GlibFit has discussed motivation more than once. You must be motivated to start working out. Once you are doing your activity (or about to start your activity), your attitude is the single biggest factor on how that workout will go.
When I say attitude, I am referring to what it is going on in your head before you start your workout/run/hike/whatever. While I believe attitude and motivation are linked, I’m staying focused on attitude this week. You are about to start your activity, what’s happening inside you?
Have you checked your self-talk? Rolling out of bed early telling yourself this is another day to go kick some ass is a vastly different experience than getting up and telling yourself today is going to suck. Do you hear music you love or your spouse nagging you? Those will have quite different affects on what you do next.
What do you see in your mind’s eye before you start? If it’s a bright, big movie of doing your activity and doing it well, then you’re off to a good start. If it’s a black and white, still image of things going badly, then you have the makings of a demotivational poster in your head.
How do you feel before you start? I don’t mean warm or cold, loose or tight. I mean what is happening in your gut and muscles. When you think about what you are going to do does your pulse pick up, is your gut calm, and you feel some energy in your limbs? Yeah, you are ready to get some. Or is your heartbeat low, your stomach in knots, and your muscles unresponsive? Maybe it would be better to take a sick day.
All of this is within your control. If things aren’t going right for you, then you need to take control of yourself. If you notice your attitude isn’t what it should be then stop. Stop everything. Do not walk into the gym. Do not get on your bike. Do not start your walk. Stop, go inside yourself, and notice what is going on. Do it sense by sense. Notice what you see in your mind’s eye. Literally. Break it down feature by feature. Then start tinkering. Notice what happens to you when you make a dark picture bright, a still picture a movie, or a bring a distant visual in close. Do the same with what you hear and, separately, with what you feel.
You may find that making a change in one of your senses automatically creates changes in your other senses. There’s no need to tinker further than necessary. Once your bad attitude, however it manifests for you, has changed into a great attitude, it’s time to get moving.
GlibFit.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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That’s a whole lot of attitude.
Ba-zing!
Thanks, Chafed – this is timely;
Week of vacation
Week of Covid
Week of vacation
Week of dealing with wife’s Covid
Getting back to my rowing routine is a bit of a struggle. I need to get my head back in the game.
Exactly right. Sorry about your wife. I hope she is doing well.
Have you checked your self-talk? Rolling out of bed early telling yourself this is another day to go kick some ass is a vastly different experience than getting up and telling yourself today is going to suck. – but today is gonna suck though. It always does.
When you are a vampire, you better suck.
I just run the Glengarry sales speech in my head. “Are they all here? Fuck it, I’m going….”
And then by the time I pour myself coffee, I’m a closer, because Coffee is for Closers.
Every day sucks, it just sucks less when I beat the shit out of my body.
One pound off from my end-of-July goal. 16 pounds from my overall goal.
I’m almost ready to get back on the treadmill. I had a set back from doing some garden stuff that wasn’t meant to be done but I’ve recovered for the most part and if I listen quietly I can hear the “Call of the Machine”. I’m down a few pounds, laying off the unneeded carbs. Don’t miss the chips and candy and ice cream. Well I do, but not very much. I was about 15 lbs over my normal fighting weight and I’m about 1/2 way there.
Nice job, Fourscore.
I miss ice cream the most. I’ll have it once in awhile, but I know that I am powerless against it.
I LOVE ice cream. “Luckily” I’m lactose intolerant, so I don’t often have it.
Unfortunately, I discovered Seemoore’s Ice Cream here in Pahrump yesterday.
It’s one of those independent creameries in a free-standing building on some random corner you find in old towns where you order and pay at the window then sit on the picnic benches outside. Ice cream, custard, etc.
I got a vanilla with Heath bar crumbles. Yum. It was fun seeing families come up and have a nice wholesome time together.
Nice views from the place, too!
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/yLdrqyGbQnqlzviN5bi36Q.OXETcUogWowZbJJMKYDviu
Bit of a dox, there.
Shit, we’ve all doxxed ourselves over the years. Life wouldn’t change that much if we started using out real names!
My real name would amuse some of you.
What Ernie said.
Richard Kisinya?
My real name is Fourscore AFAIK. Growing up I wasn’t sure if my name was Shithead or Little Asshole, depending on if it was my Mom or Dad.
I’m down to my lowest weight in a couple of years. What I need is to build muscle mass, which has never been a particularly easy prospect for my metabolic type.
That said, I used the weedeater on a slope for a couple of hours in the heat today, I’m a little fried.
Good heavens, tennis girl has some Q-worthy proportions.
Appears to be
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Carver
This is a good reminder of deciding how to feel about a situation. Attitude can be a fake-it-til-you-make-it kind of thing. Pretend to be happy, tell yourself you’re going to succeed, and after a while it becomes true.
