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pearlandhorn

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  1. I always find it fascinating how women want to carry around a $3k purse. It’s advertising that you have money to a thief. Buying a knockoff of the $3k purse isn’t smart either I would think. You’re advertising you have money but when the robber gets pissed you don’t have any...I’ll just stop there.
  2. Meanwhile, I read that there are 900,000 Americans every year that develop a blood clot for one reason or another. Out of 328 million people in the US. One would think that the occurrence of a blood clot from a COVID vaccine would need to be higher than that statistic to pause a rollout of it. But what do I know?
  3. I’m going to say what everyone over the age of 30 is thinking when they read that: Yeah, fuck that.
  4. About 40 hours post Pfizer 2. Sore arm that was once a 6/10 on pain is now a 1/10. Wife, who was feeling shitty yesterday (fever, brain fog, lethargic) is better as well. Now we’re just dealing with the damn pollen. Gym and mowing time.
  5. 18 hours post Pfizer 2 here. Wife woke up at 4 am (14 hours after the shot) and was having chills and couldn’t get warm. She went to the couch and put on a jacket and grabbed a down comforter. My arm is just sore.
  6. 2nd Pfizer done at Walter Hall park in Webster by UTMB. Smoother this time around: in and out in 45 minutes.
  7. Holy shit. Couldn’t agree more with you, @South Austin Folks over 30 like to compare themselves to the 25 year old body builder. You will injure yourself if you don’t check the ego at the door.
  8. If you haven't lifted in a long time, I'd suggest the simple 5x5 barbell routine. It starts off very slow, allowing you to practice form on the main 5 core lifts (bench, squat, deadlift, barbell row, and overhead press). It's 3 days per week. https://stronglifts.com/5x5/ With those core lifts, after you've mastered form to the best you can, you can move in to a PPL (push, pull, legs) routine and use those lifts as the foundation to your strength training. That's what I have done and a lot of other people do. Compound exercises work various muscle groups at the same time, engage the core (abs, obliques, lats) to support the main muscle focus of the exercise. Bench and overhead press would be your compound lift for push days, row for pull days (you can throw deadlift in here as well), and squat would be your compound lift for leg day (you can throw deadlift here also). Fill in your remaining hour or hour and a half at the gym with ancillary exercises (I do incline dumbbell press, dips, chest fly, a tricep exercise or two for push days). I've built my own program to cater to my time commitment I have. However, my main lift for each day at the gym is a compound lift with the barbell. It's safer than machines in my opinion and you engage many muscle groups while hitting the target one hard. If you want to cut, throw in some cardio a few days a week subsequent to your work out. Eat well.
  9. COVID made a run through my kid's preschool in January after the holidays. Teacher came to work on a Friday and tested positive the next Monday after she woke up feeling bad. My son tested positive 1/15, my wife tested positive 1/21 and we were both sick for a week. He had a snotty nose and coughed 3 times for a day. My wife and I were down for about 10 days. It sucked. Daycare was closed for two weeks as over 50% of the parents whose kids attend the daycare were sick. At least, that's what the owner of the daycare told me. We've had no issues with the daycare since they reopened. I know that one can argue "well, maybe the parents/kids got sick somewhere else and not through the daycare worker." You may be correct, no way to know.
  10. What you said about compound lifting for jelly bellies is spot on. Weight loss is 90% of what you put in to your mouth. You can’t outrun a bad diet. The other 10% is exercise (weight lifting, CrossFit, HIIT).
  11. UTMB in Galveston County/Clear Lake Webster has a shit ton of appointment times available tomorrow and Friday. https://www.utmb.edu/covid-19/vaccine/2dose-schedule
  12. Wife and I go for our second Pfizer doses tomorrow. My wife has a 4G galaxy s9. For some reason, her phone decided to start going on the fritz right around when we got the first dose 3 weeks ago. We ended up having to get her a new phone (5G of course) yesterday. Coincidence? I think not.
  13. Isn't there an age requirement for the Shingles vaccine? Sorry for further thread derailment. Edit: kept reading. Recommended for over 50 years old. Won't be there for a while.
