Starting to workout is important. Staying with it is even more important. You don’t get any benefit by doing your activity/sport/fitness regime for a week. So, yesterday’s morning links intrigued me. OMWC gave us some insight on what keeps him going:
I had mentioned that WebDom and I are having a bit of a competition involving the Fitness app on our respective Apple Watches. Over the course of a week, the app totals up fitness points resulting from our activity. It also announces the daily winners. It’s a ridiculous thing, but we’re having fun with it.
So the other night, it’s getting toward midnight. Spud and I are sitting in the solarium having some alcoholic beverages. I check the status of the competition; the margin is slim but I am ahead, and the day is about to close out. WebDom and her boyfriend have gone up to her room to watch TV. I look again and she’s gaining points and the margin is shrinking rapidly. WTF? Suddenly it hits me. “THAT LITTLE CUNT IS KEEPING HER WATCH ON WHILE SHE’S FUCKING!” Since I am currently and perhaps permanently without a partner, I do the only reasonable thing: abandon my drink and start running around the block.
Cheaters never prosper. I won. Barely, but I won.
For OMWC, it’s all about competition. If not for the fear he was going to lose, he would have happily continued to tie one on with Spudalicious.
Plenty of people use trainers. That gives them predetermined days and times to exercise, a monetary commitment, and a social attachment. Sure, you can tell your trainer you aren’t coming in or simply skip a session, but there is another human being on the other side of it. You just feel bad for doing. So, you avoid those bad feelings by showing up.
I stay motivated through goals and outside stimuli. Most of my goals are tangible. I want to do so many pull ups or have a certain waistline or be able to see some specific physical change. The outside stimuli is various celebrities who I randomly come across on social media. There are those I admire and those who provide a life lesson.
Watching a trim, 78-year old Mick Jagger put on a two-hour show is inspiring. The same goes for Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Watching guys closer to my age, like Axl Rose and Vince Neil are some of life’s crueler lessons. In fairness, Axl is doing a bit better now. Seeing these guys, who used to be able to absolutely tear it up gasping and wheezing their way through their set reminds me they got there through sloth. I can avoid it by keeping moving.
What keeps you motivated GlibFitters?
This week’s music.
At the moment, what’s motivating me is a two-years-postponed impending high school reunion I foolishly agreed to attend (why the hell not? It’s here in town, and it’s free!) AND the prospect of meeting a whole bunch of heretofore-unmet-in-person Glibs in the flesh. 😳
What keeps you motivated
chicks, man
The only honest answer.
“trim, 78-year old Mick Jagger…”
I can’t afford that much cocaine.
Don’t be jealous.
But it’s not fair!
*Stamps foot*
Plz plz plz TPTB can Glibfit be pushed back an hour or two?
Motivation. Hm. I had motivation once. It was not a good one, but it worked. Since then, I have yet to find a motivator like that one. OTOH, I’m holding steady doing nothing, so that means I have stopped gaining weight if I look at a calorie wrong.
No, for real, I know what I need to do. I just need to tough it out and do it because it needs to be done, simple as that.
“Plz plz plz TPTB can Glibfit be pushed back an hour or two?”
Concur.
Likewise.
What keeps you motivated GlibFitters?
The scale. My wife regularly threatens to hide the scale because “it’s not about a number, it’s about how you feel and how your clothes fit”, but I’m motivated by seeing the number move. She’s absolutely right about it not being about the number, and sometimes stepping in the scale every day can mess with my head, but the number provides motivation in both directions. I’m motivated by having lost nearly 10lbs in a month and a half and I’m also motivated to do better because I’ve spent too much time hovering in the low 270s.
That’s a perfectly good answer. Knowing what works for you is important.
Yup. I need the daily weigh in to keep me from indulging and “making it up later.” Plus when I graph the results, more points make for prettier trendlines.
SHe’s right but she’s wrong. too. Some of us need that daily feedback/reminder.
Congrats on the weight loss!
Rang some steel today. Four stages — two I was happy with, one I was unhappy with.
And the fourth you were indifferent towards?
Yup.
After the first three stages, I was in the top quarter. After the last (bad) one, I wound up in the bottom half overall.
https://thepostmillennial.com/women-allegedly-given-date-rape-drugs-at-german-chancellors-annual-convention
Are there so many German Chancellors around they need to have annual conventions?
*shrug*
I wasn’t invited.
I wish I could get remotivated. Not so long ago I went to the gym and lifted religiously six days a week and got antsy on the seventh. I just wanted to be jacked and there was some exterior competition in the form of cajoling from the people in my unit about pushing each other. Knowing you could show up to work and someone might say “looking a little weak today boss” was enough to keep me going. We all made fun of each other after work in the weight room, but it was friendly and you didn’t want to let the team down.
Totally gone now. I can barely get motivated to do a couple days a week of basic calisthenics. Just typing that out…I realize where the motivation went. Maybe it’s time I find something else like that.
Sounds like you diagnosed your problem.
See if there is an F3 near you. Often good at motivation
I might have to buy a burr coffee grinder and start buying whole bean coffee. That stuff is
gettingexpensive.I’m on the hunt for a grocery store. Smith’s is closest to the house, but not that great. I scoped out Fred Meyer a while ago. Beats the hell out of Walmart. Even if I couldn’t find the Cheerios. I just happened to find myself following a couple of attractive women around the store. Similar shopping lists, I guess.
I have been to Winco three or four times and walked out without buying anything. Not impressed, and with lines like that, you might as well be at Walmart.
