Own analyses

Berkeley, Friday, August 7, 2026 1:16 am

I might write the title towards the end.

It is also late.

I came from the library, but did not arrived that late. Made the dishes, cooked, irrigated the plants that are doing well, had to check a few things online. I also will explore and read a book about the Amazon, which I have had for a few years. It is by Mark Plotkin. Last time I might have read 8 pages of it, plus the section on rivers.

I wasted a few minutes on the internet, and also opened instagram, might be for 10 to 15 minutes I was not tracking time.

I also did a bit of exercise.

I see some acne on the right side of the nose.

I checked for a few minutes a website related to the true size of countries. It provides with some perspective about population and development.

Regarding the acne is the first time on that area I can recall, and first time having acne in many years. There have been one and then one sporadic one. It could be related with the some recent food, i.e. the ice cream gifts, but also cheese, which regardless I have been eaten often. The change of chocolate to a 70%, I think, which has some almond butter and/or hazelnut butter. Not going that frequently to the market to get the nuts in shelf, and rather buying those in packages. This might be another influential change. A friend who was around, who gave me some sweet rice and mango, or something like that. I try to change the pillow case every 7 days, but sometimes it might go a few days over. I must do laundry soon. Now and then some beer and wine, could have an influence. A loaded IPA in particular, I do not think wine has an impact. In beer it comes down to details. Some fried eggs frequently, and the several times I have not been able to cook. I recently got those four Afghan bolanis, I ate them on a day. The other day I got a Persian kebab. Those things are fine. O I see but I ate the whole bread within a day after. The nectar alcohol I was given a few days ago, and little bit of tequila could have some influence as well. Regardless, all it is good, except the processed, or too processed foods.

It could be a matter of washing the face not too late after one arrives. So one might not forget as well.

Another aspect and related, for everyday I go to San Francisco, which was continuous until around June, then a bit more sporadic, and continuous again. By bart the total one way trip could be about 50 minutes from desk to desk. It would also depend on waiting times. So the round trip is about 1 hour 40 minutes, several times is less. Oh I see. Related to what is above. There was this time three weeks ago, more or less, I joined for dinner at Mels on Geary Boulevard. I got some good chicken nuggets, and several french fries. That, plus the several times, I think I have mentioned in here, i.e. burritos, etc, to feed me when I did not carried the lunch bag. But it also connects to the spring rolls of may, following a friend example. That was it. And it might take a time to heal. That spring roll memory, brings another buried memory of a Japanese fried pork several years back.

I have not taken health test recently. I hope things are ok. Probably in October I will do some of those tests.

OK. So from the about 1h40min round trip, only about 20 of those are sort of active exercise. It might be a few minutes than that. But at least 1 hour is of sitting. That is a difference with recent years. There is a beauty and need, beauty meaning on the exercise and good feeling on biking, or walking as well. So there is a great thing on just biking or walking to the desk where I would do the work.

Another thing, I was reading in the New York Times some advice to exercise 3 minutes for every 30 minutes to sit. This is not fully realistic, but some of those breaks are possible and needed. I will see how I start implementing them. As long as I do about 4 hours of writing, with some reading per day.

It got too late!