Comment by Jan Vladimir Mostert on "Outside of DEV, what kind of lifestyle do you have?"

I've stopped playing games years ago, although I sometimes still play on my phone when waiting for things to deploy, update, etc; recently started Baldurs Gate - loving it!

Inbetween working 12-16 hours a day seven days a week, I cycle every day even if it's just a little bit, when I do take break from working, I go mountain biking, we live on the foot of the mountain, so getting a quick session of mountain biking is easy.

We also scuba dive locally when we get the chance or travel to some exotic places and scuba dive there. It's been over a year since I've been underwater; really missing it; this year's just been too busy, hoping to get some scuba diving in soon. Favourite dive location must be the Red Sea at Dahab in Egypt, Sodwana Bay definitely a close second.

Love to try out restaurants, especially Eastern and Indian restaurants (since they usually have vegan / vegetarian options), enjoy hiking, if an opportunity comes along to do anything else, we'll grab it - have done rock climbing, skydiving, quad biking, sandboarding and many more.

@JustJoey, Baldurs Gate rocks, have you tried the multi-player mode?

@Björn, I've been mostly vegan for the last 7 years. Had some very severe allergies that were getting progressively worse and worse every year up to the point where I was almost permanently on anti-histamines, getting cortisone injections 3 times a year and feeling like crap 6+ months of the year. After I cut dairy, my allergies started getting better, I cut all forms of meat (no meat, no fish, no anything that comes from a dead animal) and allergies started getting more manageable, after going completely vegan, my allergies went down to only affecting me during September and October and maybe a little bit in November (Spring for us) for which I took anti-histamines for a couple of weeks and Phenergan in severe cases (something they use as a first responder for severe bee allergies) twice during those times.

The last two years I went deep into science to try and understand why I'm being affected as badly as I do, had some genetic tests done, blood tests and the works. Turns out I don't absorb VitaminD very well, so supplementing with 2000 IU of vitaminD daily starting in Winter (June, July, Agust) as well as Omega 3,6,9 from Flax Seed and this year I've been completely medication free during September, October and so far in November. So the vegan diet is staying for health reasons and since I went vegan, meat smells rotten doesn't matter how it's prepared.

That quad bike of yours sounds awesome!!

There i have to ask just out of interest, are you vegetarian, or do you just prefer to not eat meat? I don't eat what we get at work, because most of it is junk/fast food. So i switched to cooking my meals myself at home and take them to work. I realised that microwave warmed meat tasts like... nothing i want to say here loud. Therefore i started to cook vegetarian or vegan meals and i have to say, most of them are pretty good!

Quad biking, how i miss my little baby. My first ever vehicle was not a scooter like the most had in school, but a bombardier ds 250ccm. It was not fast, limit was 90km/h, but it was fun as hell to accelerate faster than most of the sports car in the city because of the automatic circuit of the quad.

Just tried Baldurs Gate, it's great!

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