Sunday, July 13, 2025

Weekend roundup

The Rowin Harmonizer pedal1 was a wash-out. The latency proved to be too much so the pedal has become useless. I ordered a new Donner octave pedal this morning from an Israeli supplier so hopefully it should arrive by the end of the week. It cost me over four times the cost of the Rowin (430 NIS) but it will work!

I shouldn't have read 'Diet, drugs and dopamine'2 yesterday - I spent the entire weekend thinking about calories and weight loss. I've seen a website that calculates the number of calories burned when swimming; 30 minutes of breaststroke is only 236 calories, which is about half the number of calories that I supposedly burn from all my walking. That half hour of swimming makes me very tired this year, so I can barely do anything until after lunch. Decisions for this week: eat almonds instead of biscuits (substituting protein, fat and fibre for carbohydrates ☝️) and quinoa instead of rice (again, substituting protein and fat for carbohydrates).

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[1] 1960
[2] 1948



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