Useless Conversation

[Morat20]

There are certainly exceptions, but most people who are good at jogging (like, been doing it for years and can go for miles and miles) look like shit regardless of their body weight, and are usually not good for anything besides jogging.  It doesn't transfer over very well to anything else, and if you stop doing it for any length of time, your body quickly reverts to its former state.  Not to mention the bio-mechanical havoc it plays on your body.  Is that our metric for good health?

Hmm. Cardiovascular health? That's what started me using the treadmill, was some heart tests making me feel super old and the doctor telling me my fitness levels were in the toilet. He specifically meant cardiovascular.

Anything that gets my heart to a target rate works for that, and I suspect it doesn't degrade any faster than when you quit any other aerobic activity.

You're certainly right about it not transferring -- all it's really doing is building endurance from the waist down and cardiovascular endurance. There's a reason I've been looking for a gym or an activity to do some general upkeep on the rest of me. (If nothing else, I added some sit-ups and push-ups in). It's just out of all the 'get your heart rate high' stuff, jogging is the one I'll apparently stick with.

[apocrypha]

Man I'd love a pool. Wife & I looked into it and there's no way we'll ever be able to afford it. All the pools near us are awful.

[Signe]

Use the one at Buckingham Palace.  You own it.  As you face the palace gates, it's the little building all the way to the left with all the little pillar thingies on it.  I think.

I've never really lusted after a pool.  It never occurs to me unless there is one.  Then I worry a kitten will fall in and drown.  I think about things way too long and deeply.  :(

[Cyrrex]

Then I worry a kitten will fall in and drown.  I think about things way too long and deeply.  :(

If it makes you feel any better, kittens really DO fall in and drown in pools all the time.  It's probably happening right now, I'd wager.

There are certainly exceptions, but most people who are good at jogging (like, been doing it for years and can go for miles and miles) look like shit regardless of their body weight, and are usually not good for anything besides jogging.  It doesn't transfer over very well to anything else, and if you stop doing it for any length of time, your body quickly reverts to its former state.  Not to mention the bio-mechanical havoc it plays on your body.  Is that our metric for good health?

Hmm. Cardiovascular health? That's what started me using the treadmill, was some heart tests making me feel super old and the doctor telling me my fitness levels were in the toilet. He specifically meant cardiovascular.
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Yeah, it sorta started that way for me in my mid thirties.  Started with a lot of the cardio stuff (little or no jogging).  I eventually found out that weights were far better all around...good enough for my cardiovascular health, but not nearly as sucky (seriously, fuck all cardio).  Different strokes, I guess.  Most important thing is that you just do something.

[Hawkbit]

That moment when you're getting ready to signup for a JS meetup, realize it's a small group. So you look through the attendees and realize one of them is also part of a furry meetup. Welp.

[Morat20]

Yeah, it sorta started that way for me in my mid thirties.  Started with a lot of the cardio stuff (little or no jogging).  I eventually found out that weights were far better all around...good enough for my cardiovascular health, but not nearly as sucky (seriously, fuck all cardio).  Different strokes, I guess.  Most important thing is that you just do something.

Yeah, that's why I'm keeping on jogging until a health issues says "You're gonna hurt yourself". Because, you know, I'm doing it. Don't want to mess with something that's working, right?

On the bright side, two days of these godawful back exercises and I can feel a difference. I had 'general lower back' exercises already, but specifically 'these are your weak muscles' exercises make a world of difference. It's gone from random 'feels sore and awkward and weird and stiff' to 'it's mildly sore, the same way my arms are if I do pushups'. I don't care if nothing else works, this was worth having two very chipper, way too fit people watch me flail around.

They're like personal trainers, but they talk alot about anatomy. (One is like..interning..with the other one. She'll do an exam and he'll ask questions and prompt her for things she might have missed checking. It's actually kinda cool). Still they're both in disgustingly good shape. Just looking at them makes me want to join a gym.

[RhyssaFireheart]

*sigh*

Four paintings in progress and none dry enough for me to do the next steps or take them off the board.  The reason I'd work on multiple pieces at once was to avoid this sort of waiting.   

[apocrypha]

Use the one at Buckingham Palace.  You own it.  As you face the palace gates, it's the little building all the way to the left with all the little pillar thingies on it.  I think.

Hmm, if it's a choice between not having a swim, and getting shot.... I'll stay dry I think.

[Yegolev]

UK property laws are weird.

[Ironwood]

How so ?

[Signe]

There's that new property capital gains tax for foreign owners just like they were regular old common as muck Brits.  Or has that not started yet?  I think the boom on buying London property by foreign people and even companies is just about over.  Maybe they can start calling "London's Luxury Eastern Bloc" Knightsbridge again.

[Yegolev]

How so ?

"Hey go use that pool that you own"
"I don't want to be shot"

As an outsider.  Also, I was told I could tromp all over Scotland without risking being shot and I found that to be true.  Possibly because no one lives there, though.

[Rendakor]

I don't think he actually owns the pool in Buckingham Palace.

Not sure if I'm falling into the sarchasm here...

[Merusk]

Yeg's just got his head in the clouds again. He's a fair-weather contributor, anyway.

[Bunk]

Random college question:

If I wanted to take Business 3310 (Organizational Management Skills), which has a pre-req of Business 1210, what am I looking at in taking a an Assessment Test on that 1st year course?

I took Organizational Behaviour (1215) several years ago and breezed through it, so first year business courses aren't intimidating to me, but I've never tested for a course. Is the assessment likely to be something comparable to writing the course final? If so, I'm thinking a couple weeks study of the textbook should be more than enough.

Or, I could just take the level 1 course first anyways since the company will pay for it - but the material looks to be on the same level as the typical online fluff courses the company offers - and I'll probably be bored out my tree.