I had a setback last week when my leg went sideways awkwardly at the knee as I slipped on melted ice on a tile floor. It was very tender and swollen.
Still not back to normal, but the pool allows me to continue cardio without hurting the joints. I’ll add in some other exercises once I can fully bend that knee.
Yikes!
Sorry to hear that. Although it’s so fucking hot right now, a pool sounds perfect! I hope the knee gets better quickly.
Thanks! I just got out of the pool and am sitting on the (shaded) patio while I dry off. Wall thermometer says it’s 90 F in the shade. Weather app says it’s 104 in the sun.
The pool manages to stay reasonably cool thanks in part to the desert evenings. The sun is brutal though, so I swim wearing a white long sleeved shirt over my suit and wear a brimmed hat when not under water.
deciding
correct
In many, many aspects of life.
I’ve never had to worry about waking up in the mood to First.
I’ve never had to worry about waking up in the mood to First myself.
FIFY
I often tell myself it doesn’t matter if I’m not feeling it. Going through the motions IS the point and I know I’ll feel better when I’m done – because I did it, and because moving improves my mood.
A shitty day at work is always better after I walk the dog.
Dogs are perfect GlibFit motivators. They dgaf about your attitude – it’s time to walk!
A happy story with a hero who deserves that label. Man saves 5 children from burning house he happened to drive past.
https://abc7chicago.com/house-on-fire-lafayette-indiana-nicholas-bostic-body-cam/12055343/
That’s a Ray of Sunshine.
How about another? Houston cop, moonlighting as a mall security guard, wrestles down rifle-toting man 10 feet from a children’s dance competition.
Uvalde cops could not be reached for comment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11022589/Hero-Houston-cop-recounts-took-shooter-childrens-dance-competition.html
Technically he was not outnumbered, but outgunned. He did an excellent job of making that a moot point. But it goes to show that one man with initiative is usually the difference maker in these situations.
Last I left Texas in 2016, open carry of long guns was still verboten. I think the cop/security guard erred in all ways on the side of safety/caution. Perhaps he physically assaulted a citizen. Worst case. No mortal wounds. I think this was a good tackle. Good cost/benefit analysis. He never drew his gun and was focused on controlling the king gun.
I don’t know anything about the situation, and, not to get snotty (he’s probably a dangerous nut), but walking around with a loaded rifle isn’t against any TX law I know about
I thought it was funny that the cop thought not upsetting the kids was important
most of us carry concealed, but, technically, I’m no less dangerous to those kids in that mall than Mr NutJob was….it’s just that it’s socially acceptable to carry concealed…and, of course, I’m not studying the old testament as to which children need shooting
if I was obviously strapped, should I be tackled? did I become more dangerous by failing to conceal?
(sidebar: I’m so thrilled TX got rid of their shall conceal rule)
we should at least acknowledge that this is the other side of the ax on these laws and cops we usually disparage:
* all they had on him was disorderly, a complete bullshit charge 98.2% of the time
* unless he was carrying at the ready, which is either a clear threat or just something one does on a sunny day
* cops can tackle or even kill anyone they want based on furtive motions
I think the thing Glibs get right is wanting to mind our own business. The thing still comes down to what is socially acceptable: almost no one truly believes in absolute freedom of the NAP sort: looking funny or behaving oddly is still a capital offense if a cop says it is.
Dude. Rifle. Technically no different than open carrying a pistol, but you roll up on a bunch of kids with a rifle, I’m going to tackle your ass. The difference between “technically” and “actually” is the gap that libertarians fall in to way too much. Social norms count, for a lot. We spend half our time bitching about them disappearing, and half our time bitching about them, period. And we wonder why libertarianism doesn’t catch on.
dude, I said he was probably a nutjob; I don’t need explained what I clearly wrote
but I am 100% correct: most people want it both ways; I do not
I would watch him like a hawk, ask him to leave if I had the authority, any take him out if he made any furtive motions
if the mall doesn’t like rifles, they should so post and enforce
I’m with you on watch like a hawk, etc. Probably what I would do rather than tackle him out of the blue. Still, in this one vanishingly rare example, I can’t fault the cop for acting preemptively.
Chafed!
This is some good stuff. Like Tulip said, many times I’m not feeling it, but I know once I get rolling everything will be fine. I like the idea – a lot – of asserting control over my attitude beforehand, rather than just gutting it out.
I’m gonna give it a try. My attitude has been kind of shitty lately so this is quite timely.
I wrapped up my GlibFit week with an asskicker of a hike yesterday. 8 miles, 1352 feet of elevation and some tough terrain. And a waterfall! Adding a few weighted rucks to the mix is really helping my mountain hikes. My daypack feels like nothing!