If you can swing the price of an entry level roaster (and the time to roast and let cure), green beans are cheaper, and let you dial in the roast profile to your preferences.
Back in the day, the Rev. GT and I had such a roaster – sounded like a hot air popcorn popper, i.e. noisy as hell. It also had the unfortunate habit of setting off our smoke detector.
Burr grinder has been the best coffee investment I’ve made. It took me two times to find the right grinder (i.e. one that doesn’t leave a cloud of finings all over the counter), but I haven’t looked back. I have 25ish lbs of various whole bean coffees that I bought from Sam’s with our rewards cash, and have marked a few as favorites. Tim Horton’s was surprisingly good, as most of the other coffee shop branded bags were hot garbage.
Which make and model?
I have this one – love it.
It hasn’t occurred to me to scour the intertubes for cheaper source of beans yet.
I do grocery pick up ad Fred Meyers (Freddies, as the locals call it) but I hate going in there. Nothing is where it is supposed to be, and I am wandering around looking like a dullard. So, I go to the local IGA. It also has an ACE inside! So, mushrooms and 1/4-20 by the hundred weight!
But what are you going to do with a hundred weight of mushrooms??
Get *really* high.
*grins like a Cheshire Cat*
Checked out Fred Meyers once when I lived in Mukilteo, WA. Even pricier than Giant. As a servicemember, it was a lot cheaper to just go to Walmart or the commissary – even with the extra drive.
Smiths and Fred Meyer are both Kroger. Freddy’s used to be decent pricing but they’ve jacked them up (even before the current inflation) and quality has suffered as they’ve Krogerized.
Winco is better at pricing, but you have to trade off for more limited choices and sizes. They’ve improved their meat and produce departments, but still lag a bit. Used to get decent frozen lobster there.
Walmart is better for paper goods, food storage, cleaners, etc and some shelf stable food items. Not so much in the cut meats or fresh produce. And free shipping over $35 so easier just to have the paper towels and toilet paper shipped.
Not that far from you: https://coffeetraders.com/
Soooo, rumor has it that 4Chan hacked Hunter’s icloud.
Gonna be spicier than one of my peppers.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/portrait-of-the-bidens-a-family-as-dysfunctional-as-the-kennedys-and-protected-by-the-press/
A few details new to me, most not.
Our competition is getting a bit out of hand, as it were. My main physical activity has been hiking, and going up and down a few hills each day keeps me comfortably ahead of WebDom. She, of course, isn’t taking this laying down, as it were.
I had a problem caused by some ill-fitting Skechers, which caused my big toenail to fall off and that toe to be extremely tender. WebDom decided to send me to work a farmers’ market nearby. As I packed up at the end of the day and started moving our tables, leftover goods, and the like back to the car, suddenly Spud appeared, stomped hard on my toe, and ran away laughing. All I could do was roll around in pain, crying, “WHY? WHY? WHY?”
So now I can barely walk and she’s going to win this competition. I’m working to have the incident investigated to prove what we all know- Spud was put up to this by WebDom so she could secure victory.
You must have had Spud stop along the way, 30% of my toe nails are black, the 2 big guys and a helper.
O.o
The toenail thing is no bueno. My big toenail is in the process of coming completely off as I slammed it too hard on a jump last ski season and my hikes this summer finished it off.
If you need a shoe for hiking I’d strongly recommend Merrell shoes (with the Vibram insole). I frigging love mine and am on the fifth pair now. I mostly like the low cut ones but I got a mid cut one for when I have a heavy backpack on and they rock as well, super lightweight.
The issue is toe-box size on my right foot. I went up half a size and it’s better than it was, but not better enough. I may have to buy two pairs a full size apart and just use one of each.
Oh, and here’s two photos of my newly slenderized form. 15 more pounds to go.
Looking great! Congrats, eye-candy!
Keep it up Old Man!
Good work OMWC.
Try Topos. One of the best I’ve ever worn.
Danner makes shoes for people who need bug toe boxes. Their wide shoes are wonderful. Vibram soles and all. Helped me last tome I twisted my knee. Duluth Trading sells them.
The better looking of the two.
“She, of course, isn’t taking this laying down, as it were.”
That isn’t what you reported the other morning.
I’m sure there is no connection to anything you wrote about her.
If you can swing the price of an entry level roaster (and the time to roast and let cure), green beans are cheaper, and let you dial in the roast profile to your preferences.
Too much work, but whole bean Colombian appears to be about half or less than the “thriftiest” brand i have found.
Fair enough. Whole green beans generally run about $7-$12/pound as a reference point.
I’ve kind of ran out of motivation. I was doing fairly well, coping with the winter and snow blowing a long driveway as required. As the snow disappeared I began to get antsy for garden plans. Got my plants started inside, lots of apple seeds growing. I was on the tread mill and Weider machine, I was going to be ready. Finally I was ready, tilled up the garden 2X, moved a couple yards of black dirt, planted 2 nursery apple trees and 9 more from seed. All was going well.
Then the big day, took out my really nice looking plants, dug the holes. Now just to get down and put ’em in the ground. I couldn’t squat down (Sorry Warty) and then get back up. Finally had to get on my knees, then every 2 plants, stand up and move a few feet, down again, rinse and repeat. I had a tremendous amount of pain from the constant trying to stand up motions. I did get my 60 plants in the ground and everything ground to a halt. I spent the next 3-4 weeks trying to recover, hips and back pain, knees that didn’t bend. I slept in a recliner for 2 weeks, the act of getting out of bed was too painful. Going up and downstairs was 1 step at a time.
