Youngest daughter told me how much walking she has done this week. Apparently, she can walk a mile a day in lieu of a gym class. The kids today. I tell you. *adjusts onion on belt*
Oldest daughter returned from a semester abroad in Ireland. I was regaled with stories of her walking all over the place. Then she went for an exercise walk. Maybe there is something to this.
Walking is a great introductory exercise. The health benefits of walking include healthier blood sugar and a stronger cardiovascular system. It stimulates blood flow to the brain and the rest of the body, boosting our metabolism, reducing feelings of anxiety and stress, and improving our overall mood. It also lowers blood pressure.
Just 30 minutes per day of walking can significantly improve mental health (including reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety) and boost immunity, according to a study published in the Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Regarding chronic disease risk, as long as you’re expending enough energy with your chosen form of cardio, you lower your risk for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Walking and Weight Loss
While walking is fantastic for your brain and body, and can certainly increase longevity and improve mood, walking is not the most efficient type of workout if you’re aiming to lose weight.
To lose weight, we need to be at a caloric deficit. This means we need to burn more calories than we are consuming.
Brisk walking at a rate of 4 to 5 miles per hour can burn just about as many calories per mile as running at a slow speed, Walker adds. And since it involves less pounding, your body is less prone to injuries so you may be able to stick to your healthy habit longer and stronger. But since runners cover more distance in the same amount of time, and running is more demanding on the cardiovascular system, you burn more calories if we’re comparing minute by minute.
How Much to Walk Each Day
The American College of Sports Medicine recommends adults aim for 150 minutes of moderate- intensity exercise per week for health, and 300 minutes per week for weight loss. Moderate-intensity walking would be a brisk pace, which for most individuals probably fall between 3 to 4 miles per hour. This would equate to a 15- to 20-minute-per-mile walking pace. If you don’t want to track your pace, simply try the talk test. Moderate-intensity exercise should have you breathing heavily enough that you can talk, but not sing.
This week’s music is about walking
Moderate-intensity exercise should have you breathing heavily enough that you can talk, but not sing.
https://youtu.be/WWNqb7Q5yng
Chafed!
Walking has been a game-changer for me. I was a runner for many years and it kicked the living shit out of me. Feet, knees, hips – all fucked up.
I started walking every day and once I got over the fact that it takes a lot longer than I was used to, I love it. I try to do at least four miles a day (takes just over an hour). Push play on a podcast and go. It’s the first thing anyone desiring a health improvement should do. Actually, everyone should do it. It’s definitely a mental health booster.
Decent GlibFit week. My lifts continue to go up, my energy is good and my recovery is surprisingly solid. The extra calories (and probably the carbs) are definitely a benefit for lifting. Getting a little fluffy around the middle, however. I might have to do something drastic and cut back on the beer!
Have a great week GlibFitters!
I ran ’til I was 50, then I was living in St Paul and didn’t have a good safe place to run. Walked weekends in the woods, then moved to the woods and kept on walking. I have to use a tread mill now, I get too tired in the back and hip free walking. 2 miles on the tread mill, 40 minutes. I just finished tilling my garden about 1/2 mile per hour for about 1.5 hours. I’m bushed but got the garden done, need to do another round though, can’t believe the heavy duty weeds that sprung up from not tilling at all last year. Walking slow and jockeying a tiller around used some upper body too.
Last fall I wanted to go deer hunting, my stands are fairly close but at that time they were a great distance for me, I hadn’t walked at all except from the bed to the bathroom and back and that was using a walker. I started on the tread mill and by November could walk some but not far. Used the lawn tractor to go to my stand but climbed the ladder and shot a deer.
My bucket list keeps getting extended.
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You are my hero, Fourscore.
Excellent point about mental health. My youngest has some significant anxiety. Regular walking makes a big difference for her.
GlibFit.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
As if this morning’s bikini links weren’t enough. You brought your A game today, Q.
That looked more like his T game to me.
In addition to walking the dog (at least 2x a day every.single.day), my glib fit this week has been cleaning up the yard – weeding, trimming etc. Lots of bending, squatting, stretching, and pulling. I think cleaning the oven this morning should count too.
It all counts. Good job Tulip.
Walk
I’ll leave Nancy Sinatra for Teds’.
Good one.
Walken.
Great album.
Walken
Walken
Walken
Wilco has a new album coming out next week
Thanks! And it looks like they are coming to Red Rock in September!
