Phetri

I tried my feet at doing an all-out 5k a couple days ago, and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life, as every 5k attempt has been at every point in my life.

But this also applies to singing, and even being emotionally vulnerable or just conversationally uninhibited. That feeling of wanting to say something or tell someone how much they mean to you, but being too fearful to follow through is awful.

I tried my feet at doing an all-out 5k a couple days ago, and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life, as every 5k attempt has been at every point in my life.

But something keeps you going. Maybe it's the promise of glory; or an intellectual understanding that, while painful, you are safe and not actually injuring yourself. Either way, this mastery of mind over body is appealing to chase.

I tried my feet at doing an all-out 5k a couple days ago, and it was one of the most painful experiences of my life, as every 5k attempt has been at every point in my life.

I did the best I have in years, 21:31, but that's still a long way off my best highschool time of 19:26. I'm gonna keep trying this fall until the snow or ice completely kills any chance I have this year.

This is fascinating and sad to read. To anyone without hate in their heart, it’s a sweet story of young love. To these bigoted parents, it’s a moral transgression that MUST be corrected, even at the cost of estranging their son. open.substack.com/pub/pitt/p/h...

my optometrist said i look good

Watching Demi Vollering lead the last stage of the Tour de France Femmes was a beautiful thing. Alone, far ahead of any competition, and with a singular drive toward her goal, she put on a supreme performance to become the first two-time winner of the race. youtu.be/u7bxCK_F4Xg&t=19m50s

This year, I completed my first marathon. It took me a little under 4 hours 25 minutes, which is leagues away from the best in the world, but for my level of training and fitness, I did a really good job. It was only a few minutes after finishing that I told myself this and started crying.

Watching Demi Vollering lead the last stage of the Tour de France Femmes was a beautiful thing. Alone, far ahead of any competition, and with a singular drive toward her goal, she put on a supreme performance to become the first two-time winner of the race. youtu.be/u7bxCK_F4Xg&t=19m50s

Besides overall being one of the prettiest things I heard in 2025, this song has a few lines that go “I’ve checked the morning paper. I watched the evening news. I know that I’m alone when it comes to loving you.” It makes me cry sometimes. youtu.be/3OeQHiR5zdc

Those lines poignantly illustrate that no matter how little fame or notoriety someone has, they are still important in their own corner of society. You can’t be everyone’s everything; you might not even be anyone’s everything, but you‘re definitely be a big part of someone’s life. You matter.

Over the past few days, I’ve made a PowerShell script to make downloading songs from YouTube a lot easier and more streamlined. I used to download them with yt-dlp and then painstakingly add tags and album art to them by hand. Some of the script is just using more of the options built into yt-dlp,

Then the script can rename the files with the track number and title, as well as delete the video and jpeg files that I don’t need anymore.

Over the past few days, I’ve made a PowerShell script to make downloading songs from YouTube a lot easier and more streamlined. I used to download them with yt-dlp and then painstakingly add tags and album art to them by hand. Some of the script is just using more of the options built into yt-dlp,

but it was still a problem just a few days ago. So, I can tell the script to use ffmpeg directly to turn the video files from yt-dlp into audio-only opus files. These files show no issues. I can also use ffmpeg to extract a video frame and turn it into a jpeg file for cover art.

Over the past few days, I’ve made a PowerShell script to make downloading songs from YouTube a lot easier and more streamlined. I used to download them with yt-dlp and then painstakingly add tags and album art to them by hand. Some of the script is just using more of the options built into yt-dlp,