[Chimpy]

Proficiency exams vary widely depending upon school and subject and may or may not be available for the course.

If you already took something at that school in the major that is in the same level, you might just ask them if they will accept the course you took (and any relevant work experience as you are a professional) as fulfilling the pre-req.

Call the college's admissions/registration office or the department teaching the course and ask.

[schild]

Great quote that doesn't exist buried in a reddit comment: "Give a man a good tool, he'll build a house fit for God. Give the internet a good tool, they'll use it to kill God."

Really just kinda sums things up.

[Yegolev]

Yeg's just got his head in the clouds again. He's a fair-weather contributor, anyway.

Double pun score.

[Morat20]

What happens when I'm impulsive. I decided to try piercings -- starting with earlobes because, well -- no tattoos, no piercings so far. Went to an actual piercing place, because hey -- I know that much, even for earlobes. It's reversible enough, nice baby step and fuck it --- I turn 40 in a few weeks and I've been looking at this stuff for ages so why the hell not?

Get them pierced, wander home. Pretty happy with it, all told.

Then remember "Shit, I did not check my workplace policy". So now I'm obsessing over that (not that I can check it from home). It's probably fine -- I've got long hair, I don't deal with any customers face to face for like 9 months, and I get to wear jeans to work daily. I was thinking "Fuck it, I work in software engineering" and forgot by that I mean "for a government contractor".

URGH.

Oh well. Worst case, dumb-ass bandaids for 2 or 3 weeks, when I can switch them out for retainers. Or 6 weeks, until I can just leave them out during the day.

But this is why Morat doesn't DO impulsive. Because even though I'm about 90% sure it'd be at least two weeks before anyone even noticed, I can't help but conjure up being at work 10 minutes before getting harassed into covering them up or taking them out like I'm working directly with customers from some tight-ass end of the country.

Despite, as noted, I deal with 4 people regularly (my immediate team), see our government supervisor MAYBE monthly, and frankly we had a guy working Mission Control in a damn Mohawk, I think the earrings are fine.

*Sigh*. Stupid brain. Always got to obsess over the worst fucking case instead of enjoying life.

[Selby]

I did that.  I work for the government through a contractor as well.  Pierced my ears and have waist length hair.  No one ever said a thing (to my face).  Sometimes I even wear my hair down throughout the day.

[Morat20]

I did that.  I work for the government through a contractor as well.  Pierced my ears and have waist length hair.  No one ever said a thing (to my face).  Sometimes I even wear my hair down throughout the day.

I figure I'm fine, but I tend to get a bit..."OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK" over little stuff like that, whereas things like "Surprise! Sudden 2k car repair bill!" it's just "Ah, fuck" and then I find the money. I might bitch about it, but I don't worry.

Although hearing that helps. :)

*shrug*. Once they're healed, there's a simple solution of anyone bitches. Hell, two weeks from now there's a simple solution (I can just swap them out for a retainer).

Currently, we're having fun with my kid (almost 19) called "How long until he notices". I've got money on not until next week.

[Merusk]

Fuck everything about today. It's been shitty, all my projects are going to hell due to 3rd parties and I'm fed-up.

*breathe*

/blogout.  Sorry 'bout that.

[WayAbvPar]

Old man gets older 

[Signe]

I woke up feeling a little nauseated yesterday.  My sister gives me a piece of her "special" ginger candy to help.  I'm like, oh, candy that helps!  Hooray!  So I put it in my mouth and it's chewy so I chew it and O. M. G. my mouth goes insane with pain and exploding shrapnel and fire and brimstone and super mega pop rocks and all that sort of stuff.  Even the memory is painful.  I thought I would die.  If you love your children, do NOT give them my sister's special ginger candy.  It doesn't help.  It could put them in a coma.  On the other hand, if your kid is in a coma, try it.  It might snap him out of it. 

[Paelos]

Ginger candy is like chewing raw garlic in terms of mouth explosion

[Sky]

all my projects are going to hell due to 3rd parties

I had been griping about some vendors and system-level people a couple months ago and then we got hit with a big compliance fail for my project to bring us in compliance for the comptroller and it landed squarely on the feet of the two entities I had previously been bitching about. I realized this, wrote appropriately strongly worded missives and went on vacation.

Everything got cleaned up while I was enjoying the beach at Ogunquit.

So, sorry about being on the other end of that karmic scale, but remember it's there!

(but still, fuck them anyway)

[Sky]

No apples on my trees this year, not a single bloom. Thanks, Obama.

[Signe]

What do you think happened with your tree, Sky? 

[Merusk]

Too much water or not enough?

Oh, and Honeycrisps are in the store. They seem underripe, but I bought the small "lunch" sized instead of the usual giant apples.

As for my 3rd party problem, fuck it. I told one of 'em their project was axed because it was so severely fucked. The other parts we'll have to see where they go. In other news I'm pretty sure I'm going to get bitched at later because users are stupid and I've been drinking. Maybe I'll go detail my woes in the job thread. I seem to be doing that a lot... reume time.

[Paelos]

I seem to be doing that a lot...reume time.

Might want to clean that up on the old reume.  

[Yegolev]

That got me good.  I needed the laugh.  AWS in Virginia is partially fucked, so... what are you guys doing today?

[Phildo]

What's up with AWS?  I have a friend who works there and I should probably pay more attention to these things.

[Trippy]

Multiple services have been having issues over multiple days now, the main one being their NoSQL Cloud database service DynamoDB.

[Yegolev]

EBS API is (or was) having problems this morning, which directly impacted my day.  I'm assuming it's related to the DynamoDB problem.

[Yegolev]

The status RSS tells me they broke it more while trying to fix it, so I guess I'm going to call it a day.