I got back to the gym this week. I didn’t get in all my workouts, but I got in some so I’m at least moving in the right direction. I did manage to get in all my conditioning workouts which turned out to be more important than I thought. Having stepped on the scale for the first time in a month the numbers were not good.
Living in Gavin Newsom’s California, my gym is saddled with requiring us to wear masks. I dutifully put mine on and was quickly reminded why they are such a pain the ass and, I’m sure, useless.
I warmed up on the elliptical machine and, after a few minutes, was breathing fairly hard. The moisture on the inside of my mask was obvious. My workout hadn’t even started, and it was getting wet. Surely the government has something to say about this. The CDC helpfully advised, “If you are able to wear a mask, remove your mask if it gets moist from sweat and replace it with a clean mask.” Lol. Man/Women/NonGenderBinaryPerson what do you think is going to happen during the next sixty minutes?
During the course of my workout, I just had to take the damn thing off several times in order to catch my breath. No one in the gym said a word when I did.
Leaving the gym, this kabuki theater stuck in my craw. There were perhaps two dozen people in my gym while I was working out. The place is cavernous. I suspect it is roughly akin to being outdoors because of the interior volume. Before I left the commercial garage doors separating the interior from the outdoor workout area were rolled up.
Anyone 16 years or older in California can get The Jab™ if they want. Our case, hospitalization, and infection rates have crashed. Isn’t the whole point of mass vaccination to allow to return to normal life? Why the hell do I have to wear a mask?
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Remember this from last week? “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.” 1 Goggins 2:7. In happier news my maskless conditioning at home is going well. This past week I set a personal best by jumping rope for 32 minutes straight. In 5 minute intervals I went from a quarter pound rope to a half pound rope to a one-pound rope. Coming back down, I sort of lost track of time but think I did about eight minutes with the half pound rope and the remainder with the quarter pound rope.
Weekly cuteness. Possibly shot at the Straffinrun or Tejicano residence.
Why the hell do I have to wear a mask?
Pigeon superstition.
You’re not wrong.
Hit a new low weight and body fat percentage this past week (well, low for the past year), trend lines continue to point downward, and I got to mingle with strangers yesterday (without a mask!). There was quite a bit of walking done yesterday (just under 10 miles per the Fitbit), but that was offset by a large amount of beer and food consumed. Planning on biking somewhere to get dinner tonight.
Fasted for 21 hours yesterday. Skipped breakfast every day except today.
I walked or rowed 5 of 7 days. The walking is just painful (arthritic knees) especially going down hill.
Down another 3 lbs. for the week. Total of 10 lbs. exhaled as CO2 over the past 3 weeks. I wish it would come off faster.
Focaccia bread (for the rest of the family) is rising on the counter. Low Carb Chicken Tikka (for me) is marinating.
That’s a great fast strategy. Keep it up. Maybe try skipping dinner instead.
For knee pain, I would improve strength/size of your quadriceps so your knee cap doesn’t move as much as you go down hills. It might help with the pain. The rowing might help but doing some specific exercises for the quads might give greater benefit and pain relief.
Good. Sorry about the knees.
Good.
I haven’t weighed this week. I was down a few pounds over the previous weeks due to forgetting to eat or not having the opportunity (hospital cafeterias are still closed).
Now that operation Spring Mr Splosives from medical jail is complete, I’m still trying to achieve a new normalcy at home with diet and exercise. Home Chef is keeping meal portions controlled. Exercise is easy to come by when I’m the only one doing chores.
The problem is my joints. I don’t mind the muscle burn—that’s normal and healthy. But I need a back brace or something to help with all the heavy lifting.
Still, heading the right direction, I think.
I’m glad you got him home and things seem to be looking up. Be really careful with lifting heavy things. Get someone to help if it seems like it might be too much. It’s one thing to just be tiring and a whole ‘nother to be too heavy for you. It only takes one attempt at too much to really screw yourself and it sounds like the two of you both need for you to be in good shape.
Hospital cafeterias are closed?! What BS!
