Let’s see how many of you have sobered up long enough to read this. New Year’s Eve had suspiciously good timing for such a crappy year. I managed to work half a day Thursday, so this has been a three-and-a-half-day weekend for me. I’ll take it. The government’s response to the coronavirus screwed me pretty hard, so three-day weekends are the only vacation I’ve had this year.
I was the only one in my office Thursday. I took the opportunity to look over all the uneaten candy we had left. Anything I might be interested in went straight into the garbage. That left plenty of stuff made of milk chocolate. I’m not interested in that garbage, so not a problem for me.
This was the first week in months that I managed to get all my workouts in. Three days at the gym included New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. I also got in my two conditioning days. I’m a little sore and a little stiff. And I’m delighted by it.
I got my tired, lazy ass out of bed early every day but New Year’s Day. I grumbled like the middle–aged coot I am. I was beyond angry at my governor on leg day. It was 36 degrees outside while I was squatting. I’m sorry but even after a decent warmup that is just too damn cold for me. I can’t quite explain it, but I could just feel something not quite right in my muscles and joints related to the cold. Fuck you Newsom.
Deadlifts were a real problem. To only a government bureaucrat’s surprise, metal bars get really cold when they sit outside in the cold overnight. I’m at the gym well before sunrise. I finished one set of deadlifts and was losing feeling in my hands from gripping the bar. I was worried I would lose my grip during my second set, so that was it for deadlifts. Fuck you Newsom.
The good news is after eating like a pig between Thanksgiving and this week, my eating is more or less back on track. I got out of bed to exercise to start my day. And I have to say the activity gives me a sense of purpose and accomplishment. So I got that going for me… which is nice.
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Plenty of us thought when Uncle Joe got elected the ‘rona would disappear very quickly. I no longer think it is going to be that simple, but I am heartened by the splintering of the anti-Trump coalition that wants masks and lockdowns forever.
The easy out was going to be the vaccine. But there is a large percent of frontline health care workers that refuse to be vaccinated. I wonder how many of them know there is a one in five chance of a severe adverse event after the second shot. Even workers in nursing homes are refusing in large numbers to get the vaccination. Money quote:
Zenobia Carden is a 35-year-old certified nursing assistant who worked in a nursing home earlier this year and is about to start a new job at a residence for people with developmental disabilities. She said she has seen firsthand the impact of the coronavirus, which killed several residents of the facility where she used to work. She debated what to do, but ultimately decided that getting the vaccine still felt too risky to her.
Ms. Carden, who lives in Bartlesville, Okla., worries about potential long-term side effects, as well as shorter-term ones like headaches, because she already suffers from migraines.
“I’m scared,” she said. “It takes years to come out with a vaccine, and for them to come out with it this quickly—I don’t trust it.”
JFC. These are the people who are most likely to see the effects of Covid-19 in the people they serve and they, in large numbers, are foregoing the vaccine. In three weeks when they take office, if Uncle Joe and Auntie Kamala can’t get front line health workers to sing the praises of these vaccines then good luck getting enough of the public to take it.
Uncle Joe told us his plan to get kids back to school in the next hundred days. But it looks like teachers’ unions aren’t going for that. I’m particularly enjoying watching the teachers expend enormous amounts of political capital digging this hole.
My new prediction is Biden declares victory in late spring regardless of the vaccine rollout. This is a seasonal bug. Numbers are going to drop due to seasonality. They may even drop due to herd immunity. Whatever the reason, the lockdowns engender discontent and resistance to whatever else Uncle Joe wants to do. Good reason, bad reason, or no reason, he will find a way to move on to something else.
This week’s music link.
The goals get started up tomorrow. Time to go back to calorie counting and getting workouts in. Planning on not counting on Browns playoff games only.
Anguish is good for weight loss, isn’t it?
It gives me added incentive to cheer for them.
Way to get back to it Neph.
I claim no credit until there’s results and me sticking to it.
Ye of little faith, Playoffs, Bitches!!!!!
It was ugly, but we’re in. Now to see when the game gets scheduled.
And what the hell is up with Nickelodeon broadcasting some NFL games? It was advertised around the first quarter break.
I’m working on being more Mentally fit, starting with a daily routine like I used to have,
Starting up work again tomorrow after two weeks off. Tomorrow will be logging in early to work through the backlog of emails. After that, I’m going to try to keep the earlier wake up time and get in a workout before logging in.
