I have been a bit of a downer lately. Sorry about that. I promised last week that I would get back on track. Well, this week I put on my big boy pants and got back to it.
I more or less defaulted to what I had been doing before my gym reopened (before reclosing, f***ing Newsom.) I’m doing twelve sets of 10 pushups, 10 bodyweight squats, 10 Russian V-up twists. I substituted the V-ups for sit ups. I found doing sit ups screws up my lower back if I do too much. I also put the pull up bar back in the doorway. I did sets of 7-6-5-4-3-3-3. The idea is to do all four exercises as a superset. Depending on how rested I am, I either take a short rest between supersets or none.
Taking last week off was a little bit of a set-back but not awful. I have to a better warm up before getting under way. I didn’t do any this week and the first set of everything feels like I’m dragging metal on metal without any grease. I’m not really getting comfortable until the third set.
There is no conditioning report this week because I didn’t do any. This was totally a mental breakdown. I made excuses about “getting back to it.” That was dumb but I got all my strength work in, ate with purpose, and I’ll get back to it this week.
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In coronavirus news, I continue to hate everyone. I constantly want to put my fist through my radio every time I hear the most recent number of people who tested positive. Who cares? Give me some context. What percentage are symptomatic? What percentage require hospitalization? What’s the death rate? Oh, that’s right. Asking those questions would require basic scientific knowledge. That’s plainly beyond the ken of most reporters and their editors.
I was just about to book a flight to Washington D.C. for later this summer to get Daughter 1 back to college when Mayor Bowser announced her half-baked quarantine rules. This is screwing with every university in the city. Can they have students back on campus. They had already announced they would but this may wreck it. Needless to say there is all sorts of speculation among the students and now their parents. Again, I am ready to punch someone.
I figure the mask requirement will go on for a while. I went to the Glibs’ RedBubblestore to order a couple masks. You can go here if you want to order yours.
For anyone who missed Mexican Sharpshooter’s Trader Joe’s petition you can sign it here.
This week’s music.
Rhywun survived his surgery and subsequent hospitalization. I’m told he is once again mobile. Look out NYC. This one is for him.
I got a spin class in yesterday, and bonked during it. I have no one to blame but myself. On the plus side I did hit a new max wattage (934 watts). Good on you for getting back on the workout schedule. Next weekend I’ll be on an island, I’m looking forward to it.
You are a stone’s throw away from measuring your max output in kilowatts. Pretty impressive.
The real challenge is to get my average watts back up. Last year when I first went to a spin class was at the tail end of cycling season (where I did well) so my average wattage was at ~200 watts. It fell down to ~150 over winter, and it’s getting back up to near the 200 wattage average again finally (on days where I don’t ride for shit and burn out). With all the insanity in present day, I find it hard to get myself on the saddle and out and about. Again, only myself to blame.
I have learned that the B&B the girlfriend and I are staying at on the island has bicycles available for people staying there. Considering the whole island is 3.5 x 1.5 miles, it’s not like I’ll get a distance ride in.
0.93 kW Achievement Unlocked!
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t going to see if there’s a hard cap on max wattage reported (there is one for Max RPM, 135 on the board, 149 on the reports). The real metric though is power/weight. It’s generally easier to drop a pound then to increase your average wattage.
V-ups are better than sit-ups and planks are better than both.
Pyramid training can be helpful. For any given exercise, do a cycle of 1 rep, then 3, 5, 8, 3, 1.
I did a pt session one with about 30 guys. We stayed in the up position of a push-up and did a pyramid of 1, then 2, etc up to 10 then back to 1. So everybody got in the up position, waited for their turn to do a push up or more, then got back in position. I was banned from leading pt after that day. There were many sore arms.
No pain, no gain.
Tee Hee… One day, we took Battalion PT (we normally did it by Battery), with the Btn. Sgt.Maj.’s wife, an aerobics instructor at one of the post gyms, leading us. We all scoffed and readied ourselves for an easy morning. She smoked the ever-loving shit out of us. Guys were running off to the edge of the sandpit and vomiting, guys were face-planting in the sand from exhaustion; it was brilliant.
+1 hot wife
Don’t you know there’s a parade going on?
Or the number of current, active infections instead of cumulative ones….
Denier!
We have to wait for the total number of cases we had to go DOWN. Otherwise it’s just keep getting worse.
SCIENCE!
Every day we reach a new record number of cumulative infections and deaths. Alas!
Once unclean, a ritual voting for the democratic candidate for any and all office is the only atonement that can make you clean again.
