I’ve been writing GlibFit for a year and a half and always found something to say. This week, I have failed you. Writer’s block is a bitch. *Waves to Mojeaux and UCS*
Is it exhaustion from work? My dog’s dogarrhea? Why not both?
I’m taking a page from Swiss’ Friday Night Sear It and Beer It. To Wit:
Here is a heartwarming story worth watching.
I need some sleep. I mean sleep.
I’m about to go row for maybe an hour and watch the F1 race I recorded (already accidentally saw a headline re who won *grumble*)
That’s about all I have for a GlibFit update
Still worth watching.
Oh, and I can sympathize re: the pup – just finishing up a week of antibiotics for our dog for colitis.
Did you know dogs can get colitis? I was unaware of that.
We have a couple of rugs that will never be the same…
? The dog with colitis goes by–
::insert opera standing O GIF::
? Warm smell of colitis….rising up in the air..?
::stands up again, applauding vigorously::
Sorry for your dog having colitis. That’s no fun for anyone.
And done. 1:05 on the rowing machine in zone 2, good for about 550 kcals.
In doggie news, she apparently has kennel cough now. Joy.
*waves back*
I’ve started getting back in the habit of taking daily walks. Have to get back to previous endurance levels.
Hi Chafed, Thanks for trying and greetings from NOCal. Beautiful hiking weather here and a little warm.
I feel for you and your dog. I have been there, with the doggie runs. I wish I had some advice but I got nothing…sorry .
G-fit update: Sleep was just OK… Food was pretty good. Hike mileage 39 miles. Wim Hoff/meditative “ancient man” techniques; I didn’t do it much this week. Weight is held steady at 176 ish. Did limited MIIT…
Goals: Still not at goal weight max (175 ). Still not dead from Covid…
Covid Update: Watched Senate testimony from a “practicing” physician who had patients with Covid. He was a pretty effective self-promoter and claimed to be well published. What was interesting from his perspective is that of all the hundreds of articles written about the virus, there we virtually none on standard therapeutic treatment published. He claimed peer reviewed articles for treatment were being suppressed. He was very cynical of the media writing that no effective treatments which is patently false. His major claim that combination therapies using anti-virals and anti-inflammatory medicines could have reduced hospitalization by greater than 80%. What was striking was the statement that when a person is given notification of positive Covid results there is no care/direction provided except to go home, rest and quarantine. His most telling observation was why the medical establishment had not set up Covid treatment Centers (none found in my county), which could use the most effective/current standard of care. Considering his claims of therapeutic treatment publication suppression, the old fashioned word of mouth over golf/locker room was probably how doctors were finding out about treatments…Quite damning, a travesty, and a total shit show!…like on purpose or something.
Seems the boys at Stamford published an article on Masks. Summary: Virus 1000X smaller than minimum pore size of masks..so virus just passes through. Metadata on numerous designed studies shows no benefit. Duh! Oh well– “Masks are more effective than vaccine”—Fauci.
From PANDA, world-wide deaths attributed to Covid are 4% of total. US Covid deaths are 13% of total deaths. You really get what you incentivize.
De todos modos, ¡tenga una gran semana y sáltese una comida o tres!
This whole pandemic has been loaded with bullshit from the very beginning. They act like there’s never been any thought given to masks with regards to viral respiratory infections before this. Like we’re just now considering the idea of them. They have buried any of the treatments and freaked right the fuck out when somebody suggests one, like hydrocholoroquine. They have twisted the numbers to the point that no one in their right mind can believe them anymore. It’s been a complete shitshow and that seems to be the plan. I have zero faith in anything I’ve heard from official sources. They got what they wanted. They tweaked all the laws on voting so the retard in his basement could “win” without letting anyone know how far gone he really is. They probably killed a bunch of people and certainly have ruined many lives, all for the lust of power.
Eloquent rant. “He’s the full hot orator.”
That sums it up nicely and accurately blackjack.
A big plus is that all of the malthusians are cumming in their pants. Ten bucks says Fauci is on that train as well.
I guarantee that if there were any such non-hospital care centers set up here, the some would be calling them camps and saying that people are being forced into them.
As for theraputics, I guess it depends on who you talk to. Some in the medical field I hear from seem to be well aware and use a range of therapeutics from monoclonal antibodies in the prehospitalization stage to detromethropan for hospitalized. The use of therapeutics is one of many for why the covid mortality rate declined over the past year.
Still more under investigation, including repurposing existing drugs such as ivermectin or famotidine.
https://covid-19tracker.milkeninstitute.org/
You’re probably right about the camps commentary. I think having doctors well aware is falling a bit short for the amount of time and money spent, lost and wasted on this pandemic. It is a shame NIH didn’t learn anything from HIV, where there was focus on vaccination and little work done on therapeutics. Still no efficacious vaccine after 30 years.
I gotta get a shower and go to the Pig Roast.
Working out this week was a bit of a shit show as the renovations at my gym have started. They’re going to continue into this week.
Weight is 268.8 lbs at 26.9% bodyfat.
I hear canned pumpkin for dogorrhea. Unfortunately the true stuff is hard to find at this time of year (either pie filling or butternut squash masquerading). Walmart, maybe?
Any edible squash should work. We’ve used canned “pumpkin” in the past that looked suspiciously like butternut to me. Whatever you do, do not use the pumpkin pie filling in a can as a substitute!
You can easily freeze any unused portions of canned pumpkin.