Walk
I knew I could count on you. I was also expecting Megadeth’s cover of Nancy Sinatra.
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Also one of the few times a group pulls off a successful cover:
Walk (also)
My first thought was to link to this walking song.
But, I’ll be happy to fulfill your request.
BRB.
And since running is bad for the joints….
I woke up the other morning and rolled a fat joint.
My ankle has been killing me every since.
It’s me and the Fat Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmIBAyXhSjM
Also a fat guy and his partner
Walk around time
Tink Walks Amok
Walking Spanish
Walk Idiot Walk
That song has a very Stooges feel.
Walking late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6Uw2cGhQE
Not one of you. Ted’S, I am particularly disappoint.
Are you happy now?
Cultural appropriation
That’s awesome.
You probably already know the movie “Baby Elephant Walk” came from. Is it good?
I actually haven’t seen “Hatari”.
You can also go down the rabbit hole of Trio Esperança
Walking in Threads
The Walkin’ Blues
For the last month I’ve been really good at getting 2 miles/day on the weekdays, 5 miles/day on the weekends. This weekend has not met that standard at all.
No big deal. Get back on the horse tomorrow.
It wasn’t laziness, it was the 90+ degree heat.
I need to take more walks. I used to do 4 miles a day with my dog, but that’s too much for him. In addition my wife walks him now.
The mowing I just finished is a good workout, but it’s once a week.
To lose weight, we need to be at a caloric deficit. This means we need to burn more calories than we are consuming.
Ya, um, Bullshit.
Walking is the easiest health benefit generator there is next to not eating processed food garbage. I get in 3-6 miles a day just because work does that to me.
Well, technically it’s true. But food choices make a huge difference on how your body responds.
But yes, eating whole foods and walking will make a huge difference for the vast majority of people who are metabolically fucked up.
Technically it is not even close to true and it is one of the biggest lies going next to the food pyramid.
Training your body to use fat is still applying laws of thermodynamics. But yes, calorie counting if you are eating shitty food won’t work.
Calorie counting is a huge waste of time. Eat lots of protein. Eat almost no sugar. Watch the weight drop.
Training your body to use fat is still applying laws of thermodynamics.
Again, I am not sure about that. I am convinced it is our natural state and fuck nose about thermodynamics.
I look forward to your article on how to lose weight while consuming surplus calories.
There’s been at least one person who has made it a point to show that you could eat garbage food, and still drop weight if you counted calories. I seem to recall the rules on the self imposed challenge was all of the food had to come from either a fast food place or a convenience store.
I know for me, calorie counting is the only way I’m able to consistently drop weight.
This chap is one among many.
This gal was another.
Turns out, exercising helps out a lot.
It does. Fat stores calories, while muscle burns calories. Depending on the exercise, you can burn a large amount of calories as well which provides more calories to eat and still be in a deficit.
Walk
Slow day at work. I only got 4 miles and 16 floors. But there’s at least 3 trips to the basement on the agenda, so that’s 6 more floors before bedtime at least.
Is this a euphemism?
/looks at AppleWatch connected to iPhone and other stuff.
At work, I walk about 4-6 miles each night. In fact, since the day starts at 0000h but I do in at 10p, I do that in 6 hours.
Walking is a natural exercise/motion that we are evolved for. Mrs. Dean, who is ridiculously fit, has been adding it to her routine (and so have I), including as a substitute for a gym workout. It helps both of us when we have back issues. Walking punches above its weight (measured by heart rate, calories, whatever) because it is what we were literally made to do.
My son and I have talked about how terrifying humans must be as persistence hunters. Put yourself in the position of the prey, and imagine a creature hunting you that doesn’t move that fast, but simply will not stop following you, no matter what you do.
We’re there Michael Meyers of predators
Or Anton Chigurh.
Saw Javier Bardem in “Biutiful” a couple of weeks back. Completely different role. Phenomenal actor.
Or the Terminator.
Or Shia LeBeouf.
I was thinking zombies, but that works too.
Braggart
And no photos. I thought RC was a team player.
Taibbi crushes another one:
I voted for Bushtard because I believed the bastard when he said no nation-building.
Technically he was correct. There was some nation breaking, though.
“Republicans just “wanted him not to be Clinton,” with no mandate beyond “the promise to lay off the interns.””
Works this way too:
Democrats just “wanted him not to be Trump,” with no mandate beyond “the promise to lay off the Tweets.”