Waterfall
Kind of a pretty view.
Diamond Dave always has a good attitude. And he was pretty damn GlibFit back then.
Be like Diamond Dave this week, Glibfitters!
Beautiful photos Tundra.
Thank you. I feel like I’m on vacation every weekend.
Uncle Bob’s proselytizing for the Church of Disc gave me some motivation to get some exercise. Yesterday I played 27 holes. Looking at my score card bring to mind the words (allegedly) of Mark Twain, but it was a fun 3-ish hours and I felt it a little this morning, so that means I pushed myself some. Can’t wait to spoil my next walk!
I haven’t played this year, but if the course is not crowded and I’m by myself, I play two sets of discs at the same time. You get more practice per mile that way.
That’s a great tip. I’ve had the course I go to by myself every time I’ve gone. I might try that next time.
I know this question is often asked, but I never pay attention to the answer because I’ve never had anything to submit…until now. How do I get my submission…submitted? Right now it’s in Word. It’s very links heavy and needs some pics inserted. I don’t know a thing about WordPress, so I’ll probably need some help. Tonio? Mojeaux? Swiss?
Here you go.
Excellent!
I love Tesla.
Meh, I got stuck behind an asshole in a Tesla this morning who couldn’t be bothered to use her turn signals.
Sounds like first timers get to enact the labor of others.
Email it to me and I’ll submit it for you.
Thanks, buddy! You keep hitting refresh on your inbox, it’ll be there any minute.
Rewired the utility trailer and installed new tail lights. That’s my exercise for the day.
Depending on the trailer, that job was somewhere between piece of cake and pain in the ass.
5 by 10 flatbed trailer. Mostly, just working under the trailer with sweat running in your eyes and dirt falling in them all the time. Not hard work. Just a tedious, annoying task.
You should have subbed it out to Bro.
My grand daughter and daughter are visiting, Kinnath. Your name and refreshments were discussed and appreciated. They would probably suggest you use the trailer next time you visit, so you can haul more.
I’ll bring an extra bottle or two.
Bought an outdoor pool. So hot and don’t care I’m breaking HOA rules.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/2-planes-collide-at-north-las-vegas-airport-authorities-say-2609044/
This is going to be a long week.
Yikes. Gotta see if blancolirio is covering it
“Preliminary information indicates that the Piper PA-46 was preparing to land when it collided with the Cessna 172,”
It’s a VFR tower and they are relying too much on automation.
A tiny Class C Tiffin just pulled into the RV Park
cc: l0b0t
Class A Tiffin
::looks it up, Haz a sad that it’s not named for Tiffin, OH, where she was born 😞::
Tiffin guys are okay
It’s a beautiful part of Alabama
I wondered the same!
You inspired me to finish my Keweenaw article and I did. Hopefully not to late for Pistoff Nick to see it before he goes. I don’t want to make him even more pistoff
While doing so, I remembered a nice looking motel in Copper Harbor. We didn’t stay there, but it looked nice from the outside. It gets good reviews and most importantly it’s right on the lake.
King Copper Motel
For food I recommend The Mariner North Restaurant. The Harbor Haus looked really good and gets excellent reviews, but we didn’t get a chance to eat there.
Cool! Thank you! 😃
Followed your link to the King Copper, but when you click one of their links to “Reserve This Room,” you get a pop-up:
Then one button says “Choose application” and another says “Cancel.” Makes me just a wee bit wary. They don’t show up on Booking.com, at least not for our planned travel dates. I may see if they show up on Kayak.
Looking forward to your article!
I don’t have a ton of experience with motels up there since we camped the first time, and picked one and stayed the entire visit at one on our second trip. That said, one thing I noticed up there was the complete lack of chain hotels. I suppose Houghton maybe had some, but north of there, no way. They are all mom-and-pop motels, and cabins, and B-n-Bs. Many don’t have a website, and many that do, do not have online booking. We used the internet to find our place in Eagle Harbor and then had to use the phone to reserve a room.
If you haven’t already, give AirBnB and the like a look. This was two years ago now, but when we looked there was some beautiful properties for decent prices.
Their website shows up in an internet search.
Yup. But it was their website that gave me the weird pop-up when seeing about making a reservation. 😕
Call them?
When click on “reserve this room” on my phone, it loads their phone number into the keypad.
@RCD: At the moment, I’m leaning toward a place I found between Copper Harbor and Hancock (which is right by Houghton) because our friends are playing a gig in CH on one night and in Hancock the next. But I’ll keep this place in mind.
@P762: Aha! That explains it! I was on their site on my laptop. If I decide to contact them, I’ll pull the site up on my phone. Thanks!
In Calumet, by chance? I see now I was wrong about the chains. There’s an AmericInn in Calumet.
