This is the end of my seventh week of cower in place. I am sick to death of starting each article with that sentence. I am finally seeing some rays of hope this nonsense is coming to an end.
Governor Gavin “Science” Newsom is floundering toward relaxing his authoritarian lockdown. I have to laugh, so I don’t cry, when I read about the various dictators’ governors’ plans to reopen and their claim they are relying on “the science.” Even a casual observer knows public health officials have contradicted themselves since this shitstorm began. The bona fide scientific community continues to gather information to formulate new working theories about this virus. That is as good as it gets right now.
To my utter shock and amazement, my local officials are trying to do the right thing. My county board of supervisors voted 5-0 to direct our public health officer to rescind his orders that are stricter than the state’s orders. At least one is promoting open defiance of Newsom’s orders. Be still my beating heart.
My local courts are showing the first, faintest signs of reopening for something approaching normal business. Nothing of substance will happen until the middle of June. It is going to be fun times taking on more debt to pay salaries, rent, and other overhead for another month with next to no revenue.
Which sort of leads me to this week’s topic: stress’ effect on weight. One of the few productive things I have done since this mess started is pay attention to my weight. I’ve been tracking it weekly, been careful with my food choices, and have increased my conditioning workouts. I figured the weight would come off at a steady rate. It hasn’t. I have been losing weight, but it started by bouncing around before slowly dropping.
Initially, I didn’t think I was stressed by my situation. Then I read this article. I have seven of ten symptoms. But still, I seemed to be doing the right things. I had avoided my biggest mistake of eating out of boredom, self-pity, or some other stupid reason. So, what was going on?
This article was of some help. The doctor who authored it has an umlaut in her name so she must be good. The part about exercise being the best medicine is spot on. My conditioning days are my better days. Whatever the science is behind it, I recommend it to you, friends. Do what you can with what you’ve got. Anything that makes you feel better in these times is worth doing.
Speaking of umlauts, none of you commented on last week’s music choices. So, you get them again. I can only assume MikeS is MIA and Sir Digby is asleep. As for the rest of you, I’ll just assume you are dead inside. You can select a song that tells your local tyrant you are going to take your chances, you will fight back, or you don’t believe them.
Knew it was cortisol without looking. I have consistently tested high for cortisol for years.
First meal of the day comes from your liver. According to what some Doc said the cortisol/ hormone cascade makes your liver convert fat to sugar and ketones. Use that to your advantage.
I’ve heard that theiory before. I’m going to check it out. Thanks for the reminder!
I need to start walking. Might even meet more neighbors.
Same. The creaking and huffing and puffing is dismaying.
“Might even meet more neighbors.”
I thought the point of exercise is that it enhances your health, and well being?
Looking for new Karens doesn’t sound healthy to me.
I try to walk three miles every day. I’ve had some really nice distanced convos with neighbors.
Still nursing my leg, so no running for the last two weeks. I haven’t been stretching like I wanted to, but whatever. I’ll start running tomorrow (yay!!).
We’re trying to keep low carb/keto for meals, and it’s going well. Although, today I’m making spaghetti for dinner; because fuck it I want CARBS!! https://imgur.com/gallery/pMx1PPK
Best wishes on your first run after the calf strain…take it slow is the best advice I would offer or do some treadmill work. I had a nagging calf issue that seemed to take forever to resolve. After I thought it was mended, went for a run and it started tighten up about half way thru. Not a pleasant walk home btw the pain and the anger. Don’t neglect to warm-down either.
Thanks for the advice. I plan on taking it nice n easy. I’ll keep the runs at 3 miles. Run two days, rest one day. I need to gain strength in my core, glutes and quads. I should be doing exercise to strengthen those parts, but instead I sit on the sofa and goof off on the internet with you clowns.
Best wishes on your recovery.
I’m refining my 18 plan for implementation when we move. A reset in location and lifestyle makes for the perfect opportunity to reset on fitness.
The 18 plan, so far, is:
18 meals/week with no grain carbs and no processed sugar
18 hours/week of personal enrichment time (fitness, spiritual reading, hobbies)
18 weeks/year doing something fun that requires driving at least a half hour away
I think it’s a good plan, but the planning phase is the easy part.
It’s like double the 9/9/9 plan. Herman Cain approves. 🙂
You forgot the link.
My job cut personnel and hours to a minimum so I’m doing about 36 hours a week. I actually enjoy it – I’m not going to the poorhouse or anything, and it gives me a lot more time to focus on fitness, learning web development, and reading educational/historical books.
I’ve gotten back up to running 5.2 miles. I was hoping to do it today, but it just started thundering. Maybe it will let up and I’ll get it done in the evening. I actually love running really late at night; very peaceful.
I love running early in the morning. When I was in Cali, I would be on the streets just before 5 am. Cool air, cover of darkness, raccoons.
Since I moved to Seattle, my schedule had changed and I can sleep in. I can head out to run at 7:30 or so. Maybe I’ll try to do some early early runs again.
