can you link me a guide to getting started on kombucha?

I guess I should page thru the book on fermentation i bought last year. I’m sure there’s a chapter in there about it.

Also, hell yeah OP. 4 years last month over here

Just finished book 1 earlier this year, looking forward to getting to the rest of them.

I was looking for McCarthy ITT. I’m going to read Blood Meridian this year after listening to the audiobook years ago. I read The Road around the same time and struggled to get through it because it was so absolutely dreary. I get it obviously I just wanted to say that.

I would recommend also No Country For Old Men as I thought it was all the things McCarthy is amazing at but isn’t so violent as the Judge’s gang or as consistently hopeless as the world of The Road. It’s paced like a thriller while still having an amazing villain. Talking about CM makes me think I should reread these books. I was just out of college when I read/listened to them.

thank you!

“Nobody Is Talking About This” - Patricia Lockwood. Booker shortlist. It’s the experience of an online “celebritry” liberal white woman over a few years. Covid, “the dictator”, etc. It’s written in pithy disjointed paragraphs kind of like the author is tweeting it. Then a serious matter with the author’s sister and it’s become a little meditation on that. It’s pretty.

“Salvation: Black People and Love” - bell hooks. I’ve seen ms. hooks justifiably criticized on here but I thought I’d see for myself. I read lots of poc authors for February and this is wrapping that up. I don’t have a ton of thoughts on this book, I don’t think I am the target audience as a melanin-freefolk but it is interesting for the perspective. I had to finish Rashid Khalidi’s history of the war on Palestine as my nonfiction first.

I also have a bookmark in a collection of Maya Angelou’s poems that I’ve been neglecting. Trying to keep a balanced reading load with a fiction, a nonfiction, and a poetry collection this year. And I’ve got some beginner’s theory opened in a couple of tabs that I’ve been chipping away at.

I got a job after a few months! I start tomorrow. Hired without a stage so that feels like they need help but, hey, I need a job.

Been chugging along reading. I feel great there. Had a big exercise day a couple days ago and I went bowling after a long time off. So my right hand and arm are sore in the weird ways.

Has Chapo ever talked about “Confederacy of Dunces”? I listened to the audiobook in December (a couple of times) and for the first time in a while I wanted to hear the gang’s opinion on Ignatius J. Riley and his hijinks.

hell yeah

It’s so embarrassing being addicted to this hobby with these people.

the entire subreddit is crying that the hardest difficulty is too hard! it’s supposed to be!

I feel like I came out of a ten thousand year coma after having a posting relapse coming here. Has someone written a Hexbear Manifesto? Is that kinda what the c/news bulletins are? I’m just curious about the logistics and differences of HB and lemmygrad? and like they’re integrated somehow? but different?

I’ve been dealing with depression for a while now and do, or have done in the past, all of those parenthetical items which I think are all good things so I’m being hopeful. I haven’t purely been wallowing in despair since being unemployed but the state of the world has caught up to me last month.

I don’t really have a routine. I do have a lot of time at home so I’ve just been doing sets of squats, pushups, and planks at random points throughout my day lol. I found a nice counter app to keep track of my progress. I probably should dedicate time to doing a workout. I have a kettlebell workout I do but haven’t been consistent at hitting.

the KB routine:

Warm Up:

• (30 second rest between each work set)
• Around the World for a minute, switching directions halfway-thru.
• Hot Potato for 30 seconds.
• Halo for a minute, switching directions halfway-thru.
• Figure Eights for a minute, switching directions.

Work

• (also be resting, although I haven’t been as structured here either. I probably should be.)
• 2 Handed Swings for 8-12
• Deck Squats for 8-12
• Turkish Get Ups for 8-12, each side.
• Do 3 cycles of Work

ps: at some point i’ll figure out how to nicely format things on this site.

i’m an alcoholic, and now just addict, ive been off of alcohol coming up on 4 years the end of this month. i’m still smoking weed everyday, often now that i am currently not employed.

i’ve been doing bodyweight exercises this last month. happy about it but i’m kinda waffling/not putting in 100% effort like i was when i started this routine. the weed doesn’t help.

i went to the doctors today about my depression/anxiety and got put on lexapro. first time with any of those medications, i sure hope it helps.