My mom has the numbers of several casual movers. Also Coleman have been reliable in our experience.
Ugh, never mind: am addled. Two parents with various avoirdupois requirements. Mmmf.
Back brace….I’m not even
Your husband is home? That is good news.
Great song selection. Enjoyed the otter vid, too.
The fucking mask religion is driving me nuts. Bidenarris just announced that it will continue to be a federal crime to not wear one at all airports until Sept. 13. They seem to think it’s my patriotic duty to wear the fucking mule feed bags for the rest of time. Everyone but me got jabbed and they’re all sick of it now too. They keep “forgetting” to put the masks back on. Not sure how harsh management will get or if we only really have to worry about the alphabets. There’s a number of fed agencies and they all come into our yard for various things at some point,
Big Chafed, How and thanks for this edition. Greetings from NOCal. Beautiful hiking weather… a little snakey (saw first rattler yesterday). First drought articles have been issued. Seems local reservoirs are really low…good thing snow pack and reservoirs that actually supply water are above normal. Oh well, drought here anyway; conserve mandate and price hike eminent. Also, because drought…you get vaccinated!
G-fit update: Sleep was very good. Food was very proteinii and lower carb levels are paying off. Hike mileage was 33 miles. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; I didn’t do it much this week. Weight loss of 2# to 174. Did limited MIIT…mostly stairs with weighted pack.
My gym opened up BUT there are so many rules, guidelines and appointments required I am going to wait until June to go back. I need to do more weight work because the bands are not cutting it. I am losing muscle mass in shoulders and chest.
Goals: Met goal weight top range max (175). Still not dead from Covid…
48 hr fast went well. My wife decided to do another 48 fast later in the week because she wants to loss additional weight. Her total loss for the week was 6#, which she is very happy about. We have been trying to go OMAD and a light snack the last couple of weeks. Trying to not eat anything after 4 pm under the theory that eating late in the day when metabolism slows is not optimum for weight loss and control.
Covid Update: I am getting ready for the panic porn coming out the media from cases in India. From what I can tell, India was passed over in the 2020 first wave of Vid (no excess M/M). Considering, India can barely provide adequate sanitation (except low tide) in their cities any excess in mortality/morbidity, as seen in other developed nations (EU) of 0.15%, would result in a huge number of deaths from a huger population. A million additional deaths and overwhelmed hospitals from a short period of time (2-3 months) would make for powerful and persuasive propaganda in Western press.
Vaccine update: Statistically significant adverse events out of Israel of mycocarditis (inflamed heart). I guess letting Walmart type techs do intermuscular vaccine administration into a vein instead of muscle provides an immune response in the wrong muscle..the important one. Might be time to go long on pacemakers…can’t let the pharma guys make all the money.
De todos modos, ¡tenga una gran semana y sáltese una comida o tres!
Was the rattler this guy?
Reminds me of a girl I once knew…
You are going to need to be more specific. This describes most of the 30-50 y/o barflies I have encountered.
Maybe..I don’t like to get that close or …it could have been Ken Riley
That’s enough of an excuse to get my husband off the vaccine roster.
His heart has had quite enough, thankyouverymuch.
I understand it the administration is done properly (aspirated) the occurrence of this is significantly minimized. There is a reason that IM injections are performed in a doctor’s office.
Have you seen these CA PSAs that black babies have worse health because of rrracism? Way to affirm the consequent. I must take a screenshot next time I see it.
…but of course! Well at least they can get a Corona virus vaccine complements of the state. That should improve their health.
No, it’s all the crack and menthol cigs. Once they get to prison for smoking either, they will work out and avoid bad habits, I’m sure.
Hey baby! Get out the street!
(Sorry, I always do that)
Now you put this in my mind. Not a bad thing.
Western speaking of pork belly I have some on the smoker as I type this
Just did 12# of pork shoulder (2) on the smoker. After smoking, shred and put into crock pot with the bbq sauce for pulled pork. Cheap and delicious breakfast food as a side with some eggs. It covers all the food groups..protein and fat. Shoulder is like $2-3/#, eggs are .30 per at Costco. That’s about a $ a meal.