For occasional adventures in doggie poop, there are probiotics out there that we’ve used and work quite well — oftentimes after one dose. Normally come in a big syringe-like dosing tube. Not expensive. Ask your vet.
We use probiotics with our dogs when they get diarrhea.
Mix in yogurt with live cultures into their dog food. If that isn’t enough, the over the counter probiotic supplements for people can turn things around over night.
(Apologies, Kinnath — I would gladly try your dry mead. I didn’t know there was such a thing.)
No problem
I assumed that no one had ever introduced you to any of the dry products.
I used pumpkin early in the week and it helped. I can’t figure out what is going on with Moe. He has normal poops for days then diarrhea comes on for no reason. He hasn’t gotten human food. Nothing unusual has happened.
Sometimes it passes in less than a day. Other times we need to intervene because it has lasted for over a day. He is an 11 year old lab so maybe it is age. Candidly, I’m stumped.
Chocolate lab?
Yes.
Sounds like he needs some… ? …lab tests…
/whispers: v-e-t
Probiotics, seriously
When our 13 year old Sheltie was getting to the end, his digestive system was what was going.
Yogurt worked for a while, then he stopped eating it.
We mixed probiotic pills (open capsule, dump out powder) in to wet dog food.
That kept him alive for another 6 months or so.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll give it a try.
Yogurt, also dehydrated carrots (rehydrated obviously) I use Olewo carrots. Greyhounds are notorious for greyhound glop and every greyhound board has discussions of what to feed to make it pick-up-able. So, yogurt, canned squash, dehydrated carrots or beets.
I have never heard about dehydrated carrots or beets being effective. Thanks Tulip.
Second the vet recommendation. Dog could have picked up worms, which can cause intermittent diarrhea.
The things I learn here. I’m loathe to go to the vet because I’ve been down that road before and get the advice to withhold food for a day then white rice, etc. I’ll try the probiotics first. If that doesn’t work then we’ll go back.
The things I learn here.
Don’t feel guilty about the writer’s block this week. We appreciate that you’ve kept this up for so long.
Still doing Butts & Guts exercise class once a week and swimming once a week, but iffy diet results, so weight is stubbornly staying put. Maybe I shouldn’t have volunteered to restock the break room snack supply…
I think I need to add at least one more exercise session to my weekly regimen. The trick is to figure out when and what I’m likely to be motivated to stick with. It may be something as simple as getting back on the once-religiously- but now seldom-used treadmill that’s right beside me.
You may want to concentrate on what is fun, rather than what is going to give you a specific workout. The more fun you introduce, the more fun you want. If putting on exercising clothes for half an hour and reading a book is fun, do it. After a few weeks you may find that to get the same amount of fun you’ll want to walk around the house while listening to an audio book.
For me, I can make things more fun by going slower or adopting a “poor attitude” (but not completely blowing something off). I can’t guarantee that “making it fun” will work for anyone else, but it helps me.
FWIW, after many years of doing this, what is fun for me is tough and grueling for some people. I don’t encourage people to do what is fun for me, but what is fun for them. It adds up almost inperceptively.
You’re quite right. Swimming is a lot more time consuming to prepare for and to clean up after, but it’s absolutely worth it to me. Even so, I think I need to keep that to one session a week because the chlorine is rough on my hair, and I spend a ridiculous amount of money on this mop. I may need to look for a weekend yoga class, as I enjoy that and could certainly use the resulting flexibility.
The party switcheroo, ch 7,412
At the beginning of this century, Republicans held an 11-point edge on party affiliation among college-educated voters. By the time Barack Obama was president, the figures had flipped to become a 4-point edge for the Democrats. And as President Donald Trump’s term was winding down, the numbers had come full-circle and the Democrats had a 13-point edge among college-educated voters on party affiliation.
So, the data suggest that what we are seeing might be more than just a sudden Democratic edge in party affiliation. Those 2021 changes are coupled with a larger shift in party composition. And that might have real impacts come election time because voters with different levels of educational attainment have long exercised their right to vote at different rates.
Or maybe, if you’re a cynical bastard like me, you just see this as further evidence of value destruction in “higher education”.
As I said earlier, journalists might want to do a sort by academic discipline and degree before they get too worked up about this.
Gee, I wonder what other differences there might be about college education since then?
You’d think 18-year-old minds wouldn’t be so easily malleable but here we are.
Thanks for the post Chafed. Sometimes good enough is good enough. I have not been working out at all due to pain but I think that is subsiding so tomorrow is going to be me on my bike some single track and me having a heart attack. I have it planned. I feel like I am going to stroke out on the first hill so I am going to test that once more.
I am not sure I am a fan of Arnold I want to bang the housekeeper Schwarzenegger anymore but the dude had commitment back in the day. Second link made me realize I need to dust more.
Arnie seemed cool enough, until he transformed into a rino after winning the recall election. The icing was how he pardoned his buddy’s son for participating in a fucking murder, no less. Pretty sure that was more influential than his banging his middle aged housekeeper. At least to everyone but his wife.
I did not know about the pardoning. Seems that news never made it out of CA that I remember. He was married to a Kennedy so that kind of stuff goes with the territory.
I can happily skip Arnold the politician. What he did and said before entering politics is what I find impressive and inspiring.
Yeah, it’s kinda like Ahnold always went whole hog or nothing. He got into bodybuilding and was top dog in that world for years. Then he decided to be a movie star and nailed that too. So when he got into politics, well, full-on politician in every aspect.
