Update XXI: "Scientific Facts Are Not Hard And Fast Rules."

[Mr. Morden]

I can never do a single thing again to lose my salvation.  Once He saved me, I cannot EVER lose my salvation no matter what I do. 

OK, so you're saved because you accepted Jesus?  What if you subsequently renounced Him?  Would you then lose your salvation?

[Mr. Morden]

I really don't know why he won't date her. Maybe he's just afraid of women. They are awful, I agree, but we cant live without them.

I thought the second break-up with her was because she dumped him?

[Mr. Morden]

What was for dinner tonight?

[Mr. Morden]

This [redacted] business reminds me of when Bushie gave us the exact departure times of his flights to Kenya, but refrained from listing the flight numbers in the Update thread, in order to "protect his privacy".

[Mr. Morden]

Considering pretty much every job opportunity Bushie finds eventually receives some criticism along the lines of "They're paying you too much." or "you wouldn't be good at it." or "you'd hate it too much to do well at it.", or "this probably isn't legitimate" etc. etc., I'm not surprised he doesn't want the name of the grocery store released. Sometimes, this criticism is merited, yes, but that doesn't mean it's not discouraging to one's future job searching. So it makes sense that Bushie would do what he can to keep any job-search related criticism he doesn't seek out through pms to a minimum.

No, the reason why Bushie never posts such details online is because this man cyber-stalks him, and has been known to contact organizations that Bushie is affiliated with in order to tarnish his name.

Yet Bushie deciding to stop posting every detail of his life is apparently out of the question, so instead he gives just enough information so that Mr. Mondale will have to use Google in order to decode Bushie's cryptic hints.

[Mr. Morden]

Update XXII: Cleaning Up the Meat (literally this time)

Yeah, there should be no need for a name poll this time.

There could be a few variations though:

Update XXII: Cleaning Up the Meat at [redacted]

[Mr. Morden]

If you're going to have an entire month with nothing to do (because the new job doesn't start until April 1), then you could use that time to…I don't know…learn how to cook something more elaborate than a tomato and bacon sandwich?  (Actually, never mind.  That's obviously wishful thinking.)

Speaking of which, what was for dinner tonight?

[Mr. Morden]

I looked at a job description last night for the Owasso store Meat Clerk and it said I could walk up to 2 miles in an 8 hour day.  I will be very sore.  I am very aware my back and my feet will be killing me by day's end, but at the same time I am looking forward to possibly losing weight from the constant standing up and walking.  Over time, my back and feet won't hurt as bad as I get used to it.  I don't see standing and walking as unreachable challenges, I see them as a potential complete lifestyle overhaul.

You have an entire month with nothing else to do, during which you can "train" for this.  Why don't you walk 40 minutes tomorrow, and see if you can handle it?

[Mr. Morden]

I looked at a job description last night for the Owasso store Meat Clerk and it said I could walk up to 2 miles in an 8 hour day.  I will be very sore.  I am very aware my back and my feet will be killing me by day's end, but at the same time I am looking forward to possibly losing weight from the constant standing up and walking.  Over time, my back and feet won't hurt as bad as I get used to it.  I don't see standing and walking as unreachable challenges, I see them as a potential complete lifestyle overhaul.

You have an entire month with nothing else to do, during which you can "train" for this.  Why don't you walk 40 minutes tomorrow, and see if you can handle it?

I may do that when I get back to Tulsa this next week.  I'm down at my parents' in OKC this weekend and we've got an inch of snow on the ground and expecting another 2-4" tomorrow plus some late afternoon sleet or freezing drizzle.  Later this week it's supposed to be in the 50's and 60's, so it will be a good time to walk.  I will be working in a climate-controlled building with fairly uniform temperatures except for the time I'm in the meat freezer.

I assume the "diet" is on hiatus while you're in OKC?

