For those of you looking to test/assess your fitness here’s a fairly broad way to do it. Alternatively, you could turn to one of the fitness tests for the military branches. And here is a little bit of fitness philosophy and a take down of a silly fitness test.
I’m unconvinced there is any one right way to test for fitness. There are dozens of different dimensions to fitness so I’m skeptical anything less than a comprehensive battery of challenges can really test you. There are also many confounding factors like age and injury.
I suppose the military tests have at least some connection to functional fitness for the average soldier, sailor, airman, or marine. Glib veterans I’m curious to know if that’s true.
The first test seems, um… unscientific. Most of the exercises make some sense and do test your physical condition. But what the hell does the Wet Footprint Test reveal about your fitness? I understand you may be able to make a lay diagnosis of a foot problem. But, again, what has that got to do with fitness? The two flexibility tests seem incomplete. You have an entire body. Testing flexibility in two parts tells you about those two parts. I get the sense someone needed to pad out an article.
I don’t have any one test I can recommend. My feeling is you must determine what matters to you. It can certainly be a combination of things. You must measure those things. Only then will you know if you are meeting your own standards.
A programming note for next week (Aug 29), GlibFit is taking a day off, but will return for the Labor Day weekend / pre-High Holy Days post.
Where is everyone? I hope standing over BBQ pits.
Good question Suthen.
Back home for the first time since 7:00 this morning. Match got a late start because of the rain, then took Lily to the dog park before the rain came back. Only got a couple usable pics.
Supposedly this is the “real” rain now.
Also: post the gorram scores already!
I’m gonna smoke a couple tri tips shortly. Santa Maria style, of course.
However do you get them into that little cigarette wrapper?
Practice.
Lots and lots of practice.
Mmmmm….tri tips…
It was tough to find in Minne. Here, it’s in Costco. I’m trying an experiment tonight. Instead of prime, I bought choice and salted for 48 hours.
I will report back. $4.50/lb for fuck’s sake! Cheaper than chicken.
$4.50?
*falls out of chair*
Prime was $11.99!!
It takes a little skill to cook and slice it, but it’s so fucking tasty.
You know, I come from the land of Tri-tip. The Central Coast of Califonia. All you have to do with a Tip is sear the sides and indirectly heat it. Slice it against the grain. Anything else is overkill.
Traditionally, you eat it sliced with garlic bread, pinquito beans, and salad. It is the true BBQ.
I do it the other way. Indirect heat and reverse sear.
But yes, it’s true BBQ.
Chicken for more than $4.50/lb? What do they feed it kobe beef?
A programming note for next week (Aug 29), GlibFit is taking a day off, but will return for the Labor Day weekend / pre-High Holy Days post.
Enjoy your time off!
The damage to my lungs from the pneumonia is slowly healing. Yesterday, not only did I go to the gym, I worked in the yard. I was tired afterwards and a bit winded, but nothing like the previous Saturday where I mowed the lawn and was sucking wind at the end.
Current weight is 258.8 lbs at 26.1% bodyfat. I figured I had lost some weight even though the last week and a half I devoured several of my Pennsylvania Dutch treats that I had in the freezer.
I stayed in NH this weekend despite having planned to go to a swing dance in PA which was yesterday. I don’t feel up for that drive that soon after getting over being sick.
Interestingly, a group ran a swing dance here in southern NH last Friday night. I considered going, except a) it was outdoors with the dancing on asphalt and b) the group sponsoring the dance is run by a pro-face diaper Proglodyte.
On the face diaper note, some members of my gym are starting to wear face diapers again. Those wearing them wear them ALL THE TIME, even when working out. The staff aren’t wearing face diapers. The Plexiglas barriers at the front desk are gone.
Oh, and yesterday I noted a thin woman bench pressing 115 lbs for multiple reps. I only saw her last two reps (OK, she might have just done a double, but I don’t know), and they were good reps. Her form was good and her spotter did not touch the bar during the reps.
DEG, I was unaware of your illness but glad to hear of your recovery. How did you get sick?
Like Hemingway went bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” ?
Thanks.
Somewhere along the line during my road trip out West, I got exposed the ‘Rona and got sick with it. I got bacterial pneumonia on top of it.
My first inkling of something being wrong was my sinuses were all fucked up around when I arrived in Fargo, ND. I figured it was pollen given the high grass pollen counts in the area and/or smoke from the wildfires.
The following evening I arrived in Wisconsin, having met Tundra on the way for lunch. The air was cleaner in WI, and my sinuses cleared up a bit but not completely, so I figured I wasn’t sick.
Two days later I arrived at my hotel in South Bend, IN, having stopped in the Chicago area for lunch with a friend. shortly after checking into the hotel, the fever started. I had the hotel for two nights. The full day in South Bend I planned to tour the Studebaker Museum. I didn’t. Other than getting food, which I had to force myself to eat, I stayed in my hotel room during that day.
After the second night, I checked out of my hotel in South Bend and drove back to NH in one shot.
A few days after I got back to NH, the pneumonia symptoms started. I talked to my doc, and she had a rapid test run. Positive for the ‘Rona. She also said I had bacterial pneumonia.
The antibiotics she prescribed knocked the pneumonia out of me over the course of about five or six days. I never underwent treatment for the ‘Rona, which I’m fine with. My body can, and did, take care of it once the pneumonia was gone.
Last I heard from Tundra, he never got sick. The friend I met in Chicago has not said anything to me about getting sick.
I’m glad you are on the mend DEG.
Thanks!
I am glad you are better. That is a very typical patter. A viral infection damages tissue creating an opportunity for a microbial infection.
For a long time typical treatment was to use antibiotics prophylactically at the first sign of a viral infection. That turned out to be a mistake. We created antibiotic resistant strains of all kinds of critters.
Keep a close eye on that recovery.
Thanks!
Things are getting better. Slowly. But better.
Nope, I’m fine. Honestly, though, I’ve been exposed several times and nothing. Unless you lose your sense of taste and smell (or get pneumonia) it’s really hard to know if you even have it.
Fun to finally meet you, though!
I never lost my sense of taste. My sense of smell is so weak it’s tough to judge.
It was good meeting you too!
Good news!
I’m glad you are back in the gym. You should be her spotter next time.
It’s great to be back at the gym despite the setbacks.
Be her spotter next time? She’s a twenty-something hottie. I don’t exist to her.
Wrong!
You are safe to her. At my old gym there was a smokeshow who frequently asked me advice or for a spot. I laughed at the young guys who she wouldn’t even look at.
It’s really a nice part of getting older.
It was a sad moment when I realized that’s why the young girls and barstaff were chatting me up. I’ve aged into the safe category for most of them.
Yes, women often talk about becoming invisible, but most men do too.
Aw, as someone who remembers the term “President Reagan” fairly well, I like safe-aged guys. ?
I was invisible in high school and part of college. Parts of my twenties and most of my thirties I wasn’t invisible. Unfortunately, in my thirties was when I should have done more to take advantage of that but I was an idiot.