Oh, brothers let’s vote blue…straight ticket is the thing to do….vote blue no matter who….good lord show me the way…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FKPLdM0DU
Before I go do a workout (see not OT! ok, yeah very OT) I wanted to post a caution here. Someone was talking about Death Stranding here the other night and I went ahead and bought it and played a few hours. I just requested a refund through Steam, no idea if they will give it to me after 6 hours played, but it is the first time I ever asked for a refund on a video game. The caution is this: This ‘game’ is very pretty. It is very unique. It is very different from other games. The unique part is that all you do in this game is load heavy packages on your back and then walk for 10-15 minutes from point A to point B and deliver the packages. Yes there are ghosts, which the baby you carry in a bottle on your chest (yes a baby) allows you to see. You don’t really fight the ghosts, you try to hide from them by holding your breath, but since they don’t then go away you have to eventually walk past them and when they see you, the game allows you to spam a key to ‘shake them off’. If you succeed you get to go walk some more, if you fail you die, and then get to come back to life and go find the packages you dropped so you can pick them up and walks some more. It is as though someone watched people play video games and thought, “They spend a lot of time walking around the map and trying to climb over obstacles, that must be what they like about games”
Yeah. Death Stranding is a walking simulator. That was pretty well known in the reviews.
I grabbed Watch Dogs 2 for the price of $0 (Ubisoft was giving it away free a week back or so). I’ve got it installed, and that’ll probably be the next game I play. I beat base game Sniper Elite 4 a little bit ago, and fired up Path of Exile again for the first time in a couple months.
I’ve been replaying Skyrim. It’s been a while since I preiously played, and I can’t seem to see something that will hold my attention.
Really, the only game that I may wind up buying on release instead of waiting for a sale in the foreseeable future is Cyberpunk 2077. I’ve got a backlog of games bigger then some people’s full library.
Yeah, I’d heard it was a glorified walking simulator a while back, and nothing I’ve heard contradicts that description.
I have no interest.
You heard wrong. I’t a falling down a cliff and breaking your head, losing all your cargo right before arriving at your destination game.
I still have no interest.
Just looked I have 22 hours in it. Just started chapter 3 and a couple of hours into that.
It’s very repetitive. You pretty much do that same thing over and over again, but you get better equipment and different weapons. Once in a while you get one of the excruciatingly long cut scenes that makes up the story.
It’s sort of a stealth game, but I don’t do stealth, it just does not work for me. In the 2nd chapter where you have to walk or bike, somehow over a lot of rocks, to that city that is then the furthest West on the map, I tried everything I could to stealth my way past the BTs, and I would just get killed every time. They’d just keep coming until I was out of grenades. So then I just ran through as fast as I could and when a BT popped up, I’d hurl a grenade at them and just keep trucking. Worked the first time.
Same with mules, I just pull out my strand thingy and beat the shit out of them all, and take all their stuff that I can carry. Fuck stealth.
pyramid training
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaUPNuzLfR8
If it can get a vegetarian Hindu jacked…
“If it can get a vegetarian Hindu jacked”
The entire ‘vegetarians’ are all skinny and emaciated, is a myth. I’ve seen some vegan guys who are monsters, you can get all the protein you want without any meat at all. I’d be more worried about collagen than protein. And Vitamin B12, which you can either supplement or just don’t wash your potatoes, yummy dirty tater soup!
Yeah, but all the strongest man in the world winners are of northern European descent. It’s kind of like how all the best sprinters are from west Africa or the Caribbean and all the best marathon runners are from east Africa.
I have seen some skinny Olympic North Korean power lifters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVAqwyv1uN0
It’s the Neanderthal blood.
^this^
Gronk strong! Gronk smash!
Gronk stupid!
GRONK SMITH HERE, GRONK SMASH AND BY SMASH MEAN…
Gronk a Buccaneer!
People with more Neanderthal DNA make better lawyers, so I’ve read…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AzAFqrxfeY
I know whenever I see something on my computer I don’t like, I shake it up and down to punish the little people who live inside.
Lawyers aren’t fully human, so it makes sense.
relevant Dilbert comic:
https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-12-30
I got an ant farm as an xmas present once. They ship they ants separately and mine froze in the mailbox. I scavenged some on my own, knowing they would not survive without a queen.
Ant Farm Teaches Children About Toil, Death
https://www.theonion.com/ant-farm-teaches-children-about-toil-death-1819565648
Bees are the perfect socialists. Got the queen boss, the male shiftless drones that produce nothing and thousands of workers ’til they die or use their stinger and die prematurely.
‘Roids.
D’Roids?
