I’m in quite a mood. I wanted to write about fitness. Maybe encourage everyone to take advantage of the weather and do something outside. Maybe make a joke about everyone overindulging this weekend. But I don’t have it in me because I’m so full of bile.
I keep watching public officials fail in public, often tragic, ways without facing any accountability. The French Revolution is making more sense to me.
Let’s start with the Uvalde school shooting. It’s bad enough the local police department and then some higher up at the Texas Department of Public Safety couldn’t accurately recount what happened. As the truth trickles out, we now know the local cops are a dangerous embarrassment. It turns out a gunman fired on them so they hunkered down because they could have been shot. No shit. It’s in the job description.
These brave heroes in blue called for all the back up they could get and they got it. Then they told the very people best qualified to confront the shooter to wait. Children were calling the police asking for help and these jackasses did nothing. The BORTAC unit that arrived finally decided to disobey the local cops and enter the school. Thank G-d they did. The awful carnage likely would have been worse but for their bravery.
What enrages me is the predictable lack of consequences. Being stupid, scared, or a coward isn’t a criminal offense. These cops can’t be sued by the parents because cops have no duty to defend you. I would like to think every cop (un)involved in this incident will lose their job and be drummed out of law enforcement but that won’t happen. Scott Israel got a new job. There just isn’t a way to fire a cop and keep them out of law enforcement.
Less deadly, so far, is the baby formula shortage. It’s been well reported in libertarian and right leaning media that half of all the formula is “sold” through WIC, each state negotiates with a manufacturer which result in over half the market being locked in, and federal regulations make it virtually impossible for foreign manufacturers to sell in the US. The claim an Abbott Labs plant was shut down due to tainted formula is garbage. The FDA shutdown the plant because four children suffered a bacterial infection. The bacteria was not traced to the plant, no contaminated formula was found, and the bacteria found in the plant does not match the bacteria in the infants. But that’s no reason for a bureaucrat not to turn a problem into a crisis. Will the agency change its ways? Will anyone in the FDA face professional consequences? We know the answer.
Our Dear Leader is on the precipice of forgiving some amount of student loans. He plainly doesn’t have the authority to do this. Pelosi said so less than a year ago. The Department of Education (warning: PDF download) said so. Will Biden be impeached for violating his oath of office when he implements this plainly unlawful idea. Of course not.
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What I should be doing this weekend
JFC. I need to go for a run.
Those police should be resigning in shame.
You are too kind. If I had a dead kid because of their cowardice [redacted].
They should line up on their knees, put their taxpayer funded weapon barrels in their mouths, and pull the trigger. One right after the other.
Uvalde will be their hell, worry not.
It ain’t fucking Dallas. It’s not a traffic jam or a Fortune 100 board meeting.
It’s where people pull over on the shoulder because they saw you coming in their review mirror and want to make sure you keep making time. It’s hard country where people must stick together, and these guys have broken the code. They can’t hide, they can’t go to the grocery, their children will be heckled, their wives will be ashamed. Maybe a church can help someone save himself from his nightmares, but don’t bet your horse on it. I’m not saying it’s right, but the easiest thing is to just leave town and try to start over……I would still be running: from my neighbors and myself.
Two months ago the same cops did an Active-Shooter drill at the same school. The training emphasized immediate action, even if they are taking fire, even if cops go down – the opposite of what they did.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/ny-times-reporter-posts-jaw-dropping-details-of-uvalde-police-active-shooter-training/
It’s going to take more training to get them past the notion of officer safety.
Maybe some seething hatred from the public will help.
Be a fucking shame if a couple of their houses burn down.
As a duffer that has money stolen by the government which then gives it to young people to go to college, hopefully to improve their own lives and those around them, I resent the proposal that now will pay the bills that they, the people in question, racked up. They signed a document stating that they would responsibly pay both the principal and the interest on the loan.
It’s called real life.
I personally would never loan money again to a deadbeat. Should be a question on any job application.
Have you ever refused to pay your college loans.. YES? NO? If no how much do you still owe and what are your plans to pay the loan?
As I predicted at the time I paid them off, they’re spitting in the face of those of us who made sacrifices and paid off our student debt in a timely manner. As a result, I start changing the way I approach saving for the future. Why play the chump? Why be the ant when the grasshopper gets made whole at the end?
Though I’m older than you, I know the feeling. My law school loans were just over twice my annual salary when I started working. The first year, I lived close to the bone while paying my loans. Over time, I paid them all off. I have no sympathy for today’s graduates with student loans.
I had $5,500 in student loans, most of which I paid off before I graduated.
So a few years ago I was at Target Christmas shopping and I was listening to two dudes in the electronics register station chatting about college and paying for it. One was asking the other one something like, “Why are you doing this when you could just take out a loan?” The other young man proceeded to explain the economics of a) living at home while b) going to community college while c) working. The first kid just didn’t know what to make of that. He sincerely could not grok the concept that you could do more than just go to school. Natch, I put in my 2¢ that Young Man #2 was correct, and was effusive in my praise.
I defaulted for awhile but paid in full when they caught up with me a few years later. I was a bit of a fuck-up in the nineties so that’s the excuse I’m going with.
You, me, and thousands of others who were fuck-ups for a while and still paid off our loans.