Now I’m in my 40s and back to invisible.
I wouldn’t say that I’m invisible, just that I’m considered safe and non-threatening. At least after I start chatting.
A real fitness for infantry Soldiers and Marines would be a timed 20 mile hike (with a weighted pack), run the obstacle course, then put 10 rounds on target from 200 yards.
This would take a long time and fail a lot of people. So we get the jogging, sit ups and other meaningless nonsense they do now.
At least there is no DEI call and response as part of the fitness test.
LOL at Army standards. During my service, I knew a fellow who was in constant hot water for being overweight; he was an avid weightlifter. And also a fellow who was in constant hot water for being “morbidly underweight”; he was a triathlete and ultra-marathon enthusiast.
A weightlifter in my unit took off his shirt and asked the corpsman to point to the fat he was supposed to lose.
Jogging my memory, a long time ago, we had a five part test, each part was 100 points
1. Crawl under barbed wire, I believe 40 yards, against time
2. Grenade toss, both distance and accuracy
3.Run, dodge and jump, against time
4 Can’t remember
5. 1 mile run, against time, 6 mins = max 100 points. I remember a 6;03 for a 98-99
All in uniform, combat boots. My platoon voluntarily did the test every day, at the end of OCS we had a platoon test average of over 450. My weakest event was the barbed wire crawl.
Real world stuff – I’d live to our overfed brass rake that test.
We had a crusty master gunney when I was in that would make us do the old school pt tests. They were pretty fun and a much better indicator of who could hack it than the run/situps/pullups test we did back then.
They would have been much harder to administer though because a lot of them included gear. There was a broad jump while wearing your pack, climbing a cargo net with all your gear and timed humps with gear.
My weight is down to 191 and change, workouts have been lacking though. I took the week of high heat off, as anything other than sitting under an AC unit plays hell with my neurological system when it’s over 100. But I simply flaked last week. So, gotta get back on that horse tomorrow, and probably go for at least a short bike ride. Oh, and my drop foot is getting worse, but I am in doctor hell as they all seem to be in the “it’s the other thing” mode. But, riding the bike is unaffected by that and resistance is unaffected also.
So, in short, I do feel better as my diet is getting better, and as it cools hopefully I can get more workouts in.
Also, have a good week off, you have earned it.
The weight being down is good. Hopefully you can get more workouts in.
Glad you’re back
Thanks.
Thank you sir!
Hey, you once mentioned that you have a Lee Metford. I am looking for one of the breech bolt covers. I don’t have a Medford, but a Lee Speed. I am hoping that you have a good parts supplier.
I don’t have a good parts supplier. But I have some thoughts on where to go.
I would keep an eye on GunBroker and Guns International. Sometimes I see parts pop up on them. Another option are gun collector boards like GunBoards or MilSurps. On the latter, I’ve seen Ian Skennerton, Peter Laidler (former British Army armorer who learned on the Lee-Enfield), and Brian Dick (SC based Lee dealer/gunsmith) post.
My Lee-Speed is based on the CLLE and doesn’t have the dust cover. I don’t remember if it even has the lugs. Interestingly, unlike the CLLE, my Lee-Speed has no safety like the Lee-Metford Mk I*/Mk II. Judging by a BSA catalog I found, that is correct for the Lee-Speed I have.
BSA and LSA did some very nice work on their Lee-Speeds.
My Lee Speed, or technically BSA Sporter, is a no. 1 model, so full barrel rib, rose and scroll engraving, 5 shot mag, and shotgun-style safety, and the latter was an optional extra. At some point in its life it was d&ted for a scope but was put back so well it took me a while to figure it out. I always assumed that the cover was lost when the scope was added, but I will double-check for lugs.
I do know that whoever actually sold the rifle, such as Purdy or Hollands, would have their name engraved on that cover, so I always assumed they all had one.
My Lee Speed, or technically BSA Sporter, is a no. 1 model, so full barrel rib, rose and scroll engraving, 5 shot mag, and shotgun-style safety, and the latter was an optional extra.
Oooo…. very nice.
If it has lugs, it had the cover.
I’ve seen Lee-Speeds for sale with the cover and the retailer’s engraving on the cover. They’re very nice.
Yeah, it’s one of the half-dozen guns I inherited from my father. But I definitely got from him the love of English firearms.
Thanks Zwak. I’m glad to hear about your weight loss.
Of course, any test of fitness first needs to address “fitness for what?”. The person I want hauling letters overland at speed is not fit the same way as the guy I want stacking hay bales.
When I was in, the army APFT run distance was 2 miles. I had an instructor that was talking about a radio remote device (the AN/GRA-39) that allows you to put the transmitter away from your location, in the event that someone took the time to triangulate where they thought you were. The max wire-run distance, including the length of the handset cord was 2 miles and 13″. He said, “why do you think they want to know how fast you can run that far?”.
As stated previously, my goal now is to stay sub 200 lbs through my trip to Viva Las Vegas in a couple weeks. I needed a mental break, and to test myself to verify that I could maintain a weight (with a +/- 5 pound swing room). So far, I’ve been hitting that.
I got to meet up with a couple of other Glibs down in the Dayton area last night, and brought back quite a bit of beer that I can’t get in my neck of the woods.
Currently working on building up the stamina for rides again after a year of not being able to do long rides (no water refills, no restrooms, and no supported rides) as I’ve learned I’ve lost a lot of duration just doing spin classes and shorter self supported rides. On the plus side, my speed has increased from those.
Mental health has been in the shitter the past couple days as I’ve learned I may never be able to go to a concert at a venue again here in Cleveland as all of the locals joined Live Nation and TicketMaster in mandating disclosure of medical information as a condition for admittance. So far, the last update for Viva looks like the organizer may be of our mindset:
from a later section:
That is a reasonable take.
Keep your chin up Nephilium. At least we are not Australia.
I’m trying, but it’s rough. Concerts and pits were where I first found a community that accepted me and I felt like I fit into. Now, unless I give up medical information, I can’t go to them.
I feel much the same way. I think a storm is coming.
I feel much the same way. I think a storm is coming.
Yes. And I think it will get quite ugly.
Nephilium, I’m in the same boat as you with Swing dancing. The Boston area dances either haven’t started up again or are outdoors with a) proof of vaccination (natural immunity doesn’t count) required and b) a system identifying if your partner wants you to wear a mask or not.
Friday in southern NH there was a swing dance being held outdoors on asphalt. Combine that with one of the sponsoring organizations being run by a pro-face diaper Proglodyte, I wasn’t interested in going.
I have a dance in PA near where I grew up which is normal. No masks. No one gives a shit about whether or not you had a vaccine. They had a dance last night but with what I’ve been through the last couple of weeks, I was not up for a drive to PA for the weekend. So I skipped it.
I at least have that dance, but the Philly area is a five to six hour drive from me.