*loads EM Rifle*
Yeah, that guy is sauced
What’s the give away? He doesn’t look super jacked.
Triceps. The roids cause you to grow, but they often cause certain muscles to absolutely blow up relative to others. Usually it’s the traps (and his are big but not HUGE), but those triceps are not natural looking at all. That’s really hard to do naturally.
And he’s just generally way too big for his frame. He’s got to have a fat-free mass index close to 30. And the hair loss isn’t exactly counter evidence either.
after a couple weeks of working insane hours, I settled back down last week. Mostly held to the 18 plan diet, with just a couple “excesses” this weekend, and worked out twice this week. I’m proud of myself for not completely falling off the bandwagon now that wife is in the cravings part of the pregnancy.
Not the best, not the worst, but it gives me a decent starting point for next week, which is going to be a short one.
“wife is in the cravings part of the pregnancy”
Chocolate ice cream and pickles?
last night was crispy m&ms and white pizza
You married right.
I lost 7.7 lbs in 8 days. Mostly just not drinking any beer, except last night, and started some light exercise and a little walking, doing stuff around the house, moving around a lot. Only 30 more lbs to get back to my target weight, again.
OT: hayeksplosives
Thanks for that bit this morning about Neil Postman. Very timely, at least for me. Added it to my reading list.
As for Glibfit… my diet lately is veggies and more veggies. Making a whatchagot beet soup. Have coconut and oatmeal bread rising on the counter. Pork butt thawing for smoking tomorrow. Life is good.
You’re welcome regarding the book. I don’t have it in Kindle form, so I’m reading it the old fashioned way.
The book is about far more than I realized. (“Amusing Ourselves to Death”)
Surprisingly almost nobody else was out on the trails either yesterday morning or today. I did however see this.
That’s a great find. What drew your attention to it? Was it hooting or did you just happen upon it. I hike a lot and have never seen an owl..maybe I just not looking up or something.
Humans don’t tend to look up.
I was at the bottom of a small rise on the trail and saw it flying through the air to land on that branch ahead of me. So I looked up to see where it landed.
My sister and I have a running joke about her thinking owls are creepy so I’m always on the lookout for them.
I was outside years ago at 3AM and saw on the lawn the silhouette of the biggest cat I’d ever seen.
Then it spread its wings and flew away. It was a great horned owl whose “ear” feathers and folded wings had fooled me at a glance.
Silent and huge. Unreal.
Pictures don’t do justice to how large large owls are. Similar experience, came out in the middle of the night and noticed one perched on the railing of the HVAC balcony railing. Looked like it was judging me.
It was really checking the thermostat.
I had a similar experience, only there were two. Had two full growed pit bulls with me. There was a bit of a traffic jam trying to get back in the house.
Unreal is right.
We get all sort of big birds here. Barred owls, hawks, American eagles, American crows, you don’t realize how big those crows are until you’re close to them.
I’ve been wondering how you tell a big crow from a raven, any thoughts?
The crow doesn’t say “Nevermore”.
Crow.
Raven.
Ravens are larger, and have a ‘ruff’ of feathers on the back of their neck. Their bills are sort of arched at the top, giving them a “roman nose” appearance, where a crow’s bill is thinner and straighter. In flight, a raven’s tail is wedge-shaped at the end, where a crow’s is more or less straight.
A raven’s call is a hoarse croak, rather than a crow’s “caw.”
Ravens are bigger, we get those too. But unlike the crows, they won’t land on our deck railing and just sit there like they’re almost tame. Maybe they would, but I’ve never seen that.
“It’s a matter of a-pinion.”
(Corny bird-watcher’s punchline).
GlibFit.
http://archive.li/smudS
16 is going to have trouble keeping that shape with her bad habits.
Have continued my twice-weekly swimming sessions, which are good for my mental health even if they’re only helping me just hold steady weight-wise. It was nice to go to the neighboring county and be able to enter mask-less…until Thursday, when the edict went statewide. I suppose I might as well go back to the Y closest to my office unless the swim team hogging most of the pool is a PITA and/or I have to share my lap lane.
Good for you. I’m waiting for my Glib talismasks to arrive. I have the feeling that some people will have statements about them.
No one has said a word about mine other than they liked it.
nobody has even noticed mine. granted, I won’t be wearing it tomorrow when I have breakfast with my department head.
I ordered that one and the This Mask Is Useless one too.
Hi Chafed, Thanks for the new edition. Glad to hear you are back in the saddle and ready for the ride.