  14. Took my parents and wife/kid to Villa Montez out on 64 at the old Mansion on the Hill place. I’d give the place 2 out of 5 stars. Place is nice and the atmosphere was good. Food and service was pretty bad. It’s “Latin” food with 3 things on the menu from Central or South America. The other menu items are just fancier Mexican food that you could get from the food truck down the street in my opinion. I paid $15 for a burrito that tasted like it was bathed in salt. Only thing I could taste was the salt. They don’t have a kids menu - it was recited by the server and she forgot to submit the order. We won’t be back.
  15. Don’t know what it is but a honeycrisp apple satisfies my sweet tooth. I know it’s not Keto but apples are great for you when watching your fat intake. My wife is training for a 15k in may and is attempting to adopt my OMAD lifestyle. She gained probably 10 pounds during COVID (mainly went to her ass - no pics you dirty assholes) and wants to get back to the 130s. Anywho, you can tell around 4:30 in the afternoon that she starts getting irritated at every single thing. I tell her to eat something and she just glares at me. Like clockwork, I then here “not everyone can eat once a day like you!”. I laugh and tell her that OMAD isn’t for everyone. It really isn’t. It’s tough, but it’s definitely the easiest option for me when trying to keep bad weight off and have a very very slow weight gain.
  16. Hoping Galveston County Health Department does the same. When I got my first Pfizer 10 days ago, they said “show up at the same time in 3 weeks for round 2”. Nothing else. I’m afraid we’ll show up and the drive through facility will be abandoned.
  17. I could imagine. For maintenance, we utilize a lot of 3rd party contractors for assistance (engine, welding, DP systems, etc.). Some stuff we have our crews do but it's really just rope, soap, and dope stuff (cleaning, de-rusting, oil changes, etc.).
  18. Agree with you. Deckhands nowadays make around $60k in the US and typically work 28/14 shifts (on O&G PSVs). 35 years ago was a different animal. With the new generation (millennials - I'm one of them too), laziness is pretty standard. There are a few that bust their ass trying to move up to the wheelhouse but they're pretty rare. My company and industry specific vessels don't do union staffing. I would imagine the productivity of workers drops off significantly more if they were unionized positions though.
  19. But with that, there really is a higher quality of crew in the US for captains and engineers, on average, than the rest of the world. The whole "you get what you pay for" mantra. However, with deck crew (outside of wheelhouse and engine room departments), the work ethic of a Filipino versus a US deckhand is laughable. One Filipino can do the same work of 3 US deckhands and it's not even close. US deckhands are undeniably lazy.
  20. Definitely not uncommon at all for international companies to have this kind of operation (crewed by Indian, Philippines, Africans) and owned by a company in a different country. Only in the US does a US flagged vessel HAVE to crewed by US crewmen. Only way for a vessel to be given a US flag (to my knowledge) is for the vessel to be built in the US. The Jones Act can be a bitch to deal with but it really keeps the shipping industry isolated in the US regarding the O&G trade. Most companies operating in the GoM in oil and gas can only use US flagged vessels. Some countries require certain nationalities of crew members if you operate in and out of their ports. If my company were to have a vessel in Trinidad working for BP or whoever, they would require us to have a certain number of Trinidad crew members. Edit: Also, it's a hell of a lot cheaper for a company to utilize non-US crewmen. US crew typically make 60-70% more in wages than their counterparts from other countries due to the market for US crew (Jones Act driven). This allows companies to operate on lower day rates for their vessels in international ports.
  21. No way should this thread fall off the first page. Bump. Smoked on my UDS at 275-285 for 3 hours, wrapped in butcher paper for another 2 hours. Put in a cooler for an hour and 15 minutes.
  22. I couldn’t agree more. My goal is to be as lean as possible while being as strong as possible. Putting in to the navy method calculator, I’m 16% body fat. That’s what I figured it would be. I don’t really have much weight to lose at this point (185 or so) at 6’2” so very slow weight gain is necessary to continue to progress at the gym and get stronger.
  23. Brookshire’s is completely different from Brookshire Bros. Different company, same area though.
  24. I know HEB was very close to acquiring Brookshire’s a few years ago which would have given them a Tyler distribution center. Would be nice if they were to eventually make it to Tyler.
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