I need to wake at 5 am, and sleep by 9 pm, then My rhythm kicks in, I eat better, rest proper, and don’t rush too much,
I never sleep well, and I’m a night owl by nature. I aim for 7 hours tracked of sleep in the Fitbit app a night.
I had bad insomnia for years, and then I went into first and second sleep mode, and now I get 7-8 hours sleep a night, just not all in one session.
I wasn’t ever able to keep “normal” hours pre apnea surgery. Post surgery (and after my wife and I had kids) I started keeping normal hours. Then I became a runner and … nowadays my sleep is (ridiculously?) regimented. Kind makes my social life weird, but it’s worth it.
Which surgery did you get? In August i had the one where they detach your upper and lower jaw, cut in 4 places and move the jawbones forward an inch. Brutal recovery, but it actually worked.
I’ve had three surgeries. The first two were done “at once” (i.e., under one session of general anesthesia). The first two were UPPP and Genioglossus Tongue Advancement.
My third was what you had, bi-max.
Brutal recovery? It only hurt when I breathed.
Actually, it was even worse for me than for some, due to a couple really bad choices I made regarding post-surgery pain relief.
I’ll be happy to share more info on the forum if anyone is curious.
FWIW, I replied, but supplied three links, so my reply is in moderation.
I also had bi-max (your operation), although I could only have it after having a couple others (and waiting more than a year, IIRC), because my apnea was sufficiently bad that I’d probably have died under general anesthesia had they went with bi-max first.
I had the upp also. Didnt work for me either. Bi max worked but ive been having problems with infections and my upper teeth are still giving me nerve pain when i eat. How long ago was your surgery? How you healing?
I think my bi-max was about fifteen years ago.
I lost a bunch of feeling (but I think it was from the GTA) in my lower lip and below, but much of it came back recently.
Other than the loss of feeling, I think I’m completely healed. I haven’t had a night terror in a decade AFAIR.
After my bi-max surgery, I got into hiking and then accidentally into running and then I caught the running bug and eventually chose to get fairly fit. W/o the surgery, not only do I think I couldn’t have chosen to become fit, I don’t think I’d even be alive.
“I’m scared,” she said. “It takes years to come out with a vaccine, and for them to come out with it this quickly—I don’t trust it.”
But can she extrapolate this to the rest of the idiotic bullshit Team Ballgag has planned?
Not bloody likely.
This was the first week in months that I managed to get all my workouts in.
Good. I was shitty about working out last week.
I would have gone this weekend except I tweaked the herniation while clearing snow yesterday.
Fuck you Newsom.
Pimping again
Uncle Joe told us his plan to get kids back to school in the next hundred days. But it looks like teachers’ unions aren’t going for that. I’m particularly enjoying watching the teachers expend enormous amounts of political capital digging this hole.
I still there will be a silver lining to this bullshit: The breaking of the teacher’s unions.
Whatever the reason, the lockdowns engender discontent and resistance to whatever else Uncle Joe wants to do.
A shit-ton of restaurants and gyms in Pennsylvania defied Wolf’s orders to shut down from mid-December until January 4th. According to analysis I saw from a lawyer involved in one of the cases about the most recent shutdown order, a filing from the state Department of Health effectively admits to not having the resources to enforce the governor’s orders due to the amount of defiance.
That’s not a bad AC/DC song.
“A Touch Too Much” leapt immediately to mind.
She liked it done medium Rare,
Sink the Pink!
Shame Im about to get to bed. That’s a song that needs (yawn) TALL CANS! and turnt to (yawn) 11.
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“The breaking of the teacher’s unions.”
Look at Mr. Optimism.
Sorry to OT so soon in a thread, but since I have no plan to sober up this evening. In other news.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9107225/FAA-notified-large-blue-UFO-spotted-Hawaii-appears-fall-ocean.html"?I'm not saying it's aliens
BUT IT’S FUCKING ALIENS!
Heh. To an eye untrained in space aliens, like me, that does not appear in any way to be a solid object. More like some sort of reflection or other atmospheric phenomenon.
Fubar link, but works anyway.
It looks like my Parafoil kite when I put on the LEDS and night fly,
Fake Aliens!
Meh.
But a Harvard prof said aliens are here, and that guy’s an expert. So it has to be true.
BUT IT’S FUCKING ALIENS!
