Still riding the high of the panthers win. Love the team and had to go and get a shirt to show some love. Yesterday was shitty won’t go into it here. Glad to be relaxing today and doing things I enjoy like making silly photoshop edits. Auto fill feature worked a lot better on the first image but still happy about both. I only wish I had done this about a month ago when it was more relevant but okay. Better late than never I guess.
Also Spain won the euro cup 2-1 hoping Argentina and goat Messi win for the copa America, they are the betting favorites which makes sense coming off a World Cup win two years ago. Quick reminder of a wild moment of the World Cup victory celebrations.
Emi Martínez after winning the golden glove, an award given to the best keeper. I’ll never forget how shocked I was to see him do this in Qatar of all places lmao. Not saying I liked it, actually thought it was tasteless at the time but now I can laugh at it. Hopefully he can do what he can to hold it down for Argentina.
A while ago I had taken some chocolate mushrooms with a friend I had made out of a chocolate mold. We did not consume the whole bar and I left it in my fridge and had neglected it for a while until one day, while looking for a sweet treat one Saturday morning while distracted thought that a few bites of chocolate would do the trick. Thought nothing of it until about 30 minutes and I started to feel weird. This would be nothing to be concerned about if I knew the chocolate was laced with potent psychedelic mushrooms but I had not realized it at this point and was wondering if I was getting sick. Nausea is a common symptom of mushroom ingestion and I was definitely starting to feel it. Later on I connected the dots and enjoyed myself but for a minute there I felt like I’d been food poisoned or was feeling ill, but instead was about to embark on an unexpected trip.
What followed was a wild rollercoaster of emotions and sensations. My living room started to transform into a new landscape as the walls started to pulse, sounds became more impressive and clear. My thoughts wandered deeply and rapidly into memories I hadn’t considered in years and into ideas that I may have never explored.
This was a wicked surprise. And as the effects began to wear off I just had to say thanks to God for surviving this unexpected journey and for the wisdom he imparted to me during it. The initial nausea had long passed and now I was feeling a sensations of euphoria and inner peace. Gaining a new perspective on the mundane aspects of life.
Life can be unexpected, and while I wouldn’t suggest taking any drug unknowingly, sometimes the best adventures are the ones we least expect.
We will start bottom right. That’s me, a friend of my cousin and Marcelo Hernandez the SNL cast member from Miami. I got the invite from my cousin to see him do stand up. I love stand up comedy and I also love Marcelo who I think has single handedly saved SNL. The only other thing of note is that I sold my bike but also did a 50k m/31.1 miles on it before I did. I sort of regret it since I don’t have a bike more but I sold it to a friend who I know needs it where I just rode around when I felt like it he needs it to get places since he doesn’t have a car. So it was a good thing but still think I maybe went to far with the friends and family discount.
Lastly you may have noticed this was the longest ride I’ve performed on Strava. I hadn’t planned for that I just knew what route I wanted to take. It was a brutal ride. I ran out of water and had muscle spasms the last 6 miles. That was on Saturday and today is Wednesday and I can’t lie I still feel the burn a little bit. Figure this will be the last day of this but wow I didn’t really understand how hard that would be. There were times where I questioned if I could make it, should I just call an Uber xl and deal with it. I’m so glad I pushed through and finished the ride. It builds character and confidence. I will not quit and I can do it, and I’m stronger than I think I am. Even if I was barely strong enough to pedal for more than 10 seconds straight I did it.
Man I really don’t know what my life would be like without sports. I’ve never really watched hockey but when I saw that my Florida panthers were in the finals in 2023 versus the Las Vegas golden knights I watched. We lost in 5 games including one 9-3 loss. I didn’t watch again until the playoffs but for some reason my level of interest increased more than last year.
I lived for hockey the past two months, love these group of guys and all Florida sports teams, but this team just felt like champions to me after seeing them beat swayman and the bruins and tarasenko and the rangers I was sure we’d beat the winner of the Dallas or Edmonton series. Going into game 7 it looked like Edmonton would domintate the Panthers and I was nervous. We got Edmonton and it was a crazy series. After getting to a dominating 3-0 series lead we let them come back and tie the series 3-3 including one 8-1 loss. It was looking like the panthers were going to go in the history books for the wrong reasons. No hockey team had blown a 3-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals since 1947. But credit to the guys and coach because they just flat out controlled the game, scoring the first goal certainly helped but Edmonton came back a few minutes later to tie it 1-1. Both teams had a lot of chances but Reinhardt scored the go ahead goal in the 2nd period to give us the 2-1 lead which would end up being the final score.
Moment Paul Maurice gets Stanley Cup
What was the better story? An impossible comeback by Edmonton who has hockeys golden boy in McDavid or the team that lost last years finals to go back and win it. I’m biased but preferred the later. And how can you not love the look on coaches face when he gets the trophy.