Yup! That’s the one! Better prices than Houghton, per Booking.com, and good reviews. Haven’t firmed up plans yet, but that’s my top contender.
Calumet is a very cool town. Lot’s of history. And, a spoiler for my article, but it has two of the best pasty shops in the UP.
postponed until fall
/will be disappointed if you don’t mention the pasty trail.
I didn’t mention the Pasty Trail, but I did name my three favorites…after Mrs S. She now makes them every bit as good as the locals. She makes a breakfast version that just kicks ass.
I was so worried you were already over there I emailed you an early draft copy of my article. Don’t come on here with spoilers!
Is class C a Dalit lunch?
The Lockdowns Unearthed American Cultural Rot
You’ve covered the gamut, Grizz, we’ve had it too easy for too long. It’s going to be tough going back, too many have made big time emotional commitments.
Americans are hedonistic psychopaths. Wah wah.
Not to disagree with any of the points in the article, but I think you could swap out “humans” for “Americans” in the majority, if not all of those sentences.
Sweden is tapping their foot on the sidelines. Sweden has massive issues with dealing with the rot of aggressive islamism, but handled DA VID pretty well.
What is this Sweden of which you speak? There are no countries that didn’t lock down.
Sweden got lucky because their top public health official was pretty good. And the government was glad to virtue signal against the hard right that favored lockdowns. If not for this, Sweden would have engaged in the same bullshit as all its neighbors.
I can’t help but wonder what the Left and the Media (but I repeat myself) would have been saying had Trump come out forcefully for mandates in March 2020.
It would have been all “He’s deliberately destroying the economy of the Blue states” and “He wants to keep you in chains” and “Scientists decry the panic caused by the extremist president’s baseless attempts to demonize a simple virus.”
The problem with this is that places like Italy locked down before the US did.
I remember around the beginning of March 2020 suggesting that covid is probably worse than the seasonal flu, but that we shouldn’t panic, and getting the response that Italy didn’t panic, and they had to lock down.
I want to know what the non-Western countries did and nobody has really talked about that.
I think pretty much all the Western countries locked down – only difference was to what degree.
No disagreement. Just Americans are not special. Also, it might be more comfortable to say negative things about your own people. At least you know you’re not ignoring the basics.
To be fair, this applies to all of western society.
There were individual Americans who should be applauded, but I can’t think of a single large National/state/corporate entity which acted in a manner that could be applauded. Even most religious organizations were more than willing to submit to VID edicts, faith be damned.
Florida did pretty well.
FFS, Here’s a list of humanities problems. Lets tie it to my hobbyhorse.
I already said that, just way nicer.
Grizz can take it.
I had no idea you worked for a think tank. I thought you built houses.
I think about tanks often while I build houses.
Thanks for that link. Brownstone is good.
Tennis girl
Those two should make a bunch of kids.
They would take over the world.
I’ve knocked a couple of pounds off after being stable but more than I wanted. Waited a couple of days to affirm it wasn’t one of those odd scale moments.
Many Americans are politically tribal demagogues and closet authoritarians.
“Hey, this ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”
In spite of it being ninety seven degrees outside, I have a sudden, overwhelming desire to play tennis.
Not tennis.
The sky is falling!
Manchin is “intentionally sabotaging the president’s agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic caucus want. Nothing new about this,” Sanders, I-Vt., told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz. “And the problem was that we continue to talk to Manchin like he was serious. He was not.”
“When Manchin sabotages climate change, this is the future generations what’s going on right now,” Sanders said. “In the West, all over the world, we’re looking at significantly increased — more and more heat waves. You’d have to look at more flooding. This is an existential threat to humanity.”
Chicken Little is a senile old commie.
Does Manchin ever stand up for himself when these fucks go off on him like this or is he too much of a southern gentleman? I’d tell the old commie “Get bent, I’m representing my constituents, not the Democratic party. Which, oh by the way, you aren’t even a member of.”
Great minds think alike, MikeS.
*insert high-five emoji*
I assume he just sends fundraising letters to old Coal Democrats with these quotes. Getting re-elected going away is the best revenge.
At this point I honestly don’t know why Sanders isn’t a Democrat now.
Right? And the reason for that is that they came around to him. The party wasn’t left enough for him when he started his grifting, now he flirts with getting the party nod for Presidential candidate. It’s nuts.
I still don’t understand why the two “Independents” get to count to establish who has the majority. This isn’t a parliamentary system, no party should get to add a different/no party affiliation to their own to make up a ‘majority’. Fuck that. There should be consequences for Bernie’s bullshit.
If he really wanted to stand up for himself, he’d start caucusing (officially) with the Republicans. and Shumer would be out on his ass as majority leader.
