This was a mediocre week for me. I did get back to it and started the week with a “get some” attitude. I went full Goggins Monday and Tuesday. In addition to my regular workouts I got in 10 minutes of ab each day and extra conditioning. Wednesday, I left court and headed for the airport to fly up to San Jose for a mediation the next day. That’s where my week went off course. Ah well, tomorrow is a new day and I’ll be back at it.
Having been away from it for four weeks, I was reminded on Tuesday just how inflexible I was. Back in my running days, I was a consistent stretcher. Nowadays, not so much. That’s about to change.
If you don’t have it, go pick up a copy of Stretching by Bob Anderson. I think I bought this book about 30 years ago. It’s terrific. Anderson shows you how to stretch every part of your body. Everything is diagrammed. It’s very easy to put together your series of stretches or routines.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I had noticed in the past, including with lifting, that when I regularly stretched, my performance improved. I’m certainly not making the claim stretching makes you stronger. But I will say that whether it was generating power for lifts or pushing myself with conditioning, doing regular stretching seemed to help. I’ll leave it to you to pick this apart in the comments or maybe cite a scientific showing this is so. You do you.
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A special shout out to Nephilium. I saw your comment during the week about how much weight you’ve lost riding and how close you are to your goal weight. Ride on Neph. For those of you wondering how Nephilium has stayed so dedicated, here’s the contact information for his instructor. Glibbroads (h/t Gender Traitor) can google Lance Armstrong pics or whatever floats your boat.
Here’s some motivation for the rest of you. Oddly, Winston’s Mom sent me some photos. Go figure.
Some music to get you going. MikeS if this doesn’t get your NoDak ass in gear then I don’t know what will. Put down your accounting books and go for a ride.
Finally, last week’s GlibFit garnered a measly 135 comments. The Sunday night open post got more traffic. Let’s put a little effort in this week. I’ll be at kid 2’s volleyball game when this posts but I’ll do my best to check in from time to time.
Anderson shows you how to stretch every part of your body.
Some parts of my body I know how to stretch, thank you very much.
Some music to get you going.
This is the same link as the Winston’s Mom link.
It was supposed to be this: https://youtu.be/pAgnJDJN4VA
?? Kick ??
?? Ass ??
Rock out with your cock out.
Will this do?
Why are you clicking my link!?!?!?!?!
I only hovered over the links to see the URL.
Glibbroads (h/t Gender Traitor) can google Lance Armstrong
Dopestrong?
Stretching is something I’ve never been good about. Whether it was distance running, tennis or something else, I never did more than 5 minutes of half-assed, ad hoc stretches.
Stretching is strange for me. I’m double jointed, so half the standard stretches don’t do anything for me.
Neph I gave you a shout out. At least play along.
Chafed, I appreciate it. But for music to get me going, I go with something more like this or this. High BPM, high energy. My natural cadence has moved up from the low 80’s to the upper 80’s/low 90’s, so I need a faster tempo to push me.
Duly noted.
I’ve been trying to convince the instructor I usually use for spin classes to fit that first song into a class. She’s concerned about the language, and I pointed out that we were all adults.
In body, sure. But in mind who knows.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/multimedia/golf-stretches/sls-20076248
golf stretches are really good
I may (may!) end February lighter than I was in October. Two months of celebratory eating cost me six months of progress.
But now you’re back. Good job.
Average weight was down ~1.5 pounds last week, hit a new low body fat percentage as well. March is looking like it’s going to be bad though, I’ve got a week of travel for work, and then St. Patrick’s Day. I’m hoping I’ll be able to suspend the spin classes come April, and get on the real bike to get some miles in. I’ve already got two routes planned for about 40 miles each, hitting up three breweries on each, and completing my Cleveland Brewery Passport at the same time. I have learned that the max power at the class I go to does go above 800, as I hit 850 in the last class and the graph now goes up to 1,000. So now to try hitting over 1,000 watts and seeing if it caps there. I still don’t get why the RPM is capped at 149 though.
The next class I’ve got scheduled is a Pop goes Punk class, I’m hoping for more punk music and less pop music then the last one I went to.
Making stretching a habit is something I’m working on. It makes a real difference for my joint pain.
You win the prize.
I won! It’s so unexpected. I’d like to thank the academy, Chafed, SP, OMWC, oh, wait….what did I win?
Don’t forget Hitler.
Linky
Thanks for the book recommendation. I ordered it.
OT: hanging out next to the freshly trimmed and cleaned fish tank with a glass of a church friend’s homebrew red ale. Calories don’t count if they’re fron a church friend, right?
Nope, they count… and they can add up quick.
Spoilsport
Hey, I’ve been averaging around 1,100 calories for six days a week for a long time now. I’ve had to use those calculators quite a bit.
No matter how freshly she has trimmed, you really shouldn’t clean a fish tank with ale. I’m pretty sure the yeast will do bad stuff to the fishies.
Are those real plants or plastic? Good looking aquarium, too.
Real ones. I’ve been growing them on and off for about 8 years now.
Thank you!
That’s amazing. When I first looked I assumed they were plastic.
Do the plants get any real sun or artificial only? My aquarium as a kid was in a south window, plants grew feriously but so did the algae. Had to close the blinds in the summer, water got too warm, too much sun.
