fuck anyone that laughs at someone trying to get in shape

we all start somewhere

mmm as for the gym it's mainly just people I hated from school ¬_¬ lol. I should be old enough not to care, but it just irks me

There's a baseball field in Hagåtña with a sidewalk going all the way around it. Every evening there's at least a dozen people walking/jogging/running laps on it, and it's got all kinds of folks.

I feel you. Until I found a gym that I liked it was hard feeling like you're being judged

Now I've been working out long enough I can go to any gym and I still feel like I'm being judged but I know enough to not care

Jogging isn't that common where I am which is funny lol. Dunno if it's a rural irish thing or what

yeah running/jogging usually isnt common in rural places

people that work for a living don't usually do cardio on the side. Its more of a "I sit in a desk all day so I'm going to go run for 40 minutes and pretend that makes me healthy"

or could be just me! I imagine that when you take bodybuilding seriously, people can get really opinionated about workout regimes and stuff?

that's me! ^

I wouldn't worry about "bodybuilding" if you're not even working out yet

I used to pack exercise into 3 months of summer each year to get by lol. Before that I used to cycle regularly but I dont feel I have the time now

oh dont worry! im not xD

@johnp Yeah, but people who are actually serious about that sort of thing know it's a high-level specialty and isn't relevant to the majority of people who are just exercising.

The nasty bits are folks who know enough to be snotty about it but haven't thought hard enough about it to come through the other side.

Just keep trying things and find what you enjoy. Could be hiking, bicycling, running, lifting weights, yoga, boxing, rock climbing, etc... there's all sorts of stuff and all of them come second to diet

I'd love kayaking if I wasn't so far inland

I may look into something at a lake nearby

two days a week I go to a commercial gym now. Most people there are more about looking good. There's this one tall guy that was acting like a jerk to me for no reason. He just kinda acts that way and only talks to the people who look like they've been bodybuilding for years... I don't really let it get to me. I'm not training to for appearance and no matter how fit that guy gets he'll still have a shitty personality

haha burn

kayaking is a lot of fun. I've been wanting to try stand up paddle boarding. Always been kinda nervous about SCUBA but lately ive been thinking about trying that too a little

screw him

I think I get mini panick attacks under water...I only noticed it when I started swimming again after a 10 year hiatus. I always dreaded deep water

For SCUBA... find a good instructor who takes both you and the sport seriously, and don't get creative about pushing the limits he's set for you.

i get extreme shortness of breath but I started to get more comfortable after practice

Most early SCUBA injuries come from either the student or the instructor ignoring the concerns of the other, and later on it's about the diver getting cocky and dismissive of safety precautions.

(My dad was a master instructor trainer, meaning he taught people how to teach SCUBA. He also taught night diving and cave diving, gave week-long tours on remote islands, and had a reputation for teaching the unteachable--like the severely hydrophobic, or a guy paralysed all down one side of his body.)

Yeah I'd want to go real slow. I've been skydiving before but SCUBA makes me a bit nervous

Oxygen is important mmkay

Yes. Yes, it is.

You might want to look for an instructor who will teach you all the engineering and physics of the sport, rather than just the best practices.

Like, "Can you take apart, fix, and rebuild your regulator assembly in a single held breath, blindfolded?"

If you're particularly concerned about control, those courses might be good for you.

im anxious already @BESW :(

A little nervousness is good. It keeps you respectful and aware.

But if it gets overwhelming, there are strategies and tools for managing that.

A lot of people find that it helps if they're confident that whatever happens, they're trained to deal with it.

And of course it's important to remember that you'll always have a buddy when you dive.

You're never out there alone.

Seriously though, if you can find an instructor who doesn't dismiss your anxiety, I think that's half the battle.

I had very similar deep-water anxiety, but my instructor didn't take it seriously.

So I mostly stuck to snorkeling.

yeah true, a good instructor can mean a lot

failing that floating to the top and swimming on my back is my safe mode option

Absolutely. Your instructor should be giving you strategies for safely returning to the surface whatever's going on.

