Merry Christmas! I decided to stick with GitHub as my webhost as a present to myself! Flat files are really the way to go when it comes to preserving content through the years. Even file formats come and go in popularity, but txt has always been txt as these decades have passed (even extension-less). And hey, I spent $10.51 on my hosting in 2019; for 2021, I can keep that in my pocket! It's not entirely free since I still have to pay for the domain name each year, but you can see why I bristle at paying $5/month for email service for a custom domain with places like ProtonMail.

Speaking of content, I'm bringing back all of my old stuff EVEN though there's just a hint of a bittersweet undertone as I recognize I've lost YEARS of writing (including 2019). And while there never is anything prodigious in my content, there's a LOT I lost in the hard drive crash coming back down from Alaska including the journal I kept daily during my first trip to Europe in 2004.

Of course, there's not much value beyond my dialog of the things that were, for these things that once mattered now host dust bunnies playing racquetball on Friday nights.

And while I don't want to get to ahead of myself and enjoy today, the pinnacle of the season, I admit: I'm EXCITED for New Year's Eve!! Like any good, little INTJ, I'm carefully crafting my resolutions for 2021! I'll be posting things on here before the clock hits 12!

There's 150 lbs of ground beef in my freezer squeezing space with 30 days of bacon and I just received notification that an audiobook I've been waiting for a couple of months for is now available from the Brooklyn Public Library, Paul Saladino's The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet! While I've read an armload of books on keto, this will be my first one on carnivore and my first audiobook since...October maybe? There was a time I was knocking out at least one a day, and it's something I'd like to return to if I can run down my book list again.

Of course, I now enter the second month of a carnivore diet at the precipice of 2021, as I write on Christmas Eve.

I want to change the current status of this site. While I absolutely LOVE the ease that it is to post and the inherent speed of a Jekyll & GitHub site, WordPress does provide extended functionality that I miss, things like my currently playing output—not that functionality is critical, of course, but it does provide a certain...humanity, to the Internet, that I'm more than an AI referencing a contextual corpus.

Plus, as I get my website hosting for free, I never quite feel like this is my site entirely. I know that's just something in my head, though, come to think of it, on a very fundamental level, so is EVERYTHING else, from my vantage point anyway.

I celebrate my 1 month anniversary of carnivore today! I feel absolutely fantastic! Sadly, I haven't had a SINGLE gym session this entire month! I mean, there have been times when I had those "outdoor workouts" as I returned to the ancient fascination with fire, but there have been no hikes or runs along the way...I maybe spent 5 minutes hitting the bag, but that's just because I enjoy it! Of course, I'm losing weight and my training time isn't about that despite that being the go-to of most—I used to watch SEASONS of The Biggest Loser and know how that narrative plays out.

Weightloss simply is not a calorie-in / calorie-out dynamic. Here's something we knew since we were teenagers: hormones determine body composition.

My diet remains basic. What I like about it, among other things, is its authenticity. Whoever sold the idea of having a balanced diet could sell...well, lemme bundle his description with some George Strait:

I've got some ocean front property in Arizona
From my front porch, you can see the sea
I've got some ocean front property in Arizona
If you'll buy that,
I'll throw the Golden Gate in free

Observe for a moment: where is nature's buffet? Does a tiger slash its way through a corn field? Does a cow pounce upon a chicken? Do pandas smoke ribs? Does a bear and an ant switch plates to hit their Recommended Dietary Allowance? No, animals eat what they want and as much as they want as it is available. They don't pull out their iPhones to run the calculations.

Of course, we're fortunate that we CAN eat grass and leaves in case a hunt goes empty. It's not optimal for we're simply not equipped with ruminant stomachs and the bacteria therein—we've LITERALLY got hydrochloric acid in our single stomach!

And frankly, while most plants we CANNOT eat, we basically can eat EVERY animal with the exception of...maybe a puffer fish? Think about that for a moment the next time you walk through a forest and wonder if that berry will kill you, while knowing that random squirrel cooked over a fire served with that fish over in the pond would be tasty dinner in the wild...but that hunk of grass at my feet, even if I could eat it, I think I'd pass.