The most enraging thing to me is “they” spent decades convincing us that you had to get a 4+ year college degree to be successful. And plenty of people who now have successful technical jobs wasted time and money figuring out their skill-set didn’t meld well with the majority of Bachelor’s+ degrees.
And yet even in the face of this reality, “they” keep doubling down. Just this week, NoDak dropped all testing admissions requirements at the four year colleges. The given reason? Minnesoda did it (our two flagship colleges are on the border), and we don’t want to lose any
suckersstudents to the next door neighbor. Colleges/Universities have turned into nothing more than money making machines for the state and the bureaucrats who run them.I have a degree in linguistics and German. Totally prepared me for a career as a software developer. ?
Yep. My wife’s degree is in German arts and language, with a minor in Art History.
Totes prepared her for HR!
I wish we hadn’t fucked up the economics of colleges so badly. I’d love to take college courses in things that interested me. But not for hundreds of dollars per credit. Especially not now that we have the internet. Traditional secondary education should be pricing itself into obsolescence. Would be if they didn’t have the government protecting their monopoly.
Yeah, I had dreams of going for a CS masters but it’s probably not happening.
Yes, as well as those who joined the military to get the GI bill and avoid a mountain of debt.
Suckers.
Mood music
Glibfit: Weight is down. Haven’t had much of an appetite, which isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Spend too much time being pissed.
Moar mood music.
OFFS – 10K isn’t even a dent for a lot of them. The loudest activist types will Rhee! that up to 50K at least.
Remember back when it took an act of Congress to spend $millions?
JFC. I need to go for a run.
That’s an idea.
Once my body processes a little more of this last Irish coffee I had, I’ll go outside and get a little work done outside. Then on to a liberty meet-up.
Training in the gym has been going OK. My weight went up a little. I am a little worried about making my goal of being at or below my weight before I left for FreedomFest 2021 before I leave for FreedomFest 2022. Especially since I’ve been indulging this weekend. On the other hand, when I look in the mirror, it looks like I’m at a lower bodyfat than I was last year. Later this week I’ll take waist and other bodypart measurements to see.
Back getting better?
Measurements are way more important than weight.
I’d say there is not much of a change with respect to my disc herniation.
I can tweak it if I’m stupid about how I move.
I talked with the trainer I’m working with now about getting back to squatting. He’s having me work on some deadlift variations (trap bar paired with deficit deadlifts) and split squats paired with belt squats. I have no problems with any of them except split squats. I’ve had some problems keeping my balance with them. But nothing related to the herniation.
You didn’t have surgery yet, correct?
It sounds like you are moving forward, regardless. Good work!
Correct. No surgery. I went through a round of painful cortisone shots which helped. Not “I think helped”. They helped. It was really difficult to do many things before them because of the pain. Once things settled down from the shots, I felt much better and was able to do more.
Chafed, you and Mark Steyn we’re on the same wavelength this weekend.
In one of his rare unscripted audio-only W&A shows, he goes into how nothing works anymore. It’s a bit of an odd opening, about his sick cat, but he builds on it by recounting that all of the “systems” we used to count on or at least comply with have completely unraveled.
When he segues to the Texas debacle, you can hear the anger rising, and it’s no longer “anger and disbelief”, it’s now anger and complete lack of surprise.
I don’t recommend it for anyone with blood pressure problems, but I found it cathartic to hear my vague thoughts and instincts being articulated with a smidge of humor.
https://www.steynonline.com/12492/texas-messed
Q and A.
Stoopid fat fingers!
I may listen later when my blood pressure is down. Your kitty is adorable.
Thanks. Felix is a good boy indeed.
I think if you’re in the right frame of mind, Steyn is very enlightening and even therapeutic if you think of it as a meeeting of the minds rather than an impotent rant:
Chafed!
Good rant. But everything you wrote about is an argument for becoming even more GlibFit. I stopped listening to podcasts while I lift and switched back to music. Instead of becoming poisoned with rage, I am literally escaping from the negativity.
OK week. Somehow I fucked up my foot, so my walks were a little shorter. Lifts continue to go up. I need to incorporate some HIIT once a week.
My 30 day experiment with more calories and adding in carbs was very successful. I really could feel the difference in both the weight room and my recovery. Gained 5 pounds, but my waist stayed the same. I’m gonna keep with this plan. I am still too thicc in the middle, but I should be able to attack that over time. I don’t want to torpedo my lifts by cutting calories.
I also need to add a HIIT session once a week. My cardio isn’t where it should be.
Have a good week, GlibFitters.
I somehow tweaked my right knee, so the swimming pool is becoming even more important in keeping active without hurting the joints.
Had a mixed bag as far as nutrition went last week. Lots of wonderfully healthy seafood while in Imperial Beach, but then ate junk along the drives to and from.
The beautiful flowers I’ve inherited in this yard are good therapy too.
Road trips are brutal. I try to make sure I have plenty of beef sticks, jerky and even Kirkland protein bars. Very little sugar and a good amount of protein.
Sorry about the knee, but I’m glad you have the pool. When I was a runner, swimming was my go to when I fucked something up.
Some pics of the flowers would be groovy!
The beautiful flowers I’ve inherited in this yard are good therapy too.