Now mowing the grass is tough, the lawnmower shaking on the uneven ground hurts. I’m able to walk fairly well again but not too far, I get tired easily, out of breath.
My garden is full of weeds, though my plants are doing well. I won’t be able to bend over to pick tomatoes, cut the cabbage, which are nearly big enough to eat. Have had a few garden peppers.
The good news is that the radishes, carrots and beets didn’t grow. I have 2 apples on 1 tree that was planted a couple years ago. I have managed to lose a few pounds. My bee partner comes every couple weeks and we check the honey makers. Early in the season yet but I’m sure we’ll be OK, a lot of rain this year. Honey Harvest is Sep 18th. Bee there or bee square.
I am so sorry, Fourscore. What a setback that must be.
Thanks, Moj. It’s just reality setting in.
I told my wife that when I wake up in the morning and everything hurts I know I lived through the night.
Sorry, Fourscore. Is there a pretty masseuse or chiro in Emily who could possibly help (because it sure wouldn’t hurt!)?
Well, there are some parking lot ladies at the Log Cabin. Not sure what license they have.
Power Corrupts
July 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday said he has asked his administration to consider whether he has authority to declare an abortion-related public health emergency after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
There is one trump card in the deck. Fortunately, the printer can make a lot of copies of it.
It’s hard not to believe conspiracy theories when they talk about implementing a public health crisis in order to murder a bunch of innocents, which they’ll no doubt connect to climate change like they do with everything else.
Slowing or reversing population growth to save Gaia? What are you, some kind of antivaxxer conspiracy theorist?
Damn, Joe, I haven’t had a chance to get the covid yet and you’re moving on to another health emergency.? Old guys never get caught up around here.
Just read upthread. I think you’ve caught up quite enough. Wishing you better going forward.
Crack is a public health emergency.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NickLyn53063191/status/1546235860412035072
Ask Hunter.
Or his ex-wife. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60018585-if-we-break
I stopped at this point- “For decades, Kathleen Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife, beginning when, as a naïve young …”
declare an abortion-related public health emergency
It’s not as if he’d need to offer any sort of substantiating evidence, or even clearly define the “emergency”. that went out the window two years ago. Bring on the computer models.
Never mind the facts anymore.
It’s emotion all the way down.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10998889/Bidens-claim-10-year-old-girl-forced-travel-abortion-called-question.html
PJMedia has been posting about this story for a while, but looks like it took a while for folks to catch up.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/07/07/this-is-how-we-lose-gov-dewine-on-defense-instead-of-offense-over-dubious-tale-of-10-year-old-rape-victim-n1611009
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/07/09/washington-post-late-to-the-party-on-fact-checking-poorly-sourced-10-year-old-rape-victim-abortion-tale-but-proves-us-right-n1611679
Remember when a few “doctors” were talking about Covid patients dying while on ventilator’s, and it turned out to be complete bullshit.
Pepperidge Farms does.
Any story that nails your preconceived notions to a tee is going to be bullshit.
When everything is a “public-health emergency”, nothing is.
Still healing, still taking it slow. Which is driving me crazy, as I can feel myself walking better, not losing feeling in my leg, etc. I want to get on with things, so I can start rebuilding my balance and working on keeping MS at bay. But, needs must. I get tired really, really easily, if I push myself I kinda step back and feel pain. I know this is just my body adjusting to what is going on, but man, it can be disappointing.
But, buck up little camper, together we can beat this mountain!
Also, bringing this over from the deadthread, kids being self sufficient and such. When I was seven, I got lost in downtown Philadelphia. Now, this was ’78 or so, not exactly the safest time, especially for a kid who grew up in a left coast college town. But, I knew enough to go back to where the car was and wait for my parents. The lot attendant got me a can of iced tea, and I sat there for a while. And my parents showed up, they were scared shitless that they had lost a child. But, I knew what to do. At Fucking Seven Years Old! Kids can do things people, if you let them!
Glad you’re healing up, hopefully you’re better than ever after a few months. As someone just a bit older than you, absolutely frigging yes on kids. I’m doing it with my kids as much as I can (legally in these modern times of idiocy). But yeah, we grew up the last of the free range kids. My parents had six of us and I could absolutely see a difference with how much freedom my younger brothers got compared to us. At ten I was allowed to take the bus with friends unsupervised to Giants games and movies across town. That is just not socially acceptable these days, but I let my just turned 9 and 11 year old walk to school a few blocks on their own and go ten blocks up to the pet store and back. The overbearing parenting didn’t do good things for the millennial generation at all .
My barber is 76 years old. He’s been cutting my hair on/off since I was around 5 or 6. I can remember Mama Tres looking at me when I was that age and saying “you need a damn haircut. Go see Fritz.”
Then she’d put money in my hand and send me out the door to walk the mile or so to the barber shop. Imagine the horrors today of seeing some kid on a mission, un-accompanied, walking down the street? Parents would be jailed.
Yeah I also had free reign to go out around the neighborhood on my bike at 6. Something changed by the late 80’s to make that totally socially (and legally) unacceptable. That has been mostly to the detriment of kids I think.
Stranger danger. Plus widespread daycare and other supervised activities. And parents being chauffeurs for their kids.
John and Adam Walsh?
Zwak: You’re skiing on one ski!!
Saw local 8-ish-year-olds being driven around in the bed of a 40-y.o. pickup recently. Was only around the block but it did my heart good. Dad is Eastern European.
Ha! some one goy it! But, yeah, we rode around in the back of my dad’s Datsun pickup all the time.