Viva is doing voluntary vaccinated badges, I don’t mind that, and I have the feeling that those will be a useful sorting method for people that I don’t want to deal with.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like I’ll get to have some great stories about going out drinking with Aussies, Kiwis, or Limeys this year (as I have in years past).
I have the feeling that those will be a useful sorting method for people that I don’t want to deal with.
Yes.
Here’s hoping Viva happens (i.e. no new lockdowns).
DEG:
Viva starts on September 9th, so it’ll be happening soon. The big issue is going to be dealing with the airlines and casinos.
Ahh. I doubt lockdowns, if they happen, will happen that quickly.
It looks like I may never participate in any local entertainment or sporting event or dine out ever again.
*shrug*
Life was fun for awhile.
At this point, I’m left with bars, restaurants, cycling, alcohol, and chatting with you lot. 🙂
One of them is at least good for my health.
It’s alcohol, right? The answer is always alcohol. Or is the answer always Hitler?
Biden: It was gonna be difficult evacuating people from Kabul no matter what.
AYFKM.
He’s comparing evacuating Kabul to the Berlin air lift. That… is not a good look. Did his writers really think that through?
He’s trying to assuage fears about possible terrorist infiltration. Why would terrorists bother taking a C-17 to Kuwait? They can fly to Mexico City.
Because a C-17 looks very pretty going boom in the air.
Yes but if anyone could make it worse it is Creepy Joe.
No wonder he preambled with the stuff about FEMA and the northeast, he’s pitching Afghanistan as a humanitarian crisis.
The admin took two extra months to effectuate absolutely nothing, and he’s (I mean his handlers are) trying to frame this as an act of nature.
Weird, creepy Kamala-esque chuckle.
Oh, hey, he’s taking credit for withdrawing. Apparently he wasn’t noogied by Trump into doing it. Hey, Joe, how many soldiers have died in Afghanistan since 2008?
Well, that added nothing and clarified nothing except that Biden wants to act like his Afghanistan nondrawal nonpolicy was force majeure, and he takes complete responsibility for the thing everything likes (Americans left Afghanistan! Yay!) without taking responsibility for the part everybody hates (Americans left in Afghanistan! BOO).
I heard a bit of the speech in the car. Didn’t he say “I” instead of “we” when talking about the evacuation improving?
And I’m sitting behind Rublev at the Zverev vs Rublev match.
Wave to us.
Count your blessings that the weather cooperated. It was garbage for several days there.
Oofa this is not looking good for Rublev.
At least he took out Medvedev yesterday so I have to root for the kid.
If it ends early, I may go to bed before 2am. And then to drive as much tomorrow.
That was very disappointing. Way too quick.
Yup.
The ladies match was a blowout too.
I have always said I prefer matches that lead up to finals (in almost every sport) over finals. Today was a shining example of why.
Yeah. At least I saw the Zverev-Tsitsipas semifinal last night. That one was a good show.
I can’t believe this:
In Winston-Salem, tennis-asshole Nick Kyrgios just withdrew minutes before a match so they replaced him with a lucky loser who had just lost his final qualifier, all so the audience could cheer on Andy Murray without having to wait until tomorrow.
WTF
That is actually a perfect metaphor for the times we live in. Whatever we are doing has nothing with its actual needs, in this case, competition, but rather the spectator aspect is what is more important.
It’s disgraceful. The lucky loser – this kid Noah Rubin who can never catch a break because he just… well, isn’t good enough – is falling badly in the 2nd set.
Murray gets an easy win, the clapping seals who cheer him on are happy, and the commentators are all “kudos to Noah Rubin”. What a fucking joke. LOL one of them just said “the crowd got what they wanted”. I do appreciate the honesty.
I can envision what happened. “Noah, you’re up.”
“Um… I’m tired AF dude.”
“You’re up, or we’ll pick someone else.”
Irish Soccer star dead of a brain bleed 3 days after vaccine.
https://mobile.twitter.com/eileeniorio/status/1428127406590730240
Definitely not the vaccine.
/CDC
Can you imagine how much worse it would have been for him if he didn’t take the vaxx. Oh the horror.
Hi Chafed, Thanks for new edition and greetings from NOCal. Hiking weather less smokey and cool. Did an easy 5 miler along the Carquinez coast. Lovely.
Good on you for taking a break just in time to regroup for the fall season. As for fitness..anything that keeps you from succumbing to the ‘vid should be good enough.
G-fit update: Sleep was very good this week. Cooler weather and new “white” noise fan. Food was protein, little fruit but I stayed OMAD. Hike mileage was down to 31 miles this week. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; Did 3 times. Weight level at 174. Fasted on Monday…27 hrs. (Meatless Monday).
Goals: Meeting goal weight range max (175-170). Still not dead from Covid…MB;MC
Heparin-laced-bleeding-edge Covid Update: Vaxx no worky, but it makes death better. I don’t understand, the vaxx should work since we had such good consensus on the science. Oh well, FDA to approve tomorrow for marketed use.
Now for the real news. Based on the vaxx being as successful as an Afghan pullout, we need to pullout all the stops. And by stops, I mean Aliens. They are billions of years advanced, so they probably already have multiple cures. All we have to do is ask them through a Close Encounters 5 (CE5) protocol (I saw a movie on it…). From what I gathered, Aliens are here but in a different dimensions and by using proper-focused meditation, we can summon them and get answers to all our questions and problems. Simple, right! Instead of Zoom calls, we can just set up a time for connected CE5 protocol across the country and world (think radio telescopes). There was really no need for some half-assed contraption ala “Contact”…just a comfy chair and the right frame of mind! Stay tuned….
To live better, fat adapt, skip a meal or three!
Did you stop for beers in the old brothel in Port Costa?
Nope…it gets a little rowdy there with all the bikers on Sundays. PC is a strange town because there are hard core lefties and righties that get along really well. I think it is due to the mayor, who is a Labrador.
That is one odd little town. I flew a biker out once who had laid it down and broken his femur.
Fasting can be brutal.
Gets good results wrt digestion, more energy, weight loss.
Plus side is time spent cooking and cleaning can be used for other things, like replacing old manky floor tile.
Downside is that as a guy that likes to cook and eat, my stomach growls and complains. Now I know what Snoopy went through when Charlie Brown didn’t bring his dinner at the appropriate time.
the twelve hour fast is the easiest, and I do it on work days. Twenty four hour fast is more difficult, and I do that on a day off. Today, I am trying a thirty-six hour fast; the goal is not to eat until twelve o’clock tomorrow. I might have to put a lock on the fridge.
It is always easier to fast if the meal going into the fast is substantial. Substantial for me is meat, with a bunch of fat.
Sometimes when you feel hungry during fast, your body is craving electolytes and taking in some salts/salt water can help with the pangs. Best wishes on the fast.
Thank you.
I usually drink water with lemon or lime juice in it. Will add a pinch of salt, see how that works.
Agree with the substantial meal. Mine includes something high in fiber: veggies, brown rice, beans along with the meat.
