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don't care, had sex.

yeah I started typing $0.49 I think there was a series of years early 90's where it went from like $0.49 up to $0.99. those were the times. sigh.

$0.79 bean burritos (no onions) and tostadas from Taco Bell for me.

Deserved

for aches and pains I've migrated to a topical balm or freeze spray. I did take ibuprofen the last month on the reg to tamp down chest inflammation but I'm off it now. cardiologist told me to take it and he gave the best and most stern warning I've ever heard re NSAID's. most docs say nothing. He said, get off it as soon as you can, and don't take it unless you have to. seems like the right advice for all meds quite honestly. and there are supps that are hard on the liver too, we all should take inventory and check liver toxicity / impact of what we take. an example - CBD is processed by the liver, I'm on a pretty heavy dose now, that's okay as it's part of my weaning off pharma right now, but the goal is to probably get that down quite a bit. there are other supps too that have liver implications. 4.9 bitches.

for me I get the best benefit of working out after the work day as it clears the stress and emotional BS. But my natural bedtime is 11-1130pm so that's enough time to wind down. I'm going to continue to advocate for this sleep aid, it's all in one, one stop shop for sleep needs with the exception of melatonin (it has it so if that's a no-no for you, this one is out). The only thing missing is magnesium glycinate. only caveat is that they give nutritionists first shipments so buying direct comes with delays sometimes. body health sleep supp nah man, you've got many more years. keep it up!

When I was lifting in my early forties regularly I was so toned I felt great. I looked great. Not gross, just that type that you know takes care of her body and looks pretty damn good naked too. I loved walking down the street and feeling my legs say damn we are in good shape. And honestly at that time I had classic tennis thighs which to me are the hottest legs a woman can have. i don’t look bad, but I gotta get that back.

I lost a fair amount of muscle the last 5 months, I need to get back on the weight lifting train. At 40-43 I was in the best shape of my life. My weight is great now but I need to get back on it. I will say I think hand eye coordination ball sports like tennis and pickleball are supposed to be fantastic for brain health and they are not continuous cardio which is supposed to not be as good as other forms of exercise. I can tell you that the work it takes to focus enough to succeed and the decision making required to succeed often times decisions made in a half second wears me the fuck out in one hour of practice. That seems like it’s a good thing. Note I go really hard at it for an hour and my coach doesn’t really accept anything less than peak focus. So it really is an hard workout mentally. Add that spatial recognition or the decline in it is linked to early signs of dementia and other memory related diseases and I think I’ve found my sport.

You know what MTG? I wouldn’t share a fucking bathroom with your nasty ass if trump hisself tried to make me. Fuck yo nasty ass.

Glad I introduced my wife to surly with this thread. I said it would deliver. She’s looking at me like…

Wanna make a quick $10,000? odessa city council passes trans bathroom bounty ordinance. $10k for a plaintiff, payable by the trans defendant who uses the bathroom that matches their gender identity. why?

Take the food talk to the food board. Jesus Christ people, wake up!! This shit is important, I have to live with this for the rest of my life!!! Don’t you get it!!? /Augie rant

Yeah that’s epic, I almost went this year but decided against it for some odd reason.

The most stable democracies in the world are those with less not more wealth inequality. Currently we are racking up trillions to finance tax cuts for the wealthy. So yeah, let’s trade hand outs to those who don’t need them to those who do for the benefit of the whole. It’s novel I know but it’s kept the Northern European democracies quite stable and frankly the envy of the developed world when it comes to governance, education, healthcare, happiness, and quality of life.

I was going to say the same thing, standing desks may not be that much more helpful. what is helpful is getting up and walking 3-4 times a day during the work day. you can combine that with breakfast and lunch (the 10 min walk after eating routine) and then you only have to do it once more. I'm sorta lucky in that my ADHD forces me to get up and walk around the house usually about once an hour. so I'm on a 5 min walk every hour plus walking after dinner at least. and none of that is part of a workout. Heck, i'm so bad at it, even when it's time to relax I will mill around the house aimlessly almost like a fish constantly on the move. no wonder my spirit animal is a trout. ha.