I read that as “BUTTFUCKING ALIENS”
This is a seasonal bug.
It is. But I am between thinking they can’t let it go because “muh authoritah” (and the WEF Agenda 2030…) or they have to because “Joe the Savior”. Stop testing and all the sudden it will just be a flu/cold going around as such illness always is.
“Agenda 2030”
That is soooo 2015, now it’s called the ‘Great Reset’. Still the same old dream of global communism, along with putting Stalin and Mao to shame by killing 85% of the world population. Sounds like utopia, right?
And yet, one of my top guys just emailed me that he and his wife were sick over the holidays, with her getting the full COVID experience (loss of smell & taste, fever, shortness of breath) and him feeling like the basic flu.
Ok, fine, he will work from home until he’s asymptomatic for a couple of weeks.
But then he goes on about this new MOAR contagious strain and how the “conspiracy theorists” (his words) aren’t helping because they refuse to get vaccinated.
I suppose I should be glad that as a manager, I’ve successfully hidden my deep disdain for Covid-19 hysteria. But I’m disappointed that a guy who does real science day after day is fooled by the media. Oh well. It’s a calculation he has to make in order to keep the peace with his wife, so I will try not to judge.
Zero chance I’m getting an unproven vaccine for something as low risk as COVID. I’d go in a burning house to save a child, but I wouldn’t take that risk for a favorite wristwatch. It’s a risk/reward decision, and that is a very personal one.
Yet there is no vaccine for seasonal bugs – they mutate too fast. This is all nonsense.
Tbf there are, but there is not cure (a la the yearly flu vaccine). This is here now and is not going away. I thought the average person had a rudimentary understanding of cold/flu (respiratory viruses), but it looks as if that is not the case.
So much this. If there was mass vaccination in nursing homes and other facilities along with health care workers, the IFR would drop precipitously. Then make it available, not mandatory, to the general public. Have fun convincing the normies it’s a crisis after that.
They are declining, not refusing. Refusing implies they have an obligation or requirement to be vaccinated.
Lookit, Mr. Words Still Have Meanings …
Rectification of Names II: Linguistic Boogaloo
Are you related to Ted’S?
I do like old movies…
It bugs me because it’s been appearing in nearly everyone of the stories and clearly is laying the groundwork to deal with the refuseniks. Decline or opt out implies there’s a choice up to the individual.
Add vaccine refuseniks to the list of problematic citizens along with kulaks and wreckers.
Thanks for the New Year’s edition and greetings from NOCal. Weather here is dank…but great for hiking; if you like it a little muddy. My dog has been rejuvenated with the help of CBD and shrooms and managed 2 summit hikes over the holidays. Greatest holiday gift..Yeah!
G-fit update: Sleep was just alright… Food priority highest quality proteins, but too much alcohol and carbs for the last week has made me feel doughy. Still trying to burn 2600 cals/day but my new watch has my daily calorie burn down about 200… Still doing Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques, but was not so disciplined and have regressed on breath hold times.
What worked best was hi-protein/no carb food, consistent sleep times (didn’t use an alarm clock), consistent exercise, meditation/stretching and intermittent/periodic fasting.
Anyway, as a result of slacking, I picked up 5# over the holiday according to the scale…the calibration must be off; it is probably reading light. The struggle is real!
G-Fit New Year Goal: Reduce inflammation. It seems like all of my chronic physical ailments are related to inflammation. The Plan: I am going to continue with what worked. Food wise, I am going to reduce carbs more and do more periodic fasting. Planning Monday fasts for Jan…kind of my own “Meatless Monday”. I am also planning to do more cold therapies—10 minutes per day. (cold hikes, cold showers, cold swims). I am also planning to do more HIIT because I would like to do a Spartan Race in late spring or summer. (Joe will have fixed this virus by then…).
De todos modos, ¡tenga una gran semana y sáltese una comida o tres!
Glad to hear your dog is doing better. I tried CBD with mine but it gives him the runs. Any ideas anything that will help him with that?
(36°?! Dang.)
That’s interesting. We have tried a couple of different brands and some work better than others. Some of them have a lot of grain in them. Hemp&Joint from Hemp company out of Reno is grain free and seems high quality in terms of effect. It might be worth a try to see if the grain is the issue. Other than that you can experiment with dosage…perhaps half or every other day if it is still therapeutic.
