What a weird week. My gym moved a decent part of its equipment outside because that’s the only for them to stay open in my county under Governor Newsom’s increasingly quixotic Covid-19 diktats. The forecast was morning lows in the mid 50s. It was actually in the mid 40s.
This turned out to be a win–some–lose–some proposition. Warming up was harder and I gave it more time. (I’m increasingly wistful for my youth.) Once I was working out, it was easy not getting overheated. There wasn’t any water service (i.e. water fountain) outside so bringing my own was essential. I tend to drink a lot of water while working out but at these temps it was not a big deal.
I will admit not being able to go into my gym is a mental impediment. It’s physically not the same as working out at home but mentally it’s not the same as going to the gym. I wimped out one morning when I was tired, it was cold, and I rationalized getting another hour of sleep. I’m going to say three Saint Goggins and get back to it this week.
I am concerned about what will happen during the next two to three months. The testing rate in my county is up. I’m agnostic about whether that is good or bad. I’m fairly well convinced it has contributed to our increased case rate. We are getting a higher percentage of positive tests but the hospitalization rate has barely moved and the death rate continues to fall. But my governor doesn’t care about SCIENCE! Under the current edict, until my county gets back to a positivity rate below 5% and stays there for three weeks, we stay in the purple (i.e. highest) tier.
This is the time of year we get 40 and even 50–degree temperature swings. Mornings can be in the high 30s and low 40s with daytime highs in the high 80s to low 90s. In another month or so we enter our rainy season. I’m not lifting weights in the rain. I’m not entirely sure how much I will be willing to lift when its in the 30s. This is all uncharted territory. I may need to reread Saint Goggins so I can suck it up.
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Halloween was way too quiet this year. We had only a handful of trick or treaters. Thanks goodness there are some parents who realize their grade school children are not at mortal risk by dressing up and walking around outside. I was delighted not to see a single mask that wasn’t a Halloween mask.
I wasn’t around yesterday to engage in what I assume was a raging a debate about the best Halloween song. Here are the best Halloween and/or Halloween appropriate songs in order:
Talking music without MikeS seems wrong somehow. Can one of you Minnesota Glibs give him a poke? I mean a hard enough one to get him to comment.
Weight trend line is still going down and I’m taking that as a win. Skipped going to spin classes the past two weeks as I may have been exposed to the ‘vid. No symptoms yet, so I’ve scheduled a class for Friday.
I pedaled my exercise bike 36 miles yesterday and Friday and I’ll do it 36 miles today. My pace is 18 mph and I do it on maximum resistance. It’s been getting easier. Not sure if because my legs are stronger or the resistance mechanism is wearing out. Either way, the results are good. My weight has hit a new low and I lost an inch of my gut since I got the bike. Still need to lose another 1.5 inches to meet the standard. The 145 pound atlas stone is getting easier to lift. I’m getting close to lifting the 175 pound one. To get there, I’ve been doing multiple lifts of the lighter stone.
My diet has been mainly lo-carb yogurt, olives, Kickstart e drink (80 cal per pint, vitamins, caffeine), tuna, and whole grain cereal. Seems to be working. I ate Chik Fil A yesterday and still managed to lose weight. Score!
Well, I’m off to reward myself with a mall pretzel. So please forgive me for going OT early.
Trump got the Ford (GM?) commercial voice over guy to do an ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ44PIS-ty0
Trump’s sarcasm goes over CNN’s head again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0SRoPaA3UE
If you don’t mind me asking, what keeps you going on the stationary? I’ve got one (as well as a trainer that I can hook one of my real bikes up to), I just find it too tedious to keep doing. In the before times (when water fountains and restrooms were open), I wouldn’t think twice about going out for a 30-50 mile ride on a whim, but doing it on a stationary bike just drains me. The one reason I’ve kept up with the spin class studio I go to is that they have stats and a leader board (different instructors use it differently), and I get stats at the end of the ride. Knowing that I’ll be held accountable (if even to just my pride) lets me keep going.
