Matthew Alan Thyer's Blog, page 9

Edging it in the Cold

Brought my heart rate up considerably higher than I have lately. Just tried to keep it higher (above 120, even into 130). Nothing fantastic. No running. But I sweated it the whole way and Lyra was happy to stretch her legs.

The sunshine made an appearance

The good news is that I know I can maintain the faster pace for a longer period of time. The bad news is that I also know that my well of energy isn’t nearly as deep as it used to be. Got some work to do.

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This is a targeted request for help. When I transitioned my YouTube presence from mostly-watcher to creator I ended up needing to make a new channel and identity with that platform to do so. Ultimately, this move should mean very little to consumers of the things I create, but it has complicated my relationship with YouTube as a platform. Basically, we’ve had to start over as if from scratch.Right now, my channel can only be reached from this URL “https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZOYHrsS2eDI5nG...

Mid Week Waddle

So the math was making me feel a little bit daunted today. There used to be a time when three miles was about a 30 minute affair for me; 45 with a pack and a pair of sticks. Today, 3 miles took me about an hour and we (for the moment) won’t talk about the fact that there is snow on the way.

Okay, so no more 75 mile days. I can deal with that. But what can I realistically do, say, given 10 hours of walkable daylight. That’s still a respectable distance. Give or take, time for resting and tea a...

A Man Goes to See a Speech Therapist

Sounds like the opening line of a joke, I know, but there’s nothing funny about it. I’m sitting in a hotel bathroom because I can’t sleep and my wonderful friend and wife needs sleep in a serious way. Tomorrow we’re going to see yet another neurologist as well as my next primary care provider. I’m beat from the trek that visiting speech therapy turned out to be, but you know, can’t sleep because of anxiety.

You know it’s an existential crisis when you just can’t sleep no matter how tired you ...

A Total Failure of Empathy

Yesterday afternoon, I came home from felling a big sappy spruce and liming a fir and felt absolutely awful. After washing up I crawled into bed and zonked for most of the afternoon. I woke up with a headache and some sinus pressure and of course, the first thing I thought was Ive got it.

The surge of anxiety alone made me feel ten times worse. I wanted to contact anyone Ive been near in the last couple of weeks, but I didnt have the energy to contact a single one of them. I felt miserable.

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Gratitude

Eight years ago today I was fixing something in the bathroom of our townhouse. When I finished I walked out into the front room, looked at my wife, and thats really about all I can remember. The seizures just kept coming for months on end and nothing really seemed to help.

I missed a skimo race I had been training for all season and simultaneously let my partner down.

Today, I look back at that cluster event and marvel at all thats transpired since. Ive been seizure free for a seven years, so...

Gratitude o’ the Day

Today I’m super grateful for my wife Tess who smiled at me at dinner. Thanks super woman you made my day and reminded me how much I love you.

Digging it all out

It’s been a while since I put time into either this blog or writing anything at all. There are a variety of reasons, but the elephant in that crowd is that last year I started a new business. Yep, I’m self employed. I’ve been working as a “tree guy” which is the humble brag for uncertified arborist.

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Added to that rather sizable deduction from my time/energy wallet was the personally catastrophic collection of rejection I endured prior to changing gears. I know, I know, “everyone goes through...

Gratitude o’ the day

It’s not every day that one get’s to show gratitude for nuts, but today is just such a day.

Over the last two months I’ve been rebuilding the turbo in my 1991 Mitsubishi Delica L300 Star Wagon. My car is just another one of my weirdness markers and often precedes my oddity as I move through the world. I’m convinced that if Wonko the Sane ever drove anything he probably had one of these, too.

Anyway, because it’s so odd, when something breaks down on this beast “fast” and “inexpensive” are nev...

Pacing

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It hasn’t dropped yet, but the anthology Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet is being re-released sometime real soon according to Samuel Peralta and Nick Webb. The original edition was released under the Kindle World’s imprint, when KW got deleted those stories went with it, so I’m glad that Nick and Sam decided to re-issue a second edition. LUMP will see light of day one more time, this time in paperback.

Captain Obvious

When the re-release was announced I realized that it’s been a really long t...