There’s a window right behind where I took the picture, but real sunlight in any substantial is a bad thing for the tank. The light above the tank has been calibrated to support the plants with as little algae growth as possible. Additional light is just injecting energy into the tank that has to be consumers somehow, usually in the form of algae.
The light itself is a full spectrum light that simulates sunlight (its similar to a light one would use for hydroponics or seed starting or growing pot).
substantial amount*
has to be consumed* somehow
Looking real good, Trashy. And don’t listen to Neph. Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to enjoy life and not worry about calories from beer. That’s in the Bible somewhere.
Rain/ Hail yesterday, so Bella walked me for about 2 miles, then I played 45 holes, for another 5 miles, with a bum leg, alright for me,
Fit girls #12 – she plans on boiling more than a bunny.
reddit.com/r/fitgirls
That was… um… interesting.
Oh my
/George Takei
I need to hit the liquor store tomorrow. I’m running low on vodka.
Also, I ate a lot of steak and bbq today (mmmm…burnt ends). Still skinny. #Ketolife
MEAT!
Holy Crap, Q hijacked all of Chafed’s links.
I sense a link between Q links and being Chafed
I see what you did there.
It’s even better when you feel it.
/….what?
(((sneaky)))
*Throws gang sign at Neph*
??♂️
Huh?
I don’t speak your crazy moon language!
It is on topic to the song dedicated to you and that is as close to a gang sign in my emoji library. ??
I’m aware, I pulled up the link and had it playing in the background. But I’m never going to tire of making references to the Tick animated series.
?
STEVE SMITH STRETCH EVERYDAY.
So that cursed Envoy I mentioned previously needs some tires. Shopping around, I really get about the best deal @ TireDiscounters (-10% veteran’s discount), and they include a ?????? alignment. Im planning on doing the upper/lower ball-joints soon. So, should I do those before an alignment? Or get tires 1st ? Or does it matter as long as I dont bend a tie-rod ?
Thanks in advance.
-your humble servant
I’d do the ball joints first.
Ya, I would say do the ball joints prior to the alignment. Also, when I did the ball joints on Big Green I went and bought the heaviest dutiest impact wrench Home Depot sold. Fuck pressing those out by arm strength.
Why she hide her freckles? Oh well. Off to check on my smoked pork tenderloins
First I figured it may have just been something with sun exposure, but that doesn’t match with the freckles showing around the eyes. I know by the end of the season, I’ll have some interesting and entertaining tan lines.
Yummy winter bedtime cocktail:
This tea mixed with this gin
I hate rooibos, but to each his own
I hate citrus-forward gins – OK, the one that I tried.
I’m always disappointed when I try a new gin and find out that it’s anise forward.
Finally, last week’s GlibFit garnered a measly 135 comments.
Do you really think shameless begging is going to get people to post comments?
?
Yes
*high five*
Well I for one am not falling for that shit.
Don’t blame you. “WTF is an acrostic” is a legit comment.
Number of comments alone means nothing. 50 comments on topic > 500 OT.
Oh, a purist, eh?
Compubox distinguishes between punches landed and punches thrown.
OOOOHHHH! That explains straff’s apology on last night’s post….
Just stroke my ego gaijin salaryman-san.
Geeze….all this exercisin’s got your testosterone all jacked up.
This is the saddest thing you’ll see all week.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1231025895609118721
I was going to try to top that. I don’t think I can. Short of a safe falling on a clouder of kittens.
I’m still stuck on the Dr. Zaius look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA
Obligatory.
That is an awesome clip.
One of the all time top five greatest Simpsons bits.
Only to be topped by this simian.
I maintain that Roseanne was correct in her opinion that Valerie Jarrett (?) looked a bit like a planet of the apes lady, but not because she’s black. Her particular physiognomy does remind me of the makeup from the movie (the original one), which to me didn’t so much look like apes as they did (ah-wooooooo) werewolves.
No idea what she looks like but that’s a third-rail you just don’t touch in this country.
Or here, but I stand by my dangerous yet innocent opinion about one individual’s appearance which is offered without malice.
Crazy Old Men Unite!!!!
Upon getting to Hollywood, his agent told him he had to change his name to better fit the press. Formerly known as “Cock von Lesbian”.
That explains a lot.
This is why I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW!!!
A bad Cockney accent I can handle.
A bad Commie theory I cannot.
C**kney? Why, you need the Danny Dyer Alexa!
And, a bit of themed chocolate.
https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2020/02/19/report-last-words-kirk-douglas-told-son-mike-can-get-done/
On your death bed you are talking politics with your son? Get a life!
I’m pretty skeptical it happened. More likely Michael Douglas wanted a colorful story to support Bloomberg.
“Michael Douglas…who has that pussy cancer in his throat..”
-Norm Macdonald
Dammit. Shouldn’t have clicked.
Van Dyke is pretty much correct about Bernie not changing his views. In his first congressional campaign in 1988, he was railing against millionaires and big corporations.
He’s been doing that since October, 1917.
Indeed.
I feel like I’ve been on the verge of pulling a back muscle for a few days. Gotta stretch. I’ll do my best not to mess that up. Or maybe I’ll ignore it until it goes away or decides to become an injury.
Testing testing. I posted earlier but it never appeared (no links, no speed-posting). Have I been canceled? I wouldn’t blame you.