My basketball coach used to drive is to games in his pickup truck. Most of us had to sit in the bed of the truck.
When I was 12 I rode from California to Colorado in the back of a pickup. No way that would happen today.
Remember when Beaver loses his haircut money and then Wally tries to trim it?
No, it didn’t. My son is 27 and when he was a kid most of his friends parents were around 10 years older than me. You could see the paranoia of them in relation to their kids at every turn. God, it was miserable. But, on the other hand, when I got older and started making friends with kids who didn’t grow up so middle class, non of that was there. The black kids and Mexican kids totally free ranged, they were all over on light rail and riding bikes. It helped my son a lot.
Of course, those kids are going to be fucked over by DEI. So, in the end, everyone will lose.
Good luck on the recovery. Don’t try to hurry things. I’m getting back on my feet, sort of, for the second time.
“Life will never be the same as before and don’t fall down” Ortho Doc
This isn’t my first time at the rodeo either, but lets keep each other motivated! That seems to work for a lot of people, why not us libertarians?
I had about a 15 mile radius. If I could make it there on my 10 speed, do what I wanted to do (usually flirt with girls at the high diving board in Pepin Lake), and get back in time to cook supper, I was golden.
My kids had about a 15 block radius, Sad.
I got lost in Atlantic City when I was around six. Mom finally caught up to me walking down the Boardwalk with an ice cream, accompanied by some stranger. LOL I didn’t know enough to not do that.
a nice stranger?
nice cream? (Oh, shaddup, youse!)
Heh. I grew up in Washington Heights, not exactly a high-rent nabe. At age 4 I somehow got separated from my aunt who was supposed to be watching me, but I knew exactly what to do. Walked into the bar, gave the bartender my phone number and waited there. Got a free glass of birch beer and a lifetime love of seedy bars for my troubles.
Nice.
But yikes. That is a rough neighborhood.
Was much less awful in 1957. Think “West Side Story”, lots of gang fights but they mostly left the noncombatants alone. Now? Oof.
It’s probably been gentrified a bit, but still… I wouldn’t move there.
I got lost in the Museum of Natural History when I was about five and on a field trip with the Girl Scouts that my parents were leading. (Technically, I didn’t get lost; i got left behind at one of the exhibits.)
I took the logical step of going to the bathroom closest to the entrance where we came in, since i knew a group of girls was going to have to use the potty before going home.
Somebody took me to the authorities, where my parents picked me up.
So that’s how you met OMWC?
When I see a little kid wandering around in Walmart, etc, I will not physically help. I look for an employee or the first old lady and ask them to watch the kid. I can see the headlines
“Fourscore nailed on a attempted kidnapping charge”
What keeps you motivated GlibFitters?
Working with guys I am old enough to be a father to. Fuck letting those punks lift more than me. (they still can but fuck that) When I was my fattest my balance was fucked, I could not walk far and my whole body hurt. Screw that. It turned out it was not that hard to change. Quit eating shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8WI0N1OBaA
I was expecting this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFSOnumgZA
“Quit eating shit.”
Heroic Mulatto hardest hit.
Low Carb is the only thing that has worked for me.
/down 45 lbs. from my worst
Wow! Low carbs and competition for the ladies makes PONick a new man. Super job!
No, my real motivation is to be able to buy cheap jeans at Target (which only goes up to waist size 44, almost there!)
/started my weight loss journey at size 52×30
/I will never be slim-hipped like Fourscore, or Mick Jagger, or David Bowie.
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Tried a new 2nd seed word. It might work.
I had a classic Tundra; 4 5 6 7
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Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2VA7B0gUc
When my boss first found out I got up early to either run or go to the gym before work he asked me how I got motivated and wished he could be motivated also.
It’s not motivation for me, it’s dicipline.
I don’t wake up rarin’ to go every day, and on the days I don’t feel like it, I remind myself “nobody cares” and go.
Admittedly, I do have about a 3% failure rate, but as I get more back in shape even this is dropping, because I know I’ll hate myself for not going.
Wanted to add, thanks for this series, Chafed.
I usually don’t read it until Monday, but I do enjoy it.
Thanks Ron. I appreciate it.
I have a dog. First thing every morning, we walk. We walk every afternoon and weekends we walk at noon. I can’t disappoint her.
I’m taking a tai chi class with a friend. There have been days I didn’t want to, but I don’t want to disappoint my friend.
Currently, the dog is slowing down, so I’m trying to go for a separate walk after our afternoon walk. I’m at about 30%, but it’s getting better.
The last few weeks haven’t been great, but a lot better than my typical weeks on orders away from my local gym. Worked with my PT to figure out a few specific exercises I need to do more frequently – that I can do even with really limited hotel gyms.
Also…walking a mile plus each way to get some good food/beer also helps – esp with the summer weather.
That said…since last month I’ve had an insane pain inside one of my heels. Almost all the time when I’m on my feet – very strong when I’ve been lying down for a while – and also builds while I’m driving – resting on gas pedal and floor of car. Assuming “service related” since it started while I was on order, but not sure how soon I can get it looked at. Not too bad while I’m running, but while I’m walking on treadmill, etc during intervals – very noticeable. Got some new sneakers which may alleviate it a bit too.
Never mind the facts anymore.
That (Hayek’s Daily Mail link, above) is quite the scary campfire tale. Is a ten year old even physiologically capable of becoming pregnant (assuming pre-pubescence)?
Joe talking about imagining himself to be that little girl makes me think he could barely control his prurient titillation at the notion.
