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Turkey Leftovers GAINZZZ

Repeats for the Thanksgiving break.

Last week I talked about the usefulness of the yoga nidra or "non-sleep deep rest protocol" for getting most of the benefits of a nap if you can't nap. Or this version, with a female voice.

I found out something interesting. I came across a video about fixing terminal insomnia -- insomnia of the waking up and not being able to fall back asleep kind, rather than the not being able to fall asleep in the first place kind.

That video recommended what she called the "A Robot Shutting Down" protocol.

Although I said that the yoga nidra was super-gay, this changed my mind -- Robert O'Neill, the guy who plugged bin Ladin, said that a protocol which is just a very minor variation of the yoga nidra is taught to SEALs for purposes of helping them sleep during stressful situations, like when they're being ferried on choppers to a mission.

It follows the basic "relax and shut down each muscle group one by one" script of yoga nidra before turning to a countdown.

I had thought the protocol was for a semi-nap, not to help you fall asleep, and it didn't really occur to me that it was something you could just do in your own head, rather than listening to someone else's voice taking you through a guided meditation.

I've been doing this now for a week days and my sleep is much, much better. I do it at the beginning of sleep and fall asleep quickly, and I do it when I wake up in the middle of night and also usually fall asleep pretty quickly.

Very recommended.

Two things: You probably have to listen to the guided style of the protocol so that you can recall the basic script easily. It's an easy script to remember the basics of, but I assume that if you're taxing your brain to recall it, that would interfere with relaxing your brain and keep you from sleeping instead of putting you to sleep.

The other thing is that I find it's been working less the past few days. Maybe I've gotten too bored with it and it no longer is in that perfect range of just interesting enough to keep my mind occupied with a boring task, but not too interesting to excite my brain. I'm finding it getting so boring my brain is wandering off, as it does when I try to count sheep. Maybe I just have to vary it up and try a slightly different protocol.

I'll tell you though, for five days, wow, one of the best hacks I've ever tried. It's worked all week, just not as great the past two nights.

Anyone else try this? I think LadyC tried it (nap form) and really liked it.

Last week I added in a restatement of how to do intermittent fasting or time restricted eating. I added that in after the post had been up for like forty minutes, so I'll put that below the fold if anyone's interested.

My GAINZZZ are weaksauce; I was chained to the computer because of the trial, though I finally got out for a hike yesterday. I shed a pound over the week. Sleep was good, thanks to the yoga nidra --or , as I'll now call it, the SEAL Sleep Hack.

What about yo' GAINZZZ? Any PLANZZZ? PROJEXXX?

Any BOOKZZZ you're reading?

Any PROGREZZZ on BOOKZZZ you're writing? Share with the group.

As you might know, my PLANZZZ is to take a week off, until next Tuesday, and WORKZZZ on my own BOOKZZZ. Maybe some SHELVZZZ stuff too.

Below, IF stuff.

If you want to try this, remember, you're already fasting when you're asleep, so there's 6-8 hours of fasting right there. Make sure you don't eat three hours before bed (it disturbs your sleep anyway) and put off eating or drinking calories (you can have black coffee or tea without milk) for at least an hour after waking up and you've got 10-12 hours of fasting as a starting point.

Then just end eating an hour earlier and put off eating an hour later every few days until you start eating at around noon or 1pm, and finish eating at 7pm or 8pm. That puts you on an 8 hour eating window, with a sixteen hour window of fasting, which is a 16:8 intermittent daily fast.

There is a period of adjustment and yes your body's clock will tell you you need food when it's accustomed to having food. You don't actually need food at that time; that's just the time your body has been conditioned to expect it, so that's the time it pulses out hunger hormones to spur you into eating. Your body will retrain to adapt to a new eating schedule in a couple of weeks. Not gonna lie, though, those hunger signal will be distracting at first, which is why it's best to just expand your fasting period by an hour maybe every three or four days (or two hours per week, one hour after three days, another hour after four).

(Actually I think it's probably better to just do it all in one go and gut your way through it but everyone says do it slowly so I'll just repeat what the namby-pamby "experts" say.)

I had been on an IF schedule for years and it was automatic and effortless to keep it. But when I went off it, and tried to get back on it, it was a bitch. And I had to go through the nagging hunger pangs again.

It takes an upfront payment in willpower and self-denial. Then the body resets its expectations of its feeding times, and the hunger goes away (or, rather, comes at the new schedule you've set).

Sixteen hours of fasting is recommended because the body begins burning small amounts of fat at 11 hours of fasting and then ramps up to burn a significant amount of fat at fourteen hours of fasting. So at sixteen hours of fasting, you're getting two solid hours of fat burning daily. If you can extend that to an 18 hour window or 20 hour window, that's better, but 16 hours is good.

Posted by: Ace at 07:34 PM




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1 Foist?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2021 06:34 PM (oHd/0)

2 Interestingzzz

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 06:34 PM (YZG/i)

3
Down from 189 to 184 this week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2021 06:35 PM (/U27+)

4 Still laughing about those DELICATE URETHRAL TUBULES, ace.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at November 19, 2021 06:36 PM (sGnvY)

5 ace, don't be tough on yourself re lack of GAINZZ.

I don't have much to say either. Most of my exercise these days comes from walking while delivering UberEats.

I did get a bit of a workout recently. I had to get up three flights of apartment building stairs with my grocery cart to deliver an order. (Thankfully it was in a good neighborhood.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 06:36 PM (L2ZTs)

6 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 19, 2021 06:36 PM (arJlL)

7 3
Down from 189 to 184 this week.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2021 06:35 PM (/U27+)

Hell, I'd be happy to get under 200... been at 225 for 40 years. I can work out like a dog... or be a slep... and still be 225.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2021 06:37 PM (oHd/0)

8 BTW, anybody hear the latest about AOC?

She's having a rough day today. First she was traumatized by the Rittenhouse verdict, and later on she had to be rescued by the DC Fire Department.

She got stuck on a broken escalator.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 06:38 PM (L2ZTs)

9 It also helps to eat cottage cheese with eggs as your first meal. The cottage cheese satiates the glucose cravings and the eggs have the omega 3's your body wants.

Posted by: batterup at November 19, 2021 06:38 PM (kXTD1)

10 Question
If you wake up three times a night covered in sweat, with your heart rate at 150BPM, does that count as exercise?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 19, 2021 06:38 PM (I64Vf)

11 Thanksgiving at Kyle's: MAGA (My Ass Got Acquitted).

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 19, 2021 06:38 PM (qFRAe)

12 Down five more lbs and, due to that, I have stopped snoring.

The lovely Mrs. is very happy about that.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 06:39 PM (mD/uy)

13 My grandmother would use the carcass for turkey noodle soup. Delicious, and lasted a week or so.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 19, 2021 06:40 PM (vuisn)

14 I've been stalled for months. Probably a combo or wacky hormones, bp med side effects, and my body trying to heal.

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 06:40 PM (YZG/i)

15 Question
If you wake up three times a night covered in sweat, with your heart rate at 150BPM, does that count as exercise?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 19, 2021 06:38 PM (I64Vf)

Only if you are masturbating

Posted by: batterup at November 19, 2021 06:40 PM (kXTD1)

16 I've really slimmed down my right arm. Lost about a pound and a half just above my elbow.

Posted by: Gaige Grosskreuz at November 19, 2021 06:40 PM (0G13K)

17 If you wake up three times a night covered in sweat, with your heart rate at 150BPM, does that count as exercise?
Posted by: Gentlemen

Only if you have to hurry and scoot out of the window before hubby walks in.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 06:40 PM (mD/uy)

18 I don't really do the yoga nidra thing, but when I can't sleep I play episodes of the Tetrapod Biology Podcast and doze away listening to a brit and an aussie talking about whale evolution and pterasaurs and therapod feathers.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2021 06:40 PM (P9T5R)

19 Tonypete you'll be happy to know she came and picked up the bracelets AND paid me! lol!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at November 19, 2021 06:41 PM (nxdel)

20 I do not know gainzz

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 19, 2021 06:41 PM (yrol0)

21 Ace, Enjoy your Thanksgiving break!

Posted by: R.F. Hirsch at November 19, 2021 06:41 PM (oMkPq)

22
BOOOOOKZZZZZZ
Rereading Schooled in Magic, by Christopher G. Nuttall. I had the first 14 books in the series, but he's finished the series at 24 books.

Link goes to goodreads author page.
https://is.gd/G4b3ey

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at November 19, 2021 06:41 PM (IJES/)

23 10 Question
If you wake up three times a night covered in sweat, with your heart rate at 150BPM, does that count as exercise?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 19, 2021 06:38 PM (I64Vf)

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Yes, if it involves sex ...

/Seriously, I have anxiety issues like this; a therapist told me they were "night terrors" and I feel like I'm literally dying and being pulled out of my body. I have PVC's which I learned can also be caused by acid/acid reflux

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 19, 2021 06:41 PM (qFRAe)

24 Tetrapod zoology podcast

Posted by: Kindltot at November 19, 2021 06:41 PM (P9T5R)

25 Hell, I'd be happy to get under 200... been at 225 for 40 years. I can work out like a dog... or be a slep... and still be 225.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2021 06:37 PM (oHd/0)

Now down to 169 after ballooning up to 192 in late spring...

I went on a one meal a day diet in June - only eat dinner. It was very hard at first, but now I find I don't really miss the food. But at night I have to force myself not to snack to fill myself up, and that's not good.

Posted by: Boswell at November 19, 2021 06:42 PM (5iUNf)

26 Nice Jewells! I take back all that shit I stacked on her.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 06:42 PM (mD/uy)

27 I can help pedophiles, anarchists, and domestic abusers lose all kinds of weight by a technique I call "Accupenetration."

