Temperatures slowly rising in inland SoCal. Trees and bushes are getting ready to bloom. Daylight Saving Time is about to screw us all up for a week or so. Nephilium is trying size smaller bike shorts. MikeS is wondering why it’s no longer pitch black 18 hours a day. It must be spring.
I’m glad mornings are getting warmer. It’s definitely easier to get out of bed and exercise when it’s over 40 degrees.
So what’s everybody going to do with longer days and warmer temps? This is your opportunity to get back to it. I’m going to do more conditioning. Three mornings a week are for the gym. Two others are for AthleanX conditioning workouts. It’s definitely enough to make me feel like I’ve done all need to do. But hot damn if David Goggins hasn’t gotten into my head. I think he’s right that have so much more in our tank if we just tap into it.
I’ve done some extra conditioning, sporadically, over the last two weeks. I’m pretty sure the “extra” daylight will make it easier to get home from work and do another session.
No one was impressed with the photos I posted of Neph’s spin instructor a couple of weeks ago. You people confuse me. Here’s your reason to go running.
For those of you who need some music to get going, here you go. The second one takes a moment to get going. Use that for your warm up.
Here’s some motivation for the rest of you degenerates. Glibbroads you get this.
I’m loving the weather today. Kitteh sitting on my lap on the back patio. Birds are very chatty today.
My first spring workout? Loading the treadmill into the shipping container. Next? Spreading the mulch piled up on my driveway. Im also going to walk outdoors during lunch break, which really helps with mental energy.
Lots of changes coming to the trashcan in the next few months, so I plan to carve out some regular time to move. Lunch break, evenings, maybe even mornings if I can find a way to get the kiddo involved.
https://twitter.com/thecensoredrock/status/1236641517323911171?s=21
*Schadenfreude overload alert*
Lol
My dog did that once into our sliding glass patio door at full gallop. Poor girl.
*reads GlibFit article whilst self-medicating with Bit O Honey*
I haven’t had bit-o-honey for years if not decades. Used to love that as a kid. I’m sure I still would:)
I haven’t had one since I was a lot younger and it pulled a filling out, causing me excruciating pain for three days until I could get to the dentist.
Fuck a bit-o-honey.
Don’t be so vague. Tell us how you really feel.
Brad Pitt has never done it for me. He’s too into the scruffy look. He looks like he smells bad.
https://www.inquisitr.com/4307067/is-brad-pitts-body-odor-becoming-a-problem-for-friends-helping-him-through-angelina-jolie-divorce/
Matthew McConaheeeeeyyyyyyyyy
He doesn’t do it for me either because I don’t roll that way. He did look pretty good in Troy, no homo.
JB, Troy was pretty much full on homo.
Lol, I’m sure you’re probably right. I don’t really remember any of it except when Achilles does the dagger to the neck, then does the line “that is why no one will remember your name” to the kid.
He had a leg double in Troy because his legs are toothpicks.
Jeez. Tough crowd. Who does work for you Tulip?
The thread is dead, but I’ll post this anyways.
r/WorkoutGoneWild is a NSFW subreddit where fit men and fit women posts racy pictures.
I like what some of the women post there. I suspect some of the ladies and gay men will like what men post there, but since I’m a clueless straight guy, take that advice with a grain of salt.
It’s not dead, just resting. Thanks DEG.
Just put peas in the ground. It’s about the time of the year to prep the beds for the coming growing season. Also time to get the dog out training.
Crop duster plane has been buzzing around all day. He shows up every spring like clockwork. Spring is here.
It must be spring; the snow is heavier than it used to be.
Nah, you’re just older.
If we don’t get a nor’easter in the next two weeks that dumps a couple feet of snow, I’ll be very surprised.
Yeah, March often has surprises in store. I’m not even thinking spring until mid-April.
Just got back from my first outdoor ride of the year. Just a quick 5 miles out, stop for a bite to eat at a local brewery, and 5 miles back. It was a bit chilly when the wind was blowing, but I wasn’t going to pass up a 50+ degree day before a week of travel for work puts me back a couple weeks on my goal. Overall, down over 40 pounds, down from 32% body fat to 22% body fat, and based on the short ride today, up about 1-2 average MPH on the bike (from my last ride of 2019 to my first ride of 2020).
