Confessions of a researchaholic

The swimming pool was cold, no longer heated after the winter heating was turned off due to budget cuts. So he did some high-intensity exercises for about an hour to warm up before spending fifteen minutes (about a quarter of his usual swimming time) in the cold water.

The initial shock felt more like pain than cold, but it subsided after a few laps. It felt rewarding afterwards, especially with the hot spring soaking.

He then took a cold-water shower while waiting for the hot water to gradually arrive, experiencing similar cycles of sensations.

After a holiday, he returned to work and started with implementing a new feature as a warm-up.
After merging the first pull request, he realized it was buggy — he had forgotten to test another major aspect of the prototype — and ended up needing three more pull requests to complete the job.

is a good chance to see whether you are a good companion to yourself.

On the train table next to him sat two girls chatting in a language unfamiliar to him. It sounded south-east Asian, a bit like Thai but unlike Vietnamese, Tagalog, or Indonesian.
He was curious about the language and asked them about it, and they told him that it is Burmese.