What was interesting from his perspective is that of all the hundreds of articles written about the virus, there we virtually none on standard therapeutic treatment published. He claimed peer reviewed articles for treatment were being suppressed. He was very cynical of the media writing that no effective treatments which is patently false. His major claim that combination therapies using anti-virals and anti-inflammatory medicines could have reduced hospitalization by greater than 80%.
Imagine my surprise.
From the beginning, the public health mafia have focused almost exclusively on quarantine and “prevention”. I wonder why that is.
Indycar is on.
The cream of American racing.
Glibfit update: Through dieting, yoga stretching, and light exercise down to a svelte 290 lbs. (We won’t mention the starting number)
Diet: unsweetened coconut is a great addition to multi-grain breads and smoothies. Speaking of smoothies, just finished prepping fruit to freeze into individual chunks. Markdown rack in produce department is my friend. Frozen fruit means I don’t have to add ice. Prepping the fruit myself rather than buying it out of the freezer section means more delicious fiber. So a typical smoothie recipe would be as follows: frozen pineapple, unsweetened coconut, banana, mandarin orange, mango, papaya (how much of what depends on my mood), unsweetened vanilla almond or coconut milk.
The home made multi-grain bread contains unsweetened coconut, a mix of chia and flax seeds, and almond or (my favorite) hazelnut flour. Delicious fiber is my jam. Buckwheat honey is the current sweetener of choice.
New obsession: Jaque Pepin has a great method of making fresh butter. I make a fantastic, if I do say so myself, garlic and tarragon butter for beef or pork steaks. Garlic and chives, or savory, or sage (for the grilled corn. Dear God this is good) are also wonderful additions. Just knead the fresh herbs in after the butter before you chill the butter. A sample recipe is as follows: salt, pepper, garlic, honey, and tarragon to taste. Chill. Place on top of a thick slab of Rib Eye steak or grilled pork tenderloin.
Thanks for your weekly column, Chafed. I don’t always have something to say, but I always read it.
Love Jacques and his hypnotic knife skills.
You can lose weight on all that tropical fruit? I’d need an extra wide chair. Sounds delicious though.
(she says while drinking mango lassi)
I don’t add it all at once, that is just the selection I choose from a majority of the time. Today it was pineapple, lime, and banana. The key for me is not too much fruit, and lots of fiber. I have been known to throw celery and/or a carrot in the blender as well. Kale is an option, its just that too much kale too often makes me an unhappy boy.
Wherever you started, congratulations on your progress.
The Smithereens were awesome. I got to see them in the 80’s once.
I’m in PT 2x a week for golfers elbow now. I can work out a little but I can’t do anything that hurts. He’s hopeful it will be better in a few weeks.
If you are suffering from golfer’s, tennis, or shooters elbow, check out Chad Riley’s site – http://www.spinalflowyoga.com
Here’s the direct link – https://spinalflowyoga.com/shooters-elbow/
I can attest that this program works like a charm.
Thanks, ES!
I’ve had “golfer’s elbow” off and on for years now, due to weight training, lifting heavy boxes during house moves, etc.
Now I’m on a smithereens binge.
Youtube doesn’t totally suck some days.
I saw them live 5 times. I loved every show. I got the impression they genuinely loved performing for an audience.
I saw the Smithereens in either ’89 or ’90. Small converted theater, maybe 200 people there.
It. Was. Awesome.
Dennis Diken hosts a radio show called “Denny’s Den”. https://wfmu.org/playlists/DI
He’s got alot of great stories, and rock n roll history. Smithereens are great. They’re putting out a new album in the fall, I believe. https://wfmu.org/playlists/DI
I blasted myself right out of keto with three bourbon creams. Not sorry.
Would. The only thing you Brits got right was beans with breakfast and your biscuits. (not like our biscuits which are better especially with gravy) You can shove those cucumber sandwiches right up your ass though.
I’ll have your cucumber sandwiches, Aunt Augusta.
I like British food. Let me loose in Waitrose with £100. Must be rationing that gave it a bad rep.
I am not a good source. I was raised in Louisiana. While I did nearly starve to death when I visited England that is also true of most of the United States. Most people just dont ‘get’ food.
Gulf shrimp fresh off the boat, Creole tomatoes from the yard, and strawberries from Pontchatoula – Yes, please and may I have some more. Oh, also merliton.
I will soon be preparing fried green tomatoes with crawfish roumalade. A couple of weeks and the tomatoes will be ready.
Food. Of. The. Gods.
*pours cup of chicory coffee and grabs an empty plate*
They just need to work on some of the names – to wit, clotted cream. 😛
And speaking of rationing and…ummm…animal digestive issues…
“…an illegally raised pig…”
So, they weren’t just rationing meat they were restricting the supply. It seems we have a lot of like-minded people in this country these days.
(Warning: Slight spoiler) Not mentioned in this plot summary is that after the thieves (played by Michael Palin and Maggie Smith) hide the pig in their house, the critter gets “the squits.”
“No pig, Mother.”
I love that film. The Carson episode with Palin promoting it aired the other night. Alan Bennett, Handmade Films: how can you go wrong?
Handmade Films also did Nuns on the Run, which I really like.
My grandfather always referred to them as ‘the drizzlin’ shits’.
I am now wondering if there are more comical euphemisms for diarrhea or for masterbation.
Withnail! And of course Life of Brian.
