A Midsummer Night's Love Meme

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Exercising patience

At the beginning of July, I (very resentfully) joined a local gym.

Back in 2016, the UCH hypermobility clinic provided me with a series of group exercise sessions based around gym work and Pilates. Hydrotherapy was on offer, but as I didn't want to do it (because of how long it takes my hair to dry) and they didn't want me to do it (because I have not-asthma) I had no experience with that.

Turns out, contra every single previous physiotherapist I'd ever seen, that there are ways to make strengthening exercises helpful to me, as opposed to actively visibly harmful, and it involves dialling stuff way down past the point they gave of "... we can't really get any gentler", and also, it's nice that the exercises you're prescribing sort out 90% of people in six weeks but as it happens I'm a longer-term project than that.

(If I sound bitter, it's because none of these people, lovely though they were, actually picked up on the hypermobility, and none of them had any idea how to help me, despite their being trained professionals.)

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SHARKS.

The laptop hasn't crashed in nearly 24 hours! It's still showing some intermittent slightly odd behaviour but it's entirely recoverable from! I don't really understand what's going on but I'll take it!

Meanwhile, we've swapped the bedrooms around. This has involved moving my desktop computer.

It will no longer boot into Debian. The Windows install -- which I can't do anything with, as I'm not on the work network -- is fine! Debian... gets partway through boot and then hangs forever a little while after "failed to start Create System Users" and a long while before I appear to get a useful terminal. GUESS WHAT I'M DOING TONIGHT.

(I mean, I'm also making baba ganoush to Ottolenghi's recipe because Of Course I Am -- though I'm probably skipping making pineapple upside-down banana bread...)