For Glibfit and Mother’s Day, I have declared this also Heffy Day. I had some delivered, some Ayinger Brauwise, which is one of the best Heffies ever, and a new one for me, ‘Groove City Hefeweizen’, a Maryland beer.
MikeS is still out there kicking ass and chewing bubblegum but has been busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest. He survived the 4th round of layoffs at his company and perhaps doesn’t feel comfortable posting from work. He also mentioned something about school and starting his own business (selling his body on the
streetsdusty roads of Norf Dakota?)I miss him terribly, but as long as life is good and improving, I’ll allow it. Tell him I said hi and I miss him.
I miss you, too!
But when does it get warm enough to wear sexy lingerie on the dusty roads of the North Dakoter? Is frost bite not a concern?
As long as he keeps shakin’ his booty at on-coming traffic, he’ll stay warm.
Put it this way — if Summer comes on a weekend they have a picnic.
I’m happy to hear he survived another round of layoffs. I hope things work out for him.
We checked on him last night during the Zoom. Glad to hear is still getting by. Also, for that missed it Straiff gave us a tour of his neighborhood.
I’m glad to hear that is the reason.
Rode about 100 miles this week. About 45 miles with 2500 feet of climbing yesterday. For some reason I’m really sore today. No, there wasn’t A STEVE SMITH sighting in the mountain yesterday.
Damn.
Great week for hiking in NoCal; sunny and cool. The number of hikers has increased substantially. Seems like the ladies coffee klatsch has turned into a hiking klatsch. There is non-stop trail chatter-no 6 foot separation, but fashionable masks. There is stone-cold-silent-fear when you come up or pass them without wearing a mask and your dog is off leash. I have read shear panic on their faces..more so recently. One woman, who I have seen on the trail for years was in apoplectic fear; like the girl from Jaws, who screamed Ssshark!…your dog..llllleash!
Saw Fish and Game warden on trail this past Saturday, while I was hiking a most suburban trail in SF Bay area. Not sure what there was to poach, but he was out there cruising a fire trail, while heavily armed. I felt safe!
Hiked with proggie friends..man are they out of shape. Their income is down over 75%, with little upside to return after this panic is over. They wondered if by August things would return to normal and they could travel to EU. I didn’t have the heart to tell them different.
There was untold damage done as a result of the virus and response. What little trust between people established here has completely evaporated. My impression is people are more suspicious and scared… or maybe the more suspicious and scared are finally venturing out.
Design changes to common interactions are just not being appreciated by those scared. Think, for instance, people who live in NY urban hi-rises, they will have to set a reservation for the elevator since occupancy will be limited to 2. Due to fear or inconvenience they will never leave the apartment. Oh my!!
I don’t wear a mask when I’m hiking the trails, but if you’ve got your dog off leash, I’m getting very nervous, too.
Sorry you feel that way about dogs. I trained this dog to be off leash. She is at my side, does not give anyone or another dog a look unless directed. I would be more nervous about the rattle snakes, poison oak and getting lost.
I keep my dog on a leash, and don’t want strange dogs coming up to him since I don’t know how he’ll react.
I appreciate that. Sometimes you just don’t know how a dog will react to another dog. My biggest concern about dogs off leash are when they come up in a hurry..straight at you for a knee capping.
Most of the family’s dogs I’ve kept on a leash because they’d want to chase after squirrels or even bigger animals. But this one is a husky mix rescued as a stray, so he can be particularly difficult at times.
I’ve done plenty of hiking and riding in the East Bay parks during the lockdown. I’ve found them to be more crowded than usual, especially during the week. Most people also seem to be friendlier than normal.
It is more crowded for sure…the weekends are a zoo. I have found people to be very guarded while at the same time kind of clueless. We have literally startled people who were so into their conversations or headphones from in front. Giving plenty of trail directions too for the sort of lost.
Seems like the ladies coffee klatsch has turned into a hiking klatsch. There is non-stop trail chatter-no 6 foot separation, but fashionable masks. There is stone-cold-silent-fear when you come up or pass them without wearing a mask
They can go fuck themselves.
Saw Fish and Game warden on trail this past Saturday, while I was hiking a most suburban trail in SF Bay area. Not sure what there was to poach, but he was out there cruising a fire trail, while heavily armed. I felt safe!
I detect sarcasm.
There are lots of pigs and turkeys in the parks, and I’m not talking about the people. I doubt anyone is pacing them in the middle of the day though.
I just finished a golf tournament, now its kayaks on the River, I’m Glibfit,
Howdy!
GlibFit.
http://archive.li/9ZAYZ
I like #5 despite her tattoos.
#20 is Carriejune Anne Bowlby. I think #47 might be too.
#28’s quads are nice.
Whoa…dem laigs!
Enthusiastically and vigorously WOOD
Does it turn you on to know that if you didn’t perform cunnilingus to her liking she could easily crush your skull?
Dat azz of hers….I could bounce a quarter off it and get back a dime, 2 nickles, and 5 pennies
I think we all know Tres’ answer.
