Planted the first seeds for 2020. It is way too cold outside, but i plant in the office, got a big window facing south-west so tons of sun and temperature steady around 25 Celsium. It is practically a green house.
Experimental seeding this year, two new varieties that a friend of a friend provided :
Aji Charapita, famous as the most expensive hot peppers in the world. Idk about that, seeds are all over the net so i doubt it. Those peppers are very cool, little orange balls with a sudden and extreme burst of heat that also quickly goes away.
Scotch bonnet , those are like scorpions but bigger and about half hot, so it is a great everyday choice.
awesome!
never seen those aji's before:
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The Carolina reaper plants gave a lot of peppers. But i am probably growing them just because it is the hottest in the world. This shit is not edible, it is purely toxic.
loool.
i don't think i've had them. i might have a carolina reaper plant now that my friend gave me to "foster", but not sure. i think i have reapers, ghost & scotch from him, as well as some more edible peppers.
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We are 3 experienced, almost addicted, chili eaters and yet we haven't been able to consume, together, even one whole normal sized pepper at a meal. The burn is really out of this world. Oh well ill keep farming it, it is so extreme as a.... creature that it is enough rewarding do it. It is easy now too, the tree is multi-year. After the big colds , around early March, i chop it down to a few inches above the soil, then after a little while it sprouts new branches and re-grows, using the already established root system. So new 'babies' are much stronger. It will be the 4th year i do this IIRC. Awesome!
sick. love it. i'm bad at cutting things down etc. takes more experience it seems.
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You might have Femoroacetabular impingement Something I had the last time I got back into jumping, right hip hurt like hell when I landed, but before that even walking, especially up stairs made it feel bad.
What fixed it for me was releasing both the long and short adductors and stretching them. Plus attacking every area on the inner the leg/groin and down by the glute, plus glutes, piriformis.
Then stick the end of the thin part of a oly barbell across the inner top of the hip crease while sitting - yes it hurts a lot...
But it's usually due to adductor tightness and disfunction - not many people release and stretch them Avoiding stretching is just gonna make it worse...
That Got ROM guy on youtube had the same issue, and I used a lot of his stuff to fix it See the vid description for more details also just do a search for FAI in his channel
thanks for the advice man! i'll revisit it tomorrow when i have time.
soo.. i think stretching was one of the culprits: i was trying to get more flexible (to improve health ironically), after injuring my left glute/ham/hip etc. i think something caused some damage right near the bone, in a few spots (adductor/sacrum). i obviously could be wrong, but when you say:
"not stretching it will make it worse"
i've experienced the opposite.
by not stretching it, it improves a little. stretching it causes it to explode and get considerably worse.
i tried doing some of the fei stuff, including some serious "release" using my jacknobber etc, it was just making it worse. normal "ADL" (every day activities) become impacted when i stretch it.
when i don't stretch it, I may not feel it much during ADL - only a few movements. I always feel it when i do some kind of run etc. I feel it significantly when i bend over, touch the floor, and push my hips back a bit. I imagine some of those stretches way back, pushed it passed the brink. if I had to bet $$ on it, i'd say there's some major damage in there.
it might heal eventually. at this point i just have to wait it out or go see some specialists.
i'll probably just try to wait it out for a few more years. who knows though. i fucked myself up, i'll live with the consequences.
would be great if it healed though, not going to lie
if it was at the point where i couldn't get some runs in with my dogs, i'd most likely see folks about it, because that would be very depressing. i guess that'd be the redline.
did some damage deep near the femur origin + sacrum etc.
might get it checked out this year just to know exactly what's going on but it's definitely major. I don't want to think about surgery or anything like that, that's why I haven't gotten it checked etc.
come Feb it'll be 1 year injured (left glute/ham, healed in April). but this specific injury (right glute/ham/sacrum/adductor/hip) dates back to April. should have stayed away from lunges & stretching it's healed maybe 2% since April. better than nothing I guess.
