Bikes and Cars and ... Mini Eggs ?

Another busy week.

Or at least it's felt a lot like it was busy.

Since adding Magnesium tablets (Magnesium citrate) to the stuff I take*, they've met the aim of "let's not have those savage cramps any more" but I think they've addressed a symptom that I thought was just me being tired. Yep. Hyperactivity is coming back again, although it's tending to be when I need to bring out the energy and after a bit of a warm up. So I'll bounce off the walls and do stuff while at work and then zonk out when I get home.

Oh ! Thumbnail for post time :

Yep. That's going to be a new avatar at some point :-D. With a little bit of processing of course (I'll cut out the background and put transparency in).

*What was the star about ? I'm not taking much at the moment to keep me healthy. I'm on vitamin tablets and now the Magnesium citrate tablets because I was getting heavy cramps pretty much daily. Cramps in my legs are something I can handle, it's easy to stretch out and break those cramps but these were happening in my sides ... and all you can do there is pretty much stand there and take it while waiting for it to subside. I thought I should do something about that. The main symptoms are tiredness (yep), general weakness (yep), muscle cramps (ouch yep), abnormal heart rhythms (dunno), tremors (had a finger twitch in first couple of days of the tablets) and a few other things that I'm not going to look up.

Be wary of Dr Google though, it's worked in this case but I have had adverse reactions to other Good Idea Magic Pills in the past. Like another type of multivitamin which had adverse mental effects (Sleepypete became Nastypete, those ones got ditched after a week after we realised what was happening) and I can't take anti-histamines because I get most of the side effects including a nasty one with my tummy.

I haven't had to use any of the Timodene gunk for my outsides for many months though, which is a great sign of progress. My outsides are incredibly close to being healed. (Timodene is another topical steroid that promotes healing)

So ... needing to take another supplement because my diet as a whole is pretty nasty but steadily getting back to health again.

Teaser for later :

What could that be ? Oh wait, there's a picture below. Oh well. No surprises for later :-D. I still have a Lego Porsche to put together as well when I clear space to take pictures in.

This weekend has seen a lot of sport be on the various devices. I'm enjoying listening to the end of the Daytona 24 hours via Imsa.tv (linky). There's a classic example there of a series that sets itself up well and presents itself excellently. The racing is great, it won't be certain who will win in each class until the end, although some of the competition have essentially eliminated themselves through various incidents that delay them enough to put them out of contention. But yeah, the racing is great across all classes and the presentation through imsa.tv is top class.

Compare that to World Endurance Championship and you essentially have a one-make top class where only one team is likely to win the actual races, unreliability marring the rest of the LMP races and shockingly poor presentation through what goes out through BT Sport (not so bad if you watch on the red button) and Eurosport. It's as contemptuous as how terrestrial TV used to treat cricket when they were allowed to have Test Matches. A sequence of "Over to ... in the pits for an interview" followed by a set of adverts instead of the interview was not just rare, it was happening for all of the interviews.

Too many ads, not enough racing.

I have a daft thought there instead of prioritising the Le Mans 24 hours, I might give the priority to the Nurburgring 24 hours which should happen a weekend after. However, while there's a lot more diversity at the Nurburgring, the attitude seems to be "any car can win as long as it's German". That's poor. If your car is good enough it should not need advantages. Oh and I also abandoned ship and went to bed for last year's Nurburgring because I thought there was a good chance of someone being seriously hurt during the race and I didn't want to see that.

Oh there may also have been Internet Spaceships and Spacemarines ...

The latest foray was in to the jungle planet of Havarl to fix that place up. I'm still enjoying this one, enough to have a very long session yesterday before realising that Daytona was on.

It's been getting prettier as I turn up the graphics options.

There have been internet spaceships as well, although that one has kinda been on a motivation break for a bit. I'll pile back into it at some point.

There have been some Pretty Things on the route so far. Shiny.

But ... crafting may have happened in the week ...

Frame and engine, ably displayed by a dragon who insists on displaying himself.

The frame takes place - spot the occasional cocktail stick poking out too. This one was held together more with pins, whereas the tug boat was interlocking pieces of wood.

The top goes on to the bike ...

A rear wheel is added (zooming in may show an elastic band drive chain).

A completed bike ! Needed a rider.

I think he's looking forward to taking it out.

And there we go !

Need more models now. That's one thing though, I've been enjoying putting the models together but it's good to have models you enjoy putting together ! Lego has been a little bit underwhelming of late and I might run out of the interesting Ugears models too. I sense a trimaran yacht arriving at some point.

But first ... there's just over another hour of Daytona 24 hours to enjoy. See ya !

PS Signed up to Amazon Prime Video for Star Trek Picard. Worth it on the first episode.