Posted by: Kyle Rittenhouse at November 19, 2021 06:42 PM (0G13K)

28 10 Question
If you wake up three times a night covered in sweat, with your heart rate at 150BPM, does that count as exercise?

Posted by: Gentlemen

Take your bp without getting up and see if it's elevated.

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 06:42 PM (YZG/i)

29 My GAINZZZZ is that I can eat Thanksgiving dinner at all. I spent nearly all last week in the hospital because my small intestine did an impression of a stepped-on garden hose. (Comparison courtesy of my consulting surgeon.) Got it drained out and re-inflated, but that sucked. Literally. I hate ng tubes.

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 06:43 PM (W+kMI)

30 >>> don't really do the yoga nidra thing, but when I can't sleep I play episodes of the Tetrapod Biology Podcast and doze away listening to a brit and an aussie talking about whale evolution and pterasaurs and therapod feathers.

yes that's the sort of thing I used to do a lot when I had a lot of trouble, play something that is kind of boring but not completely boring, like a podcast i'd already heard five times

Posted by: Kyle Rittenhouse at November 19, 2021 06:43 PM (0G13K)

31 Thanks for the info about the robot shutdown thing, Ace. I will look at that because that's my problem right there, walking up and not being able to get back to sleep.

Now I have a tip for you, if you take melatonin. My daughter's friend is in med school and he told her that most melatonin you buy is too high a dose. He says you only need one mg, and too much can have the opposite effect of disrupting your sleep.

So I used a pill splitter to cut one of my 5 mg tabs in fourths, and for the last two nights I've slept 7 - 7.5 hours straight. Too soon to tell if it works for sure, but it's encouraging anyway.

Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 06:43 PM (wyw4S)

32 Down five more lbs and, due to that, I have stopped snoring.

The lovely Mrs. is very happy about that.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 06:39 PM (mD/uy)

Lucky. I gad to drop damned near 25 lbs before i stopped snoring. Gained it back. Gave Smash some ear plugs.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at November 19, 2021 06:44 PM (IJES/)

33 I fast more than 8 hours I pass out from starvation

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 06:44 PM (2JoB8)

34 If you wake up three times a night covered in sweat, with your heart rate at 150BPM, does that count as exercise?

Posted by: Gentlemen

Could you be having an afib episode? Mine I usually didn't feel mine but if I measured my BPM, wow!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 06:44 PM (mD/uy)

35 Bookzzz - read Monsterhunter Bloodlines, another grrat installment in the series by Larry Correia.

Starting on a Cherryh trilogy.
Also got a bunch of books on Adult ADHD

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 06:44 PM (YZG/i)

36 >>>Now I have a tip for you, if you take melatonin. My daughter's friend is in med school and he told her that most melatonin you buy is too high a dose

thank you, I got that advice from Andrew Huberman. I got melatonin in 1mg tabs and I split them.

most of the time i now just skip the melatonin.

Posted by: Kyle Rittenhouse at November 19, 2021 06:44 PM (0G13K)

37 Tonypete you'll be happy to know she came and picked up the bracelets AND paid me! lol!
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB

NICE !

Posted by: JT at November 19, 2021 06:45 PM (arJlL)

38 Got it drained out and re-inflated, but that sucked. Literally. I hate ng tubes.
Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 06:43 PM (W+kMI)
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Ouch. I'm sorry to hear that but very glad you are doing okay now.

Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 06:45 PM (wyw4S)

39 Lost about 10 pounds last week. Unplanned. Worst week ever and just plain didn't eat for a couple days.

Posted by: 496 at November 19, 2021 06:45 PM (U1eOr)

40 8 BTW, anybody hear the latest about AOC?

She's having a rough day today. First she was traumatized by the Rittenhouse verdict, and later on she had to be rescued by the DC Fire Department.

She got stuck on a broken escalator.
=========
Reaction #1: Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, good one, man!
Reaction #2: Check Gateway Pundit just to make sure it was a joke....

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 06:45 PM (W+kMI)

41 Wow

NASCAR knockout qualifying and practice

https://tinyurl.com/8dsjenph

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 19, 2021 06:45 PM (yrol0)

42 27 I can help pedophiles, anarchists, and domestic abusers lose all kinds of weight by a technique I call "Accupenetration."
Posted by: Kyle Rittenhouse at November 19, 2021 06:42 PM (0G13K)

The Paolo, he can also help some with the "acupenetration," but the Paolo he mostly helps the wives of the men of how you say, The Bulwark.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 19, 2021 06:46 PM (oXNqT)

43 Wonder if Kyle lost weight before and during trial, worrying about the outcome.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 06:46 PM (L2ZTs)

44 Thanks for posting the info regarding possible solutions for insomnia, ace. Sadly, I wake up as early as 1:00AM some mornings and can never go back to sleep. I'm definitely going to look into this some more.

GAINZZZ wise, I'm having the hardest time getting rid of the weight I gained over the summer. These last 3-5 pounds just won't budge. Still sticking with 45 minutes of elliptical cardio three times a week, but I've slacked off on the Pilates part of my GAINZZZ regimen. I'll try cue up one of my favorite Pilates vids on utube this weekend.

BOOKZZZ wise, I'm about halfway through Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, which I halfheartedly read as a kid in the 80s, since everyone I hung out with thought it was awesome. Its enjoyable but, I've never been much of a reader and it takes a lot to remain focused on it. I do intend to finish it by the end of the Thanksgiving weekend.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 19, 2021 06:46 PM (TNyrE)

45 Nice Jewells! I take back all that shit I stacked on her.
Posted by: Tonypete

Now, she's free to yell "Paging Number FIVE" at the wedding !

Posted by: JT at November 19, 2021 06:46 PM (arJlL)

46 Cant wait until Rittenhouse starts suing people for defamation and makes more money than God.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet at November 19, 2021 06:46 PM (qi/+I)

47 Waiting till 1pm to 3pm is easy for me, but later at night is harder. I do like to take some MCT in the morning though .. .not sure if that counts as food. ...

MCT or ketones feed the brain, and maybe aids/prevents Alzheimer's type issues. Those amyloid plaques ... I forget exact details, but the brain can feed on ketones when it can't feed on ? carb based "food".

My Solar Gainzzz are in progress, for when they punish us with grid rolling blackouts. Shotgun weekend for deer here, but the two hunters close to me apparently got nothing yet ... despite nice does running around. Was 18 degrees this morning, would have been a good chance to get them on the move.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 19, 2021 06:47 PM (Cus5s)

48 Now, she's free to yell "Paging Number FIVE" at the wedding !

*snort

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at November 19, 2021 06:47 PM (nxdel)

49 Tomorrow I hike up and down the hills in 30degree weather carrying a rifle, looking for antif- I mean, deer to shoot, gut out, drag out up and down the hills, and then eat.


Might gain a heart attack. It's all good!

Posted by: davidt at November 19, 2021 06:47 PM (0hbQ6)

50 Started Monday doing one meal a day. That one meal is a salad. It's a big salad, and I put whatever I want on it, but it's a salad. So far so good. I'm not hungry until almost time to eat.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 19, 2021 06:47 PM (18UdP)

51 Ace, thank you for the
Fall Asleep Despite Anxious Thoughts (US Navy Technique)
video. Very timely.

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 06:48 PM (YZG/i)

52 27 I can help pedophiles, anarchists, and domestic abusers lose all kinds of weight by a technique I call "Accupenetration."
Posted by: Kyle Rittenhouse at November 19, 2021 06:42 PM (0G13K)
Grouping anarchists with sexual deviants, because they believe in freedom.
No one wins them all.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet at November 19, 2021 06:48 PM (qi/+I)

53 Man, you people are scaring me. I was joking. I have nightmares sometimes from stress. I do not have PVC or arterial shit and I know this because I have never been to a Dr. and as long as I do not think about it, I will be fine.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 19, 2021 06:49 PM (I64Vf)

54 Don't know why but I was thinking about ace's thought process and the idea that his mind is so agile, as to be able to go from subject to subject, that it is impossible to shut it off. Any new idea becomes a challenge and then it is mastered.

Throws analysis cap in the trash.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 19, 2021 06:49 PM (K/GZa)

55 exdem, thanks!

I just gotta say, this verdict today will take YEARS off the lives of countless seething leftists. It's like early Christmas! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 06:50 PM (L2ZTs)

56 Oh, also: just finished a huge project stripping all the paint off the 1200sf deck, and resurfacing it. Took months, because I didn't want to use chemicals with the puppers around, so mechanical paint removal. Good to be done, deck looks great.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 19, 2021 06:50 PM (18UdP)

57 >>> Ace, thank you for the
Fall Asleep Despite Anxious Thoughts (US Navy Technique)
video. Very timely.

is that what it's called?

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 06:50 PM (0G13K)

58 Exdem, that sounds painful

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 06:51 PM (YZG/i)

59 >>>5 ace, don't be tough on yourself re lack of GAINZZ.


i don't, it was a big work week. still had some gainzzz.

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 06:51 PM (0G13K)

60 ASMR videos for insomnia.

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 19, 2021 06:52 PM (mNhhD)

61
My classical music playlist now has 3480 pieces by 1200 different composers. Spent some time today straightening some mistakes and tidying a bit before adding more.

The latest breathless discovery by the classical music world has been Florence Price (1887-1953), a twofer of 1) black and 2) a woman. The narrative is that she's an undiscovered genius unjustly suppressed by a white, male, racist, sexist establishment.

I recorded her 3rd Symphony, which is tonal, has nice episodes, but isn't particularly well put together. And far from being suppressed because of her race or sex, it's likely the reason she disappeared was that any tonal composer was slagged as hopelessly reactionary by the Modernists.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2021 06:52 PM (/U27+)

62 ace, seriously, you should write a book. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 06:52 PM (L2ZTs)

63 Is black-bloc-antifa burning Kenosha yet, or are they awaiting instructions from DC?

Posted by: 13times at November 19, 2021 06:53 PM (9rMWy)

64 Instead of "counting sheep" and being bored, I would imagine myself chopping wood, or throwing a baseball, or some other repetetive activity. It would calm me down and let me go back to sleep for a while.