Back in the day, British food was horrifying (my Dad was of British extraction, and insisted my Mom always cook the classic Brit dishes, except for Thursdays, when we always had spaghetti with homemade sauce for the evening meal; my Mom let her French freak flag fly when making spaghetti sauce, which was a Hell of an improvement over any Brit interpretation of the same, since France and Italy repeatedly stole from each other’s culinary traditions over the centuries . . . ).
Nowadays, led by the resurgence of the pub food scene over the last 25 years or so, British food can be excellent, and even the stodgy old battleaxe standards can still be quite good if prepped properly by people who care about cooking.
GlibFit.
https://archive.li/vhHgO
I think I hear 4 calling my name. Be right back.
Q have you learned how to swaddle your little girl? It is a huge help when all of her needs have been met but she won’t calm down.
We got these which are the lazy man’s swaddle.
https://www.halosleep.com/sleepsack
It does help some; what works best for q-ette is (LOUD) white noise like a vacuum or hair dryer.
You know your daughter best. I can only say daughter 2 was a tough customer. Many was the night in which her diaper was changed, she was fed, burped, and still wouldn’t settle down. After I learned to swaddle her and loudly shush her things changed. It worked about 90% of the time.
I felt like a monster the first time but desparate times called for desperate measures. When it worked, I was surprised and guilt evaporated. You may want to check into it.
Would pink noise work?
Sleep sacks are great. Merlins are better.
“Swaddling” probably works along the same principle that weighted blankets are now the “in” thing.
I’ve tried weighted blankets. I had the closest thing to a panic attack I think I’ve ever experienced.
Some women who actually lift.
And no face diapers.
No fair.
Just in the last hour wife was watching a tv show where a person was being attacked by a dog and the guy was screaming like a little girl. I asked my wife “When that tyrannosaurus was using me for a chew toy did I scream?”
“No. You were silent and had no expression on your face. I couldn’t believe it. I would have been screaming my head off. You were just fighting for your life.”
My emotions are under control always but posting videos from The Dodo is not cricket. It gets pretty dusty in here very quickly.
GlibFit: After a terrible week of eating fast food, due to getting out of baseball practices/games late, I threw up violently between a few storage containers, and didn’t have a full meal for almost 48 hours.
That’s not a recommended weight loss method. Hope you’re back to normal now.
::sees Mojeaux. Refrains from references to “the Karen Carpenter diet”::
I lost 25 pounds (that I definitely *didn’t* need to lose) when I had my appendix out -> botched extubation -> lacerated trachea -> aspiration pneumonia -> C. diff. It was very effective but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Way to mix up anorexia and bulimia. /sarc
Sadly, KC was an ipecac abuser, which damaged her heart. 🙁
It certainly wasn’t intentional, that’s for sure.
I feel like shit today. Chinese soup to the rescue!
My ulcer is getting out of hand. I have an appointment with the GI doc next month and I am willing to be cut open to deal with it.
🙁 I hope it doesn’t come to that!
I’m pretty much only consuming milk.
Do any other dairy products work? Maybe cottage cheese and/or yogurt?
Sorry Mojeaux. I hope their is an effective nonsurgical solution for you.
Their = there. Thanks autocorrect.
If you can stand it, Moje, prior to antibiotic treatment for ulcers resulting from H. pylori infection, the medical profession’s usual symptomatic treatment for stomach ulcers was a dose of albumen and calcium carbonate, otherwise known as egg white and chalk (or Tums).
Any port in a storm, etc.
Eggs hate me now (I think it’s my ulcer hates it).
Tums is one of the major food groups.
Hmmmm. Possibly if you don’t eat the yolks you’ll be fine — they’re full of fat and sulphur, both of which are contraindicated for people with GI issues. (I oughta know, as I’m a “lifer” for IBS-D . . . ).
I thought the standard treatment now is antibiotics and…uh…a mineral supplement but I cant remember which one. I think it is very effective.
If you’ve got an H. pylori infection, yes. Otherwise, no. (Eldest brother had horrible stomach ulcers which turned out to be H. pylori. Some of his friends weren’t so lucky.)
That is correct. God, my memory is getting bad. I think I have forgotten more than I currently know.
I think I have forgotten more than I currently know.
Welcome to my world.
let’s start a club
But how will we know when to show up for meetings?
I’m making spring rolls tonight.
You’re putting soapweed in them, aren’t you?
/looks innocent
Full disclosure – I love cilantro. I had some growing in pots on the back porch back in 2013. They got loose and pop up every year along the side yard fence line.
Needs more cilantro.
Gah! You people are sadists.
72 holes, 3 courses, and 16 miles walking, and a Babe to play with, that’s Glibfit,
in 2 days,
Apropos of nothing at all, some good, late-night television. Martin Short with Johnny Carson; Bette Davis is unamused.
Martin Short with Kathie Lee Gifford
Think disc golf is easy? here’s where my tee shot landed, and I did punch out of it,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XaAbBWWfEw3mzUav8
Sorry about the dog’s GI issues, Chafed. We’ve been there. A half and half mixture of ground chicken and white rice is something we’ve used in addition to meds. Apparently chicken meat is a simpler protein than other meats, and so easier to digest? And white rice is a binder to stop things up.
I’m happy to report that the police state here in Ontario has largely not materialized yet. To their credit, most local police departments immediately came out and said that they would not be doing random stops, then Tubby backed down on a number of other measures yesterday. Maybe people are finally starting to feel their spines. Hey, Tubby, do you realize that obesity increases the risk of having a serious case of the Covid? Maybe lay of the cheesecake.