I have to confess, the biggest challenge is breaking the habits of eating. I’m a creature of habit.
You might want to check out some other salts..like K and Mg. (Always dissolve those in water).
As for habit..it is always easier to fast with the friend who you can bitch and complain about being hungry while watching Food Network shows.
Yesterday, as lunchtime approached, I poured a Barrel Aged Old Rasputin into two hotel cups and started walking. I tried hard not to spill a drop, but I failed once or twice.
After both cups were empty I saw an area cordoned off by a thin yellow nylon rope. They were selling beer. I had an OK pint of a nondescript IPA.
As I approached my destination, I saw a slightly upscale supermarket and bought a four pack of Dragon’s Milk, just in case. However, True Food didn’t allow me to “uncork” it at the table, so I had a ?Dogfish? IPA since I was a few minutes early.
After lunch I had one of my emergency beers as las chicas took a smoke break.
By the time I got home, I was “tired”, so I missed the beginning of the Zoom, but I woke up, busted out of the poker tournament, grabbed a Firestone and did a tiny bit of chatting and a lot of listening.
Wary of the fifty pound limit that Southwest has, I consumed another Old Rasputin and two more of my emergency beers (the Dragon’s Milk).
Yesterday was fun. Whee!
Huge thanks to Tulip for organizing and KK for the company.
My guess would be the Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA (they also have a 90 minute and a 120 minute variant), all three are good, but different. Glad you had as good of a time as possible in DC.
GlibFit.
https://archive.is/UaTZN
Wow! GlibFit certified!
NSFW!!! Q’s Glib Fit Routine NSFW
I’m interested in joining your church.
Wow…
Air Force does a 1.5 mile run, push ups and situps in a minute. No functional testing there and I’ve heard rumblings they may even get rid of it for certain career fields that spend most of their days behind computers. They are examining various combinations of exercises for a combat fitness test that scales up or down depending on job. Security Forces (military police), for example, would be looking at sprints, farmers carries, and some other stuff. The spec ops community is even more strenuous and involved (rightly so).
A lot of this is stemming from lessons learned during combat, where extended use of body armor and heavy gear is causing a lot of injuries to the combatant’s core. So they’re shifting physical testing to encourage personnel to work on core strength and flexibility, as opposed to just jogging a mile or looking like a beefcake (not that there’s anything wrong with either).
I actually don’t really have a problem with that.
It doesn’t make sense for an intel analyst who lives in front of a computer all the time to have the same requirements as special operations. Some basic waist measurement and minimal fitness threshold to keep out fatasses would be fine IMO. Some of the most talented cybersecurity people I’ve ever met couldn’t pass a PT test if their life depended on it but those are the types we need in the Service.
Surely they’d need to have a body in peak condition to resist carpal tunnel and eyestrain?
This song brought to you by abuse of power in the name of Kung Flu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij65wvAGX-c
Kick ass music, Chafed. I wore out a cassette of Blow My Fuse. I love that album.
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Mike, did you see that the whole megillah of Decline 2 is on YT? Ozzy and Lemmy and… Kiss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAuOTSNXNBo
Damn! No, I hadn’t had a chance to look, yet. Thanks, Tox!
Faster Pussycat!
https://www.trutv.com/shows/tacoma-fd/clips/season-3-trailer
Season 3 starts 9/16. ?
I’m so loaded up with adblockers and shit it won’t play for me.
But sweet. I still haven’t watched the 2nd half of last season… I should get on that.
Comments from the (((cutie))) with the purse dog and Weimaraner.
“All the good Kennedys are dead.”
“Obama’s place is pretty nice.”
“He [Obama] is attracting the wrong sorts, so we decided to get out. Fortunately he drove the prices up when we sold the place.’
eh? context?
Love Weimaraners.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218839/mediaviewer/rm2830082561
I mentioned meeting her at the dog park a few days ago in the AM Links. The Weimaraner is named “Walraven.” She’s getting back into polo. She drives a Volvo SUV with a “Walraven Foundation” placard on it.
Every now and then our betters go slumming in this town.
Should I know the significance of the dog being named Walraven? Is it some nerd shit or some blue blood shit?
She may have named the dog after the foundation she works for…
or she may have set up a foundation for her dog.
Ah, sorry. Rings a bell.
See also whichever New Order video that is (apologies to Rhywun and Wm. Wegman).
OMG!
The portraits of the owners (oh, the dogs are there too).
I had never seen those until just now.
https://polishamericanfestival.org/
No vaccine/mask mandates.
https://pabaconfest.com/
None seen here either.
Excellent. Hopefully both stay that way.
Yesterday was 1.55 miles @ 2.2 MPH, 42 minutes on the treadmill, then the Weider machine, 2 sets of 3 upper body exercises. I try to raise the distance every day, increase the speed a little every day (that I exercise). Today was chores and a down day. Body weight is back to usual 190, belly is round, as usual.
Hell yes, Fourscore!
Thanks for proving me right! I’ve said it many times, but it always bears repeating:
You are my hero and I want to be like you.
Be careful Fourscore! Tundra is after your wife and property. His “move” to CO was just a ruse to establish an alibi.
But good to hear that you are back at it Fourscore.
Goddammit, why do you always thwart my plans?
You are jealous that Mrs. Fourscore likes me better!
I hate to say this but in truth Mrs F likes Jimbo, maybe not best, but he always brings the fantastic potstickers that his missus make. Damn those things are good. Mrs F makes a similar wonton, damn those things are good.
That’s not say she doesn’t like Tundra because he always carries her food out to the buffet table and she’ll be looking for him and Jimbo again.
Can’t you guys get along?
Why would we?
Have any brothers ever gotten along?
I just want Mrs. Fourscore’s recipe for chicken thighs.
Excellent.
Has anyone bought anything from these people?
https://athleanx.com/the-training/xero
A glib posted a link there last week.
From the description it sounds like online videos. Does anyone know if I can download them? Then I could play them on my TV without a computer. There is not enough space where my computer is.
Anyone try that program? Anyone have any other suggestions for a learning body-weight exercises?
Does anyone have the strength to move the sidebar?
I bought Athleanx 1 and 2. I think the programs and instruction are great. You have to view everything through a web browser.
OK, thanks.
If you have an HDMI port on the TV, you can get a Chromecast (if they still sell them), and stream to the TV through a phone or the Chrome web browser.
I would still need access to my computer for that. I don’t use a smartphone. If I could download the videos I could just put them on a USB stick.
Anyone have any other suggestions for a learning body-weight exercises?
AthleanX has lots of bodyweight exercises on their YouTube channel. I realize you would need to view them on your computer.
I can download YouTube and put it on a USB stick for the TV. The TV can also play YouTube directly, but the interface sucks.
Oh, and thanks, I’ll try their YouTube channel first.
Chafed!
My feeling is you must determine what matters to you.
This times about a million. I have my lifting journal. I can see if I’m getting stronger or being a giant pussy. Writing everything down can absolutely square you away.