🙂
My herbaceous peonies started to bloom. I’ll post pics in the forums in the next day or two.
You’re absolutely right Tundra. My anger is no reason not to workout. It’s quite the opposite in fact. I just couldn’t bring myself to write about fitness this week. That’s all I’m trying to say.
I absolutely get it. I get to the point some days where my pursuits seem stupidly trivial and pointless.
If I haven’t mentioned it lately, this is my favorite Glibs feature and I remain astonished and grateful that you take the time to help us all with improving our health.
(The one thing that the monsters generating these psy-ops don’t want us to have!)
Thanks. That means a lot.
I can’t take topical or political podcasts lately. Dana Carvey, Gilbert Gottfried reruns, et cetera, sure.
Sorry, but this is the song that runs through my head all patriotic holidays.
/looks down at DKM shamrock flag shirt
Good to see you’ve rejoined the conscious.
That was meant lightheartedly, but could be read as nasty. Not meant that way.
Understood in the way it was originally intended, no insult taken.
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Wasted too much on bottom left. I needed one more round.
March or Die and the French Foreign Legion.
Ok, glibfit question….how long would you folks generally wait before doing an exercise if you had pulled a muscle.
Wed I had just started my workout. Normal stretching, warm up cardio done. Started my step exercises for my knee PT. 2 exercises complete no issue. Last set of reps for the 3rd exercise – I suddenly pull a muscle in the middle of my back behind my heart/rib area. (step up, knee up, holding 15lb kettlebell out in front of me). Hurts like crap. Normally I only pull muscles in my lower back or neck – never felt it in the middle like that. Quit the exercise and take a breather – stick to leg only exercises for the rest of the workout. Back gives me hassle all day – esp for movements like pulling a door open, etc. Next day, was supposed to be my upper body focus day but didn’t want to take any chances. It had been feeling a lot better by the evening and overnight but still some soreness and really wary about doing something with an overhead press or similar and hurting myself.
Talked to my PT at my Friday appt and she thought it shouldn’t be any real issue if I take it down a weight or two. Will try my upper body routine again starting Tues. Just always feel anxious about something like that – or my ab machine exercises or others like that. Guess there’s no real rule of thumb on how long to let a muscle cool off.
Generally, I let pain be my guide after hurting something. It’s important to move, but not with an intensity or volume that prevents healing.
To put it another way, I have no hard and fast rule.
Yeah…what throws me off – esp for my back – is whether an exercise other than the original one – is going to affect it adversely or not.
I tweak my rhomboid with alarming frequency. Always a form issue (squat, primarily). I usually just work through it. Movement heals, resting often does nothing.
I don’t disagree with your PT, but I wouldn’t drop too much weight and I wouldn’t wait very long to get back to the regular weights.
Well in this specific case, I understood it to be going from a 15lb kettlebell to a 10lb kettlebell next time I do the workout – prob Wed – just to be safe.
Yep. that sounds reasonable.
20 minute refractory period if by muscle you mean member.
Glibfit:
The reason I’m just now getting on is I spent the day hiking Peaked mountain. It was an out-and-back hike, the first four miles were delightful going along the edge of a lake and many mountain streams. Then the half mile up to the summit was just a brutal scramble, where the dogs even had to plan their way up.
Somehow, the hike back was vastly more difficult than it had been on the way up, and I’ve never felt as drained afterwards. And I don’t think it’s just my imagination — Lily slept in the car which she hasn’t done since she was eight weeks old.
Also, flies suck. I id get some great pics for next week.
Coming down the mountain is always harder.
Not for me. It can be slow because I need to pick my steps more carefully, but I haven’t had to stop and catch my breath on a descent.
All the little up-and-down that I hadn’t noticed on the way up made itself amazingly apparent on the way back. I can only guess that the last part of the climb took more out of me than I realized. Or maybe, since this is a longer hike and we started later because of people not arriving on time, it was well after lunchtime before we started back — I wonder if that had something to do with it?
I think your guess is right. Assuming it wasn’t added heat (or other weather change), my guess is you crossed a threshold of total exertion without realizing it, quite possibly because a scramble is different and so your mind doesn’t process the tiredness you’re accumulating especially when there’s a summit (and an easy downhill after, ha!) to look forward to.
There is an old saying among mountaineers, “Accidents happen on the descent.” A combination of being mentally tired, physically tired, and emotionally down leads to stupid outcomes. Hence the corollary saying, “Great climbers always die on rappel.”
Glad you and the pup made it down okay.
When it comes to rock climbing, yeah, the only times I’ve fallen have been climbing down.
Last July I did the north side of Ovelook Mountain, the side most people don’t do because it’s twice as long and the trailhead is further for most people to get to. Going up was a breeze, but the first 50 minutes or so is undulating and rocky. On the way back, it’s absolutely brutal because you’ve already been hiking for a good 4-1/2 hours.
A rocky downhill trail is always worse for my old knees and hips.
The south side is two miles of maintained gravel road up to a communications tower, after which it meets the north side with another half mile to the peak (my avatar is me at the peak from, I believe, 2015). It’s also a lot closer to Woodstock, which is why everybody does that trail. Heck, it was a field trip for my class back in the third grade, that’s how relatively easy it is.
That actually sounds pretty fucking awesome!