Thanks. I may need to wait for warmer weather to experiment so I can keep the backdoor open.
Dog shrooms??
Yeah…she takes Turkey Tail for her liver. She had a bad reaction to carprofen and it destroyed her liver. To recoop the liver, she was taking high doses of predisone but that caused it own problems (skin and weight) so we cut the pred back to near nothing and supplemented with this Turkey tail. She seems really happy…
The Dean Beasts are on Ananda Hemp CBD and Canine Matrix Zen shrooms. Eases the aches and pains, keeps them chill.
Which, on account of them being old pit bulls, is a win/win.
Are those Zen shrooms in powder form? This Turkey tail tastes awful and disguising the powder in treats is quite an adventure. I am about ready to do some pharmaceutical manufacturing and put it into capsules. Ha!
Yep, powder. We mix it into their food with a little yogurt and chicken broth.
I was convinced our dog had only a few weeks to live, but we put her on CBD oil and started supplementing her diet and she’s a new (old) girl again. Still has pretty bad arthritis, but moves around enough that she’s getting some exercise.
I realize it’s a bad scientist who changes two variables at once, but she’s doing so well and CBD is sufficiently inexpensive that we’re keeping her on it.
Dogs are resilient and seem very sensitive to slight changes in diet and CBD seems very therapeutic for them…perhaps it just takes the edge off pain and being so stoic is just enough for them to manage.
Yeah, I got three walks in with my dog, the first about 35 minutes and the other two about an hour. Saw several deer and frightened a turkey, but unsurprisingly no other people.
Snow’s falling now, so I don’t know the next time we’re getting out on the trails….
Paging the Social Justice Fairy…
Now with President-elect Joe Biden positioned to take office this upcoming January, he has a chance to rewrite history by rebuilding a new type of justice in America. This will require taking on our nation’s historic obsession with prisons and mass incarceration and gutting a criminal justice system that was never intended to protect Black, Indigineous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
Confronting racism must be part of Biden’s renewed commitment to justice. He could start here: a secretary of Racial Justice in the cabinet. This position would be responsible for coordinating actions to correct racial disparities across the administration.
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Confronting poverty must also be core to Biden’s justice plan. This is even more critical in light of the economic hardships millions of Americans are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A federal jobs guarantee program, that includes formerly incarcerated individuals, can dramatically improve employment opportunities for millions of Americans. But we know that jobs alone cannot fix America’s poverty crisis, especially as Americans have a hard time accessing affordable and sustainable housing. Putting forward policies that address housing insecurity and poverty simultaneously would ensure that as we shrink our jail and prison population, formerly incarcerated Americans have a reliable home to go back to after release.
Biden must also reimagine public safety; time and time again we have seen firsthand the flaws within law enforcement agencies across the country. Safety is often seen as just the absence of crime, but it’s also defined as the presence of opportunity. The presence of opportunity looks like access to high-quality schools, plenty of parks and public spaces, access to mental health and a strong democracy. Once we start looking at public safety through this new lens, rather than an over-reliance on policing, we need to make budgetary and policy decisions that reflect what truly keeps our communities safe.
Yup. We just need to wish harder.
The head of the department can be the Handicapper General.
Reimagine everything! It will be brave and new.
They really do think 1984 in an instruction manual.
It’s worse than that. They think it’s volume 1 in a 9 part series on the glorious history of the utopian ascendancy.
“utopian ascendancy”
I think that sort order might be going in the wrong direction.
We just need to
wishprog harder.FIFY
Now with
President-electJoe Biden positioned to take office this upcoming January, he has a chance to rewrite history by rebuilding a new type of justice in America. This will require taking on our nation’s historic obsession with prisons and mass incarcerationLOL. Do you knot remember Biden in the 90s? Jfc…
I know commies are familiar with rewriting history, but I think you are misusing that phrase. And I prefer justice wherein alleged criminals are prosecuted per the constitution and legal statue.
Not*, even. Idk what the hell happened there…
“if Uncle Joe and Auntie Kamala can’t get front line health workers to sing the praises of these vaccines then good luck getting enough of the public to take it.”
They’ll agree as soon as they are not allowed to work or go out of their house even to get food, which they won’t be able to afford, because they can’t work.
Something else.
Sorry, parents.
“Federal education policy is likely to take a sharp left turn.”
Because kids are not already dumbed down enough.