[Mr. Morden]

I looked at a job description last night for the Owasso store Meat Clerk and it said I could walk up to 2 miles in an 8 hour day.  I will be very sore.  I am very aware my back and my feet will be killing me by day's end, but at the same time I am looking forward to possibly losing weight from the constant standing up and walking.  Over time, my back and feet won't hurt as bad as I get used to it.  I don't see standing and walking as unreachable challenges, I see them as a potential complete lifestyle overhaul.

You have an entire month with nothing else to do, during which you can "train" for this.  Why don't you walk 40 minutes tomorrow, and see if you can handle it?

I may do that when I get back to Tulsa this next week.  I'm down at my parents' in OKC this weekend and we've got an inch of snow on the ground and expecting another 2-4" tomorrow plus some late afternoon sleet or freezing drizzle.  Later this week it's supposed to be in the 50's and 60's, so it will be a good time to walk.  I will be working in a climate-controlled building with fairly uniform temperatures except for the time I'm in the meat freezer.

I assume the "diet" is on hiatus while you're in OKC?

I'm trying to behave, but I've got to eat what they have bought.  We had chili tonight for supper, but I was a good boy and only had a handful of Fritos and cheese.  I have had too many cokes today, though.

Update XXII: A handful of Fritos and cheese

[Mr. Morden]

What's for dinner tonight?  And when's your next weigh-in?

[Mr. Morden]

Bushie, your starting weight on the "diet" was 288, as claimed by you:

You said here:

I could be accused of having a cheat day on the first day of the diet, but then I would answer by saying the diet hasn't officially started.  In one of my posts from yesterday, I said the weeks run from Sunday through Saturday.  So, I am going to start the diet at midnight Sunday morning, the beginning of the week.

Sunday morning means Sunday, Feb. 8th.  How much did you weigh that day?

I made it home from church.  This morning, I weighed in at 288, but I woke up too late for breakfast.

288 is how much you weighed on the morning of the first day of the diet.  If you are now back at 288, then you've lost a net of zero pounds since Day 1 of the diet.

So you've managed a whopping 1.6 pound loss in about three and a half weeks.

[Mr. Morden]

It was a bad 32.8 years.

I wouldn't go that far.

Name one diet where you've actually lost at least 10 pounds during the first 4 weeks. ONE.

The one surefire weight loss method Bushie has found this year (before this "diet" started) was when he was sick for several days and lost his appetite.

[Mr. Morden]

It was a bad 32.8 years.

I wouldn't go that far.

Name one diet where you've actually lost at least 10 pounds during the first 4 weeks. ONE.

November 2011-February 2012 - I lost nearly 30 pounds overall in that diet and over 10 pounds in the first month.  I've since gained it all back, but I'm not without precedent in losing weight.  I got down to the high 250's from 285.  If I can just get back to what I did then, I'd be in a whole lot better shape.  The problem is after I got back from Kenya that March, I fell off the diet.

What did you do to supposedly lose all that weight during that period?

[Mr. Morden]

It was a bad 32.8 years.

I wouldn't go that far.

Name one diet where you've actually lost at least 10 pounds during the first 4 weeks. ONE.

November 2011-February 2012 - I lost nearly 30 pounds overall in that diet and over 10 pounds in the first month.  I've since gained it all back, but I'm not without precedent in losing weight.  I got down to the high 250's from 285.  If I can just get back to what I did then, I'd be in a whole lot better shape.  The problem is after I got back from Kenya that March, I fell off the diet.

What did you do to supposedly lose all that weight during that period?

I know I switched exclusively to diet pop and had no regular pop for the entire period.  I hit a plateau with the weight loss because I needed to do more than just drink diet pop and really didn't know what else I should do next.  Then, Kenya happened and interrupted by progress...

I see.  Btw, from looking at Update from that period, the lowest you ever hit (at least going by your own public statements) was 261, which happened on March 5, 2012:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=143929.msg3221135#msg3221135

No record of you ever actually getting below 260.