Lower back? My bone setter friend (there aren’t good translations for 整骨院) gave me some treatment for lower back pain. He says that the craning of the neck from looking at the smartphone all the time is the cause. He recommended some exercises that seem to help.
My dad has a fantastic book on back exercises that was recommended by a doctor back when he had some horrible slipped disc problems and complications. He’s got an encyclopedic knowledge of such things now, too. Something about being through the pain making you really appreciate how to look after yourself. I’ll see if I can borrow his book again.
I get the smartphone thing but since mine is a miserly, slow, buggy, barely smart piece of budget Chinese surveillance tech, I feel little incentive to actually use it beyond the necessities (including posting this comment).
Not the phone, eh? Well, do you do any rapid thrusts with your mouth?
Only if you buy me dinner first.
Lose the hat and you got a deal.
This is where free markets ultimately end up.
*removes hat; luxurious locks fall out from underneath like Charlie Daniels in ‘Uneasy Rider’*
You’re really a doctor aren’t you?
Yes. He issued a Cease & Desist against my garbage can.
I’m not even a sensei, Kohai.
I destroyed a couple of the discs in my lower back when I was in my early 20’s, so I totally relate to what your Dad was saying. I have a few stretching exercises that I still do all the time to prevent lower back pain. I’m also very careful about how I sleep. I worked through severe and at times debilitating back pain doing landscaping work for about 2 years before it totally healed.
I still do landscaping and put a lot of strain on the back, but have never hurt it since, outside of an occasional pull or tweak in the last 25+ years. I’m careful about how I lift stuff and I make sure to stop and stretch whenever my back starts stiffening up. It also helps having really strong back muscles. You know what they say about landscapers: it takes a strong back and a weak mind to do this kind of work.
While I appreciate the duplicate MILF link, I’m curious what the music link was supposed to be.
Also, I just got done with accounting homework.
See my reply to Ted’S in 2 above.
What’s all the accountants’ opinions of learning manual accounting? For instance, we recently learned about special journals. I went to Accounting Coach to get a little extra help on the subject. They don’t teach them at all and say this:
My instructor, on the other hand, called them “one of her favorite things”. Which I get if you are still using paper ledgers and journals to do your accounting. But who the fuck is still doing that?
Also, keep in mind; I’m not getting my accounting degree. I’m going for an AAS in Management. Why the fuck would I, or nearly anyone else, need to know manual accounting methods? Give me a semester deep-dive in Quick Books and it would be money far better spent.
/rant mode: off
It lets you understand what QuickBooks is doing and why. But, with the AAS in management, I’m not sure you need it.
If you are going into corporate management, you will be held responsible for your budget. Those budget dollars will all be classified by cost centers and gl accounts (both of which will roll up into other categories). A thorough knowledge of how all of that accounting works behind the scenes will be well to your advantage. Yes, most accounting accounting transactions are automatic, however, manual month-end adjustments can be and are made all of the time. Those adjustments could be made to your cost centers benefit or detriment. Furthermore, you will be subject to countless hours of financial results every month if not more frequently. Those meetings and presentations will be be slightly less boring if you understand them and can ask questions. Understanding Accounting is understanding business. Embrace the dark side! Lol.
are you asking what good a year of intro to accounting is good for?
a/ with any discipline you need to know the underlying math so you notice when something is wrong
b/ in particular, you need a sense of what a transaction’s impact on the four statements will be
c/ financial accounting doesn’t mean anything without a foundation in the ledgers
d/ you need financial accounting to manage to your operating plan and even to manage programs and departments well
^^This
I get learning the basics. I really do. However, all disciplines need to discern between when the “old ways” are taught to build a foundation, and when they are done because that’s “the way we’ve always done it”. When I went to school for Architectural Drafting in the early 90’s, I had to buy a drafting board and all the supplies to draft by hand. We used that the first semester and then it was AutoCAD for the second semester. None of us ever touched that manual drafting equipment ever again.
Did it teach us some valuable fundamentals? Sure. Could we have learned those fundamentals without the straight edges and mechanical pencils? Of course. It’s being done now in schools all around the world.
Much of my complaints are probably more accurately aimed at the media (Cengage) used in this class. It’s is very tedious and not very user friendly. However, (IMO) we are wasting time on some manual topics. Special Journals is the current target of my ire; we spent a week learning about something that Does. Not. Exist. in computerized accounting. I spent 6-ish hours on something nobody gives a shit about anymore because modern (30-40 years old!) software eliminates it’s reason for existing.
All that considered, I do have a 97% going right now. ?
First paragraph: substitute “year” for “semester”.
I appreciate that my
firstsecond year in film school we had to do it the old fashioned way and actually cut and splice film, gave me an understanding of the fundamentals and something to complain about to the kids these days.And, if you did it on really old equipment, you do, indeed, have something to complain about to the kids these days.
Hand cranked movie-ola, so yes old school. Get off my lawn! Also, sent you something.
Out-f’ing-standing
And thirdly; that’s two weeks in a row I’m buying a book you recommend. Are you getting a cut? It likely adds up to
manysomea couple cents.Believe it or not (((I))) don’t.
Winston’s Mom has sent me a bunch of pics too. I just can’t share them here.
Stretch early, stretch often. Especially the older you get. Warm up, stretch, work out and then stretch even more after.
Winston’s mom is familiar with sticky wages and market elasticity.
Not to mention “make it up in volume!”
By the liter.