Watched a bit of the Dodgers – Padres game. People in the stands! Many without masks! In California of all places! I get that San Diego is the redder part of the state, but still!
OMG now I want cheesecake.
Now I want some as well. I haven’t made one in years as it would spoil before we could finish it, but I was fond of peanut butter cheesecake with a dark chocolate ganache and a crust made of crushed almonds.
Not GlibFit approved! But it sounds delicious.
Peanut butter?? Dark chocolate?? Dude! How about a trigger warning??
::wipes drool off keyboard::
I am not a big cheesecake fan but…peanut butter cheesecake? I might be able to plow through that with a big glass of cold milk.
Thanks. It’s a good item for dinner parties, pot-lucks, and such. It delicious but so very richthat after a couple slices, you don’t want to see it for a spell.
Congratulations on your slightly increasing freedom. Is there any discussion in Canada that gun control may not have been the best idea?
You forgot the iron law ‘foreseeable consequences are not unintended’? The outcome of gun control is exactly the one intended.
I’m well aware of it. I’m wondering if any of our Canadian brethren are reconsidering their choice.
All of the Canadians I know here in the states instantly became gun nuts.
Lots of discussion. Fortunately, according to our Moral And Intellectual Superiors™, said discussion only takes place amongst the deplorables and those Western Canadian splitters, so it can be safely ignored.
Keeping people terrorized by high crime while simultaneously depriving them of the means to defend themselves is a good way to keep people beaten down and dispirited. All the better to keep my boot on your neck, my dear.
Gun control freaks are pure evil.
I was looking at tickets for CHC @ STL next month and had given up because of their strict “policy.” But, since, I haven’t seen fans consistently wearing masks at BuschIII. Good for them, but I don’t want to get caught in the gears of on-again off-again feel-good policy changes, so I’m not buying yet.
Have not made it to the gym to weightlift in three weeks. Still getting about 15,000 steps a day in at work, lifting bags and pushing carts. Been umpiring baseball or softball four to five nights a week. Played in the inter-squad rugby scrimmage yesterday, about 45 minutes worth.
Officially have now played a rugby match in 4 separate decades! It was a blast and a perfect day for rugby. Had rained the night before so the pitch was soft, 50 degrees American, and clouds.
If Muzzled is still around, I finally figured out how to make my iRigg make noise through my computer. The amps (and all of it really) are way over my head, but that is some cool shit. 200 clam tele has brought me joy so money well spent.
Fuck. Yes.
You’ll figure it out as you go.
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And, without comment on your skill level because I don’t know, guitar is one of those things you can suck donkey balls at, but still have a fantastic time doing it.
It’s one of the charms.
obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY0P6o_FLEk
You are right about that. I’m having a hell of a good time with mine.
Me too and I suck worse than donkey balls. I am messing with this……..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyq6bzfrC_M
I am up to four classical guitars now. I can’t really play any of them but they are fun.
Two of them are sub-200-buck 1/2-size guitars. One is tuned to Open-G and the other to Open-D. And I can work my way through the standard 12 bar blues (finger style). Fun and immediately satisfying.
The classical training is going much, much slower.
classical guitar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU9HiwmcLWQ
I only have one
I’ve got 2 classical guitars.
A La Patrie Etude (a parlor sized classical), and a Cordoba C10 Parlor.
The first made me fall in love with the classical tone, the second makes me drool it sounds so beautiful. I don’t really play classical, but I do use it to help learn things from classical playing.
Awesome.
I haven’t seen you on the zoom and I haven’t been to the forums in a bit, but I’ve been meaning to ask how that Chapman ML3 was treating you.
What are you using to learn?
Yeah, Zooming is irregular and occasional. Too much going on.
I actually ended up (due to some shipping bullshit with a large well-known music super-store) with an ML1 Pro Modern. Honestly, I’m kinda glad – I think I prefer the Strat-style body. I’m doing the JustinGuitar.com program as per your suggestion, and it seems to be working pretty well. I’m about ready to move on to module three.
Australia is lost.
Damnit……………….https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/pm-open-to-home-quarantine-says-no-rush-on-international-borders-reopening/news-story/22c60115c09394354fd2e2346733b03c
‘“What sort of ideas would there be for this? Regular visits, inspections to make sure they’re home, ankle bracelets, some sort of monitoring, how do you do it?” ABC Insiders host David Speers asked.
Mr Robert did not rule out those prospects.’
Ontario sez POLEES STAYT!
Australia sez Hold My Beer.
Great minds…
And both of those will look like bastions of freedom compared to the USSA in by 2022.
Yep.
Ankle bracelets.
“Hold my beer, Canada.”
JFC.
FTFY. It’s not quite a Canada-wide phenom yet (though I’ve got a dread feeling about it . . . ).
Remember when we used to joke about putting everyone in prison? Not so funny now, is it?
Once a penal colony…
Down this road they will soon all be old crawlers.
Glad Clive James missed this.
Looked up his Wiki profile and found, among some notable quotes, this one apropos to this very post:
Now that is funny.
Australia needs to dine at a buffet of dicks for this bullshit.
Never gonna happen. The average Aussie is thrilled to death about their government’s response to the pandemic.
Completely changed my attitude towards Oz and New Zealand. I have no further interest in visiting either of those two authoritarian states in my life. I figure it’s only a matter of time before the Chinese take ’em both over anyways.
