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Jiggy-Z

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  1. If I am not mistaken, and I'm not, that is a can of Pint House Pizza Electric Jellyfish in the back there. I would pound a couple of pints of that stuff after rock climbing a couple time a week in the before times. After I got vaccinated, I spied a 4 pack at HEB and got it thinking it would be like Nirvana after not having had it for over a year. I tried to like the can version but it was meh, especially considering how expensive it was. Undaunted, I tries a couple of pints from the tap a few weeks ago and it was still meh. Not sure what happened, but either they changed the formula or the vaccine has lessened my liking for all non Bill Gates associated products.
  2. Baba Yaga took what I said about not measuring calories and then added bunch of other stuff that you need to measure, which was not my experience at all. Calorie counting is for the masses will not work, especially if you are counting shitty food. It is just one more layer of diet administration that will inevitably get fucked up or lead to loss of momentum (again, for the masses). Eat the right things and the calories will follow, would be my solution on the diet side. Not really any need to monitor anything except the lbs once a week. Do that and there is little need to work out more than taking some walks and some basic calisthenics appropriate for your fitness level. But we are Americans, and long before calorie counting does us in, we will join a gym, get some home equipment, buy some workout clothes and inevitably fall flat when we can't make even the most minor adjustments to the eating habits that got us here. Its kind of like fishing. I have guys I fish with that are into every new lure or reel that comes out and rather than having faith in the stuff that works and spending time reading the water or honing presentation, they are in a perpetual cycle of new equipment or accessories that yields the results that were no better than the last time they went out. And the sad thing is that the time and money investment in the things that work is less than what they are doing.
  3. Counterpoint: My most effective diet and exercise regimen did not involve counting calories at all. I was 45 at the time, so it was not a young guy metabolism thing. It was kind of a paleo type of thing and it involved a lot of cooking but was pretty easy to do and opened up a whole bunch of eating options...and as others have said, it made it real difficult to eat junk food and sweets-they just didn't taste good or were too sweet. There was no doughnut or candy bar that could compete with some thick coconut milk poured over some raspberries. Mostly just a bunch of things that you needed to stay away from and one of them was not alcohol, at least for me. Just eat when you are hungry. The problem with it from an every man standpoint was that you needed to plan and shop. There were a lot of farmers market items and organic food, but you could pull it off without those more expensive items. I actually did the math on it and with eating at home so much much we actually saved money. I was on that for years, but one of my kids went vegetarian and complicated things from a logistics standpoint. That and I also got injured and had to modify workouts etc. The whole thing just kind of got chipped away at and lost steam.
  4. I remember reading in either In Defense of Food or Omnivore's Dilemma (both by Michael Pollan), that they had compiled research on on basically every diet in the world from ancient indigenous diets to the modern French diet and found that they were actually all pretty good. The lone exception was the modern "western" diet. Of course, this issue is more complicated than that, but that is a major factor if not the major factor. As long as were are throwing out personal weight and diet info, I will dovetail with my earlier post on stress and forces at play preventing healthy eating. 5'-11", 54, 185ish. I would like to be about 175 or less for rock climbing and general joint health purposes. I am knowledgeable in things diet and exercise. On occasion I balloon up to 200 or so without even knowing it (football season, covid, work etc.). I'm pretty good about stopping the gain at 200 and getting back down to the 180's in a few weeks either slowly or quickly and it is not real hard to stay there with minimal exercise, moderate alcohol intake and a sensible diet when you stay on top of it. However, there is always some incident, injury, occurrence, temptation, or unforeseen factor that crops up and requires adjustment, vigilance, and some kind of rework. It is just a grind. Some of this is just getting older as evidenced by my meniscus surgery in December. But damn, it just feels like it should be easier than this. I can only imagine what it feels like if someone is even just barely technically obese.
  5. Yeah. This stuff keeps happening. I remember when the first sex scandal broke and thought that would be the end of it until the second one broke. Then you start looking back in time and start thinking abut this. How many times has this happened over the centuries? And what other secrets are in the closet? The known stuff is pretty bad whether its the crusades, the inquisition (which nobody expected), sympathizing with the Nazis, arresting Galileo, etc. How many catholic churches had BSA chapters? I know mine did, and although I never made it out of cub scouts, I remember well the creepy scout building at the back of the church property. Thank god we only had den mothers in cub scouts.