To me though the best moment of the whole thing was seeing the emotion of the teams coach Paul Maurice when he gets to hoist the trophy. The emotion he shows is raw but relatable and you can’t help but feel his joy and gratitude for the moment.
Now my next obsession Karen Read.
Karen Read is a woman who has been accused of running over her Boston cop boyfriend after a night of drinking and bad weather. But the truth seems to be that it was all a massive cover up. When determining guilt investigators often use “consciousness of guilt” to determine guilt. What that means is how you act say after a murder shows that you were aware of your guilt. Things that could be considered consciousness of guilt would be a murderer leaving the state suddenly and without reason, having odd google searches or selling/ getting rid of some personal items after the crime in question. Something that this case has all of.
It was a cold Janurary day when Karen Read and her boyfriend, John O’Keefe had a night of drinking with some other police officers. After leaving the bar one of the cops, Brian Albert (a powerful and influential family in the area) suggested to keep the party going at their house. Which would be O’Keefe’s final resting place. Karen dropped John off but did not join the party. The evidence presented by the prosectuion suggested that Karen Read actually ran him over in the driveway and John actually never entered the home. The only evidence to support this theory is damage to Read’s tail light, there was testiomony that Karen Read said the words “I hit him” the day of he was killed, words funnily enough don’t appear anywhere on any of the police reports. You think a confession like this would end up on the police reporting of the incident but alas they don’t. The defense suggests a much different story. It suggests that John was in the house, got into a fight and was tossed outside in the cold to die. The evidence that supports this is that one of the people in the house had typed “Hos long to die in cold.” At “2:27AM. (consciousness of guilt)” only a few hours after John was discovered dead in the front yard of the albert’s home. Responding officers were also very careless with evidence collecting from the crime scene with red solo cups, not exactly professional and would cause blood collected in these cups to freeze up. Brian Albert also got rid of his phone right as it was supposed to be subpenaoed. Also the Alberts got rid of thier dog Daisy after the incident, seemingly unnotable until you learn O’Keefe had injuries on his arms consistent with bite marks from a dog, again remember consciousness of guilt. This is only some of the evidence on what has so far been a 33 day trial which is now currently under deliberation for a verdict. To me as someone who has been following this case closely for the past month or so it reeks of a cover up by the police and Ms. Read is innocent, curious what the jury will say.
The consumer society by Jean Baudrillard is an examination of consumer culture and mordern society. Even if it was published in 1970 it is still relevant today. Baudrillard argues that consumerism is not just the buying and selling of products but has transformed into a system of beliefs and values that have shaped out social and cultural landscape, becoming so immersed in the consumer culture we have lost touch with our own authenic desires and aspirations. Even suggesting our relationships with others are mediated by objects rather than social interaction. While I enjoy some of the ideas and points made in the book I am giving it a 2/5 simply because I found the writing to be exteremely dense and I did not enjoy the content as much as I had hoped
Everytime I see a rider like this on the street, especially these mini stunt bikes I must admit the part of me that is envious starts to creep in. It always seems like a fun thing, I even like seeing them do wheelies, I really want to be a motorcycle rider but its hard for me to make the descion to actually buy one despite my longing for it because of the associated risks.
Idea of the ramp and bike I had (mines had begs on both sides so I could bring up to 3 people around with me, or grind rails)
I loved riding bikes as a kid and would even do some pretty extreme stunts, my parents even bought me a ramp one year for christmas and that thing got a lot of jumps from me, my cousins and even the neighborhood kids.
Best photo I could find of the hill in question online (left side)
One year when I was in middle school I went to a hill in my city, the hill has two sides a really steep side and a much less steeper side, all my life I had only done the less steep side. I had seen others do the steep side before so I knew it was possible so today I decided it was my turn to try. I was not ready and actually had a bad accident. To be fair to my self I actually had managed to make it all the way down safely, where I got injured is when I was trying to stop for some runners at the bottom of the hill that I didn’t see (and I’m pretty sure didn’t see me, this is why you should have spotters when attempting stunts like this, could have avoided the whole thing). Anyway I pretty much immediatly blacked out and although never offically diagnosed I likely gave my self a concusion that day and scracthed up my face pretty hard on the pavement, Thankfully I was wearing a helmet or else this could have been worse. In fact the following weeks in school I had been given the nickname scar face. I did end up going back to conquer that hill by the way but my love for danger and adrenaline had taken a major hit that day and jumps that I used to do on the bike no problem became more scary for me.
