Jiggy-Z

We have some theories: It might have fallen off of a work bench into the trash without anybody noticing. Hard to see this what with the extension cord and all. My 15 yo might have taken it and forgotten about it. He works on his skateboards over at a friends house, but hard to see what he might use it for on a board plus he says he never took it. Accidental or intentional theft by sleepover kid. We live in the country and our property is fenced, gated, and patrolled by dogs so nobody just wandered in and took it. My best guess is that it is tucked away somewhere that we have not looked.

Yes. Doesn't everybody?

Long backstory that allows me to vent. Back in 2013, the night before the fall Shaggy Matagorda trip, I was loading my kayak up and notice a huge crack/puncture below the forward water line. I had no idea how it got there (still don't know), but I was leaving early in the morning, so I adapted and just loaded up my other kayak, went on the trip and had fun. All good. When I got back I checked around and could not find anyone to plastic weld the kayak damage, so I eventually watched a few videos, got some plastic tools from Harbor Freight, and did the job myself. For years the plastic welding held up through many fishing trips and other recreation. Last summer I took my two youngest boys out to Lake Travis a few times for some deep water soloing (they are both competitive rock climbers) on the cliffs. Each time I noticed that the kayak was taking on more and more water, so I decided to redo the weld. We had just purchased a Dremmel tool that we use mostly to do cutting work on plastic holds we have in our home rock climbing gym (as posted previously here). I thought I could use the Dremmel to remove sand all of the old plastic, regroove and start over. So I looked and looked and looked for that stupid Dremmel tool and it was nowhere to be found. Time dragged on and we didn't have need of the damaged kayak so I kind of forgot about it until a couple of weeks ago when we went to Austin Kayak to get an inflatable SUP. While at the store, I inquired about having my old kayak fixed...professionally, and found out that they now do this work. When I got home I decided one last time find that dammed Dremmel tool, just in case I wanted to do the work myself. Still no luck, but then I remembered that my wife had me get one of those locking tool work benches by Husky a few months back. She was very possessive of that thing and she put a bunch of tools in it and locked it up (my 15 year old is fond of taking things out and losing them). I thought to myself, I wonder if she locked up the Dremmel tool in there, so I got the keys and went to have a look. No Dremmel, but in addition to some tools there were about 6 pairs of safety glasses in there all lined up in a row. So I thought this is stupid, we need access to safety glasses etc., so left the box unlocked and returned the keys. Then last weekend. I had just had my morning coffee and was taking a glorious shit while blissfully reading the surl in the downstairs bathroom, when there is a violent knock on the door (the kind that startles you-I almost dropped my phone and coffee): Wife: Where are all the dammed safety glasses, you guys take those things and I can never find them!!! (wife was going to do some weed eating around the garden) Me: Well I saw about 6 pair of those things in the work bench that you put there and locked up. Wife: OK. A minute or two goes by as I settled back in to what I was doing. Violent knock on the door. Wife: Where did you put my keys, there not in my purse. Me: I put them back where I got them from which was one the key rack, and I left the cabinet unlocked, so leave me in peace. Silence. Then a few minutes later another knock on the door. Wife: Bla,bla bla, something about putting things back, safety glasses, taking responsibility, learning how to stop inconveniencing others etc. Me: OK, sigh. I make it outside and the first thing she asks me is if I can change out the line on weed eater because she doesn't know how to do it. Loaded up kayak and took it to ACk to get fixed. Took my time. Got beer on the way home. TLDR: Wife interrupts my shit to hassle me about shit she put away and forgot about, then hassles me again about more shit that she forgot about, then taunts me a third time for the previous two things, then asks me for a favor, then I left and came home and got drunk.

This one got me. No rage, just laughing my ass off.

Preprayed credit cards. I should start a cult.

Whoa!! Those are some seriously internally rotated shoulders.

Obesity problem? More like Obesity solution, am I Right? Of course we wouldn't need the Obesity solution if we didn't have the Obesity problem in the first place. Sort of a fat chicken and egg thing.

Looks like someone left a fork in the break room microwave again.