Posted by: yep at November 19, 2021 06:53 PM (JxRAa)

65 My gainzzzz? Making major progress on stripping and refinishing my desk before I move next month.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 06:53 PM (rBtIz)

66 RMBS, where are you going?

Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 06:53 PM (wyw4S)

67 When I IF (usually due to commitments that prevent me from eating) I get very cold hands. Is that normal? I assume it is blood sugar related but I wonder if everyone gets that.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 19, 2021 06:53 PM (I64Vf)

68 >>> Instead of "counting sheep" and being bored, I would imagine myself chopping wood, or throwing a baseball, or some other repetetive activity

i've tried that but I usually lose focus at around two minutes and start thinking about stuff.

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 06:53 PM (0G13K)

69 Wonder if Kyle lost weight before and during trial, worrying about the outcome.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 06:46 PM (L2ZTs)

At this point I'm surprised an elephant couldn't use him as a catheter.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 19, 2021 06:54 PM (cZjud)

70 Congrats Jewells. I hope the wedding ends up being a pleasant event for you. I think at my age, if I met someone and decided to tie the knot it would be very low key.

I gained a wee bit of vitamin D today. Took a long lunch break and rode my horse. I need to work on my relaxation techniques. Younger me had that naturally, seemed like all my horses got more relaxed when I owned them. But older me doesn't bounce.

Posted by: PaleRider, wooHoo its friday at November 19, 2021 06:54 PM (3cGpq)

71 Gainzzz:

It's been a long two years, but I think we've finally turned the corner in terms of being able to train appropriately in order to be "competitive" again.

I seem to have solved my arthritic knee issue, and that has made all the difference. I can Squat and Deadlift without pain...hell I can even run around the Squash court and not have my knee blow up like a balloon #winning.

Big thing is that I can handle volume and intensity again. By the end of this cycle I'm in #twoweeks, I'll be back to 2019 performance standards.

I can't express how happy this makes me...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at November 19, 2021 06:54 PM (BgMrQ)

72 willowed:

Hey, hosiery-free Jewells! :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 06:55 PM (L2ZTs)

73 Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
The sole highlight of the Harris Administration was the full acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 19, 2021 06:55 PM (UHVv4)

74 At this point I'm surprised an elephant couldn't use him as a catheter.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads

What the hell does that mean?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 19, 2021 06:55 PM (I64Vf)

75 Ace, I just checked out that last video (Navy technique one). He says he's the King of Spades! Any relation to you?

Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 06:56 PM (wyw4S)

76 I've been waking up at almost exactly 3 am plus or minus 1 minute for a couple of months now. It's eerie.

Posted by: portlandon at November 19, 2021 06:56 PM (+oR7L)

77 RMBS, where are you going?
Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 06:53 PM

Got promoted to be deputy general counsel of our parent agency in Boston. Moving back to the north shore.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 06:56 PM (rBtIz)

78 After today's verdict antifa might think twice before agitating where someone may be armed. If they actually think.

Posted by: davidt at November 19, 2021 06:57 PM (0hbQ6)

79 I can't express how happy this makes me...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at November 19, 2021 06:54 PM (BgMrQ)

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Congrats, browndog. Its a great feeling to turn the corner on something like that.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 19, 2021 06:57 PM (TNyrE)

80 Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 06:43 PM (W+kMI)

Oh dear, that sounded horrific. Hope you get to fully enjoy a Thanksgiving feast.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at November 19, 2021 06:57 PM (BgMrQ)

81 When i wake up....i scream over and over till bored.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 19, 2021 06:57 PM (tPUfk)

82 Got a call form Sacred Heart Church this morning about my rosaries, and they are interested. Wonder if finally getting a response has anything to do with me mentioning not getting a response earlier, so giving a bunch to the Presbyterian church for their bazaar? ::evil grin::

At any rate, I spoke to their business manager, who sounds very nice, and he's going to send someone over early next week, since I told him I get lost easily and don't like to drive because of it. We'll see how it goes from there.

BUT this will not interfere at all with me making rosaries for the Horde, so don't hesitate to ask if you want one! I'm retired and make them as a hobby and personal devotion, so it's no extra work, and I particularly enjoy making them for the Horde.

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at November 19, 2021 06:57 PM (JJatH)

83 Got promoted to be deputy general counsel of our parent agency in Boston. Moving back to the north shore.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 06:56 PM (rBtIz)
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Her, that's wonderful! Congratulations! I know you like your little spot where you are now but I'm sure it will be nice to be near your mom and your North shore friends again.

Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 06:58 PM (wyw4S)

84 Worst thing about being in a CH-46 or 53 is staying awake.

All nestled in there with your gear, warm and the hum of the rotors makes you sleep like a baby. Gotta go down the line and slap helmets when your coming in to land, wake everybody up.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 19, 2021 06:58 PM (R/m4+)

85
Since the days got shorter and my opportunities to get outside and walk or exercise are limited I've gained seven pounds on the scale. But it hasn't effected my waistline.

I pay more attention to the tape measure, but still...

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at November 19, 2021 06:58 PM (dQvv7)

86 55 exdem, thanks!

I just gotta say, this verdict today will take YEARS off the lives of countless seething leftists. It's like early Christmas! :-)
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Gotta say, I saw the verdict coming, but having it announced was awesome. Made my day, it did. And GP did have a brief bit on some Leftie having a seizure and passing out outside the Kenosha courthouse.

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 06:58 PM (W+kMI)

87 I added some discarded tires to the far end of my little shooting range so I can push the steels back without worrying about overshooting. I don't hit the steels nearly as often now, but that's kind of the point.

https://youtu.be/FN0k6pcM_dA

Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2021 06:59 PM (P4LRL)

88
Got promoted to be deputy general counsel of our parent agency in Boston. Moving back to the north shore.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 06:56 PM (rBtIz)

_________

Huzzah! Congratulations!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2021 06:59 PM (/U27+)

89 I gained a wee bit of vitamin D today.
Posted by: PaleRider,

I regularly repeat on these threads:

When sun is below about 35 degrees (so most of fall and winter for most of US) the UVB is absorbed by the Ozone in the atmosphere so you get NO vitamin D from it (Thanks Ralph Nadar!)

In winter you really need supplements. Do not think that low hanging sun is giving you vitamin D.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 19, 2021 06:59 PM (I64Vf)

90 >>> Ace, I just checked out that last video (Navy technique one). He says he's the King of Spades! Any relation to you?

he is My Bitch

no i don't know him

to be honest i think the woman linked the wrong vid because that vid is not called "A Robot Shutting Down" and he never says that.

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 06:59 PM (0G13K)

91 Any BOOKZZZ you're reading?
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This relates to the sleep thing. I've lately mentioned that reading a frivolous but entertaining bit of fiction in bed, until sleepy, rids the mind of the day's troubles...at least for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM (GBHAb)

92 My pregnant pulmonologist patted my belly and said she wanted mine gone by the time hers is. I said what about my lungs and she said they stay. Comedians.

Posted by: Javems at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM (AmoqO)

93 Congrats, RMBS -- that sounds like a major accomplishment. Good on you!

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM (JJatH)

94 Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 06:58 PM

Thanks! That was a lit if the motivation. Scored myself a great place. Just cranking through a lease. Once I get settled, imma start looking for a house. Next time you and the Mr. are in the area, feel free to look me up.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM (rBtIz)

95 On Monday Tucker has an exclusive interview with KYLE RITTENHOUSE.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 19, 2021 07:01 PM (NpAcC)

96 Have Binger and Kraus been put in the Witless Protection Program?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:01 PM (i32sS)

97 Just went ahead and checked Kamala's Twitter.
Not a word on the verdict.

and...REAL science is of absolutely no interest to the media, because it's not entertaining, but is incredibly repetitive and all but designed to eliminate dramatic breakthroughs.

The 20th century had a few actual dramatic scientific breakthroughs: development of nuclear weapons, and the polio vaccine. But those are very much exceptions to the rule for real science, at least as I understand it.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:01 PM (L2ZTs)

98 Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM

Thank you. It was a pleasant surprise after a tough year.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 07:01 PM (rBtIz)

99 80 Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 06:43 PM (W+kMI)

Oh dear, that sounded horrific. Hope you get to fully enjoy a Thanksgiving feast.
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I'm back to normal GI function, but I am taking it easy and not getting down on my belly right now. (Unlike, say, David French.) Missing a week of work hurt though since I haven't been there long enough to get bennies or comp time.

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:01 PM (W+kMI)

100 Binger Kraus, Binger Kraus, Binger all the way!
Oh what fun it is to see those assholes go away--ayy!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:02 PM (L2ZTs)

101 DonaldJTrumpJr 5h
The Rittenhouse jury just gave Biden his second colonoscopy of the day.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 19, 2021 07:02 PM (UHVv4)

102 qdpsteve.. lol! No hosiery tonight either! Never again. It's leggings and a sweater tonight. Cold as Hell out tonight. Comfort is all I'm thinking about.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at November 19, 2021 07:02 PM (nxdel)

103 89: Heh, Yeah I learned that from the Dr Cole video, and only my face was exposed to the sun. I do take vitamin D, but I like the phrasing of saying got vitamin D for played outside a little bit

Posted by: PaleRider, wooHoo its friday at November 19, 2021 07:02 PM (3cGpq)

104 Huzzah! Congratulations!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 19, 2021 06:59 PM

Thanks, Hadrian!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 07:02 PM (rBtIz)

105 But seriously, what's happening to those asshole persecutors right now?

I imagine they're being tortured to death by their antifa overlords.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:03 PM (L2ZTs)

106 This relates to the sleep thing. I've lately mentioned that reading a frivolous but entertaining bit of fiction in bed, until sleepy, rids the mind of the day's troubles...at least for me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM (GBHAb)
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100% agree. P. G. Wodehouse tops the list, James Herriot is a close second.

Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 07:03 PM (wyw4S)

107 Binger and Kraus, death by Bunga Bunga from Trigglypuff.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:04 PM (i32sS)

108 My go-to for insomnia (besides ASMR) is to run through the preparations for a holiday meal, in my head. It's got a lot of moving parts, from menu planning to making lists to shopping to cooking. I usually fall asleep before I reach shopping. I find it relaxing.

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 19, 2021 07:04 PM (mNhhD)

109 And in recent news a black bear was seen about 15 miles as the crow flies from my place in SW Ohio Monday night. Third bear sighting Warren County has had since 1993. Next come the elk, cougars, and armadillos.

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:04 PM (W+kMI)

110 I lost a hundred pounds since the WuFlu began to creep amongst us. I'm now right in the middle of a healthy weight. I did it by using a food scale and counting absolutely every calorie that goes in my mouth. I expect to have to do that for the rest of my life. Small price to pay, imo.

I did IF and still do. 12pm-8pm eating window. That really just means lunch and dinner. Grazing makes you fat

Posted by: Plague rat at November 19, 2021 07:05 PM (XXeDg)

111 Once I get settled, imma start looking for a house. Next time you and the Mr. are in the area, feel free to look me up.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM (rBtIz)
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Thanks, would love to! We actually were just up last weekend for a quick visit. Probably going back in the spring, or definitely in the summer.

Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 07:05 PM (wyw4S)

112 I finally got back into my routine since they lifted the mask mandate. Been working the weights (very gently) and some time on the treadmill. They have a silver sneakers thing every Monday I thought I might check it out this Monday. Just gentle exercise for the over 65 crowd.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at November 19, 2021 07:05 PM (nxdel)

113 Re my comment above on science, which I mistakenly posted in the old thread:

Mike Hammer made the astute observation, space exploration was another dramatic science breakthrough of the 20th century, and we got to see it play out in real time through several decades.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:05 PM (L2ZTs)

114 Got my diabetes under better control with average blood sugar down to 151, not perfect but much better. Wearing a continuous glucose monitor has been very helpful. I can just swipe it with my smartphone and see what my blood sugar is.

Posted by: MammaB at November 19, 2021 07:05 PM (HkGDB)

115 110 I lost a hundred pounds since the WuFlu began to creep amongst us. I'm now right in the middle of a healthy weight. I did it by using a food scale and counting absolutely every calorie that goes in my mouth. I expect to have to do that for the rest of my life. Small price to pay, imo.

I did IF and still do. 12pm-8pm eating window. That really just means lunch and dinner. Grazing makes you fat
Posted by: Plague rat at November 19, 2021 07:05 PM (XXeDg)

Congrats. There is a man of discipline. (Even if you are a lady.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:06 PM (kBuGL)

116 Anna, I hear Stinkfinger is already dead! ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:06 PM (L2ZTs)

117 My niece wants War and Peace and Sun Tzu for Xmas reading. Makes me wonder how her chemistry studies are progressing.

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:06 PM (W+kMI)

118 Next come the elk, cougars, and armadillos.
Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:04 PM (W+kMI)

One of these is not like the others...hmmm.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at November 19, 2021 07:06 PM (BgMrQ)

119 "....entertaining bit of fiction in bed..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:00 PM (GBHAb)


I skimed that and read "friction", which is an entirely different sleep aid.

Posted by: Javems at November 19, 2021 07:07 PM (AmoqO)

120 117 My niece wants War and Peace and Sun Tzu for Xmas reading. Makes me wonder how her chemistry studies are progressing.
Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:06 PM (W+kMI)

Maybe she wants to pin someone down with W&P while she beats them to death with the AoW.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:07 PM (kBuGL)

121 exdem, Charles Schulz did numerous funny Peanuts strips on the kids being assigned to read War And Peace over Christmas holiday.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:07 PM (L2ZTs)

122 Video for Anna and other anime nerds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0PVv1JDBF4

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:08 PM (W+kMI)

123 Binger's been morally dead for years...

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:08 PM (i32sS)

124 I skimed that and read "friction", which is an entirely different sleep aid.
Posted by: Javems at November 19, 2021 07:07 PM (AmoqO)

Or ace and Megyn trading witty, sarcastic barbs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:08 PM (kBuGL)

125 Since you're talking BOOKZZ:

I have two books I'm happy to give away to happy Horde homes:

- Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Casino Royale, Ian Fleming

If you're interested just email me at QDPSJL at gmail.
Thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:08 PM (L2ZTs)

126
David "pants crease" Brooks just wrote that "Joe Biden is succeeding!" The stimulus bill was wonderful and things are just rockin' along nicely.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:08 PM (Mzdiz)

127 I think it was a link here, re: sleeping.

The guy who helped WW2 pilots help sleep involved 2 things.

1. Totally relaxing your body. Going muscle by muscle.
2. Devoid your brain and thinking of anything by gently/ softly repeating no or basically trying to "see" under your eyelids. Kinda like a penetrating stare to help your mind not think of anything.

I have tried it and I am getting better when I can't fall asleep.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (NW9xb)

128 Willowed:
Listen up: I looked up the name Rittenhouse. It sounds German and I consulted my printed Britannica dictionary. It seems the word "Ritter" = "knight," and of course "haus" = "house." A "Ritterhaus" or "Rittenhouse" = "knight-house," or "castle"!!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (c6xtn)

129 David "pants crease" Brooks just wrote that "Joe Biden is succeeding!" The stimulus bill was wonderful and things are just rockin' along nicely.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:08 PM (Mzdiz)

Brooks sold out so long ago it is hard to remember that this is a schtick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (kBuGL)

130 I've been IF'ing OMAD'ing for awhile and I think there is the need for cheat days. Like serious cheat days. I wonder if I got gout bouts because "juice is ferkin' fructose poison, bros" while maybe I do need to get some roughage from time to time. I had a recent thing where it feels as if I have a brick inside of me...like it stopped midstream, if you catch my drift. So, maybe get a dose of fiber and natural vitamin C from time to time.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (ZZK0E)

131 LOL Disney has now replaced Santa with a Black Santa for the Christmas Parade

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (dKiJG)

132
I have a certain pattern of thought to put myself to sleep. You have to place yourself into some pleasurable fantasy and try to add more details every night. Keep going back to the beginning if it doesn't work.

I'm currently convincing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models that the 'vaccine' is worthless and we all need to stay strong and defiant in order to repopulate the planet in the months ahead.

I try not to mention the scar from my vasectomy.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (dQvv7)

133
For those who wanted to know what the sous vide physics critic guy in the last couple of threads was smoking, it's what Pant Crease is smoking, obviously.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (Mzdiz)

134 When ace gets back after Thanksgiving, we need a thread called GAINEDDD.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 19, 2021 07:10 PM (NpAcC)

135 Thanks, would love to! We actually were just up last weekend for a quick visit. Probably going back in the spring, or definitely in the summer.
Posted by: bluebell at November 19, 2021 07:05 PM

Nice. Mini NoShoMoMe for the summer win!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 19, 2021 07:10 PM (rBtIz)

136 Just gentle exercise for the over 65 crowd.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB

How can this be?!



Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 07:10 PM (mD/uy)

137 LOL Disney has now replaced Santa with a Black Santa for the Christmas Parade
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (dKiJG)

George Jefferson did that once on All In The Family.

Archie was not amused.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 19, 2021 07:11 PM (R/m4+)

138 Speaking of zzzz, Prettygirl just curled up in my lap with her head upside down and is catching some zzzz's. Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to pee soon.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2021 07:11 PM (KAi1n)

139 OT: I've been watching the first episode of Wheel of Time on AP. I've gotten about half way through in two separate segments, and can't say I'm impressed. In fact, it's very slow, the dialog is hard to understand, and the wokeness is off the charts. I'm not sure why I'm subjecting myself to it.

Posted by: pep at November 19, 2021 07:12 PM (ZsR3z)

140 My niece wants War and Peace and Sun Tzu for Xmas reading. Makes me wonder how her chemistry studies are progressing.
Posted by: exdem13
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You could give her this reading list: https://tinyurl.com/4kne8byk

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:12 PM (WZ5i4)

141 pep, I've accidentally seen some of this new series on ABC called Queens.

OMG. It's like a parade of super wokeness. Couldn't be any more of a parody of itself if it was from the Babylon Bee.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:13 PM (L2ZTs)

142 131 LOL Disney has now replaced Santa with a Black Santa for the Christmas Parade
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 19, 2021 07:09 PM (dKiJG)

/Facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2021 07:13 PM (oHd/0)

143 In Anti-Gainzzzz news I walked around for a few hours wed and by the end my knee started to bother me, really hurt that night, was sore the next day and mostly okay today, in which i walked another few miles. But I'm guessing that will put a damper on my limited lower body exercises as it is. Thankfully the tendinitis or whatever i had in my arm for almost a year seems to be gone, even though that never hampered any upper body exercises.

Not Book Gainzzzzz, but I write screenplays. I have 2 complete and 3 more about half complete, reaching from action, to rom com, ti family movies. Decided to do another once over on one and am trying to trim in down to be 110 pages. That's always one of the hardest things for me, as most scripts shouldn't be much over 100 pages as not many movies are 2 hours long, but i tend to keep writing into that range. I'd love to be able to write something 15-20 pages (i do have a sitcom pilot at 30) since that might be easy to finance myself and film, which you really need to fo if you want to get others to finance the bigger stuff.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 19, 2021 07:13 PM (SX9Cn)

144 139 OT: I've been watching the first episode of Wheel of Time on AP. I've gotten about half way through in two separate segments, and can't say I'm impressed. In fact, it's very slow, the dialog is hard to understand, and the wokeness is off the charts. I'm not sure why I'm subjecting myself to it.
Posted by: pep at November 19, 2021 07:12 PM (ZsR3z)

It's out. Dammit I was hoping I would have more time before I gave it a shot. I was such a huge fan of the books in High School. And then in college. In my 30s...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:13 PM (kBuGL)

145 Been hoping to catch a GAAINNZZ thread to mention a sleep aid that works for some: the weighted blanket.

They are popular for the anxious (our son had one for cancer treatment) and the autistic. Something about the weight is soothing.