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Do you have a come-back plan/schedule?
nah no comebacks from this one.
just doing long walks with the dogs w/ occasional strides/short jogs mixed in, yard work, and eating good to try and maintain some fitness.
will do some evening mile races when they pop up etc, just for fun.
going to check out a 5 acre empty horse farm on saturday (in the same community but in a much nicer section of it). lmfao. property is pretty impressive, very well maintained with 2 small barns, a guest house, and a house. i'd get some horses eventually - you can ride them all throughout the city, that's sick af
it's too expensive but just want to check it out. dgaf.
Keep a close eye on the market and you'll find something eventually. I was searching for about 12 months before I purchased my current home.
thanks man! yea i plan on it.
how'd that turn out? good i hope!
i'm definitely bummed. thinking about checking some other areas out, opposite of what i was looking at initially, just to see the differences. ie, HOA/gated etc. can't imagine i'd find anything in my current price range, but it could be a good idea to check it out and get a feel for the differences between those types of properties/communities and the one i've been looking at.
pc!
I've been living in my house since May 2016. It's a perfect house but it's not in the ideal location. In the location where I wanted to live I would only have been able to afford a unit or townhouse, but I wanted a freestanding house with a backyard. Any houses that were in my price range were 2 bedroom knock down jobs and I would've had to renovate etc, which would have blown the budget. I ended up compromising on location. I still do want to move closer to the CBD but it's a quiet area and not much crime happens around here so overall I've been happy with the purchase.
ah nice. and ya quiet area + low crime = nice.
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I hope you find something!
thanks man!
i've been looking for stuff on acreage so, not ez finding stuff within my budget. def had one thing last week but it was too much of a risky with the neighbors etc.
i do wish these areas were closer to work. everything if 40-50 min from work. sux but i'd easily do that drive if i was living in a great spot.
definitely seems like you made the right call. nonstop dog barking and neighbors who are unreasonable about it would send me around the bend.
yea man.
i've had experience with it when I was at my dad's house (2012- 2016 or so). the neighbor in the back left a dog outside chained to a tire. the husband died so they couldn't get rid of it for sentimental reasons (uhh), and just left it back there. it'd bark all day, sometimes throughout the night if they didn't bring it in, or if they literally left town & left it out there. i called the cops on them like 30 times it was ridiculous. when they moved, was amazing, felt so good to not hear the dog being neglected. living next to that sucks.
Soreness- Achilles. This is an absolute bastard of an injury. I went to the beach yesterday and within hours my achilles felt sore and was red/swollen/tender.
due to walking in the sand? or from the previous day?
i imagine walking around in the sand could really stress it. that always feels like it could be a real ankle workout when i do it. i don't like walking/running in thick beach sand, feels so weird.
today is two years since my brother killed himself. hard to believe it's been that long already. gonna spend some time this evening skyping with my parents and other brother. no workout.
damn. yea time flies. wishing you & your family the best. <3
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on a lighter note, i'm taking the occasion to back through some old things i wrote, in the months after he died, and came across some found poetry i pulled from this forum. i'm pretty sure it's from scooby's journal. it's verbatim, no edits of any kind, i only added line breaks. enjoy:
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I wish, I mean, I hope no those word is not strong enough.
I must regroup myself now, now that half of 2018 is gone. I must pick up the pace and finish 2018 in a strong way.
This is a message to myself on 180608, a Friday afternoon where I slacking/recovering from my exam 2 days after finishing it.
It will be raining for the next 7 days or so.
that's interesting.. reading it in a different context like that.