Lust for power knows no party.
Now, none of that matters because it’s no longer about just having shitty candidates chosen for us. It’s about fraudulent elections. The Deep State has pretty much sewn it all up. I’m going to vote one last round. Even if there is a red wave, it will still probably be the last because the party of stupid is still a part of the Deep State. They are traitorous simps at best, NWO operatives at worst.
I believe voting still matters at local levels. For now.
Yes, for now. When locals become a problem, the feds will arrive in force. To protect democracy and all that bullshit because they’re the good guys, of course. I’ll cast my votes to primary out the shit stains in our midst, but I know it won’t matter. I’m tired of holding my nose and pulling a lever.
Seen it up close. It is just as corrupt.
The only winning move is not to play IMNSHO.
I do a fair amount of walking, due to the pup plus city living. I’m a fan, in general.
Rowing has been slightly erratic, with some skipped days, but doing longer rows to make up for it.
Did 90 minutes today while watching F1; that might need the longest I’ve ever done, certainly the longest in recent memory.
Still working on throttling back the calories a bit – I generally eat well but can still overdo it even if it’s otherwise healthy calories.
I’m working on getting back to low carb/paleo. I feel better when I eat that way, but whenever I’m stressed, I go running to carbs. Tonight is a grilled pork chop with a cabbage salad.
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Never was much of a walker.
Still running though, since I retired from the Marines, I don’t run on pavement, that might be why my knees haven’t needed any more SynVisc shots.
I fucked my knees up running the halls on my high school in wrestling shoes (no cushion). The horse trail running in moccasins. , the jumping off of buildings and the portaging of canoe + pack certainly didn’t help either. I was fucking invincible back then. Paying for it now.
12 years in artillery (jumping out of trucks, moving howitzer, and humping ammo) definitely did mine no favors.
8 years in comm helped me finish 20.
Walking is my preferred way to get some moderate exercise, as I’m rather lazy and also don’t like sweating or the tired/sore feeling one gets from a proper workout. Walking in the sunshine definitely helps lift the mood as well.
Samantha Powers has never shoveled real shit:
“Fertilizer shortages are real now because Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer. Even though fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia,” she explained. “As a result we’re working with countries to think about natural solutions like manure and compost and this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway. So never let a crisis go to waste.”
I can picture an Iowa corn farmer covering 800 acres with cow shit. It’s really tough to believe some many people are out of touch with reality. I don’t think we’re gonna have to worry about losing weight, it’s being built in.
Because no farmers do that now? You can smell when they are spreading manure. She’s an idiot.
Studiously ignoring any company doing business with Russia or any Russian or origin products are being targeted. The Pali BDS assholes must be jealous at how quickly and far reaching the Ruskie sanction movement has been.
I want to commit violence when I hear this.
Someone should tell her about Sri Lanka.
What a fool. Manure contains nowhere near enough nitrogen to maintain the corn yields necessary to make all the federally mandated ethanol.
^Also, it takes an entirely different implement to spread manure than for synthetic fertilizer. Most farms are not equipped to spread manure on fields of any commercial size
I use manure on my fields, but that’s just for pasture growth and not crops. I also use livestock as the distribution mechanism. My neighbors thought I was crazy for not using synthetic fertilizer, but this approach works for me. I do need to get a truck out there this Fall to spread lime though.
I grew up on a farm. Manure got used. There isn’t enough of it for large scale. It got spread on alfalfa and pasture. But, at least when I was growing up (things may have changed), it got used.
Sure it got used. And it still does. But manure is not nearly potent enough fertilizer to maintain modern crop yields.
I agree. And there isn’t enough.
Finished an overly detailed mini Here.
The rain came early today, so maybe the heat wave will break.
Hasn’t rained here yet.
The weather front appears skewed north-northeast to south-southwest. So it’ll be a few more hours before you get the rain.
Radar has it in western Ulster now, so not much longer. Thankfully it doesn’t look too severe.
I don’t care how severe it is, I just want to see what’s the other side and hopefully that is cooler air.
Started about 10 min ago here.
Still waiting, but temp has dropped.
Neat.
I sill don’t like how the gun turned out. I’m also sick of staring at it.
(But I think the shield turned out great)
LOL what kind of hell has that dime been through?
I don’t know, I got it as change one day. It was already in that shape. It’s 1967, so no silver, but plenty of years to get beat up.