Senator represents his constituents. Film at 11.
Must be nice to be represented by your senator. /WA resident
Yeah.
Since Goldwater left office I can’t say that I have felt represented by most of my Senators. I now suffer with an open racist/sexist-Hirono; and a complete non-entity-Schatz. Both are bluer than blue.
I actually have no idea who my senators are.
I’m sure they suck, though.
I wish I didn’t know who mine are.
Mine are total nonentity astronaut boy Giffords, and the surprisingly not-terrible Sinema. Two rabid gun controllers from Arizona. Go figure.
Sinema votes strictly party line like 94% of the time.
It’s comical watching the fake outrage the media directs at her. She wouldn’t get elected without it and there would be no Democratic majority without it.
So she’s the lefts Liz Cheney.
I have Establishmentarian Rubio along with this guy. In his defense, not many Senators get their own action figures.
Hawley and Blunt here, but Blunt’s seat’s up for hot debate right now. Eric Greitens, our infamous and resigned-in-not-so-much disgrace governor, despite his bad-boy image (don’t know WTF to believe) is leading in the polls. Honestly, I think I’d vote for him for the lulz.
Let us not speak of California which, somehow, manages to get worse senators every time.
*Massachusetts waves*
Washington nods
*New York elbows its way in*
I guess I don’t know what it’s like to see a new senator… Maria Cantwell was elected in 2001, and Patty Murray 10 years before that.
Oregon throws up on the carpet.
I moved to WA just before we kicked Tom Foley to the curb. It was like the last ray of sunshine before the dark.
Raddatz pressed Sanders on whether Biden’s discussions with bin Salman made sense in light of high gas prices, but Sanders argued that action around what he called corporate greed could make a bigger difference at the pump.
“At the heart of the discussions was oil, and President Biden said the Saudis would take action in the coming weeks. Could that make a difference, and doesn’t that explain why he went? What would you have done?” Raddatz asked.
“One of the things we’ve got to look at is the fact that while Americans are paying $4.50, $4.80 for a gallon of gas, the oil company profits in the last quarter have been extraordinarily high,” he said. “And I happen to believe that we’ve got to tell the oil companies to stop ripping off the American people. And if they don’t, we should impose a windfall profits tax on them.”
Kkkapitalism is de debbil. Profits are evil. Businesses are blood sucking leeches. Not noble like politicians.
Pressed…threw him a softball invite to spout commie tripe. Tomayto…tomahto
Interesting read, particularly in light of how it relates to the greater narrative. Also interesting the venue discussion.
Interesting update re: NY’s new gun ban
You may or may not have heard, buy NY will be ceasing to issue ANY gun permits starting Sep 1 for an indefinite amount of time (the requirements for the new permits are not required to be submitted for approval until April 2023, and there is NO deadline for the approval).
Now in my county, handgun permits work as follows: take a class, get a restricted permit, wait a year, take a second class, get a permit to carry.
My (county) Sheriff has released a statement saying that they’re waiving the “wait a year” provision, and if anyone wants to take both classes now and get their paperwork in by 9/1, they’ll accept it and issue on the basis of that application. This is actually in contradiction to an earlier statement that said if the permits weren’t issues by 9/1 they’d have to be resubmitted.
I assume refusing to issue any permits will trigger yet another lawsuit? If it hasn’t already.
They are lining up the lawsuits hoping Biden/Harris get to appoint a Justice or two so the Court can revoke the Second Amendment.
If they are wrong, then they are digging their own graves.
OT: Monkees “Head” is on Cinevault Classics right now. Woo Hoo!
Ha. I was watching the Monkees marathon on one of the old people channels last week. They did Gidget the previous week. Both were fun.
On topic, yesterday I could have just sat on my ass at a party. I could have been a bum and ate food other people made, and all would have been well. What I discovered was that my 71 year old host had a massive new grill in the garage he could not assemble by himself, and he was sweating how he would ever get it done.
I manned up, without him having to ask, and I put the thing together. I had a few other guests help me move the thing when it was done. It was ass busting, hot, and exhausting. Also it was the right thing to do. There is a time to party and a time to help those in need. I chose the latter. I chose to make that a good day.
You’re a good man R.J. I hate to admit it but last Wednesday I was in my shop when some old dude came gimping up the drive to ask if I knew where a particular automotive repair shop was. He was two blocks off course and he had hobbled half way back down my drive before I figured out that I should offer him a ride over there instead of just pointing him in the right direction. My parents have some explaining to do.
Everything is a learning lesson. And to my never-ending point, everything is voluntary! Next time you may remember and choose to help. Or not! Ibid! I think my dad (what little time I had with him) influenced me to never-ending work. Wish it made me skinnier though.
