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Jiggy-Z

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  1. I came away from that encouraged overall and at the same time discouraged about how far we have to go.
  2. Things start to happen at about that age and they get harder to fix. I'm 54 and they did for me. Before I start, a couple of things. On your low back: Stop stretching it immediately. Your back is in protective mode and need to be stable and heal. So keep with the drugs, ice and heat for a few days but no stretching, rounding or exercising it. Your low back is meant to be stable and there is a lack of mobility either in in your upper back or hips that is probably the culprit-probably a few other areas too. The good news for you is that this(back) appears to be muscular in nature as opposed to structural (disk, bone), or connective(joint/ligament/tendon) so it will heal quickly if you don't aggravate it. You sound like you have the right mindset and are not really overdoing it with working out, and if you have read any of my posts on workouts, you already know that even in your 20's you need to do very little working out in order to be in really good shape. With your weight loss you are now probably getting to about 20% BF which is really manageable from the not being a fatass issues. At this point in your life, stretching is going to be of little value unless you combine it with strengthening in your end ranges of motion. In fact, I would wager that some of your new found flexibility is to blame for most of your issues, because while you have created some new ranges of motion, there is very little strength or stability in that range. My computer is fing up. Will reboot and continue in a bit.
  3. Worst humblebrag evar.
  4. Told by my brother from his army basic training: There was this dude in his platoon or whatever they call it, that was a dim bulb. His name was Klegums. Despite having 20/20 vision he insisted on aiming his rifle with eye opposite the stock and could not shoot worth a shit. So he was already on the shit list with the drill sergeant. Its kind of an hilarious visual when you think about it. Then later, Kelgums gets caught jacking it to to some kind of science fiction magazine and is written up or an article 37 for misuse of government property. Drill sergeant finds out and calls Klegums out in front of everybody in the barracks: "Goddammit Klegums, whats this I hear about you jacking off to space ships and robots?" Kelgums doesn't answer and drill sergeant hands him a normal skin magazine. "here, use this next time, when you get out of basic ". Klegums ends up being the flag bearer for the platoon in some kind of final parade they do because he could not stay in step, so they figured it was best if he was by himself out front. Ended up being a big mistake because word had gotten around about his article 37 and rather than being hidden and unnoticed, he was out there for all to see and recognize. As my brother's platoon marched through the parade all the spectators were pointing and laughing at Klegums, making the "jack off" motion and moving their arms around like robots. Klegums was, of course, oblivious to the whole thing and was proudly marching out of step all by himself out front. Drill sergeant was so pissed off and humiliated, he made Klegums repeat.
  5. However, there is a little known codicil in the bylaws that permits such by concrete contractors such as myself when anticipating a large concrete placement that is cancelled by rain.
  6. I did not consider it a life changing event. I weighed the facts as I knew them, considered the Covid cases around people I know both severe and mild, and determined that getting the vaccine was the best decision much as it would have been had I been considering a vaccine dose for small pox, polio, tuberculosis, measles, mumps, or Q fever. There really is no virtue in just doing your damn job as a human being and taking advantage of the advances in modern medicine, it should just be expected as part of the obligation we have to ourselves and others.
  7. Snatch: what a mad caper of a film. Might need subtitles for the gypsy dialog.
  8. I called TEX from an airplane phone over the Pacific ocean. It cost a fucking fortune, but felt pretty damn futuristic compared to sitting on the ground in the Drum waiting for someone to come drop a class in person. This is how you humblebrag.
  9. Been awhile since I saw a really good brick fight:
  10. There was another video that I watched which was a much more dry and rudimentary presentation that made extensive use of original drawings, photos, and video. One of the things that that video kept harping on was real estate drone footage of the pool deck which never had a picture where there was not standing water even on sunny days. So its position was that the initial collapse was from poor drainage design (aided by failed waterproofing) which ultimately started the pool deck corrosion (chlorinated water and water logged beams/slab). That video also spent quite a bit of time on one particular beam in the parking garage which is seen in the the posted video. It is described as a 12" beam intersection with a 16" column and can bee seen freeze frame at the 2:58 mark in the posted video. The detail is correct and was noted on the original structural drawings. In any case, and as was stated in the video, collapsed pool deck should not=catastrophic failure.
  11. Thankfully the above video seems to indicate that the tenant reporting from above did make it out. I think.
  12. Best sequence of what we know so far:
  13. That is sooo Fredo.
  14. I wish Keith Jackson was still around to see this. I think I know just what he would say:
  15. Where is the dirty little whore?
  16. Ah yes, the Members Only jacket of college practice facilities.
  17. Might be funnier with Gundy's face...closer to the original and all.
  18. Two weeks ago cops found my BIL (Tampa Area) passed out in his car at a Chile's, took him to the hospital where he woke up an started verbally assaulting the staff, breaking equipment, and taking swings at nurses. They gave him a shot to calm down but because he apparently had pneumonia, he passed out again and had trouble breathing so they induced a coma and put him on a respirator. Of course when we first found out he was in the hospital, all they told was that he was in ICU on a respirator. That was tense couple of hours. That guy is a piece of work. He is an MIT grad-Million dollar head and a 5 cent personality.
  19. This is like Malikmas all over again.
  20. I wouldn't say that. They are like the parsley garnish on a nice steak dinner. Maroon parsley, because I'm sure they have that.
  21. Never, ever, ever route for OU, even if it seems like it would be good for Texas. Never.
  22. Back in the day (1980's) my parents got real churchy, or I should say more churchy. They were already pretty hard core catholics and my brother and I went to catholic school we made all the holy days and then some, prayed at home (rosary and all), had tons of Heavy ancient catholic reference books and lots of paperback books on theology, bios on 20th century catholics, and all the religious artifacts and nick knacks about. They got into the more evangelical side of things and they brought my brother and me to all of their conventions, services, and seminars. There was much good that came out of it and despite being very uncomfortable with it the whole things was pretty low key and the money side was more like passing of the plate after an AA meeting than what is going on in the mega church world, although there were plenty of t shirts, tapes and books to be had for the right price. My brother who was much more cynical and kind of an asshole, used to remark that the people that showed up to these things were a bunch of losers and were generally fat to boot (he used much harsher language). The point was is that these were people who were in need of a pick me up and it was ok to be poor, fat, unattractive, lazy, unsuccessful, submissive, and have a history of poor life choices because god still loved you and everything would be ok in the afterlife. It was a way of opting out and not taking responsibility in the worst of cases. These were people in search of a fix, a quick fix if we are being honest. It doesn't really matter whether we are talking about salvation, lowering your handicap, losing weight, stopping arthritis pain, taking hebal medicine, pyramid power, getting that can't miss fishing lure, Amway, or hiring that up an coming college football coach. There is always some con that gets you to believe that success will be yours if you just do buy these things or follow this little known formula.
  23. Jiggy-Z