Public school is child abuse. People should approach their children’s education with that in mind. If it’s not the teachers abusing the kids, it’s the kids abusing one another in a lord of the flies environment.
And after 12 years of it, they won’t know history, match, science, or language skills, but look on the bright side, they’ll at least know there are 26 genders.
And they’ll “know” the PE teacher.
The say that tranny storybook time is great for the kids.
At least in Lord of the Flies, the kids could fight back, even if it was ineffectual.
There was a Microsoft Teams commercial I saw today that had the tagline “All Teachers are Heroes”.
As if I didn’t hate MS Teams enough.
*thinks about saying some very politically incorrect things about how the people who buy into that bullshit usually hate their own children*
*decides better*
Yeah, the teaches as heroes propaganda is really retch-inducing.
Fire guys as hero’s
Cops as hero’s
Nurses as hero’s
Soldiers as hero’s.
Heroism is like anything else.
It’s individual.
It’s individual and it’s exceptional. By applying it to an entire profession, it defines heroism down to nothing more than doing one’s job in the face of some adversity. Which is the entire point of this.
And note that it’s all people with the government seal of approval.
(This is why I always hated the term “first responders”.)
Mitt Romney for Health and Human Services?
That explains why he is being such a cunte.
Federal funding will come with more strings attached.
Yeah that’s the point, ain’t it? The feds have zero authority in education.
Nothing would make me happier than to see Romney go into the administration. Then the governor of Utah has a chance to replace him with someone who’s not an establishment cuck.
Look at the optimist here!
He couldn’t do much worse!
Sen McMuffin.
I took off 2 days from exercising but back on tomorrow. Same routine 4 mile walk, then use a Weider machine for a few minutes. Weight was only up a lb this morning, over my goal. It’s not so much the lack of exercise , it’s that I don’t do much else this time of year. Until spring shows up and I can do some outside work again I don’t expend many cals. I do have to burn a little wood now that my garage is too cold, until I get a fire going and the heat starts blowing. It doesn’t have to warm, only need the warm air blowing on me.
It’s boring but necessary
Fireworks are going off in my neighborhood. Browns made the playoffs.
Isn’t it a long running tradition that the Browns get a chance to let you down one more time?
Hush you!
We don’t expect them to do well in the playoffs, but they ended the longest post season drought in the NFL today. Allow us to have joy for a brief moment between the reminders that we’re in Cleveland.
They lost to the Raiders. I’d be worried as I just watched those same Raiders make possibly the dumbest play call in the history of the NFL against the Dolpheens.
The Raiders game was also one where you could watch kicks curve due to the wind.
I’m more concerned that the Stillers game was that close, with us going against a team resting their starters.
Keep in mind, it was just a couple years ago when the Browns were 0-16.
Yeah, it was very windy, so the Raiders did well to play a heavy run game.
The Toothlessburger was on a roll and then just did a belly flop or something. He looked unstoppable just 5 weeks ago.
Big Ben didn’t even travel to Cleveland. They were resting him and we dealt with the second and third string Stillers QB’s today.
I wouldn’t be upset if the Browns use every draft pick on Defense and Offensive Line players in a couple of months.
The Stillers suffered the Bedlam curse today.
Bedlam is the name for the annual U of Oklahoma vs Oklahoma State U football game, a long running tradition.
The OU Sooners tend to win Bedlam year after year.
Baler Mayfield is an OU alum, and Mason Rudolph is an OkState alum. This is not the first time these two have met. Today was Bedlam Redux, and true to form, the OU quarterback won.
I thought it was just the curse of playing back-ups across the board.
The Browns backed their way into the playoffs.
Give us our wide receivers last week, and we probably would have won that game. I’m not happy about the way we made it into the playoffs, but we made it.
I expect at least one day of not counting calories before the Browns lose out.
In a very strange season they made it in. A win is a win. Enjoy it while it lasts.
It’s just irritating that the Browns are on the first upswing in decades, and it comes in the crazy years. Of course, it looks like we’re playing the Stillers again for the first round of the playoffs. My nephews weren’t alive the last time the Browns made it into the playoffs.
A whole new generation of Browns fans gets learn that it’s just as painful being a Browns fan even when they don’t suck. If not more so.
I still remember the fumble, and the drive.
Lions and the Browns, the only two non-expansion (depending on your definition) to never be in the superbowl.
Thanks for the inspiration, Chafed.