Did a nice 4 mi hike with 1000 ft climb. Met a mountain biker on the trail fixing his bike in a shaded air conditioned part of the trail. Had a nice talk about trails and such…Anyway a couple come up on the trail, dawn masks and tell us to move out of the way. Anyway dood was kind of pissed in his dirty mask and says we are clueless or something under his mask breath. I said, “take it easy there Sport”. His wife chirps out that he is an epidemiologist or something. I congratulated her and called out after him and asked if he enjoyed being wrong for the last 4 months. Epidemiologists are the economists of science.
I made some progress stretching that is intended to “open up you hips”. I hate these stretches because they hurt. The thought is the stretches may help with chronic lower back pain and tightness. I have been doing these stretches with regularity (2 or 3 times a day) for about 3 weeks. Slowly they have become easier and doing them has helped with the back. The last 10 days have been pretty pain free..except when I stretch. I am happy with the result so far but progress on flexibility was glacial. I guess you have to stick with some things…
Started to do some special chest exercises with bands to tighten things up. Changing the angle of extension engages the muscles differently… Hopeful to see some improvement in a couple weeks.
Gained 2# this week. I blame it on too much fruit. Fruit is my cheat and I love my cheat, especially this time of year.
Have a good one!
Yeah, most of the time out on the trails you’re not going to be close enough to anybody to need a mask.
Love the story with the epidemiologist.
I have a similar experience with stretching. All my lower back pain disappears when I do it regularly.
Ran for 30 minutes straight three times last week, while waiting to hear if the gym ban would be lifted (it was not). Trying to keep the upper body strength training going with calisthenics, but it’s so much harder to stay consistent without the weights. You just get tired doing push ups sooner than the chest muscles really get worked.
Check your form. If you are doing push ups with proper form it’s nearly all in your chest. If not then you are offloading the work to other muscle groups.
Elbows are tucked. Scapula retracted. But I get to like 30 and I’m tired, my triceps are aching and I get stuck mid rep. I just kinda hate high rep training. It’s so damned boring. Feels like upper body cardio.
Where are your hands relative to your shoulders? Are your arms staying by your sides or are they at roughly a 45 degree angle?
I agree high rep training is like upper body cardio. Nothing wrong with building strength and getting some conditioning from one exercise.
I constantly want to put my fist through my radio every time I hear the most recent number of people who tested positive. Who cares? Give me some context. What percentage are symptomatic? What percentage require hospitalization? What’s the death rate?
Only a profiteering racist who wants people to die would ask questions like those.
Fair point.
I don’t think I’ve seen this posted here before.
Tony Hawk Sings? Who knew?
RIP, Miss Melly.
::makes note to acquire GWTW on Blu-Ray before it gets memory-holed::
I kept being surprised to learn that she was still alive, so this isn’t too shocking. 104 years is a good run.
In today’s bright ray of sunshine:
15,770 US Restaurants Now Permanently Closed Due To COVID-19.
Admittedly, this is just a rehash of the Yelp story, but it does also comment on the bar and nightlife industries as well.
due to
COVID-19panicky authoritarians and a gullible publicGood fix.
I almost commented on that last line, but I cut that sentence out to avoid making myself even more irritated.
I’m going back to yoga, it’s great along with the results. I’m going to mix other stuff in, but definitely yoga. Most things will help if you actually do them. I lost 60 lbs just walking 5 miles or more every day for a few months.
I had a lot of lower back problems in my 20s after falling off a bike and pinching a nerve in my lower back. I’d have at least a once a month chiropractor visit, which would help for a few weeks before I’d just sneeze or do the slightest movement and I’d be back to not being able to sit or walk around for days and back to the chiropractor. I lived like that for about a decade. When I was around 32 or so, still having the problem, someone told me to try yoga. I did and after a few months of that, I never had another problem with my back, to this day almost 30 years later. Yoga has almost miraculous healing powers. Check this guy out.
Amazing recovery with yoga
Sure, everyone cannot expect results like that, but I can attest that it can have some pretty amazing healing potential, plus weight loss and increasing strength, and flexibility.
[has no desire to see Hyperion in yoga pants]
Right. Cycling shorts and jersey are much better.
I ordered the stretching book Chafed mentioned last week. I’m hoping to find some stretches that will help me.
Let me know what you think.
I don’t bend that way.
Gym shorts and a t-shirt are my gear, you can relax.
El Oh El.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1287284351776878592
something something mugged by reality…
a scene from the Mars Attacks movie which may not survive: can’t find the exact clip, but it has a black 3 star general (General Casey in the film) going to meet the Martians. He calls his wife and says something like “yeah, it’s like I told you – I kept my head down and got everything!”