Downhills always kick my ass. But I’m old, so…
Do you use hiking poles? If not, invest in some. Now.
As there appears to have been interest, here is an open Zoom/Happy Hour/Holiday gabfest for those who would like it. No moderator, no host, no rules.
Anarchy Zoom? It says the host needs to start it.
Huh. I logged in and closed out of it, thought that would keep it open. I’m connected now to hand over controls to anyone who steps in.
Lily has woken back up and wants to go to the dog park. Would that I had the stamina of a dog.
Ditto! May I borrow a cup of verve? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY5WkZJy_o8
Have some more
Feel like a bit of a moron. After talking to some buddies at work, decided to subscribe to spotify to solve my “lack of itunes on tablet” problem for traveling and when my ipod eventually bites it…..checked the website today and noticed it’s actually free with ads, etc at the basic level. Guess I could have been listening to current Rogan for a while now without any issues.
I’ll probably still sub sooner or later, but at least I’ve got it set up across my devices for the next time I leave my laptop at home…
Bout to do a nice little 2 mile each way down and back to get some dinner at a waterfront place – perfect for the holiday weekend. Try out a few more local beers, etc.
Tomorrow I’ll make some more garlic shrimp and cauliflower rice – should last the rest of the week.
If you want to listen to music for free try somafm.com
It’s a great internet set of internet radio stations of various genres. All totally free and without ads.
A new face for the Borg Warner trophy.
Good.
I’m in quite a mood. I wanted to write about fitness. Maybe encourage everyone to take advantage of the weather and do something outside. Maybe make a joke about everyone overindulging this weekend. But I don’t have it in me because I’m so full of bile.
Can relate Chafed. Ya, the cop thing is……..well, a thing.
Mutherfuckers!Our heroes in blue.OK, rant time.
My back is pretty jacked up; my L4-5 disk is half the thickness it is supposed to be, with a massive bulge that is impinging on the nerve that controls the functioning of my left foot. Which, due to this, I can barely get to lift, the toes do not work as intended, and I walk like a fucking crab. And I am only 51. My neurologist has been pushing for a surgical fix to this for like two years now, but do to the idiocy of the current medical establishment and its Covid: all the time! policies, I have been shunted around. First to a neuro-surgeon who thought it was due to my MS*. Then physical therapy, then an injection, followed by more physical therapy, followed by another injection. Then, as my neurologist is going “what the fuck?” and sends me back to the first surgeon, who sends me to a second surgeon, who goes “yeah, we can fix this. It’s outpatient surgery, you will be out in 45 minutes.”
Insurance company wants a bit more info, and that second doctor sends it too them. And then they approve the surgery. Yay!
*Tele-medicine. Did you look at my MRI? Can you really see me walk well enough to diagnose anything over ZOOM? Idiot.
And the fucking doctor has not called me back. Son of a bitch!
I also have a squashed/bulging disc L? that they say is squishing my sciatic nerve. The pain used to be horrible. Now I notice it come and go depending on what I eat. This week I had to be up at 3AM for work. I doubled my coffee intake to do this and now my wrists hurt. I am convinced our aches and pains are not all use related. It just might be related to what we consume.
I agree with this. I know people who manage all sorts of conditions just with nutrition.
GlibFit purchases today was a meat grinder. I almost went for the 1 HP model but then figured out the plate sizing of meat grinders. Holy crap, I am not grinding that much meat. I went for the smaller 1/2 HP model with the #8 plates. I am sure in 6 months I will be mad I did not buy the bigger one.
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/GQ1J0UNQwI0
Reminder for folks – think I missed the opportunity earlier this week due to work schedule – check out Travis Corcoran’s “Escape the City” 2 vol work – reams of detail on tools, prepping your own meat, equipment, etc
Book or YouTube?
Books. I’ve yet to pull the trigger on buying these, but probably will do so before the end of June. (Traveling for around two weeks starting in a few days.)
Will you write it up for What Are We Reading? And, fyi – it’s on Kindle Unlimited.
Finished it last year, but sure. What’s the date cutoff again?
Mood music
Your daily dose of Sanford & son:
https://youtu.be/4KCdNy8ugaQ
Camping.
So good!
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I ordered some collagen supplement capsules the other day, based on a comment by Spud last week. We’ll see if it helps anything.
Please let us know.
Bone broth. Make bone broth.
This. And eat meat on the bone as often as you can.
I mix some powdered unflavored collagen (along with other things) into my coffee every morning.
I use it in my pre-workout. What brand do you buy?
I buy this one as a Subscribe & Save on Amazon. It was recommended in an article because it has more types of collagen. It was also a little cheaper than the brand I was buying.
Multi Collagen Protein Powder 32 oz | Type I, II, III, V, X | Hydrolyzed Collagen Peptides | Keto & Paleo Friendly | Unflavored & Gluten Free | by Horbaach https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B087775RX7/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_C1AP30WBH1DYXTP0KBH2
Cool! Thanks!
This is the one I use.
https://www.amazon.com/Sports-Research-Collagen-Powder-Supplement/dp/B00XQ2XGAA
Thanks.
I have no idea how it fits into the mix, but this is the one I usually buy.
