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I’ve had a habit of eating 3 cheese rolls for breakfast for quite a while now. Possibly for years.

A few days ago, I was just lying on my couch and relaxing and randomly decided to check how many calories a cheese roll has. I googled it and found out each one has around 500 calories. I was flabbergasted. Like what? I’ve casually been eating 1500 calories – almost a full days’ worth each morning?

I was shocked, disgusted, confused. I was no longer surprised why I have been gaining weight and rather amazed I hadn’t gained even more weight. I immediately decided to stop having 3 cheese rolls for breakfast.

Now I’m 2 days clean of the cheese rolls. Let’s hope I won’t relapse.

Are you yourself addicted to some weird food article that you must have every day? If you don’t mind sharing, write me a comment about it.

I updated the blog to instantly accept comments. So that I don’t have to approve each one manually, they just appear right away.

Hopefully my spam detection system is sophisticated enough to prevent Furamo from being overrun with illegal activity.

But – in case you always had something to tell me and couldn’t be bothered – now is the time.

I was out with some friends and we were discussing what kinds of beer cocktails there are.

My first idea was the classic Submarine cocktail – having a shot of Jägermeister submerged upside down at the bottom of your beer glass. I used to have these decades ago at my regular bar.

Apparently there are more cocktails that you can make with beer, but the alluring idea of a Submarine swam around in the air and we were googling around how to make it.

At first we didn’t have a clue – how to get the shot of Jägermeister at the bottom of the beer glass without spilling any of it.

But eventually one of us – who also happened to be a professional barman – found the how-to instructions for this marvelous abomination.

So we went to the service personnel of the establishment to order one.

Apparently the art of making a Submarine is lost in time, only to be found in ancient tomes. Just as our barman initially couldn’t concoct one, neither could the officials of the premise.

So our own barman, albeit on his day off bartending, took the matter to his own hands and assembled a Submarine, teaching the young’uns while doing it.

It was finally there with us. The Submarine.

And I started to sip on it.

At first the only thing my tastebuds sensed was the cheap flavour of the cheapest beer we used in making it.

But eventually the shot glass at the bottom of the beer glass tipped over, and my drink slowly bled brown.

And the taste transformed from one of shabby beer to that of serious booze.

It was marvelous.

Got any tasty recipes we could cook the next time? Let me know in the comments.

Hi, welcome back and here’s a low effort blog post for you because I haven’t managed a better one for too long.

I’ve had the hobby of developing my own video games for years now. I have started and abandoned a bunch of projects. But this time I’m the furthest I’ve ever been with a game.

So, I was looking for a background image for the game, to make the negative space in the game look more polished. The Internet nowadays sucks, you can’t find shit on Google, so I just browsed Reddit which is one of the few places left with reasonable human created content.

I found this image that I liked: https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/1bgspon/town_with_a_view/

And I posted a request to the PixelArt community asking whether someone can create a similar piece of art for me.

I got a ton of replies – looks like there are a lot of hungry artists out there looking for work. The prices for this kind of art ranged between $80 and $160.

Finally, the original author of the exact picture that I used as an example contacted me and asked if he can do it himself.

I was embarrassed – I could have just asked him first if he wanted to make a similar one for me, but instead went out looking for others.

So yeah, I did hire him in the end. And I am pleased with the result – it is pretty much what I envisioned for the game.

The final result for the art:

They say there are five senses. Vision, touch, smell, hearing and taste. My nose hasn’t ever really worked well, so I’m lacking the smell one. But even though I am lacking the sense of smell, I’ve noticed a kind of a sixth sense. For each object, location or person – basically anything – I have this specific feeling that fully encapsulates massive amounts of information and memories about the thing into one compact feel.

It is hard to describe it – there aren’t really words for these kinds of things. But I’ve just called that sensation a “feeling” for myself. The “feeling” feels kind of like a color or something. Or a taste. But not quite. And you feel it with your whole being. I haven’t talked about it much nor known if others experience something similar.

Today I started a new book, “Focusing”, written in 1981. It describes the exact same experience I’ve had of sensing everything through an inexplicable “sixth sense”. Since there are no words for these things, the book’s author also made up their own words for them. They gave my “feeling” the name of “felt sense”. For me it’s a wonderful discovery, really validating – knowing that what I’ve been sensing all this time is a real thing and has been written about.

I am pretty bad at explaining things, putting my thoughts to words. But the book explains the “felt sense” pretty well. It feels nice reading a clear description for a thing you always felt but could never fully describe yourself. Now, knowing what to look for, I found even more books about the same topic.

I wish there was way more research about human minds, not just biological, but also psychological, to get some of the current theories to a level where they become scientific truths. Understanding how your mind works would be extremely helpful, especially nowadays with ever increasing rates of mental illness. And the help you can get for those illnesses is currently questionable at best, because we are only still figuring these things out.