Man on the street anecdotal stuff: I own a construction company and we have a few cold beers on Friday afternoon with some of the workers and some relatives and friends of my business partner come by from time to time. One guy who is not vaccinated, a Trumper, is doing so because he already had a pretty bad case of Covid and his whole immediate family got it as well, just not as bad as him. He is reluctant because of possible Covid like side effects which he does not want to repeat, plus he and his immedates already have some immunity. Said he was waiting to see how it played out and for full authorization. Not sure about all of his facts, but at least he has some semi valid reasoning behind his decision. Another guy who is not vaccinated, not sure if Trumpy or not, but seems very religious, gave me the old God will take of it bit. However, upon further questioning, finally admitted he thought the whole thing was bullshit and anybody that "had" covid had something else. I reminded him one of our workers, who he knows, who got covid and almost died. He insisted it was probably a bad flu. That's when I had to tell him to get the fuck out.

Plane is standing by:

If I am not mistaken, and I'm not, that is a can of Pint House Pizza Electric Jellyfish in the back there. I would pound a couple of pints of that stuff after rock climbing a couple time a week in the before times. After I got vaccinated, I spied a 4 pack at HEB and got it thinking it would be like Nirvana after not having had it for over a year. I tried to like the can version but it was meh, especially considering how expensive it was. Undaunted, I tries a couple of pints from the tap a few weeks ago and it was still meh. Not sure what happened, but either they changed the formula or the vaccine has lessened my liking for all non Bill Gates associated products.

Baba Yaga took what I said about not measuring calories and then added bunch of other stuff that you need to measure, which was not my experience at all. Calorie counting is for the masses will not work, especially if you are counting shitty food. It is just one more layer of diet administration that will inevitably get fucked up or lead to loss of momentum (again, for the masses). Eat the right things and the calories will follow, would be my solution on the diet side. Not really any need to monitor anything except the lbs once a week. Do that and there is little need to work out more than taking some walks and some basic calisthenics appropriate for your fitness level. But we are Americans, and long before calorie counting does us in, we will join a gym, get some home equipment, buy some workout clothes and inevitably fall flat when we can't make even the most minor adjustments to the eating habits that got us here. Its kind of like fishing. I have guys I fish with that are into every new lure or reel that comes out and rather than having faith in the stuff that works and spending time reading the water or honing presentation, they are in a perpetual cycle of new equipment or accessories that yields the results that were no better than the last time they went out. And the sad thing is that the time and money investment in the things that work is less than what they are doing.

Counterpoint: My most effective diet and exercise regimen did not involve counting calories at all. I was 45 at the time, so it was not a young guy metabolism thing. It was kind of a paleo type of thing and it involved a lot of cooking but was pretty easy to do and opened up a whole bunch of eating options...and as others have said, it made it real difficult to eat junk food and sweets-they just didn't taste good or were too sweet. There was no doughnut or candy bar that could compete with some thick coconut milk poured over some raspberries. Mostly just a bunch of things that you needed to stay away from and one of them was not alcohol, at least for me. Just eat when you are hungry. The problem with it from an every man standpoint was that you needed to plan and shop. There were a lot of farmers market items and organic food, but you could pull it off without those more expensive items. I actually did the math on it and with eating at home so much much we actually saved money. I was on that for years, but one of my kids went vegetarian and complicated things from a logistics standpoint. That and I also got injured and had to modify workouts etc. The whole thing just kind of got chipped away at and lost steam.

I remember reading in either In Defense of Food or Omnivore's Dilemma (both by Michael Pollan), that they had compiled research on on basically every diet in the world from ancient indigenous diets to the modern French diet and found that they were actually all pretty good. The lone exception was the modern "western" diet. Of course, this issue is more complicated than that, but that is a major factor if not the major factor. As long as were are throwing out personal weight and diet info, I will dovetail with my earlier post on stress and forces at play preventing healthy eating. 5'-11", 54, 185ish. I would like to be about 175 or less for rock climbing and general joint health purposes. I am knowledgeable in things diet and exercise. On occasion I balloon up to 200 or so without even knowing it (football season, covid, work etc.). I'm pretty good about stopping the gain at 200 and getting back down to the 180's in a few weeks either slowly or quickly and it is not real hard to stay there with minimal exercise, moderate alcohol intake and a sensible diet when you stay on top of it. However, there is always some incident, injury, occurrence, temptation, or unforeseen factor that crops up and requires adjustment, vigilance, and some kind of rework. It is just a grind. Some of this is just getting older as evidenced by my meniscus surgery in December. But damn, it just feels like it should be easier than this. I can only imagine what it feels like if someone is even just barely technically obese.