My wife also uses the collagen powder daily and insists it helped eliminate some hip pain she had before. She’s not a coffee drinker so she puts it into a cup of reduced calorie hot chocolate as part of her breakfast.
It also depends on the brand. My sister tried several until she found one that worked. I now swear by it.
I missed all this the first time around; what is it supposed to do?
Weeding never ends. I cleaned up the new stuff in the areas I hit before, and made more progress. Lots of bending and squatting and pulling. I’m able to do more and not as sore, so good.
We had perfect weather yesterday and today for weeding – got the garden beds cleared. We hadn’t really planned on doing much planting and we have a number of volunteers: tomatoes, dill, cilantro, chard. Now that the weeds are out, I may plant some jalapenos. Looks like the rosemary died off (I think a late freeze after it started fresh growth did it in) but the sage is going gang-busters. Lost 2 blueberry bushes but the other 3 are doing well.
My rosemary plants didn’t make it through winter. Still trying to figure out what happened there.
All this VA rain has been fantastic for the garden. Tomato plants are shooting up.
They’re Mediterranean plants. Semi-arid and warm is their jam. I always bring my (container) rosemary inside for freezes. I was a few hours late one time and it had a layer of ice on it when I brought it in. It took an aggressive prune and 3 months for it to recover from that. It was very unhappy with being frozen.
I bought the thing while I lived in VA, but it didn’t really start thriving until we moved to TX.
I read your comments about yard work last week, but too late to respond.
I’ve been doing lawn and landscape maintenance for a living for 35 years. What you described last week – weeding, trimming back plants, bed cleanup – takes more out of me than just about any other type of work I do (especially if hills are involved). It’s a great full body workout and calorie burner. About the only job that wears me out more is renovating landscape beds – grubbing out stumps and removing old rock.
If you are working in landscape beds, Snapshot or Preen is your friend. You’ll still get weeds and tree saplings, but it makes a big difference.
Past two days i have been doing nothing but pulling weeds.
Tons of “pigweed”
Pigweed is amazing. It will grow into small tree sized plants if given the chance. My dad told me as a kid they called it King Weed.
Thanks!
*tokes*
Also, doing better on avoiding carbs. Getting back to eating meat or fish plus salad or non-starchy vegetables. Helps that my garden is now producing good lettuce. I will have fresh peas soon, but I love them even though they are starchy. And really, i’m not fat because I ate too many fresh peas.
Nice.
Nice job, Tulip!
How many times a week do you eat fish? I only eat it about a once a week, as it doesn’t fill me up for some reason. I usually eat salmon, sardines and mackerel.
Having good lettuce in the garden must be fantastic.
I’ve been a fan of Mark Sisson’s for a long time. He publishes a weekly newsletter and I thought today’s was apropos:
For today’s Sunday with Sisson, I want to remind you that this is an ancestral health newsletter. I’m still a Primal guy who looks at health, at life, at everything through an evolutionary, ancestral lens. It’s not the final word, but everything I encounter and consider always gets put through the evolutionary prism. Great way to suss something out.
Take the recent tragedy in Texas, the latest in a long line.
Because it’s not just a tragedy in Texas, or the last one in New York, and so on down the line of all the tragedies in this country. There are tragedies occurring everywhere, all the time, across the entire world. There are things happening as we speak that would make your heart break.
But before you make the tragedy your entire world, before you start putting yourself in the position of the people to whom it actually happened by watching videos and reading accounts and learning about the lives of those who died, consider that what you’re doing is historically and evolutionarily novel.
Until telecommunications, we were physically barred from knowing about all the tragedies occurring all over the world. If we were lucky (or unlucky), we might hear about something from the next town or county over. When we did hear about something tragic happening, it was usually involving someone we knew or an area or population physically close to us. We had to get involved. We had to take it to heart.
Now? Now we feel things that happen two thousand miles away, and I don’t think it’s good for us.
I’m not saying not to watch the news or follow current events. I’m just saying you should take a step back and realize what you’re asking yourself to handle. Especially now, when news coverage is so vivid, so constant. It’s not just like reading something in a history book—where this event happened to that person. When you engage with the news, there are twists and turns, there are questions and answers that only lead to more questions. You get sucked into an evolving plot line.
What I’m saying is take care of yourself. Don’t expend too much energy or give too much of your heart to something you’re not prepared for. And I’d argue that very few (if any) of us are prepared to handle the burden of constant, unceasing tragedy.
It seems like cosmology is making vastly more progress than it did when I yas younger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3jGWXeBtPo
More cosmology
The difference in starting your plants early.
This day in 2021: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/VIw1Lab7QhWv6oZRUYlHvg.VAmHQOWElEDA9RDs_eJkMu
Today: https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/ZOmbqETCQyyT7pAn04tEsw.YU2CI7ReVF3jkTfmdS-FYm
I start mine in the house, but they look like 2021. I have no grow light.
Where are the the guns?
Everywhere.
Mine were about 1/2 way in between, some peppers were in blossom, I started them in small peat pots. Regardless of what some people think 2 shop lights and fluorescent tubes make great grow lights. I suspend the fixtures on small chains so I can raise them as the plants grow. I transplanted 20 each pepper, cabbage and tomato. Now the problem will be getting down low enough to pick them. Still have 2/3 of the garden to plant, I’m not sure about that part but I do love fresh corn and it’s time to get that in the ground.