I have a tendency toward overthinking, over tracking and operating in much too compressed time windows. I can be disciplined as fuck for 30, 60, 90 days or whatever. It’s the boring time between “challenges” that I struggle with.
I’ve refined my fitness goals to a couple things:
1) Minimize muscle loss as I move further into decrepitude.
2) Never having to say no to a fun hike, hunt, fishing trip or any other physical challenge.
I love having my gym in the basement. I wondered if I would miss getting in the truck and leaving, but so far just going downstairs, closing the door and putting on a podcast kind of rocks. A nice break in the day, even in my own house.
I’ve continued my walking/hiking routine. We’re starting to stretch out our hikes. Yesterday was a 5.5 mile out and back with 1243 elevation gain. Three weeks into this experiment and I’m definitely feeling better. Living at 5600 feet helps, too.
Your musical choice is perfect. I was just chatting with a buddy about the hair band albums we used to listen to back then. Kix didn’t come up, but Autograph sure as fuck did!
Have a great week Glibfitters!
I’m glad the home gym is working for you. Kix never quite got the recognition they deserved.
This just rolled around.
They got more recognition than they deserved, but this is a great fucking song!
More good hair metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4SknWfon6Y
Probably my all time favorite hair metal song. I think it’s the double-snare hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAi8Jc2hrw
I managed 35 holes today, A lot cooler, so my Exo wasn’t so miserable, but Jeez I’m wiped out.
/Glibfit!
I did 18 holes this morning with my BIL and his son-in-law before the Texas heat really started, but it was crazy humid. I was so drenched in sweat by the end that it looked like it had rained.
That was yesterday, the course was a Wet oven, no wind, I probably lost a few pounds, today was a welcome change.
And my Disc is still crushed! yippee!
Glibfit conundrum: I want to get more fit, but my weight is already fine and always has been, even by BMI standards. My goals are small; turn a bit of fat around the waist into a bit of muscle around the chest, and maybe a bit of cardio to do a couple mile run without being exhausted afterwards. So knowing I’m already not far off from those goals means there’s never any intense pressure to start a regimen, nor to keep one going when I do start.
“My goals are small; turn a bit of fat around the waist into a bit of muscle around the chest”
You know you can’t actually do that. You can change your diet, burn more calories, to lose the fat, and do exercises to increase your chest muscle. Maybe some kind of circuit training, high reps exercise can do both at the same time.
Well, yes. I suppose I should have said ‘lose a bit of fat, gain a bit of muscle.’
LOL.
GOP candidate protests against mistreatment of NYC carriage horsies.
Dem candidate doesn’t seem to care; does not support a ban.
Org which is pushing the ban has come out with a statement against one of the candidates. Take a wild guess which one.
Next he will be supporting teachers unions too.
BTW from your post above. I’m vaxxed but have no intention of eating at any restaurant in NYC that is going to “card” diners.
So looks like no dining out for lunch for me either.
Good for you. Degrading, isn’t it?
There’s a reason I’m not going to any of the concerts. Regardless of my vax status or current ‘vid status, I’m not sharing medical information to go into a place. FFS, imagine if these places were asking for HIV testing status, abortion status, pregnancy status, or any number of other things.
I’d be willing to share my colonoscopy photos.
Me too. Watching the gag reflex kick in would be sufficient entertainment for me.
You might be surpeised by the lack of enforcement of these “policies” last weekend at the Bluesfest we were told they would require un-vaxxed people to mask up, this was an outdoor venue – no one checked shit, maybe one out of every 200 people were masked. The afterjam was inside at the hotel ballroom so you needed to pass a Covid test (they had a tent set up and everything) and again no one checked shit. I may be mistaken but the same kid that was filling out the forms in the ‘Vid test tent was also at the table at the entrance to the afterjam, but he was selling drink tickets.
TL DR- don’t give up on live shit yet, many places will only give lip service to these policies.
Up here it was the venue owners announcing the policy changes. In her defense, an e-mail got sent out the day after the announcement offering refunds for tickets bought for events after the policy went into effect, and I got my refund in just a couple of hours. The venue owners in the announcement said it was the bands requesting the policy change (possibly to deflect the blame).
All the policies I mentioned were put in place by the promoter of the festival, he mentioned them several times every day while announcing acts but not a single time did I see any festival personel enforce anything. I’m going with the theroy that a lot of these placed are just putting on a show of enforcment to avoid hassles. I understand that you probably don’t want to risk shelling out for a ticket ahead of time that you may not use if they are serious about this bullshit, but come showtime, I’d wager you can buy a ticket and waltz right on in no vax card or mask required.
If you go back to the office looks like you’ll be dining in NJ.
What a twist!
Until they ban it too.
After the election here.
I thought they were already banned so Hizzoner could sell the stables to his frineds?
No, he was never able to accomplish that. Go figure.
Maybe there was a bill and he slept in that day and forgot.
My exercise today consisted of contorting myself in the footwell of my car to reach a torx t20 bolt in the dumbest place possible to replace a cabin air filter. I’m still sore. Normal cars usually can be done in 3 minutes through the glovebox.
https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/images/support/replace-cabin-air-filter.gif
It’s a great design for manufacturing and lhd or rhd can use the same hvac. But stupid as can be for service. Model Y at least puts the bolt on the bottom now.
First World Problems, i have a tool for that,
?
This, a great addition to my extensive tool collection, the worlds smallest Ratchet,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wnsu6MSmtwBvB9yS6
Oh. Uh, carry on.
That’s nice!
I used a flexible extension. Worked great, but getting to it was ridiculous.
Welcome to my world, ‘What the Fuck were you thinking?”
All the Time,
Picked this guy up at Tokyu Hands. Uses standard 1/4″ hex shanks.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/ANEX-Ratchet-Driver-Offset-No-429/dp/B002655H5U/
That’s my Stanley set right there, easier then my Drill motors sometimes,
It’s saved my bacon too! Think I’ll pick up the non-offset version as a complement where the angle won’t fit.
Specialty tools are great for those certain situations.
And that is a T20 Torx,
First dimsmantle the interior.
Those plastic panels will only survive a limited number of remove and replace cycles
That’s what Duct tape is for,
Pretty much.
The clips and pins themselves are replaceable however. So you don’t have to replace the panels themselves.
Could be worse
https://youtu.be/luqpT1d08Ew
Skip to 1:11 for the stomach dropping moment.
I recall you mentioned that, but I had no idea it was that ridiculous.
BMW forces you to use a service scan tool to tell it the type of battery, AGM, wet cell, etc. and that it was replaced. Otherwise, naturally, it will throw codes.
Another reason I’ll never own another one.
First comment is apropos:
Why couldn’t they just put the battery under the hood like a normal car. Too much work man
Not sure if it is still this way for other Dodges but I had a Dodge Stratus for my college car. You have to remove the wheel well cover to remove the battery. Was a huge pain.
Yep! My buddy had a Chrysler 300 and the battery came out through the wheel well.