I got cocky after not gaining weight over Thanksgiving, but now I am up a few pounds. Time to buckle down on the diet.
I sent off a home test kit for various food sensitivities, so when that comes back, I will evaluate my diet and see what needs changing. I am supposed to be eating less fat, less “red meat”, more lean protein and fruit & veggies.
Going to try this old school Sunrise Flour Mill whole wheat “heritage” flour like what was common pre 1950s. Now that I have discovered I can make a wonderfully crusty loaf in this oven, I am dying to make a lovely baguette with that flour. ? Seems to be much easier to digest the Heritage flour for many people who are gluten sensitive.
You look different today. Is that a new hair style?
Heh
Yeah, who is that? I thought Ned Beatty at first.
It’s one of the government guys from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Govt goon: “We have Top Men working on it right now.”
Indy: “Who?”
Govt goon: “Top. Men.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdjf4lMmiiI
I was thinking Martin Mull.
Ah, thanks. Been a while since I’ve seen it.
M. Mull would be cool too. Didn’t know until Carson reruns that he was an artist.
What does commercial whole wheat do to you HS?
Bloating, digestive “irregularities”, joint pain, fatigue, worsening of psoriasis (skin disease).
I did an experimental “gluten free” course or two at home and at least imagined I had improvement.
When I get my food sensitivities tests back, I hope to know something more definitive.
My husband does keto, but I can’t anymore because I have to eat low fat and lean meats only, and I just can’t make it work without some bread in my life.
Mitt Romney, public health consultant
“That comprehensive vaccination plans have not been developed at the federal level and sent to the states as models is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable,” Romney, who represents Utah, said in a statement Friday.
Romney said the plan to rely on hospitals and pharmacies that are already overburdened was “unrealistic.”
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“The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines is a tribute to the NIH, the FDA and to the professionals in the pharmaceutical industry. But unlike the development of the vaccines, the vaccination process itself is falling behind. It was unrealistic to assume that the health care workers already overburdened with Covid care could take on a massive vaccination program,” Romeny said.
“So too is the claim that CVS and Walgreens will save the day: they don’t have excess personnel available to inoculate millions of Americans. Nor are they equipped to deal with the rare but serious reactions which may occur. Doctor offices are well-suited but the rate of patient throughput in doctor offices is predictably slow,” Romney said.
He added, “When something isn’t working, you need to acknowledge reality and develop a plan—particularly when hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake.”
Romney urged leaders to “call on people who have carried out widespread vaccination programs elsewhere or in the past” for guidance and suggested using retired medical workers and others to set up vaccination sites at schools, as one possible solution.
CVS and Walgreens aren’t qualified to do inoculations, but ragtag pick-up teams of heroic retired doctors and nurses working in school gymnasiums will be able to handle anything which comes up.
These clowns aren’t even disciplined or aware enough to avoid saying blatantly self-contradictory things in a 30 second sound blurt.
STFU, Mittens.
Said the man that tied a dog to the roof of his vehicle for a long road trip.
Is there something in the water in Utah that makes them vote for this guy? I guess maybe it’s him or McMuffin? They need to get some new talent out there.
They’re Mormons?
Look at how many of them went for Evan McMuffin.
Maybe it is the magic underwear.
Maximum federal vaccine allocation policy:
Send vaccines to states in proportion to population. The end.
Pfffttttt….. And give up the chance to “control” and receive rewards for such? Not a chance.
Gradeschool children should be spreading convid around like wildfire so they are immune when they grow up.
“…is a grotesque usurpation of the power of Toppest. Men. to control you from their lofty perch.”
CWAA
Wasn’t the military going to do the vaccinations? What happened to that plan? Walz said all the MN NG were cooks so they could pitch in
I think Minnesota is paying for the vaccine with the funds from electronic pull-tabs.
The absolute insistence that I must receive this vaccine is enough to make me take a step back and think before they jab me. Call me a science denier, I don’t care.
Yes. I’m ok with it as long as it’s the mRNA ones and not the adenovirus but that they’re skipping straight to the iron fist also bothers me.
CDC guidance:
Fuck off Mittens. Stick to talking about shit you actually know about. Which is nothing.
CVS and Walgreens already vaccinate people and not with old vaccines, but with new ones as well. I got my shingles vaccine at Kroger. The new version, not the old version.
Decline or opt out implies there’s a choice up to the individual.