Thank you. I didn’t want to be the weirdo to mention it…
You can still recognize it, and it provides scale.
The temperature dropped over 30 degrees from the time I left New York to the time I passed into PA.
Walking is one of those things that speaks to our DNA. “I need to get out of here” followed by a walk, is an excellent way to clear your mind, and feel good all at the same time.
Leaving the scene of a crime does not count as legit exercise Spud.
Makes me feel jaunty.
News you hopefully don’t need to use.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18640145/small-penis-always-single/
Dude needs to move to Japan.
Hey!
Walking has been one of the things I miss most, and, hopefully, will get to do again soon. I was just approved for the minor back surgery one of my doctors has been recommending for a few years now (had to go the ladder method of first PT, then injections, and now the surgery) as it has gotten so bad back there I can only stand for a few minutes now. So, things should be looking up!
I hope it helps
Thank you!
I was going to go the route of back injections but luckily my health care system failed to get me an appointment. Now my back pain is not there and the related leg pain is tolerable to the point of just being annoying. What happened during that time is I quit eating shit food and mostly eat a meat based diet with lots of bone broth. What do you eat every day? I know I am probably becoming a broken record here, but what you eat or don’t eat can change your life.
I try not to eat a lot of crap. Keep processed foods and sugar out of your diet, as much as possible.
Yep.
My sisters have all been taking collagen peptides for arthritis. I started when I was with them, and in a week my hands feet the best they’ve been in several years.
Chicken bones dood. Grill a mess of chicken thighs and bone broth them all for 24 hours. Also quite eating the things that make your joints hurt. To figure that out stop eating anything that is not meat and then add back in the things that are not meat. I dare you.
For me, it’s cheese. I really need to just give it up, but it makes me sad.
I need to make chicken stock and can it. My freezer is full and I need the pressure canning practice. it was too hot this weekend if I didn’t have to do it.
I tolerate dairy no prob, but ya, I can over eat it easily. I find my wrist arthritic bullshit flares up when I eat too many carbs like pistachios and white claws. Both of which are my only flaws.
I tolerate it OK, but I tend to minimize it. Not sure why.
Also quite eating the things that make your joints hurt.
Uric acid is real!
Ma’am, I’m not sure a life without cheese is worth living.
*sigh* I know.
Not a broken record at all. It’s just fact. It is so important to choose proper food. My favorite cliche: “You can’t outrun your fork.”
I’ll also add that weight training, specifically deadlifts, are proven to improve back pain incredibly quickly. Sounds counterintuitive, but it works.
Goblet squats FTW! Those, an ab wheel and pushups.
I ustacould, but it’s not that easy anymore.
I never worried about my diet, I was usually in good shape, except for injuries.
I never subsistence on garbage, but was not particular about it either.
At 50 now and trying to recover from 8 weeks on the couch followed by a few months of limited activity, maybe I should pay more attention to it.
*subsisted not subsistence, I hate autocorrect, it took three tries to type “subsisted” this time.
Preach on.
Weren’t you also doing stretching?
Yes, I also stretch every morning.
Good luck!!!!
Thank you!
GAY
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ex-priest-became-porn-star-27009040
*closes tab*
…… I guess there is porn for every idea…..
More power to him but I’m not ready for that yet.
Your daily dose of Sanford & son.
https://youtu.be/rNa1MSmfT2U
“Onion gravy!”
LOL!
Champipple!!!!
101first post. But puts everything before it to shame.
Except you were 102nd. Westernsloper talking about chicken bones was 101st
You are an embarrassment to everything that is First in life.
Why, thank you.
*GIVES THE NORMIES OF GLIBERTARIANS.COM THE DOUBLE-BIRD*
Normies? Around here? Granted we may not be quite as fucked up as you, but that hardly makes us normies.
Even though fertilizer is not sanctioned, less fertilizer is coming out of Russia
It’s a good thing there’s no direct link between natural gas and fertilizer.
What a maroon.
OK, lots of talk about nutrition this week. Go buy this book:
Deep Nutrition
Probably the best one I’ve ever read.
Thanks, I will be audiobooking that over the next week as I sit in tractors. I was made fun of some weeks ago about how many books I listened to or have read. The thing is with nutrition/health/diet the next book always contradicts the last book. You can’t follow them all. You just hopefully just learn a bit more than the last.
Why, it’s almost enough to make someone think that 98% of nutrition science is nonsense.