The downside is that they are pricey and I personally think the minky fabric some are made of is too hot.

I made my own small one from cotton fabric and plastic beads (not jewelry beads- the special stuffing kind) from the craft store. I don't use it every night, but I do think it helps me stay asleep.

Posted by: sal at November 19, 2021 07:14 PM (bJKUl)

146 I have a certain pattern of thought to put myself to sleep. You have to place yourself into some pleasurable fantasy and try to add more details every night. Keep going back to the beginning if it doesn't work.
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Well, that's probably more interesting than my trying to solve knotty math problems.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:14 PM (WD9ZA)

147 >>> I've been watching the first episode of Wheel of Time on AP. I've gotten about half way through in two separate segments, and can't say I'm impressed. In fact, it's very slow, the dialog is hard to understand, and the wokeness is off the charts. I'm not sure why I'm subjecting myself to it.
Posted by: pep at November 19, 2021 07:12 PM (ZsR3z)


My wife asked me if I wanted to watch it and I said nah, it'll be bad. I just know anymore. Media is a poisoned well. It may be better someday but I know it'll all be crap now.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2021 07:14 PM (tPrn7)

148 I fast more than 8 hours I pass out from starvation
Posted by: Skip

The only way I can lose weight is to eat once a day. Unless I want to count calories, which I hate.

Also, I left my church yesterday with Mrs Blutarski.

Also, someone said Kamel-toe Side Piece rose to power because of man's penis and gained Presidential power because of another man's ass. That fits.

Posted by: Dominion at November 19, 2021 07:14 PM (rz+/y)

149 I have a certain pattern of thought to put myself to sleep. You have to place yourself into some pleasurable fantasy and try to add more details every night. Keep going back to the beginning if it doesn't work.

I'm currently convincing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models that the 'vaccine' is worthless and we all need to stay strong and defiant in order to repopulate the planet in the months ahead.

I try not to mention the scar from my vasectomy.
Posted by: Tr



just start calculating ballistic coefficients in your mind, you nod off in about five minutes

Posted by: confederatefifth at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (K3ZCc)

150 Mostly maintenance GAINZZZZ. Getting a bit stronger. Weight and clothing fit are holding steady. That's really all I want right now so I'm good with that.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (II3Gr)

151
1. Totally relaxing your body. Going muscle by muscle.
2. Devoid your brain and thinking of anything by gently/ softly repeating no or basically trying to "see" under your eyelids. Kinda like a penetrating stare to help your mind not think of anything.

Sounds like Roy Masters' "Be still and know" meditation

https://youtu.be/Eg_pWlAm454

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (63Dwl)

152 Combine what you're calling yoga nidra with 4x4 or diaphragmatic breathing to activate the hypothalamus. I've used that for years.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (dIpnE)

153 I always just try to think of things I need to do. Once I start forgetting what I was just thinking about, I know I am close.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (kBuGL)

154 >>My niece wants War and Peace and Sun Tzu for Xmas reading. Makes me wonder how her chemistry studies are progressing.

Sounds like a smart young woman. They would both be on my required reading list regardless of area of interest.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2021 07:16 PM (ZLI7S)

155 Posted by: sal at November 19, 2021 07:14 PM (bJKUl)

We started using weighted blankets a year or so ago, and we love them. I am still prone to insomnia, but I toss and turn far less, and can at least be comfortable until I doze off again.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 19, 2021 07:16 PM (x8Wzq)

156 Sounds like Roy Masters' "Be still and know" meditation

https://youtu.be/Eg_pWlAm454
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (63Dwl)

That's a good one. I find it very simple and effective.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at November 19, 2021 07:16 PM (II3Gr)

157 117 exdem niece wanting to read War and Peace warms my heart, I think it's a wonderful book and have read it twice in my life.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:16 PM (2JoB8)

158 100% agree. P. G. Wodehouse tops the list, James Herriot is a close second.
Posted by: bluebell
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Both of which transport you to a different time/place, without stress, and some humor.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:16 PM (WD9ZA)

159 We started using weighted blankets a year or so ago, and we love them. I am still prone to insomnia, but I toss and turn far less, and can at least be comfortable until I doze off again.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 19, 2021 07:16 PM (x8Wzq)

Hmmm, I like a heavy blanket, but it is hard to keep up with during the summer. They use glass beads in those, don't they?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:17 PM (kBuGL)

160 152 Combine what you're calling yoga nidra with 4x4 or diaphragmatic breathing to activate the hypothalamus. I've used that for years.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (dIpnE)

Combine incursions into Cambodia and sooper-seekrit MAC-V-SOG missions to burn things into your hippocampus.

Posted by: John Kerry at November 19, 2021 07:17 PM (II3Gr)

161 Now I have a tip for you, if you take melatonin. My daughter's friend is in med school and he told her that most melatonin you buy is too high a dose. He says you only need one mg, and too much can have the opposite effect of disrupting your sleep.

Posted by: bluebell

Interesting! VA upped the dose for Mr. April, so I figured a super-petite thing like me (snort) could just use two instead of his three. Seems to sorta work on night one, but on nights two and three, I am not restful and I get restless leg syndrome.

I'll try just a half and see how it goes.

Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2021 07:18 PM (OX9vb)

162 I lost 30 pounds and have been able to remain at the new weight for years, using the S diet.
No Snacks, Sweets or Seconds except on days starting with S.
When I start feeling hungry about an hour before meal times. I am losing weight.
I don't have to change what I eat or do anything fancy. I have just learned to pay attention to the feedback from my body. If I am hungry too soon after eating. I should increase meal portions, if I want to loose weight I have to adjust portions until I have that good appetite an hour before mealtime.
As far as strength, I am pleased to have deadlifted 260 pounds a week after my 71st birthday.
I find it useful to think about a familiar story while trying to fall asleep. Again something that occupies a pleasantly idol mind.
I love this place & have been lurking for years.

Posted by: Trudy at November 19, 2021 07:18 PM (J2vnE)

163 Amanda Milius calling Brooks an elderly queer cracks me up.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at November 19, 2021 07:18 PM (sGnvY)

164 Well that was interesting but Koenig Monsters unsupported should be dead meat.

Someone builds the 1/48 YF-19. Model builder is not a real Macross fan so his choice of the Jolly Roger for markings is funny.

https://youtu.be/JVgFokfsRUs

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:18 PM (i32sS)

165 Never heard of weighted blankets before.
Amazing things you learn here

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:19 PM (2JoB8)

166 I love this place & have been lurking for years.
Posted by: Trudy at November 19, 2021 07:18 PM (J2vnE)
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Glad you de-lurked!

Posted by: Weasel at November 19, 2021 07:20 PM (0IeYL)

167 Twisted my knee two weeks ago, so I haven't been running on it, but I'm trying to get to the gym and walk 20-40 minutes most days. I always start and end my workouts with pullups, and I'm slowly improving there as well.

Bookz: At the moment I'm reading Piers the Ploughman, albeit slowly.

Projectz: Gonna take a break from the woodturning for a bit to save money for use elsewhere. I'm thinking about signing up for an online graduate certificate program in modeling and simulations. The goal is to fill some gaps in my knowledge and look towards getting another job next year.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 19, 2021 07:20 PM (wmDcS)

168 Black Santa?

But people get mad at the Dutch because Klaus' helper elf is black.

These people are still mad for getting that lump of Greenhouse Gas causing CO2.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:20 PM (i32sS)

169 ...I feel like I'm literally dying and being pulled out of my body....
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 19, 2021 06:41 PM (qFRAe)

I guess the questionshould be: Are you? Not dying, but being pulled out of your body. This feels like dying, I'm told, by Whitley Streiber, who gets pulled out of his body every time the aliens come get him.

I guess that's not really helpful, though, for anxiety.

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:20 PM (asXVI)

170 Now I have a tip for you, if you take melatonin. My daughter's friend is in med school and he told her that most melatonin you buy is too high a dose. He says you only need one mg, and too much can have the opposite effect of disrupting your sleep.

Posted by: bluebell

IIRC, and I thought it was mentioned here years ago, that the dosage for Melatonin is pretty hyper specific for what you want. Too much or too little actually works against you. 3mcg? .3mcg? (mcg is micrograms since I am not a platinum member of the Horde and do not have access to the u-thingee.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:20 PM (kBuGL)

171 >>> I always just try to think of things I need to do. Once I start forgetting what I was just thinking about, I know I am close.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:15 PM (kBuGL)


If I think of anything, technical problems, math, the world, anything, I will think about that for 8 hours and then roll out of bed with no sleep. If I intentionally try to not think of anything I will be intentionally trying to not think of anything for 8 hours and then roll out of bed with no sleep. The only way I sleep is to get exhausted and fall unconscious, even if that occurs at 6am in the morning. I have to not think of anything or not not think of anything. I wish I wasn't this way.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2021 07:21 PM (tPrn7)

172 The good place to be in a diet cycle is when being hungry feels good.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 19, 2021 07:21 PM (KiBMU)

173 Anything less than 10mg of melatonin doesn't do a thing for me, sorry.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 19, 2021 07:21 PM (vuisn)

174 Never heard of weighted blankets before.
Amazing things you learn here
Posted by: Skip
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*?*

You kid me, no?