My love for bikes didn’t end there and neither did my accidents. My summer before highschool (and a other highschool summer) I did bike deliverys for jimmy john’s and had one very minor accident with a distracted driver leaving a parking garage while I was on the sidewalk, I did get bumped off my bike, but nothing broken or bruised just a bit spooked. With my jimmy johns money that summer I had bought a used moped for about $200. And by the time summer came around I had gotten into an accident in it, this time I was not wearing my helmet but it was a solo accident. I was on the moped getting home from somewhere when it had started to rain HARD. I was dying to get home and dry so when I had pulled up on my house I had decided to cut through the yard instead of the driveway (saving me maybe 10 seconds) well I hit a bump in the yard that I did not expect and flew up and off the bike. Hit the ground and tumbled pretty hard, I was in some pain my arm and ribs were sore but miracualsly not broken. The scene must have looked pretty dramatic as one of the neighbors had seen it and in the pouring rain had gone outside to check up on me. I assured them I was fine and they went back inside, at the moment saying “im fine” was a bit of a white lie but ultimatly I was.
I say all that to tell you this. I love bikes but I also know that they are dangerous thru my own personal experience. But data backs this up too.
According to this data, motorcycles are at least 30x as fatal as driving a car.
So despite how fun I think it would be to do a wheelie on a grom, or go really fast in something more open to the world around me than a convertible, or even run from police. I think my mind is rightfully telling me to not buy a motorcyle in interest of my own life and longevity, but man I really would like to.
This was about all the prep work I had done before doing it for real. I wish i had done a bit more but I find it is imperative to actually draw what I’m picturing first at least a couple times to get a better understanding for the shape I’m after and to have a better finished product. I also added a bit of artistic flare with the column work, really trying to show my knowledge of architecture a bit as well. I wonder if anyone will pick up on it, I’ll certainly be impressed if they do. I do think this is my best one yet and hope to continue producing qualtity comics in this same vein.
At the start of the MLB season McDonalds had partnered with the ColoradoRockies and offered a free double cheeseburger the day after any game where the Rockies hit a double
They recently modified the deal because this seems like a terrible offer for McDonald’s business interest.
Now you need to make a minimum purchase of a dollar before you can get this offer.
I had a lot of free double cheeseburgers since the start of the MLB season and this deal has been a big part of my life since it’s arrived but this may be a good thing they charge a dollar first now as it is not as good a deal now and will probably stop me from going as often or all together.
Order history…
The McDonald’s app is a good one with lots of daily deals but I am seeing a sharp increase in prices and it may be hard for them to compete when chilis has a 3/$10 that is more food at a higher quality in a better atmosphere.
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As we come to the close of mental health awareness month I’d like to reflect on my own mental health. I had a bit of a manic episode and deleted my Instagram a little over a year ago and while it was nice to step away and reset I’m back on instagram and in a better place mentally but have some regrets for the social network I worked so hard to build only to destroy, and rebuild to a smaller degree. There are some perks having a smaller social network I can’t lie but I sometimes regret it and wish I had deactivated instead. Anyway I had downloaded my data before deleting and tried following everyone I had followed back and was really disappointed to see that many people (about half) were not interested in reconnecting.
Lots of this going on.
It may be silly to hold on to the past and expect it to be the same as it was before but people move on and I have a problem with letting go. But today I went through my pending requests and pulled them back, there’s no hard feelings to those that did not want to accept my request it was truly done for my mental health, truth is for some people I’d frequently check their account and see if their followers/following/ or posts had changed and I’d fell really down on myself if I saw that it had. These people clearly didn’t want me in there life anymore and it felt bad. But for my mental health it was better to pull my request back and move on. I have to say that after doing this I’ve minimized the overthinking, and anxiety from feeling rejected and ignored. I do feel much better now that I can focus on myself and have more self respect. Protect you mental health and talk to a professional if needed there are many resources available to you. I went thru the trouble to list a few free ones here.
Services: Offers screening tools, educational resources, and support groups. Their site includes various self-help tools and information on mental health conditions.
Services: An online platform offering free emotional support from trained listeners and therapists. They also provide various self-help guides and community forums.
Services: Offers a national helpline (1-800-662-HELP) providing free, confidential, 24/7 treatment referral and information services. They also have extensive online resources for mental health and substance abuse.
This book was written by an ancient chinese general., Sun Tzu and has over time been translated by many differnet people in many different languages. I read the Samuel Griffin translation which I think was good and offers a massive introduction to full understand the historical context of the writing and the life of the writer, and also offers different translations of verses. The book is no doubt an attempt to make a science of war, and lays out a manual for a succesful military operation. My biggest complaint about the book is how military focused it is, but along the way you will still find some great morsels that can be applied to various other aspects of life like taking the path of least resistance or to be like water, just as water has no constant form their are no constant conditions in life or in war
Exploring Life's Canvas: Juan Socarraz's Musings and Adventures 