The 10-year old girl needing to travel to Indiana was in my local rag a couple weeks back. That story mentioned that she was at 6 weeks and 1 day pregnant, just beyond the limit of the Ohio heartbeat bill (which the story said bans abortion at 6 weeks). It was already too trite, well timed, and too sympathetic a story to not have me be suspicious already.
Chafed!
I’m glad to see Axl is doing better. Most of these dudes recognize that fitness is critical to their careers – so not rock n’ roll, but good on them for keeping things going.
Being strong and fit enough to enjoy cool experiences is what motivates me. I have played hockey with dudes in their 70s, seen really old people at the summit of a really gnarly hike – hell, even my 80 yo dad plays golf several times a week. I want to be like them.
Mixed bag this week. Food was decent, sleep was shit, got lots of miles in (including some rucking) and my lifting was shit. I’ve noticed that my motivation is best when all that shit, as well as my personal and professional life are going the right way. It’s a grind sometimes!
My GlibFit today was having lunch and beers with DEG. Always good to see a Glib IRL!
I swear to god, next forum I register for, it is going to be under the name FAXL.
Oh, and I hear you about the sleep thing. I have never been a good sleeper, I wake up all the time and my brain starts turning around and then I will be up for hours. But “they” had me do a home sleep test last week, and between that and my wife being out of town I don’t think I have slept worse in a decade. Stupid Rube Goldberg machine coupled with not hearing my wife, I didn’t get a wink.
I was waking up at 3am like clockwork. And, as you say, brain engages and it’s all over. A friend recommended Magnesium Glycinate. I started taking 240mg before bed and it has helped a lot.
People who are good sleepers have no clue how fucking lucky they are!
Try combining the magnesium with ashwagandha. That’s worked really well for me. I think I’ve mentioned it here in the past. I started to have trouble over the last couple years of waking up and not getting back to sleep but that combo really seems to help.
Thanks! I’ll try that.
Amen to that. Magnesium Glycinate is definitely helpful for me as well.
One surprising thing I learned in poking around nutrition and sleep — don’t take your Vitamin D supplement with dinner, or before bed. This is especially important if you take melatonin.
My biggest problem now is staying asleep all night. The first 4, sometimes 5, hours generally go well, but the rest of the night is too often spent tossing and turning and intermittently dozing.
Guess who’s been taking their Vitamin D supplements with dinner? 🙄 And TT takes melatonin on a pretty regular basis. Whyfore oughtn’t be be doing that, please? I gather the D interferes with sleep somehow? And does it interact in some nefarious way with melatonin? 😟
(…oughtn’t WE be…)
The claim was that it interfered with melatonin.
It kind of makes sense to me — sunshine vitamin vs sleepy-time hormone.
Note too, at least as an aside, that Vitamin D is a pro-hormone (or pre-hormone).
I haven’t noticed a big effect, but I’d say there’s been some positive impact from shifting the Vit. D to breakfast & lunch, rather than lunch & dinner.
If you get regular bloodwork done, getting your Vit. D checked is a good idea.
Thanks! I’ll pass the info along to TT, and I’ll try to get in the habit of taking my Vitamin D in the morning. Luckily, it’s small, so I can wash it down with my coffee. (I don’t usually eat anything until I get to the office.)
This is me also, once I wake up to go to the bathroom it’s all over. And, being in my 50’s, well, you know how it is.
71 here, and yes, that’s how it is. I’m just glad it’s only once a night ;-\
I’m up 3-4X every night but I need the exercise anyway.
Was he on time?
Lunch with DEG is a good time.
Hah! He told me about that!
We had a little miscommunication on time, but it all worked out. Such a pleasure to talk life/politics/whatever with people who truly get it.
My GlibFit today was having lunch and beers with DEG.
👍
Lol.
A Russian chick and an anti-vax dude won at Wimbledon. Choke on that, haters!
I mostly didn’t watch because the sight of Kyrgios makes me physically ill – and the commentators marveling over how “quirky” he is every. single. time doesn’t help – but yay!
From Russia with love.
RE eating healthy. My most favorite purchase other than [REDACTED] lately has been a meat grinder. If we had zoomed this afternoon you all could have seen me grind my meat. I buy the on sale cuts and make burger. This weeks mix is sirloin, chuck and some pathetically thin ribeyes. It all grinds good and the ribeyes have decent fat. Store bought ground beef is ruined for me.
Excellent. What model did you buy?
I got this…… https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/cabelas-commercial-grade-1-2hp-carnivore-meat-grinder
The larger versions just didn’t make sense for a one person operation. I have made some kick ass sausage when I find two for one pork shoulders. It is good fun. Adventures in meat grinding!
Hmmm. That does look fun!
I bought a 3/4 hp about 20 years ago, still going strong.
I bought a sewing machine type pedal for my meat grinder. It has been awesome – it frees up both my hands to deal with my meat.
I just grilled up the last of my home-made sausages last night – Cervelas, the national sausage of Switzerland (garlic, thyme, nutmeg, pistachios, and brandy make it unique). I suspect the days of $1.50 per lb. pork butt are over. :^(
it frees up both my hands to deal with my meat
Somebody is ambidextrous.
Go on …
One hand to wrangle the meat. The other stuffs it down the hole.
😋
Nice. Can you recommend a brand/model?
Those electrical prostate stimulators are great aren’t they?!?!
Chatting with my mom this evening, I told her I had told the zoom group about her driving to Alaska from California in the 1950s, by herself, in a VW beetle (bought in Europe and shipped home). I told mom that the zoom group decided she was a badass. She laughed. I think it made her day.