Anybody have experience with TiddlyWiki?

@BESW first I've heard of it but it sounds interesting

I have an evernote subscription but I'm gunna cancel it as they've increased their fee. Assuming you don't want to use Microsoft's Onenote, there are many similar open source apps you can use instead

Do you need support for image notes? If not, Simplenote looks quite nice

I'm liking TiddlyWiki's browser-based usage. If I can put it on a USB stick and open it on any computer I come across, that'd be very valuable.

ah i didn't think of that, that would be nice

i dont like having to move to onenote but it seems to be the only free option with image support

there's google keep too... but i like offline syncing

One use I'm thinking of is having all the PDFs for my collected 300+ RPG systems on a USB stick, and using TiddlyWiki for sorting and notations.

Once I know what game I want, I can retrieve it easily enough. The challenge is in, for example, saying "I want a one-shot premade horror adventure, but I don't care what system." The way I'm set up right now, I'd have to go to every system folder and check if it's got a pre-made horror adventure.

tags are great for that sort of thing

And with TiddlyWiki I think I could also cross-reference it with campaign notes to see if there's any ideas I've had which could apply, or any existing campaigns we could pick up.

one of evernotes features was pdf support and in-pdf searching

@johnp I have yet to find a useful tagging system. OS X, for example, requires brute-force workarounds to tag recursively.

@johnp That, the OS X Spotlight does quite well.

i think the main note apps all support tags now

Yeah, but if I'm going to use a separate note app just for tags that's no different from tagging each file individually with OS X.

A wiki takes it the extra distance by cross-referencing it with my campaign documents.

That'd make the effort more worthwhile.

As an alternative, this could be an opportunity to learn Adobe Bridge. But I've never heard anyone say anything good about Bridge.

ah ok, I was thinking along the lines of using multiple tags for cross referencing

I'd love to do that.

hehe Bridge is a bit like the moon...it's just there

I always assumed it was just an image library manager

It's supposed to be a powerful management tool, but I've never been able to figure it out.

The tagging system kept doing things I didn't understand.

now that you mention it, isn't it about time tagging became a native file browser feature on MacOS and windows

Oh, sure, OS X does tagging straight out of the Finder.

It's just a bit clunky and time-consuming unless you're tagging every file the moment you first create it.

ah ok...i assume windows can tag if you mess around with folder properties...though i havent tried it in ages

yeah

Like, say I have a folder for a client, and three folders inside that one for each job I've done for the client, and multiple folders in each job folder for various resources, paperwork, etc.

If I want to tag everything in the client folder and all its subfolders with the CLIENTNAME tag, I have to enter each folder and select all the files in that folder.

There's no ability to tag down into subfolders by selecting the main folder.

Or I brute-force it by selecting the client folder and doing a "." search to get all the files in a search window so I can select them all.

i know you say you dont like superfluous apps but the search feature on this seems nice. you can say +thistag - that tag to narrow things down...

tagspaces.org

I can do that on OS X natively too.

Once the tags are in place, OS X handles them quite nicely.

It's just a massive pain in the patooty to tag large numbers of files in the first place.

ooh, im jealous now :( i dont think i can do that on windows

So if I'm going to have to handle every file individually anyway... I might as well go for something which rewards me for that individualised attention, like TiddlyWiki where I can also make custom notes on each file as the whim strikes me.

(And it'd let me retain the organisational structure across operating systems.)

one thing i dont like about the main note apps is the syncing of creative ideas to faceless cloud services.... it's likely all this data will be skimmed to further all this AI or neural network software

Agreed. Hence my focus on TiddlyWiki as a localised file.

yeah, for me the only thing that puts me off that is markup text, it looks almost too diy for me lol. if simplenote would just add image support id go with it

i know it's vain, but in years to come, id die if some software could filter a photo to create a johnp illustration lol

but that's already possible