IMDB has it
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General Casey : [talking on phone] Hello? This is General Casey. I get to meet the Martian Ambassador! Ain’t that great? Oh, it’s a hell of an honor. But didn’t I always tell you honey, if I just stayed in place and never spoke up, good things are bound to happen. Yeah… Ok
[makes kissing noises and ends the phone call]
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I’ve been (re-)watching a 1970s BBC comedy series called Porridge. One of the early episodes features a series of conversations and confrontations between the lead character, Fletcher, and a black Scotsman inmate named McClaren. At one point, McClaren explains he assaulted a guard because the guard called him a black bastard. Fletcher responds that it’s an accurate description because McClaren doesn’t know who his father is and that McClaren is, in fact, black.
I am in terrible, sloth-like shape. Last year, I recovered from my lower back fracture with the help of a little pool in the back yard. 12 feet diameter at top, 15 at bottom, 3 feet deep.
Nothing you can swim laps in, but it’s great for doing near-weightless exercises using the water as resistance. Then you can float idly in the nice warm sun. I just did that for 30 min with a nice 15 min soak afterwards. I will probably be a bit sun burned.
It’s a humble beginning, but good for arthritic or injured bodies.
Yesterday as I drove up mount Palomar (5000ft), I passed some bikers going up the road, Those guys must have kangaroo thighs. Much respect.
I’m not going to let the fact that I will never be able to do THAT deter me from making my own form of progress.
A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step – Chines proverb from the Dao de Jing
It doesn’t matter how slow you move as long as you do not stop – Confucius
Imagine a man digging a great hole. If he stops at the last basket full, it is incomplete. He is no better than the man who never dug a single inch. -Confucius, paraphrased
Confucius saw a man struggling with all his might to push a heavy stone wheel. Confucius said: how can you win? The man said: if I do not finish the work, my children will. And if they do not, their children will. So every inch I go is one less inch for them.
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196205/runways-by-hand-chinas-support-of-the-air-war/
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During World War II, the United States and China forged a strong friendship based on mutual strategic interests and shared sacrifice in fighting and defeating Japan in the Pacific theatre. A key Chinese contribution involved the use of thousands of workers and hand-hewn stone rollers to construct airfields throughout China to support Allied offensive air operations and the airlift of vital supplies into China.
Weighing approximately 10,000 pounds, the stone roller on display aided in the construction and maintenance of the central Cheng Gong airfield in Kunming. One hundred workers normally pulled the stone rollers back and forth on mile-long runways to compress earth and rock, smoothing the runways for use by 14th Air Force fighters and bombers as well as transport aircraft flying the “Hump Route” over the Himalayas from India to China.
Heavy equipment and fuel were not available for airfield construction as Japanese military successes isolated China from conventional land and sea supply routes. Airlift over the Himalaya Mountains proved the only available option of supplying China. Using only hand tools, thousands of Chinese workers constructed hundreds of air bases and airfields. These hand-made runways normally measured 5,000 to 7,000 feet long, 150 feet wide and up to five feet thick.
The airfields constructed by the Chinese people proved to be a critical factor in the success of the U.S. air campaign against Japanese forces. The simple stone rollers stand today as symbols of Chinese determination, toil and sacrifice in resisting Japanese aggression and in defending freedom.
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There is something simultaneously admirable and creepy about the vast Chinese empire’s ability to mobilize vast numbers of people to carry out a task and its readiness to sacrifice individuals who are no longer useful to the whole.
There is a sci fi / alt history story about a Chinese guy who invents a flying machine and gets lynched for taking away people’s jobs.
When muscle power is cheap, there is no need for machines.
There is much to admire in traditional Chinese culture, which teaches that people should be courteous, honest, hard-working, loyal, and courageous.
A long time ago, there was a club for boys in the US that taught similar things, but it got cancelled.
The journey of a here thousand miles.
Hayek, I posted this on Friday. Dude climbed ~13 vertical miles in a 24 hour period. I much prefer flat rides, with small climbs. But the downhills make the climbs worth it (assuming you won’t get terrified getting up to ~30 MPH on a bicycle).
Interesting that he singles out the mental obstacles (boredom) as challenges.
I’ll be mentally saluting him from the pool.
In fairness, he was just going up and down the same hill. There’s a couple of groups doing a “Ride Everest” event over the next couple of weeks, where you sign up to climb ~30,000 feet over the course of the ride.
“I’m not going to let the fact that I will never be able to do THAT deter me from making my own form of progress.”
With fitness, only compare yourself to your previous self. Its all about the trend.
Absolutely. You started HE. That’s good. The only comparison that matters is if you are doing better than you did before.