Looks like after the next three spin classes, I get to suspend my membership and ride outdoors again.
Keep it up Neph. Pretty soon we won’t recognize you.
I’m almost at the point of shifting into maintenance mode instead of weight loss mode. It’ll be nice to get start stepping up the calorie intake during the week. The goal is about 6 pounds away, but the next two weeks will be pushing that back (work travel always is bad, no matter how much I intend to use the hotel gym).
I feel you. It won’t be perfect but something is better than nothing.
the problem with watching sports live is you can’t skip the bullshit like anthems and shit.
Why do you hate America?
Because of anthems and shit?
I am trying to watch two games at once but it is distracting
Nice out today. Just got back from a walk. Wife is going to try and make some keto pasta.
I have done spaghetti squash a few times – not quite the same, but much healthier than the real thing.
Yeah we’ve done that before as well. I like that ok. This one is egg yolks, park, mizz, and cream cheese and some herbs. Rolled flat and baked. I guess we’ll find out:)
Parmesan and Mozzarella, not park, mizz. Stupid phone.
Sounds like a lot of effort.
Zucchini noodles are more my speed.
#lazycook
Ive not been horribly disappointed with them.
Im about to slap some cheap steaks on the grill, seared scallops, and asparagus.
Mac & cheese for Jugsy
Today was rainy round these parts but warm. then again there was no winter this year. hope it don’t come in february. My magnolia bloomed though…
You know February is over don’t you? Or does Romania use a different calendar?
The undead don’t care about mere months.
Checks out.
i mean april
Common mistake.
More GlibFit.
http://archive.li/HZZQk
I’m not a big fan of the picture of the girl taking a selfie shots.
If she’s taking the photo then she doesn’t have a boyfriend to do it for her.
I mean the ones where her boyfriend is taking a picture of her taking a selfie.
Just about all of them.
GlibFit approved! ?
There was a beautiful woman with a very body on a machine in front of me at the gym earlier today, and I almost fell off the treadmill when she pulled her top off and stripped down to a sports bra.
6 and 19.
16 looks like she has more testosterone than I do.
Once spring arrives up here, I’m going to
try toget back on my bicycle and get riding again. And we’ve got a bunch of yard clean-up we’ve been putting off that we really need to get on this year, so there will be a good amount of old-fashioned manual labor to burn some calories.Also, good musical selections ??
Get back on the bike. I’m sure there’s a brewery in riding distance (for a given value of riding distance). I’ve got two ~40 mile rides planned out for when the weather gets up into the 60’s consistently.
My closest brewery is 38 miles one way. It’s not currently within my realistic riding distance, but maybe by this fall.
The furthest ones (there’s two a couple blocks away from each other) I regularly (at least several times a year) ride to is ~31 miles away from where I live. Most of the ride is right along the lake, and has some great scenery. Of course, I’ve got several breweries to stop at along the way if I want. 🙂
Mine is all very flat country roads. Not much to look at. On the plus side, you can see and hear a car coming for miles.
And one rarely has to worry about FedEx trucks.
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Another song that gets after it after some warm up.
Another, didn’t know there was a video, a trippy, stoner, freak video.
? I have never seen the video either and ya that is some trippy, stoner freak stuff.
Finished The Prisoner. There were some overall wonderful episodes of High Weirdness but at least half of the episodes being removed would have improved it.
It may have had a different interpretation when it was created, but in 2020 there is really only one way of viewing it, though that conclusion really only solidified in the last couple of episodes. When the prisoner puled greenbacks out of his London safe, I thought that maybe it was some sort of BBC prohibition against showing money. But when the guards were armed with a mixture of Thompsons and Maxims, there were too many impossibilities.
Which version of the program did you watch?
The one on Amazon Prime.
Ah, the good one 😉
The exterior shots of The Village were mostly filmed in the village of Portmeirion, Wales. I spent part of two wonderful vacations there. The majority of the buildings are hotel suites. It’s a strange and wonderful place, highly recommended.
