No protective guardians (I haven't got this far again, so maybe I am misremembering).

All the pensieve information could really have been shown at once at The Map Chamber. We didn't need to go collect it piecemeal. They did more to protect those memories than the actual vaults of magical fallout, and with the portraits right there, they were absolutely willing to risk the death of a child.

I mean I did die, and if I did, what then? Puzzles and Trials are well and good for peacetime. Additionally, a 15-year-old being able to overcome all those trials should really be showing the Keepers that perhaps I am too powerful to be allowed to continue, so what were they trying to prove with them in the first place?