I wanted chuuren really badly… it wouldn’t come though…
8p is the best for offense I think but I wanted chuuren still
I guess it’s 4p8p shanpon tenpai but I didn’t wanna cut dora for a bad tenpai
man fuck ittsu. Probably right call though to keep it…
I guess fighting here with 6m tan dora 2 isn’t that strong. Just get tenpai yourself and riichi pin dora 2 instead! ):
Nan is once cut. So I suppose for purely offensive effiency this makes sense
hmm ok I was banking on picking up 3m but I guess it’s the safer discard. But I wanted ot lean on the 45678s shape so I felt cutting 8s is better. On the other hand I definitely don’t wanna cut 1m chanta to shimo either so cutting 2m will help lock that
I ain’t scared… but maybe I should be
honors noob…
Should have kept this for dama. I can better expand to lower manzu for tanyao to get something like 345666m to keep the san doko alive. I saw this after I discarded 5m lol
3m could have been useful if I kept 5m… noob
shimocha discards 3p… aesthetic haneman
I WANT MORE POINTS!!! but i guess technically sanmenchan 5800 is not necessary shabby and requires going back 1shanten. luckily kamicha would drop 6s4s back to back.
muh dora acceptance
honors noob…
it’s uhh what oneshanten? I figured Id try to make the ending wait better… but I oculd just toss 5m on the right pinzu draw… tfw dumb
Well we were doing pretty good until I took a break while wfh on friday… then I haven’t logged back on to work or done anything productive since then and have been in a death cycle of dopamine phone browsing and losing in mahjong whee. Losing is more tilting if you don’t have your real life straight, so we should do that first. I think we are good on weekdays at work but because I don’t have structure at home it is falling apart for now. Let’s practice!
Here is a dog playing with a tether ball on their front yard. It was having a blast so I couldn’t help but take a picture of it.
Had a kaisekidon! I think we can skip the ochazuke set and eat it as is. It’s not cheap, but not overpriced at $34. I would say it’s a fair price but worth it. Not something to eat regularly, obviously.
Washed the bedsheet yesterday… it’s a little bit discolored after two years… but at least it looks better after washing it than before washing it… a little gross hehe
Bought my flight for Japan for C109, in case oil prices spike because of shit going on across the world. If it goes up… cool. If it goes down… oops. I’ll have more days in Tokyo this time, so see you there!
pour one out for the iranian btw
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Some lingering thoughts for myself. Maybe I should write these down and let it simmer and expand on it later. Maybe I should bust out the old writing journal so I don’t have to use a device and tempt myself into distractions…
You don’t need to be 100% compliant to make progress… but it would help you make the most progress…
No one else cares if you make progress or not. Do it for you’reself.
Get off the damn phone/pc wasting time!!!
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This week’s daki theme is イチリ’s 堕天計画!
I do like アイミュ the most… but シャロエ and ルルーナ are cute too…!
i wish i would have done this like 4 turns later lol lets speed up dora 3 hands
this one stung lol I was like yeah lets fold with the 9s so in case it passes i have 3 more safe tiles. I can see 3 8ses so we should be good then BOOM haneman ok bro i lost
I really don’t think 5s is going to come out and 6m would help the hand so much. but at least we could have made other people fold!
i got tilted after the last deal in so i was like yeah i need to push this. which ended up working since I didnt deal in… folding is probably better yeah
I guess I should avoid furiten on 7m
8s acceptance is worth more than…. no acceptance?
asdfasoijr;opwjahioja;sdiofaiosj;oewnrt;owier fuck another haneman
uhhh toi men is doing pinzu hon itsu so let’s cut the 4p now rather than later!
isn’t this too early????? what if i get … i dunno this isn’t hon itsu and we can do toitoi hatsu dora for 7700 or hatsu dora for 2000 at worst so ok
I thought about this… but 1m is not necessarily redundant with 45m being its own block (ie. 12m is its own block). We have strong pinfu shapes anyway so let’s pick up the pair for pinfu
i guess? i think the 9m is extra here but i dont have an isolated pair and I dont feel the isolated 5p is sthat strong here
OOF
dora lovers btfo…
I guess I should fold vs 4th hehe wanted to get a better wait and call riichi
I guess having 1 7s cut makes it worse
MUH DORA ACCEPTANCE NO!!!!!!!!! I guess I can still get a pair? but i dont like it too much
50/50. whatevs
hmm…. ok. I guess our hand isn’t worth that much anyway
It was either 6m or 6p. I guess we can use 6p with 5p so 6m makes more sense here
I don’t wanna turn this hand into 1000 points… it has so much potential…
I thought about suji 3s here but I don’t wanna play against this riichi if I can help it because it was tsumogiri riichi, making me think its related to the 6s he just dropped.
interesting i was like maybe I can atozuke here but I guess we ahve 4 pairs to chiitoi anyway
3p upgrade is dead. I guess 5p is harder to get generally speaking than a 7p
I’m not winning this hand so we should fold outright. Sure
I just want keiten because of point gap for 2nd. looks like we are reaching ryuukyoku with these discards
dama bros… i betrayed you… I figure with a tsumogiri bot I have a better chance at hitting it
disconnected twice this game nice game tenhoukeks (that’s me)
this extremely tanyao brained and honestly with dora 2 yeah i should
this is very tan yao brained to focus the 35 kanchan vs 14m ryanmen make up your mind dude?
bro i wanna fold now with the amount of calls out no thanks
i think 7p is less risk than 9p. but 9p lets me stay in tenpai if i draw… 3s? because there’s no way in hell i’m dropping chun so i didnt care about attempting tenpai/keiten here. I guess 5m isn’t *bad*.
technically 3s isn’t 100% safe anymore after toimen tedashi 2m. but why 8p over 9p now? fascinating
how long do you want me to hold the dora man another -shanten?
