A six pack a night isn't moderation? oops...
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A six pack a night isn't moderation? oops...
"Don't drink a pot of coffee."
Shoot, I can thread a running sewing machine by 10:30 AM
In all seriousness...almost none of us picks what is "very best" for us. To do so would be absolutely abysmal. I had a friend put it this way -- if I did all of those healthy things all the time, I'd live 2 years longer--but would I want to?
That's why I self-define moderation, and although it sounds like I'm joking, I'm really being serious. It makes me happy and content to do certain things that may not be the absolute best for me physically...but the counterbalance is that it helps me mentally.
^A few years ago I read an article by a sports writer about how he lost 125 pounds in a year. I found it to be helpful in a lot of ways, but the one thing that stuck with me all these years was "Don't be a ****head," generally meaning don't eat a whole pizza or something similarly stupid. Eat a slice, instead, and live the rest of your day accordingly. Then try not to be a ****head the next day. And so on.
I still do stupid food/drink/lazy stuff, but when I'm serious about getting it together, that's my guiding principle.
Yup, that's where I like to be as well.
My biggest issue is that I know when I "fall off the wagon" eating badly, I sometimes use that as an excuse to abandon what I've worked for all that time...and/or, at a minimum, at least "slide" for days...need to learn to forgive myself, and pretend it didn't happen the next day.
It’s a beautiful day and all I can think about is going back to work tomorrow.
I’m ready to move. Today thru Friday: 93-98-99-97-96. And those don’t include the humidity:(
I ran (super, super slow) 10.5 miles this weekend, 6.3 on Saturday and 4.2 on Sunday, both in the afternoon.
This was my car a few minutes after I started it when I was finished. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5ecdcbafdc.jpg
Just in time for the heat wave, half the HVAC in our office is not working. Those of us on one side of the hallway, no problem. But if you're on the other side, you have no air moving at all. It was probably 80 in those offices this morning around 8. We've got doors open and fans trying to drag cool air to that side of the hallway.
Reminds of when I was growing up and living in a house with no A/C except for 1 window unit big enough for 1 room only. We kept the door to that room closed and it felt like it was about 60 in there. The rest of the house, my mother and Mamaw had a series of fans set up to draw hot air out, and dang if it didn't work pretty well.
When I bought my house it had no AC. Nada. I got a single used window unit with a bad cord, re-wired it and closed off that room.
But old houses were designed a lot better for such things. Big windows that go way up to the ceiling so you can open them to let warmer air out, a sleeping porch so you can get out of the hottest part of the house, etc.
I got air downstairs a few years later. Didn't get it upstairs till last year. I won't lie, I was tired of it, but credit to old house design that it wasn't as miserable as it would have been in a modern home.
I remember as a kid we had AC in our den, which was closed off. At night my parents would fire up the attic fan so that it would draw air from the opened windows in the house, by morning it could get downright chilly in the house.
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Attic fans are great. The way I survived the house with no AC was I put in a very powerful attic fan. I have a walkup attic stair, and I opened it up and opened the 2nd floor windows and let it run all night. Would drop the temp at least to tolerable, though not as low as you might think.
It took some doing every night and morning, but it made it workable.
I had to walk 2 miles to school, up hill each way, thru blistering heat and humidity. Kids nowdays!
sti·fling
/ˈstīf(ə)liNG/
adjective
1.
(of heat, air, or a room) very hot and causing difficulties in breathing; suffocating.
"stifling heat"
I keep trying to get what I need done before noon so I can do my little run, but it seems a late lunch just works a lot better. I tried two days in a row to get out at 4, but it's 5:30 before I know it. So I end up "running" at 1:30-2 or so. That. Ain't. Ideal. When. Heat. Index. Is. 109.
Recovering from a non-Covid upper respiratory infection from last week--good excuse to stay inside and stay cool.
When I was a teenage idiot (redundant, I know), I did stupid things like wait to go work out or do yard work until the hottest part of the day, thinking it would make me tougher. But that was also back in the day when coaches would withhold water during practice and throw salt tablets at you.
I still "kinda" do that, but for a different reason. It's my subtle way of sending a message to my son that he can do the same. When he returns to school, they'll begin with 3x a day practice, then 2x a day, and then every day they will practice at 1:30 p.m. in the Jackson, MS heat and humidity of August and September, and about a quarter of the games they play will also be afternoon matches. Being acclimated to that is pretty important.
Having said that -- I intentionally choose routes with as much shade as possible, and depending on the day, choose a route that takes me back to my car midway in the distance I'll be running that day so I can sit and drink some water in a small ice chest I keep there if I choose to do so. I don't usually do that, because I don't like to interrupt it and want to get it over with as soon as possible, but it's available.
“Only” 90° today and the low to mid-80’s this weekend before we climb to 100 by Tuesday and Wednesday:/
How about lows in the lower 60’s tonight, and upper 50’s tomorrow night…setting up a 40 degree temperature change in less than 24 hours… gotta love the Ohio River Vally.
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Publix coming to Louisville, Kroger will need to step up their game.
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The one they’re going to build on Brownsboro Rd. Won’t be too far from me but from my experience they and Kroger are pretty much interchangeable.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/p...dd0d0a909.html
The Publix Kentucky scoop…
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Just dropped off my wife at the airport. Or I should say, just got back from dropping my wife off at the airport. She found a "deal," so it was from the Atlanta airport.
So...3 hours there, 3 hours back, 6 hours out of my day, probably 8 gallons of gas...all this for a savings on a ONE-WAY ticket for ONE person. I mean, I could understand it if it were an expensive round-trip and 2 to 4 of us were traveling by plane.
(It's not really as bad as it sounds. She flew direct to a small airport in upstate NY very close to my daughter. There are benefits to the flight beyond the cost savings, but I felt like a mini-rant anyway.)
I hate leaving from home and driving 5 or 6 hours to only end up back at home.
I don’t mind driving 9 or 10 hours from home to end up somewhere else, or I don’t mind driving from somewhere else for 9 or 10 hours to end up at home.
There is only two good reasons to drive to Harsfeild, a huge cash savings, or my wife asked/told me to.
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Isolated showers…I sure hope we’re in the isolated area.
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Hasn't rained here in Kentuckiana for a couple of weeks now, aside from about a 20 minute shower last week.
Looks like just in time for the 4th holiday we're supposed to get a dose of popup afternoon thundershowers. We'll see. At this point I think I'll take it, even on the holiday.
I ended up getting in on the isolated rain last Sunday, we had a pretty good soaker. Looking forward to possibility of a decent line moving through Saturday.
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