    Getting old sucks

    Not sure if because old or new technology: I recently inherited my wife's smartwatch. (She was not getting optimal watch/phone interface performance so she switched to Apple product). So I get this thing up and running and all synced up and noticed the "sleep" function after a few days. I suffer from mild sleep apnea and thought lets see what's going on. So after a few days things are great. I get this little graph showing what my readiness levels are for the day after I get up and how much in the way of resources I recovered during sleep. So things are good and I am anywhere from 90-100% recovered upon waking and my sleep quality is great. Heart rate during sleep drops down into the mid 30's beats per minute, god REM, Deep and light sleep numbers. Then one day, I decide to have a nice pint of IPA around 8PM. I wake up the next morning feeling like shit, then I check my sleep stats. I am at 19% resources which was 6% lower than when I went to sleep. No deep sleep, no rem sleep, and my BPM dropped down to only 60BPM. Thinking this might be a one off, I repeated the experiment and same results (more alcohol yields even worse results). Not only that I have found that if I exercise (mostly walking) in any way past 8PM, my sleep also suffers and I feel it. So yay me.
  24. Unlimited online choices. Wanted to get a percussive massage gun to work out some knots on my shoulders. Holy shit. There were over 1200 options on Amazon. So instead of ordering a therapy gun and getting some relief, I had to spend a few days slumped over my phone to see every combination of stall force, amplitude, battery life, programmable settings, blue tooth options, styles, colors, reviews, noise, attachments etc. Finally got it ordered then was notified it was on back order for three weeks ...argh. Ordered another one and it worked out great, although at first I was not filled with confidence. User brochure title exactly as written: TRIGGER PIONTS THERAPY FOR MYFACIAL PAIN.....great.
  25. Poor camera work. You kind of lose the human scale.
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