In My Blue Gardens

I gained one kilogram of weight including 900 grams of lean muscle mass over the weekend. According to my smart scales anyway, which sell for half a grand on top of hoping I'll sign up for their monthly premium subscription. So I suspect they have incentive to lie to me. Especially considering the amount of working out I did over the weekend was far out-ratio'd by time consuming pizza, lemon delicious, Freddo cake, baguettes, protein bars and coffees.

My scales also claim based on the electrical pulses it sends through my body that I have a biological age of 30. It's claimed this since October, so I was expecting on my birthday it might go up, which it did not! Even more impressive is that my birthday was actually weeks ago according to my account data, a measure I took for privacy obfuscation.

I have complained a bit recently about having to maintain a pool. Something which is very much a first world problem, but also legitimately frustrating. I took the water in for testing this afternoon expecting another poor result. In fact, today my chlorine was in the good range! The salt and hydrochloric acid was off instead, but the phosphates were back to healthy levels after I poured something from Bunnings in there last week. So I felt like maybe I was getting better at pool chemistry. And if pool issues are a first world problem does that mean that if you solve them you win the first world? Like it's the last level?

Tonight at the quiz we technically came second again, but I left quite happy anyway because I won a jug of beer during Tough Teacher. It was "guess the novel" and after a few passages I said "The Great Gatsby” and I was right!

I didn't remember any of those passages from when I read the book between naps in 2011. I just got an F Scott Fitzgerald vibe and I trusted my instincts. I also did a lot of squats at lunchtime. Maybe those scales are right...