I did give the guy a ride to the garage I’m just embarrassed that I let him start walking away before I wised up and made the offer.
Well done, both of you.
I don’t know why you are whining about the heat, it topped out at 78* yesterday. 75* today.
Southerners, can’t take the heat.
(good on you re the grill.)
You’re a good man RJ.
I’m still doing the Steve Reeves workout
https://mikemahler.com/articles-videos/weight-training-for-size-and-strength/the-steve-reeves-workout-for-size-strength-and-health
3x a week, all body and my results have been very impressive, well impressive for a 50+ year old man. My biceps are still smaller than I want them to be but that’s a genetic issue – long monkey arms of mine just don’t like to pack on the muscle. It still looks impressive if I flex ’em but nothing eye popping if they are at rest; just good definition.
Biggest problem I have with getting older is weight gain. I don’t feel like I’m overeating… but weight comes off much slower than before even if its salad and protein shakes.
I’ll just watch some gladiator films instead.
Scruffy, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
You’re looking good in your photo.
John Wayne was a fag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv_WGEHr4I
The Hell He Was! Lots of guys like to watch their buddies fuck!
I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress…
Totally doxing myself.
I agreee because I wanted exposure for my league. I would rather it been more league-centric than me-centric but the media gonna media. They had the story they wanted to tell.
It’s not bad, and the reporter was professional and gracious, but it was all very weird.
https://www.lex18.com/community/positively-lex-18/playing-the-game-lexington-man-doesnt-let-two-heart-attacks-keep-him-off-the-field
Way to go, Muzzy! 😃🧢⚾
Hell yeah! Good on you. Very nice interview.
Very cool
You’re doing well, playing with the kids, Chipper. Good to see that you’re kicking butts, hit the long ball and you don’t have to run so fast.
Still, the “what am I swinging at?” triggered some memories.
I talk to myself when I hit. That was the generous conversation. Most are 4-letter-word laden discussions.
Lol!
If they ever mic’d me up in a game the whole fucking thing would be bleeps!
Clean single is my goal. A line drive over the infield and in front of the outfield.
Thanks man, I needed at least one dox to turn in to my FBI handler this week.
Fan. Fucking. Tastic.
Thanks for sharing this MW. Great interview that absolutely made my day.
Now I miss my hockey boys back in Minne even more.
Thanks.
Good on ya. I had a STEMI about 21 months ago (and a triple bypass 13 years before that) and it took the starch right out of me. Stamina is totally gone. Even an hour mowing the lawn and working in the garden will have me knackered. Trying to build up strength and endurance, but it’s been a depressing slog.
Outstanding!!
Daily Duotrigordle #137
Guesses: 37/37
3️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣2️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
2️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣
https://duotrigordle.com/
I dont even know what the numbers mean.
Oh wait, figured it out, thought they were individual numbers.
Those double numbers (especially the zeros) threw me off at first, too. And good job. I’ve gotten a -1 every time I’ve played so far.
WTFITS?
It’s an interesting take on the wordle/quordle game genre, but as I said in an earlier thread it’s best if you go for speed on this one, pump in four seed words that cover all the vowels and no repeat letters then grind it out as fast as you ca. My goal is to break the four minute duotrigordle.
It does lend itself to speed rounds. I’ve only played it once but I soon noticed that you’ll quickly get most of the letters you’ll need for all the boards.
Doubt I’ll make another go unless I get really bored.
I should add I don’t like timing challenges in any games.
Me too, except in practical shooting. I generally prefer stuff that is an accomplishment just to finish.
I agree. It was my first time and I dont get the point.
Right–it gets really easy toward the end, so speed should be the goal. They do have a speed timer built in if you enable it in the settings (I haven’t tried it yet).
There’s a couple other nice settings in there; “wide mode” (good on the pc) and “hide completed boards”
Drunk speed duotrigordle is fun but it’s kicking my ass… need to actually look at the letters that are already burned on a word…
oh! I didn’t look. I need both of those modes, because it was a pain in the ass on my laptop without them. May try again with those enabled and see if it plays better.
It’s a count-up timer. It would be better if you could set yourself a timer, or try to beat a par time.
I know a thing or two about a thing or a First.
On topic: Deadlift day was good today. 5x 210 was my max, up from, I think 3 or 4x 205 last week. Stronk like bull! *flexes, pulls muscle, limps to couch*
Pool is at 8″…only a couple more feet til we can get wet
You have an 8″ pen–… OH, pool.
“Do you really think I wished for a 12-inch pianist?”
Oh my goodness. Just face timed with my great niece. I want it. I will steal it!
Uh.
Heh. She is so damn cute. I’m hoping at least anotherc2-3 years for my own grand so it will be returned
Oh. You’re contemplating kidnapping. I see.