You pushed that book about a year or two ago, Tundra. I don’t think I said “thanks” at the time but I bought it and am glad you mentioned it. That book was probably the first time I’d come across the hypothesis that vegetable oil is truly quite nasty. It’s amazing how ubiquitous it is in our food. I just added Nina Teocholz’ “The Big Fat Surprise” to my book list – it seems to be in the same vein of arguing for more butter / lard / eggs / meat.
Just bought, thanks
Isn’t it odd that th4e left attacks the right for pushing the replacement theory as some grand conspiracy, when their think-tank class has been writing books and papers on the left’s rise through demoagraphic destiny for decades now?
It’s almost like there’s a trend on the left of attempting to gaslight the country where they implement a policy and talk about it openly and proudly, then when there’s backlash pretend it never existed or isn’t happening and that anyone who talks about it just a conspiracy nut and a bigot.
“The Disinformation Ministry was never intended to impose censorship.”
Just like defund the police.
No one wants to defund the police!
“Critical Race Theory is only taught in college.”
“The border is secure”
“the most honest election EVER!!!”
“Two weeks to flatten the curve”
They realize that they have been advocating for demographic change for decades, and there’s overwhelming proof. So to attack they’ve turned the “Tucker Carlson Replacement Theory” into an absurd straw man, claiming that the Right believes a “Jewish cabal” is trying to replace the white goyim with minorities. They even said that as if it were a known fact on the SNL “Weekend Update” last night. This way they can claim the Rs are batshit paranoid bigots, and no, they’ve never endorsed THIS theory.
We only want what’s best for you. Why can’t you get that through your thick plebian skulls?
Re walking: in grad school I lost weight despite eating lots of carbs (stress) because I did lots of walking while carrying a backpack full of books. I wasn’t walking at 3-4 mph. I walked fairly slow so I didn’t sweat.
I lost about 20 lbs my freshman year. The dorm cafeteria had a salad bar and I treated that thing like it was the promised land. Also ate a lot of moocow and oinkpig. Carbs, not so mich. I ate how I naturally wanted to eat because I could. Anyway, the campus was large and I walked or biked everywhere. I didn’t even notice I was losing weight. Good times.
Exactly. I realized I was losing weight when my pants were too big.
I lost about 20 lbs my freshman year.
The “freshman fifteen” was certainly a thing when I was an undergrad, as the coeds a) changed their eating habits, and b) went on oral contraceptives.
Yours is probably the first case I’ve heard of where the opposite took place.
Lockdowns today! Lockdowns tomorrow! Lockdowns FOREVER!
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From the sidebar: https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/21/family-takes-in-ukrainian-refugee-and-dad-runs-off-with-her-16685799/
espn baseball is unwatchable. I can turn the announcers off but even the visuals treat the game like an afterthought. Does espn do that with other sports too?
When I watch it’s mostly soccer and there isn’t time for a lot of fluff.
Sometimes tennis but tennis coverage is universally terrible everywhere.
Their streaming channel is pretty good when you go away from the mothership and it’s just play-by-play and no fluff. But they raised prices 30% when they said they wouldn’t so I cancelled out of spite.
Oh but the thing I hate most about them is their picture quality is noticeably worse than any other network. Always.
Are you talking about Tennis Channel or Tennis Channel Plus?
ESPN.
Their hickey coverage is pretty bad also.
They miss things on replays that I noticed live, and like to talk about anything other than the game.
Obvious trip and the announcer says “He fell down”.
Stick knocked from someone’s hand, “He lost his stick”.
Haven’t noticed a huge bias towards any team, just general incompetence.
*hockey, not hickey
Sure Ron.
You caught me.
I’m a secret hickey watcher.
I liked the biased coverage from my regional sports network, but that ended after the first round of the playoffs. Second round on ESPN is less fun to watch.
Try watching their college football if your team isnt ranked.
That’s one of the ways tennis coverage is universally awful.
The media have their favorite players and they are shameless about plugging them.
Even the girlfriend hated the Monday Night Football announcers for the Browns/Ravens game a couple years back.
Announcer, “Here comes Lamar Jackson running back onto the field like Superman to save his team.”
Girlfriend, “Superman is from Cleveland you idiots!”
Wow. Still cant believe i hadn’t heard of “Used Cars” until 2013. Rewatching the bluray commentary by Kurt Russell, Zemeckis, etc – they’re absolutely losing it every 2 minutes. Great stories.