Posted by: Luca Brasi at November 19, 2021 07:21 PM (830x5)

175
Herr Doktor Fauxci maskless again:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
news/article-10222671

It was Washington "doyenne" Sally Quinn who spotted him maskless. You only see the word "doyenne" in reference to Sally Quinn.

J. Strom Thurmond goosed the asses of both Sally and her mother simultaneously back in the day.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:22 PM (Mzdiz)

176 Bet MSNBC has suddenly lost interest in talking to Kyle's jurors.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 19, 2021 07:22 PM (KiBMU)

177 hours and then roll out of bed with no sleep. The only way I sleep is to get exhausted and fall unconscious, even if that occurs at 6am in the morning. I have to not think of anything or not not think of anything. I wish I wasn't this way.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2021 07:21 PM (tPrn7)

Yeah, exhaustion is the best remedy- probably not surprisingly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:22 PM (kBuGL)

178 Weasel, I hear you were just hired as a professor at the soon-to-be-opening Kyle Rittenhouse School Of Armed Self-Defense. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:22 PM (L2ZTs)

179 IIRC, and I thought it was mentioned here years ago, that the dosage for Melatonin is pretty hyper specific for what you want. Too much or too little actually works against you. 3mcg? .3mcg? (mcg is micrograms since I am not a platinum member of the Horde and do not have access to the u-thingee.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:20 PM (kBuGL)

I do 3s sometimes. Helps keep me asleep if otherwise I'd be waking up and unable to get back to sleep. Doesn't help getting to sleep, just staying asleep for at least 6 hours.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 19, 2021 07:22 PM (P4LRL)

180 176 Bet MSNBC has suddenly lost interest in talking to Kyle's jurors.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 19, 2021 07:22 PM (KiBMU)

My bet is they want to dish with that hold out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:23 PM (kBuGL)

181 I have a new hobby to go with my new heart medication cocktail. It's called "peeing."

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Dandolo Did Nothing Wrong at November 19, 2021 07:23 PM (vompe)

182 Leftist politicians can't get their hate filled statements about the verdict out fast enough.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:23 PM (2JoB8)

183 181 I have a new hobby to go with my new heart medication cocktail. It's called "peeing."
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Dandolo Did Nothing Wrong at November 19, 2021 07:23 PM (vompe)

Piss fire like no one is watching.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:24 PM (kBuGL)

184 178 Weasel, I hear you were just hired as a professor at the soon-to-be-opening Kyle Rittenhouse School Of Armed Self-Defense. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:22 PM (L2ZTs)
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Ha! Very happy with the result today.

Posted by: Weasel at November 19, 2021 07:24 PM (0IeYL)

185 Another person who will be mouthing off soon is Joy Behar on The Sow oops I mean View.

Can't wait for her to get sued and made poor.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:24 PM (L2ZTs)

186 181 I have a new hobby to go with my new heart medication cocktail. It's called "peeing."

lasix huh?

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 07:24 PM (0G13K)

187 182 Leftist politicians can't get their hate filled statements about the verdict out fast enough.
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:23 PM (2JoB

Yeah, this shit is almost amazing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:24 PM (kBuGL)

188 Back in the 1970s biofeedback was a fad. I was fascinated by it and got my family doc to prescribe it (this was back when private docs could make their own decisions about things). One of the things they did was put electrodes on various parts of my face and trained me to relax my facial muscles prior to going to sleep. With biofeedback, you could do this not by focusing on the muscles, but on the sound the sensors made when the muscles fired.

In any case, it worked amazingly well. It turned out that the two keys were, of all things, relaxing the tongue (which, thank God, didn't have electrodes attached to it), and the muscles around the eyes.

I still do that 50 years later, and it still works.

Posted by: billo at November 19, 2021 07:24 PM (n7AHL)

189 Brattleboro and Clogginstien devastated by today's Not Guilty verdict....... Have another doobie Mary...

..

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at November 19, 2021 07:25 PM (XqD2r)

190 I commented on the post before this, and I want to see if I banned myself by doing so.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 19, 2021 07:25 PM (OU+8W)

191 I honestly would love to see a safe medication come out that helps control frequent urination. It drives me crazy sometimes. I've had nights and days where I'm going literally at least once an hour.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:25 PM (L2ZTs)

192 Weighted blanket conversation has eluded me for 6 decades, sheltered life I guess.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:25 PM (2JoB8)

193 "Or this version, with a female voice."

...and may sure you are warm

This is what happens when your country doesn't have access to good cheap fuel like nat gas, oil or coal.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 19, 2021 07:26 PM (wZO8j)

194 Yeah I see Nadler openef his other exhaust orifice to call for the DoJ to give Kyle an anal probe.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:26 PM (i32sS)

195 Keto gainzzz: I've definitely shifted my attitude. Instead of being "on" or "off", I've been giving myself one day a week to eat whatever and it's remarkable how little effect that has had on ketosis.

I had a big ol' lunch of Indian food, with some naan and rice and some potato things--mostly a lamb vindaloo but I didn't hold back on the other things and got home and found I was still a "5" (out of 6) on the scale.

So I'm beginning to think if you stay away from sugar, you can go ahead and have some carbs. (Most days, I'm close to no carbs, so that may be a factor.)

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:26 PM (asXVI)

196 Mary C's not dead yet?? Her entire system must be 100% pickled from all the rum and ripple.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:26 PM (L2ZTs)

197 Back in the 1970s biofeedback was a fad.
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Whatever happened to 'Isolation tanks'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:26 PM (830x5)

198 190 I commented on the post before this, and I want to see if I banned myself by doing so.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 19, 2021 07:25 PM (OU+8W)

I think you have to go back a ways before you get the banning, BecChas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:26 PM (kBuGL)

199 >>> Weighted blanket conversation has eluded me for 6 decades, sheltered life I guess.
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:25 PM (2JoB


That myPillow guy's company has weighted blankets and people speak highly of them.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2021 07:27 PM (tPrn7)

200
191 I honestly would love to see a safe medication come out that helps control frequent urination. It drives me crazy sometimes. I've had nights and days where I'm going literally at least once an hour.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:25 PM (L2ZTs)

There is medication for that, don't know how safe it is. Have you seen a urologist, gotten your prostate checked?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at November 19, 2021 07:27 PM (II3Gr)

201 >>In any case, it worked amazingly well. It turned out that the two keys were, of all things, relaxing the tongue (which, thank God, didn't have electrodes attached to it), and the muscles around the eyes.

i'm totes doing that, eyes and tongue. also I'm finding that when i concentrate on an area, i can feel the electrical energy in that area crackle. not sure if this is because i'm directing more electrical energy there or just more attention there, so i'm sensing it more.

this is what was making the process interesting enough to me to keep me engaged, which then helped me drift off to sleep. the past two nights i've failed to get this kind of feedback and so got bored with the technique and started thinking about other stuff.

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 07:27 PM (0G13K)

202 So far all politicians are using the white supremacist, white privilege, armed vigilante shtick

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:27 PM (2JoB8)

203 Tamsulosin is pretty safe and quality exercise helps.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 19, 2021 07:27 PM (wZO8j)

204 I'm the dude that used to brag about all the burpees I used to do. Anyway, for various reasons I quit them for about three months and switched to a rowing machine. And I was rowing pretty damn hard. Sometimes up to thirty minutes. Anyway, I did two big sets of burpees two days ago and I just wrecked myself. I didn't realize how much they work all these various body parts suck as abbs. And the rowing did NOTHING to preserve my V02 max. I was absolutely smoked.

TL;DR:

Burpees are still the king of all exercises. No contest.

Posted by: Max Power at November 19, 2021 07:28 PM (Hucnr)

205 Whatever happened to 'Isolation tanks'?

They lead to altered states IIRC

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:28 PM (i32sS)

206 Book:
"Infamy" by John Toland.
About the raid on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7.
Early chapters give details on the blame sheet storm that followed on Dec. 8 on.
Never read much from that angle.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 19, 2021 07:28 PM (jTmQV)

207 The individual muscle-group relaxation thing was also called "progressive relaxation". I used it for stress (that was causing insomnia and other problems) and it became so instinctive I could use it to de-stress during the day, even standing up. It's definitely a useful life skill/hack.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at November 19, 2021 07:28 PM (CUULq)

208 I have sheets of lead out back, how heavy do they need to be?

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:28 PM (2JoB8)

209 >>>It's definitely a useful life skill/hack.

i wish i'd known of it earlier in life1!

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 07:29 PM (0G13K)

210 205 Whatever happened to 'Isolation tanks'?

They lead to altered states IIRC
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:28 PM (i32sS)

Bland acting and bad animation included

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at November 19, 2021 07:29 PM (II3Gr)

211 I have sheets of lead out back, how heavy do they need to be?
Posted by: Skip
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Lucky fellow...if you are a hand-loader.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 07:29 PM (830x5)

212 I have a sheet and a nice thin cotton blanket on top that weighs down the sheet but is still cool. But now I also have a big thick comforter with soft fuzzy lining because it's cooler. I love sleeping in the winter with the fan on giving me a cool crisp breeze but then snuggled under warm blankets.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 19, 2021 07:30 PM (tPrn7)

213 Insom, I should, thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:30 PM (L2ZTs)

214 >>>210 205 Whatever happened to 'Isolation tanks'?


my friend ruined them for me by telling me what he thought when he went in one.

I'll tell you what he thought but don't read this if you don't want the tank ruined for you

*

He thought, "I am sitting her marinating in a hundred other people's bacteria" and so he did not relax at all."


***

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 07:31 PM (0G13K)

215 Sleeping is easy for me, so long as the Sun is up. Sleeping at night, difficult. Not being sarcastic.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2021 07:31 PM (KAi1n)

216 Never heard of weighted blankets before.
Amazing things you learn here
Posted by: Skip

Oh yeah - they've been huge in the special needs community for years. Kids with anxiety or behavior issues or have other things going on are given them at school.