Yep I broke down a homemade “mcmuffin” price for my kids the otherday and it came out to $.67/sandwhich.
The wife and I have been eyeing smokers. She wants an upright dedicated smoker (preferably gas) and I am okay getting a new grill with a side smoker built-in. I have done the using a regular grill with indirect heat to smoke and it consumes my entire day and the results have been mixed. Any recomendations?
Traeger. Multiple types of wood pellets for different flavors. Set it and forget it…until done. They have improved insulation in recent versions so temperature control and pellet use is better.
I would love a Traeger, it is a bit beyond my (responsible) means at the moment.
Look at drum smokers that have good iron/steel construction IMO.
Depends on how much love and tenderness you want to give.
Traegers are great for a set, smoke, forget but its $$$.
There are some great upright electrica that will do the trick also.
I have a offset smoker but it takes lots of attention in the first hour or so of the smoke to maintain temps and such.
Id research online..the redneck hillbillies have good videos on the pros/cons.
My wife is a country girl…fast cars, fast airplanes, and her man smelling like fire is a plus…so my wood smoker is a plus for me 🙂
My wife is of similar stock. Smelling like I have spent the day laying linoleum in our laundry room, is less appealing to her, FYI.
You’re right about Traeger price. Pellets aren’t cheap either. I guess you have to weigh cost-benefit and such.
Plus all those electronics when they hit their planned obsolescence. Not knocking them cause its getting some good meats out there though.
I have replaced the electronics and motor with knock-offs (1/3 price)…Mine was 10 y/o. Honestly there is not much to them if I can fix them.
Good to know!
Good advice, I shall investigate further.
This was the smoker of my childhood:
https://www.smokehouseproducts.com/collections/smokers/products/little-chief-front-load-electric-smoker?variant=16076242354278
Regular sale price is closer to $100 or less on sale at the local sporting goods chain.
Still made in the same place, unlike Traeger which offshored production then got under control of a moron who thinks his shit doesn’t stink.
Back in the day, the Frugal Gourmet made a smoker out of a tin garbage can.
I think this is the correct video.
Nice! I love pork belly burnt ends but haven’t made them in a long while.
Is that the best Deep Purple song? No,No,No!
There’s a whole bunch of cool D/P songs, I’m just lazy!
The best Deep Purple is really Simply Red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w
I’ve been sticking with the rowing every other day (1 hour today – F1 race day!) but need to get the scale working again. I also have failed to add in dumbbell workouts, as I was planning.
On the plus side, I have started mixing in some zone 4 sprint rows in with the normal zone 2 rows. Change is good.
You made progress.
I had potato chips for dinner last night.
So the usual Zoom diet ?
I thought that was strictly alcohol.
I thought the usual zoom diet is some form of: corn, rye, hops, barley, juniper berries, potatoes, wheat….
Ya gotta have sides.
I preferred pork rinds.
Only if proper chicharrónes, then I am game.
Haven’t looked at a scale in weeks but I got my sweet tooth (relatively) under control and have hit 4-6 workouts per week for the last two months. So I don’t know how much I may have lost but I have definitely made some performance gains.
Also, 7 days nicotine free. That’s huge for me. RBF is on point.
Today’s workout:
50 minute EMOM
2 pull-ups
5 air squats
5 Push-ups
Yay!
Good
I dig the nicotine abstinence. I need to quit dipping but my experience is that whenever I try to quit, something godawful happens in my life. Thus far the list includes divorce and very negative experiences with the criminal justice system. I know the correlation != causation but at this point, I am not taking any chances.
Aw.
Sheesh.
It took me about 5-6 years to quit smoking. Man, they aren’t kidding when they say it is harder than heroin.
Stick with it and good on you.
I have a really hard time getting the little flakes of tobacco into the syringe.
I really didn’t have a problem quitting smoking. Had a hell of a problem quitting the nicotine patches/gum/lozenges that I was using instead of smoking. It’s been about 10 years since my last cigarette, but I still don’t think I’ve kicked my nicotine addiction.
