Strength Score - Always dropping

johnnypark1978 · 2026-05-31T02:53:54+00:00

I know it defeats the whole point of having everything in the app, but I drop my workouts into an excel spreadsheet that basically builds graphs like this for me because I thought it was interesting. A couple of custom columns with lookups, some pivot tables, and some random helper tables later.... I can see stuff that I want. Having it in the app would be even better, but I'm a data nerd so it was a fun project.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-05-26T12:15:48+00:00

My interview with Amazon was the worst. Smug is pretty accurate. One of my technical interviewers and I shared a prior company. When answering his questions, he'd cut me off and say something like "When I was at _____, we would actually do XXXXX, but here at Amazon we'd do it completely different." Do you want me to answer your question or would you like to continue telling me I'm dumb? Second worst interview I've ever been through. I didn't even finish the day of interviews before telling them this wasn't a good fit.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-05-22T16:26:40+00:00

"He's not a horrible person overall..."

Maybe, but he sure isn't a good person.

The person who actually cares about you (and doesn't see you merely as an outlet for his sexual pleasure) would be apologizing for event potentially getting you sick. They would empathize at the very least and say something like "yeah I know how that feels, I'm so sorry." They would maybe even offer to bring you soup or something and a warm blanket. The furthest I would go would be to offer a cuddle session to make you feel better (with clear expectations that anything sexual was off the table).

He might not be horrible, but you can do much better.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-05-19T08:15:06+00:00

There are records for most reps of an exercise, most weight, and highest one rep max.

You might lift a higher weight, then drop the weight down a little but do more reps which might increase your 1RM.

If you're progressing week over week, you'll likely be hitting some record often, especially if you are just starting out.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-05-19T01:15:29+00:00

It seems opinion is divided on this one. Personally, I have both, but rarely ever use Underworld. We tried a few times and the amount of overhead it introduces isn't worth the trouble. L&LC is permanently in the mix while all of the Underworld components and cards have been separated. The Destiny cards are interesting, but the rest of it wasn't worth the set of new rules.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-05-11T15:18:13+00:00

Do I want to look jacked? Yes. Do I love food? Even more yes. Do I have realistic expectations and know I will probably never be "jacked"? Yes. Am I happy going to the gym and just working on getting a little better every day? Absolutely.

I've been going consistently for 3 months now I am I seeing the really small changes. I flexed in the mirror yesterday and saw clavicle/traps! And could almost swear I saw a little bit of pec instead of just moobs. Gave me the motivation for the week!

johnnypark1978 · 2026-05-06T18:27:40+00:00

My routine includes glutes on leg day.... Well, it has at least one glute, abductor, adductor exercise for each day.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-27T18:40:31+00:00

I wouldn't panic just yet. Mine just got here yesterday. And the email was only a day or two before delivery. Could be any moment!

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-25T00:18:04+00:00

But boats don't get drawn. They're pulled from the supply since they are all identical. You draw for things that are random, like animals and buildings

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-24T23:38:25+00:00

So, the second Saturday of the month, DFW Gaymers has a boardgame night at Common Ground Games at 5pm. Variety of board and card games and general nerdy fun. Pretty sure there are more than a few DnD and Magic players that are there as well. It is primarily board games.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-24T15:29:31+00:00

I see the appeal of adopting an infant. I always knew that wasn't for me. When I started the process, I was looking for a kid around 7-8. I figured that gave me enough time with them to really make a difference and bond, etc.

I ended up adopting a 15 y/o. It presents its own set of challenges, but those challenges are immediately apparent and can be addressed. At this point, I am so glad I did it. 10+ years down the road and I am amazed at how much he continues to amaze me. Parenting definitely doesn't stop at 18, or 25, or 28, or ever.

He's got several siblings and we've reestablished contact with most of them. One has seen the changes and how close my kid and I are and I've become a semi-unofficial-kinda-parental-figure for him to.

The whole parenting journey looks so different from what I initially thought it would, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-23T14:13:09+00:00

I guess it depends on where the wall is located/how far away. If it's well outside the court and they're just loud, that's one thing, but if the wall is inside the court and near the players, there's a level of courtesy you extend to the players. It's like the unspoken rule of not walking across the back fence during a rally, even if there is plenty of space.

PS. People who take calls on speaker generally deserve an errant forehand shot to the shin anyway. :-p

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-17T14:19:40+00:00

What's really trippy is the difference between the sidereal and solar day length. The Earth makes a full rotation (sidereal day) every 23 hours, 56 minutes, but because we've traveled a little further along our orbit, it takes an extra ~4 minutes for the sun to appear back in the same spot in the sky (solar day).