Don’t walk upright and drag a club behind you.
You’re not my supervisor!
One last thing – whether exercise helps you lose weight or not, it’s still good for you and makes you feel better. It keeps your joints loose.
I think people put too much into the weight loss aspect, and not nearly enough into the feeling healthy part of it. In the end, who cares what you weigh, as long as you feel good about what you are doing.
Attention HVAC inclined individuals. I have a question about mini-split AC units.
I am putting AC in my shop, and mini-splits seem like the best option. It is a 30′ X 40′ steel building. It’s spray foam insulated with no ceiling. Two main things I’ looking for advice on:
1) Brand. I’ve been gravitating towards Mr. Cool because it comes with everything you need for a DIY install. However, while the units get great reviews, the customer service reviews are almost all bad. I haven’t dug into them yet, but it looks like Gree may have DIY units, too.
b) BTU calculators say I need about 30,000 BTU system. But, I’m wondering if I could undersize a bit. It won’t run often, and we’d only cool the place down to probably around 75. And we can open a couple windows and the overhead doors to cool it down on cool days/nights.
Thoughts?
Just bought 3 new AC units for the house. Ouch the bank account.
Is that the new place with the drawing studio?
Yeah. Dunno if I’d call it a “studio”.
1) Mitsubishi. Don’t mess around with anything else when it comes to mini -splits. Get heat pump models so you can run in any conditions.
2) Don’t undersize. Over time you might add machines that will increase your heat envelope and it is better to have the capacity already on hand. Plus, moisture removal is pretty important in a machine shop environment. The worst that will happen is they will underwork.
2nd on the Mitsubishi.
The moisture removal is a very good point. I won’t undersize.
How much are we talking for the Mitsubishi? The ones I’m looking at are around $2000-$2500. Heat pump sounds cost prohibitive.
You would need to talk to your jobber to get realistic pricing for a 2-1/2 ton unit. But my ballpark guess would be about 3 grand, 3 1/2. Unless you already have furnaces on nat gas, something like that. Then I wouldn’t worry about it. It all depends on what you have now. It this a building that came someone else had put up, or did you spec it out?
It’s an existing building. It has a forced-air propane furnace, so the ability to heat with it would probably be unnecessary.
As long as your moisture control is good, the propane should be fine. But I would also look into getting the ceiling insulated, that will give you a lot more efficiency in the long run. And it is much easier to do before any machinery is installed.
I hear you, but there is no ceiling in the sense of a house having a ceiling. It’s open trusses to the roof and creating a ceiling just isn’t in the cards. However, the roof is covered in spray foam and it is actually sealed up pretty well. Even during brutal NoDak winters, the furnace doesn’t have to run as often as you might think. I also have two ceiling fans high up to keep blowing the warm air down.
I used the “contact us for more info” link at Mitsubishi. We’ll see what I hear back. Thanks for the recommendation! The more I think about it, if I can afford to hire someone to do it, I should. I don’t have time to play HVAC man, and they’ll do a much better/faster job than I would.
Yeah, hiring a pro is not a bad idea. Your job is a machinist, his is HVAC.
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“A man’s got to know his limitations.”
-Harry Callahan
In my humble window AC experience, the answer to that question is always “no”.
Yeah. Stupid question, but sometimes the miser side of me can’t be stopped from asking. haha
Follow the calculations. I’ve heard that overpowered is bad too, for reasons that escape me. Something to do with it flips on and off too much or something.
Mike, I just bought a two zone system and it is going to be installed next week.
The guy installing it is a industry professional and a friend. He does this on the side, but works on HVAC controls for a living.
He uses Daikin exclusively. I’m getting two zones and 24k compressor and two condensers. With all hardware and plumbing/ accessories I’m looking at ~4K$.
By the way the heat pump is basically baked in to most units and only cost a hundred extra.
Yeah, I misunderstood…when I first read “heat pump” I had visions of geo-thermal heat pump stuff. Most of the cheaper DIY models I’ve looked at have the ability to heat for not much extra. If it’s only a couple hundred or less to get that feature, I’ll go for it. It’s always nice to have options.
Thanks, Time. I’ll look into Daikin, as well. $4k dual zone, installed doesn’t sound bad. I suppose my single zone would be in the $3K-3.5K range.
It’s another 500$ for the install. I’m getting commercial pricing on the equipment.