Music from my laptop helps a lot. I tend to read as I pedal as well. I’ve gotten used to long periods of boredom from the many hours I’ve spent on treadmills and ellipticals. Ever watched the same 10 minutes of ESPN for 5 hours while being blasted with whatever crappy music the gym clerks like? Yeah, I like my set-up way better.
I’ve ridden my exercise bike 800 miles in 5 weeks. The mileage counter only goes up to 999.9 miles and it only displays mileage for the past week and past month.
I just ordered a smart trainer and will try it with one of those apps that make it look like you are cycling in real roads and also has training plans. I’ll see if it keeps me motivated now that I can’t do after work rides now that the time has changed.
I’ve mounted my road bike one and I find that the scenery and the stats and maintaining a profile is enough to engage me so its not just a matter of watching the clock until you can make the pain stop.
Oh yeah, and 64 days booze free. My last 4 or 5 satires were from sober Derpy. Drunk Derpy wrote the others.
Oopsy – 57 days. Thought it was November 8th for some reason. Either way, yay me.
There wasn’t any water service (i.e. water fountain) outside so bringing my own was essential. – this is not a thing in Romania, always bring your own
Here gyms are open but for various reasons I did not get there as often as I should have last month… probably a total of 11 times over 4 weeks.
I did completely change my routine to full body workout every day I get there though… And I think I will keep that for the future. Otherwise DOMS is killing me, I was always very susceptible to the thing
I did not lose any weight this year but I did not gain either with the work from home extra booze
I still try to walk 5 kilometers a day and I also bought a skipping rope and will try to learn to use if for extra cardio
I recently bought a jump rope, my doG do I feel old using it. It is an ass kicker to start out, but I’m getting there.
I had the same experience. It’s surprisingly good exercise.
Don’t your DOMS go away if you just stick to your routine? Mine do. DOMS tend to be a reaction to novel stimulus (IE, new exercises, returns after layoffs, etc.) and, IMO, tend to be worse on compound movements and lower body movements.
If I could just be better with my nutrition, I’d be set as my workouts are on point. But the old habit of stress eating is becoming difficult to beat when the world has decided to jack up stress to bizarre heights.
Our gym finally reopened in the past month after being closed since mid-March. I’ve been three times now, but only to do the circuit weight training I can’t do at home, because you are required to wear a mask at all times, even on cardio machines, and I just can’t do a treadmill with a mask on, I’d suffocate. Fortunately we have an elliptical trainer at home for the daily cardio, but I really feel for those who don’t. Dozens of empty cardio machines at the gym, I’m guessing no one else wants to try heavy breathing through a required mask either.
I decided to get back into running this week after a month or three on neglect. A little disappointed with my watch because it is completely inaccurate in keeping track of my distance.
It’s physically not the same as working out at home but mentally it’s not the same as going to the gym – I order some equipment to set up in my basement and I will see how it goes. I still want to go to the gym but I want some backup. The basement is not heated and I have no idea how cold it gets in winter but at least no rain.
somewhat OT, somewhat related to glibfit , beware of cycling it can get painful
https://twitter.com/MiguelM73104161/status/1322407913009434625
Ouch. Fuckin’ jumpin’ cactus is evil.
Riding a bike offroad around jumping cactus. How did that genius think that was going to turn out?
I rarely comment on the glibfit articles but I will today. I have no shortage of firewood. I am still sawing up oak and hauling it up the hill by hand as my 4×4 died. Spin class aint got nuthin’ on that.
Oak sounds like expensive firewood.
Owowowowowwww
I’m doing the hills loop weekly and trying to walk on the beach for an hour before work a couple of times a week. I’ll going sailing this afternoon for a “pirate race”. The state has revoked the use permits for racing so we don’t race. It is a totally random collection of boats departing at the same time and going the same places in the same order. If we are trying to go fast it is just to get away from the other boats. It seems they are all plague ships.
You need a state permit for a race? What commie state is that?
No votes for “Sympathy for the Devil” for a Halloween hit? Odd that.
It’s a great song. It’s just not a Halloween song.
My church did a series of sermons on topics or questions that congregants put into a box anonymously.
My husband was the bass player in the church band and also led the whole music service of the paid guy was off for the week.