Finally getting back into my exercise routine. Thankfully the 2+ months off only added a couple pounds to where I was before, so I don’t have to make up too much. 30-45 minutes on the exercise bike every day. Stretching/pilates 45 minutes 3 days a week, and a kettlebell workout 3 days a week. Going slow for the first few weeks to get back into the habit without breaking anything…
I’m not a doctor, but I’ve always been told that nicotine doesn’t hurt you. Given the proper dosage, of course. It’s the smoking and all the other stuff burning that causes problems.
To Blackjack’s point, Keith Richards always said that when I had a good source for heroin and wasn’t buying street brown, it was never a problem. The second he bought cheap shit, it messed him up physically and mentally. So, take that for what it is worth.
I quit smoking over a 5-6 year period, when I started I wouldn’t have a smoke on the way to work, and then I wouldn’t have one until my drivers were out the door, and just kept pushing it back over time that way. I backslid more than a few times, but I got to the point where one was making me physically sick, so I put it out and threw the pack away. And have had one since then, about four years ago.
But I do long for them every day.
Been around a lot of heroin addicts. Spotty supply is the biggest issue, with dirty, used needles and desperate circumstances leading to unsanitary conditions. The other big thing is starting and stopping all the time. After a while, they build up a tolerance and do some crazy amounts. Then they quit and when they return to it, they use too much because that’s how much they used to do. Richards is right
, though, given a safe and reliable dosage, one can grow old using that stuff, assuming clean outfits and all. That’s why we have so much destruction now, they outlawed the pills, sending the addicts back to Chuey and his variable strength street junk.
More meat porn.
I love a good ribeye…but some of these highly regarded meats (Wagyu) are over marbled with fat for my liking. I like fat but too much masks the flavor of the beef IMO. I am more than OK with good select cut that could go into prime if cooked properly.
^^^waygu for saying you have waygu is pointless. Any meat cut properly cooked and prepared will taste great.
Thats why shanks, flanks, shortribs, etc are so damn expensive! Food network gave to tools on how to take a cheap cut and make it tasty for the masses.
Weekly cuteness indeed.
Once I was standing still on the edge of the bayou…I think I was duck hunting…and I saw motion out of the corner of my eye to my right. It was a juvenile otter going along the bank looking for snacks. When it got about one foot from me noticed one of my new boots that I had paid a couple of hundred bucks for the day before. It came out of the water to investigate. It sniffed my boot then realized “Oh shit, there is someone in these boots!”
As quick as lightning it turned around, shit on my boot and leapt back into the water. It swam about 20 feet away then turned around and stared at me for half of a minute or so. Then it just disappeared.
Great. Otter shit on my new boots.
A badge of honor, I say! 😀
Badge of otte
Badge of otter
::seal of approval::
This place is so flippant its hard to tell if comments are otterly sincere.
You’re just fishing for complements.
Sometimes you have to clap like a seal for approval.
I’d like to lodge a complaint, anyone have Swiss’s contact info?
Why, I otter…
Otters, owls, and cats. The same animal on different planes of existence.
Otters, bears, and twinks!
Oh my!
/pages Jesse
We met a brain damaged owl in Alaska on our cruise at an animal conservation place. It was beautiful but would always forget it was perched on its trainer’s shoulder. It was funny to watch.
So update on middle teen. Subway is absolutely insistent that he has his physical social, even though he gave documents that qualify in column B/C.
I ain’t faulting the hiring manager, he has his protocol but dude..punch on the SSN the kid gave you on everify and match it to his I9 docs….
They don’t mess with any of that around here. As long as you have a set of numbers laid out like xxx-xx-xxxx, you’re in.
When I lived in Pheonix, around ’93-’94, they had some crazy hiring bullshit out there. I’m a mechanic. I will fix your little bumper boats or golf carts or whatever. I can’t see the need for three interviews and an extensive background check. I don’t want access to the company bank accounts. Sheesh!