They mandate bicycle helmets for adults. OTOH, I remember life before seat belt and motorcycle helmet laws.
Just in general or what?
Don’t give them ideas!
An Aussie Federal law mandates bicycle helmet use in Australia.
“The average Aussie is thrilled to death…”
I realize that my social circle in Oz is not the norm so I have been hearing the other side of the story on this issue. What bites my a$$ on this issue is how I no longer feel any reason to contrast it with how the US is handling things. Only recently with Texas finally dragging itself towards normal do I have one example to point to.
Oh, and no shyte about the Chinese taking over. They have pumped the housing market in Sydney so high that a couple continental European emigrants I know down under have decided to move back home for the cheaper housing. Two years ago I was in Sydney on business – staying in a suburb out near the airport. Just walking out from the hotel to grab dinner or something to make breakfast and more than half the people I passed by were speaking Mandarin.
Yeah, I expect a de facto takeover within the next decade or so.
I had a series of dreams that China indeed invaded by China. It was one of those recurring dreams you have over and over for a while and then it’s gone. That was about 20 years ago. But I can’t forget it because they were so intense. Now I’m not so sure it will be China, but their own tyrannical government.
it was only attractive as the refuge of other people who couldn’t function in polite English society, a high endorsement according to my own genetics
but you knew all you needed to know when they started turning in their guns
The majority did not turn in their guns however, they haven’t been real vigorous in fighting to get back the right to own them.
My (Oz) alumni magazine has a section, “Ask the experts.” In the edition that came out late last year, the question was posed, “How far should governments go in restricting people’s freedoms in the name of public health?” Snippets of the answers will give you some idea of what kind of expert advice politicians are getting:
Psychologist: “for a number of reasons, the answer to this should be straightforward: very far…in this instance…it would be easy…to defend more heavy-handed interventions.”
Public health professor: “There is a social contract in representative democracies that governments have the power to restrict individual freedoms to protect the public’s health, with citizens trusting their elected representatives to use whatever means are necessary but not to abuse these powers. In a pandemic, the state therefore has the right and obligation to put in place the necessary measures to reduce and interrupt transmission to protect individuals and society.”
Social scientist: “The restrictions imposed on our individual freedom by government responses to COVID-19 are necessary to protect all of society. While there is a risk to public health, no one is actually free. Some maybe more vulnerable than others, but we are all vulnerable.”
“Experts”
All of them ought to be hanging from a goddamn lamppost.
???
IOW, “top min”. Sorry, that’s Kiwis.
There really needs to be an Ax the Experts alternative.
IFSABR
You make me feel ashamed. I am getting that app and showing you how us slackers roll.
Nice. That’s about what I did all week combined.
Ozzy is a ringer for Kelly (or v.v.) in that first song.
Since Ozzy was born first, I’m going to say vice versa.
Hey Chafed: re, the dog. I’m not a vet, and know nothing about animals. However, the reason I asked if it was a chocolate lab was our niece had one that developed some gastro problems (much worse than what you describe). The vet they went to said there was something about the genetics of the way chocolate labs are bred that means they have a tendency to develop liver problems. Again, I’m not even in the same universe as being a vet, but wanted to let you know.
Yikes. Moe is a rescue found wandering a pretty bad part of town. I’m pretty sure he didn’t come from a breeder. Hopefully, we dodged a bullet.
Almost time for Mark Levin. I am a bit drunk and more than a bit tired so I may save the show for tomorrow.
I bid all you wonderful people a good night. I am taking my littlest dog and off to bed. I think Mrs. Suthenboy is going to finish her movie before joining. I will be sawing logs by then. Damn, I wish I could sleep like the dog. His head hits the pillow and 20 seconds later he is snoring.
Goodnight all.
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His head hits the pillow and 20 seconds later he is snoring.
The Spousal Unit’s like that. I, on the other hand, usually take about an hour to nod off, if it’s a good night.
Goodnight, and look, I just found this relaxing sleep video on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DALdj77W_8k
Today was Glibfit day number 2 for me in 2021. Wife and I managed about 2.5 miles walking both days. I was going to walk 15 miles, run another 10, bike another 50, and then do an iron-man triathlon, but I didn’t want to show up the misses.
Anyway. I did some research on my own and came up with some data that does not fit the narrative, so you will not be seeing this on CNN.
What I did was note the number of mask wearers in 3 age groups. 1. Middle age (my group). 2. Elderly (say 75 and older). 3. Young (15-30).
What I observed.
For my age, about 80% were not wearing masks, wife and I included.
For the elderly about 40% were not wearing masks.
For the yunguns, about 90% WERE wearing masks.
Now this is important – there is no mandate in this area for wearing a mask outdoors.
You can make your own conclusion. I report, you decide.
My conclusion:
The education system is working as they intend it to.
And has been for a very long time.
That is about what I see outside too, and despite what the media will claim, there is no mandate outdoors in NYC either.
When seeing Ahnold as a younger guy, all I can come up with is ‘No matter how much muscle mass you can put on, it may not stop you from eventually turning into a giant pussy’.
The headline ought to focus on Waters, not on the “Republicans pounce” angle, but at least they’re publicizing it:
“Ted Cruz has accused Democrats of ‘actively encouraging riots & violence’ after California Representative Maxine Waters joined protesters in Minnesota on Saturday night, and urged the crowd to ‘get more confrontational’.