Maybe 11 … I prefer women with more normal amounts of body fat so they have T&A. Might be the biological thing where a woman can’t get pregnant if body fat drops too low…
Ive posted pics of ex Mrs Tres when she was boxing. I didnt always go for Size 18+.
#43
I helped my little brother do some demolition work on the outside of his house last Sunday. I didn’t do much, but it was enough that my back and my knees were terrible all week, couldn’t get anything done. And this snap back to cold weather hasn’t helped any.
In better news my PC parts now say they will arrive this week while I still have time to do it, and the replacement for my birthday gift I got scammed on says it will arrive tomorrow!
I kinda like accidental exercise.
I let my lawn get a little too long, and it’s very hard to cut it with a push-reel mower when it’s shaggy like that. My triceps and core got a major workout from pushing that thing around. I gave myself permission to skip my workout that day since my arms were so fatigued, and I had some healthy DOMS the next day.
The wind knocked a tree branch onto a power line, killing power at my house while I was in the middle of watching a Hickok45 video. Dammit. The power is back on for now.
Speaking of umlauts, none of you commented on last week’s music choices. So, you get them again.
I can live with that.
My county board of supervisors voted 5-0 to direct our public health officer to rescind his orders that are stricter than the state’s orders. At least one is promoting open defiance of Newsom’s orders. Be still my beating heart.
Excellent.
Nothing of substance will happen until the middle of June. It is going to be fun times taking on more debt to pay salaries, rent, and other overhead for another month with next to no revenue.
Sorry.
I think my weight is still going down, but slow. I pulled out a bunch of old, smaller clothes. I went through them to see what fits. I can fit into some smaller clothes, which is good because that means I don’t have to buy new clothes to replace ones that are wearing out.
Now that Clown Prince Sununu has graciously deigned to allow elective medical procedures, I’m going to call up the ortho center about my back. I have noticed some signs of nerve impingement in my left leg but right leg is much better. Things are worse in the morning then improve as the day goes on, almost always to the point of no symptoms.
This is probably a dumb idea but if it gets better as the day goes on would stretching help.
I have a slew of stretches I’m supposed to do as part of my physical therapy. I have been lazy about doing them and not doing them as often as I should.
I would get serious about stretching before I would go under the knife.
Based on my conversation with the doc and nurse when I had my third cortisone shot, I should be a candidate for more cortisone shots.
I am a little concerned about the increase in symptoms in my left leg. The herniation is bilateral, but when I had the MRI it was much, much worse on the right side. I suspect it is improving on the right side but getting worse on the left. When I talk to the doc again, I’ll bring that up.
Still too early to call but looks like we have a pretty good chance at coming in under 1000 deaths for the first time in six weeks.
I spent the afternoon with Tres Sr. and the Wicked Step-mother: I havent seen either since January. No doubt I asymptomatically killed them both
Everytime you leave the house, someone’s Grandma dies.
https://youtu.be/NyaOYfpq9Fc
…qu’est-ce que c’est
Hopefully you aimed your Covid cooties only at Wicked Stepmother.
Back at work, so walking at least 3 miles a day. Rotator cuff still no good, but hurts less, so is healing- so I hopefully won’t have to go to doctor.
If I quit drinking, I’d lose 40 pounds overnight, but then I couldn’t drink.
I see your problem.
So, I’ve been playing it cool, but I haven’t had a drop of alcohol since the Kung Flu ruined our lives. This was twofold:
1) To see if I could do it
2) To avoid falling into unhealthy habits when the gym is unavailable
I’ve never been a tremendously heavy drinker anyway, a handful on the weekend. But I rededicated myself to body weight exercise, as well as using ammo cans for resistance. As I mentioned before, I’ve been using Les Mills online workouts and I like them. I’ve definitely lost strength not being able to do really heavy weights like at the gym, but the body weight stuff as well as a meticulous diet has meant that I think I’m actually in better overall shape than before house arrest. My cum gutters have become much more defined.
thanks for that mental image.
*Checks phone* 11.8 miles hoofed last week as the first complete Mon to Fri week back at work. I find my eating goes to shit there so no gains with breakfast burritos and cheeseburger runs at lunch. I am more pissed about all this than stressed so I am not experiencing what is mentioned in the first linked article. I have experienced what was mentioned at a particular low point in my life with mind boggling stress where I don’t think I slept for more than an hour a night for about four months. I lost 20 lb’s in about three weeks. I wasn’t fat then so I looked like a POW. Losing 20 lb’s now is what I need but I lack the fucks to give anymore so no stress induced weight loss.
Losing weight without trying is a major symptom of cancer since tumor cells are metabolically hyperactive. Probably slightly worse than stress.
Or a sign that you’ve ramped up your exercise without a corresponding increase in calories consumed. I dropped below 200# for the first time since my 20s.
If you don’t change anything, then weight loss is a warning sign.
Great job on the weight loss.
Now that Spring is here and I can spend more time in the outdoors I’ve stopped the formal exercise and gotten back to the garden and wood pile. I’ll finish the splitting and have that project done. About 2 cords but it looks like a hellacious pile. The bending over part is the killer for me, back and knees remind me of some things but it is what it is. Not going to change. A few more days and I can put some of the cool weather stuff in the garden, another bending over job.