That is what is amazing me. They can’t get people to come to an interview cause Daddy Guv is suplementing their income yet here is a kid, 16, ready to work. Fuckers all of them.
We are looking at 30-45 days before a replacement. SsN arrives
I think it might be related to the point of origin of many of our entry level workers around these parts.
I get it but kid has a US BC and the SSN since birth…I just don’t have the physical card. Dont give me an I9 saying these are docs you need to verify employment status and then slap on an additional requirement.
Yeah, it’s totally fucked up. Like needing permission from the government or something. All the SS number does is direct your “retirement savings” to you when you get to be too old to enjoy it anyway and it’s way too small to help. Why the fuck does subway care if it goes to some other schmoe instead of the guy who’s working right now? Dunno.
E-Verify and improper application of requirements is what I told my kid.
Kicker here is funny. His GF’s dad is illegeal and has been deported 3 times but has never had anyone ask him for the physcial card.
What a great system we have. Land of free, home of the brave.
“it’s way too small to help.”
I get it you are exaggerating, but millions of S.S. recipients know this isn’t true.
Wife and I cover about 70% of our spending just with our S.S. checks. For those who frittered away, or had taxed away, their lifetime working income they will never support any Libertarian pipe dream that S.S. can be abolished overnight
(like, say, Bumper Hornberger proposed.)
PA DMV also insisted on hardcopy SSN. And they don’t care that it is a stupid and technically illegal request.
I was able to find a sympathetic DMV worker that allowed him to get his learners permit without the social card (I know his number and the Feds don’t care cause I claim him every year). He was very hesitant though to process it.
I was just handed an iPad Pro A1709
WTF do I do with it?
I think someone here made this suggestion a while back.
C’mon ….can’t be that bad
I have several suggestions, none of which involve computing.
(Although, TBF, the iPad has the best book reader app I’ve encountered yet.)
I’ve heard that they’ll stop a bullet, so there’s that.
Use it, love it. Seriously, the iPad Pro has supplanted my iMac for nearly everything except ripping videos and hosting iTunes for streaming to one or another of my Apple TVs. And I can VNC into the iMac for most of what the iPad can’t do.
Fuck face diapers. Figuratively, not literally.
Weight is 264.8 lbs at 26.4% bodyfat. Workouts are going along despite the stalled renovations at my gym. There was no progress on the renovations last week.
I had lunch and ice cream with UCS and a few other folks. I drove the Mustang today. It was a good day.
I presume the links aren’t my demo, but yuck anyway. On what planet?
??
Sorry.
Rephrased: if I had a willy, face diapers would shrink it.
/ On which planet is that attractive?
I’m guessing the radical Muslims are thinking, ” Told ya!”
Oh. Got it.
When I was still mucking about with on-line dating during and for a little bit after the lockdowns, if I saw a picture of a woman wearing a face diaper, it was an instant “NO” and move on to the next.
I am glad you brought up the Goggins last week. My shooting partner was talking about him on the way back from our last expedition, and as he is in sales I wasn’t surprised to hear him latch onto someone like that, and kinda tuned it out. But, when I was working out this week, trying to keep my misfiring body in somewhat shape, I popped back into my mind. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.” Just thinking of that added seconds to how long I can plank and crunch, two of my most important exercises.
So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
I might have the Mr look at that. He’s doing pretty well with his home PT with the exception of the guitar.
He tried it once and was very discouraged. I reminded him that his healing neurologically in his brain as well as in the peripheral nerves in his arm will be the fastest and most effective in these first couple of months after the stroke.
I’m going to see if it helps if I’m not around while he plays. He shouldn’t be embarrassed of his playing but maybe he is.
But he needs to keep at it.
How are the action and the tone on that Backpacker? If it’s too different from what he’s used to, I wonder if he’d have better luck with his favorite regular guitar if it can be set in such a way that he doesn’t need too much strength to hold it up. Tom T claims even a different width neck can mess you up. Just spitballin’ here – TT’s PTs said guitar playing was wonderful “occupational therapy.” (TT’s not satisfied with his playing either, but he’s his own worst critic, and it hasn’t stopped him from playing at his favorite Open Mic.)
