Best posts made by Ganymede

@BetterJudgment said:

I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet, get up 45 minutes earlier each morning (which means 5:15 AM some mornings), and go speedwalking. I'm not running because I don't think my knees will take it. Too bad doing this stuff is so freaking boring, but if I can get rid of my gut it will be worth it.

Don't bite the bullet.

I don't know how long you've been working out prior to your current regimen, but when people say "you'll see results in 6 weeks!", they often over-look the fact that people who are not obese or in fair shape to begin with won't see appreciable weight loss while their fat burns and muscle builds. Your body is probably going through the process of rebuilding muscle.

Push yourself a bit harder, but keep the time. Do timed sets, rather that sets by repetitions. Try to keep to 30 minutes, but do more and rest less. You'll get results.

No shit, but try DailyBurn as a program. It's cheaper than a gym membership, and if you can get through their advanced programs, you're in very good shape.

@three-eyed-crow said in TGG/The Greatest Generation People:

@eubanana
War without end...

"War? War never changes."

@Arkandel

I have to say that, of the things that are being hyped right now, this is the least interesting.

Ermahgerd, Jehanne.

All right. Fine. I'm going to Reno.

@Derp

You're probably better off. An attorney who cannot keep track of his own cases does not deserve assistance of any kind. That attorney needs to take fewer cases and learn to handle his own docket.

I use my admin assistant for the important things: (1) making sure my documents gets filed into the electronic storage system; (2) fielding calls so I don't get disturbed; and (3) making sure my shit looks and sounds right. Everything else is on me, and I make that very clear to her.

@Arkandel

Of course there’s nothing wrong with that, unless you are looking at the term “Lords and Ladies” and think of Game of Thrones.

It goes back to expectations, that’s all.

I didn’t think I’d like Glass as much as I did. It was mentally engrossing and satisfying.

@Tinuviel said in RL Anger:

It's become formal. Crazy highlanders still wear them for daily wear.

@zKraken said in Kraken's Playlist:

I loved Cai's construction site build btw, I can still see that scene in my mind lol.

It was a big empty warehouse with a trailer in it.

It screamed danger creepy dude here but people still kept coming by, kicking him in the nuts (looking at you, Pondscum).

Good times.

@VulgarKitten said:

silent, angry treatment that only moms know how to do, for weeks

My mother learned long ago that her cuntitude stopped working on me when I hit fourteen.

Yay! I am fond of Piccola. She's a mish-mash of a lot of PCs, topped with some inspiration from my kids' favorite show (right now).

I just like that I can play around with Italian when naming things or using titles.

@Alamias said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I know where you are. I have been there before, and recently at that. I'm sorry you are having to deal with it.

That's all right.

Watch what you wish for, it seems; my cat is going to die tomorrow.

That's not even a joke.

You see, my cat, over the past couple of weeks, has not been able to eat. For a brief respite, we had him on steroids, an antibiotic, and an appetite stimulant. For three days, the poor guy could eat wet food, after having lost about 3 pounds in 3 months. He had not been eating right, but switching food seemed to help him eat. Until he started coughing up blood, and then stopped eating altogether.

The good thing about becoming emaciated was that it was easy for the veterinarian to detect the massive lump under his chest. A previous x-ray didn't catch it, or the mass grew quite large in just a month or so. That's not uncommon in cats, I learned today. The veterinarian thought that it might be liver cancer, or stomach cancer, but suffice to say that the mass is pronounced, hardened, and likely malignant.

We paid to get an ultrasound today just so we would know for certain what would kill our cat.

Once we get the diagnosis tomorrow, we plan to put him down. There are options like chemotherapy, but given that our cat is severely anemic (16% of normal red blood cell count), that would probably kill him. He refuses to eat or drink now, and his organs will shut down over time. So, doing something or doing nothing will lead to a prolonged, likely-painful death.

I didn't burst into tears until I was able to hug my children, who were very confused why their parent, dressed in a suit from work, was clinging to them.

If there's a word to describe my cat, it would be stupid. He was so very stupid, even for a cat. Afraid of everything to boot: he was successfully scared off by an ant once, and it was just the most pathetic thing in the world. But our cat loved the simple things in life: hopping into your lap for a purr and pet; eating the same damn food every day, which probably didn't help his diet at all; and, of course, chasing a red dot until he ran square into the fireplace glass.

I will likely get to watch him depart from this world quietly and peacefully.

If there were ever an argument for euthanasia, this would be it. I can handle crying from knowing I will lose a dear friend, but I do not think I could handle watching him slowly slip away from poison or atrophy.

If I seem a little distant for a while, this is probably the reason why.

Work seems so petty and stupid right now.

@a-meowley

It's hard to forget Frankie from Fate's Harvest.

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

That is pretty much where my sister is at.

I am going to parrot what I said in another thread: watching girls growing up to become women is fucking painful as shit, and I ain't got no patience for it.

I'm glad I didn't have a sister. My partner's next-youngest is a crabby, needy bitch. My partner's youngest is pretty cool, but she's pretty much a dude with boobs.

@a-meowley said in A. Meowley's Playlist:

Remind me who you were playing on FH?

Clarice the Mouse.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

ETA: That is to say a business' reliance on tips rather than paying an actual living wage.

There is a slow movement in the United States to move away from tips towards a better wage for service workers, but it is exceedingly slow.

@Rucket said in Arx- Gareth:

If you feel you need to change behaviors around certain people, maybe your behavior is the problem and you should stop behaving that way in general.

But how is he supposed to know his behavior is not a problem if no one informs him?

(Not a genuine question.)

@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I see the slow movement from tips to wages at high end places here, but unfortunately in other areas the gig platforms are moving people rapidly the other way.

Around here, we're seeing the shift in the casual fast-food joints, like Noodles & Co.. The most vocal critics of no-tipping seem to come from large cities, where restaurant owners have reversed course. In the latter places, though, tips can lead to higher-than-living-wage paychecks, and, in my opinion, restaurant goers like the ability to smack down "their lessers" because, fuck, why not hold oneself up as progressive while simultaneously holding down the "lazy and indolent"?

I frankly think a lot of the backlash is due to elitist prejudice. From an economic standpoint, there's no good reason to continue tipping as a practice; it is unpredictable, and predictability is the hallmark of a strong business model. There are reasons why fast-food joints are much more successful insofar as growth is concerned.

@WTFE said in Arx- Gareth:

And by "love it" I mean "want to scoop out your eyeballs with a spork just to feel the pain"…

The problem is, you have eyeballs.

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