Weight never changes, doesn’t seem to matter about the exercise, I probably just eat a little more. Chafed, your music choices seem to be for the younger crowd but I’m sure you chose quality stuff and most will enjoy it.
Tourist Time in Podunkville, we’ll have to see what happens. Not much was closed here, mostly because there isn’t much to close. Saw buckets of minnows going out the door of the Beer, Bait and Bullets store yesterday so still some optimists around. More plain wrapper bags though than minnows but that’s what fishing is all about.
Oh. That’s right. It was fishing opener today in Minnesota.
I hope the tourists are dropping lots of dollars in Podunkville.
For those asking about escaping to CDA, Currently bars and dining rooms closed
Looks like some sit down dining may open on the 15th.
Same situation and same date (at the earliest) for Oregon. That’s for restaurants. Not sure if bars will reopen during that phase but won’t be BAU sitting at a bar in a crowd in any case.
Looks like mid June for bars in Idaho.
In house dining has opened up in TX, though my wife is too afraid to do it.
I’m gonna switch to grocery shopping at Walmart, since HEB and Costco now require face masks to enter the store, though no one has said anything after I take off the fucking thing 15 seconds later.
I don’t know what’s going to take longer to recover, the economy, or my body. I have shed a couple of the pounds I had put back on.
I’m betting on the economy (to take a longer recovery time). The body will heal in spite of politicians and so would the economy but we know that pols can’t leave the economy alone, always needs just a little fine tuning. Maybe a new zoning law or just a slight increase on the sales tax and every thing will be in equilibrium.
I’m hoping for a really fast recovery. I think you’re one of the few here who are retired now?
I’m in a bad situation where I’m 6-7 years from earliest possible retirement. I wanted to work for at least 15 more years, but I don’t know now. I’m at the point where if I could already get full SS, I’d probably bail and take what’s left of my retirement funds and bolt the fuck out of here to live on a mini-farm in the most remote location I can find that’s warm most of the year.
I just told the wife that we start growing all of our own food, now. Even though I don’t have enough space, I’ll buy high quality lights and do it year round until I can get more land, and I’ll probably still do that anyway. Yeah, I know, I can’t grow beef in my apartment, but I don’t have to have that to survive. I can supplement B12 and take a collagen supplement.
I’m so goddamned sick of this shit and all the mini-Hitlers it’s spawned.
My concern is that there will be a brief recovery as pent up demand is released and then a downturn after the remaining cash reserves are depleted and the government spigot gets turned off.
Dont you even commerce clause, brah?
If the SHTF, and you have a full garden, do you really think it belongs to you ?
Tall fences; long guns.
I’m picturing a community garden, oh it’ll be a community alright. Share and share alike, right? I’ve seen pictures of urban chicken coops (not co-ops) in Balmer, more locks and barbed wire than Sing-Sing.
Can’t we all just get along? With your stuff?
Mr AR15 says it belongs to me. If you want to die, then it’s an open question.
I have dreamed of a future nomadic lifestyle in the mountain west. The hermit-mobile will be a Subaru Outback (voted best small car to sleep in!). I will spend the summers in Wyoming, work for cash as needed, bathe and launder at campgrounds, and sleep in my car at rest stops. In the winter, I will migrate south to Phoenix or perhaps Vegas. It is legal to sleep at rest stops in Colorado as well. A decent size dog will be my companion and sentinel.
I had considered the Dick Proenneke path, but I like to gambol.
Roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond – call me what you will
In my early 20s, my dream was to live in a small cabin and be as isolated as possible (at that time, I had a lot of social anxiety issues and general confusion about my place in the world). My idea was to buy a pre-fabricated cabin, stick it on some cheap land, build a brick wall around the property and post tons of “no trespassing” signs, and learn to raise crops/livestock and make as much stuff as possible. I would have some kind of part-time online job or a big pool of savings to buy the things that I can’t make myself.
I can’t complain about the life I have now, but sometimes I still dream about it.
So you would have been a cam whore.
I’d post the Monty Python hermits sketch here if I could find it. “The best part of being a hermit is all the people you meet!”
This hermit got a lot of visitors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harrill
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Robert E. Harrill (February 2, 1893 – June 3, 1972) was an American man known as “The Fort Fisher Hermit”.[1] He became a hermit in 1955 at the age of 62 after a string of unsuccessful and unsatisfying jobs and a failed marriage. Harrill hitchhiked to Fort Fisher on the North Carolina Coast from Morganton, North Carolina, a distance of 260 miles (418 km). He had been committed to a mental hospital in Morganton by his in-laws, after his wife, Katie Hamrick, left him and asked for a divorce. Harrill apparently walked away from the hospital[2] or made a key from an old spoon and used the key to escape the facility.[3]
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Robert Harrill became the second greatest tourist attraction in the state of North Carolina, trailing only the USS North Carolina in number of visitors.[7] Visitors to Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, Fort Fisher and Southport would routinely take time to visit the man living in the salt marshes. Many of them were simply curious, others were attracted to his wisdom and words, but others went out of their way to harass him or to try to steal his money.