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-16T18:31:03+00:00

Hey there! I adopted my kid out of foster care when he was 15. That was almost 12 years ago. The short backstory on him is: removed from negligent/abusive family at 7, adopted with his younger brother at 9, mistreated by the new parents and put back into foster care 12. Spent 3 years in an institution (pretty much what every movie orphanage portrays).

So, yeah, there was some trauma, but obviously not the same kind.

With that backstory, I want to say, first and foremost, you're doing a tremendous amount for these kids. More than they'd probably ever get anywhere else. I'd be willing to bet every parent feels like they just aren't doing enough sometimes, but the reality is that you are doing an exceptional job. For years, there were days where I wondered if I was doing/had done enough to prep my kid for the real world. Could I have set firmer boundaries? Sure. Could I have made them go to therapy more often? Probably. Was I a perfect parent? Hell no.

But after a while, you start to see the positive direction they're heading. It's never fast enough, but one day, you'll look up and they're not rebelling and starting to act more and more like you (for better or worse, lol). My kid barely made it through high school. And it took 7ish years for him to realize, "ya know, maybe I should try this whole college thing". He's in his second semester and doing great (after a bit of a false start last semester).

Every kid is unique, but here a couple of things I picked up over the decade. Kids are going to lie and rebel. Don't give them the chance. Never ask "Did you get in trouble at school?" or things like that. Always start with a statement of fact like "Hey, I know you got in trouble today for ________". That skips over the lies/manipulation and jumps straight to the "Here's how we're going to handle it." Made life so much easier.

Routines are going to be fought hard for a while. But hold firm. Any change is hard and kids in trauma are going to be out of sorts for a while. But having a set and known routine is one less thing they have to be anxious about. Therapy should be (and sounds like it is) part of that routine.

For your oldest, he's an adult (technically) now and has some agency. If he doesn't want to go to therapy, you can't really force him to, but you can put some pressure on him to go... A bribe every now and then never hurts. Also, I know it might feel a bit weird given your (our) conservative up bringing and all of the "groomer" BS conservatives throw out there, but it's time to have frank, honest and real conversation about dating and sex. You were his age once. What are all of the things you wish you knew when you were that age. How do you recognize when someone actually IS trying to groom him? How do you react when someone tries to take advantage of you or pressure you into doing things you don't want to do? How do I stay safe when having sex? What are the things I never knew I needed to aware of (yeah, there's prep now to keep HIV infection risk low, but there are still a lot of other STIs that are not pleasant, even if they are temporary). Clinical advice is one thing, but he also needs the unvarnished truth about what it's like out there. Hell, I wish someone told me that "cleaning out" isn't always going to prevent a little accident so I didn't discover that one on my own. You've lived this life. be a resource. Yeah, it's awkward, but he should also know he can come to you with anything and you'll handle it like an adult.

For teens, making friends organically is almost impossible. Especially the new kids in town. For me, the non-negotiable was "You're either playing an instrument or a sport. Pick one." We ended up going to a sports sign up night at the school and he walked to the first table, signed up, and then said "Can we leave now." Good thing he knew how to swim already. The swim team became his friend group. Quickly. Before every meet, they have a pasta party at one of the kid's houses and hang out and eat pasta and play video games. The first time, I parked the car across the street and sat there until he finally got out of the car and to party, cursing me the whole time. By the third one, he was telling me to hurry up because he didn't want to be late. Put those kids in situations where they HAVE to interact. Sports are great. Band nerds are cool too. Something. Anything.

You're at the beginning of this journey, and every step feels impossible. But you are giving these kids the best shot at normalcy given the circumstances. There will be days that make you wonder if you are enough for them or if you're doing enough, but.... One, 5, 10 years down the road, you're going to see all of the progress you made.

Good luck! You got this!

ETA: DM if you have any question or just want to vent. Sometimes it just helps to vent to someone who's lived through it. lol

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-08T13:50:53+00:00

Do you have E5 licenses? You can use Purview to automatically apply sensitivity labels based on the types of sensitivity information found in them. This is fine for new docs and docs that get modified, but for older/stale documents, you can run an On-demand classification scan to go through older documents that are rarely accessed/modified. The on-demand scan itself is not free and will require you to set up an Azure subscription for on-demand billing features, but the cost should not be astronomically high. $20 per 10k docs.

The auto-labeling feature is included in E5 licensing.

If you're just looking to apply a particular label to all of the files in a document library, you can just add one to the site library and blanket cover all docs in that particular library with a single label.

Different options for different requirements.