I had a lot more peace in my life after I applied that advice to life in general. I first heard of it in a book “12 Rules for Life” written by some alt-right neo-Nazi misogynist named Jordan Peterson.
Eh, never say never. When I kicked the cigarettes, cut back on the booze, and started jogging, I never thought I’d run 5 miles nonstop… But here I am doing just that today. 😉
Just got back from shopping at Kohls. First time since the end of the world. Lots of people out shopping, mask compliance near 100%. A couple of noses poking out here and there. The upside is that everyone otherwise acting normal and spending money. Polo shirts in short supply, unless you like solid colors.
“The upside is that everyone otherwise acting normal and spending money.”
Noticed that as well, when we were out and about yesterday.
I try not to think about what they will do next when they see people acting normal.
“The people are relaxing, what do we do next?, they must learn to be afraid and obedient at all times! We can never go back to normal!”. /our betters
The masks dehumanized us.
The stay-at-home told us our jobs were nonessential and got us used to not working. We were waiting for government permission to do anything.
If they lift quarantine and nothing happens, the jig is up. It will be like in Joe vs Volcano when Joe spins open the big red valve labeled “DO NOT TOUCH” that he has worked around and obediently never touched. When Joe spins it open, nothing happens, and he is further emboldened to tell his old life to go to hell.
“If they lift quarantine and nothing happens, the jig is up.”
It’s the same tactic as climate change. No matter what, they will keep saying we’re doomed if you don’t obey. No matter if there is not a single case of the virus left, they’ll just keep up the same rhetoric. They just keep saying ‘while the pandemic is raging all around us’. When I was out yesterday, I didn’t notice all the raging, it’s almost like things are normal, except the masks. How am I not seeing all this raging? Do those people live on a different planet than the rest of us? It’s exactly like global warming, I see normal and they tell me that’s global warming I see.
One tiny upside of not going out much lately is that we’re paying more attention to our home. So far we’ve recovered our front steps with new outdoor carpet (couldn’t get away with NOT covering ’em up,) finally got our chimney repaired, and just this past week had the damaged plaster around our fireplace (due to the leaky chimney) repaired. We just finished the taping in preparation for repainting that wall.
The latter, of course, involved two trips to Home Depot. I suspect they – and Lowe’s – have been doing pretty well throughout The Troubles.
Weekend at Bernie’s III:
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/26/895149942/in-selma-a-final-crossing-for-john-lewis-across-the-edmund-pettus-bridge
Busy schedule for a dead guy
Beach traffic here in The Rockaways is the worst I’ve seen in 2 years. The beach and boardwalk are a sea of NYC humanity. We live on a surfing beach (1 of only 3 in the whole city); watching the nubile redhead in the 2-piece bikini, wearing Converse low-tops, riding a skateboard down the street while clutching her surfboard was the highlight of my day. The nadir was returning from the liquor store and dropping my newly purchased handle of Wild Turkey 101 on the wood floor. I damn near cried while cleaning it up.
Oh, the humanity!
My condolences. ?
“nubile redhead in the 2-piece bikini”
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fe/2d/1d/fe2d1de58bb2e586d66906dcd90c9860.jpg
Believe it or not, she was even hotter – such tan, so stomach muscles, and calves… oh boy, those calves.
Pics or GTFO.
Wow,
Holy guacamole!
Sunk costs, just figure the second one cost twice as much, enjoy it twice as much. You’ll soon forget what happened, tomorrow is another day, life goes on.
( I always bought bottom shelf, accidents happen)
“dropping my newly purchased handle of Wild Turkey 101 on the wood floor”
I’d pour one out, but . . .
dropping my newly purchased handle of Wild Turkey 101 on the wood floor
I would rather see a church burn. Condolences.
Malcolm X vs white liberals
Savage and hard to refute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3PaqxblOx0
Our county has been certified Cootie free. Meaning none of the folks carrying the plague around have have been tested.
That means we don’t have to wear face diapers (until four more folks test positive. Compliance was maybe 50/50 and the Sheriff said he and his deputies wouldn’t be playing mask police.
It is known that the cooties won’t attack you if fewer than four people in a county have tested positive.
Why, the cooties are so smart that they can tell if you’re having steak and a baked potato or chicken wings while haveing a beer.