Shortest election season ever.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-embraces-muddled-biden-endorsement-as-concerns-mount-over-former-vps-competence
* sips covfefe *
I’d planned on getting in shape over the winter. I hooked my road bike up to a stationary trainer and that was workng well. The software with the stats and the fake road is enough to keep my interest – not just staring at the clock waiting until I can make the pain stop. Then the trainer has problems. The mfgr fixed it but it took a bit. Then my heart went all AFIB again. It had been behaving itself for a few years. Change in meds and thngs seem OK again and I’m about to get back on the bike and a couple of day ago what I suspect was food poisoning strikes. Middle of the night a charge goes off in my gut and the GI track is explosivley emptied in both directions. Left me wrung out for a couple of days. Suspect the buck-fifty hot dog from COSTCO – only thing I ate that my wife didn’t.
Anyway, back on the bike/trainer today for an easy ride.
Then time to take the studded snow tires off the mountain bike and get some real riding in when the mud firms up. Trail riding is fun when things are all frozen less so as they thaw.
Those are some tough breaks Mikey. Keep at it as you are able.
I’ve got a trainer, I just hate riding on it. It’s so tedious compared to riding outside. I’ve heard the smart trainers make things better, but they get spendy. That’s why I signed up for the spin classes, I get data from the one I signed up with, and there’s goals and some decent scenery.
I’ve got a semi-smart one – it outputs power, speed and cadence. No feedback for grade. It wasn’t too spendy. I’ve used it with Rouvy and Zwift and holding the defined intervals and watching the road and other riders respond to my effort is enough to keep me at it. No subsitute for the road or trail certainly. Won’t be using it when sprng is really here.
Yeah, I’ve just got a dumb trainer and a stationary bike. One of my friends uses one of the semi-smart trainers during the off season, I can’t convince myself to pick one up, knowing how much I dislike using the trainer.
So what’s everybody going to do with longer days and warmer temps?
Die from Corona virus. Duuhh.
My bad.
In seriousness, my rower parts should be here next week so I plan on rowing in the AM’s rather than drinking coffee with cream and sugar and chain smoking. Well less coffee and smoking. I am also trying to train myself to like black coffee again. Rowing in the AM will make me get up earlier and I get up at 0430 now so that will be a struggle until I get used to the time change. I also bought Goggins book but have not cracked it yet. I find it weird as I have gotten older I don’t care. 10-15-20 years ago I cared. I am lacking inspiration. Hopefully he has it.
“I am also trying to train myself to like black coffee again.”
jfc
It’s where it’s at.
FWIW I’m 55. Goggins lit a fire for me.
God you are old. I don’t turn 55 until June.
God, you’re young. I turn 69 in June.
Old age — it ain’t as easy as it looks.
I mostly joke about it, but I doubt I will make it to 69.
” I am lacking inspiration.”
Not to be cliche but if you make the effort you will get some more lead in the ol’ pencil, and what is more inspiring than that?
The pencil works fine.
I’ve noticed young women paying more attention to me, even when I’m not in cycling gear.
Eight Female Game Devs Reflect On Breaking Into the Industry, Overcoming “Negative Stereotypes”
Wouldn’t wouldn’t wouldn’t wouldn’t wouldn’t wouldn’t wouldn’t would
I am not sure what that has to do with my pencil other than maybe requesting my opinion. All are a would after a few beers except maybe #1 which I suspect is a dude.
#2 looks like Job Bon Jovi’s kid….in transition
It’s not my fault the website makes mistakes!!!!
“Ive got lead in my pencil, but nobody to write to”
-my friend Brian the Homo
(RIP)
I got my first walk of the season with the dog (husky mix) today. 40 minutes, so not a lot but better than nothing.
It must have been a good walk because it didn’t lead to an awful link. ?
I’ll be back to hiking with the dog at the state forests around here before the bugs get too bad. Unfortunately the ticks seem to wake up as soon as the temp are above freezing.
Last year I was at the vet’s buying Frontline for my dogs. After giving them all of the dogs weights I said “And give me one more”
“Ok, how much weight?”
“I am about 165”
The vet looked at me in horror. She thought I was serious. I was only half serious.
If I could I. would exterminate every single tick, flea, parasitic worm and mosquito on the planet. And while we are at it Tsetse flies.
I’ve wondered about that. What are the side effects, and are they also happening to dogs?
