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So here we are, on my second day of no coffee. I worked my consumption downward slowly over the course of six weeks. And I just had a thought: hey I wonder if anything interesting can be seen on my smart watch? Here’s the last three months of sleep plotted by weekly average: At first…

This is it. I have been tapering off my coffee consumption over the last six weeks and today is my last cup of coffee. Again. I mean, I’ve done this before. I’ve quit before. A couple of times. Ok… a whole bunch of times. Why do I keep coming back to this? I dunno, other…

I had a DEXA scan last week and turned out to have a T-score of -3.2, which puts me in the osteoporosis category. This is a complete surprise to me. Over the last week I’ve been debugging my own pathology with my good friend Dr. Google. I have no other reason I can think of…

I was just diagonised with osteoporosis. How am I handling that? I’m shocked. I’m scared. I’m anxious. I saw a doctor for back pain and had an x-ray done. There must have been something about that x-ray to indicate I should get a DEXA bone density scan. Welp. Yea. I saw the results and a…

Gah. I was mortified to put some rice in my cooker and see bugs come crawling out. Ew! Turns out these are rice weevils. Welcome to Bummerville. Population: Me. I quickly put it all in a giant garbage bag and tossed it out. There’s no solution here that I know of, except when you buy…

Have you ever thought about the benefits of microdosing caffeine? Yea, me neither. I’ve been quitting coffee very slowly, to avoid headaches and to stretch my much needed and highly beneficial addiction out as long as possible. And also because I love quitting coffee. I do it all the time. Here’s me yapping about quitting…