Choose to OBEY.
*You’ll be glad you did.
Gemini: 7 of Swords – Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence, quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance
Aaaaaaahhhhaaaaahahaha
* gasps for breath *
Oh my doG
Shite . . . Whew boy . . . Okay okay whew
I injured my back a few nights ago by being old and sleeping wrong, so I’ve been in pain literally this entire year.
I have an actual goal of becoming a decent surfer by the time summer rolls around, so once my back recovers I plan on doing a lot of stretching/yoga, bodyweight, and balance exercises, along with actual surfing whenever I can. I got a small set of kettlebells for xmas, so I’ll be working with those as well.
🙁 I had a sore shoulder and arm for a few days after a sleeping accident recently.
Hanging from a pull-up bar help with the shoulders
That’s a cool goal…What do you mean by decent surfer..Johnny Utah good? As a fellow FU back sufferer, I have found that stretching and staying loose are most important. Take it easy on the NSAIDs and the heat. As counter as it seems, mixing in cold will do wonders.
By decent, I really just mean being able to consistently catch a wave before it breaks, stand up, and ride it in on a longboard.
Cool. How often do you plan to go per week? Is this something you need a certain amount of time to get proficient…I really have no idea and am wondering.
Most excellent goal. I am envious. I just watch people play in waves. That looks like a blast.
I was expecting Baywatch.
I’ve developed constant pain in my left hip which is worse after periods of standing, and then at the end of the day when I’m laying in bed it’s worst, but probably because that’s the time I’m focused on it as it nags at me.
Your wife is hurting your hip?
Yes.
Wallet ?
Good on ya chafed! And ya, working, or even working out in the cold sucks frozen balls.
My fav AC DC tune.
So many good ones to choose from.
Good one.
GlibFit.
https://archive.li/Ra2Py
Not bad.
Indeed.
14 is insane. An otherwise beautiful woman with a sleeve.
Too many to choose from but seems to have the right idea.
But six seems…
Still don’t know son’s GF Lil’Rona status but all here are okay. Some head colds over the last week but no fevers or any other symptoms. Finishing off the ceiling in the grooming trailer, which is long overdue and also making the master groomer happy.
Ready to get back to work in the new year. Sushi is on the menu tonight.
Surly Abrasive Double IPA for dinner. Its wellnamed and very good.
Surly only looks out for one guy…Surly.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
“Louis C.K – Addresses his accusations”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q39rWRB4enE
“”We Didn’t Stop The Virus” – 2020: The Musical”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE00AYkkYhc
“Wikipedia Owners Investigating Lauren Southern’s Defamation Complaint as Editors Continue Smears”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/03/wikipedia-owners-investigating-lauren-southerns-defamation-complaint-as-editors-continue-smears/
Wikipedia is a cesspit of political smear jobs by middling asshats.
Related.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13636990/cant-think-straight-falling-woman-gym/
I was at a coffee shop today where the owner’s daughters were running the show. I’m guessing they were in their early twenties and good god they were gorgeous. I was trying really hard not to stare and piss off my wife.
Once upon a time, Alaskan Brewery did not distribute to Colorado, but they did distribute to Wyoming. I absolutely *needed* Alaskan Winter Ale in one cold November (2006 or 2007?). This was during my time in graduate school. Along with a fellow grad student who originated from Melbourne, Florida, I made a road trip to Cheyenne to load up on ~$300 worth of Alaskan beer; bear in mind that this is a not insignificant sum to a starving graduate student so I was very committed to obtaining this beer. It was well worth it not only for the fact that the beer was (and is) delicious, but I plied the desk clerk from my apartment complex with it into coitus. This is the only woman with whom I’ve engaged in vaginal intercourse that has better tits than Mrs. Q; slightly larger, comparable perkiness but significantly smaller areolae which I value highly. Her personality left much to be desired. I did later receive oral sex from a woman whose tits were as close to perfect I could imagine; if I could design tits in a lab, I could scarcely do better than them. That’s a different story though.
In any case, my road-trip compatriot dropped out for, at the time, unspecified reasons. I later found out that the reason he left was his heroin addiction which I found out later had claimed his life. To this day I wonder how I could be blind to his addiction. It was a fun road trip though and he introduced me to Dragonforce. So this is dedicated to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i7qZxICwgQ
Q you a hundred interesting stories. You need to start writing articles about them.