Cars haven’t been designed to repair easily for at least 30 years.
Were they ever “designed” for esay repair? or was that just a unintended benifit of the early technology. When your engine doesn’t have hundreds of extra gizmos and whatsits it’s going to be easier to work on regardless of the intentins of the engineers.
Well, you all made fun of me for owning a British car, but I could pretty much fix anything on that thing with a roll of standard tools.
You may be right, it was probably early tech, but whoever thought it was a good idea to remove the battery though the wheel well deserves a nut punch.
At this point, cars are designed for assembly and fuel mileage. This is why you see so many weird fasteners like Torx, why there doesn’t seem to be any space under the hood, and so on. Shade tree mechanics are not even remotely considered.
Back in the ’20s, a car owner was expected to do the work on his car, or his chauffeur was at least. And this persisted for as long as cars came with tool kits that were actually useful. Now, not so much as a good half the work is electrical.
By the way, Mercedes came with the first electronic fuel injection. And they still make parts for it, just no motherboard.
WTF??
Oh for fucks sake
Because cars are smaller than they were before and have more stuff crammed into them. Smaller generally means better gas mileage and emissions. But it also means you can’t extend the front of the car a foot to add the battery. More stuff is required to optimize gas mileage, emissions, and safety.
It all adds up to stuff being in weird places.
Just because you have to detatch the trunk and take out the back seat to change the headlights…
JP is absolutely Fisking Biden, you gotta watch this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASF7u5QWFE
Leaving aside for a moment that Biden is a complete idiot and tool, how can anyone call Trump “Orange” and not see Biden’s creepy fake skin coloring?
Yeah, it’s a superficial thing, but so was calling Trump a Cheeto.
Ha! good call!
Excellent.
Great catch. That should leave a mark.
I can leave my Hamburger bun out for 5 minutes and it won’ Dessicate? what Humid magic is this?
/Brioche ’cause Yummy
But don’t leave the crackers out for 5 minutes.
True
Angus Beef burgers
Brioche Buns
Colby Jack cheese
Steak seasoning
Minced Onion
Mayo
Simple and tasty!
What about leaving the honkies out for five minutes?
Very PC Ted,
They burn too quick.
I did Pilates and yoga after work today. 🙂
But are you a real Girl? or just another MLW?
HMMM, that really came out Wrong,
I’m Nephilium’s girlfriend.
So I noticed, greetings, 🙂
Fuck off, Tulpa!
And welcome, Neph’s girlfriend. 🙂
From Canada, right?
Neph sock account confirmed.
/tactfully avoids sock joke
Uh… pics?
Meh. I’m more flexible then she is.
I don’t see how that changes anything.
Well, she does live with me.
Still…
Alright.
/starts putting on the cycling kit to take pics for Tundra
LOL! No, I’m good Neph.
Again, I’m not sure how Tudra’s desire to see pics is effected by that.
Yes.
I actually have seen her on Zoom and Neph is a lucky boy.
Ligue 1 match abandoned after fans storm field in bottle-throwing incident
What’s a Ligue? speak English, some of us are Hicks,
Je suis désolé que tu ne comprends aucune langue étrangère.
I’m sorry I don’t speak other languages like you, Que No?
Sois gentil!
I try
I am not allowed to complain at the course, someone else speaks up for me,
I have no social skills,
@ le cinéaste, not you.
Gracias, still true,
Mais je suis d’accord, T., that The Women is aired too often. Norma Shearer, oh goody.
OFFS.
Good.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/08/demonstrators-congregate-at-portland-waterfront.html
“Demonstrators”
So the righties changed their venue and antifa went to the new location after first showing up at the old one. Pretty clear evidence (not that it’s needed again) that they are the assailants and brownshirts intent on shutting down, with violence, anyone they disagree with. Oh, and the police publicly stated beforehand that they would not intervene in any confrontations. 1930’s Germany or 1960’s South. Political violence under the color of state protection.
Brownshirts for Brown.
But seriously, Portland is as fucked as it is due to her inaction.
It’s all fun and games until the shooting starts.
Then it’s just fun.
I was thinking it would be real easy to lure them into an ambush…
The point at which somebody decides to take a bunch of them out, it’s going to be stupid easy.
The first time at least.
It wouldn’t have to be shooting. A couple of dozen stout young men with pick handles would see the Profa assholes off pretty quickly.
I am telling you, just watch for the signs to come the old Teamster way, mounted on 2×4’s.
If you ask me – and even if you don’t – the little blackshirted fuckers have it coming.
I ain’t sayin’ nothin’, I am just saying.
Maybe two years ago. They’ve since had experience brawling (as Evil Sheldon points out) and they’re armed with firearms. Both sides are, but other than isolated incidents, neither is ready to use them.
This is fun, the comments too,
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-immortal-feinstein.html
I like this one,
“When John F. Kennedy was Feinstein’s age, he had been dead for 42 years.”
Fred on Kabul… errr…. Saigon
Forty-six years ago in a previous comedy I was in Saigon, recently having been evacuated from Phnom Penh in an Air America—CIA—Caribou carrying, in addition to me, several ARVN junior officers and perhaps a dozen BUFEs (Big Ugly Fucking Elephants, the ceramic pachyderms much beloved of GIs). America had already embarked on its currently standard policy of forcing small countries into wars and then leaving them in the lurch. In Cambodia this led to the reign of Pol Pot, the ghastly torture operation at Toul Sleng, and a million or so dead. In the unending fight for democracy, casualties are inevitable.
At the time Saigon was tense because Ban Me Thuot had fallen and the NVA roared down Route One toward Saigon. To anyone with the brains of a doorknob, the American adventure in Vietnam was coming to an end, but the embassy was studiedly unconcerned. Embassies do not have the brains of a doorknob, but are keenly aware of public relations. Acknowledging the inescapable is not their way. As usual, Washington would rather lie than breathe, and did. As in Cambodia, so in Nam, and so later in Afghanistan.
Apparently a genius at State realized that a lot of gringo expats lived in Nam—the number six thousand comes to mind, but may be wrong—and that six thousand hostages taken when Saigon fell would be bad PR. So the embassy in Kabul—Saigon, I meant to say, Saigon—quietly announced that expats could fly out on military aircraft from Ton Son Nhut. They didn’t, or at least many didn’t. The NVA continued its rush toward Saigon.
Doorknob obession, learn some history Dude….
/Not you DEG
Fred got his eyes fucked up while he was in Vietnam. Later he went back as a journalist.
Great read. Thx
Cut to the chase why don’t ya?
https://stromata.typepad.com/stromata_blog/2021/08/where-the-incompetence-lies.html
Holy shit, the sidebar is still up?
It shows up as a big ass footer on my phone.
It is a tad
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See, this is how text wraps around inline pictures in articles on my phone.
I don’t use a phone for browsing.
This only happens to me when the comment is indented five or six replies in.
