Running had been improving steadily. More consistency with more endurance than when I stopped for the summer. I have 4 months before the half marathon I signed up for, and am confident I won't collapse embarrassingly at mile 10. I still feel stupid slow, but there's plenty of time for that to improve. I'm 50% slower than I was in middle school. A few months ago I made a post about making raspberry cider, using to many ideas and no experience. It smelled good, like apples and raspberries, but the taste wasn't good. To much acid, and not that interesting. From my further reading it seems many experts think the best approach is to start by growing an orchard, so I slipped up there. I am going to do a few more experiments to see if store bought juice can be made into an acceptable cider base before I start planting trees. I'm not some purist anyway.