So when it was time to pick music that goes with the sermon “theme” my husband happened to be leading and chose Sympathy for the Devil. It was a hit with the congregation.
Wait, what? Sympathy for the Devil?
Apart from the usual – 45-minute Butts & Guts class on Tuesday, 45 minutes of backstroke laps on Thursday – I finally got on the treadmill yesterday for the first time in weeks and got in 30 minutes at 3.3 MPH. Also found some Keto trail mix packs at Sam’s which seem to be enough to keep me from the junk snacks in the breakroom.
I have about a week and a half of vacation coming up in the middle of this month, and I think I’m going to try to go to a class at one of the local YMCAs every weekday. (I feel very lucky that our gyms are open here in Ohio,) I need to make as much progress as I can on my fitness as we approach the holidays, during which the food temptation never seems to end.
Can one of you Minnesota Glibs give him a poke? I mean a hard enough one to get him to comment.
These euphemisms.
Sorry about your gym.
I will post this again. My gym got visited.
The Clown Prince’s edict… err… guidance for gyms is that staff must wear masks at all times and members must wear a mask in the lobby area. Nashua, where the gym is located, has a mask ordinance which states that staff must wear masks at all times and members must wear masks except when actively exercising.
Until recently the gym staff only wore a mask in the lobby area. They only enforced the Clown Prince’s rules about masks.
A week or so ago, I noted all the staff, even the ones that think Lil Rona is a hoax, wearing masks. When I said hi to my trainer, I said, “Hi, I see a bunch of assholes visited you.”
He said, “Do you want to get madder? I’ll tell you who sold us out.”
“Who?”
“A member.”
A member took a picture of the staff not wearing a mask in the lobby area and sent the picture to the Board of Health. I think the State Board of Health, not the city Board of Health. The Board of Health showed up. The goon refused to show the picture to the gym manager and refused to name the member. The staff all now wear masks.
My weight has been going up again. I will have to clean up my diet. I have slacked off in some ways.
The weights I’m lifting are still going up. My trainer will have a new program for me and thinks I’ve improved enough to deadlift with a barbell. We will continue squatting with a kettlebell. Instead of moving from floor presses to bench presses, the trainer thinks it would be good to split the difference on range of motion. He’d like me to start pin pressing and see how my back handles the pressure at the low end of the range of motion.
I am working my way through the music links. Black Sabbath’s “Black Sabbath” is an excellent song.
No right to face your accuser or see the evidence presented against you when its the Health Dept.
“A member.”
People are assholes.
The Russian is “stukach”.
Going to bed now so will leave you with one last OT tweet which I found amusing.
https://twitter.com/TheAliceSmith/status/1322972554592718864
I thought you went to bed at sunup.
Nah, that’s Festus.
Down the page: https://mobile.twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1322737795253809152/photo/1
The Type O Negative song is good.
Needs more Psychobilly and Zombiegirl. No links as I’m on my phone, watching the Browns try to stay in the hunt.
Alright… game’s over. Back at the computer, where typing is much easier.
Kitty in a Casket – In Blood We Trust
Zombie Girl – Halloween 09
Both are good.
The “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” song is good.
Wait, two Type O Negative songs? Ahh… a cover of Black Sabbath’s “Black Sabbath”. I haven’t heard this one yet. Listening now.
No, it’s not a cover. It’s something a bit different.
That’s why Type O Negative is in there twice.
Not impressed. Sorry.
Guess I missed it too.
This Is Halloween, Nightmare Before Xmas (or Dead Man’s Party)
Every Day Is Halloween, Ministry
Monster Mash
by default anything by Samhain (or so I will have to assume)
I am not an Oingo Boingo fan. Hence, no Dead Man’s Party. Ministry was too on the nose. Monster Mash has been done to death. You are probably right about Samhain. I’m just not familiar with their work.
How about The Stranglers’ song “Skin Deep”, also known as “Better watch out for the Ghoulies”?
https://youtu.be/_-h0lVANfnY
I decided to swallow my pride and sacrifice intensity for consistency. I’ve had so many stops and starts over the past few years, and it’s because I’m shooting for a return to the past in the shortest time possible. I would start out at 30 or 45 minute workouts and try to work up to an hour as quickly as I could.