“Waters traveled to Minneapolis the weekend before closing arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin, charged with murdering George Floyd on May 25. She also spoke amid protests in response to the killing last week of Daunte Wright, a black 20-year-old shot and killed at a traffic stop by a white police officer, Kimberly Potter.
“‘I am not happy that we have talked about police reform for so long,’ Waters said.
“‘We’re looking for a guilty verdict,’ she added in regards to the Derek Chauvin trial.
“‘If we don’t, we cannot go away. We’ve got to stay on the street.’
“She added that protesters needed ‘to get more confrontational’ and they should ignore the curfew in place.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9485063/Cruz-leads-Republicans-accusing-Maxine-Waters-actively-encouraging-riots-violence.html
I didn’t realize the twat actually went to MSP to make that statement.
Unsurprisingly, it’s not senators like Mittens who criticized Trump that are “pouncing” here.
The weekend is too damn short.
Yes
Same. Spent all afternoon outside in the backyard and feel like I barely made a dent.
Im about to go to work. Monday (night) is my Friday. Wednesday is my Saturday.
Drunk gf is drunk.
*blinks SOS in Morse code*
Not sure what I just got lectured on, but it involved Law & Order and Adam Baldwin.
I was going to say something clever, but then I had the Zen-like realization that the cleverest thing I could say was nothing at all.
“Close your wang-warmer and take a nap, bitch.” probably wouldn’t be helpful.
Never useful. Ever.
“The smartest thing that ever came out of your mouth is my cock” generally doesn’t get an advantage in an argument, either.
Of the three canonical drunks I’m thinking this is neither the happy nor the sleepy varieties.
Surly? https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E13/942257
Mmm… roast pig. Excellent.
Mojeaux, sorry about your ulcer. Chafed, sorry about your dog.
Y’allins Crazy up in here Yo, got the Carpe Beerum flow….
Im off to work, kids. Mind the shop.
Got back to the type of eating that I know I should be doing, and the results have come quickly. I’m in much better overall shape than I was 3 months ago, but it hasn’t really shown on the scale until now. As I go back to work this week, I’m laser focused on carrying the good habits over that I created during paternity leave.
Wife has me convinced that I may need my adenoids out. I’ve had an off and on headache for a bit over 2 years now. For a while I thought it was just muscle tension from stress, but now I’m thinking it may be the ear. Sometimes it feels like a tension headache radiating from my jaw right in front of my right ear. Sometimes it feels like an earache. Sometimes like a toothache. It’s the same ear that constantly got infected as a kid and the same ear that sometimes takes a day or two to clear out after a flight. Hopefully it’s easily diagnosed and fixed.
My cure? Dentures, my Teeth were literally killing me, you may have good teeth but seek out an ENT specialist, for a number of reasons,
My adenoids were removed when I was nine. That was the only time I was ever hospitalized–they love hospitalizing people in Russia for any reason. When doctors in the US asked me about my hospitalization history, I mentioned adenoids and every time they looked completely puzzled. I have no idea if they didn’t know what adenoids were or why it required hospitalization. Probably removing adenoids is much less common in America.
I was just going to say I have no idea what an adenoid is.
They were mentioned in the original Freaky Friday. The trivia I remember…
It sounds like something an ancient relative might complain about. “My adenoids….”
I think it’s usually different “-oids” that the geezers bemoan.
It’s part of the tonsils. In Australia, it was a “tonsils & adenoids” procedure that was routinely done on kids. Mine came out when I was under ten. One night in the hospital I think, and ice cream only for a few days.
I always felt cheated that I never had my tonsils out. When I was a kid, there were lots of books explaining that when you got your tonsils out, your parents would bring you a big present at the hospital and you could eat all the ice cream you wanted. I even got tonsillitis at least once, but they never pulled ’em.
I had a deprived childhood.
There was another kid in my hospital room who had his tonsils removed. He was in some pain after his procedure and wasn’t released from hospital the next day–unlike me. I didn’t have my tonsils removed.
Dental shit is what mr Splosives snd I have been battling for months.
Dental health isn’t separate from system body health
My son had to have his taken out when he was ~5. We were at his pediatrian basically monthly for a year – he was a snot machine, minor fevers, it was just ridiculous. The doc would give him antibiotics, or tell us to just keep him home. Then finally – I got him to refer us to a specialist. So we went to the pediatric ENT and I swear I had barely got out what I just wrote and he nodded. “Yeah, I think I know, but we’ll take an x-ray just to be sure.” Sure enough, adenoids. So Athena-spawn had them removed (not right then, but soon after).
Funny part was the doc comes out after the surgery, and he says “Biggest adenoids I’ve seen in my ten years of practice!”
But all that paid off, because my kid did not get sick again, not once, for ten years. His immune system was that supercharged by having a literal infection sponge inside him.
So yes, I’d say go see a specialist!
My Cat is a Dog, she is running at full speed, through the house, back and firth, all 48 feet of the place. Crazy Dog/Cat
Ah, the good old doglike cat.
Ah, yes! That’s the time of day we call “Batshit Kitty Time.”
my kitteh is now missing 24 hours.
I sure hope she comes home;
Oh, no! I hope she comes back or someone can locate her ASAP! The one time our previous cat, George Kitteh Chatterbox Underfoot [insert GT’s/TT’s IRL last name] got away from us outside – his carrier fell apart as TT was getting him out of the car on the way back from the vet, and George bolted – he was missing for several days. Then our next-door neighbor said he thought the cat was hiding under his shed. It was still a few days before TT could lure him out and get him back in the house.
