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Celery Man

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Celery Man last won the day on December 24 2019

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  1. We just got a peloton at the end of October - we've had a tread+ for a long time (wife runs marathons) but I'm not interested in that. I had my bike on a stand in my office and was spending half an hour on it a few times a week (and usually on other nights taking a 2.5 mile walk with 40 pounds in a backpack). Wife decided we should get a peloton bike which was fine with me and holy shit I did not realize how easy the bike on the stand was in comparison to the Peloton. Anyways, I'm still fairly early in the peloton game but 3000 miles is like 8.2 miles a day, I'm doing more like 6-7 in a twenty minute class which I'm not doing every day. I could probably up the time and I bet I'll get better on the distance but that number is probably higher than what I'll aim for on the bike. Especially since I do also like walking around with the weighted backpack and won't hit it every night anyways. I am not a learned man when it comes to most of the exercise stuff, but to the extent that I do planks it's something I hit for a few minutes to try and work my abs, not something I'm doing to try and burn calories or work up a sweat. I figure if you're exerting yourself lifting or doing pushups or whatever else to target muscles, that's going to get your heart rate up a bit, but I assumed that isn't the point of that kind of exercise? For me, I feel like if I'm on the bike that's good cardio and working on my vo2 max or whatever, rucking around is a mix of moderate cardio and moderate core strength, and doing planks is something I've tried to work a bit in just to try and build some muscle under the skin that used to hold more fat. I was doing some other stuff - situps, leg lifts, etc but I kept tweaking shit or just rubbing my back raw. I'm sure there's a lot of user error in there. I do feel like pushups would do that thing while also working other muscles and that will probably be one of my number targets next year. I weigh myself every day, but I really like the Happy Scale app because it gives you a smoothed average. If I eat a junky meal for dinner (especially lots of salt), my weight will pop up the next morning but it's obviously inflammation, and the line doesn't creep up much.
  2. Alright I don’t know which thread this conversation belongs in but I’ll do it here - a couple of years back we did a 10,000 burpees thing, that was very motivating. I don’t want to do fucking burpees but I am trying to come up with some year long metric based exercise goals for 2026 that will support a general goal of cardiac health and some strength building with a slight focus on core. Personally, I’m thinking probably some peloton mileage goal (easy enough) and then maybe…. 10,000 pushups? X minutes planked? if anyone is looking for or has set a resolution/goal/whatever for 2026 and wants to do a surly challenge, within reason I’m game
  3. again anecdotal, and of course people go to laha and fall off like any other place, but I saw some of this with the family member as well. it was not their first time doing rehab, and it was a lot of "oh man this place is completely different, I'm getting so much more out of this" when I went to visit. I think LaHa is really good in general - I think there are a lot of places that are set up to process insurance and meet legal requirements and etc where LaHa is truly a place and an organization that is centered on a mission of recovery. it's part of the whole deal and it sucks every time. rest peaceful buddy
  4. It’s still there after 5 years, coming out at night to do its dirty business. Every now and then I notice extra dirt and have to pull a sock out of its mouth.
  5. Hahahahhahahahaaha
  6. FUCK’EM RIGHT IN THE BUSSEY
  7. Hey blondo
  8. Love this picture also, this picture I’ve seen a bunch because it’s the last picture before a bunch of hospital shots of ^^that guy being born. We missed it last year but we went back to the same Santa today and I tried to recreate it
  9. Last year I was posting about a disastrous Thanksgiving for a family member. Was just texting them congrats on 1 year. Man last Thanksgiving was a goddamn shitshow, got to make an impromptu trip to La Hacienda, and then swing back through for family week in December. It’s a magical place.
  10. Ok I’m a big fan of buying guitars that you randomly like when you’re in the guitar store (my orange gretsch, my j45, my les paul, my dirnt P) and I’m a big fan of buying guitars that fit your theme. Mine is something like “classics checklist” (blonde tele, cherry burst les Paul, burst strat, d28, burst 45, etc, shit maybe it’s bursts) and yours is “none more black”. I’m also a fan of going back to stores to buy the guitar you didn’t buy the last time (my black gretsch, my d41) so look I’ll finally cut to the chase and ask that you post pics and maybe even live video of our new guitar. also, I think Gibson just reintroduced some version of that Les Paul Special/Junior. Maybe it was the double cutaway that was only available as like a Rick Beato signature or something? I still want one of those specials or juniors.
  11. I was listening to 69 Love Songs and thinking about how badly this needed an Americana or Yallternative cover - close enough
  12. I mean, the overall vibe, hell yeah The upside down bridge on a J45 style guitar also looks like the right kind of rude to go with an all black guitar. mustache bridge works well too. My reservations on that guitar would be.... what exactly is it? EC? Concert depth dreadnought? I'm not sure exactly what that means but it sounds like it might be dreadnought (or presumably, Gibson Jumbo) shaped but thinner front to back. Which is cool but I'd want to play it and understand the volume, unless I'm going to use it plugged in. If you are using it on stage that might actually be really cool and comfortable, especially if you like the baggs pickup. But I'd check to make sure i understand the size, and also maybe play a Gibson or two if you're used to Martin acoustic scale lengths. I feel like you specifically are a Taylor guy? Can't remember their scale.
  13. I need to go watch again and see how it hits me this time - live I felt kinda the same way about the ending. In retrospect, I feel like this movie caught so much right about how the pandemic felt although obviously it's all over the top and cartoonish. But the whole ending sequence from the deep state false flag chaos through the ascension to power of the lunatic mom... several months out from watching this movie it feels true to how the pandemic felt in the same way that first scene with the car and the masks felt.
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