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Celery Man

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  1. I've found it incredibly easy to lose weight this year just by a) being so goddamn busy and b) eating healthy as a family. I put it on since kid #2 by being busy - too busy to think about groceries or what to do for lunch and then I'm just making grilled cheese sandwiches with pretzels or chips or whatever. I turn 40 this year, decided I'd get back to college weight by running on a calorie deficit. I figured out a 500 calorie meal replacement protein smoothie for lunch, eat that almost every day (or something in the 5-650 calorie range near the office if I'm up there) we have a healthy dinner in the 5-700 calorie range, cottage cheese and hot sauce for breakfast, those little italian ices for a snack/dessert before bedtime, somewhere from 15-1800 calories a day. Making the same damn lunch smoothie every day solves the same problem (too busy to plan or think) that grilled cheeses were solving and being too busy also makes it easy to not think about food. Counting calories makes it so I understand *what* I'm doing rather than just vaguely doing a thing, and taking my weight every morning means i unerstand the effect it is having and have had no issue staying motivated/understanding if it is working or not. I've never been a great big fat person but i've been overweight my whole life and am currently at a 21 BMI. Staying busy, counting calories, measuring weight.
  2. Al Qaeda and our conservative christian friends serve the same lord.
  3. That sucks man, wishing you the endurance to get back through it. I’m going to suggest that this search will revert to the mean and go much more quickly.
  4. didn't even clock who this was at first and just thought "ah, meth explosion"
  5. No idea who this is or how to share Bluesky not like a boomer
  6. Wife hosted a cookie decorating workshop in our house today so it was daddy and kids day. Dance, ice skating, picnic lunch, park, nap, different park. Tiredness washed over the dude. my oldest sister (who has two sons) just pointed out that this jacket (that I got from my middle sister who has two sons) was originally her oldest’s, who is now in college. So, LL Bean for the win I guess.
  7. Sierra Feral good on the kid for helping out the other kid. I’m trying to do a good job of explaining that, and being a good friend to anyone who needs one, being kind, etc. It’s also hard hearing about kids at school and some point realizing that the asshole I’m mad at is 3 years old and trying to pull in some perspective. anyways, well deserved ice cream
  8. Careful with that shit it can be deadly
  9. Twice said it better than I'd be able but I think there's a lot of money made off of people who are bottomed enough to be desperate but not bottomed enough to accept that they're the same as everyone else in the rooms. I know nothing about that organization or what they offer but that's sure what it smells like.
  10. I need one with a really rad cover so that people know I'm not a stodgy old AA guy. I may sit in chairs backwards and wear my hat backwards, but I'm going to give it to you straight.
  11. I don't care deeply and am not enough of a regular participant in AA to rightly have a strong opinion one way or the other. But, generally, I think that the idea that the literal words of the big book are sacrosanct, have mystical properties, and must be literally treated like scripture is bad and reflects one of my least favorite parts of AA culture. The whole thing about the higher power, people have so much of a hard time with that based on their feelings about religions and Jesus and whatever diety and the nuns or their mother or authority and on and on and on, and we try and tell them the truth which is that it does not matter and this is not that and that God does not need to be an old man on a cloud or whatever it is. And then truth be told so many AA meetings feel exactly like a Bible study. Some amount of that is inevitable, it is in fact a similar thing, but thumping the book and quoting the scripture and holding the book and dissecting the sentences and examining the gospel of Bill. I always feel a little twinge of something when I say that it isn't religious and it's not church - it doesn't need to be and it isn't exactly but uhhhh yeah man. Anyways, they'll get to sell a lot more books and that language is much more clear. I don't think of the big book as being that dense but it really is a lot of dickety aught aught onion on the belt getting run over by a trolley swell language of the time. Hopefully it helps some people to have updated language to help them on the path.
  12. yeah dino jr is obviously a big influence. I've seen a lot of pictures of him with one of those Squier J Mascis Jazzmasters. I kinda want one, even though the one I picked up off the wall at the local GC felt like shit. Badly setup guitar at eye level in a guitar center, I want to believe that it's a super cool cheapish guitar I wore Sha Sha out in my 1996 Pontiac Sunfire, and then I don't think I listened to it for another 10 (checks calendar, fuck) 15-20 years. "Falling" came into my head one day when I was singing my daughter to sleep, and then his kid died tragically, and I've kinda rediscovered those songs. There was something about his preciousness that I always didn't like but that album holds up really well IMO. It's interesting listening to it on Spotify and seeing the full credits - like Kimya Dawson does backing vocals on the title track? Had no idea. Wasted and Ready and Commerce TX are both peak "getting shithammered and being excited about high school is almost over" songs for me.
  13. Yeah I think this is the one for me. I really like the live version of Knocking as well.
  14. Very unlikely that I’m going to try and go use this patent, lol. What an asshole. I had completely forgotten about filling out the paperwork, I do remember thinking that the idea isn’t all that novel, just a natural application of existing technology. Either way kinda cool though I guess to get my name on a patent if it goes through - not something I anticipated doing in my career.
  15. Yeah I’m on the bandwagon. It’s interesting - I don’t have a single song that is the “oh check this guy out” song. I don’t know that any of his songs are 10s for me but he has a whole bunch of 7s and 8s.
  16. I had a folder of “Too Many Cooks” gifs saved on my phone in hopes of an illustrious career. Dashed.
  17. I can’t tell how “big” MJ Lenderman is. He seems huge in my algorithm but he keeps not being known by people I would expect to know him. New music video for wristwatch
  18. Yeah I mean I signed a thing that says I have to do this and I did “invent” this thing on company time for company purposes and I’m not trying to be a pain in the ass to get back at the company or whatever. If they had fucked up and not obligated me to give them some IP that they need to move forward with the stuff I spent a lot of effort convincing them was obviously a good idea, I would have been happy to try and get them to write a check and it would have made me look back on them cancelling my corporate card before the charge for my Lyft to the airport cleared with a bit more of a smile. Either way, that’s not what’s going on here - much appreciate the help and being able to avoid spending money on a lawyer to tell me to check my employment agreement (dumbass).
  19. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
  20. Ah yeah, found an invention section of my employment agreement that covers this, so it does seem pretty straightforward.
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