Yeah, I noticed that, too! 
Very excited!
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We are having our first actually cool night in my part of Texas. After an 88 degree day it is going down to the high 40s tonight.
We just may get a taste of fall…
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low 40s… that would cook me in celsius land.
we are at 11 degrees (celsius) and my body refuses to go out into the ‘cold’.
but on the positive side: I got my car back. just a whopping 5k € repair.
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11C(About 52F for my fellow Yanks) sounds nice. Perfect weather for bundling up in my favorite hoodie and socks and for sipping hot tea. Sucks that the local climate has long, hot, humid summers, short, mild winters, and barely any fall or spring to speak of most years for the last decade or two. I feel like this is the first time October has actually felt like October in a long time, and I’m loving it.
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Here (but Naples’s mild climate is well-known, if not even renowned) I don’t have turned on the AC on for the third afternoon/night in a row.
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Today was the first day of the season cool enough for me to don my long athletic pants and slipper socks. Took advantage of the nice weather to do some fall cleaning. Also enjoyed a steaming mug of shrimp broth(added a spoonful of shrimp bouillon to a mug of boiling water) during the cleaning and a steaming mug of peach herbal tea with my supper.
Wish I could enjoy this kind of weather all year round.
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Unusually for me, I managed to come up with an I7 extension that makes sense and actually might be useful. Don’t really know how to go about publishing it, alas.
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After putting on a few pounds thanks to my birthday splurging, I’m back down to straddling the 300 pound boundary. Still haven’t gotten a weigh in where all readings are on the right side of said boundary, but today’s readings ranged from 299.8 to 302.x with one of them being 300.0.
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Everybody cheats from time to time. Just stay on the wagon.
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I am happy to report that today’s weigh in gave me a max of 5 of 298.6 pounds. I could be wrong, but I think the last time I was under 300 was before my dad died in 2017. New years is 8 weeks from yesterday, so I’m looking at just over a pound a week to lose to reach my goal of 100 pounds lost in 2 years(I was about 390 at the beginning of 2024). Still need to lose about a hundred more pounds to get my BMI into the healthy range, 70 of those to drop from obese to overweight, but considering my limited options for diet(Starch and dried beans are cheap, fresh produce, dairy and meat are expensive) and exercise(no room or money for equipment, no sidewalks for outdoor walking, no reliable transit to a gym or rec center, can’t reliably do 10 push ups and even walking can exhaust me or put undue stress on my lower back and hips, knees, and ankles) and my family history(my brother is the only one out of me, my siblings, and my parents to never break 300(and both of my parents, me, and my sister all broke 400), but weight is why he was discharged from the military, my sister only beat obesity through the nuclear option of gastric bypass, weight almost certainly contributed to both of my parents’ less than graceful aging and deaths), I’m pleased with my progress over the last 2 years.
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Been a bit, but a lot has happened in the meantime – so here are the highlights:
- I turned 24 on the 30th of October, and had a good birthday, visiting the mountains and getting lunch with my wife. I didn’t think I’d make it this far so everything, despite the struggles at times, is a new opportunity and I’ve been working on seeing it as such.
- It’s been almost 4 months on hormone replacement therapy. 4 calendar months as of the 12th, but I’ll have hit the milestone in dosage as of today. Change is slow but good, and it’s been nice to feel more myself, even if I’m just me with an awful mustache now.
- Work has kept me busy, but it’s been fulfilling and I’ve had a good time working, even on harder days – one of the students I work with drew my wife a picture for us to hang up on our fridge, and the students have been trusting me a lot more since the start of the school year. I may be considered for a long-term position soon, and I’m excited for the prospect of that.
- My wife and I are getting a cat, a stray we’d been feeding for the past few months and who is currently in the shelter (reported her through the proper authorities so we’re not just stealing someone’s cat + it’s unfortunately cheaper than trying to get things figured out with the city and vets on our own) but she should be released to us soon. The apartment has been cat-proofed and I am excited to have a pet again.
- I’ve been drawing more as of late – working on finishing up an entire spread for a zine/art book that should be coming out soon and also making a serious effort to learn to paint digitally instead of my typical line/render process, which is a little more difficult with my nerves these days. I can post some of my art in a reply to this but there’s been an insane improvement from last year to present, and even across the last several months.
- Writing has been harder than usual but I’m working on some small things, mostly an old project about a post-apocalyptic new wild west. I’m not optimistic about having something for Spring Thing, but the prospect is still enticing.
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