  6. It is a common symptom of those who start a low carb diet (or really a just fewer carbs diet) to have about a two week period where they feel like shit or just a bit off. I think one of the lesser talked about fat issues is stress and pressure. Say you are not hugely obese but need to drop 20-30 lbs. You do your research, you know what to eat and realize you are going to need to plan more and cook more. You also realize that you need to do a bit of exercising, but having done your research realize also that you can't just go balls to the wall from the get go. So you make time for walking, yard work, playing with the kids, but not too much because you need to do some meal planning. Things are going good for a few weeks and you have dropped a few lbs, but work has some deadlines, kids have some events, its raining, you are having some guests over, etc. You fall behind, but you catch back up after a week or so. But there is more interference, its almost seems like there are forces at play trying to prevent you from living a healthy lifestyle. You soldier on, but temptation is everywhere-happy hours, beer after yard work, eating out. You have bills to pay, idiots to deal with, traffic, poor sleep, and you just want to chill when you get home, but you go walk and try to shoot some baskets. The next morning that ankle injury you in college is acting up. you need to adapt and change plans or a take day off. So this is just some pressure to lose a few lbs, but the tougher part is dealing with stress in the modern world, which has also gone way up in the last 40 years.
  7. Maybe it was built on a memorial park already..... but they only moved the headstones.
  8. Way to go. Not sure I could do every other day. Currently back on OMAD. Big Ass Salad, No Alcohol, and Walk everyday. Can't wait to start climbing again.
  9. Tonight's Episode: Jack Be Nimble, Jack be Dead.
  10. OK. Let's fill in some blanks. So in 2018 there was an engineering report that was commissioned by the board/HOA. Report comes out with findings and recommendations in 2019? Then, possible missing step I have not heard about...Report is received by a different structural engineer for actual plans and specifications based on report Plans and specifications issued as construction documents-when______________. Construction documents sent out for bids and proposals-when_______________. Contractor selected-when______________________ Contractor contracted -when__________________ Contractor submittal documents turned in and approved-when______________ Construction-when________________
  11. Seawater, perhaps not. I'm not sure how they deal with that. The pilings or drilled piers would be another interesting discussion. I think they are less likely to corrode given their limited access to oxidation even in the presence of seawater, but again, I am not an engineer, just a dumb concrete guy. I do have CSB on basement water intrusion: On the Austin Convention Center Hilton lowest level of the parking garage-The subterranean water proofing system and walls were installed incorrectly as was the French drain under the parking level. When the water table rose, the sump pump was unable to keep up and the French Drain system backed up. Before we fixed it there was regularly 3' of water in the basement. The solution was to abandon the installed French Drain system and install a new one along with a second sump pit and pump. Then, about 1,200 holes were drilled into the wall and were set with a manifold system, sealed and then piped to the sumps. The walls were then treated with a crystallizing compound that helped but did not eliminate seepage. It was several million $ to fix.
  12. From the article: The rectangular area is still standing. However, the ellipse shaped area in in the area where the video shows the initial collapse. Also, I just read a CNN article that had one of the tenants talking to her husband moments before or during the collapse. Where she said "there was a sinkhole that opened up where the pool was". Clearly the pool is still there so perhaps she meant the pool deck and perhaps what she saw was the pool deck collapsing onto the lower parking areas before the main building started its fall. I believe she was in one of the collapsed sections so no follow up yet from her.
  13. Looks like a double mat at the column, but yeah, no hidden beam rebar up in there.
  14. My first classical guitar was a Cordoba C5, what a piece of shit.
  15. The stripped area looks pretty thick there between the paint (10" or so) . Perhaps they dropped the slab around the column. No need to have a 10" parking deck.
  16. Would Skoal work for such a thing? Asking for a friend.
  17. You're just a regular MacGyver aren't you? The old one, not the new one.
  18. A lot of fawning over a dead deer. I'll see myself out.
  19. You could not pay me to work on that site. the whole thing still looks sketchy as shit.
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