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So it's 2025 all of a sudden - how did that happen?
2024 was a hell of a year. I had breast cancer - not the worst kind, it was DCIS, which resulted in a 'Goldilocks' mastectomy and a massive boob reduction for me. Pathology found LCIS in the other breast - another early kind of cancer, usually noninvasive, hard to see on mammograms, but often a flag for other kinds of cancers developing. Might have been related to the DCIS, but who knows? So I'll have monitoring going forward to be sure, even though I don't have a lot of breast tissue left.
While I've been on leave from work, I set up a little website over on Neocities. I love this - the first websites I ever made were handcoded or Geocities, and in an era of blink and marquee tags, webrings and the like. Unfettered creativity and quite a lot of weirdness - I miss that era in all the current-day homogeneity on the web now. So I'm using it for tracking my reading in 2025, and doing a photo of the day thing.
The other thing I'm doing is, after recovery, getting back into the gym. Fitbit has recently added a cardio load/target cardio load feature that uses your activity levels over the last few weeks and your goal or either maintaining or improving cardio fitness to set a target cardio load - basically how much you work during the day, whether from incidental activity or from a planned workout. Since I've been recovering from surgery, my baseline is pretty low - so as I've been getting back into exercise, my Fitibt app keeps telling me I'm overdoing it, to a pretty high degree. Considering I've always been overweight and, until the last few years, on the unfit side, I'm finding this pretty funny - I'm not even back to half my usual training load, so god knows what it's going to do in a month or two when I'm fully recovered and really back into it.
2024 was a hell of a year. I had breast cancer - not the worst kind, it was DCIS, which resulted in a 'Goldilocks' mastectomy and a massive boob reduction for me. Pathology found LCIS in the other breast - another early kind of cancer, usually noninvasive, hard to see on mammograms, but often a flag for other kinds of cancers developing. Might have been related to the DCIS, but who knows? So I'll have monitoring going forward to be sure, even though I don't have a lot of breast tissue left.
While I've been on leave from work, I set up a little website over on Neocities. I love this - the first websites I ever made were handcoded or Geocities, and in an era of blink and marquee tags, webrings and the like. Unfettered creativity and quite a lot of weirdness - I miss that era in all the current-day homogeneity on the web now. So I'm using it for tracking my reading in 2025, and doing a photo of the day thing.
The other thing I'm doing is, after recovery, getting back into the gym. Fitbit has recently added a cardio load/target cardio load feature that uses your activity levels over the last few weeks and your goal or either maintaining or improving cardio fitness to set a target cardio load - basically how much you work during the day, whether from incidental activity or from a planned workout. Since I've been recovering from surgery, my baseline is pretty low - so as I've been getting back into exercise, my Fitibt app keeps telling me I'm overdoing it, to a pretty high degree. Considering I've always been overweight and, until the last few years, on the unfit side, I'm finding this pretty funny - I'm not even back to half my usual training load, so god knows what it's going to do in a month or two when I'm fully recovered and really back into it.
