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pshaw_ravenI woke up this morning and I'm still coughing. Not as much, but enough, and I still feel sort of drained. Stiff, achey. You can't "make up" marathon training like trying to cram for an exam, it will backfire. At this point I'll need to wait until I feel decent, pick up the plan wherever I am now, and just trust my base training, adjust my goal, and remember I've done at least nine of these, I can do this one. Also my earlobe hurts, because my stretched lobe which has been healed for years now is infected? How? Why?
Since I don't have the brainpower or energy to do much else, I've been gaming. I did think up some short story to fit a prompt but haven't been able to write properly, though I feel like today's going to be a good day for that. I got back into Baldur's Gate 3, where I'd left off just ahead of a fight that a lot of people seemed to find very difficult and I was reluctant to engage in. I may have over-prepared because my allies did most of the fighting for me while my party took a few stray hits. I also wondered why I bothered wild-shaping for this, but I would probably spend the entire game running around as a bear if I could.
I completed Gourmand's food quest in Rain World and got his adorable ending. Gourmand has a few drawbacks but is really incredible for doing anything combat related. You can fall on stuff and kill it. You take significantly less damage yourself. You just get "exhausted" a lot. That unlocked slugpups, which should spawn into certain campaigns now, if you ever wanted to be a single parent slugcat. I didn't explore some of the new regions because getting around with Gourmand can be challenging compared to a more agile slugcat, but I got to roam around the Outer Expanse for a while ... because I was seriously lost. There's actually a terrific interactive map for this game but sometimes I try to not use it and just enjoy the organic exploration process.
So I may take today off training, then pick up tomorrow with a four miler and see how I feel. I mean, people complete marathons with zero training ... though I'm not sure why that's become a thing to do. Not to say that you can't, you just won't have a good day.
Since I don't have the brainpower or energy to do much else, I've been gaming. I did think up some short story to fit a prompt but haven't been able to write properly, though I feel like today's going to be a good day for that. I got back into Baldur's Gate 3, where I'd left off just ahead of a fight that a lot of people seemed to find very difficult and I was reluctant to engage in. I may have over-prepared because my allies did most of the fighting for me while my party took a few stray hits. I also wondered why I bothered wild-shaping for this, but I would probably spend the entire game running around as a bear if I could.
I completed Gourmand's food quest in Rain World and got his adorable ending. Gourmand has a few drawbacks but is really incredible for doing anything combat related. You can fall on stuff and kill it. You take significantly less damage yourself. You just get "exhausted" a lot. That unlocked slugpups, which should spawn into certain campaigns now, if you ever wanted to be a single parent slugcat. I didn't explore some of the new regions because getting around with Gourmand can be challenging compared to a more agile slugcat, but I got to roam around the Outer Expanse for a while ... because I was seriously lost. There's actually a terrific interactive map for this game but sometimes I try to not use it and just enjoy the organic exploration process.
So I may take today off training, then pick up tomorrow with a four miler and see how I feel. I mean, people complete marathons with zero training ... though I'm not sure why that's become a thing to do. Not to say that you can't, you just won't have a good day.