Meody Gardot could be a role model. She had severe nerve damage from an accident and credits taking up music (singing and guitar) with helping restore her functioning. She ended up making a good living at it.
Melody Gardot
Chirp’s got pipes! 😀 (I keep getting her mixed up with Madeleine Peyroux just because of their names. Their voices are distinct, though.)
I’m glad it helped. Goggins can be brutal. But he tells the Truth as he knows it. It’s done a lot of good for me.
I test the face diaper signage in every store I go in. They want me to wear a mask, they’ll have to say something.
The only exception is CursedCo, where they not only rigorously enforce masks at the door, but will sometimes demand I cover up my nose. They get about 20 feet of compliance before I pull it back down, since asphyxiation ain’t happening.
The mask bullshit won’t end by waiting for the government or businesses to stop. That’s a recipe for perma-masking. It ends when people stop complying en masse, and make them try to enforce it for every single rebel.
When people stop going to brick and mortar stores…some businesses might take notice. Right now, people have the mindset that they want to see the small business survive so they will mask.
You breathatarian, you!
Breathe deep, the gathering gloom..
Costco membership isn’t getting renewed partially because of their branch covidian shit. Their prices arent all that great anymore, so it’s not a hard choice.
I signed up for Sam’s Club on Thursday. There’s one store in NH, within driving distance. We went there regularly last year May through July. Then Sam’s Club (and Walmart) announced their own corporate face mask wearing requirement. I stopped going there and didn’t even try my usual approach of not wearing a mask and observing what happens. Then my membership expired. Anyway, I gave it another try and was able to get my new membership card and then shop without a mask. I should have tried it in the previous 8-9 months.
We just tried the curbside pick-up thing at Sam’s yesterday for the first time. (We’ve been members for years.) Our microwave suddenly crapped out, and we realized we couldn’t possibly survive another day without a replacement. (We had a tiny one in the basement as an emergency backup.) Found what’s probably the successor to our 15-year-old dead one on Sam’s website, and it had the highest reviews for a model of sufficient size (2.2 cu. ft.) It was out of stock at the closest Sam’s but available at the next nearest. Paid for it online and picked the hour when we could pick it up. At the appointed time, we pulled up to one of the numbered parking spaces and texted that we were there. A cheerful associate brought it out, loaded it in the back of the Forester, and gave us a little tote with four tasty bottled beverages (not booze, sadly.) I found the whole process quite satisfactory.
Yep, two thumbs up for Kroger’s pick up option, I’ve been using it for a few months due to my ankle issues. I will probably continue using it even once my mobility issues are resolved.
I’ve done pick up at other retail but have never tried it for groceries. Have you had any trouble with the quality of meat or produce? Any issues with substitutions, or can you specify whether it’s OK to sub certain items and not others?
Most importantly, do they always pick the right variety of Claussen’s??
I check the ‘do not substitute’ option so I have had a few items come up ‘not available’, as for quality it’s been good, I had an issue with Asparagus the first week (they sent thicc stalks, apparently they mistook me for Tres) but you can make notes and I told them I prefer skinny asparagus stalks and since then I have had no issues. Amazingly they always have the Hearty Garlic Sandwich Slices, even though it’s been more miss than hit when I was shopping for myself, I think it’s a conspiracy to give the pick up order-ers first dibs.
Ive done Sam’s in the past and was more impressed by them than by Costco. Costco is better maybe in the meat department, but Sam’s is better and better priced for just about everything else.
From a friend and relevant to all the arguments we’ve been subjected to about the covid.
I thought it was pretty damn good.
On point to those who are willing to pay attention.
Lockdowns work, they just haven’t been tried in their truest form. I’ve heard similar arguments about something else, I recall.
I like it. I’ve taxed it for wider sharing.
It won’t make any difference to true believers.
This is almost Bee level, maybe a bit more on the irony side than satire.
Oops!