This time, I’ve been successful in doing 4 workouts in the first week. Thats the most I’ve done in probably 3 or 4 years. What changed? Two things. 1) its a class at work, so I’m doing it later in the morning. 2) it’s a 20 minute workout.
“Establish the habit” is my motto, this time. Intensity can come once working out is back in my daily routine.
Good job Trashy. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Do what works for you.
Just when I thought I couldn’t think any less of the two assholes running for president:
In Trump and Biden, a Choice of Teetotalers for President (TW: NY Times).
Sorry, meant as a new thread.
/hangs head; feels shame.
Explains why they’re the worst.
“Shout at the Devil” is a song I haven’t listened to in a very, very long time.
Thanks for the Mötley love, Chafed.
The high school my kids DON’T go to is 3 miles away as the crow flies. Friday night, the loudspeakers were so loud I could hear every word amd every song they played THROUGH my closed window, THROUGH my noise-canceling headphones.
Music was almos all 80s and the Crüe twice.
My kids both love 80s music and they didn’t get it from me. (I mean, they can get their music from me because I have it on the family cloud.) But I did not brainwash them with my coming-of-age music. Their peers also love the 80s music.
I can’t make sense of this.
To be fair, pop music seems way worse now than it used to be.
Auto-tune.
Also, people seem to be phoning it in.
XX also loves early 00s goth metal.
“Auto-tune.”
Yes, this.
There’s really no question that pop music is worse now than it used to be. Auto-tune is part of it, but more is the post-millennial distaste for talent.
MikeS was at the Honey Harvest, he’s been working some long hours plus a long commute. When (if) things settle down I’m sure he’ll be back here.
Unless he is working Sundays, tell him to pop in every once in a while.
DKs anyone? Jeez
https://youtu.be/RRDpabxm0so
GlibFit.
https://archive.li/9SGG4
@CPRM from previous post:
Thanks for the well-wishing. q-ette is baking well and I’ll be posting a bit more frequently now. Keep fighting the good fight.
Working out 3x a week in the mornings still. Pace of results has definitely slowed, which I think is partially due to malaise and partially due to a limit on equipment. All workouts are done outside, so hopefully I’m able to continue consistently now that things are below freezing in the mornings.
Look fat, It takes more than ominous church bells and drop D tuning to make a Halloween song
Hyperboles top two list (since that’s the limit)
1. It’s okay to camp it up a bit
2. Murder songs are best served sweet
The second one is Sugar Free level creepy. Dude, not necessary.
Looks like the dashboard stuff is missing?
“Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1322920097758040064
Don’t read the comments.
The mainstream media won’t publish it so it’s not true!
How do you do, fellow kids?
https://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/1322665368108716033
Saw that earlier.
Why though? ?♂️
I have no idea, unless she’s making fun of obvious pandering?
Cringe
I believe this was referenced last night as being the worst commercial ever and that seems to check out.
““Not Pro-Black”: Wisconsin Students Unanimously Vote To Remove Lincoln Statue As Racist
We previously discussed the effort at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to have the famous statue of Abraham Lincoln removed as racist. The student government has now voted unanimously in favor of a resolution that calls for the removal of the Abraham Lincoln statue on campus. The students declared that the president who signed the Emancipation Proclamation, advocated for the 13th Amendment, and led the war against the South and slavery was “not pro-Black” and a “remnant of White Supremacy.” That would likely have come as something of a surprise to John Wilkes Booth.”
https://jonathanturley.org/2020/10/30/not-pro-back-wisconsin-students-unanimously-vote-to-remove-lincoln-statue-as-racist/
Can any of these jackwagons pass a high school history test from 1940? 1980?
They should have to take the citizen test for immigrants.
Meh, that is so easy they might pass.
It doesn’t sound like they could.
I mean if the statue is offensive I guess we should let it get taken down.
Tomorrow will be 7 days smoke free. I do not have words for how much better I felt just after day three. *eyes mtn bike to my right* I might even drag that thing out one of these days.