I watch the news and they keep saying We lost Afghanistan, who the Fuck is We?
in the beginning, sure go in and kick ass, but even then i knew the history , and yet the US kept it up, after that, I was out,
I guess We did lose after all….
What do you mean “we”, white man?
I went to see the physio for a shoulder problem. He worked on my spine. I now have a shoulder problem and a spinal problem.
I need a back massage real bad, especially my shoulders. I would consider trading a spinal problem for it.
A Trade? you do me, I do you?
/not Ghey
Ha I knew you would chime in.
Sorry about your spinal problem. I don’t actually want it.
But ugh my shoulders. I sleep on my side because sleeping on my back gives me night terrors but sleeping on my side is wrecking my shoulders.
You need a new mattress.
Oh for sure.
I need a new lots of things. ?
It looks a tad cool where she’s working out.
honk honk
Fox News is pushing Al Queda = Taliban and they’re going to come back!
Huh, maybe we are done with the Covidiocy and need a new fear factory.
Please please please please….
“Islamic terrorists intentionally infecting themselves with new, more contagious strain of Covid are flooding across southern border in a suicidal attempt to kill Americans! Australian style lockdowns needed to ensure safety against Al Queda Cooties!”
I jest but I wouldn’t put anything past these fucking people at this point.
+1 smoking hookah
Talqaeda hates us for our convenience stores.
If Taco Bell had conveyor belts, they’d hate us even more.
Good article on the elite expert class and Afghanistan debacle.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/how-the-lizard-people-took-over-americas-war/
Excellent article. Read quickly through it, going to give it some more attention tomorrow.
I bought a weighted vest. Only took me three weeks to decide to use it.
First walk w/ it today, was surprised that I could feel my leg muscles working harder.
Which one did you get?
I got this 6lb one (no good at linky, so hope this works)
https://www.amazon.com/ZELUS-Weighted-Reflective-Strength-Weightlifting/dp/B081JLDJLB/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2MYSNGPZ2O96I&dchild=1&keywords=zelus%2Bweighted%2Bvest&qid=1629690371&sprefix=zelus%2Bweight%2Caps%2C272&sr=8-5&th=1
Thanks!
Been thinking about a vest or a weighted ruck. Please update and let us know how you like it!
I wear one just to walk, go get em!
I know an old lady that swallowed a fly. Old broad gave best head in the county.
I… wait, what?
That’s just weird Straff,
Congratulations?
So… no teeth?
The fly had teeth like all zippers.
zipperhead? Racist!
Start my fitness journey three weeks ago. Intermittent fasting, and last week hit the gym. Cut out all pop, and trying to go easy on any sweets. In gym working up to 5×5 strong lifts, and then tread mill everyday, raising it one increment per minute, then back down one decrement per minute. Starting weight is 306, and as of last Thursday, I was at 292. So a good start so far. I gained about thirty pounds in the last year from quitting smoking. I had smoked for 32 years, and needed to do something.
I have not posted in long time, but have been with y’all from the start. This site definitely keeps me sane. Thanks.
Good for you for quitting smoking. That’s a big deal. And now you are losing the weight you put on. That’s great.
Yeah, thanks, I was heavy before. I pretty big guy so 235 or 240 I would be ripped, so that is my goal, or may just go by looks. Right now trying a few things and see if they stick.
Quitting is for Losers!
God Bless you for quitting!
Thanks, Yusef. Tall cans!!!
SI!
*raises vape instrument in half-assed solidarity*
Go get ’em! Congrats on quitting the cigs!
Thanks, MikeS. It was hard. I had tried and failed several times. This time I made the proper incentives. There was no joy in quitting so I created joy from not smoking. The money I saved I would buy something every month, and it helped. For the one year I bought a 2019 Jeep Cherokee, so now I am riding around in what I did and will put in lungs. It was great incentive for me because I am very visual.
That’s a great way to do it. And I hear you about hard. I smoked and dipped at the same time for years. Quit smokes almost 11 years ago and nearly 5 years for the smokeless.
For months after quitting smoking I’d have dreams about smoking. I’d wake up disappointed in myself for having one until I realized it was just a dream. Some of the most “real” dreams I’ve ever had. Nicotine is a helluva drug.
Yep, I’m stuck,
I still have smoking dreams. Like, I’m smoking with my mom. She’s been gone 14 years and I never told her I smoked.
Fuck yeah!
Once you make the decision you are most of the way there.
Congrats on the cessation, the weight loss and the future ass kicking!
Let us know if we can help in any way.
I just talked to a friend, we discussed the Mark of the Beast, i.e. the vax,
Sorry, not happening,
Sunday I live in the Sun,
Monday I work hard for eveyobe,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCt1dhNEKpU
Everyone, I can’t spell, listen!
‘With just a bit of tinkering at the edges, man could finally be perfected. With 10,000 hours of practice we could all be Mozart. If we understood our biases in just the right way, we could all make optimal decisions and finally, at last, reach the just and true conclusions about the nature of the good life and how to live it.
Moral certainty was no more than a few “major university studies” away. Everything mutable. Every man a block of wet clay to be molded by the right incentives. Even in Afghanistan.’
Something, something, Mal makes a speech, something, something.
‘We will likely learn nothing from this catastrophe. Our leadership class will not be chastened by it. They will not reconsider their magical thinking. They will simply redirect it elsewhere. Probably at home. There is already talk of forgetting the terrorists in Afghanistan so we can fight the terrorists on our own soil.
In case there is any doubt, they are referring to you and me. They are referring to anyone who doubts their mandate to rule over us. What comes next will likely be far worse than what preceded it, if equally deranged. And though the architects of this failed war might not take any lessons from Afghanistan, we can. The Pashtun persevered because they had the will to do so. Because they had God on their side.
Hold the line. Call their bluff. They will blink first. The weaker hand always does.’
I fear the American people have grown far too soft to hold the line on much of anything. Until food grows sparse and family gets disappeared we won’t do shit. Most will take the needle, show the card, publicly disavow wrong-think, stay with the fascists employer, let themselves be monitored via GPS tracking through their media devices and soon their automobile, and generally go along with more authoritarianism because it makes them feel safer.
We’re a broken culture. All the contempt I felt for places like the U.K. as I watched their civil liberties get squashed while they thanked those who did it for the effort has melted away. After nearly 250 years we’ve become European style subjects again. The only difference being we still have tens of millions of armed people with firearms…I don’t believe most of those gun owners will fight back in any meaningful way.
*washes down black-pill with a sip of beer*
Anyway, great article, thanks for sharing!
For KSue
Dude, did you read my mind? the cool part for me, I have nothing to lose!
Lwt’s blow shit up !
/Fuck You Prheet!
‘the cool part for me, I have nothing to lose!’
Me either! I’m already used to being a second class citizen. Finding avenues to float around the system is second nature to me. Short of a train ride, I’ll be just fine.
Yep, it’s 590 and me, and when it all blows up, I hope can hang on,
right now, life sucks,
Really, after losing my job over this, I have nothing left to lose, if Shit goes down, i may as well play,
Scott Horton, just listen Glibs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UFpzw5leOE
Interesting reviews of space movies by an astronaut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkhZgRNC1k
Good fun for the space Glibs.