OT Cali-centric : I just read the Imperial College reopening model report. I was interested because Cali was listed in the report and was modeled for reopen. I imagined/hoped that Gavi had seen reports and models like this. The gist of the IC report was that upon reopening the number of infections and subsequent hospitalizations would increase by X based on increase interactions of 20 to 40%. The number X was somewhat high for the state. I thought, Gavi must have needed to have quite a bit of courage to open up the state if the IC numbers were accurately predictive. Anyway, upon opening the interactions in the state increased by the 20-40% as predicted but the actual X number (infections/hospitality) was an order or more of magnitude lower than predicted…Seems the IC model does not work for reopening either… because the model was based on the assumption that lock-down resulted in lower infection/hospitalization rates.
So the lockdown models having been proved wrong…the infection/hospitalization were but a fraction of model predictions. GREAT. So what does Brave Gavi doo..he closes up the state and increases mandates and restrictions. Makes me think that Brave Gavi never really relied on risk reports and models and was relying on the old political gut for open and closure decisions. He must have planned all along to close the state back up… My Stalag, never made it past Phase 1 ½ of opening anyway…never made it to the gym the 9 days it was open.
Based on risk, I supported the original closing things down with perceived high Severity, occurrence, low detection and a healthy helping of uncertainty. Now that all those risk factors are better known, understood and significantly lower/positive, I am at a complete loss other than political for the closure here.
Oh well…the weather is pretty nice today.
“ Oh well…the weather is pretty nice today”
Yup. If I didn’t have all these screens braying at me, I’d be under the impression that it’s a beautiful day or some crazy thing.
AEIR has a piece destroying the IC model.
Here it is. https://www.aier.org/article/the-models-were-wildly-wrong-about-reopening-too/
Read it if you want your blood to boil. I want Newsom dragged through the streets.
I’m skipping the Aerosmith song and going right to Judas Priest. I liked Aerosmith until I moved to New England. It seemed like the local rock stations played Aersomith every third song. I started to hate them.
The Judas Priest song is excellent. The Joe Walsh song is OK.
Recall Gauleiter Newsom. I can’t say this enough: That site is better than PornHub as I’ve donated money to the recall effort and I’ve never paid money for PornHub.
I got back a little bit ago from an anti-mask mandate rally in Plymouth, NH. Some New Hampshire municipalities have decided that since a judge has denied a preliminary injunction in the case about the Nashua mask mandate ordinance, that therefore the courts have said the Nashua mask mandate is A-OK. Uhh…. there is still wrangling over it. Three municipalities (Plymouth, Keene, and Durham) are considering mask mandate ordinances.
A bunch of folks in Plymouth, NH had an anti-mask mandate rally. I attended. It was a good rally. I left early so I could get home and get ready for a fundraiser event for a liberty minded group. I intended this to be a post and run, and here I am rambling.
My weight has basically held steady – 276.4. I cut back on activity last week as I triggered some herniation pain. Interestingly, I wonder if I lost a little fat but gained muscle since my upper body workouts are getting easier and my belt is getting loser. I guess it could happen.
Here’s the one for Kate Brown, for those registered as open air inmates in Baja Washington
http://stoptheabuse-recallkatebrown.org/e-sheet-print-mail/
Thanks! I’ll donate.
The Joe Walsh song is OK
But by far the best video of the bunch, It’s like Zardoz, but everyone involved was using (more/better) drugs.
The late lamented WBCN had a special relationship with Aerosmith. Mark Parenteau is thanked in the liner notes for either Done With Mirrors or Permanent Vacation. I forget which one.
I’ve signed the petition for Newsom’s recall. Fuck that guy.
Starting on the final week of MTI’s Big 24 program this week. I’ve used it a few times in the past couple years to get some strength back after schools (when weights aren’t widely available) or in this case, when the gyms are all closed and you can only do body weight stuff. Passed my PT test with flying colors last week so I feel like I’m okay to put some size on after I finish up Big 24.
Glad to see y’all putting in some work in spite of the bullshit covid hysteria closing the iron churches. A little extra fitness goes a long way.
I got NewWife’s bike rolling. We had never ridden together before. The HH100.org is cancelled for 2020.
I’ve got a foot problem, but I walked nine on top of riding 36. I’m stuck at a 13 handicap, but I’m still improving ever so slightly.
We cook; we eat extremely well. It’s hot as balls, so I ain’t worrying about much until the
electionschool lets inApocalypse when I plan to focus on shooting looters and putting out fires; should be a great workout. Meanwhile, I’m grilling fillet tonight.Sciatica sucks. Something new (old) falls off every month it seems. I refuse to die.
All of the (supported) rides I was contemplating signing up for this year have been cancelled. Getting old(er) sucks, but it beats the alternative.
The Trek is 34 (steel rolls so sweet); at least it’s holding up better than I am.