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trshmnstr the terrible 18
Mojeaux 19
Grummun 20
whiz 20
one true athena 21
SDF-7 21
kinnath 22
l0b0t 22
Rat on a train 22
Tulip 22
Tundra 22
Grosspatzer 23
Ozymandias 24
Grumbletarian 26
Chump
TARDis 28
A very successful day, overall. 23 players, 19 at or above the T-line. Average score of 20.5. The Scrabble score was 36 for the second straight day.
And as you can see, Hyperbole won. Now, before any of you understandably accuse him of cheating, remember that I am doing the scoring this week. Rest assured, I would never help him win in any way whatsoever. I’m just as sad about it as the rest of you.
The boss has some new scoring system we’re keeping track of. “Common Letter Distribution”. He tells me it’s obvious what the numbers mean, so I won’t bore you with an explanation: 0 2 4 6 (1)
Lastly, trshy’s bot did pretty well today. No doubt this is the first step in his plan to take over the world. Narf!
What about the championship? Does the new installment start on Monday when the final of the current one is still going on?
Shit. I forgot about that.
*Hold Please
When the new one starts is a good question that Hyperbole will have to answer. I’m not privy to his tourney system.
Yes, I will be starting the new tournament tomorrow, anyone who didn’t report all seven days last week and wants in let me know (if you are not certain of your standing click my handle and you can see the tentative bracket) If no one else enters Tulip and I will be playing a ‘Win-in’ match tomorrow. Grrizzley and Not Adahn are still slugging it out for the inaugural championship.
On second thought, scratch that. I’ll start the next tourney after either Grrizz or NA wins the championship. I forgot that I wasn’t going to have the Champ be in the next tourney only play the winner at the end, also this gives non-participating Quordlers more time to enter if they so desire.
The Biden administration has offered to swap Brittney Griner, the WNBA player arrested for drug paraphernalia, for a convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.
They would consider this a win, somehow.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Viktor_Bout.jpg
Reading Bout’s wiki.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13348
How the fuck is this not an unconstitutional bill of attainder?
That’s incredibly pathetic.
HS gym class was “what do you want to play?” with the answer being either volleyball or floor hockey followed by “knock yourself out”. I don’t remember any actual “instruction” beyond 8th grade or so.
My high school was 4 classes per day, so gym would have been 90 minutes. It was probably 30 minutes of various exercises followed by 40 minutes of whatever game we were on (remaining time was changing).
But anyway, walking a mile takes 15 minutes. It’s something, but hardly a comprehensive exercise program.
Yeah, fair point. And you don’t even have to break a sweat.
CDC is recommending a COVID test for all domestic travelers.
And I’m going to fly twice in the next couple of weeks. I was actually excited to be able to travel without a mask.
Go
Fuck
Yourself
CDC
Shut down the CDC and execute everyone working for it.
That will be as successful as all their other covid policies.
YOU’D BE DEAD FROM THE COVID IF NOT FOR THE CDC
The promised storms aren’t coming and neither is the promised temperature decrease. Hmph.
You got a new AC unit. Fire it up.
Both units in the LR and BR are running.
Temp is down slightly but not enough to do without.
Marc Martel, kivkng ass as usual.
https://youtu.be/WOFplsuvTmQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D4dHr8evt6k
Let’s kick this shit off.
Happy Monday y’all.
Morning.
I have most of today off, and most of wednesday off. Aside from laundry, I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I’m just glas it’s below 70 in the house this morning.
Good morning, Sean, U, Tulip, & RoaT! Posting payroll today, and still covering for Reliable Co-Worker all week, so that should keep me occupado until the long weekend.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/05/22/philadelphia-penns-landing-shooting-french-toast-bites-teenagers-injured/
Fucking democrats.
Apparently they have a “knife violence problem” too.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/3-of-4-alleged-smash-and-grab-robbers-captured-after-striking-santa-ana-jewelry-store-police/
Fucking democrats.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/22/wuhan-assembled-monkeypox-strains/
Fucking what????
?
Sigh.
“In this study, although a full-length viral genome would be the ideal reference template for detecting MPXV by qPCR, we only sought to assemble a 55-kb viral fragment, less than one-third of the MPXV genome. This assembly product is fail-safe by virtually eliminating any risk of recovering into an infectious virus while providing multiple qPCR targets for detecting MPXV or other Orthopoxviruses,” posited researchers.”