Huh? I think having 22m233p34s as my ‘open’ shape is better than relying on the 22m2233p doubleryanmen with all the 1p dead. Maybe I’m failing to account for shanpon tenpai in my acceptance.
tfw too dumb to understand naga
lol i tossed the highest possible danger tile in response to the riichi here hahah. ok i ruled out pinzu to toimen, we can probably rule out manzu out of toimen as well so 58m makes the most sense here.
yeah i’m riiching this with a disconnected player sorry!
tfw disconnect tsumogiris count against your hand score
ESPN was in town for the Super Bowl… now I can say I was on TV!
Ate at Fikscue Craft BBQ on February 7th. It’s primarily a BBQ joint but they also have some fusion Asian cuisine with it. It’s good! I don’t think it quite punches with true Texas BBQ ™ but it’s still nice to have something good locally without having to fly all the way out there.
I put stickers from my Japan trip on my laptop! Some room for more if I get other nice stickers next time. I do have more I could use but for now this is what we are rolling with.
New figgie came in – I wish I could lay her down on her back in front of my computer but her right leg kind of gets in the way… Maybe I can figure something out later with it.
Red Bull Showrun took place in San Francisco yesterday and I got to see Yuki Tsunoda! I started watching F1 midway through the 2021 season (The 2021 rainout for the Belgian Grand Prix was the first race I watched, actually) so I picked Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda as my drivers to follow.
Technically it’s not the “current” F-1 car (it’s the 2011 RB7) but getting to hear an “F-1” car in real life was really cool! Unfortunately the engine in the car caught on fire towards the end lol but it will be nice to see if Yuki can return to F-1 later! Maybe I’ll watch again in the future but the F-1 seasons since 2021 have not been as compelling.
Stopped by the local Kinokuniya to see what JLPT N2 books to get… they want $25 each (translator’s note: $25 is 3,875￥) for these doohickeys! Luckily I am a seasoned Japanese item buyer…
Yeahhhhhhhh ok that’s more like it.
I got a RÅSKOG / NORRÅVA cart from Ikea to help consolidate some things. I used to have my meds and supplements and protein at the front of my room… so keeping everything in one place will hopefully make it easier to wake up and get all my ‘dailies’ done here. Also going to try to commit to taking 4 scoops of protein per day. I had an old bag from 2023 that expired and might have been giving me the runs… so I don’t think I should punish myself by forcing myself to finish the old stuff, even if it might be fine.
self review
So it’s been about 3 weeks since I started… It’s not looking too good… At the very least… I can say that I’m actually following up on poor performance instead of giving up like every time in my life before…
I can say I was derailed from being sick and also from dealing with my parents being a pain in the ass this last week… but that’s not a good excuse in the long run. So what has worked and what hasn’t and what changes can we make to help?
Lifting needs to be done first thing in the day – If I don’t wake up early and knock it out ASAP I’m gonna keep finding excuses to not do it. This also means I need to sleep early to wake up early enough to do it not and have to get on work to put out fires. Which also means I need to be diligent and ahead of my work to be able to log off early peacefully (at this time, I am not lol). Which also means I need to quit goofing off and using my phone and finding ways to not be bored instead of working. Which I do because I’m trying to escape from working. Which I goof off because… I don’t wanna work. What a terrible cycle! So really the main answer is… I gotta sit down and do my damn work so everything else can come into play.
Here’s a sample schedule I whipped up, keeping sleep schedule consistent and allowing for time in the morning to exercise and time at night to clean up, get ready for bed, and jerk off. I think it’s probably too ambitious but we can adjust once tax time is over. My main failure point is goofing off from 20:30-23:30 on my phone not actually doing anything, forcing me to wake up late the next day. Quit it!
And a workout plan that I’ve been putting off. Instead of wondering what my starting weights ‘should be’ and wondering if it’s too light, I’m just picking something light and we’ll start from here. This schedule works by adding +5 lbs to upper body lifts every month and +10 lbs to lower body lifts every month. Which means if I commit to this and did the lifts every time, at the end of the year, my press would be 145×5 (yeah right), bench press 165×5 (probably too low, but whatever), squat 225×5 (respectable), deadlift 235 (a little slightly low, but whatever). But I think that’s a way better place than if I don’t actually measure it, so let’s just take that and have a solid foundation to increase weights, instead of quitting and thinking about what ifs. Maybe you knock off -15/-30 lbs for each and even then it’s not bad. But we can always improve later. The key is to actually improve over time, no matter how small.
Since this schedule is lifting 4 times a week, the other 3 days shouldn’t necessarily be entirely off days. Maybe just 20-30 min of playing around with the reverse hyperextension machine I bought or some supplemental stuff like core work or light conditioning should be fine (in addition to the walking being done). That way I still have to answer “yes’ to did I exercise (and changing the daily criteria from “did you lift” to “did you exercise” to account for this).
Mahjong and IIDX… I kinda don’t wanna say it but… let’s get the exercise and work stuff in order first. Unironically I should try to make this my ‘goof off’ activity but looking at shit on the internet and pissing hours away doing nothing has way less ‘friction’ to do. lol
Well ok that’s it let’s stay on task…!
This weeks dakimakura theme is Illyasviel von einzbern!
