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Jiggy-Z

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Maybe it was built on a memorial park already..... but they only moved the headstones.
  5. Insulin container dose:
  6. 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.
  7. Tonight's Episode: Jack Be Nimble, Jack be Dead.
  8. 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________________
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Looks like a double mat at the column, but yeah, no hidden beam rebar up in there.
  12. My first classical guitar was a Cordoba C5, what a piece of shit.
  13. 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.
  14. Would Skoal work for such a thing? Asking for a friend.
  15. You're just a regular MacGyver aren't you? The old one, not the new one.
  16. Meanwhile, in a foyer in Northwest Hills:
  17. Na, just kids having fun in the summer.
  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.
  20. Can you dust for poison?
  21. OK. Whats going on in these pictures?: Before. Look at the parking garage area in the left foreground. The columns appear to be painted or bare concrete washed by the sun. Now look at the same area after the collapse and some demo work: From the preceding two pictures, it appears that there was a parking deck above the white portion of the columns both at the intact building and at the pool deck. In the first picture you can even see where a car fell down to the below deck farther back in the intact building structure. It looks like the parking deck just fell straight down as did the pool deck. So straight down that cars and pool furniture were not mangled. The collapse video does not show this area clearly, but just behind it is where the first section of main building started to collapse. The pool deck area is where there were problems from the engineering report. The collapse of the second main structure might have caused this area to pancake when its debris hit the parking and pool decks as well. Looks like the tenants in the standing structure were dammed lucky that the collapse stopped at just a portion of the upper deck parking/pool deck area. Now look at the whole pool deck area: It seems odd that where the second collapse came down on the pool deck, the deck collapse stops at the edge of the debris field, yet where the building did not come down by the top (passed the still standing umbrellas), the pool deck and parking structure nevertheless collapsed without direct hit.
  22. Had an acquaintance in college drink beer from a (his)Bass topsider. He was out for two weeks after that with some kind of nasty stomach infection. Imagine that. What a dumb ass.
  23. Pool deck still standing.
  24. Yes. It has been discussed here with citations of similar overload cases and was my first guess based on overhead video footage not showing some gaping sinkhole. However, based on the preliminary security video footage, it sure does look like the action started at the bottom-so thinking shifted to sinkhole, water table, or some other kind of subsidence. It will be interesting to see what the engineering investigation finds and what kind of issues,if any, were noted prior. We see spans, bridges, walkways, tunnels and buildings under heavy repair or construction have catastrophic failures pretty regularly around the world. I don't recall anything like this that came on without warning and was so sudden and almost precise in its failure. I mean there are plenty of buildings that fall down but most of the time some flaw is noted, evacuations occur, the situation is monitored and it either collapses on its own or is demolished.
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