Being stupid, scared, or a coward isn’t a criminal offense. These cops can’t be sued by the parents because cops have no duty to defend you. I would like to think every cop (un)involved in this incident will lose their job and be drummed out of law enforcement but that won’t happen
Hunkering down in cowardice is one thing. Those can resign in shame. Actively preventing and restraining the parents from trying to rescue their own children while doing nothing about the shooter is another. I would like to see every single officer involved in restraining the parents, including tasing and forming a wall with hands on rifles, to be tried as accomplices to murder.
Impeding a life saving effort should be a tort. Actionable especially against cops. I saw the Puppy-blender was considering “failure to protect” torts as all “no duty to protect” is case law not statute.
Gf picked up a nine lb pork shoulder. Guess we’re gonna have some pork this week.
Ribs will be on the Traeger tomorrow afternoon.
Good rant. Lifted today and then chased/carried kids around. Nothing like getting another 10k steps after you lift. One upside I’m seeing among the parents who invite my 8 & 6 year old to birthday parties. They say “leave them with us, we got them”. I take advantage even when I have nowhere to be. This is the best of raising kids. Let your kids learn to behave for other parents, let other parents learn to trust random people with kids. That’s my bright spot of the day. If we go back to that with kids of this generation, we’re moving forward. I found random errands to run so my son could get used to me not being there.
This is the best of raising kids.
Among the most important, certainly.
Free-range kids have such a huge advantage.
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Ted S. 18
The Hyperbole 18
whiz 20
Not Adahn 21
Sean 21
Tundra 22
PudPaisley 23
Grosspatzer 24
kinnath 24
JG43 24
Tulip 24
Grumbletarian 25
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Cannoli 27
grrizzly 27
l0b0t 27
Grummun 30
MikeS 116
robc 121
Chump
Web Dominatrix 309
I am disappoint. 22 players, 45.27272727 Average, 6/16 Tundra Line Split, another 309!. Say what you will about libtards but I bet I could assemble a team of “I’m with her” gun grabbers that would put up better numbers than that. For shame.
In other News, Not Adahn lost his title to whiz in the first ever championship match 20-21. Tourney the Third starts tomorrow, if you would like a chance to take on whiz for the title enter now. I expanded the entry pool to those who posted score at least six time last week, so Ozy, TARDis, and l0b0t are playing whether they like it or not\
Good Quordling and Good Luck.
I made some sad little trees
https://pasteboard.co/iyVSyHHG3hYG.jpg
Yay KK!
I made over 30 baby apple trees from seed this year, planted 9, give the rest away. Hopefully one day they will have apples for the kids to steal.
Your trees look better’n mine though
Funky colors. I like it.
Nice!
I really like that! I really mean it. The colors, the style…keep it up. Very cool.
I like it!
I think I can see Westernsloper shredding down the sheer face.
Put the First in the coconut and shake it all about.
Just saw Top Gun Maverick. It was too on the nose, perfectly tidy, totally predictable. And I loved it for that. What can I say. I go to the movies expressly to be emotionally manipulated.
My wife is watching it right now. I think her feedback will mirror yours, at least if the reviews I’ve heard are correct. I don’t do movie theaters, but I may rent it to watch at home, which is a rarity for anything made after 2000.
It’s also the cause and cure for a nostalgia boner.
We went today. I don’t think I’ve had as much fun in a movie in a while, tbh. Totally kickass in IMAX, and yes, it’s a nostalgia bait for my gen, esp those who loved the orig (ME ME ME) with a simple story, but y’know, at least it has one. That’s more than most of these “commercials for the next film in the franchise” flicks have
Also the trailer for MI: Dead Reckoning was in front which I hadn’t seen, and my fave Ilsa is going to have a sword fight! I love how they just keep giving Rebecca Ferguson cooler and cooler shit to do.
I never saw the original. ?♂️
The unthinkable has happened. The Bro is…is…sick. Normally, my Firsting gives me super immunity from the viruses that plague lesser men. I feel as though I have been neglecting my duties, and am thus being punished by The Great Firster as a result. But I know that he has chosen me to carry The First That Will Change Everything to term, and would never do anything to put it at risk.
Hope you get well quickly and can get about the serious business of Firstness. Did the Chinese one lay you low? A couple of my hyper-vaccinated old friends have admitted maybe, just maybe, they were vaccine manipulated.
It must be all those seconds.
The sloppy ones?
Larf
Is it just firsting sickness?
Krom has abandoned you.
This NASCAR stage racing is tedious af
Day 8 of a 60 day Atkins-ish
dietchange in lifestyle. High points of the plan are no grain carbs (wheat, rice), no processed sugar, no second helpings. Goal is to do 60 days strictly and evaluate from there. The hope is that it becomes more or less permanent, just without having to pass up on the occasional bun for a hot dog and the like.So far so good. It’s getting easier to ignore the foods I was previously eating. The increased meat intake has knocked down some of the hunger, but I’m also retraining myself to be okay with being hungry sometimes. I’m already below the lowest weight (276) I’ve been in the last 8 years, which is a good motivation to keep it going.
FIFY
Fat’s what keeps you sated.
That’s what Tres would say.