And the pr push for vaxxing was very palpable on the news this morning.
Full blitz time.
🙄
Was listening to National Pravda Radio yesterday. Same tiresome bullshit.
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/08/22/viral-video-teens-flee-as-young-black-bear-strolls-through-twin-cities-neighborhood/
Fleeing at the mere appearance of an African-American bear? So racist.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/08/mask-vaccine-conflicts-lead-to-violence-harassment-it-got-much-more-hostile-than-anything-i-had-seen.html
Pushback.
You posted that one before.
I blame gin. Oops.
Perhaps if their “opinions” didn’t carry the threat of force with them it wouldn’t be such a big deal.
I’m curious what percentage of those educators, medical professionals and public figures who feel vilified supported the BLM and Antifa crowd confronting “Racist and Fascist” leaders outside their homes and in their workplaces last year.
Very good point
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/video-shots-fired-portland-dueling-protest/
Kind of ironic firing shots at a protest over duelling. Was the question settled at least?
Wake me when it’s somebody that can hit a target.
I gotta get out of this state.
Any advice on how I find a job in another jurisdiction? ie, remotely
To clarify, I don’t need to work remotely, just search remotely.
I need to get out of New York.
My BIL is an IT guy and on the verge of retiring from here. Want me to ask him anything about the place?
Given how prominently they promote ‘diversity’ on the careers page, they don’t look promising.
Your problem is that you are not in New York city, which is the place to be in New York State.
Years ago I set up a profile on Dice, at the time was pondering a move to western PA. I still get daily job postings from the Pittsburgh area (maybe I should change my profile).
Dice doesn’t show anything in a lot of the areas I’m looking at.
But it does show that my skillset commands $40-50K more than I make now.
Is your house worth more now than when you bought it?
It is still worth only the shelter it provides.
I assume if you want to move out of state you need to sell. Pay whatever debt remains and have an advance for the next one
I don’t need to sell. I’ve managed my finances such that I could burn the place to the ground and still be able to start afresh.
So the likely sequence of events would be – establish new residency – move my crap that isn’t too bulky to be worth the cost – fix minor problems in house – list for more than it’s worth and see who offers what.
I don’t need to sell. I’ve managed my finances such that I could burn the place to the ground and still be able to start afresh. – that is good, but would be wasteful would it not? Why burn what you can sell?
So that I’ll be sure that I’ve finally killed any mice that snuck in.
Muahahahahahahaha!
leave the mice alone mice are people too
Oh, hey, Montana posted a job that almost reads like my resume here. Except for the peoplesoft. But who wants peoplesoft.
There’s probably other places too.
Montana? Are you crazy? It is cold and full of hipsters.
Still got a lower infestation rate than New York.
I’m pretty sure it has a lower infestation rate for everything than NY, except for tumbleweeds
Those things are pernicious.
Pffftttt….
It’s full of round women and rabbit farms.
That was the 1980s.
Do you have experience with Dental Floss?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=smZA9Jv3qH0
No advice, other than Indeed sucks.
We’ve started advertising help wanted ads on Facebook (blech!).
Got any openings for a Unix/Linux SysAdmin with PeopleSoft middleware experience?
Lol, nope.
Got a couple of light carpentry spots though. No vaxx mandates either!
I’ve got no carpentry experience.
🙁
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
Good morning, homey! Looking forward to a quiet week at work after setting up some new hires today and sorting the inevitable Monday Mountain of Mail.
We blew off the Dragons game yesterday on account of the heat. Just as well – they lost pretty handily.
Bon voyage to Jugsy. Is she already on her way back to NYC?
Yeah, it’s gonna be hot. I need to cut the grass, but Ive acquired “rectal glaucoma”. I just cant see my ass doing anything today.
She should be in the air as I type this.
happy Monday everyone.
Body not happy i moved gravel this weekend.
Is the mind and spirit happy you moved gravel? The squirrels appear to be.
they are happy, but depressed because there is more to move.
Then sand, then the tamping….
Oh what we do for spouse hobbies.
🙂
Putting in a patio?
sheep barn
you need to move gravel more often so you are in gravel moving shape if the necessity arises to move gravel
happy Monday everyone.
Body not happy i moved gravel this weekend.
great….
beware the squirrels are out this morning.
Mornin’. The world has gone nuts, what did you expect?
Nothing less. I do fear that its going to be a difficult week for us with the vax being approved (rubber stamp) and Afghanistan evacuation. What a time to be alive.
They approved it now that we know it doesn’t work?
Or is this a ploy to let them keep shilling their snake oil while approving the real treatments that would have shitcanned the emergency approvals?
Hopefully the latter but I doubt it. They’ve been ignoring the law and general good practice ever since this all started, it seems like they would have just approved the treatments some time ago, which would have been very politically expedient BTW, if they had any intention to do so.
Idaho- land of excitement
Idaho man balances 101 toilet paper rolls on forehead, breaks world record
would have been more impressive during the great toilet paper shortage of 2020
He looks to be a professional world record accumulator, also holds the record for balancing a hoe on his nose.
hoes are difficult to balance
You just need a strong pimp hand.
https://babylonbee.com/news/staffers-lure-kamala-back-to-white-house-by-telling-her-theres-some-kids-smoking-marijuana-on-the-lawn
Thank God for the Bee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J2hycw5EFs
lulz
LOL.
From the sidebar:
‘Rumors That The Taliban Have Taken Over Are Unfounded,’ Says Jen Psaki Wearing Hijab
LOL, wut?
Masks and social distancing are the answer to everything, even when you’ve got way bigger problems on the horizon.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/westwood-hillsdale/s/hqrgy/nj-needle-exchange-program-gains-support-from-gov-murphy
But do you need to be jabbed to get the jabs?
Oooh, Targetsports is already processing my first order from Friday.
Sweet.
Fuck, I can’t smell shit, and I’ve been feeling little off of the last few days, I was hoping it was allergies. I was supose to see an ankle specialist today but I’m going to have to reschedule and go get a covid test, I’ve been waiting 10 weeks to see this guy but I can’t in good conscience go when I’m pretty sure I’m sick.
Have you tried smelling something other than shit?
Speed stick, mouthwash, toothpaste, vinegar, freshly opened bag of pork rinds…nothing, not a scent.
Well, shit. Get well soon.
Ooof. Sorry dude. Feel better.
Fever or cough?
I don’t have a thermameter but I feel a bit feverish, no cough but sore throat and congestion, which is why I was hoping allergies.
I know it’s a dead thread but I’m just venting anyway, I scheduled a Vid test for today, rescheduled my ankle appointment – Sept 20th, it’ll then be 14 weeks since my original surgeon made the referal, four more weeks, at least, of gimping around. Of course now I may have to quarantine for the first two so there is that, ***grumble grumble bitch and moan***