I think the vast majority is symptom relief but not all of it. the entire notion of antibiotic treatment for bacterial infections is not symptomatic relief but cure focused. I think either way, the biggest issue with modern medicine is that if you let things go to far you have to short circuit the natural healing process and that comes at a cost - usually in the form of side effects and withdrawal symptoms. In other cases, there is no cure so symptomatic relief is all you'll get. I also think next gen cancer treatments and the biologics for auto immune disorders are getting really close to migrating toward solving underlying condition where before symptomatic relief was the goal. I'll also say that the stellate ganglion block I had was the closest thing to a true treatment of the underlying condition than anything else I've ever experienced in healthcare. It was shockingly on point for an hyperactive immune system. within days I was seeing drastic improvement at the origin of the problem. It was as close to a medical miracle as anything I've ever experienced.

It was that guy!

Got my walk in after dinner, dog was too busy gnawing on a bone to come so it was alone. but with teenage boys it was spaghetti and meatballs for dinner (so good). Drank some wine (so fucking good) and just said fuck it last night. Didn’t stretch before bed. I got 8 hours though which was soooooo amazing! So so evening, day time was good though, ate a bowl of fruit and plain yogurt and various seeds, then a banana peanut butter spinach smoothie for lunch. Capped off with a vigorous tennis work out after a robust day of working. I’d score it a 6 out of 10, with huge deductions for dinner even if it was heirloom pasta. If I’m scoring based on my journey to healing from the summer it was a bombshell 10 out of 10. God I love good sleep. speaking of tennis, I read somewhere spatial recognition which tennis would certainly qualify is a thing to watch for early signs of dementia related diseases and that sports that require spatial intelligence help the brain stay young. I like it.

I’m on a decent roll, slept well last night. I forgot to mention ketamine infusions and a stellate ganglion block for anxiety and ptsd. Not sure if our sleep issues are truly caused by ptsd so YMMV but I had enough of a cluster of issues that both treatments were warranted and they have been instrumental. yes to white noise and podcasts, the fictitious baseball games sound awesome.

Fuck I just went through 16 weeks of insomnia and just now found this thread. Why it’s in lulz is beyond me. Started with Covid then entrenched asthma like symptoms for 12 weeks then 6 weeks of back to back withdrawals from prednisone (on high doses for about a month) then Xanax (on it for about two months) holy hell that was a bitch and back to back to back severe anxiety and insomnia. Sleep was buttfucked wrecked so bad. Many zero hour nights. More under 4 hour nights than I could count. I’m finally on a nice stretch of two weeks of decent sleep but PTSD all over. hydroxyzine has helped a lot, but in weaning off that now. Valerian root is good, some consider it a natural Xanax. Who are we kidding there is no other Xanax. But it works I like it. magnesium glycinate is good. i take body health “sleep” that has all the amino acids and neurotransmitter precursors. It’s good. and 150mg of hemp oil. i don’t take all of these at the same time but they are slowly turning it around for me. Insomnia suuuuuucks.

Here you go…

I was speaking generally. But this year yes you are correct. But I dare you to find more than a couple more examples of both teams having national relevance going into that game in the 100 plus years of the rivalry. You won’t find it. So you give me a break.

There was an article out there that basically explained it saying Arkansas played 3 high and it absolutely takes the deep balls away. It’s also true Ewers doesn’t throw it as well as we’d like but in the end until Texas can reliably run the ball, teams are going to force Texas to run and short pass the way down the field. Sark said as much and it’s why he said in the second half we had to be able to run the ball. Again, we have to start with a good running game for sark’s offense to be as deadly as we’ve known it to be.

I was neck deep in the healthcare system with my bout with Covid. None of them really do much other than run tests and prescribe meds. It’s shockingly bad and I’m not even close to a critic of modern medicine.

We can give a second rec for by Winona …