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Fuck it. Worked so hard. Knocking on 170. In spite of the work and suffering, I weighed myself before bed tonight. 178 or so. I'm just going to chain Daisy Ridley to my couch in a bikini and call it good.
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I want to smell dark matter
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Apparently, as a civilization, humanity has lost the technology to make a reliable wind-up alarm clock. They get shittier at a geometric rate. When the last one failed after maybe a couple months I was resigned to just go buy a battery one next time I was at a store that actually sold alarm clocks. But I was also cleaning out and organizing my basement and found a corded Batman alarm clock. The Bat-signal second hand had come off but a few seconds with a Swiss Army Knife and I had the faceplate off and the second hand repaired. I'm not a huge fan of house power for an alarm clock but hell, it's been in a box for who knows how long and it is still more reliable than any modern wind-up alarm clock. I am fucking Adama. They're not actually wired up (and apparently you can't get a circuit switched landline in 2024 America for any amount of money) but I have a corded phone in my living room and another on the wall in my kitchen. I will use any means necessary to keep the '09 Mustang running because I hate traction control, ABS, and computer cameras everywhere. I just need me a dot matrix printer--and to get the old W2K desktop up and running again and run some CAT5 to a hub or a switch or something. SO SAY WE ALL!
http://batmanytb.com/toys/householdaccessories/clocks/TNBA_Alarmclock.jpg
http://batmanytb.com/toys/householdaccessories/clocks/TNBA_Alarmclock.jpg
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Getting old sucks. For most of my adult life I've honestly been able to say I was 5'10". I was 5'9.5" but by rules of rounding, that's 5'10". I've done an Indiana Jones cosplay that was pretty good so at some point I decided to see how tall Harrison Ford is (especially since actors tend to be shorter than they're portrayed). 5'10". Great. But then I realized he was in his late 70s so I looked up how tall he was in "Star Wars." Something like 6'1". He's shrunk 3" as he's aged. Being in my early 50s, I decided I'd better measure myself. 5'9.25" By rounding rules, I'm now 5'9".
Well since I realized my body fat had gotten away from me (just a bit) I've been looking at the BMI charts. They say I'm overweight. I mean, they say over 70% of the US population is overweight--or worse--but still, it annoyed. I've been making slow progress but yesterday I decided to measure myself. I mean, maybe I screwed up last time, right? Possibly. This time it turns out I'm just a hair UNDER 5'9".
Getting old sucks. (And yes, I measured twice and it was the same each time.)
Well since I realized my body fat had gotten away from me (just a bit) I've been looking at the BMI charts. They say I'm overweight. I mean, they say over 70% of the US population is overweight--or worse--but still, it annoyed. I've been making slow progress but yesterday I decided to measure myself. I mean, maybe I screwed up last time, right? Possibly. This time it turns out I'm just a hair UNDER 5'9".
Getting old sucks. (And yes, I measured twice and it was the same each time.)
Volpone
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Oh, 2 BMI caveats: 1) While my height is now accurate, I'm actually about 5# lighter than my scale reads (so actually probably not "overweight" by BMI standards), but my scale has been calibrated that way for so long that it's easier to just leave it alone. 2) BMI charts aren't particularly accurate--especially for athletic people. Daniel Craig was 5'10" and 180# for "Casino Royale." By BMI chart standards, that puts him like, 11# overweight, but if you remember the photo of him in the swim trunks, I don't think anyone's going to say he was fat.
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The trouble with exercise is, when you get to where you can do an exercise easily that doesn't mean you're done, it means it is time to increase the weight/reps to where you can't do it easily anymore.
Also, exercise makes you feel sore and tired. But if you DON'T exercise you also feel sore and tired, but you're also fat and listless.
Also, exercise makes you feel sore and tired. But if you DON'T exercise you also feel sore and tired, but you're also fat and listless.