Awesome!
/former smoker
It’s a tough slog, but well worth it!
7 years tobacco free for me. Tried vaping when I was quitting, but that just hurt my chest more than the cigarettes did. Went the patch/gum route and that got me past the worst of it.
Congrats! I think it’s been a few years for me, but I vape. Still, a big improvement over smoking.
Yeah, I switched from cigs to vaping two years ago. Feel so much better.
Yay! That’s an excellent habit to become free of. Best of luck.
Congrats!!!
Excellent!
Hooray!
In my life, I’ve smoked a few cigarettes, a few cigars, and a few puffs on a hookah. Never saw the appeal, except for the hookah which made feel like that caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland.
Fun fact: hookah comes from the Persian word for jar. The Arabic word for hookah is arghileh (ar-GHEE-leh). Narghileh means let’s go smoke some hookah.
In Swahili, you don’t smoke cigarettes, you pull them. Kuvuta sigara means to smoke (literally, pull) cigarettes.
The local guys on several jobs I did would sit outside their tents and smoke hookah in the evenings. They had some really good smelling tobacco in N Iraq. Reminded me of the old timey pipe tobaccos a few of my uncles used to smoke. Kenyan cigs are awful. In South Sudan that is all they had. Players Match was an exceptionally horrible smoke. It had a soccer player on the package and you could taste the dirt and cow shit the tobacco was apparently mixed with. I smoked a ton of them. When you are living in a swamp a cow shit cigarette is the least of your problems and you have obviously made bad life choices the cigarette not ranking as the worst.
That is great! Good luck, I know you can do it! And I know that it sounds insincere adding this but that is sincere as fuck, you’ve got this 😉
I used Nicorette gum to help.
I gained some weight while quitting but it’s still healthier than smoking, and you can lose the weight next.
Quitter.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/holy-crap-fake-kamala-got-loomered-laura-loomer-catches-kamala-harris-body-double-palm-beach-polling-place-video-photos/
Check your 2020 bingo card for candidate body doubles.
WTF? Was she part of the campaign or was it an independent stunt?
/shrug
No idea.
It would be the difference between an “impersonator” and a “body double”.
You’ll have to take that up with the author. I’m just a shit posting link monkey. ?
What the…?
Where will they find a crypt keeper to stand in for Joe?
C’mon man!
Shits getting weird, yo.
Sign me up.
Ah, so it was the body double who mispronounced her name in Cleveland the other day.
It’s all beginning to make sense now.
suggested music: Monty Python Theme song
https://twitter.com/reneeygraham/status/1322586265850728457
Idiotic tweet. So a line of vehicles is now fascist and so is Trump?
They believe what they need to believe. Anything but a little good faith and a little bit of that live, and let live attitude. Anything but just taking a moment and realising how horrible they are, and how their entire worldview is a matter of faith and make-believe, so who is really comparable to murderous zealots?
There’s a clip of a truck pushing a white car over. It’s mildly debatable if the white car was trying to force it’s way in front of the truck, after the bus changed lanes, or the truck forced it’s way in from the shoulder ( the camera looks away for a second when it starts). Sure looks like the car tried to cut off the truck and he just made sure it didn’t happen. Talking point is that the Trumpers tried to force the bus off the road. That’s plainly not even close to true. Need more info to be sure, but it wasn’t the bus.
Oh yeah – that tweet is from a columnist for the Boston Globe, a former newspaper.
Still no alcohol since the end of February.
In a slight rut on weight loss but at least I’m not gaining.
Halloween candy at work will be a temptation to avoid.
(Disclaimer: I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with alcohol. It’s just not for me anymore).
https://www.fox29.com/news/pennsylvania-secretary-of-state-says-it-will-take-days-to-count-overwhelming-majority-of-votes
Fuck you. Get to work.
I’ve been thinking of the ballot logistics today. In the states I’m familiar with, votes are tallied by precinct, then by county, then rolled up to state.
The results are also reported out that way when the vote is final.
But with mail-in votes, they won’t come in geography self-sorted by precinct.