Effectively I use the same only mine are family quilts. Some are heavier than hell and I always get a deep sleep when using them.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 07:31 PM (mD/uy)

217 Applebees introduces Cheetos coated boneless wings.

Well at least it isn't pumpkin spice. I guess.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:31 PM (i32sS)

218 ||They lead to altered states IIRC

Curse you, Ken Russell!!

Book Gainzz: I start the last of the Stoker novels, "The Lady of the Shroud" today. It is weird to me how much my own writing has overlapped with things I didn't know he'd written. Not the style, because I don't think a lot of people would want to read Victorian prose these days (I'm trying to strike an entertaining compromise), but various plot points and how they're resolved.

Still, it'll be nice to get back to writing like myself.

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:32 PM (asXVI)

219 Weighted blankets for GAINZZZ WHILE YOU SLEEP!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at November 19, 2021 07:32 PM (II3Gr)

220 I can help you fall asleep.

Posted by: King Harv at November 19, 2021 07:32 PM (GcYi6)

221 219 Weighted blankets for GAINZZZ WHILE YOU SLEEP!!!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at November 19, 2021 07:32 PM (II3Gr)

Your morning wood will have to do more work!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:33 PM (kBuGL)

222 Anna, Applebees sells those as part of their ghost restaurant, called Cosmic Wings.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 19, 2021 07:33 PM (L2ZTs)

223 181 I have a new hobby to go with my new heart medication cocktail. It's called "peeing."
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Dandolo Did Nothing Wrong at November 19, 2021 07:23 PM (vompe)


Furosemide every morning, depending upon plans.

Posted by: Javems at November 19, 2021 07:34 PM (AmoqO)

224 He thought, "I am sitting her marinating in a hundred other people's bacteria" and so he did not relax at all."

Soooo....a hotel bed.

Posted by: pep at November 19, 2021 07:34 PM (ZsR3z)

225 140 My niece wants War and Peace and Sun Tzu for Xmas reading. Makes me wonder how her chemistry studies are progressing.
Posted by: exdem13
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You could give her this reading list: https://tinyurl.com/4kne8byk
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Homer is on the list, too. Not what I expected as she usually likes manga, but if Great Works is what she wants, I shall provide!

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:34 PM (W+kMI)

226 194 Yeah I see Nadler openef his other exhaust orifice to call for the DoJ to give Kyle an anal probe.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:26 PM (i32sS)
********
Nader didn't watch the trial and got all his information from Joy Reid.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 19, 2021 07:34 PM (NpAcC)

227 Still, it'll be nice to get back to writing like myself.
Posted by: moviegique

Channeling Stoker? Have you developed an allergy to garlic?

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 07:34 PM (YZG/i)

228 >>>Soooo....a hotel bed.


well now that's ruined too

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 07:35 PM (0G13K)

229 Let us not ponder what Masamune Shirow would do to War and Peace

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:35 PM (i32sS)

230 I've noticed that when it's dark and very quiet, my brain starts to compensate and i can't sleep. A little light or sound, and my brain calms down and i can. Weird.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2021 07:35 PM (KAi1n)

231 I have had a medication to help urinary problems but it ran out so I don't take it anymore. I am usually up 2 - 4 times at night.
That's why I pop up on the ONT nightly. Worse part is staying awake a hour after or having to go 1/2 hour before alarm time.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:35 PM (2JoB8)

232 _A prayer
_Breathing: 4 counts each; in, hold, exhale, hold.
Repeat several times - maybe 5 minutes
_Then a two syllable mantra
night, night

Posted by: Braenyard at November 19, 2021 07:35 PM (wZO8j)

233 You know what will help you sleep?

Go outside. Spend at least a couple hours out there every day walking around or doing some sort of exercise or work, you don't have to kill yourself just keep moving. The more time you spend doing this the better and deeper you will sleep.

Do it everyday and you will develop great sleeping habits.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 19, 2021 07:36 PM (ZLI7S)

234 Homer is on the list, too. Not what I expected as she usually likes manga, but if Great Works is what she wants, I shall provide!
Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:34 PM (W+kMI)

Actually makes sense. The Illiad is essentially magna. Pretty women. Pissed off dudes. Battles. Heroes laying waste to faceless hordes. A side of insanity involving a horse...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:36 PM (kBuGL)

235 Ace, I just hit the tip jar, have a great vacation, thanks for creating this wonderful place. Thanks as well for justice in our country today, I wasn't sure the good guy was going to win. God is good.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 19, 2021 07:36 PM (a4EWo)

236
Shit getting real in the Netherlands. Rotterdam police fired "warning shots" at lockdown "rioters". Also, breaking out the water cannons:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
news/article-10223105

Note there is pretty much a blackout on these protests with our media.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:37 PM (Mzdiz)

237 You forgot Achilles and Patrocles

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 19, 2021 07:37 PM (i32sS)

238 Sleeping problems? You people aren't drinking enough.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 19, 2021 07:37 PM (kTF2Z)

239 My mom is trying to push leftover taco casserole on me for Sunday. It's been in her freezer for 6 months. Think I'll pick up burgers at Carl's Jr. instead.

Posted by: wth at November 19, 2021 07:37 PM (v0R5T)

240 Mike Hammer cast my own

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:37 PM (2JoB8)

241 In the winter I used to play a fireplace video on endless loop overnight. I got so used to it I couldn't fall asleep without it. In the summer a fountain video would be nice.

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 19, 2021 07:38 PM (mNhhD)

242 vmom,

||Channeling Stoker? Have you developed an allergy to garlic?

Heh. It seemed only fair while re-writing "Lair of the White Worm". There's a ton of stuff he never would have done in it, too, but I tried to bring in a lot of tropes he did use (and then some just snuck in on their own).

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:38 PM (asXVI)

243 181 I have a new hobby to go with my new heart medication cocktail. It's called "peeing."
=========
I hear you, man.After getting the hose treatment again just recently everything goes through quickly, bladder & colon both.

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 07:38 PM (W+kMI)

244 I like to sleep with people.

Posted by: Comma La at November 19, 2021 07:38 PM (GcYi6)

245 230 I've noticed that when it's dark and very quiet, my brain starts to compensate and i can't sleep. A little light or sound, and my brain calms down and i can. Weird.
Posted by: SFGoth

This is why I sleep with the tv on very low volume.

Posted by: Infidel at November 19, 2021 07:38 PM (pA4Ca)

246 Fentanyl cures insomnia, permanently.

Posted by: wth at November 19, 2021 07:38 PM (v0R5T)

247 from a FB friend --

Some guy: "what's the deal with Lebron James and Kyle Rittenhouse?"

Some cute blonde gal "Kyle's a better shot and better on defense"

Guy ... Shocked Face.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 19, 2021 07:39 PM (Cus5s)

248 Ace, have a good vacation. Get some fresh air, decompress and laugh a lot.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at November 19, 2021 07:39 PM (0CPkz)

249 || I've noticed that when it's dark and very quiet, my brain starts to compensate and i can't sleep. A little light or sound, and my brain calms down and i can. Weird. ||

I don't think it's weird. It's one of the reasons I think isolation tanks are just a Bad Idea. Bodies and minds crave stimulus. Take all that away, and you're liable to start hallucinating--oh, wait, that's exactly what happens.

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:40 PM (asXVI)

250 235 Ace, I just hit the tip jar, have a great vacation, thanks for creating this wonderful place. Thanks as well for justice in our country today, I wasn't sure the good guy was going to win. God is good.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schult

thank you Debby Doberman!

Posted by: ace at November 19, 2021 07:40 PM (0G13K)

251 YouTube has sound tracks, rain, thunderstorms other things like monotonous tones

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:40 PM (2JoB8)

252 Often I stay up too late because I'm too tired to sleep

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 07:41 PM (YZG/i)

253 245 230 I've noticed that when it's dark and very quiet, my brain starts to compensate and i can't sleep. A little light or sound, and my brain calms down and i can. Weird.
Posted by: SFGoth

This is why I sleep with the tv on very low volume.
Posted by: Infidel at November 19, 2021 07:38 PM (pA4Ca)

In the Navy, if the power went down, the first thing I had to do was run up and shutdown my radars, so an uncontrolled power up would not cause problems... in berthing, you'd know the power went off because the blowers for Air would quit... thus, silence was bad... and I had to go shut shit down.

To this day, I need to have some kind of fan going in my bedroom to sleep... so I use an air filter...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 19, 2021 07:41 PM (oHd/0)

254 Thanks as well for justice in our country today, I wasn't sure the good guy was going to win. God is good.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

He is indeed!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 07:41 PM (mD/uy)

255 Since I always have some project going, I'll sometimes mentally map out the next steps in detail and that will put me to sleep. Or uncover a pending snag. Or both. Anyway I usually end up sleeping on it.

Posted by: f'd at November 19, 2021 07:42 PM (Tnijr)

256 Oh, yeah, I haven't hit the tip jar in a while, good idea, Debby.

Hydro Gainzzzz: None yet, but I'm looking at whole house water filters. Be happy for any feedback amongst those with experience, or even some unfounded blowhard opinions.

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:42 PM (asXVI)

257 251 YouTube has sound tracks, rain, thunderstorms other things like monotonous tones
Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:40 PM (2JoB

I have never used one. The ones of either heavy rain or propeller planes (they bill it as 'bomber in flight') sound interesting. I wonder if they have ads?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:42 PM (kBuGL)

258 I have played suduko at times awake at night, sometimes playing right after work makes me nod off.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:42 PM (2JoB8)

259 Black NYC taxi driver: you are headed into Harlem.
James Bond: keep following, and there is an extra $20 for you
Driver: for 20 bucks, I'll take you to a Ku Klux Klan cookout!