She is a bad ass!
Yes she is
She’s a Bad Mama Jama!
Ted S. brings tha funk!
/counterpoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBx6mAWYPU
I think so!
I have a plan that I made a few years back with a good friend to ride bikes off road from Canada to Mexico through the Rockies in 2030. I’m hoping to stay healthy and in shape enough to want to do it when the time comes. That’s been a good background thing motivating me and that I love doing fun adventures in the great outdoors and want to keep doing them as I get old. This summer we did Mt Whitney a month back and I’m thinking the goal for next summer might be to do 70 miles or so backpacking the higher altitude portion of the John Muir Trail from Yosemite south towards Mammoth. I’m toying with the idea of climbing Pico de Orizaba in the next couple years. It’s the third highest peak in North America and it’s in a part of Mexico I’ve never been to.
👍
Damn. You are gonna be a busy man. It sounds amazing!
If you want info on the Mexican Volcanoes let me know. I did the three big ones back in 1982. If you go down there you might as well pick up several.
They are not technically difficult, but you need be confident in using an ice ax and have crampons. The Mexicans were using cheap beach flipflops with “U” shaped nails and tied to their sneakers with twine. I don’t recommend that course of action.
Old school motivation
https://youtu.be/vCadcBR95oU
Relevant
Apparently one of my HS classmates just(?) died. I don’t even remember him, and I didn’t go to a big school.
Anyhoo: Over 300 Virginia state employees resign in wake of Gov. Youngkin’s telework policy
And they say calling people back from telework is all bad.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/over-300-virginia-state-employees-resign-in-wake-of-gov-youngkin-s-telework-policy/ar-AAZqD0L?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=10c36a3643444289bdce977962c38436
Two of my classmates (granted, in a class of over 400) died last year. I recognized the names, but didn’t have any association with either apart from maybe being in a class together in junior high. One had juvenile diabetes, and the other had Huntington’s.
Huh. My HS class was around 300 people. Not the smallest, my first wife’s was around 100, and not the largest, as my current wife’s was around 1K
I think my motivation is, secondarily, the desire to be functional as I age, and primarily, not wanting to disappoint Mrs. Dean. So I hit the damn garage gym almost every day. For about a half hour, but even that has made a real difference.
My benchmark is Sunday Deadlift Day. Today was very marginal improvement over last week – a full 2x 5 at 195 pounds (compared to a total of 8 or 9 last week) and 5 at 205 (compared to 3 or 4 last week). Started slow and stiff and creaky, but got kinda pissed off and moved the needle, just a little.
Monday is walking day – about 2 1/2 miles (my constraint is time in the morning before I need to get to the office). Walking is very very good, regardless of your routine you should put have a day where your workout is walking. It’s what you are built for, and its good for that reason alone. Everything else is arbitrary/artificial. It has very real benefits, but walking settles your system.
Yesterday my wife asked me how many steps I walk a day. I have no idea. She took my phone and showed me the app. 17K a day average this month. She makes a big deal about how she goes for a walk every other day, so I’m like, “Show me your.” Her response? “Never mind. Doesn’t matter anyways.”
OK, dinner is now over. Much easier to figure out what to eat when the wife, a food person, is gone. So, brats from a local farm, half an onion fried, and four of my wifes pickles. A little Sierra Nevada porter mustard, and a can of the local breweries pils.
Yeah, that should do me.
Spud wasn’t up for it?
GlibFit.
https://archive.ph/3Uq8y/7b36362a234eebb31d07dd123525ce940e9e9367.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/eDMjQ/234e6691e601b762021445e57a9a4a833e0deb87.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/745bk/3029982878433c45745886fa5257af48f399c4a8.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/p63rt/82e2b6b20763f201a1ecc928f9b93e1b359bccae.webp
NSFW.
#3 Redhead from the other night deserves a repeat, freckles and all!
GlibFit!!
GlibFit!
Apropos of nothing at all I just had a weird memory pop up in my brain. When I was about 17 or 18 my parents went out of town for the weekend. We all decided to do some LSD. I started to freak out a little because too much. Elder Brother Davo started knuckle walking around the house. You know the thing where you draw up your knees to the chest and use the hands for locomotion? The he started screetching, ” RheeeRheeeeRheee”! He rushed toward me and I just lost it. Spent the next two hours sitting out in the snow looking at the stars. The mind is a funny device.
Uh, no. If I’m picturing this correctly, it sounds like something that might put in the hospital.
I’m imagining how a dog scoots it’s butt across the carpet.
Arms on the outside, legs and torso swinging to and fro.
Yeah, I’m not physically capable of that.
The things we could do in our late teens, vs. the things we can not do in our early fifties.
Picture the evil chimp that lives in your closet. Brother was incredibly athletic and yes, strong as a monkey…
That requires some long arms a strong stomach muscles.
Davo was a competitive singlet wrestler at the Provincial level. He was wee but scary strong and quick. Like a monkey…
Criminals pose with stolen property, brag about it to media
They stole a nurse?
If your gonna do it, do it right.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1546129059310084098?cxt=HHwWhICx0YGM-vQqAAAA
So…they are saying that the guy who jumped in the plane and was talking about what a predicament he was in crashed the plane intentionally?
Fuckin legend! Anyone have the bit where he does the loop?
https://youtu.be/HCtfYF3ITGE
Ramper to test pilot
🤢
Ugh. Doing it right shouldn’t involve pissing off a bunch of innocents.
I’d be more than willing to be inconvenienced just to be an observer of that.
