Creatine Monohydrate. I had a bud tell me about this stuff a year ago. I started out taking only a small amount because my focus was on muscle development and my research showed it will cause weight gain due to pushing more fluid to your muscles. My bud also mentioned major benefits to the brain but I wasn’t too concerned with that as my brain seems to be firing on all cylinders.. all the time. lol..
I definitely started seeing physical benefits. My arms and leg muscles had more definition, my workouts were stronger, longer. About 6 months into I upped the dose to 5 grams a day which is pretty much the minimum you’re supposed to take to get any real benefit. I’ve read where people take 10-20grams a day, but I don’t like experimenting too much on my body, plus at the 5g level I seem to be getting plenty of benefit.
One thing that is completely obvious the past few months. My mind is on fire. Or more to the point… my creative mind is on fire. I have 2 youtube channels doing well, my websites have all been updated and look amazing. My programming is easily just as good and in some ways better…. than it was in my 30s-40s.
As I mentioned earlier… my bud mentioned there were also mental benefits for taking creatine monohydrate. My own research has showed substantial benefits to the brain, especially for older people, from taking 5-20g of creatine monohydrate daily.
I had a birthday in March… just turned 63. To think at 63 years old I’m probably in the best shape of my adult life. I mean… when I was 18 I was wearing size 32 waist pants, I’m at 36 as we speak. Crazy… lol….
So maybe creatine monohydrate IS the reason I’m back at programming again? It’s been a long time since I’ve experienced what I call… mental orgasms. lol.. Maybe creatine monohydrate does something for people with add as well?
Not sure if I actually have add, but chances are I’ve had it my entire life. Turns out most creative people do, so it’s not the perceived “negative” we thought it was growing up.
I’ve mentioned several times in my blog my ability to lose the world around me, start on a project, hyper focus on it, and have no clue how I just lost 8-10 hours (or more) of my life. lol.. All I know is… I’m thinking cleaner, my logic solving is amazing, my creative flow is very dynamic and rewarding. Granted… my worthless ego has always made myself my biggest fan, but I’ve accomplished so much the past couple of months… which finally leads me to…
As I mentioned in Swan Song Update #3, my goal has always been to release my final app on 5 different platforms. Well… son…of….a….bitch… I did it. It’s alive on all 5 platforms ! 🙂 As I type this it’s kind of blowing my mind to realize what’s happened. Just a year or so ago, I never thought this would happen. Especially when I retired last year, I had no idea a year later I’d end up in this…. position.
But do I really want to be in this position…… at 63?
I mean releasing an app….. is easy. Marketing, customer support, updates, ugh…. that’s actual business stuff, the boring stuff, the stuff that will drain your interest into a dry pool of nothingness. I’m not sure if I really want to go down that rabbit hole again. I mentioned in my last update that all this could end up not even making a penny.. well…we’re already past that. On one platform it’s already sold close to 100 units in a only a few days. I honestly did not expect that. It’s frickin amazing… but hmm.. not sure about how I’ll feel if it turns out to be successful. But that’s my insecurity showing through… I’ve already established over and over, if I can get enough eyeballs on my products, they will sell.
The key thing is… if I can find a way to find balance in everything…. software business, fishing, disc golf, life, relationships with my children (which took a horrible turn recently) maybe I can do this. But I see things wanting to repeat itself. When I was younger I lost a lot of years due to programming 15-20 hours a day. I can easily see this happening again… because it is. I haven’t gone fishing in almost 2 months, I finally forced myself to start playing disc golf again just a few days ago after not playing for over a month. This “mental orgasm” from programming is incredible, I thrived on it when I was a young man, not sure if I want this at 63. The next few weeks are crucial…
I’m going to attempt to find balance, a balance where I don’t lose myself in my own world while the rest of the real world goes on without me. Maybe only dedicate 1-2 days a week to taking care of the software business and programming, 1 day of fishing, 2 days of disc golf, 1 day working on my music, wait.. I have a wife, she needs at least 1 day (to actually go out!)… hmm.. interestingly enough that does come out to 7 days. lol… Maybe it can be done? lol.. Wait…. I have 3 kids, 4 grand children… oops. See… my priorities SHOULD be on my family. That’s how I lost so much when I was younger…. by neglecting my family.
yah… I have issues…. still. 🙁
April 5, 2026