But at least he’s putting a sunset clause on it.
You people. It’s okay…we are family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZM92GtPno
Baby fever in a 40something male. SMDH
I’m ready for grandkids.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that.
Must be another Fed.
I don’t know why anyone would give birth to a child when they could have a First instead. It’s so much more rewarding.
I bet your mom says the same thing.
Nice avatar.
Quite fancy.
Your doxing comment above actually was part of the reason for the switch. If someone really wanted to dox me, I’ve already left plenty of evidence here.
Yeah, like there’s more than one Mike in NoDak.
Hobbit gets it.
A certain generically named third baseman for the Phillies…and the same generically named kid that beat me out of playing first string 3rd base on our high school basebolle team…fuckin’ dorks named Mike S****
*they (fuckin’ dudes named Mike S****) also seem to not like good music (like Steely Dan and Rush)
MikeS is one for two with those bands.
I think he’s proclaiming his affinity for S&M.
I was produced through an immaculate conception. The one who gave birth to me had no choice.
Whew none of my equipment was called out in the air-to-air collision.
Whoa. I thought one was taxiing.
Will know tomorrow. My guess is AT fuckup
The EU is implementing anti-speeding devices on all new vehicles as of this week. They will issue warnings that you are going to fast or, in the most intrusive circumstances, reduce your speed automatically. circle jerks were had by bureaucrats throughout Brussels as they celebrated how many speeding deaths they were going to prevent, as if such technology could have no unintended consequences whatsoever. Their models prove it will work.
The method of warning to the driver is up to the manufacturer…for now. Any bets on how long it will take until all control is taken from the driver?
Johnny Cabs will be the only approved single user transports.
Get your ass to Mars!
I was thinking Minority Report. Central control of cars, pre-crime, and robots that chase you. (in the movie anyway)
When they come to round me up and put me into a camp for pre-crimes against humanity, I’m identifying as female. I’ll see you there.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/27-year-old-transgender-inmate-moved-youth-facility-impregnating-two-female-inmates-womens-prison/
Eventually you could get moved into the kids prison.
Trudeau must be so jealous.
Didn’t the 1970-1990s prove that speed limits had nothing to do with highway deaths and everything to do with regulatroy control over individual behavior to increase energy efficiency across the fleet?
Forget it, db, it’s Eurotown.
So f—-ing true. It’s a short step to denying you transportation for wrong think. I genuinely wonder if at some point the population, particularly in eastern Europe, will rise up in revolt.
If those people ever forget what it was like to live under totalitarianism, the world is fucked proper.
I still can’t figure out why the eastern European /ex Soviet bloc countries didn’t adopt private firearm ownership like it was the end of the world when they broke free. It’s like they didn’t understand their own history.
There are about 5 million Ukrainian men capable of military service. One might think, after the 2014 seizure of Crimea, everyone of these men would have been given military training, reservist status, and armed like the Swiss are. Then again, the Ukrainians probably thought the Bidens would protect them, so why bother.
Or they did understand their own history and they fear their own people more than external enemies.
So, countdown to the next Euro war?
According to Swiss, the T-72’s should be rolling into Poland and igniting a wider European war any minute now.
Yea…any minute now…
If the Ruskies used all of our warmongering excuses, they’d be droning our training camps in Germany. Luckily they seem more restrained than we were.
Be careful talking like that or you’re going to get branded a Putin cheerleading apologist.
They aren’t restrained. They are realistic. In a conventional war with NATO, they would be toast.
What? They’re loose cannons led by someone who’s crazy or medically incapacitated.
Completely unforeseeable. https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/17/transgender-woman-transferred-nj-prison-impregnating/
The prisoner seems to have ignored the “DO NOT ENTER” sign in the second picture.
Governor Murphy is as shocked as you are.
Madness.
All done with the yard work for the day. Got seven plants in the ground and some other stuff done. Made blueberry buttermilk pancakes and bacon for dinner. Bourbon after dinner.
Poke and mojitos for dinner is on the menu here. On my way home I picked up some steaks of fresh caught ahi that I will grill later this week with pesto.
Fish aren’t steaks.
Most yes. Tuna, no. You can cook them just like a steak. I prefer mine rare, just like the other red meats
Quick sear on em…yum.
Feud is quite good.
Richard Dawson or GTFO.
LOL I’m watching Password Plus and I think they just censored the word “Oriental” – the password was “Chinese”. We’re so much more sophisticated than those rubes from 1980.
FX series on Crawford and Davis.
I guess it’s five years ago, but never saw it the first time around.
Who? Real question.
Joan Crawford & Betty Davis, so far about the production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.
Thanks. Now I feel stupid for not putting those names together.
