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Handruin

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The exercising I do now has three main benefits. First, it's helping me control/lose weight. Second, it should hopefully have longer-term benefits when I get older if I keep up with it (for the heart). Third, it allows me to be the one who can walk up stairs, or do more active things without feeling incredibly like ass after doing even the mildest of physical activities.
 

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After a 3 month hiatus, I finally starting jogging again . . . 2.5 miles used to be easier. Hopefully in the next couple weeks I'll be back where I was, and in a few months, reach my goal of 10 miles.
The way you described your health and overweight issues in the past, I'm very surprise to read that you can actually run...even more so to run 2.5 miles. I thought you were fat like...FAT. Morbid fat. You must not be that bad after all. You certainly didn't look obese in the picture you posted online a few years ago.

Keep it that way so that we can have you around many more years.
 

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One good thing to say about WD Raptors. They still have Molex power connectors on them. It's a good thing since I snapped the SATA power connector off when dropping in my new CPU.
 

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The way you described your health and overweight issues in the past, I'm very surprise to read that you can actually run...even more so to run 2.5 miles. I thought you were fat like...FAT. Morbid fat. You must not be that bad after all. You certainly didn't look obese in the picture you posted online a few years ago.

Keep it that way so that we can have you around many more years.

When you're 6'2" it's easier to hide extra weight. My ideal weight would be 13 stone 8, but I'll settle for 14 stone. My health has been the primary reason for exercising, not necessarily my weight. Even when I'm overweight, but exercising, my health is much better.
 

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Using wonderful Google to convert from rocks to an actual measure of weight; and considering we are the same height, you actually aren't that heavy. I'm 13 stones myself, thought I should probably loose 5lbs and re-allocate 10-20lbs.
 

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Using wonderful Google to convert from rocks to an actual measure of weight; and considering we are the same height, you actually aren't that heavy. I'm 13 stones myself, thought I should probably loose 5lbs and re-allocate 10-20lbs.

Re-allocating is always the issue. : ) Currently, I'm 15 stone 10, once I was 17 stone 2. It was fun, but unhealthy.

PS: Even when plural, it's still stone.
 

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I can run 25m alright, but I don't float (not enough body fat) so the only way I'm going to make 25m in water is down and at 25m below the surface, I would be gasping for air.
 

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Yeah, Coug, you don't have to tell us you don't have enough body fat, we can see it from the picture you provided. (j/k of course)

I was in the hospital Saturday attending to my bro-in-law who was suffering from symptoms of kidney stones. When the nurse took his blood pressure, I asked if I could have mine taken, too. The nurse obliged and said it was 120/80, which is my best reading since year 2000 when I started maintenance pills for my hypertension.

Got to thinking, is this because I am getting some exercise nowadays? If true, very good!
 

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Exercise should help high blood pressure. I don't know if it helps everyone, but it should help most people
 

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I can run 25m alright, but I don't float (not enough body fat) so the only way I'm going to make 25m in water is down and at 25m below the surface, I would be gasping for air.

I think you should buy floatation devices. It only takes a little boyancy to make swimming easier. :)
 

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The site must be busy. It finally loaded. Looks like some Nazi BS...
 

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Why are the verticular and hoirizonatlly spiling drums exactament the same? It is that a jopke of silly kind?
 

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Be careful there, David. Is that an isolated violent incident or is the neighborhood not so nice? I thought you just moved recently to a permanent dwelling, but must have been mistaken.
 

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Lunar,

This is a great neighborhood. This is the first shooting here for 7 years. It just happened to be 4 months after we moved in and 10 feet from our front door. The person who did the shooting rode their bicycle 10 miles to get here and shoot up the place.

I can discount it fairly easily as an isolated incident, I just hope it brings down the housing prices a bit ;)
 

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Meh.

The places I have lived since I moved out of my parents house, gunfire is generally something I expect to hear a few times a week. Hell, I lived in a place for several years where I could expect to see muzzle flash a few times a week.

I suspect these facts might have some bearing on my position about who should and should not have guns, and what kinds of guns they should have.
 

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From the PC Gaming thread...
Get out there and start going on some dates with real women???

Actually I am taking a friend to a concert in a little over a week. It is not a date (she is a taken woman) but she is a real woman.

Last time I took someone to a concert she turned gay a few months later. But that was Melissa Etheridge and this one will be Norah Jones, so hopefully THAT won't be repeated this time... But yes I really do think about things like that.

This time I have some enthusiasm for the music, so I'm actually looking forward to going. But I am also completely nervous because I do not know how well I will do with being in that particular set of unfamiliar social settings. I am worried that I will make myself sick or say/do something that is completely wrong.
 

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...But I am also completely nervous because I do not know how well I will do with being in that particular set of unfamiliar social settings. I am worried that I will make myself sick or say/do something that is completely wrong.

All that I learned about dating I got from old movies. I still open doors and tuck in chairs for women. All doors/chairs for all women, always. I try to speak just enough to keep the conversation going; it's not my job to drive the conversation, but it is my job to stop it from dying. Pay as much attention as you can without staring.

And of course, the hardest part, be comfortable with the concept of physical contact without wanting it or fearing it. Physical contact is something that occasionally happens, and people with little experience can make it very obvious that they have little experience. Mistake #1 is to try and avoid all physical contact as a sign of respect. This makes it obvious that you aren't comfortable, and that you interpret any physical contact as something more serious, making the next mistakes that much more obvious. Mistake #2, make it too firm. Usually demonstrated by a firm pat on the shoulder, women don't like it. Women (actually, all people) like to be touched, but respected at the same time which leads to the next mistake. Mistake #3, Velcro contact. Usually demonstrated by a gentle touch on the shoulder that stays for way too long. This shows to the other person that you were thinking about it, had difficulty doing it, and are now trying to savor it/play it out. Makes them feel like an object; bad.

Keep in mind, most men mess up most interactions with women. So your primary objective is to not mess it up! If you can also manage a "good time" and maybe even "funny" or "witty", those are bonuses.

I know she is taken, so consider it low-stakes practice. I'm sure she has single friends. ;)
 

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I can't handle this not having work to do. I don't have any contracting work scheduled until June, and my teaching schedule is more-or-less clear as well.

I slept 34 of the last 48 hours.

No idea how I'm going to make it through next week. :(
 
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