Depending on the 50 state election processes, this could take some time. If all the votes for a state legislator have to be co-located, for example, there will be a lot of sorting and transporting.
Well, back to the bike. Here are two playlists that helped pass the time for me:
blue grass hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQnmQInRm_0
old blues hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5BuumJ5xA
Just saw an ad for Biden that had a montage of cornfields and Fortunate Playing in the background while a Sam Peckinpah sound alike spouted platitudes. Pathetic.
Fortunate Son playing, I meant.
That’s Sam Elliott – sounding like…Sam Elliott. Fortunate Son was an interesting music choice for Joe.
Other Ron. I hate other Ron.
I’m getting fit by taking the kid skating at various skate parks. Today we went to a historic set of banks called Bronson Ditch. Skated about two hours. I’m a little gun shy of injuries, so I keep it mellow-ish. Buncha bert slides and kickturns. My kid has taken to watching the Dogtown movie over and over. Really takes it out of me. I’m not leaving the couch for the next few hours! My legs keep getting stronger, every time we skate. I bought an Alva re-issue board, but I’m not sold on it completely. I think I might want some harder wheels. It has great bearings, though. Great exercise, especially for legs. Takes about 3-4 days to feel the burn subside.
I gave my Jay Adams Zephyr to my grandson, even with pro, I worried, and Im a vert skater, careful
https://mobile.twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1323018859301974017
Poor Joe.
Hen, eagle what’s the diff?
I watched him for a minute. It was kind of bizarre. He was angry yelling his speech. At a couple of points he paused for applause – to absolute silence since nobody was there. He did promise to make us all wear masks forever.
To be fair to Joe, for him “forever” is probably only a few months.
Huh, login page is different and I can’t get to the dashboard. Oh well. I’m sure it will get sorted out.
#metoo
I hope SP fixes the jumping to the top thing, especially before election night.
Swing state movie blitz – starting with “Flashdance” for Pennsylvania. I’m holding Michigan to last – I may need to resort to Michael Moore.
Lockdown is on the ballot
If Red state anti lockdown governor’s had any balls they would preemptively tell Biden he can go pound sand. If the president can’t lift lockdowns in the states he can’t impose them.
Once they pack the court:
Something something suicide pact, something something interstate commerce. Fytw.
Like I said. If they had balls they would say that’s a nice opinion, we’re still going to arrest any federal officials trying to enforce this.
Yeah, but they don’t. So expect fun times.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
I was disappointed that the Halloween song list didn’t include Fear of the Dark.
Second the vote for Dead Man’s Party.
My old GPS running watch died this week; I bought a new Garmin model (Forerunner 35). It’s like night and day. The old watch would only measure speed and distance. The new one has so many functions, some of them are even useful. It was cool to see the map of my run with pace, heart rate, elevation. I paid about the same for each watch.
Less than $100? If you don’t mind me asking.
$105 on Amazon.
Not bad. £79 over here which is give or take a couple bucks the same. I’m tempted.
Last Sunday I rode about 105 miles burning over 6000 calories and my weight stayed the same. Maybe I’m just at that age where it doesn’t matter what I do.
what did you eat? am typing with one hand while pedaling
Yes. “Pedaling”.
/Toobin
105? Holy shit that is a monkey ass inducing ride there.
7,000 calories would be about two pounds of fat, or, if you prefer, one quart of water as part of your re-(over?)-hydration.
Or one good shit.
an hr of pedaling with max resistance at 18 mph burns 500 cals for me; think your gauge might be wrong
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According to Harvard University, biking at a moderate speed of 12 to 13.9 miles per hour will cause a 155-pound person to burn 298 calories in 30 minutes. At a faster rate of 14 to 15.9 miles per hour, a person of the same weight will burn 372 calories.
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if you’re burning the same number as me, your total will about 3600 cal for 100 miles
The calorie count comes from the Strava estimate. It’s possible that it’s wrong.
rules of thumb for me
2 hours of heavy exercise per day for each pound you want to lose
to maintain, 1 hr of heavy exercise per day
Yes.
I am at my heaviest ever. It’s not been this bad in ever. I was doing well until March but things have gone badly ever since, and I’ve only myself to blame.
