Funktastic

I seem to recall being here about two months ago. I haven't been outside in over 36 hours. I'm sick to my stomach slightly, and there's no chance I'm actually sick. I know my body; this is different. I'm continually hungry, but I feel full. I'm tired, but I can't sleep (at least not regular hours). I'm sometimes energetic, but when I try to work out, I feel incredibly weak. Damnit.

Not riding my bike is really difficult. Not riding is demoralizing. I feel helpless. Riding gets me everywhere. It's my ticket to freedom and mobility. I can't go to the grocery without walking 30 minutes versus 8 minutes on a bike (both are roundtrip times). I can't go to other stores without walking an hour (home improvement, electronics, department, etc.). I obviously can't go riding with Koki at all, and visiting Jonny is only possible if I want to walk for 2.5 hours. I can't get out of the city to explore the mountains like I want. I want to spend two weeks healing (RICE every day (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation), good nutrition (better than my already decent diet), plenty of water (again, I'm already usually good on this), good amounts of sleep (already good), and very mild exercise (walking, short runs of maybe 2 km) on my legs, compensatory upper-body training, stretching, etc.), but as I'm only two days in, I'm not sure I will hold my resolution.

It seems odd to have a hobby so critical to my everyday life functions. Mark suggested I look into getting my license here, and then getting a motorcycle. It's an interesting idea, but then I'd either have to find protective gear in my size (I can't even find shoes here, and my glove size already maxes out the US charts, so this seems like a difficult task to say the least), or bring my gear over here from the US (pretty expensive).

Jason Mraz has been on replay for over 10 hours. Same song all 10 hours.

I'll put up the conclusion to the Gujo Hachiman journey soon.

QotD:
"Discipline is necessary for excellence."
-Dr. Lubov Andrusiv

HotD:
Today's humor is a pretty good set of pictures. Some suck, but I didn't put it together, so I can't take credit.
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