Weekly Dispatch: Start running again, and keep reading.
My BMI reached the range of 24.9 to 25.6 in the last month. It is at the upper bound of normal weight and the lower bound of overweight. I told my situation to my friends and they immediately invited me to join their running club. So I bought a pair of running shoes on Monday and had two running sessions on Tuesday and Friday evening. Just fit into my leisure evenings other than the Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday teaching sessions.
Hopefully, I will keep the long term running. Last time, 10 years ago, I only ran once after buying a pair of shoes. This time, I have accompanies. The social pressure may force me to kill the running procrastination.
I also bought several books this week, including two machine learning books, some illustration books, and kid-rasing books. Meanwhile, I’m also enjoying the books from digital public libraries.
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