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Robert Harrill greeted as many visitors as possible and agreed to pose with them in pictures for a small fee.[7] The Hermit saw each visitor as an opportunity to spread his “common sense” beliefs.
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I got an idea – all the Glib hermits can get together and open up Hermit World, a theme park for recluses.
Hermit comes from the Greek word for desert – eremos. That was the traditional place for a hermit to go.
There were professional hermits in olden times:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
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Garden hermits or ornamental hermits were hermits encouraged to live in purpose-built hermitages, follies, grottoes, or rockeries on the estates of wealthy landowners, primarily during the 18th century. Such hermits would be encouraged to dress like druids and remain permanently on site, where they could be fed, cared for, and consulted for advice, or viewed for entertainment.
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My goal has always been to live on a catamaran roaming the world and eating fresh fish I caught daily. Somehow I ended up where I am.
Eh, don’t be hard on yourself. Waterworld was a crappy movie anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKFsmZhQWtg
The bad guys are called Smokers and they live in an oil tanker. Real subtle, under-the-radar stuff.
In real life, Joshua Slocum sailed around the world solo from 1895 to 1898. He was the man to do so.
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Slocum intended to sail eastward around the world, using the Suez Canal, but when he got near Gibraltar he realized that sailing through the southern Mediterranean would be too dangerous for a lone sailor because of the piracy that still went on there at that time. So he decided to sail westward, in the southern hemisphere. He headed to Brazil, and then the Straits of Magellan. At that point he was unable to start across the Pacific for forty days because of a storm. Eventually he made his way to Australia, sailed north along the east coast, crossed the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and then headed back to North America.
Slocum navigated without a chronometer, instead relying on the traditional method of dead reckoning for longitude, which required only a cheap tin clock for approximate time, and noon-sun sights for latitude. On one long passage in the Pacific, Slocum also famously shot a lunar distance observation, decades after these observations had ceased to be commonly employed, which allowed him to check his longitude independently. However, Slocum’s primary method for finding longitude was still dead reckoning; he recorded only one lunar observation during the entire circumnavigation.
Slocum normally sailed the Spray without touching the helm. Due to the length of the sail plan relative to the hull, and the long keel, the Spray was capable of self-steering (unlike faster modern craft), and he balanced it stably on any course relative to the wind by adjusting or reefing the sails and by lashing the helm fast. He sailed 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west across the Indian Ocean without once touching the helm.
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Epic.
I have Slocum’s book around here somewhere. Might be on the kindle? It’s been years since I read it. Ya, he is a legend.
Derpy, your planned life sounds a little like Jack Reacher’s. All you need to complete the picture is stumble into a murder mystery now and then.
Well, I have tracked people down and solved crimes.
Years ago I was able to track down a hit and run driver who crashed into a friend of mine. She gave me a description of the car and partial license plate number. That was enough for me to figure out the rest. When she caught up with him, he apologized and said it was a company car and he was scared of getting fired. They came to some sort of agreement.
I applied to the Chicago police and was invited to sit for the exam, but I accepted a job offer in Texas before test day arrived. My goal at the time was to become a homicide detective.
It’s all good. The Army put my various skills to good use. Maybe someday. many years from now, I’ll write a book about it. It’s a hell of story.
Rabbits, Hype. I believe the only thing that converts plants to protein faster are chickens. But rabbits are easier.
There is a book by Dolly Freed called Possum Living: How to live well without a job and with almost no money.
Here is a preview: https://tinhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Possum-Living-Preview-1.pdf
She was/is an interesting person. She wrote the book when she was 18 and only had a 7th grade education. She lived with her father who was probably a genius, most likely a drunkard, and didn’t like to work. They made do with very little money. They fished illegally. They raised rabbits in their basement. They made their own liquor. They planted a huge garden every year. She eventually got her GED, put herself through college, and landed a job with NASA.
I was booze free for 4.5 of the past 8 days. My goal is to stay booze free until June. Yesterday was the first time in a few months I ran 2 miles in less than 17 minutes. I’ve done about 15 2-mile runs in the past month.
In other news: Biden’s virtual rally for Tampa plagued by technical issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK2-EUqTPao
I like how he did a Frankenstein shuffle up to the podium and then the video cut while he was dramatically removing his sunglasses.
I stayed booze free all of Jan and Feb, and part of March. I’m now thinking of a year long abstinence if for nothing else to save more money towards buying a new property. I’m totally addicted to beer, I just love the stuff, have for as long as I can remember.
Robert DeNiro was interviewed a couple of days ago and said the Dems should keep Andrew Cuomo ready in case — God forbid! — anything should happen to Biden. His enthusiastic plug made it seem like he might know someone to help make this happen.
A woman faces charges after an off-duty Alabama police officer slammed her face-first onto the floor during a dispute over face coverings.