Sexual dissatisfaction and resultant promiscuity is a direct result of transmutation of the object of sexual desire from second person to third person.
https://archive.ph/c8vXC/b6d13f23aff8b17c6c48348924fb956cc0ae8ae5.jpg
NSFW.
Bro’s naggana be happy
I am used to the constant microaggressions that you people subject me to.
I got your mom’s panties here to wipe the snot off your nose
I don’t understand your high falutin’ college language but I do enjoy your purty pictures.
Grossie heinies!
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/79/590x/secondary/Demi-Rose-put-her-curves-on-full-display-4181716.webp?r=1658135773070
Hun, ain’t you got a toddler to look after?
That type of photo encourages him to make more toddlers.
Day three of Life In The Time Of Commie Coof. Judi on invermectin, zinc and all that jazz. Miserable but better. Two local daughters and delivery services taking up the slack. Youngest even brought me beer today! Festus thus far completely unaffected, touch wood.
Youngest even took the little dog for some exercise. They have about a 1/2 acre fenced for a back yard. Those girls turned out really solid citizens. I’m proud of them.
You have a good egg there. Hope Judi is well my friend.
Autumn gave up her government job and fat pension over the mandates. Would that I had half of her balls seeing as my job wisped away not 6 months after getting the doses. I should have known better. Judi too. Two doses and comes up positive.
We all made a choice based on what we thought we should do. You aren’t alone in yours. So sorry to hear about the job going away though.
Firsters don’t die, they multiply, Festus. Remember that.
This Firster has never multiplied (Probably) but I appreciate the sentiment all the same.
Bad Religion can still put on a hell of a show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_I77GEybVs
Morning, Glibs.
Is it too much to ask for you to at least try not to second up my morning?
You are the only one who does that.
Be the change in yourself you want to see in yourself.
*waves*
https://ktla.com/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-obtain-wedding-license-in-nevada/
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/video/6266465-vice-president-kamala-harris-to-speak-at-113th-annual-naacp-convention-in-atlantic-city/
Woman who liked to lock up black men to address NAACP. Sounds legit.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/killed-shooting-indiana-mall-hurt-police-86987278
Concealed carrier kills would be mass murderer.
Well done!
We need to make the Gun Free Zone signs at malls bigger!
/progs
https://www.tastingtable.com/929611/at-2-5-million-this-is-the-worlds-most-expensive-bottle-of-champagne/
Wut?
The digital idiocy singularity, bottle’s ugly too…
Daily Quordle 175
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 175
7️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Daily Quordle 175
7️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 175
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
Daily Quordle 175
7️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
Good morning, Teh Hype, Tulip, Stinky, Sean, and U!
It’s showtime! New pay rates have been entered, so today I just have to plug in the incentives after I export timesheets into the payroll system.
And most of NEXT week, I’m on vacation! 😃
“Why are our paychecks now being issued in Zimbabwe dollars?”
“Ummmmm…..they aren’t losing value as quickly as the U.S. ones?”
And most of NEXT week, I’m on vacation!
Enjoy! I may take off that Friday…
Mornin’
Mornin’ reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! What’s today’s smoke, sip, and sightings report?
No wildlife sightings. Thunder rumbling off in the distance. *Checks radar* Yikes! Incoming, may have to head inside shortly…
Very likely the stuff we had over the weekend, particularly yesterday. Got pretty noisy at times, but fortunately, I never had to retreat from under the roof of Tranq Base. (I DID unplug the laptop from the outside outlet and run it from the battery as a precaution.)
I hope it rains a good long time today. I like watching the rain hitting my office window. It’s soothing.
Sadly, Monday is one of those days where more people are in the office, so it’s not going to be as quiet.
::culturally appropriates a rain dance::
This was a topic of discussion on a recent zoom:
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/07/nj-breweries-getting-hammered-by-strict-state-rules-owners-say.html
“We’re thinking of moving to Pennsylvania. Seriously,” Sawadogo said, leaning against the bar. Sawadogo said the rules the state put together would be a disaster for breweries.
I am also thinking of moving in that direction….
Yes.
*reads rules*
OFFS!
So, instead of lowering the price of the license for restaurants, they choose to chase business out of the state to preserve that agency-specific revenue in exchange for long term decline.
Sounds about right.
TOS had a not horrible article about it as well
https://reason.com/2022/07/12/new-jersey-cracks-down-on-breweries-for-hosting-trivia-nights-serving-food/
… I’m not doing well today. quiet noises in the office are grating on my nerves. Things like the sound of keyboards, subdued conversations several rows over, things of that inoffensive nature. No one is outside the bounds of office decorum, but I’m in the kind of mood where I’m fighting not to yell “Shut UP!”
I know I’m in the wrong, but I’m irritated nonetheless.
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