Finished my girlfriend's birthday present - midwest.social

A few months ago I was wondering what to get my girlfriend for her birthday. Her favourite animal is the guinea fowl, so when I saw a pattern for one, I decided I will learn to crochet and make her a guinea fowl plushie. Well, after a lot of youtube tutorials, a few small and one medium-sized project, last week I decided it’s time and started working on the bird. Took me a few days of on and off crocheting, but I just finished and OMG, I love it! [https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/e1607b3f-a8bd-42ea-a59e-a39442a0dc27.jpeg] It’s certainly not perfect, the seams around the neck are absolutely tragic, but I’m overall very happy with how it turned out.

Neck pain after doing OHP - midwest.social

Yesterday I was doing overhead press for 3x8 at 30 kilos. I felt a slight pain/tightness towards the back left side of my neck and today it’s quite a bit worse. Nothing unbearable, but I can’t tilt my head to the back left. I don’t think I’m ego lifting but this has happened once before. Any tips for a faster recovery and what can I do to prevent it in the future? Also, weirdly enough the pain is on the left side and it hurts when I tilt my head left, so when that muscle contracts. I would have expected it to hurt when stretched, no?

Can I use raw honey when making caramel? - midwest.social

A lot of recipes suggest adding corn syrup or honey to the sugar in order to make crystallization less likely. I’m not in the US, so corn syrup pretty much doesn’t exist, but I have a jar of raw and therefore very crystalized honey that I got from a friend who keeps bees. Will using that still help? I’m thinking that all the imperfections like pollen or wax in raw honey will just make the caramel even more likely to crystalize.

I overtake now, good luck everybody else! - midwest.social

Why does tier 2 of GZCLP not include an AMRAP set? - midwest.social

So I’m pretty new to the gym and on my second week of GZCLP. I’m curious what the reasoning is for no AMRAP set in the tier 2 exercises. I was under the impression muscles grow more when pushed close to failure, so why wouldn’t you want to do that in the low weight/high rep sets

Just finished Red Dead Redemption 1 and Undead Nightmare on PC using the Xenia emulator - midwest.social

It’s a great game and I’m so glad I finally got to play it. I’m running a RTX 2070 Super and a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32 gigs of RAM. Using Xenia-Canary I could run the game at 1080p with decent framerate, but that caused some really unpleasant brightness issues at night, so I stuck with 720p and honestly stopped noticing the low resolution after a while. The game ran at a stable 60 all the way to the end and I encountered absolutely no issues besides some flickering shadows once or twice. If you have a decent gaming PC and have never played the original RDR I strongly recommend you try this. It can be a bit of a faff to find what emulator settings work for you, but once you get it working properly, it’s an absolute blast. RDR still holds up really well in my opinion.