The officer tried to detain the woman, who appears to be black, after she refused to leave the store, and he picked the woman up and slammed her onto the ground as she struggled away from his attempt to handcuff her.
She sounds like a treat. He sounds like a thug.
Worst Tinder match ever.
Or best.
Gotta love Salon:
The cop is also black, but I like how Salon omitted that detail. Cannot possibly imagine why.
“Yes, Counselor, she was very aggressive and assaulted my fist with her face before also attempting to damage the floor by smashing her face into it, which I found very distressing.”
“Thank you, Officer Roidsmash, you are a credit to the police force and I’m sure the ladies and gentlemen of the jury will take into consideration the grave distress the defendant’s actions have inflicted on you, and your bravery in the face of such unlawful and dangerous behavior.”
“Oh yes, Counselor, just doing my job. Blue lives matter.”
“You should also see a doctor if you find yourself using alcohol or drugs as a way to cope”
We’re going to need a bigger boat.
“The doctor who authored it has an umlaut in her name so she must be good.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trGX3ET3jTQ
Also has an umlaut
Happy Mother’s Day Mojo.
Just a tip for you beer lovers. This new Heffy I just bought, the Maryland one is surprisingly good. Groove City Hefeweizen.
Duly noted.
Holy City hefeweizen is a good one too.
How does it lean on the banana/clove scale?
I like some of the recipes from Babish, but I can’t stand his dirty fucking forearms. Wear long sleeves, jackass. Why would I want to see repugnant crap while watching food being prepped and cooked?
There is this whole tattooed chef thing, apparently.
I just don’t see fine dining making a come back. BTW the social distancing and the way chefs man-handle the food while plating…I see government inspectors shutting down business to the point of making re-opening inconvenient.
I hope you are wrong.
While there is no reason for social distancing now, eventually we will see other countries not social distancing and doing fine.
Haha well, he’s not as bad as Chef John from FoodWishes. That dude’s arm hair looks like he’s wearing a long-sleeve sweater at all times.
Gyms being closed and not being able to buy a bench sucks. I’m kicking myself for nor seeing this shit coming.
Anyway, I need to look into exercises that don’t require equipment.
3/4 inch black gas pipe, a couple of elbows, two nipples and base plates/flanges all available in your local hardware plumbing dept makes a decent pull up bar. I screwed a 2×8 to the wall over a door so I could hit studs and then screwed the flanges to the 2×8.
I think I have a pull-up bar that fits in a door frame.
I also have something similar to this that I never use.
It looks like I wouldn’t use that either.
It is a great system. We had them in a remote camp on a job where a weight room was not an option. I am just lazy so haven’t used it for a few years.
OK, maybe if I could see the book for it.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27827
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95846CBGU0M
Thanks 🙂
Tourist Time in Podunkville, we’ll have to see what happens.
Tourism will be a huge loss, and a totally self-inflicted wound, here. They are actively telling people to stay away, and keeping the parks closed. I’d like to ask some of the morons who actively have tried to eliminate everything but tourism from the state economy whether they still think that was the smart play.
Fucking diversification- how does it work?
The best example of truth-in-memeing since the quarantine began is the one with a picture of like four people around a putting green labeled “Unsafe” and crowded lines of people at a Wal-Mart checkout labeled “Safe”, and all the variations. One of the many things that doesn’t make any sense about the quarantine if it’s supposed to actually accomplish it’s stated purpose is that it gave people no option but to concentrate in one of a very few locations during a newly-limited window of time, with the likelihood of having to wait around in crowds of strangers. The idea that they’d close parks because of the threat of infection is just asinine. And again, as I’ve said before, the quarantine works only if you think that the guy in the bar who has the ‘rona never buys groceries or pumps gas, and since the grocery stores can only be open for a shorter window of time you’ve increased the odds he’ll be coming in contact with more people, including people he might not normally encounter.
I used to do my shopping on my way to work at 6 AM when there was maybe five to ten other customers in the store. Now I have to do it on my way home from work when everybody is there. They close off entrances and file everyone through one so they can count. It is pure idiocy.
I tried to explain the shortened hours to a Dollar Store manager. His answer was that it saves on overhead. Should be in government, wasting his talents in business.
The other thing is that it isn’t a “quarantine”. That’s when you isolate the sick. Trying to isolate the healthy is totally unprecedented.
“The crowd has broken into chants of “arrest Bill Gates” at the anti-lockdown protest at Parliament House in Melbourne @theage. The crowd has grown considerably since midday.”
https://twitter.com/rachael_dexter/status/1259306149930651648
Not that I’m surprised, but they should have done this back when Windows 95 came out.
Don’t read the replies.
They should be chanting “arrest Tom Hanks”. He started this shit.
“Did you know that Hollywood in the movie World War Z willingly edited out the source of the virus that caused the fictional zombie pandemic—China—in an effort to appease the Chinese communist censors?”
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1259521668285898752
And the adversary was changed in the Red Dawn remake and in the video games Crysis* and Homefront from China to the implausible North Korea for the same reason. Though, the Fallout series still has China as the (distant past) adversary but it’s always been downplayed in the games themselves.