This provides some answers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXeV5cqb_3Y
“Okay, then just give me the Lymme vaccination.”
Hey everyone, I was reading through the libertarian handbook and for some reason, I can’t find anything on how to handle a deadly pandemic. What am I missing? What is the Libertarian solution here?
What say you, Loosertardians?
Step 1 – stockpile toilet paper
Stockpile ammo and trade it for toilet paper.
I’ve got that covered.
The “other tweets” in that link…nope, the left isn’t hoping for a full-blown pandemic to take down Trump.
There on to Not Adahn.
That tweet demonstrates a high level of knowledge – understands there are no libertarian women.
QUIET YOU! How’d you get out of the kitchen we locked you in?
So is Astrology just for Women?
It’s like that deodorant – absurd enough for a man, but made for a *woman*.
Ah, my old nemesis. He’s the guy who inherited millions of dollars from his family’s furniture company and then made about of Ted talks about how bad rich people are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
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Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France. Hear his argument about why a dramatic increase in minimum wage could grow the middle class, deliver economic prosperity … and prevent a revolution.
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Warning: Stage 5 Derp
Amazing how common that is.
Hey now, luxury socialism is totally not an oxymoron!
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/01/for-a-luxury-leftism
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The problem with limousine liberalism, then, was not the limousines, but the liberals. Radicals should be chic, revolutionaries should drink excellent wine. Anarchist flophouses, abounding in filth and with defective plumbing, present no kind of vision for the future society. Any political movement that wishes to win people over must at least seem like it’s having a good time. The left’s suits must be well-tailored, its pastries must be fattening.
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And yet for some reason, whenever the reds get their hands on power, they send everyone with glasses off to plant rice.
Well, the honesty in that unsigned editorial is refreshing.
At least one lonely person waded into that steaming pile to give a reasonable answer.
*it’s happening!*
ROFL
Hammering the same old talking points without evidence wins every time inside the fart-filled bubble of leftist signaling and snark?
Every man for himself!
Lock his parents up!
Ahem.
Fail.
Interesting read especially from a libertarian standpoint. Who really owns what you buy? You or the company that sold it to you.
Depends on the sales agreement.
I suppose, and in Libertopia a competing manufacturer would disclose their code and take over market share because everybody would buy their tractors because they could fix it without the dealer charging them.
Governor Andrew Cuomo slams CDC and Trump over coronavirus test delays and says New York’s private labs could be processing up to 2,000 kits a day as number of cases in the state jumps to 105
States rights and private industry?
*faps*
Related: there is nothing funnier than seeing someone wearing a mask over their face having to sneeze and not getting the mask off in time.
“…having to sneeze and not getting the mask off in time.”
I’ve done that inside a full face motorcycle helmet. No bueno.
CPAP sneezes are no fun either.
“‘CDC, wake up. Let the states test. Let private labs test.”
What the fuck is he talking about? The CDC is stopping them? Fuck that. Get out and start testing. They dont need to ask permission.
I have no idea, but maybe he wants to send the bill for the testing to the cdc?
*shrug*
It’s probably tied to the emergency FDA approval for the test kits as well.
You can’t just read the test methodology in a journal, buy the reagents, and do it yourself. The horrors!
What the fuck is he talking about. Diagnostic labs have just added Corona virus tests to their menus. I don’t know which private labs operate in NY (or who is smart enough to avoid). But they all have logistics chains from NY. Just send your snot sample to Quest or LabCorp and you find out in 3-4 days. And the major insurance payors are already saying they will cover it.
https://ir.labcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/labcorp-launches-test-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19
Do you ever feel the need to change lyrics, when performing live, which may be problematic in 2020, for example “a fag in a whalebone corset dragging his dick across my cheek”? Or are you happy to preserve the lyric as a product of its time, and respect the original content?
Legend
I agree. And I expect to start hearing this at sporting events again.
Does marinating meat, cracking beers and operating a grill count as exercise?
I’m holding my couch down. I count that.
I’m going to go grill some chorizo shortly and I’ll count that too.
I have to figure out how to go from pretty damned out of shape to some low impact exercise and go from there.
You cant beat swimming for low impact exercise. It is also more fun than a treadmill.