Carry over from last thread (and mildly on-topic “health related”)
This is wonderful news considering I’m going in for cancer surgery on Sunday.
Also, I slipped on loose gravel at my house and fell on the ribs that I broke 5 years ago. They are either bruised, cracked, or broken. I never even went to urgent care, the treatment is the same: rest and pain killers. This happened about three weeks ago and I am still suffering. I’m finally off of the codeine at night but can still barely get out of bed in the morning.
Best wishes for the surgery. Hopefully the horrorscope doesn’t come to fruition, and it’s a nice clean, successful procedure.
Hoping for the best for you with the surgery!
The “unforseen catastrophe” part is the car accident on the way back from the surgery.
Thanks! And, uh, thanks! The Mrs is worried about driving around Denver by herself while I’m in recovery.
Best wishes for you!
Go kick cancer’s ass, BH! Prayers and well wishes coming your way.
If you said previously I missed it; what is the diagnosis? Is the hope to cut it out and be done with it?
Damn that sucks BH. Best of luck with your surgery, hope it is a minor one and you’re better than ever after.
Hope the surgery goes well, as in completely eradicates that damn thing. Silver lining: post-op meds might help with the ribs.
Oy vey! The ribs will heal; go kick cancer in the teeth!
Get better quick, Hobbit. We need you!
Thank you to all.
Like many older men, I have prostate cancer. Unlike most cases mine is somewhat aggressive. On the advice of two doctors I am having the prostate removed. Hopefully this will deal with it once and for all.
Ooof. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Every time I hear a cop say “vee hick ul” I wanna kick em in the “Tess teek ul”.
お久しぶり。OT- Any idea what something this size in Beppu, Kyushu would go for?
Inside a Custom Luxury House in Japan
I love lots about it, but in typical Japanese fashion I feel like maintaining everything on the inside yard is going to be a major major PITA. Not only the gardening, but however the hell it drains and getting access to the roof and the siding and a bunch of other stuff. And WTF do if the tree dies. Cut it into pieces drag it through your kitchen and out the genkan. After that buy a smaller tree that fits the turn through the genkan to the hall and through the kitchen again.
OTH, it’s Japan it will be torn down in 20 years so no need to worry about maintaining it…
Beppu is awesome. Wanna get back there someday.
I’d like to visit Kyushu one day. It’s where the mother of one of my son’s friends is from.
Plus the dialect is a hoot!
Fukuoka looked like the most US city I’ve been to in Japan. Was supposed to go here but didn’t make it
https://jp.toto.com/en/knowledge/visit/museum/
and then there’s this, also in Kitakyushu
https://www.gururich-kitaq.com/en/spot/former-osaka-merchant-ship
Expected that Museum to be in Africa.
“…I bless the bidet down in assfrica. Gonna take some time to do a number two..” ?
Got a nice ten mile hike in today with a 2700 foot elevation gain. Two weeks from today I will be going to overnight backpack up Mt Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48. I have a pretty good baseline fitness, but I’ve been a bit worried as with three little kids and life responsibilities I don’t really have the time I would like to fully train for it. We are at sea level, so training at altitude is not easy, I’m just gonna have to make due with getting up there to trailhead a couple days early to acclimate a bit before we set out. I’ve backpacked at high altitude over 14k in Peru, but that was many years ago and fifteen years back I tried and failed to summit Shasta so I know what it feels like over 12,000 feet. It feels like you are hella old. I’m excited though to do it, think we get it done.
Get there a day or two early and hike up the trail some and then return to Whitney Portal (I assume that is where you are camping) for the evening and sleep.* Maybe carry some water up with you to cache for your ascent. Leave way early and get done what you can by headlamp and the moon. Keep hydrated and keep feeding the furnace so you don’t “bonk” or hit the wall. Flaked mashed potatoes with lots and lots of butter will help you at dinner. (We swore by them when we were winter climbing in CO or CA.)
You already know it will suck at altitude. Just get your kids into the zen of the suck. The summit is worth it. On your way back you will pass below the summit of another 14er, Mt Muir. Take a side trip and bag a second summit since it is only about 300 ft above the trail.
* A good prep hike is to head up towards the East Face on a trail that splits off from the main trail. You’ll see some new terrain that is much more scenic than the trail and few people.
YAY TULIP
What?
you were host
How was I host? I thought there was no host
I don’t know how it happened but I remember seeing a pop-up earlier saying you were the host now, and then when you quit it shut everything down. I didn’t think that would happen with Neph’s open meeting.
I’m sorry. I had no idea.
I didn’t think about it until you left; but I do remember a pop-up about you being the host. I didn’t really consider it being odd at the time.
What happened to the zoomie?
And to think I was gonna give you another shot a picking out a donut for me.
Sack of shit Ben Mankiewicz can’t help lying about communist infiltration and sympathies in Hollywood. GFY.
His little TCM movie talks? Back when we had cable I’d fast forward through more of them than I’d watch. Pissed me off when they announced he’d be taking over for Osborne.
Yes. Robert Osborne was a giant. I’d pay money for a Classic TCM with just his hosting.
In re what? What are you watching / listening to? Isn’t he one of the Young Turks? ?