There’s a good chance she’s not far away. Ask around your neighborhood and/or post something on your local NextDoor site?
My Dog’s A Cat https://youtu.be/7zXlQ0wG47A
GlibFit.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
Dammit. I want to search the page for the word Zoom but the Brave browser won’t let me!!
Ok, I am trying to get in to zoom but apparently you heathens don’t go for that on a Sunday Evening
Dicks.
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nevermind,
Im agonna go sleep now!
Peace out. homies,
Time to try muh hand at scenery.
https://ibb.co/1Tdwq64
Hm…. You found a big, gaping hole down at the beach?
Recognizable as a beach? I’ll take it.
The kind of white cliffs of dover?
Good luck!
Also I hate autocorrect.
Anybody wAnts to chat ,look me up on n Skype as Lucy Von Mises.
Morning ‘Splosives.
Hello, anyone up?
Morning
Hey Yu?
Happy National Garlic day.
I like garlic, Howdy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9XhtzULRBA
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https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/04/18/family-friends-celebrate-world-war-ii-veterans-eddie-hill-birthday-in-burlington-county/
100 and still going. ?
They didn’t write much about his background and experiences other than that he served in the Army and the Air Force.
I like reading about the older veterans – what they lived through.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/poconos-coal/firearms-ammunition-stolen-from-home-in-schuylkill-county/article_0bfec520-a05a-11eb-9a04-8723bcbe184a.html
$400 total value? What?
DAFUQ? I’m trying to come up with two functioning handguns and a long arm which total value would be under around $800. Maybe if those were black powder replicas and an old single barrel?
Well, my mosin was $79. If there were an equally inexpensive sidearm, we could keep it under that total.
Yeah, maybe the guy was totalling up what it cost him back in 1974. Even then those would have been ratty old hand-me-downs back in the day
A couple of Hi-Points and a cheap Chinese shotgun could be had for $400 or less, MSRP.
Or I guess those could have been ComBlok imports from the early-mid 90’s. I have a Makarov I picked up for$130 and a CZ-52 I paid $140 for. So I guess an SKS from that era for $130 and you would be under the wire
So, no money for ammo under the budget? I mean, one bullet for each would break the bank.
OK, so $110 for the SKS and the remaining $20 (in 1994) would buy a fcukton of ammo.
Eh, *ENTER*’d too soon.
The point being, they typical casual gun owner doesn’t keep a lot of ammo around. A box or two, maybe.
Things have changed somewhat over the last 5-10 years, but most gun owners are owners, not shooters.
If every gun sold in the United States were engineered to disintegrate into a pile dust upon firing round #51, I suspect the culture at large would never notice.
It’s easy to get to #51, but difficult to give them all adequate or equal range time.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/04/nj-couple-creates-covid-car-offers-free-rides-to-vaccine-appointments.html
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I’ll bet they do. Do they include Moo Goo Gai Panic? Wu Flu? What are some of our other long-time “favorites”?
Good morning, Sean!
commie-croup
sup’ homey
Still too daggone cold for my taste, but otherwise, it’s all good! Eager for Wednesday lunch!
Howzabout you?
Oh yeah….I need to schedule a taint-waxing.
Ya know….just in case
I may have to bundle up and wear my boots – we could get snow showers, fer cryin’ out loud! >:-(
Mornin’ GT and the rest of ya deplorables.
::lifts coffee travel mug in salute::
It’s Deer thirty, See y’allins at the Farm, Going for a drive…….
Greetings from Mycopia! Covfefe for all!
Morning Yusef.
Good morning, Yu & UCS!
Howdy you guys, stay comfy!
How’s it going?
Very well, thanks! Workwise, it should be fairly quiet until it’s time to cover for Reliable Co-worker when he leaves for his FL vacation on Thursday. Even so, he’ll be good about not leaving a lot to do. Even Accounts Payable should be pretty light that late in the month.
How about you? Feeling better after your jaunt to NH?
A little.
Also, I’ve finished reading Selpit and am going back through, making notes in hope of providing Useful Feedback.
*Sean Avatar*
In other news, the big floof cat just threw up in the hall. 🙁
So the rest of the day is bound to be better, right? Right??
I can’t help you with cat puke.
But I can tell you I wrapped up the conversation with Lady Marcelene.
*Ditto Sean Avatar*
I like her very much and eagerly await her – their – further adventures! 🙂
There’s not a lot of book left in this book though.
🙁
There’s two major setpieces and some bridging material before the plot wraps up.
That’s OK – it’s a prequel. I know there’ll be more! 😉
suh’ fam?
whats goody
Rainy, but warm, springtime
late glibfit update: 195.0.
11# to go to target.
Glibfit update: still 175, still just a potato… Mornin’ Glibbies! Sunday is over, thank Xenu! Fuck I hate that day.
Poor little doge has a “bad bum” right now but since she’s still passing turds Imma let Judi deal with it when she gets home tomorrow. Selfish but sanitary. She doesn’t get to sleep with Dad anytime soon. She gets terrified when I bring out the scissors. I don’t know why.
Hey Chafed- since you’re a fan of jump-rope, I could watch this for an hour or two.
Ah, the music of the 90s.
To reminiscient of this – https://youtu.be/o8_f3kJOX_8?list=RDo8_f3kJOX_8 My Ex Brother in-law was named Rick was kinda chubby and he’d dance around with his belly stuck out singing “Rico! Slobby!”
The Government response to COVID in one Video.