Tirzepatide changed my life

How I finally got treatment for the thing that has been affecting my life for two decades

Obligatory covering my ass disclaimer: This is not medical advice, nor is it endorsement of any treatment of any kind for any specific ailment. This has been my experience, but I would be remiss if I didn't remind you of Survivorship bias and that this is the perspective of one person with all o...

Losing my dad

A chronicle of my exprience with my dad's last year due to end stage kidney failure

I started this post on January 20th, 2023. I am going to write this over the next number of months and at some point, I will lose my dad. This is a certainty, as certain as any other terminal diagnosis. My dad has Stage 5 Polycystic Kidney Disease, which means his eGFR (essentially the efficiency of...

Let's do a science!

Remember in school when you got into groups and did science experiments? Where the teacher demanded you perform some experiment, measure something, then repeat the experiment again, changing something? Well if you thought you'd never need to apply that in your life ... you're actually probably right...

Wise sayings

I have decided I am going to stick my nose into philosophy, so here are some pieces of wisdom I have learned in my journey of life. If you want to get something done, something needs to be done. Before you make a decision, you have a choice to make. If you want to succeed, you have to do well....

Life Update

I'm dating someone, after being single for over 11½ years (but who's counting? lol). It's taking some getting used to after a decade of not having anyone I could be affectionate towards in a romantic way, but it's definitely going well. She's smart, principled, pretty and intelligent. In addition,...

Self-Improvement Progress Update

It's been 4 months since my last update, and I'm both impressed with my progress and I yearn to be further along. I've kept up with a lot of my good habits the entire time, which is actually astounding considering I've never been that way, I've always been lazy and quick to take the easy route. A mi...

Therapy Checkpoint Update

I've been in therapy for 5 months now and I've made steady progress. Comparing myself across just those 5 months, it adds up to a huge amount of improvements. I still have much to do, but these changes feel good and they feel like they're here to stay. I've lost 30 pounds since I started. That's 20%...

How Therapy Has Been Going

I've been going to therapy for a few weeks now. I started going to fix my relationship with food but it turns out my relationship with food is intermingled with my relationship with myself, my relationship with friends, my relationship with my parents etc. It feels like a can of worms has been ope...

Therapy 2

I had my first therapy appointment with my therapist. I feel like it was productive, she pointed out one reason why I have the relationship with food already so it was more than just getting-to-know-you. We're going to meet weekly starting off. We didn't really get into the nitty gritty but even sti...

Mushoku Tensei Review

I decided to write a review for Mushoku Tensei on a whim. Here it is: Mushoku Tensei (Jobless Reincarnation) is a series written by Rifujin na Maganote. It's about a 34 year old jobless bum who was such a piece of trash he didn't even go to his parents funeral. His family kicks him out of the hous...