He was. Then he move on to hosting at TCM and takes any and every opportunity to spout bullshit about the “blacklist” era of Hollywood. I haven’t watched in years, I can only imagine how much worse he’s gotten.
I didn’t know that. I do find him annoying for some reason that I could never pin down. Just that kind of weenie attitude.
Well, his uncle was indeed Herman M. Maybe I’m too forgiving. That Aussie lass you can keep!
I do miss R.O. awfully.
Yes, TCM. Was watching Destination Tokyo, with the Skipper’s old man.
Zooms over? well fuck, I was just about to grace you all with my presence.
Start one.
Well…?
A little ray of sunshine…
Pelosi’s husband arrested for DUI
I’d let that one slide. If anyone had a reason to drink and flee…
Hanging offense.
Be doing that guy a favor.
Sorry coming in late. Busy busy day and weekend.
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I’ll add mine in too, belatedly:
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Looks like the Ukrainians are getting the crap kicked out them in Donbas the last couple of days.
FWIW, the propaganda has mostly died out here.
That’s another way of telling us that the proxy war isn’t going well for DC. When you’ve lost Kissinger.
I can’t believe he’s still alive. What is he, 120?
That’s what happens when you sell your soul.
I was surprised he was still alive and checked out his Wiki page; a long life appears to be genetic. His parents and brother all lived into their 90s.
JFC. I need to go for a run.
I know that feeling; I was just shot this week and didn’t feel like doing much, but I did force myself to do 30 minutes on the rowing machine yesterday.
Then I walked around 9 miles, cheering on the wife as she ran a half marathon and then walking with her for quite a bit until we had an excellent brunch[1].
A bit of a snooze on the couch watching the end of the Indy 500, then I got motivated and rowed for an hour watching a surprisingly entertaining F1 race.
I need to keep this momentum going into the short week.
[1] https://www.cafeluna-centralsq.com/brunch
Brunch under or over rated? Tough call.
Under. Brunch is great.
Over–!
I may be biased by my love of eggs.
Bloody Marys are pretty great too.
Under. Best possible meal.
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Bearded Hobbit: sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis and impending surgery (especially with cracked ribs bonus—ouch!!) But I’m glad the doctors caught it so they can shut it down before it spreads. Best wishes for the process and outcome: ??
I hope you get a chuckle out of this story about Alan Greenspan’s health from 2003. His wife must be a hoot. “He should be so lucky.” ??
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/enlarged-prostitute-indeed
Hyeksplosives – Don’t know if you’re still around or if you’re getting some sleep, but I’m trying out the forumlation for the previous discussion on meatball composition. I made the mix and formed them, but not sure when I want to stand there and cook them, and more importantly whether I should just cook them in butter and add them to sauce or cook them in sauce from raw.
depends on a) if you want a crust and/or browned flavor on them and b) if they have sufficient structural integrity to remain meatballs if put in the sauce uncooked.
I have no clue. This is the first time I’ve tried making them with this composition.
*I have no clue about the structure.
I’ll probably precook them in a pan, just to be safe.
Be lazy and bake them.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/baked-meatballs-recipe-1916542
I might, just because I don’t feel like standing at the stove today.
Perhaps late to the conversation but this recipe is what I use most often.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/pork-meatballs/
This current iteration is lamb and veal, because that’s the random ground meats I picked up. It’s too late for me to adjust the recipe for this run…
I hate shopping for games. There’s so much shovelware clogging all the marketplaces, it’s impossible to find the good stuff. And of course, my natural contrarianism means that A recommendation makes me not want to engage with the recommended media.
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Morning.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pPaNjDG0778
?. Emmah Toris
https://ktla.com/news/california/nancy-pelosis-husband-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui/
This should have a predictable outcome.
Oops. Looks like Sensei covered this.
Need more coffee.
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Let’s kick this shit off:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4VpE-0zitU
Good Morning Sean. (and everyone else here)
I hope its a good day for everyone. I have more weeds to pull and more plants to plant.
☕?
Good morning Sean, Tulip, NA, U, ‘bodru, and any lurkers! This cool flower – some type of lily or lily-related species, I suspect – is growing right by the edge of the patio here at TB. Does anyone happen to know its proper name? I’d been waiting to take a picture of it until all its buds had bloomed, but this morning may have been my last best chance. Besides – the back yard is getting mowed and weed-whacked today, and I’m half afraid something tragic may befall it. ?
Stars of Persia
Allium christophii
Cool! Thank you! ::looks it up:: Oh, that SO much better than “Persian onion”! ?
which is better than the “cinnamon starfish”
sup’ pimp-juice
Just chilling at TB on my “bonus day.” Later, its back yard work, cleaning a trouble spot in a rear gutter (before the next rain, which just happens to be predicted to coincide with our next Dragons game,) and starting to pull stuff together for the township “community garage sale” next weekend.
Ooooh! Other people’s junk that I could make my junk.
Ill have to drop by.
*waves*
I’m awake, and on topic, I’m heading to the gym.
Before I go: pictures of awesome people. I remember seeing this project when it first happened. I don’t remember how I found out about it. I was recently reminded of the project.
Gun nutz are weird.
Needs more FAL
suh’ fam
whats goody
They screwed up and gave me the night off- TALL CANS !
About to start on big front flower bed, then backyard, then canning chicken broth.