Not a bad plan. The neighborhood pool is about to open for the season, I believe.
It closes?
Walk.
Walking is usually a good start, as is cycling. .
Walking is a good start assuming you don’t have foot or leg issues. And/or boredom issues. I can walk long distances if I have a good reason like exploring somewhere new, visiting a museum, or something along those lines. But if I try walking just to walk, my foot pain gets the better of me pretty quick.
…maybe if I walked more often, this wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
I’ll generally be doing lots of walking when on vacation. I made it a point to walk up to the local bars when watching football games during the season, but I’d much prefer to get on the bike and ride for ~10 miles over walking a mile.
I’ll second the suggestions below about walking.
The doc that did my cortisone shots suggested more walking. Stuart McGill, when he worked with Brian Carrol as documented in “Gift of Injury”, had Carrol start out on 15 minutes of walking three times a day every day for two weeks.
Nick Hanauer? Any relation to the unlimited hydroplane driver?
Yes
5 of the World’s Most Dangerous Chemicals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckSoDW2-wrc
Man, this one is *great*!
Substance N is my favorite – discovered by Nazis, poisonous, highly explosive, and can make concrete to burn,
Ugh, me fail English.
He is nowhere near as funny as he thinkgs he is.
Also, “It so dangerous that even the Nazi’s decide not to use it.” Hyperbole or the modern trend or discarding all nuance and context when discussing anything Nazi?
Fair point. The chemistry is interesting though. New facts cover a multitude of sins.
I made it through Substance N and had to bail. It is a very interesting topic, though. The part about when they spilled some and it burned concrete and the gravel bed beneath the concrete was pretty cool.
Check out the end – the stinkiest chemical ever made! It can make people throw up from a kilometer away.
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Thioacetone has an intensely foul odor. Like many low molecular weight organosulfur compounds, the smell is potent and can be detected even when highly diluted.[7] In 1889, an attempt to distill the chemical in the German city of Freiburg was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea and unconsciousness in an area with a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory due to the smell.[8] British chemists at the Whitehall Soap Works in Leeds noted in an 1890 report that dilution seemed to make the smell worse and described the smell as “fearful”.[9] Thioacetone is considered a dangerous chemical due to its extremely foul odor and ability to render people unconscious, induce vomiting, and be detected over long distances.
In 1967, Esso researchers repeated the experiment of cracking thioacetone, at a laboratory south of Oxford, UK. They reported their experience as follows:
Recently we found ourselves with an odour problem beyond our worst expectations. During early experiments, a stopper jumped from a bottle of residues, and, although replaced at once, resulted in an immediate complaint of nausea and sickness from colleagues working in a building two hundred yards [180 m] away. Two of our chemists who had done no more than investigate the cracking of minute amounts of trithioacetone found themselves the object of hostile stares in a restaurant and suffered the humiliation of having a waitress spray the area around them with a deodorant. The odours defied the expected effects of dilution since workers in the laboratory did not find the odours intolerable … and genuinely denied responsibility since they were working in closed systems. To convince them otherwise, they were dispersed with other observers around the laboratory, at distances up to a quarter of a mile [0.40 km], and one drop of either acetone gem-dithiol or the mother liquors from crude trithioacetone crystallisations were placed on a watch glass in a fume cupboard. The odour was detected downwind in seconds.[7]
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LOL. Wow. That is amazing.
It doesn’t actually cause concrete to burn — that’s a persistent myth.
That incident occured on a concrete surface with decades worth of fuel spills soaked into it. It was the hydrocarbons that were burning.
QUIET, YOU!
This guy has probably one more research on how to handle ClF3 than anyone on this side of the Reich:
http://www.chemicallyspeakingllc.com/home/our-company/our-staff
We have him out often to do pyrophoric materials training for our ERT. He’s got videos of exposing various materials (including meat) to ClF3. It’s bad, but doesn’t actually make sand catch on fire.
I’m assuming he knows multitudes more about chemicals than web design.
He’s old.
Wow… party like it’s 1999.
Where has this channel been my whole life?
Losing fingers to chemistry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjDgXQb4_DU
Featuring a chemist with Doc Brown hair!