I’m no Bill Maher fan*, but finding a 17 year old quip that sounds stupid today and comparing it to a guy shitting on the threat of Islamic terrorism the day before 9/11 is a bit of a stretch.
*I don’t hate him either, he’s funny at times, and cringey at others. Back when I would watch him he at least gave opposing side a fair chance to make their case, which is rare today.
He is such a smug prick that I can’t stand to watch him.
@ Juris-
Nice.
I particularly liked “lockdowns saved 4.9 million lives.”
Prove it isn’t true!!
You can’t prove the lack of voter fraud!
(I am losing track of the rules)
Why the hell do I have to wear a mask?
“It puts the lotion eerrr.. mask on its skin or else it gets the hose again…it does this whenever it is told” — Buffalo Bill” Biden
You can’t prove the lack of voter fraud!
I have not seen it, therefor it does not exist.
Once one of my grandfather’s friends asked me “How are the snakes this year?”
I said “There are not any”
Him “What? No snakes? How do you know?”
“Well, I haven’t seen any.”
He missed the joke and got mad. He and I both know those piney wood hills are full of these https://nationalzoo.si.edu/sites/default/files/animals/eastern-diamondback-20180228-9693jpj.jpg
and these http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OmbbgmyOpuQ/TlZZ4l3lVDI/AAAAAAAABDg/JeKnlbl0nwM/s1600/copperhead.png
The first one can get to 9 feet and second one up to 7 feet. Both are exceedingly easy to miss and step on if you aren’t paying attention. Never put your foot on the ground without looking first. Do that until it just becomes reflex.
What a pain in the ass. I have decided to just pull a number out of my hat and put my place on craigslist (maybe zillow, too) for two or three weeks, to see if a fish jumps into my boat.
I spent the greater portion of the afternoon flailing around figuring out how to transfer photos from phone to computer and then crop them to a craigslist-compliant aspect ratio.
Then a battle to screengrab a satellite map image which I’m not sure I’ll even use.
I’m about wore out. It was never this much of a pain in the ass with the Macs.
Isn’t it easiest to email your photos from your phone?
Biden has always been a doofus.
As I mentioned in the previous thread, one of the places we stopped at looked almost like the before times.
Excellent.
I don’t think they were expecting the turn out they received. They had to close the kitchen early, as they were backed up to over an hour wait time for food. I got one order, but the one I had to place for one of the girlfriend’s friend got cancelled (they refunded the price, and comped me a pint). The event continued through today as well.
Nazi ghost gunz
Pennsylvania authorities announced charges against a couple on Wednesday after finding almost $1 million of meth, six ghost guns, and nazi paraphernalia in their home during a raid.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the charges brought against Christopher Weikert and Tara Gallucci on Friday after agents from the Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigations and Pennsylvania State Police Special Emergency Response Team executed a search of the couple’s home Wednesday.
The residence was located in Northampton Borough, part of the Lehigh Valley area, about 70 miles north of Philadelphia.
“Investigators discovered 21.5 pounds of crystal methamphetamine with a street value of $968,200″ Shapiro’s office said in a statement. They also discovered “six fully assembled ghost guns, three 80 percent receivers used to make ghost guns, four assault rifles, three handguns, and various ghost gun parts, along with drug and Nazi paraphernalia.”
So-called ghost guns are homemade firearms often made from parts bought online and do not have traceable serial numbers. They have recently been the subject of executive actions by President Joe Biden, meant to curb their use through federal regulation.
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“People have the right to feel safe in their homes and in the neighborhoods where they live and work – and gun and drug traffickers erode that basic right,” Shaprio said. “We must continue to get these poisons out of our neighborhoods and off our streets.”
Nazi meth heads are the worst, man. Off with their heads.
I have a story involving Nazi paraphernalia.
It’s a little long.
There was a weekly dance that the sober people would hold back when I was sober. This was late eighties. Anyway, this one girl showed up and hung out with some of the simpler type guys there. They pissed her off somehow and she vowed revenge. She claimed to hang out with the crips. So she went and told her crip friends that these goofballs were in the KKK. Eventually, the crips showed up at the dance and a brawl ensued. Some shots were fired and eventually they split.