Keto was everything in my previous success. I don’t have any kind of regular routine, and this has become more irregular this year. Without some kind of routine I find it very difficult to structure my diet.
I was at my lightest in a long time back in February, I almost hit my goal of 180. With stress eating, heavy drinking, and eating out more (to try to save the local restaurants) I’m back up over 200 again.
Keto may work for others, I have issues with it. I’ve found calorie counting is the only way I can consistently drop weight, even at a 4 day counting, 3 day no counting rotation. It would obviously be better to count for 5-7 days, but I would be an even grumpier person at that point.
Best of luck to you in dropping weight. It’s a hard thing to do.
In FL Covid news…….
Looks like Ron D done good. If Florida wasn’t so apparently overcrowded, humid, and hurricane-prone, I might want to live there. Actually Pensacola looks nice.
I loved FL back in the day. I might even end up there again if I live long enough but it was getting way crowded the last time I visited five or so years ago. I have a problem with crowded.
SoDak is obviously looking mighty good these days, if you don’t mind the winters.
Death rate in Europe… hint, you have to scroll down to find Sweden.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
Since I’m a reservist – still technically limited to every other day at the gym – although they let me go in to change on the off days so I can run outside. Working my way back up on weights but still not where I was pre-shutdown in Mar. Also a little frustrating that a few of the machines here don’t match the ones I was using before for particular exercises- and these elliptical suck compared to my last gym so I’m doing warm-ups on the treadmill.
Bigger problem is that I’ve kinda fallen off the low carb diet – mostly just got bored and antsy for other foods. Sweet-tooth isn’t helping- will try and increase the frozen fruit dosages to help fill up.
Was looking at this photo about the Beverly Hills mAGA/Antifa skirmish. Anifa goons are looking…uniformed nowadays. Its no longer trashcans and whiffle bats and a rainbow brite outfit.
What have I been saying?
I dunno, what have you been saying?
What’s amazing is the size of the Trump crowd in West L.A. no less. There’s a clip of a guy whose flag they tried to steal and he hits the antifag with it. The rest of them dogpile him and kick/punch him bloody. Fucking low lifes.
The bikini chick needs a closer look to determine a wood.
Linky?
Around the minute mark. ?
https://youtu.be/AVI6gV9KcWQ
Hm, that is a tough one, at first look I thought yes, but on second look I’d probably need a couple beers in me before going for it.
Also, that looks like a total shitfest, the flag guy was insane to go back in there after his buddy saved him the first time.
https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1323015321997946880/photo/1
“I’m just relieved there is a camp option” XD
Okay, now everyone go study their Gulag Archipelago.
I’ve got a lot of ammo ready for redistribution.
No idea if satire ?♂️
Get around 8,000 to 15,000 steps per day at work, and lifting around 50 bags or more between 25 – 75 #’s. Try to do push ups every day (30 -50), get some stretching in and the last 8 weeks have been reffing football three nights a week. Just don’t overeat, but not a strict diet, have a salad three – four times a week, banana and apple for breakfast, unless really hungry don’t eat during my route, so a 7 – 11 hour fast.
Been keeping me between 205 – 210.
I miss lifting weights, but with officiating and my work schedule (05-00 – 14-00), would not be able to get a good schedule.
Also, starting to do the Wim Hof breathing. Thanks for that info (Tundra I think)
96 miles of Trump train?!?!?!? Hope the polls are wrong again.
Will have self defense appliances with me starting Tues – ???
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There is no media bias….
CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and a speech writer for Obama.
NBC’s former President and CEO Jeff Zucker is now President of CNN worldwide. His wife Caryn Nathanson was a Supervisor for NBC and worked on Saturday Night Live.
NBC News Political Analyst, David Axelrod was Obama’s Chief Campaign Advisor and Senior Advisor directly to Obama himself.
ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, Obama’s National Security Advisor, who is now on the Netflix Board of Directors. The Obamas just won an Oscar for their Netflix show and the winners quoted the Communist Manifesto.
