{"id":2616,"date":"2022-01-30T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2022-01-30T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:52:22","slug":"a-week-in-the-life-january-30-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"A Week in the Life: January 30, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, as I reflected on the fact that we’re staring down year three of the pandemic, I snapped and decided we need a garage gym. I’d been thinking about it pre-pandemic but Kirk talked me down since there’s a gym in our neighborhood. I have no idea when I’ll actually feel comfortable in a gym again but I really miss lifting heavy weights. So on Friday evening I took to craigstlist in search of some deals and, surprisingly, found one right away. I’m now the proud owner of a bar, set of plates, and a weight stand that I paid $560 for. I was surprised that all the weights were new in boxes when I went to pick them up. I had assumed they were used. I don’t know what kind of business is selling new weights on the cheap from a middle-aged man’s minivan, but okay. I’m happy to benefit. It will probably be a little while before we’re really set up for all manner of lifting. We cleaned and organized the garage yesterday, but we’re not ready to buy a squat rack or anything yet. I’m thinking I’ll buy a mat for the floor so I can at least get some deadlifts in, then we can go from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consuming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some things I’ve recently read, watched, or bought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books and Other Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I finished two books this week: Payback’s a Witch<\/a> and Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity<\/a>. Payback’s a Witch was a lot of fun. It’s a lesbian witch romance, which is basically catnip for me. It did have kind of a weird tone, vacillating between fancy-formal witchy speech while also using colloquialisms like “dead-ass.” However, that didn’t make me enjoy it any less. As for this week’s non-fiction pick, I saw “PAGANS” in the title and was like, yeah, fuck me up with some pagans. I was a few chapters in before I realized the truth, that it was really a history of Christianity book. It was still good, and I did learn about how the concept of paganism only exists to define an opposition to Christianity (of course). Ancient peoples didn’t think of themselves as religious or pagan or anything. They just lived and paid their respects to the gods. The emergence of Christianity changed that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Payback’s a Witch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, on the internet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n