“What do you call Winston’s Mom with a runny nose? FULL!”
/be here all week
I’ve given up losing the 2-3 lbs that I was trying to eliminate. Since I re-started my exercise routine I just call those extra couple lbs muscle, since muscle is heavier. Solved the problem.
I don’t do any stretching, hop on the tread mill, 1 hour at 4 MPH. Do a few upper body/arms exercise with free weights or a machine, call it a day. I’d like to loose a couple inches in the middle but that’s not gonna happen either, looks like. Knees and back aren’t ready for squats any more. I have some tunes on the box, I occasionally go into a disassociative mode where I don’t hear the music, don’t realize I’m walking and my mind is just drifting through old memories/ meaningless thoughts, then come back to reality 5-10 minutes later.
Can’t wait for the snow to disappear and get outside more.
Most of the snow melted here today, but it’s supposed to be back later. I’m really looking forward to this riding season now.
The up-side of me having to lay under Jugsy’s POS Envoy today and cuss at everyone and everything?
It was a really awesome day for the 3rd week of February. In Ohio. Sunny, nearly 50º
I miss snow. No doubt we’re due for at least one Nor’easter but damn, what a disappointing winter.
As I’d have to shovel and deal with screwed up trains getting into Manhattan – I’ve got no complaints.
My train is underground and I don’t have to shovel 🙂
Do I even need to…..oh, never mind
Heard that. Stopped doing heavy squats a decade ago and all my knee pain went away. Yes, I was doing them correctly. I run stairs and cycle a lot. Good nuff.
OT- This is awesome.
The Datasaurus
It is awesome.
I’m just so tired: thirty years of understanding the numbers, explaining them carefully, and then watching management do the wrong thing anyway.
I did planning and budgeting earlier in my career and hated the process.
I’d deal with operating units that wanted to to do the right thing and give proper estimates that senior management wouldn’t accept and the other side of that was operating units that gave estimates that they had no hope in hell in achieving.
right in the feels.
I go now, to send My Loved one across the River Styx, i Tire,
Peace,
xx + oo
All the best Yusef.
+ ❤️ tambien
Hesperus, you bring back again
What the dawn light scatters,
Bringing the sheep: bringing the kid:
Bringing the little child back to its mother.
(Hesperus is the greek divinity of sleep)
( not that i’m a Sappho fan IYKWIM, but I do like her verse.)
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again. Here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chamber maids. Oh, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last.
Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
TALL MOTHERFUCKIN CANS!
I am glad they were able to translate that last line accurately.
It was some of his more obscure writings. I think the original text was:
“Talleth Canneth! MotherFuxer⌠”
*nods knowingly*
/Biggus Dickus
+2 Incontentia Buttocks
Gluteus Maximus (Rome’s greatest undercover agent)
Why did the Greeks constantly intermingle sleep, death, seasonal changes?? Kids must have been terrified to go to bed back then!!
There’s your answer.
Hypnos was the God of sleep, Hesperus was the evening star (Venus in the evening), one of the two sons of Eos the dawn goddess (the other son, who I belive was Phosphorus or similar was the morning star Venus in the morning)
*Hug*
#nohomo
/what Mike said.
#FullHOMO
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
May Wendy’s memory be a blessing. Love ya, Bob.
I lost 8lbs in the past month.
Only problem being I want trying to lose weight.
wasn’t trying to type gud either
It might be EPI, ask your doctor, Abbvie may be able to help. *PAID FOR BY BIG PHARMA*
Lol
Stretching is vaginas in childbirth! Not men!
I submitted a new cartoon, so that might be coming sometime.
I can’t wait to see the credits.
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I don’t know how people with big Patreon accounts keep it all straight. You and Digby both upped your levels and it narry gave me word. Even now that Diggis has moved up to Donald Level Patreon still lists him as Hat level. It’s some piss poor work on Patreon’s side.
It is rather surprising that it doesn’t notify you of such things. I got an automated “thank you” when I upped, why the hell wouldn’t they tell the recipient about it? Weird.
Exactly. I looked at Digby’s history today, and it had listed that he upgraded from Hat to Donald level, but he was still categorized as Hat level. There was no option for me to change that either.
My credits go by the info Patreon gives me. I was never notified of either change, and looking at my Patron list on the site I can’t even break it down by level. The only time It gives me level info is on the benefits page, but unless I dive into that it only gives me numbers and not names, or if I check a certain Patron’s history. It’s terrible, I don’t know how anyone can accurately use it with large groups.
It’s all love.
How the hell is Bernie so dumb to go to Florida and praise the Castro regime? Is he that retarded?
He’s the most principled of them all. Admirable…I guess?
…and retarded.
¡Espero que sí!
Figures they weren’t voting in the Dem primary anyway?
Not an unreasonable assumption.
Received high turnout of the brown people in Neeevada and since all people of a hue vote the same I am thinking he thought praising brown leaders would get his nomination
He also repeated the literacy rate myth than no one with a brain thinks is real anyway.
GlibFit.
http://archive.li/lF88m
There is a disturbance in the Matrix.
#3 will rip your cod off with her cunte.
#12 has a great hasenpfeffer recipe.
Is that boiled bunny? because I agree.
Close enough:
Did narcotics descend from her scrumptious behind?
This is unprecedented.
Twice.
This is what happens when you don’t click the links.