Completely would be better. Far better.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-senate-nominee-john-fetterman-discharged-hospital-20220522.html
We still don’t know who is running against this fucking democrat. *sigh*
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/jif-peanut-butter-products-recalled-due-to-possible-salmonella-concerns/ar-AAXBfRl
Switch to sunflower seed butter. (No sugar.)
::checks lot numbers of current large jar of Jif and just-purchased pair of large jars:: Dammit!
What about returning it for a refund, huh??
I really don’t think Lexington itself is the root cause. It has seemed like a nice enough city when I’ve visited. ?
Mornin’, GT! Working on the second of the two large jars purchased last year. Checked product code and all is OK. But I knew that already since I’ve been eating the stuff without any ill effects. And why does autocorrect keep changing ill to I’ll?
Because the frequency of ill is less than the frequency if i’ll ?
This. Their algorithms don’t seem to do a good job with context. This gives me hope.
He doesn’t have a license to ill.
Good morning, ‘patzie!
Peanut butter lasts that long at your house???
It is a rare treat here. Gives me heartburn.
Oh, that’s terribly sad! I’m so sorry!
/
eatsused to eat peanut butter straight from the jarYeah, I lost 3 large jars to the ‘recall’. I had been stocking up as the large ones, let alone the large doubles, were scarce here for a while. Sigh
I have one small jar. Safe.
?
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/uvseon/here_is_a_baby_ring_neck_snake_i_saved_while/
So tiny!
Cool! Probably only a few days old.
Daily Quordle 119
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Bottom left is asshoe.
Agreed,
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Good thing I postponed the new tournament.
It’s good to be the king!
Actually I would have beat Tulip anyway 117 to 119, so tournament is back on.
Kidding, Tourney II will start after we have a Champion from the first one. My money’s still on Not Adahn.
Daily Quordle 119
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Mondays suck.
4 5
7 6
A UK team I am working on a project with flew into Texas this week, to boss-boss’s office, and boss-man flew there to join them.
They almost came to Jersey City and I would have been required to go in there this week.
Glad I dodged those bullets.
“Glad I dodged those bullets.”
When I started my ill-fated Lehman Bros. gig in 2008, I went out for a smoke outside of our office on 80 Hudson St. One of my coworkers pointed out two depressions in the outside of the building, leftovers from a shootout two weeks earlier. Nice place
Howdy folks, what’s up around the Glibs?
I have been busy with life and all the crap that goes with it.
Covfefe!
Covfefe! Crap! But not crappy Covfefe, life is too short.
Crappy covfefe is better than no covfefe.
*sips on a cup of Folgers crystals*
Nescafe Dark roast, 2 tbp. per cup, yummy!
My man!
It’s very good Covfefe!
I’m a parts driver now, what fun!
suh’ fam
what’s goody
Mornin’, Tres! Tall Covfefe, and communing with the Old Ones via my favorite tobacco: Dreams of Kadath.
I was surprised when I walk out of work this morning….47º in May?
At least the power is fully restored and Jugsy’s anxiety has waned.
Current titty status = calm
I have about 2.8 40-oz. jars of Jif I don’t dare eat. ?
Use it to bait mouse traps?
I already have two furry mouse traps, and they eat Iams.
Do you still need to set mouse traps?
Not a single mouse sign since I filled in the probable entry point and caught the last mouse in the house. I have dry snap traps out on the old passageways. I might clean them up if the house stays mouse free.
Last fall I caught more than 25 mouses in my garage in my newly invented water traps, then as winter set in and the snows came the mice must have stayed home and ate the corn they had stolen all summer/fall. Now no evidence now but like MacArthur, “They’ll be back”.
Morning to all you courageous folks, braving either the heat or the spring chill. 37 degrees American here to start the day. I was undecided about bringing in my little plants, made the right decision. Thy;ll live to freeze another day.
I hear the drums of war, getting louder and nearer.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/05/23/Joe-Biden-China-Taiwan-defend-military-invasion/4391653289766/
“Under the One China policy, Washington recognizes Beijing’s position that there is only one Chinese government and does not have diplomatic relations with Taipei.
At the same time, the United States sells weapons to Taiwan under a 1979 law and stipulates threats to the island are “of grave concern to the United States.””
How does this make sense?
None of this makes sense, the world has gone sideways, Black is Grey,
~S~!
Can confirm.
I’m up to 3.5 miles per evening, 5-6 evenings a week. I even ran for a short stint on my new titanium knees. Walking and sunshine do me good.