Update Season VIII - "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"

[patrick1]

Outside our front door this morning was a little visitor - a puppy. She has hung around the porch all day so Mom got her a small bag of cheap dog food. She gave her quite a bit of food and the pup wolfed down every morsel of food. She is very adorable and very friendly, but one person is not happy - the cat. Even though the cat is indoors and the pup is outdoors, the cat had some words for the pup through the screen door. Poor little puppy just got cussed out and an old lady cat. We don't know who the puppy belongs to, and we don't know if she's riding the circuit going to a different porch tomorrow, but for the time she's with us, she will be called Blondie

I don't know whether I find the lurch into Children's Lit intriguing or disturbing. Bushie talking like an 8 year old, I could do without.

[patrick1]

In all the time reading your posts you have gone into detail about changing calendars and focusing on Christmas but I never remember you talking in much detail about your Tourette's. You mention it in passing frequently.  How does this present itself?  Why do you think you continually went in jobs that were ill suited to your condition?

If you actually tried you could see a marked improvement in your health in several months. As time goes by you are only making it harder on yourself.

[patrick1]

Thanks for sharing Jeff. That certainly sounds like it is challenging to live with and overcome.  A couple things I learned the hard way is that you have to stop sabotaging and instead try to put yourself in a position to succeed. Start knocking off some small, short term goals and build some momentum. As they say in sports, winning is contagious.

[patrick1]

You should take the dog for a walk.

my guess that he (bushie) will just watch tv and eat red meat instead.

You are actually spot on.  I will be having left over steak from Sunday at 18:15 and will be watching Texas Rangers baseball at 19:00 followed by the News at 22:00 and Jay Leno at 22:30.

Aw shucks guys, this time will be different. I'm really motivated. God is calling me etc etc.... get off your lazy a$$ and move already.

[patrick1]

We do play fetch with the dog to get him running.  We throw out one of his toys and have him fetch it and bring it back.

Ain't the dog that needs the exercise.

[patrick1]

Last year, I bought one bottle of coke every night for 50 schillings, but that was after downing at least 8-9 glasses of water, so the hazards of the coke wasn't that much.

What... no... that's not how nutrition works.

Im gonna have a whole strawberry cheesecake; its all good though I had tablespoon of spinach for dinner.

[patrick1]

Id like to think that Bushie is having a nice Royale with Cheese, some fries slathered in mayo and a large Mountain Dew. 400 calories max, but he had some water so it's all good.

[patrick1]

It's nice he's buying them things and all, but again, he's making it about him and creating "daddy moments" more than anything.

"Proud to be a daddy" is what he says on his FB. 

Didn't he previously say he was going to stop calling himself their daddy because he'd accepted that he couldn't adopt them, at least without a wife?

Yeah, like I said earlier, these poor kids are going to be so confused when they actually grow up and can think on their own as to why some white guy who sent them $30 a month is calling him their father.

Bushie needs to get to work finding a wife if he really loves these kids. It should be hit top priority when he gets home!

There is probably some different well meaning Yank every other week.

Anyway this whole story is just sad because our protagonist is not grounded in reality. The wrong poster has the handle Walter Mitty.

[patrick1]

More delusions, hurray.

[patrick1]

It wasn't rigorous exercise, but it was moving around, rarely sedentary.

That's not exercise.  I'm almost always constantly walking at work, other than my 30 minute break, but I wouldn't say I exercise 7 hours a day.

That doesn't matter really.  Someone who works out at the gym for half an hour and then sits on their ass all day burns less calories than someone who is merely active throughout the day. Many also mistakenly reward themselves after the exercise and outeat what they burned by considerable margins.

[patrick1]

It's comforting that Sbane wants Jeff Junior to suffer in the OK heat when there is a cool home 5 feet away.

It has nothing to do with what I want. If I had a dog, I would keep it inside because keeping it outside would defeat the purpose. But it is extremely hilarious to hear that a dog is going to die because it's 85 degrees outside. Talk about sheltered....

Yeah, I didnt quite get the outrage either. Dogs and humans lived side by side for millennia without central cooling or heating and managed just fine. Now so many people are sedentary fats and can't take it when the heat goes up. Ample water and shade is all that is needed really.

Then again there are many humans who die or suffer from exposure every day, some trying to sneak into our country or working the fields picking our fruit or maybe in a far off land. Which shows you that many care about pets more than people and really can't say I blame them sometimes.

[patrick1]

Oh, and there was no nap today.

I'm sorry but hahaha. Did you also manage to not die of thirst?  

Start stringing up some solid accomplishments.  If real, congrats on the start of the weight loss. Just imagine where you would be if you put in a serious effort.

[patrick1]

It just seems kind of silly to reject what Bushie says (not that I disagree with that) but then say the only denomination that "makes a lick of sense" is the one that says your sins aren't forgiven through faith but confessing them to specific celibate men and it doesn't count otherwise, and that these men, and only these men have the power to turn wine and bread into someone's flesh and blood. Part of why I'm evangelical is because it rejects hierarchical structures like this and states every person has equal access to God. (Yes not always in practice, but at least in theory.) And of course I find complimentarianism so repulsive I can't support any denomination with the practice. Complete dealbreaker.

Take your obsessions out of the Update, thanks and good day. That goes for telling Bushie to go to Christian hardcore shows too. No one cares, well maybe the R2D2 poster.