* = Well, one of the adversaries, anyway.
I wonder if there is enough genetic material to clone Genghis Khan?
“NEW: All nursing home staff must now be tested for COVID twice a week.
This rule is not optional — it’s mandatory.”
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1259517198810386432
He’s running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
Clearly he’s not essential.
Good thing they can’t infect anyone in between biweekly tests.
In unrelated news, nursing home staff demand a 50% pay raise.
That is a good rule…to put into place on Feb 15th.
Exactly. A little late now.
IMO..this should have been SOP for every flu season for the last 25 yrs. Perhaps not the testing but just the monitoring and controls of personnel into these facilities during the winter. If there is anything positive that comes out of this shit show is that this type of thing needs to be addressed.
Infection control have been a challenge for care facilities for a long time. Some are little more than warehouses until its time for a ride to the hospital or morgue.
This may be true..is true; but no one puts grandma in a home to hasten the ride to the morgue. Well maybe some sad sack looking for inheritance will have that be a primary motivation…
These government pimps claim to want to help our most vulnerable and there was nothing additional put in place for 3 months. That tells you everything!
Clown Prince Sununu locked down nursing homes pretty early on and before he shut anything else down.
About 80% or so of NH’s Lil Rona deaths have been in nursing homes. More deaths in nursing homes rolled in last week.
Well..we here is progressive Cali we had the governor lock down the whole state; except mass transit, homeless shittings and it got into the nursing homes no problem either. No additional kabuki theater for nursing homes, why bother it is already covered.
Now he is allowing opening of the state only after meeting unpossible criteria. No county is opening in the bay because if there is an additional death there will be propaganda death to the supervisors who opened because they will not have met the unpossible criteria and that caused the death. Everyone in government is covered…
Clowns to the left..jokers to the right and stuck in the middle with you!
Clowns to the left..jokers to the right and stuck in the middle with you!
That’s a good song. It shouldn’t be associated with these government assholes.
We are all in this together..sorry
Lo
How Andrew Cuomo continues to have record setting popularity in New York State is completely beyond me. He screwed this up more than any politician in America. They were completely unprepared, had ignored previously warnings about their health care infrastructure, and made crappy decisions along the way and thus thousands died, which he blamed on everyone but himself, mostly Trump, all while Trump saved his ass multiple times. So why is he a hero? I guess a friendly media makes all the difference.
Also, he is on TV every morning giving a briefing.
It’s NY so “It’s all Trump’s fault” is a convincing argument.
Doubt that.
TBH this makes more sense than having everyone SIP and economic ruin. At least there is some targeting of people that come in contact with the most vulnerable. Not sure it is going to work..maybe a stricter protocol for testing or controls over activities of nursing home personnel.
One of the many things that doesn’t make any sense about the quarantine if it’s supposed to actually accomplish it’s stated purpose is that it gave people no option but to concentrate in one of a very few locations during a newly-limited window of time, with the likelihood of having to wait around in crowds of strangers.
The anti-panic-buying rule (No more than X items per household) means people have to make more trips to the grocery store. Limiting the number inside leads to big disorderly mobs outside.
As we know, none of this is supposed to make sense, it’s just a test to see what sort of nonsensical theatrics people will allow themselves to be subjected to.
Trying to figure the purpose of this Chinese fire drill is impossible. Bastiat wasted his time. Human nature is power driven by those that seek government work.
I honestly think that is the point<> It has been the longest and most incoherent Chinese fire drill ever. It has opened the door to unlimited government intervention.. the likes we have never seen and it will be relentless and oppressive thanks to technology. I hope I am wrong…
The Sumerians believed eclipses were caused by a monster eating the sun. To scare off the monster, priests would yell and bang drums until the eclipse stopped. 2,000 years later, Babylonian astronomers determined the true cause of eclipses, but the practice of screaming and banging the drum was so entrenched that they continued the ritual.
The Assyrians kicked things up a notch:
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One of the most serious omens was a solar eclipse, which predicted grave danger for the ruler of the area of the world in which it appeared. Ancient Mesopotamian astronomers had developed the knowledge to accurately predict eclipses with a high degree of precision. Once an eclipse was predicted and the area in which it would appear had been identified, the court and the priests took action. If the eclipse took place over Assyria, for instance, the Assyrian king would be in danger, and for the king to be in danger put the entire power structure of the kingdom at risk. So a substitute would be put in his place—literally, a substitute king, or šar pûhi (shar PU-khee) in Akkadian, the language of the Assyrian court and its official documents.
The substitute king did not have to look like the real king, but had to be a man. After he was selected, he was dressed in the king’s garment, declared to be the king, and made to participate in other rituals investing him with royal identity. He was also given a young woman as a queen. After this, the true king withdrew from public view until danger had passed. The substitute king and queen were offered as sacrifices for the evil fate that was destined for the true king, taking it on themselves while he remained safely hidden. Like the moment of the eclipse, when both moon and sun are visible in the same place, the substitute king and the true king coexisted only briefly. Once the dangerous time had passed, the substitute king and queen were killed, the true king re-emerged, and the ritual was complete.