Paging hoof_in_mouth…
Listening to some mma talk on YT. They know fighting, but they aren’t the brightest people. “You can’t even count on one hand how many times his fights end like that.”
🤔
I want to go back to when all the fights were fixed by the Mob.
Hey Festus! Congrats on finally receiving your present.
He did? Huzzah!
My neighbor was flying a Gadsden flag this morning. It was gone this afternoon, but I figure its still a good sign.
@Splosives: Only Murders in the Building … ADORABLE!
“THAT LITTLE CUNT IS KEEPING HER WATCH ON WHILE SHE’S FUCKING!”
親孝行
Had a headache so I took some medicine. It’s not kicking in yet. Must be buffering.
Seen on twitter. A high school boy’s yearbook quote: waking up is the second hardest thing in the morning.
We drove up the coast to try to watch the Space X launch at Vandenberg. Got an excellent spot, about the best possible without being on base (which is closed), but sadly there was fog so no photos. But even four miles away, the sound is amazing. hopefully also inspiring for kiddo who is heading off to aerospace engineering this fall.
Also for posterity, my usual middling
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Probably an old story, but I hadn’t heard of it. A nice example of woke-on-woke crime at ESPN. Rachel Nichols was caught on camera bemoaning that she was considered lower on the victimhood totem pole as a black woman got her gig. See, it’s fine when gets a leg-up because she’s female, but not cool when the same is done at her expense.
What’s that? caught on tape admitting to playing the muh vagina card as a power play? But…but…how does that work in the patriarchy?
Sometimes I think we (or our descendants) will look back upon the victimhood ranking and woke battles as the idiocy that they are. Like tulip mania and witch hunting, for parallel examples.
But other times I think “Well, this is it. Mankind has peaked and is in decline.”
It’s tough when you have kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews but you know that they will not have it as good as you did.
May God have mercy on the survivors.
Glibfit: Due to the heat, lack of food, lack of money and unrelenting stress and unhappiness I’m down to under 165lbs. Sure, I’m miserable almost to the point being suicidal but my abs look spectacular.
{{{virtual hugs}}}
I don’t think I’d really experienced depression until the past 5 months or so.
I was happy to move on from my dysfunctional employer, happy to shake the dust of California off my feet, happy that my new house is awesome and we’d met cool people here in a “small town.”
But at work, the guy who was supposed to be assigning me my day/to-day work had no time for me and didn’t “get” me at all. I found some busywork but I was disengaged.
So when I learned that the plan was for me and others to transfer to that guy as our functional manager in the coming months, I was bummed. Then Thursday he told me that the big project was strapped for cash and that I had to stop charging to it “until September.”
I then did an internal job search Friday and found one that reads like it was written expressly for me. I mulled it over and then applied. I had to inform my current functional manager due to policy, and he got back yo me yesterday afternoon, saying he agrees that the job posting sounds perfect. He said he doesn’t want to lose me but also doesn’t want to get in the way of what sounds like a perfect fit.
We’re meeting Monday (today) to talk about it in person.
Moral of the story: it does get better. Hang in there.
Good luck to you, hk. You’re good people and I’ve always been fond of you.
Sorry TH. I hope things get better for you.
Sorta ironic, if I went back up to 165, I’d be quite unhappy.
I feel the healthiest at around 180lbs. The most I’ve ever weighed was 205lbs and that was about five years ago. Actually had a no shit muffin top going then. The thinnest I’ve been as an adult was when I was twenty-one. Weighed around 140lbs. Then again, I was a meth addict at the time.
Full article. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11001029/Do-not-transition-kids-message-former-trans-girl-17.html
Her own mother administered the shots.
Fucking Mondays. 😒
Everyday is Monday when you don’t have a day off. Morning and enjoy your coffee.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/07/10/philadelphia-shooting-frankford-road-rage-toyota-sedan-gun-violence/
Boom. Headshot.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/07/full-supermoon-in-july-will-be-the-biggest-and-brightest-moon-of-2022.html
Supermoon.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/south-africa-police-say-15-killed-in-bar-shooting-in-soweto/article_35f16f58-df45-59eb-91e5-715d07d46d7b.html
America has a gun problem! Oh wait…
https://www.whas11.com/article/news/nation-world/senate-majority-leader-chuck-schumer-tests-positive-covid-19/507-8cae7c5f-60e5-44d1-8517-15f00b8b92d6
Schumer gots the ‘vid.
Put his ass on a ventilator.
Put his ass
on a ventilatorin a woodchipper.FTFY
Put him on an overpressure ventillator, pump him full of remdesivir, and let nature take its course.
I mean, that’s how you treat the commie cough, isn’t it.
BA5 coming for ya!
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/latest-covid-symptoms-for-new-ba4-and-ba5-variants/ar-AAZr0cj
“And as with the initial Omicron in winter last year, these sub-variants still seem to be leading to fewer deaths and hospitalisations.”
As predicted by myself and most others with any sense for years now. I wonder if the NIH will hire me.
Do you have the right connections? What are your politics?
Oops, you’re insufficiently authoritarian for the position. Sorry.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ThatIsNotMyD0G/status/1546430229383634945
😂
Mornin Glibs.
*sigh*
Time to start the day. 😒
Morning.
Time to commute to work. 🙁
Good morning, U (::waves at U’s receding taillights::), Sean, and, if you’re still around, hayek and TH (}}}hug{{{)!
Not only do I have to plug in a bunch of out-of-the-ordinary mid-year pay raises this week, I also need to acquire all the data to finish up the spreadsheet calculating mid-year incentives, since we hit 3 out of our 4 half-year goals by 6/30. (The incentives I can’t actually plug into payroll until I’m processing next week’s pay next Monday.)