NBC CEO Stephen Burke is a Board Member of Warren Buffet’s Company Berkshire Hathaway. Buffet raised $920 million for Obama’s campaign.
NBC’s moderator for Meet the Press, David Gregory, is married to Beth Wilkinson, a lawyer defending Hillary in her email scandal.
ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who now works for CNN as a commentator.
ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama’s Deputy Press Secretary.
ABC News chief political correspondent and anchor George Stephanopoulos was the White House Communications Director then Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategy for Bill Clinton, and was caught secretly donating $75,000 to the Clinton foundation.
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama’s Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood.
NBC’s Chelsea Clinton was making $600,000.00 a year + benefits as a starting reporter.
Univision’s Emmy Award Winning Anchor Jorge Ramos’s daughter is working on Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
Donna Brazile, Interim Head of the Democrat Party also writes for NBC and CNN. She was fired as head of the DNC for giving Hillary the debate questions before the Presidential Debate.
Yahoo is partnered with ABC News. The CEO of yahoo, Marissa Mayer is also an Obama campaign donor who has donated over $300,000.00 to Obama’s campaigns and has even hosted Obama fundraisers in her own home.
CNN writer Imran Awan, was a staffer for former DNC Chair Debbie “Ramen Hair” Wasserman Shultz, and he was arrested for trying to flee the country while under house arrest.
CNN’s Symone Sanders was the spokesperson for Presidential Campaigns for Bernie Sanders 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.
Failed Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta writes for the Washington Post, which uses The Washington Post as a source in its own articles.
NPR is funded by the Podesta Group. The CEO is Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta.
John Podesta was also the President and CEO of the Liberal Center for American Progress, Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff, and was co-chair of Obama’s Transition team.
CNN’s Chris “Fredo” Cuomo is the brother of Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo and son of Democrat Governor Mario Cuomo. Chris Cuomo previously worked for ABC.
because bored – humor warmup
Political Science Professor Smarter Than Billionaire Who Got Elected President on His First Try
HARVARD – “It’s simply laughable to compare me to that addlepated simpleton”, said Professor Samuel Gambolputty. “To pick but one example, everyday I give a multiple choice quiz that subtly references my favorite Babylon 5 episodes. Could that money-grubbing rube do likewise? Ha! To the best of my knowledge, he’s never even tried!”
Professor Gambolputty added that unlike Trump, he has published in many highly-respected journals and has even appeared as an expert on C-SPAN. And Professor Gambolputty isn’t the only genius in his family. “Perhaps you’ve heard of my niece, Joanna. So proud of her. She’s been in the news a lot lately.” Professor Gambolputty went on to critique Trump’s business career. “Did you that six of his busineesses have gone bankrupt? Six! I, on the other hand, have never had any bankruptcies, personal or otherwise. And never need to worry about it either, because I have tenure.” Even Trump’s appearance was not safe from Professor Gambolputty’ razor wit. “That buffoon is as dumb as he looks. You know what I call him? Agent Orange. Ha! I got out of bed in the middle of the night to write that one down. My friend in the zoology department named a new species of amphibian. It’s called dermophis donaldtrumpi. It’s a serpentine, nearly blind amphibian that buries its head in the sand. Ha! I’d love to see the look on that scoundrel’s face when he found out! It’s a shame he doesn’t read! Another friend in the entomology department named a moth after Trump. Neopalpa donaldtrumpi is known for its orange head and the males have smaller genitalia than moths in the same genus. The symbolism is obvious, course.” In his spare time, Professor Gambolputty enjoys crossword puzzles and taking his dog Machiavelli out for walks. “He’s a Komondor, a Hungarian sheepdog. Their bravery is legendary. During World War II, the only way the Germans or Russians could capture a Hungarian farmhouse was by killing the Komondor. Often they are derided as mere so-called mop dogs. Rubbish! They are a fine breed indeed. I dare say my dog is smarter than Trump, even when he is dragging his butt across my favorite oriental rug. Did you know that Trump doesn’t even have a dog?”
OW!!! Tundra; Fourscore; quit poking me!
Chafed, you have number 1 and 2 switched around, but otherwise it looks like a good list.