[Mr. Morden]

I think the reason why Mom was a little hesitant about the new job is every time there has been physical labor I "hid under the bed"..  She's right, I have shied away from a lot of physical labor in my nearly 33 years, but I reassured her that I am more mature now and ready to settle into a career.  I've got to prove to her that I can do this and that I'm not blowing hot air.

Physical labor? You're working at a grocery, not digging ditches...

Standing up for more than a few minutes at a time = physical labor, for someone in Bushie's shape.

[Mr. Morden]

Everything you just said is correct, and I know how hard it could be. Just remember what someone said pages back. It takes quite awhile to break an addiction (20 days?). I gave up Coke for Lent two years ago when I drank it all the time. Now I can effectively manage it to about two a week.

I know you can do it too if you can withhold cheat days on that (Sunday exceptions were not used by me). Breaking a habit is hard, but it requires focus. It's probably much harder for you with the lack of an obvious alternative, but have you tried anything else? Even stuff like iced tea is marginally better. What about Coke Zero? Switch that in for water now and then. (I presume that's not too bad. Haven't heard much about it.)

The first step in breaking an addiction is admitting there is an addiction.

So are you ready to try my soda challenge? No soda period on Mondays. Only water.

Yes. No more soda on Mondays. He may have the occasional Sunkist or Root Beer, but no more Coke products!

And Memorial Day is a cheat. Labor Day too. You can't expect him to not cheat on Columbus Day either, can you? He refuses, that is, flat out refuses to limit his enjoyment of the Columbus Day holiday.

Also, if he's visiting his family, or anyone else for that matter, and they offer him soda on a Monday, then he can't refuse, as that would be rude.

[Mr. Morden]

How many days have you walked this week, Bushie?

[Mr. Morden]

It was a bad 32.8 years.

I wouldn't go that far.

Name one diet where you've actually lost at least 10 pounds during the first 4 weeks. ONE.

November 2011-February 2012 - I lost nearly 30 pounds overall in that diet and over 10 pounds in the first month.  I've since gained it all back, but I'm not without precedent in losing weight.  I got down to the high 250's from 285.  If I can just get back to what I did then, I'd be in a whole lot better shape.  The problem is after I got back from Kenya that March, I fell off the diet.

What did you do to supposedly lose all that weight during that period?

^^^

[Mr. Morden]

This coming Tuesday, March 10, 2015 I will be heading back down to Eastern Oklahoma County for 5 days as what will likely be my final trip to my parents for quite a while.  I will come back home to Tulsa by sunset  Sunday, March 15, 2015.

So I assume no "diet" and no walking while you're visiting your parents?

Also, no attempts to cook meat, nor attempts to increase you're walking time so that you're physically capable at your new job?

[Mr. Morden]

Also, the solution to Bushie's financial troubles is obvious: He needs to cut off the Kenyan kids, and have them get jobs.

Bushie, I know it's tough, but if you don't cut the Kenyan kids off now, then they'll be reliant on you for the rest of their lives.  It sounds far-fetched, I know, but you can't coddle them forever, or they'll develop a pathological dependency, never managing to take care of themselves.  They'll just sit on the couch all day watching Kenyan sports and eating Kenyan Braum's, like inert slugs.

[Mr. Morden]

We will have two family dinners (Tuesday and Sunday), so probably no walking. 

Impeccable logic.  Walking within a day or two of a family dinner makes very little sense.

[Mr. Morden]

Eraser, it's time to start accepting votes for the title of Update Season XXII.

There's only one possible option:

Update XXII: Cleaning Up the Meat at [redacted]

[Mr. Morden]

I have just crossed underneath 13 days until my new career.  The time is drawing near.  First, though, I get a mini-Spring Break vacation at my parents this week.  I will head down to my parents this afternoon (Tuesday) and spend the next five nights with them.

Vacation from what? 

From walking a few minutes a day.  It can be pretty exhausting, and Bushie needs a break.

[Mr. Morden]

How much (if any) walking have you done this week Bushie?