Some people hate writing.

I don’t.

I love writing.

Some people hate a blank page.

I don’t.

I love a blank page.

I love a blank website and a blank page, actually.

I like just kind of starting.

That’s fun.

I mostly like it with coding projects, too.

Starting blank.

And then diving in.

I find it very alluring because it’s before I’ve messed it all up, I guess.

I think that’s part of what I like about it.

Hey, it’s not screwed up yet.

I can just do this.

But I have been intermittently throughout the day staring at this empty logic file.

Empty but for the theme song and the theme song tag at the end of the episode.

And cannot come up with what the hell my topic should be.

I just came up with one while I was saying these words.

So let’s get into it.

Your Daily Lex.

I don’t think I’ve gone deep on my upcoming vacation.

So let’s do that.

I have an upcoming vacation.

How exciting.

Here’s the idea.

I’m going first.

Lauren and I are going to fly to Copenhagen because we couldn’t think of a better way to get there.

We looked at the Google Maps directions.

We looked at the Apple Maps directions.

I could make a joke about it, which took us to the wrong country.

But Apple Maps is good now.

But we decided flying was the best way.

And then we’re going to spend some time there.

We’re going to take one day and take a train to Sweden and look at a couple towns in Sweden.

Not super famous towns, but we’re still looking forward to them.

For one thing, they have very fun names.

Lund is one of them.

And so we’re going to spend some time in those two places.

That’ll be exciting.

We’re looking forward to it.

And then after maybe four days into our trip, our friends John and Rich are going to show up and we will do some exploring with them.

And then we’re going to get on a cruise out of Copenhagen that’s going to take us through much of Norway and one stop in Germany.

And yeah, I’m looking forward to it.

It’s a vacation.

I have already started approaching people about getting some guest-hosted episodes of this very podcast.

Several of them, when I asked if they would consider recording a bonus episode of this show, misunderstood what I was asking and thought I meant a co-hosted episode of this show.

So we’ll do that too, but that’ll come later.

I don’t have time to do that before vacation.

So look forward to that.

No spoilers though on who that’ll be.

So, you know, I’m in this, this is all going to relate, I promise.

I’m in this unusual phase, or I guess it’s a totally expected phase, but unusual feeling to me for my weight loss stuff with Ursula and the trainer, because I’m in the build phase.

So I’m building muscle and eating more, gaining weight intentionally and hoping that more of it becomes muscle than not.

And I don’t love watching the scale go higher and higher, although I do, you know, I’m still happy with how I look.

But I had three July 4th parties in a row.

There was a thing that we hosted, a thing that our friend Rob hosted, it’s the same Rob who fixed my pool, and then the cast party for Jagged Little Bill.

So it was three barbecues in a row with lots of potluck style foods and desserts.

And I overdid it three days in a row.

And I didn’t even weigh myself the day after all that.

And then the next day I did weigh myself and I was unhappy because, you know, I started at 239.

I got all the way down to 175.

175 is not my walk around weight.

My goal is to end up around 188.

Right now, like I said, I’m gaining.

I’m in the 190s while I work to put on muscle.

And then the idea is once you hit a certain muscle mass, then we’ll do one more cut and then hopefully I can just be in maintenance mode forever.

That’d be great.

But I was at 200.01 and I did not like it.

I did not leaving what Ursula calls Wonderland.

So I got knowing especially that I’m about to go on this vacation.

That’s the connecting point.

And knowing that I’ll gain weight on vacation.

I was like, this is not OK.

So I’ve done a little bit of extra work, by which I mean just being maybe against Ursula’s wishes, frankly, but taking in slightly fewer calories, not a calorie deficit, just working to make sure I’m not actively gaining weight all the time.

So I got back to a much more reasonable 195 as of this morning.

But man, seeing that 200 on the scale, that brought back some flashbacks.

But like I said, I’m still happy with how I look.

Man, I haven’t always said that in my life.

Although the flip side of that is, you know, you do get I think body dysmorphia is a real thing.

Obviously it is.

It’s not really a an opinion.

I have a friend who I often say has talent dysmorphia because she’s such a good actor and such a good singer and she has no idea how talented she is.

But I do recall when I was at my heaviest, not thinking that I was so heavy, which is not great.

And it took seeing certain photos of myself and being like, that’s weird.

I literally said to Lauren, like, does that photo actually what I look like or is that just a bad angle?

And Lauren’s like, that’s what you look like.

She was very politic about it.

This was a couple years back.

That was one of the motivating factors.

Like, wait, that’s what I look like?

Like I had to see it in photograph form.

Seeing myself wasn’t enough.

Weird.

I don’t know.

Can’t explain it.

Anyway, I’ll get a little heavier on vacation.

It’s fine.

I’m going to be working out on vacation.

So you’re welcome, world, I guess.

I don’t know.

But then I’ll do another cut when I come home and hopefully get to maintenance pretty soon.

So anyway, that’s my thought.

If you’re a person who you think I would like to have host a guest.

Nope.

Host a guest episode.

Guest a host episode.

Host guest host.

Oh my God.

It’s another stroke on your daily life.

Somebody should make a supercut of all the times I’ve had a stroke here.

Anyway, if you’d like to guest host an episode of the show and you think you’re a person I think would be a good person to guest host the show, boy, could I have said that any more complicatedly?

Anyway, hit me up.

You know who you are.

Happy Thursday, July 9th, everybody.

Goodbye.

Lex.