I saw a safety training video about hydrogen sulfide. It can render a person unconscious even at low doses. There was a pinhole leak at some chemical plant and a guy walking buy it collapsed. Someone saw, came to help, and also collapsed. That process repeated until there were several unconscious people around the leak.
Many accidents with that bad boy:
https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/AccidentSearch.search?acc_keyword=%22Hydrogen%20Sulfide%22&keyword_list=on
We have him out often to do pyrophoric materials training for our ERT.
So your ERT should make chemicals INERT?
^Promote this man!
One more reason to not like the Sheldon wannabe
I can’t believe Ana did this to me?
I mean, Affleck?
WHY!
Greco-Roman exercise tips:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56956/11-workout-tips-ancient-civilizations
run through sand, climb ropes, lift stones, throw javelins and disci, jump for height and distance
eat more beans and less bread
Isnt that CrossFit?
QUIET, YOU!
What If the Court Saw Other Rights as Generously as Gun Rights?
Anger rising!!!
That article is the intellectual equivalent of George Costanza posing in his underwear.
https://pics.me.me/real-men-have-curves-memegenerator-net-real-men-have-curves-49112683.png
What if drugs fell out of their asses?
I am continuing with my virus preventative measures of tequila, soda and lime. Also shellfish as the shrimp are thawing to become scampi. Cures to everything reside on the bottom of the ocean and in the Agave plant.
50 degrees today, snow came off a couple metal building roofs, fortunately no one underneath. I’m happy to see some mud in the yard, little smiles on deer mouths as they walk through the yard.
Had 2 days off, funeral again yesterday, 3 in Feb, March starting out the same. I’m out of empathy/sympathy. First the relatives, then the friends, now the neighbors are keeling over. Yesterday the funeral lunch was at the local Am Legion, about 200 people. No suits but men with pony tails, beards, blue jeans people, working stiffs. Way more high school dropouts than college degrees. In other words, Trump Country. I’m guessing a MAGA hat would have brought a big round of applause and all the beer a guy could have drank.
This is small town America, where the Bidens/Bernie people don’t even pass through on vacation. I’m guessing there was enough heat being packed into the place that a bad guy wouldn’t have got through the “Hand’s Up” part ’til someone or two would have had him on the floor. Flyover country is different than the East-West coasts and folks are proud to be called a deplorable.
Alas, tomorrow is treadmill time…
Daylight Saving Time is about to screw us all up for a week or so. Nephilium is trying size smaller bike shorts. MikeS is wondering why it’s no longer pitch black 18 hours a day. It must be spring.
Fuck the clock change. Figuratively not literally. Pick one and stick to it year round.
Congrats to Nephilium.
“Pitch black 18 hours a day” reminds me of the last time I was in Amsterdam. It was early October. I had a cold. I had a space cake at The Bulldog. I decided after eating the space cake to go back to my hotel room and read. This was a wise decision. I started nodding off almost as soon as I sat down. I went to bed at about 7:30 PM. I set my alarm for 7 AM. I fell asleep almost right away.
My alarm woke me up. I was groggy and disoriented. My hotel room was dark. Very dark. I thought, “It’s 7 AM, what the hell?” I look outside. Dark. Street lamps provided light. I look at the clock and my phone. It’s 7 AM. I run a Google search on the sunrise time in Amsterdam for that date. The Sun rises at about 7:45 AM on that day. Oh. I went back to sleep and felt much better when I woke up at 8:30 AM.
For GlibFit:
The trainer at the gym I work with has had ideas. He’s bounced them off my PT and she has some suggestions. I worked with him yesterday. I had some bursts of pain. We modified what we were doing. The rest of the day I had some pain but it reduced over time.
Today the pain has been easy to trigger while sitting down. When not sitting down I’m almost pain free. Unfortunately, I have to work for work this evening, so I’ll be sitting down a bunch more than usual this evening.
Tomorrow I have PT. I have PT two times this week, and then we go to a once a week schedule.
My weight is down. That is good. It’s a bit slow, but it is down.
I have been swing dancing more often. My plan is to go at least once a week even if the venue is one I don’t like much or the band one I don’t like much.