::thinks:: Would any of you like to come work for my employer? We almost always seem to have at least a teller position open.
Also, GlibFit follow up: I remembered to take my Vitamin D first thing this morning instead of waiting until dinner!
Tellers have to work with the public don’t they?
Not a good fit for me.
Yeah….at some point we may have the tech where tellers serve members via Personal Teller Machines, where they communicate strictly over video screens. But you’d still be interacting with the public. 😕
Looking at my calendar, I should change my remote days so that every other monday is remote, because there’s this recurring project meeting that starts at the time my workday is supposed to end. I chose my hours to avoid the added stress of traffic and finding parking. Even a half hour later, things are a mess.
Are you T/TH remote now? Are you able to go up to 50% remote?
You are correct, Agency policy is 50%, I’d picked only two remote days a week so I wouldn’t have to remember a ‘Week A’ versus ‘Week B’ distinction. But I’m sorely tempted.
Mornin’, GT. A number of branches have closed up here in the last few years. Most folks do their banking online, no need for the overhead of B&M branches. Not too many open teller jobs, is it different in OH?
We just seem to have a lot of turnover at our branches, even after increasing our starting pay some months back. Of course, a fair amount of that turnover is tellers moving up into other positions internally. It’s almost always the poor, beleaguered Branch Ops VP who’s stuck having to hire more folks from the outside. We have three new tellers scheduled to start on Monday, 8/1 – my first day back from The Party. 🥺
Zero chance I’m passing that background check.
Good (::hurriedly looks it up::) evening, straff! How the heck are you this fine…evening?
Sean has super moon link up thread. Don’t know if it’s that, but he’s keeping me company as I wait for dinner to finish cooking. *Cracks open a cold one*. Cheers and mornin’, GT.
https://ibb.co/hcMxt2N
Ooooh! 😯
Wish I could see it, but the work proxy blocks that site.
They block all image sharing/online storage sites.
🙁
Imagine the 🌙.
Good morning, GT.
Sorry for being a bummer. I foolishly left my tools at the job site last week. Didn’t leave them in the open or anything. They were in a utility closet in the basement. Thursday evening the property owner came by to check the place, opened a window to smoke a bowl, left it unlocked then left. Later that evening somebody broke into the joint. And wouldn’t you know it, the only thing that got stolen was my tools. Costing me hundreds of dollars I really can’t afford to spend right now. Somehow my employer and the property owner both blamed me for the incident. FML, I want off this boat.
I’m so sorry, TH! 😟
Oh no. So sorry. Property owner sounds like a real prince.
The worst thing is the po just happens to be both my and my employer’s landlord. So hey, throw me under the bus. Not so much as an apology from him.
Sounds like an inside job to me.
Nah, shitty neighborhood and the house was a rental that got a fresh coat of paint between tenants. Property owner said he couldn’t get the window to close. It’s a simple latch locked window. All he had to do was apply a few pounds of pressure to the top of the window to get the latch to catch and lock but he couldn’t be bothered. Took me all of two seconds of thought and effort to lock it after the fact.
Two seconds of thought? Your expectations of (most) other people are too high I’m afraid.
True. I guess this lot here has increased my expectations of others…this is all your guys fault! Ha!
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Ugh.
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Pretty sure LR is a repeat.
It was bound to happen.
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Mornin’, reprobates!
Morning!
So 4Chan supposedly hacked Hunter’s iCloud account and daddy’s number was listed as Pedo Peter in his phone contacts:
https://www.ibtimes.sg/joe-biden-listed-pedo-peter-hunter-biden-phone-list-speculations-after-4chan-users-hack-65715
Somebody stop this ride, I want off.
LOL. “Pedo Peter”. Probably trolling, but also probably true.
You know, that started showing up in memes in the past few days and I was unsure of the source. For some reason the meme makes have all the news before it circulates.
Hrmmm…. *dons conspiracy theorizing gloves.*
Hmmm… Are we quite sure this Minion isn’t chanting “Pedo! Pedo! Pedo!”?
That’s, um, huh…
Anyone else have vague memories of how Billy Carter was a supposed to be such a huge embarrassment to Jimmy? To the point where it became a national punchline?
Hunter makes Billy look like an angel but good luck hearing the punchlines on any MSM outlet.
No.
/was born in the ’80s
Remember this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Beer
I’ll bet Hunter could score a similar product endorsement.
Heh, I have a can of Billy Beer in storage somewhere. Too bad for Hunter they don’t do ads for crack pipes.
I drank Billy Beer, once.
The media truly is disgusting. Just as disgusting as Hunter, in their own way.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/albany-anchor-heather-kovar-suspended-after-bizarre-broadcast/
“The CBS 6 anchor was jittery and wide-eyed during her Saturday segments and at times incoherent.”
Could be our next president. She checks all the right boxes.
bad reaction to the clot shot?
Her father just died. She was probably self medicating while struggling with the loss. Sure, she’s a public figure but I’m not going to judge her too harshly.
Is it possible to judge a TV journalismist too harshly?
Also, who TF is working wardrobe at that station? Ew.
/catty mode
I have never heard of her, so I’m not going to jump to conclusions.
And it’s a local station, the anchors might dress themselves.
I recall a widely circulated video of a local news anchor who got bizarre in mid broadcast.
Turned out that she was having a “partial” complex seizure, in which some consciousness is impaired but it’s not total.
So I definitely ain’t judging.