The goofy fucks from the dance decided they would get back at herby…actually joining the KKK. This caused the crips to continue appearing at this dance and having more brawls and more shots fired. I think was three or four times this happened. It really pissed me off because I knew everyone there and people would bring their children to these things.
I began a campaign to ostracize the KKK assholes. I never said their actual names, but everyone knew who I meant. The tide turned very quickly on them and people just flatly didn’t like them anymore, partially because I would denounce their ideas from podiums at various meetings. This really pissed off the main guy. He was way bigger than me and way more violently inclined. He started harassing me. I got into numerous push and shove matches with him.
The battle between us culminated when, one morning I was getting some donuts before going to work. He rode by on his motorcycle and, seeing me, turned around to have another installment. I was in my ’67 Chevelle. He pulled up alongside and I rolled down the window. He immediately reached in and grabbed my long hair and started pulling me out of the car. I hit him a few times and then.. I saw him pull a gun out of his inside jacket pocket. I reached into my console for something to use as a weapon, but there was nothing. Then, I just mashed the throttle and ran the light.
The dude fell over, holding a handful of my hair. I just gave up and stopped going to that part of the valley after that.
Anyway, the number two dude in the KKK cabal was a seemingly OK kind of guy. I could at least talk to him and he kept telling me not to worry about the leader dude. One day, number two was selling illegal fireworks at a local 7-11. The fire dept. pulled up and blocked in his garish light blue IROC and he ran around the building to escape. He went all the way around the building and when he got back to his car he realized that there was exactly enough room for him to get it out of there. He jumped in and fired it up. Just then a fire marshall ran up and tried to take his keys out of the column. Number two then just mashed it and split. He dragged the fire marshall all the way across the parking lot, until he finally let go and tumbled free.
Then the dipshit drove directly home in his ultra conspicuous IROC. Someone followed him and gave up his addy. When the police arrived they found a semi-truck’s worth of fireworks and a trove of Nazi regalia alongside some Klan robes. Dude went to prison for about 5 years. Shortly later, number one got busted ferrying pot back east and he went to prison too. I still avoid that end of the valley, mostly. I have seen both of these assholes in later times and they seem humbled by the suffering they have brought upon themselves.
The same people who are advocating for vaccination passports claim that requiring an ID to vote is racist.
Isn’t it easiest to email your photos from your phone?
I thought I’d get better quality with the usb cable. Was I right?
*shrugs*
I think it depends on whether you send them inline or as an attachment. If inline, mail services usually resample / compress to reduce the size.
The totalitarian tells absurd lies and then using coercion tries to force everyone else to repeat them. If one repeats the lie it drives a stake through that person’s character turning them into a coward. That is what the face diapers are all about. Force someone to do something ridiculous and they become a coward. So much the better to get a boot on their neck and keep it there.
Imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever. Well, the lower half of it anyway.
Chafed!
Deep Purple is always a “fuck, yeah!”
My fave.
Yes, the mask thing is a fiasco. It’s interesting to me that all the youngsters at hockey have such disdain. “Why the fuck do we even bother? We wear them into the rink, get ready and then breathe all over each other for an hour and a half!”
Good question. It gives me hope.
Way to kick ass on the ropes this week.
I had a decent week, but my buddy and I are reprising our 75 Hard effort from last year. This year is about clarity and energy. I have some pretty major changes approaching and want to be ready. We decided that the one gallon of water a day is retarded, so we replaced it with shaving every day. That’s gonna suck, but discipline rules.
My lifting is going really well and it’s nice to re-introduce two exercise sessions a day. I have no interest in dropping a bunch of weight this time, but I’ve gotten a little sloppy and really want to tighten it up. For me, the carbs really make a difference.
Still walking every day.
Have a great week Glibfitters! Let’s all get strip worthy!
Fun song but good lord he couldn’t lip sync to his own music!