I went last Friday. No aggravation of the disc herniation, and no new pain in the morning. The new pain that I felt yesterday came after I went to the gym.
In somewhat related news to GlibFit: Part of why I have been dancing more is to get my mind off the bartender I mentioned in other GlibFit posts. A woman at the dance last Friday caught my eye, and had she remembered my name at least once I would have asked for a phone number. I sometimes have trouble remembering names of women I meet at dances, but when you need to be reminded four or five times in THE SAME NIGHT, that’s a bit too far in my book. I never asked for her number.
Despite knowing better, I stopped by that bar this afternoon for lunch. I really like their brunch menu and I haven’t been there in a while. And yes, the bartender I mentioned before was there. Her friend was also tending bar. My impression was that Mojeaux was right: She turned up the heat. She was friendly and smiley and flirty and her friend spent almost no time taking care of me, though did say hi and put in my food order. That is… until the guy that I thought was her boyfriend showed up. Then things flipped, sortof but not really. The one that pushes my buttons and catches my eye was much less chatty with me (but didn’t ignore me) and her friend was much more chatty with me. They both knew I planned to go back to work in the evening due to some of our earlier chatting, but I lingered over some beer. When I got my bill, I think they comped me one. The other bartender, when I pointed out a missing beer on my tab to her, said to me, “No, that looks right, and if isn’t, we’ll comp it.” OK. I’m pretty sure the tab was missing a beer. Anyways, both bartenders wished me well and hoped my day got better. I left thinking, “What the fuck were you thinking? Sure, the brunch menu is good but she pushes too many of your buttons to keep going back there.”
One other thing: Since I’m working this weekend trying to sort out a bug, I’ve been seriously considering saying “To hell with it all” and moving back to PA to take a job washing dishes at my friend’s restaurant.
Heard.
I find myself gravitating to this philosophy as I age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGH9zereFc
The original MGTOW.
1) Clock changes are bullshit.
2) Waking up/commuting when it’s still dark are why I dislike DST.
3) Careful with that back. Have you considered epidural steroid shots?
4) Swing dancing seems like a good way to meet women.
5) Make sure you bang either the bartender or her friend before you move to the Commonwealth.
1) Yep
2) Yep that’s one reason I don’t like it.
3) Yes. I have had a round of three. I thought the docs would only do one round of three. The first of the first round was tremendous in how much it helped me but did not knock the pain out. The second did nothing. The third lowered the high points of the pain. The docs have told me if the first round of three helped (which it did), they will do a second round of three after a period of time. The window for the second round opens in April. I expect I will get a second round. I am taking Aleve on a regular basis to help with the inflammation.
4) Yes. I have dated and hooked up with a few women from the Swing dance scene. In fact, the only woman I’ve considered marrying I met through swing dancing.
5) Her friend has a boyfriend and seems quite happy with the boyfriend. Both bartenders are attractive, but the friend is definitely not available. She even wears a ring on her left hand as a decoy. While banging the bartender I’m interested in (and possibly more) is something I’d like to do, I doubt it will happen.
1) Clock changes are bullshit.
2) Waking up/commuting when it’s still dark are why I dislike DST.
I made the mistake of buying a home to the west of work so every day was into the sun in the morning and in the evening.
As I would drive to work over the years the sun would move from under the horizon to where I could use the sun visor in the car. The thing that used to piss me off about the time change was that, just about the time the nuclear fireball moved from horizon or sun visor, it moved to directly into my eyes.
Pick one, dammit.
dramatic music and running hamsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSH_ZdnEUM
Hope you’re on the mend, both with the back and the ladies at the bar. Free beer is free beer though, same as downtown.
I started exercising a few weeks ago and my back pains have dissipated some what. Some of those are age related with arthritis, etc.
Stick with the swing dance, one day a lady will remember your name and the wait will have been worth it. PA, dish washing doesn’t sound like too much fun, plus bending over with the dishes.
MSM hack suggests all those saying Biden has declining cognitive issues is all just a part of the “The Disinformation Campaign Being Launched Against Biden”.
Glenn Greenwald is not amused.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1236709848462565377?s=20
Check on more of Glenn’s timeline for more anti-establishment fun.
My next Diorama is gonna be so good, I found someone, You guys are gonna love it,