*Nelson laugh*
My overall glibfit is working out OK. I am not seriously committing to a marathon deal due to health issues, but I am steadily losing weight slowly with dietary changes that, in time, allow for better mobility and more calorie burning.
It’s a bit up and down, like the stock market, so I am not making too much of a drop or a rise. but the overall trend is good.
My mystery problem is widely variable fluid retention! I haven’t figured out a pattern there. Some days my feet and legs are like plump sausages, and other days they’re human, even feminine. Gotta understand that. Due to the fluid craziness, I don’t obsess on the scale reading. I can fluctuate 6 lbs day to day just based on fluid.
I–
Nope; not gonna do it…I’m gonna earn my title.
Delta forgot to load my bag into the plane even though they had 3 extra hours to do it. just a small oversight.
I assume it’s your fault for not paying the extra “please give a shit” fee. Tight ass.
I should have also paid the extra fee for getting myself here on time too.
http://archive.li/jcNDk/2b5bf4f591de8ce12d9adc0a1161f57cd14ef68f.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/tV8OC/2bc4e072a9c092e937833e84f7baa915488834a3.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/tDpKg/79fbf8c8c0eb7deadb708ced0359cf653bff6551.jpg
NSFW.
As much victim cred as gays and trans get these days, I’d wager being a celibate adult is more frowned upon socially. Certainly something one has to hide from friends, family and potential love interests.
There are girls who wouldn’t care, and I know why you’d wanna hide it from friends but not from family.
If a relationship is something you want, you just have to resolve to get it.
Yeah, a decade ago telling woman you wouldn’t have sex with them unless you were in a relationship was a deal breaker, the world hasn’t seemed to come around to excepting that yet. You don’t get why you’d hide that from family? They’re even worse than friends, and sharing details like that with family is gosh. No one else in my Catholic family seems to have taken the teachings as serious as I have. I never thought I’d have to forgive my own mother for living in sin, I was naieve.
Teachings.
🙂
Let’s get CPRM a woman!
Stossell had a great guest for this one. I’m going to look her up and read more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNEyUsDprPY
She is not a bigot but she is a copsucker. This song is for her protesters.
https://youtu.be/hlk7o5T56iw
Yeah, she does seem biased to the blue.
Crazy notion: case by case!! Facts! Evidence!
You may want to read her sane critics. They have pretty well picked apart her claims about stop and frisk. She is the only scholar at the Manhattan Institute I dismiss out of hand.
I knew who she was before ever clicking the link.
Body Count doesn’t identify as female. Their preferred pronouns are motherfucker/TalkShitGetShot.
Not Body Count… No, I thought that one would be RAtM, or, something else.
PSA: Chocolate is not a good chaser for garlic bread.
Oof, no. Like orange juice after brushing your teeth
Yeah. Not nauseating, just … blurgh.
Once you go Dark you never…eat bark?
Ehh…not really.
I see you met my wife.
If she tells you she’s going for a nosh….
That explains why I can’t find chocolate-garlic Naan.
I’m sure some virtuoso chef could make it work, but damned if I know how.
No. Just no.
I think that’s more to do with that chocolate is Merican while Naan is Commie Indian, and garlic is Colonial.
Fellow Glibfitsters, I could use some ideas for a more filling low-carb breakfast than the Greek yogurt cups I’ve been having and/or I need a good low-carb between-meal snack to tide me over until lunch. I don’t eat breakfast until I get to work, so I can’t really prepare anything that needs more than a microwave or a toaster. I’ve been getting those Planters “Nut-rition” packets for a snack, but those are right out this week and I’m not sure they’re the best choice anyway. Most of all, I’m surrounded by co-workers who seem obsessed with having carry-ins and cake for any occasion, so I need something handy to help me resist carb temptation.
I persist in my Tues/Thurs exercise class, and it’s getting a little easier but I still have the same frustration – if I can’t do the resistance & RPM combos the instructor is recommending for the twenty-something gym rats, what IS the right combo for me? It’s as if there’s nothing between Millenial marathoners and Silver Sneakers. Worst of all, I’m not losing weight, nor do I seem to be losing the slightly zaftig bits I’m trying to tone up. I only want to lose 10-12 pounds, and I KNOW I can do it because I did it just a year ago. It’s enough to discourage a chick.
Hard-boiled eggs are your friend.
Hmmm…I could do that. I like eggs. Have they had their conviction overturned for supposedly causing high cholesterol? (Mine was borderline high last check-up.)
Yes. Complete bullshit. Eat all the eggs you want.
50 of them in an hour, no less.
She’d be the coolest, if she can pull that off.
And you can lust after her as she washes your car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXl6q6Xapog
The funny thing about that scene is that it was done on two different days, and when it was time for George Kennedy and friends to do their lusting, it was a particularly cold morning, so they had a much older woman wearing a heavy overcoat washing the car.
Talk about acting.
Nah, bruh. Cholesterol has nothing to do with diet.
Why does it need to be low carb? And how low is low?
You may want to consider some protein powder in your liquid of choice.
I’m no expert on spin class but in general you want to get your heart rate up. There is some combination of RPMs and resistance that will do that for you. Screw what your instructor said. Listen to your body. And be honest with yourself. Are really giving it your all or are moping through the class?
Low carb seemed to work for me when I lost weight last year, so that’s why I’m trying to stick with that. I’ll look into the protein powder.