Lol, Live and Let Die is on Pluto 007 channel now.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 19, 2021 07:43 PM (ufFY8)

260 Girlfriend coming into town for all of Thanksgiving week to meet the family GAINZZZ!!!

Posted by: JROD at November 19, 2021 07:43 PM (0jZnq)

261 The ones of either heavy rain or propeller planes (they bill it as 'bomber in flight') sound interesting. I wonder if they have ads?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The ones I am familiar with do not.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 07:43 PM (mD/uy)

262 Weighted blankets are amazing for me. I do not put it on me if I take a nap or I will be down for a couple hours.
Also, working out is a guarantee I will sleep well.

Posted by: keena at November 19, 2021 07:44 PM (RiTnx)

263
Anyone want to take bets on which so-called Western democracy starts shooting its own citizens down in the streets over this shit first?

I'm betting Australia. But Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands may get there first.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:44 PM (Mzdiz)

264 Girlfriend coming into town for all of Thanksgiving week to meet the family GAINZZZ!!!
Posted by: JROD at November 19, 2021 07:43 PM (0jZnq)
........

OK everyone, JROD needs advice.

Posted by: wth at November 19, 2021 07:44 PM (v0R5T)

265 moviegigue I have a house filter, does get rid of sediment. Can get them at home improvement stores.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:45 PM (2JoB8)

266 My older sister had a dream last night that I was sitting in a chair covered in a blanket, very white in the face, and I said to her, "I don't have much time left." Freaked her out.

I told her she's the Caroline Kennedy of our immediate family (parents and older brother are dead). She was not amused.

Posted by: JuJuBee at November 19, 2021 07:46 PM (mNhhD)

267 Skip,

Is it the full reverse-osmosis deal? I'm trying to get out all the chemicals Rocketdyne added...

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:46 PM (asXVI)

268 Anyone want to take bets on which so-called Western democracy starts shooting its own citizens down in the streets over this shit first?

I'm betting Australia. But Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands may get there first.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:44 PM (Mzdiz)

They keep having to ramp up. It'll come.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:46 PM (kBuGL)

269 Hydro Gainzzzz: None yet, but I'm looking at whole house water filters. Be happy for any feedback amongst those with experience, or even some unfounded blowhard opinions.
Posted by: moviegique

We have a Rainsoft whole house filter and also a RO system for fridge and sink drinking water. There was some special being offered through one of the big box stores so a decent deal.

I change out the filters myself as they are much, much cheaper that way.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 07:46 PM (mD/uy)

270 266 My older sister had a dream last night that I was sitting in a chair covered in a blanket, very white in the face, and I said to her, "I don't have much time left." Freaked her out.

I told her she's the Caroline Kennedy of our immediate family (parents and older brother are dead). She was not amused.
Posted by: JuJuBee at November 19, 2021 07:46 PM (mNhhD)

Did she just listen to Streets of Laredo by Marty Robbins?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:47 PM (kBuGL)

271 @264 wth-She has been thoroughly vetted. No simping here!

Posted by: JROD at November 19, 2021 07:47 PM (0jZnq)

272 I never tried on of the monotonous tone on YouTube but see them suggested on my app.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:47 PM (2JoB8)

273 Back when i used to use marijuana, i'd play guitar or keyboards for awhile, listen to music on my headphones, and then very drowsy. Problem is that i'd wake up every hour or so with an intense craving for a snack (usually pistachios or blueberries). Good sleep though.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2021 07:48 PM (KAi1n)

274 Thanks, TonyPete! That's useful!

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:48 PM (asXVI)

275 I'm keeping my head down as an old lady. The link Lady in Black posted today gave me the chills. It was in my ao and there was NO local coverage.

Posted by: Infidel at November 19, 2021 07:48 PM (pA4Ca)

276 1 mg = .001 mcg
or
Convert 1 Milligrams into Micrograms = 1000

Posted by: Braenyard at November 19, 2021 07:49 PM (wZO8j)

277 Odd. I was talking to my dental hygenist about the Lexington water giving me urinary tract issues and the Dentist came in and said HE was looking at getting an RO system for his house.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:49 PM (kBuGL)

278 For sleeping, sometimes I'll go to one of the Rosary apps I have. I never make it through a full turn (about 30 minutes).

Posted by: Tonypete at November 19, 2021 07:50 PM (mD/uy)

279 moviegique just use plain filter, they come in different types for what you have. I have a well so lots of sediment does come up after heavy rains especially.

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 07:50 PM (2JoB8)

280 Cafe is up!

Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at November 19, 2021 07:51 PM (OX9vb)

281 Huh. FB just banned someone's comment for "going against community standards". This is the comment:

"God is great! Justice prevails!"

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 07:51 PM (YZG/i)

282 For sleep, I play a golf course I know. Rarely get to the third hole. Anything you know well... do it intensely.
Food. I eat once a day, 80% of the time. Heavy on the protein. Like a big cat. Eats once every 3- 4 days.
Protein is the only thing that stays with you. Don't forget the fat. Pemmican supposedly is a complete food. Dried meat with fat.

Posted by: MkY at November 19, 2021 07:56 PM (Foq6I)

283 Thanks, Skip!

Posted by: moviegique at November 19, 2021 07:57 PM (asXVI)

284 268 Anyone want to take bets on which so-called Western democracy starts shooting its own citizens down in the streets over this shit first?

I'm betting Australia. But Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands may get there first.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 19, 2021 07:44 PM (Mzdiz)

They keep having to ramp up. It'll come.
=========
Kalifornia

Posted by: exdem13 at November 19, 2021 08:01 PM (W+kMI)

285 Huh. FB just banned someone's comment for "going against community standards". This is the comment:

"God is great! Justice prevails!"
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 19, 2021 07:51 PM (YZG/i)

Sounds a lot like Aloha Snackbar, there. What are ya, some kinda terrrist?

- Farcebook

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 19, 2021 08:16 PM (6FeV1)

286 215 Sleeping is easy for me, so long as the Sun is up. Sleeping at night, difficult. Not being sarcastic.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 19, 2021 07:31 PM (KAi1n)
-----------

Go to bed at sun up contented that another day is secure.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 19, 2021 08:17 PM (wZO8j)

287 They keep having to ramp up. It'll come.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at November 19, 2021 07:46 PM (kBuGL)

I thought that was always an intrinsic part of the "plan"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at November 19, 2021 08:17 PM (hOUT3)

288 I thought that was always an intrinsic part of the "plan"!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at November 19, 2021 08:17 PM (hOUT3)

It's not a plan so much as entropy. Assholes gonna asshole, and keep on getting worse until they get smacked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 19, 2021 08:19 PM (6FeV1)

289
Did she just listen to Streets of Laredo by Marty Robbins?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
------

At least it is easier today to find six gay young cowboys.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 19, 2021 08:19 PM (GBHAb)

290
I thought that was always an intrinsic part of the "plan"!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
-------

Eggs, omelets

Posted by: Lenin at November 19, 2021 08:20 PM (GBHAb)

291 It would be fantastic if we all learned Arabic and then just proceeded to take the fuck over Twitter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 19, 2021 08:22 PM (6FeV1)

292 It's not a plan so much as entropy. Assholes gonna asshole, and keep on getting worse until they get smacked.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 19, 2021 08:19 PM (6FeV1)

"That's NOT who WE are!"

If that statement wasn't true, a lot of recent crap would not have gone down the way it did, and worse, would NOT have become entrenched the way it has!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at November 19, 2021 08:23 PM (hOUT3)

293 It would be fantastic if we all learned Arabic and then just proceeded to take the fuck over Twitter.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 19, 2021 08:22 PM (6FeV1)

Jack wouldn't let anybody respond to a tweet in arabic!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at November 19, 2021 08:24 PM (hOUT3)

294 Working tomorrow so should have turned this off some time ago.
Everyone have a great evening
Congratulations Kyle

And Let's go Brandon

Posted by: Skip at November 19, 2021 08:38 PM (2JoB8)

295 To get back to sleep I close my eyes, relax each muscle group, ending up with the muscles on the back half of my eyeballs. I then envision sleep swirling in like ink filling the vision of my closed eyes.

I know you all think I'm being a wise ass, but this is for real how I get to sleep if I'm having a difficult time.

Posted by: Muldoon at November 19, 2021 09:16 PM (m45I2)

296 >>>LOL Disney has now replaced Santa with a Black Santa for the Christmas Parade

>Doesn't Kwanzaa have a black Santa or is he still doing ten years for felony assault?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 19, 2021 09:18 PM (BPuaD)

297 I find that Zinc supplements help me stay asleep (somewhere in the 30-50 mg range)

Posted by: Memories at November 19, 2021 09:20 PM (mwcEF)

298 173 Anything less than 10mg of melatonin doesn't do a thing for me, sorry.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 19, 2021 07:21 PM (vuisn)

My husband and I take about 60 a night. We did work up to it. Supposed to be good for a lot more than just sleeping. We buy it in bulk powder form.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue says Fvck Joe Xiden at November 19, 2021 10:31 PM (hlxe7)

299 Biol Psychiatry. 1977 Feb;12(1):139-43.
The effects of [3000 mg] of nicotinamide upon sleep in humans.

(Free PDF on Google Scholar.)

Took 3 weeks to work (on insomnia and increases in REM sleep, the latter as measured by QEEG).

Nicotinamide is an early precursor (among other precursors) that makes the FUNCTIONAL form of Vitamin B3 (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, abbreviated as NAD+ or less frequently, NAD).

Taking too much Nicotinamide inhibits the formation of Sirtuin 1. That's bad. Source Naturals sells 25mg NAD+ SUBLINGUAL tablets, 60 for around $17 or $18 on Amazon under the name Coenzymated B3.

That's good because it goes directly into the bloodstream.

Posted by: Peroxynitrite at November 20, 2021 02:42 AM (f3sd1)

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