-signed A real Yankee doodle dandy.

Yeah. This stuff keeps happening. I remember when the first sex scandal broke and thought that would be the end of it until the second one broke. Then you start looking back in time and start thinking abut this. How many times has this happened over the centuries? And what other secrets are in the closet? The known stuff is pretty bad whether its the crusades, the inquisition (which nobody expected), sympathizing with the Nazis, arresting Galileo, etc. How many catholic churches had BSA chapters? I know mine did, and although I never made it out of cub scouts, I remember well the creepy scout building at the back of the church property. Thank god we only had den mothers in cub scouts.

It is a common symptom of those who start a low carb diet (or really a just fewer carbs diet) to have about a two week period where they feel like shit or just a bit off. I think one of the lesser talked about fat issues is stress and pressure. Say you are not hugely obese but need to drop 20-30 lbs. You do your research, you know what to eat and realize you are going to need to plan more and cook more. You also realize that you need to do a bit of exercising, but having done your research realize also that you can't just go balls to the wall from the get go. So you make time for walking, yard work, playing with the kids, but not too much because you need to do some meal planning. Things are going good for a few weeks and you have dropped a few lbs, but work has some deadlines, kids have some events, its raining, you are having some guests over, etc. You fall behind, but you catch back up after a week or so. But there is more interference, its almost seems like there are forces at play trying to prevent you from living a healthy lifestyle. You soldier on, but temptation is everywhere-happy hours, beer after yard work, eating out. You have bills to pay, idiots to deal with, traffic, poor sleep, and you just want to chill when you get home, but you go walk and try to shoot some baskets. The next morning that ankle injury you in college is acting up. you need to adapt and change plans or a take day off. So this is just some pressure to lose a few lbs, but the tougher part is dealing with stress in the modern world, which has also gone way up in the last 40 years.

Maybe it was built on a memorial park already..... but they only moved the headstones.

Insulin container dose:

Way to go. Not sure I could do every other day. Currently back on OMAD. Big Ass Salad, No Alcohol, and Walk everyday. Can't wait to start climbing again.

Tonight's Episode: Jack Be Nimble, Jack be Dead.

OK. Let's fill in some blanks. So in 2018 there was an engineering report that was commissioned by the board/HOA. Report comes out with findings and recommendations in 2019? Then, possible missing step I have not heard about...Report is received by a different structural engineer for actual plans and specifications based on report Plans and specifications issued as construction documents-when______________. Construction documents sent out for bids and proposals-when_______________. Contractor selected-when______________________ Contractor contracted -when__________________ Contractor submittal documents turned in and approved-when______________ Construction-when________________

Seawater, perhaps not. I'm not sure how they deal with that. The pilings or drilled piers would be another interesting discussion. I think they are less likely to corrode given their limited access to oxidation even in the presence of seawater, but again, I am not an engineer, just a dumb concrete guy. I do have CSB on basement water intrusion: On the Austin Convention Center Hilton lowest level of the parking garage-The subterranean water proofing system and walls were installed incorrectly as was the French drain under the parking level. When the water table rose, the sump pump was unable to keep up and the French Drain system backed up. Before we fixed it there was regularly 3' of water in the basement. The solution was to abandon the installed French Drain system and install a new one along with a second sump pit and pump. Then, about 1,200 holes were drilled into the wall and were set with a manifold system, sealed and then piped to the sumps. The walls were then treated with a crystallizing compound that helped but did not eliminate seepage. It was several million $ to fix.

From the article: The rectangular area is still standing. However, the ellipse shaped area in in the area where the video shows the initial collapse. Also, I just read a CNN article that had one of the tenants talking to her husband moments before or during the collapse. Where she said "there was a sinkhole that opened up where the pool was". Clearly the pool is still there so perhaps she meant the pool deck and perhaps what she saw was the pool deck collapsing onto the lower parking areas before the main building started its fall. I believe she was in one of the collapsed sections so no follow up yet from her.