I do try to listen to my body while on the bike. Usually my legs are screaming louder than my heart. And they continue to complain for the next day or so. Whiners!
I think that may be part of your problem. You may not be getting your heart rate up.
If low carb works for you then go with it. In general, having a significant amount of protein will sate you. That should help you to pass on the everyday birthday cake.
Birthday cake is disgusting as are most confections. The real danger is beer and potatoes.
::crosses ‘bakery’ off list of potential CPRM business ventures::
I’m not above selling MAGA prime cookies, I just won’t eat them. Something something high on you’re own supply…
Yeah, but–
I guess, “more for me”?
Oh, right–Glibfit post.
/sorry, Chafed
My problem with Mexican an Indian foods isn’t about flavor, but giving you 3 small pieces of meat and a plate full of tasteless rice. Meat is good yo.
If/when you head this way, I’ll show you a meal that might change your mind.
tasteless rice
I recognize the words but not in that order.
You’re right, Gustave, it’s redundant to say ‘tasteless rice’. rice is by definition lacking in flavor.
It’s the fat that sates you, the protein that builds muscle.
Thanks, folks! I’m off to bed.
Too much protein on low carb can be counterproductive. Eat more healthy fats.
I can almost guarantee your yogurt has too much sugar. It’s pretty hard to find yogurt that matches a low carb diet. The closest I found is Siggis.
https://siggis.com/product/raspberry-apple-no-sugar-added
It still has 4g.
It’s this stuff. 2g.
Why, when I drink too much, do I get possessed with the spirit of an old Jewish woman??
“I can’t even with this one”, hands raised, palms out , as I walked away from my cat.
Oy vey.
Oh…”cat”. Was sort of expecting that to go differently at the start.
Oh, you!!
🙂
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I have to ask (no I don’t…), did the cat even care?
Yeah, she cared. She would have been annoyed if she hadn’t seen me acknowledge that she had exasperated me.
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Old Jewish woman talks to cats—film at 11.
My rhyming compulsion drives me to post, “The Jew and the Mew”.
I knew it! You’re a fuckin Pokemon player. #MewToo (I don’t know what any of that means, but it’s a thing)
“Were”, not “are”. I was Pokemon when long, long ago.
I mean…uh…pffft! Bruh, even little kids know a cat goes ‘mew’!
“Pokemon when it was new; long, long ago”
Learned a valuable lesson today. If you ever build a home in a new neighborhood make sure municipal infrastructure is complete before building. My buddy moved in to a house a few months ago. Apparently he received a bill from the city for 16k for a new road, trail, electrical and sewer line they are putting in near his house. It’s an approximately 9 million dollar project the city is billing his neighborhood for. It’s unclear if the developer requested this road or the city decided it was needed.
Where’s that?
Yeah, our small town didn’t decide to extend sewer to where my parents decided to build the house until after they bought the land, so then there was a several thousand dollar assessment against the land they bought to extend sewer and water that wasn’t there when they decided to buy the land. Government, fucking each other together.
He may want to talk with a real estate lawyer. It’s possible this is something the developer should have paid and/or is liable for. It also may be your buddy’s problem. For that kind of money I’d pay for a consultation to find out.
If it’s a $9 mil project, then there’s ZERO chance the developers didn’t know anything about it. Three months in gov’t time is wayyyyyy too short for this not to have been planned, permitted and financed well ahead of time.
Ain’t that the troof!
I think that should’ve been in the disclosures of purchase if that was a known charge coming against the property. As Chafed says, for that kind of money, he should make sure it’s really his problem or if he has a remedy against the developer.
100%.
Have your buddy grab some neighbors and pool some money for a good lawyer who has gone up against municipalities. Worst case they’re each out $200 plus the $9k, best case they eventually get their money back and then some.
I’m not sure what state in LJW lives in, but going through the city’s/town’s/whatever’s meeting minutes is the best place to start and give that to the lawyer to save them from charging for the legwork on it. Plus, the minutes will give them an idea of the timeframe of the city’s plans. Hell, the environmental reviews and comment periods should be at least 6 months old and the developers would have been notified as affected property owners.
Ok. DOCUMENTARY NOW!…wait no, I’ll watch a documentary now and leave the glibbing in Sir Digby’s hands.
Oooh….could be problematic, there.
Bah–I got Purell. It’ll be fine.
I’m trying to feel something, but I’m just empty……………..
Embrace the numbness whenever it comes. It’ll protect you.
Yeah, what Mojeaux (and hayeks) said is true; it’s still very recent, and numbness is something of a safeguard for you.
Plus, you had lots of years to be filled with feelings from your time with Wendy. You’re not “off” at this point, since even this will take some time to go through.
It’s beginning to sink in, my entire adult life was Wendy and I, Bob the Builder, and Wendy the helper,
where do i go now? Lucky Woman got out first…..
Let it out and let it in.
It’s ok to fall apart a little.
Just remember that everybody hurts.
I can’t sleep, i’m a wreck right now,i don’t want to do this, but I must,
FUUUUUUUCCK!!!
i really don’t want to do this…
Make a cup of tea and watch shoe shining videos on YouTube.
Holy shit…it’s like fists wit ya toes
I am just impressed all to hell with your recommendation, GL!
I’m awake if you want to talk. Ask TPTB for the number.