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https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2017/solar-eclipse-substitute-king
Silly Assyrians and their human sacrifice. They should have just shut down their entire economy like in our sensible modern era.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXqImBrXkAEt4dx.jpg
Okay, OKAY! I’m back on the treadmill for the first time in weeks (months?) It’s time – I’ve gained five pounds since this round of Glib fits started. : (
Good. Now I can stop nagging. ?
I also hope that starting my vacation Tuesday (two weeks!!) will help – it’ll give me more time to exercise AND get me away from the break room snack offerings.
So I have an ancient Milwaukee tools “hole shooter” drill motor. The body is aluminum, and its beginning to get oxidation. Ideas for preventative/restorative ?
A Hole Hawg? If it’s aluminum try cleaning it. I’ve never used linseed oil or rust proofing on anything that wasn’t steel or iron.
I wouldn’t worry about it
but you could always hit it with some polishing compound
How old? If do you want to keep it for sentimental reasons, find a Milwaukee rep they might give you a new one for it. My old boss had a ancient Sawzall and ran into a rep at the lumber yard and told him about it, the rep offered him a new Sawzall and a bunch of swag for it.
Of course this was before eBay and finding old things wasn’t nearly so easy.
Apparently chrome (the browser) doesn’t have a “clear history on close” feature. Goddammit.
So XY tore a gash in his leg (screw head sticking out of a thing he built and snagged him as he went by) and we’re at 10 stitches and not quite half done. It was an impressive gash, too. He does good work. Will post a pic later. The ultimate Mother’s Day activity!
You know who else had an impressive gash ?
DAMMIT!
There’s a host of SFW answers, potty-brain.
And Happy Mother’s Day.
Chapter 18.
And thank you!
Jenna Jameson
The New England Patriots?
LOL
Ex-Mrs. Tres Cool?
He just wanted you to feel needed. : )
Considering he came running to me immediately and didn’t yell at me for calling him by my pet name for him, yes he still needs his mama.
Total of 20 stitches. Bad-ass!
One day, Mojeaux, they will stop being teenagers (I hope) and then your worries will continue. Mine are 50s and still cause me anxiety. My son gave me hell today because I’m not practicing safe distancing and proper sheltering (like he is). I’m almost beginning to believe there is a problem with his coping mechanisms. My advice was for him to get outside and get some sun.
Truthfully, no one visits nor do I leave the homestead often but only because I have no reasons. I’m out everyday, going somewhere, without worrying.
Hope your son gets fixed properly and all goes well with the healing process.
Thanks, Fourscore. I think about you and your daughter and think, “My mom worries about me and my brothers like that, poor woman.”
How IS your daughter, BTW?
She is back with her boy friend and everything is apparently going swimmingly. She was a nanny for 2 dot Indian doctors but they are working from home so she has time off. Her boy friend is working, essential. Hopefully this will work, she had a bad 30 year marriage and her kids blame her for the break up. The Dad is on disability for mental problems and the kids aren’t too interested.
She was on disability in MN but moved to TX, not sure if she is still getting it. Get more of what you reward. Hard to understand how disability works. That’s one reason obesity is common, turn it into a career.
Best wishes
I spose this warrants a trip to Sonic.
I found Agile Cyborg’s channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUR09yRHZU
The bit from 2:45 to 3:00 sealed the deal.
The Chap reviews Gun Jesus’ book.
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1259578075966144513
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
That’s a good one.
Even more hilarious is that Betty White is trending on Twitter because 1970s singer Betty Wright passed away.
Infection control have been a challenge for care facilities for a long time. Some are little more than warehouses until its time for a ride to the hospital or morgue.
Wasn’t it the governor of Florida who got in trouble for calling the state “God’s waiting room”?
He said it, but its use predates his time as governor.
“MORE ? FEMALE ? DlCTATORS ?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvRBFu5m-lM
“60 Minutes” just did an expose on the evil Trump regime cutting off funding to a group working with the Wuhan Lab. In the course of the interviews with the guy whose funding was cut, and other scientific experts, we learn that 1)the Wuhan lab didn’t have any samples of this virus and thus it couldn’t have escaped by accident or on purpose, 2)examination of the virus shows it wasn’t man-made, and 3)the virus most likely was passed from a pangolin (anteater like creature) to humans in a wet market but we can’t learn more because because Trump’s unwise and precipitous action has cut off access to working with China scientists etc. etc. and “people will die.” I wonder if there are equally credible scientists saying something else? 60 Minutes, of course, didn’t present any.
And of course everything coming out of China is completely trustworthy and nothing is held back. Pull my other finger.
I like this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Dw7mPt-zM
gist: the there are only 2 animals that carry the virus (horsehead bats and pangolins) and neither is sold at the Wuhan wet market.
My only question – when “60 Minutes” finished their investigation with the Chinese did they spit or swallow?
Tesla
Exits
Xanadu
And
Skips Tennesseeeeeeeeee ahaaaaaahahahaha !