Chafed, I’ve read your Glibfit articles in the past, but it’s time I contributed. My wife and I decided to really focus on getting in shape a little over a week ago when we realized we gained back the weight we initially lost after we retired at the end of March. What I’m focusing on:
Track all food using MyFitnessPal app
Aim for protein to be 40% of calories
Lift weights twice a week
Do a Tabata HIIT twice a week
Bike once a week, increasing distance (longest is 17 miles so far) – the Dayton area has some great bike trails that we’re exploring.
Go for a long walk on most days
I’ve lost 4.5 lbs so far, but I’m mainly interested in losing a couple inches off my stomach (and get some abs showing). I lost about 3/4″ so far.
I’m retired, so I have no excuse. We have a workout room in the house with free weights, a power rack, a TRX knockoff, a treadmill and an exercise bike. No excuse at all.
Work gave me an insane discount on a Fitbit, so I’m going with that for my tracking. For riding, I prefer RideWithGPS over MapMyRide (the calorie counts tracked better, and I like the estimated power and average moving speed). I’m still aiming to get a century ride in at some point (longest so far was 75 miles).
My wife and I have cheap $30 Mi Fit trackers that we bought on Amazon. The free Mi Fit Android app that works with the tracker will do tracking for walks/runs and bike rides. I tried it with my Moto phone and it was inaccurate as hell, but my wife’s Pixel phone has been very accurate. It gives us the mileage and time and we enter that as an exercise entry into MyFitnessPal to calculate calories.
75 miles is impressive. Good on ya!
Neph, I can’t remember if it was you who commented on the Warped Wing Brewery’s “Trotwood” lager as not being very good (I thought it was meh as well). But they came out with a Trotwood with Lime that goes down so good on a hot summer day.
Just mentioning it is making me thirsty.
Look who’s been to Kroger today….
I went to Kroger (no CHGSS again!) the only person in the store maskless was a lady cop at the Starbucks. Rules for ye not for me. I would have said sommat but she looked like she could have kicked my ass.
I buy most of my beer at Belmont Part Supply. They sell any beer in singles, so I can get a variety to try.
Thanks for chiming in. Sounds like you are starting to do something and you’re well equipped. Keep us informed of your progress.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/hundreds-gather-at-2-block-parties-philadelphia-police-called-to-disperse-crowds.html
Tell me again how deadly this virus is.
Was it a Seattle style block party?
I also put the pull up bar back in the doorway. I did sets of 7-6-5-4-3-3-3.
Dood, if you are doing legit pull ups (palms away) and not the cheating “chinups” (palms toward) I am impressed.
I can honestly say they are pull-ups. Thanks.
? respect!
https://mobile.twitter.com/mikedolanny/status/1286985443859468288
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Maybe the fight scene in West Side Story is more accurate than I thought.
Eating right is part of glib fit, right?
Grilling some kebabs right now.
Haven’t figured out what I’m doing for dinner.
I have a lot of food in the kitchen… and still can’t figure out what to eat.
Grilled pork chops and salad. #lazycook
What sidearm?
Just my normal Kimber micro 9.
I read it as lady cock. I’m spending too much time here.
I grilled some green beans and onion in the grill pan over charcoal earlier and burnt them a bit. #drinkinginthepool Then some boneless skinless chicken thighs that got a bit charred as well. (same reason) I plan on adding that to leftover red beans and rice that should probably be chucked but I am strengthening my immune system.
I fixed new to me POS car in short time this am. No big deal putting a serpentine belt on this particular vehicle. The reason the previous belt disintegrated itself was because the tensioner pulley was about to fall off the car. Fuck knuckle who last changed the belt did not tighten it after adjusting tension. I am going to have words with the dude I bought it from. I have spent hours now fixing shit his mechanic has fucked up because he is apparently dumb as dog shit. But then again a cheap car is a cheap car so I can’t bitch too much. You get what you pay for, and I refuse to pay much for a car.
Have you seen my Envoy…?
https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a33421849/kate-upton-workout-hip-thrusts-exercise-ben-bruno-training-video/
Justin Verlander really does have an awesome life.
Just finished a pre-hurricane lunch frittata. I will wait until I start until the storm is closer to start in on the rum drinks.
The eye too a jog slightly to the north. I should top out a couple of hours of tropical storm strength winds. I will be pissed if I don’t get a few inches of rain for the garden and the pool.
“I will wait until I start until the storm is closer to start in on the rum drinks.“
Based on this sentence, the storm must be positively apocalyptic by now.
Hummus recipe
Yum! I like hummus!
If I didn’t before, I do now.