Speaking of:
Repost:
C. Spittoon, RUOK?
are you 619? if so i have your number, will call
You didn’t answer…..
858, love.
This will be an event if my phone rings this late. Don’t worry, no neighbors will be disturbed.
Starts with For Fife Oh?
try sending it to Rlozonne@Gmail.com,
i already doxxed myself,
OTOH, I am alone in this, as it should be, 2 hours up, 2 hours down, time to think, i have to get through this myself, or I’ll fall off the bad cliff,
so i’ll smile and hug my kids……
Smile in the face of, well, everything.
And NO Kathy Mattea, Rush!
No knock knock
Who’s there?
I (don’t) see what you did there….
Hmm. Try this one instead.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/high-income-taxpayers-now-confronted-home-irs-agents
On top of that, there are people out there (the ‘Jenny Bueller‘ types) who would rather see prison time for tax issues, than they would for actual crimes.
An extra quote in your link?
How about a phone number or website to validate those credentials?
“Revenue officer visits shouldn’t be confused with scams”
Why not?
*shudder*
“This is Luca Brasi; he’s a Revenue Officer for the Corleones”
Nice bank account you’ve got there….
Get to scare the fuck out of those rich assholes, watch them fork over there cash at gun point and then lecture them on your moral superiority.
Feel the Bern.
Hey, Yusef! I have a standing AT&T conference call number.
If you guys are amenable, I will share the calling code and we can chat as a group.
Just not sure how to share it semi-securely. I am the only one with the “host “ code but I’d have to share the “access” code. Hayeksplosives @ ProtonMail standing by for instruction…
OK, hang tight,
My mail won’t play, and I’mnot rally in the mood to play with it,
Alright here’s the deal:
Dial 866 2281482
Then enter access 4481917.
“See” you there.
Conference call is now done. Had 2 participants—possibly a good venue for a future Virtual Glibs meet up!!
☎️?
Pardon me–I just had a kindergarten moment. 😉
Ah well, I’ll let you know whats happens Tomorrow,
Welsh dragon shadow box I just whipped hot out of an ancient woodcut from my old family name—“Gethins” , Welsh for “dark”.
Forgot the link:
https://imgur.com/a/SCQBQHd
Nice! Very intricate.
Thanks! Of course the woodcut is “reversed” in direction.
The wood cuts were individually applied to the front matter of printings from Guttenburg-style presses, even into the 19th century.
The one I have is affixed to its (many times replaced) backing block by nails that are square and plainly hand made.
I love it. God Bless the Black Prince!
Tempted to make a black Prince joke, but thought better of it.
Eh, I’m from Minneapolis. Bring it.
Oh, it was a lame, “Yeah, he was a fantastic guitarist!” joke.
But, The Black Prince (and my audience) merits better.
Besides, Henry V is my secret royal weakness.
Oh, you!
::surreptitiously jots down notes::
I have a small Skype in my eye.
Ugh that was the worst typo evah!
Oh, you aren’t at John-level, by any means.
You aren’t even at Digby-level typos.
Are you a lil slow on the uptake?
Maybe…
Aww, dammit….yep–slow.
Shhh! Everyone else will want one.
/Vaudeville
The Mote in God’s Eye was a fine piece of writing.
That was the one with the prime numbers and image creation that was mathematically universal, wasn’t it?
I can’t find anything on those two points associated with the story.
Hmm. Maybe ringworld or something. I’ll dig if I still care in the morning.
Good night.
Good morning. Anyone have a preference for a cell-phone company? Currently have Verizon, and I love it, but circumstances will likely force a change. I need unlimited data; I stream from my Plex server and watch DerpTube videos more than anything else.
Verizon here–didn’t much care for T-Mo, and, especially not Sprint.
It’s possible they’ve upped their game, but, it all seems like a stool-leg contest: good phones, good service, cost. You can pick two.
You probably know which two I think are Verizon’s.
If I’m forced back to NOLA, it looks like AT&T is the fastest ISP available (I’ll sorely miss NYC Verizon FiOS), and they seem to have an unlimited data plan but I’ve never had any interaction with them at all and have no idea how their service is. I kinda, sorta miss the Bell System. My step-dad, his father, and 3 of his brothers all worked for Southern Bell. Several of my toolboxes and socket sets are genuine 1950s – 1970s Southern Bell branded products.
Yeah, my dad worked for Ma Bell (New York Telephone) for 25+ years until the breakup, and claimed it was a bad thing.
But think back to the days of having to wait until 5:00 PM for long distance rates to go down, or having to rent a phone instead of buying whatever phone you liked.
Of course. But, like some folk here who love them some vacuum tube audio action, I have soft spot for electro-mechanical POTS.
Dammit, now you’ve reminded me of the NY Telephone jingle, and the obvious riff on it we made as children. “We’re all disconnected…“
Of course, I was only speaking in terms of cellular service. Used to have FIOS back at the last place I lived (prior to 2012), but, have learned they spun it off to some other company, and the reports of service are really poor.
Had ATT for a few years at current house, but ditched them for another local provider, who is fair to good (Grande). Got 1 gig cable service (not fiber, yet).
/have aunt who retired from SW Bell–what a sweet gig that must have been, considering the retirement.
Sigh… I REALLY should have my grandfather’s advice. He decided that being a cotton-picking sharecropper in GA wasn’t all that great, so he joined the Army Air Corps as a mechanic in 1940, left the USAF as a Loadmaster in 1960. Went to work at the water plant for Dade County back when they counted FedGov time towards city retirement.