Keep a close eye on the market and you'll find something eventually. I was searching for about 12 months before I purchased my current home.
thanks man! yea i plan on it.
how'd that turn out? good i hope!
i'm definitely bummed. thinking about checking some other areas out, opposite of what i was looking at initially, just to see the differences. ie, HOA/gated etc. can't imagine i'd find anything in my current price range, but it could be a good idea to check it out and get a feel for the differences between those types of properties/communities and the one i've been looking at.
so i put in an offer on the 5 acre prop. got it. offered well below asking but it made sense, so got a really good deal. but paused it after hitting one of my last checklist items: viewing the community/property in the evening.
soo.. the community was incredible as expected. loved it. fully expected to put in an offer.
then i get back to the property.
the neighbor to the east, who leaves their dogs out 24/7, .. their dogs just were barking non stop, for 1.5 hours. they've been there since the 70's (dogs will continue to be left outside) and their son (presumably) is the one who "neglected" the property i'm looking at..
living next to that could be rough.
perhaps it's incredible that something like that could cause me to pause an offer on some "dream property", but it made me think this dream property could really become a nightmare.
so i basically just withdrew my offer/interest for now.
really sucks.
i need to deload from this property dream for a bit maybe. had this one in the palm of my hand but something about it just isn't right (neighbor, smell in house that needs to be removed - from neighbor's neglect who previously owned the property) etc.
so yea fuck it.
i really need to figure out how to find a spot where there's absolutely no noise pollution from neighbor's etc - meaning great neighbors or tons of distance between myself and the next, or both. great neighbors seems impossible, lots of distance between just means lots of $$.
side note: i will destroy microsoft. piece of shit company making piece of shit products that rob me of hard work. death to microsoft.
they've improved alot since the 90s tho.. iirc.
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okay then.
happy new year everyone! 2019 was a good year goal-wise, in that i met my main athletic goal of running a sub-20 minute 5k. did it two weeks in a row, in fact. go me.
yup, two solid times. i def think you could go under 19 in 2020 if you wantd.
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in 2020, my athletic goals will be the following:
1. increase maximum strength. i haven't lifted for more than two years and i'm down about 10 pounds from my average weight while training to dunk (and all the other tangents i went on). the heaviest i ever saw on the scale was 183, iirc, but that was a long time ago. ~175 was my weightlifting set weight. i'm now ~165. always been lean, so the weight loss is substantially muscular and i'm definitely weaker than i was a few years ago. so goal number one will involve a few months reversing that process. not sure about exact targets yet, but it'll probably be something simple like a squat target, a bench target, and an upper pulling target. a trip to the gym will let me know what my baseline is and what i should be shooting for.
nice!
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2. run 5k under 19:00. this might be a bit of a reach, given that my newbie gains only got me from 20:53 to 19:42. but i hit that goal while almost never touching the 30 mile-per-week volume that's generally cited as a minimum for a sub-20 time. so if i can push the volume a bit this year, just by adding a couple of km per run and staying consistent -- plus getting some more practice racing now that i live near a literal weekly race -- perhaps the gains will continue to come fast.
def think you could knock that out.
if you get hooked on max strength life then it'll be a little harder. all good tho.
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3. do a clean handstand and a barefoot pistol on both legs. these are a lower priority, i'm adding them mainly to give myself an excuse to work more on mobility and joint health (lifting will also help with that in the form of warming up, which i do not do for running). handstands i've done before but had to stop when my right wrist started acting up too much. the ultimate bw strength goal for me is still a flag. OAC would also be cool but it's distant: my shoulders can barely tolerate single-arm holds. it'd be rad to get a kip-up as well. and a backflip. would need a gymnastics gym to learn that, i think.
there's a time sequence to these, because working on strength for a couple of months will mean cutting back on running volume and probably intensity. i can consistently work out five days per week, so a three days lifting/two days running schedule seems feasible. once i've hit whatever strength goal i come up with, i'll dial back the lifting and focus again on running. the bw stuff can be thrown in around the edges, i'm not too fussed about it.
- food poisoning x vomiting and diarrhea threw up so hard i got a lump in my throat. only got 4.5-5 hours of sleep. joint aches and muscle weakness. blah. feel better this morning, at least.
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