Felt very defeated thinking about restarting doing an hour each, then remembered that’s actually the wrong way to think about it. Aim for 5 mins over 60 and just rebuild time again. Doing much better now since that. Not fully back on the horse. And there’s a heatwave going to happen to us sometime in the next few days so hopefully I can push through then unlike last time.
Doing JP, SP and maths. Irish is nice, but I still feel like I need to flesh out better tooling for that. Atm, it’s very difficult starting in Irish without going a full 30-60 minutes. So once I’m back at a better pace I’ll try again then.
Also to add: I’m drawing and reading a lot now, so time isn’t completely wasted.
I’ve been getting back into reading more (in English) lately too. Right now I’m reading a book by a Japanese author, and it keeps reminding me how much I want to be able to read novels in Japanese!
The first book I picked up was The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard J. Evans, which is a history book on how the Nazis came to power (reading this in part due to history repeating itself and want to mentally prepare). But at some point it become too heavy to continue on properly and wanted to read something lighter, so started reading The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, which is a history book about fabrics. It’s really opened my eyes on how important textiles really was, and how even modern computing has some lineage in textiles too.
I think when I’m able for it, I’d want to read about Japanese history in the Japanese language, and Latina/Hispanic history in Spanish. I’d also say Irish history in Irish, but even English, our main language here, doesn’t really have decent Irish history books outside of primary and secondary education. But I do have an Irish book picked out that was supposedly an amazing book and helped in part spark a mini revival of the language many years ago, called Cre Na Cille. Which is about undead spirits shooting the breeze in a cemetery. It’s supposed to be comical from what I’ve heard.
Felt very defeated thinking about restarting doing an hour each, then remembered that’s actually the wrong way to think about it. Aim for 5 mins over 60 and just rebuild time again. Doing much better now since that. Not fully back on the horse. And there’s a heatwave going to happen to us sometime in the next few days so hopefully I can push through then unlike last time.
Doing JP, SP and maths. Irish is nice, but I still feel like I need to flesh out better tooling for that. Atm, it’s very difficult starting in Irish without going a full 30-60 minutes. So once I’m back at a better pace I’ll try again then.
Also to add: I’m drawing and reading a lot now, so time isn’t completely wasted.
I’ve been getting back into reading more (in English) lately too. Right now I’m reading a book by a Japanese author, and it keeps reminding me how much I want to be able to read novels in Japanese!
Try to stay cool out there!
The first book I picked up was The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard J. Evans, which is a history book on how the Nazis came to power (reading this in part due to history repeating itself and want to mentally prepare). But at some point it become too heavy to continue on properly and wanted to read something lighter, so started reading The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, which is a history book about fabrics. It’s really opened my eyes on how important textiles really was, and how even modern computing has some lineage in textiles too.
I think when I’m able for it, I’d want to read about Japanese history in the Japanese language, and Latina/Hispanic history in Spanish. I’d also say Irish history in Irish, but even English, our main language here, doesn’t really have decent Irish history books outside of primary and secondary education. But I do have an Irish book picked out that was supposedly an amazing book and helped in part spark a mini revival of the language many years ago, called Cre Na Cille. Which is about undead spirits shooting the breeze in a cemetery. It’s supposed to be comical from what I’ve heard.