I like how this implies you’re a sharecropper
I have Verizon, but I use so little data it’s not funny.
I’m actually thinking of ditching the smart phone entirely.
I could probably do that. But my current phone shows no sign of failing. (it’s only six years old anyway)
It’s a handy device but intrusive. Every call is tagged. I knew there was a reason that I remained a Luddite lo these many years.
Please explain what you mean by this.
It means that I can’t creep on that cute girl from reception without my # being displayed. Gawd! Do you even perve?
https://6abc.com/vehicle-crashes-into-planet-fitness-in-south-philadelphia/5962433/
Looking at how the SUV is positioned, I’m hard pressed to see how this happened.
I was thinking fish-tailed into the business, but, I can’t even see any tire tracks. Can’t see how she’d back in, but…that storefront just looks a bit weird.
I could see it going straight in forward at a bit of a cross angle, left to right from the outside, when the front end hit equipment or whatever stopped it the ass ends momentum spun it around.
I don’t see any pictures. I’m going to assume it’s wedged vertically between floor and ceiling, with the rear bumper in the rafters.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/02/24/driver-taken-to-hospital-after-suv-crashes-into-planet-fitness-gym-in-south-philadelphia/
See that pic?
The SUV is parked parallel to the street 20 feet (ish) out front.
If I had to guess, judging by the damage visible, it was moving in reverse in a bit of a spin, striking the storefront with its backend, and skidding to a stop parallel to the road.
Oh for fuck sake, those asshole at microsoft changed the interface in outlook again for no good reason.
They need to start laying off developers so none of them have the spare time to make changes for the sake of change and focus on security flaws.
And fiure the managers who approve interface changes.
*I’m at work, and the most recent patches got rolled out.
I haven’t even gotten settled in, since that involves checking my email.
And since you missed a couple of days, that probably means a couple of hours to get caught up reading your messages, yes?
Well, there’s 3,000 emails I know I don’t have to look at because they have a limited shelf life (automated alerts)
And it looks like the office was asleep on friday, so not a whole lot of activity.
Speaking of email, I don’t suppose you’d happen to have some sort of little…app…that one could send to co-workers who insist on always using “Reply All”? An app that would, say, cause their monitor to explode?
Asking for a friend.
Not that I can think of. But why do you want to punish innocent computer hardware instead of the coworker?
Fair enough.
I believe there’s a special place in Hell for such coworkers, but that’s not soon enough to suit me.
Those reply-all fiascos stopped around here when the rights to post to large mailing lists got restricted to specific individuals. All_agency_users isn’t really something most people need to send messages to anyway.
At my office (for a credit union with fewer than 100 employees) the typical scenario is: Anti-Fraud Goddess sends out an e-mail saying, “Hey, everybody! X just protected one of our members from being defrauded by sensing something wasn’t right and asking the member questions.” (Followed by specific details – but not with identifying data.) That message I don’t mind at all. What drives me crazy is the inevitable stream of Reply Alls along the lines of “Way to go, X!” “Good job, X!” etc. etc. etc.
“Please stop replying-all to these messages”
/sent as a reply-all
Oh, and nice move, X.
Yeah, the requests NOT to use “Reply All” have been done – even by the CEO, I believe. Maybe the trouble is that everyone knows he’s Mr. Nice Guy.
Now, maybe if MY boss, the CFO and Designated Bad Cop, sent it…
*trying not to scream at “support” techs who didn’t even read the ticket*
I’m convinced they just have the field for describing your problem for funsies. no one reads it. ..
“Provide the tools version” – it’s in the ticket
“Provide the application and version” – it’s in the ticket
“Provide the steps to recreate the issue” – it’s in the ticket.
“what error message did you receive?”
I already attached a screen shot.
All three of my examples were from this same ticket.
For one I couldn’t agree more.
has any interface change in the last 10 years actually improved productivity for any users?
Just checking in and then checking out. Full of dread for the last few days but this too shall pass. Bob, I’m so sorry that you are going through this. It seems relentless but it isn’t. IoBot, same. CS can do it! Best wishes to all the Glibs and I’m sorry if I left out any that are hurting. We care. A lot.
Hope you have a good week, Fes. In case of emergency, pet your cat.
Judging by the card I drew in Not Adahn’s conjuring it does not bode well.
Thank you. And ditto (I was never really a Rush fan; my AM tastes ran to G. Gordon Liddy).
I have never actually listened to AM radio since I was a shaver. It’s Canada and we didn’t have “talk radio” unless you wanted farm prices.
Recap of a conversation I had last night:
Person: Hey, I know you’ve said several times recently that you don’t care about this subject matter but I want to talk about it anyway.
Me: ….
Person: *goes on fifteen minute rant about subject, looks expectantly for me to engage in conversation*
Me: …
Person: What’s your problem?
Me: …
Person: You’re an asshole.
Me: ….
So, you’re the main character in a JRPG?
Me: …
No, he just had a telephone conversation with my late Mother.
I would have appreciated it if the conversation would have started a bit more honestly.
Person: I want to get in a verbal fight with you.
Me: …goddammit…
I mean, if it’s your wife, okay. otherwise, why do they think you have to listen to them?
Not married, so your guess is as good as mine.