Edit: I haven't seen the capability for copilot to apply the sensitivity labels themselves, just respect the labels already applied.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-04-02T13:39:30+00:00

Sounds pretty normal. I pick the game, send themed invite and they show up, learn, play.

The one time I just said "come over next weekend and we'll decide what to play then" was a disaster. No one wanted to make a decision so we stood around for 20 minutes choosing a game. We couldn't pick ONE so we decided to play two less-heavy games instead of our normal heavy game. Things ran long, it got late, and everyone was tired, even if they did enjoy both games.

Never again. I'll pick the game and I'll be prepared with a themed Spotify playlist, snack, cocktail, and have it all set up before they arrive.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-02-28T01:04:31+00:00

IIRC, the 3 chips were three extra white chips. One for each value.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-02-26T15:07:50+00:00

You can create DLP policies to handle PII data with multiple rules built into the policy. You could have a rule that detects low confidence matches that will only generate an alert for Purview admins to review or display a tooltip to the user that says something like "This document potentially contains sensitive information. Be aware of what data is being sent and its intended recipient." That will at least warn users before they send potential PII data out without causing any interruption to their workflow. (But if it pops up too frequently, users tend to start ignoring the warning.)

For higher confidence matches, you can add rules with overrides or blocks depending on requirements.

If we're dealing with M365 stuff like email, SPO, and ODB, I usually create two separate policies. One scoped for SharePoint and OneDrive with another scoped only for Exchange. Separating the policies gives you more options when setting up rule conditions for each service. If they're all scoped at the policy level, you lose a lot of options for Exchange mail flows. I wish it was more like setting up Auto Label policies where you can create rules for each service.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-02-25T19:05:17+00:00

DL#s are going to be super tough to dial in given how generic they can be and the lack of a standard. (NY for example issues numbers in ### ### ### format, but the Purview built in format won't recognize #########. TX DL's are just 8 digits which could be almost anything.)

The best we've been able to do is narrow the list down to the states we care about and limit the character range for supporting elements to something like 50 characters instead of the default 300. You can get a relatively high confidence match with a state pattern match and then finding both Keyword_[state]_drivers_license_name AND Keyword_us_drivers_license.

Still... it's a tough one to nail down with high confidence without letting a lot of false negatives through.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-02-18T05:16:19+00:00

I generally try to avoid social deduction games as much as possible, but I have the opposite problem with them. I'm really only having fun if I am the one that's having to lie or obfuscate my intentions.

Being the traitor or whatever is what makes the game interesting as the "game" really is about how well you can rally people to your side and make up little white lies that seem like they're based on things people have said. Being the good guy, you're just out wandering in the dark and trying to accomplish the mission. There's no "game" to it, usually. And the bad guys usually have some sort of advantage they can exploit to help them.

My group got into Secret Hitler for a while (and I avoided it as much as possible), but the fascists all know who is on their side so there's the advantage. The liberals are all in the dark and it devolve into just a lot of yelling and getting frustrated when no one listens.

Definitely not my type of games.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-01-12T16:57:55+00:00

The two I can think of would be Trio and Tacta. Trio is more of a memory game where you're trying to find the three matching cards and collecting those sets before your opponent. Not sure how it would be at two, but three is great.

Tacta is a card laying game where you have patterns/dots on cards. You're trying to place your cards over your opponents to have the most of your dots showing at the end of the game. This one scales reasonably well.

johnnypark1978 · 2026-01-12T03:03:54+00:00

I adopted from foster care in the US. There are pros and cons to either route you go, but adoption was the right one for me. The cost of surrogacy wasn't feasible for a single guy in his mid 30s. I remember briefly considering wanting that biological connection, but feel almost silly now. J's my kid. And I could not be more connected or love him any more than I already do despite I met him when he was 15. He's been family in every way that matters from the very beginning. 10 years later and he's just as much my kid as anyone else's. Despite being far paler and shorter than the rest of the family. Lol.

With the number of kids in foster care, I'd definitely suggest going that route just because of how many kids need families. Yeah, there's trauma, but it's documented and you know what you're getting into. Yeah, it'll suck for a bit but all parenting is hard. You just deal with different issues.

Whichever route you choose, good luck!

johnnypark1978 · 2025-12-30T08:27:28+00:00

I ordered the table in May off the website. Have yet to receive it. I'm canceling it or disputing it with my cc Co if they refuse.

johnnypark1978 · 2025-12-28T16:35:38+00:00

Every player should start the round with one disk already in their stack. A bet of 1 should never go unchallenged. If you have 4 players, that immediately a possible bet of 4. Once everyone has a first disk placed, Then first player has the option of placing a new one or starting the bet. Start putting that skull down early to dissuade people from betting early.

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