RBWells

I have the My Weigh scale and haven't had to change the battery yet, couple of years in. Love it. I think if you want an unpowered scale a balancing scale and weights are the lowest tech and accurate.

Book a long, long transatlantic or transpacific cruise that is leaving today or tomorrow morning. Bring as much as I can carry and a life straw and bunch of filters.

Anything helps, of course. Anything is so much better than nothing.

You are skinnyfat, yes? You don't want to lose weight, you want to add lean mass. Weights are what do that best. Ideally you would want to lift heavy at least thrice a week if you are trying to shape up.

I can only lift once a week lately (lady, mid 50s) but do yoga 4x/week too. It's maintaining me reasonably lean.

I have been where you are (single working parent) and what I did back then was wake up at 5am and run, because that was the only time of day nobody needed anything from me, and running is nearly free, just shoes. It sucked, but the days I ran I did feel better later on, it was worth it overall I think. If there is any way you can wake up a half hour earlier and do something vigorous, and then add weight training once a week I think you will get good improvement. Just maybe not as much mass as you ideally want.

At my work we jokingly dismiss each other, someone will stand up and say to someone else "hey, John, you can go home now" as though they are the boss, and then that person will say to someone else "hey, Jane, you can go home" and so on. Until we are all dismissed for the day.

I am not sure. I'm white (enough to have benefited from it anyway) and progressive and most of the people at my work are not conservative regardless of race. My mom and dad and Dad's family, all were progressive, I grew up in a household that was not conservative.

When I ask people who are Republican still (some older people did shift after Trump 1) the way they talk about politics doesn't make any sense to me. My guess is that now they live in a different media ecosystem and absolutely believe some things that most people don't, and that fear is leveraged by the Republican politicians. They talk about things I've never heard of, and when I say it sounds like not real things that just makes them feel like they are better informed, it doesn't occur to them that they are being fed nonsense.

I wouldn't discount racism and sexism, those are still around and so some people may think they will benefit if others are held back, may see the economy as a zero sum game. So they think being on the winning team might benefit them somehow.

But mostly, at least with the younger set, I think they are brainwashed in a different direction than the rest of us and honestly believe that somehow reducing regulations on business, forcing more social conformity, that those things will make a better world.

Husband does this, I like going somewhere to work out because it's more fun, though. I do lift his weights, and go to yoga classes with other people, that works. He says it was expensive to get all that stuff but it was so long ago it's paid off.

I mostly just want to gently suggest that part of what people are getting from "the gym" is socialization, not just exercise. Which might be something you'd pay to avoid, I don't know, but group exercise is a different experience from just lifting at home, and I enjoy it much more.

Yes, shake and just pour everything in the shaker into the glass, don't strain it over new ice.

This makes sense, but I don't think you need to change your feelings. Your actions are what affect the people outside of you, they don't know what you are thinking, and you already recognize it's not reasonable.

I remember when I went back to work after a few years raising my kids. It was odd to work with men, after only being close with the one man. But over time, it got normal and I am friends with some of them still, platonic friends. So some of it is literally just practice. Keep practicing. You sound pretty self aware, I think you will be ok.

Seitenbacher Museli is delicious too.

But you can make a kick ass veg broth with scraps, dried shitake, and a piece of kombu.

And the Museli I can also make at home.

And vice versa.

My kids' elementary biology teacher had a zoo in his classroom, all these snakes and lizards and spiders, all sorts of animals, so in the Christmas break he had to farm them out. We got the tarantula once, and once a boa.

Also twice raised abandoned baby squirrels we saw kids walking around with. Like my ex just said "dude, you know how to take care of that?" And the kid shook their head no. Yes, twice. One was Earl, one was Pearl. They were sweet, and very sharp.

One of my kids' swim coaches had a friend with a pet crow, too. A sailor with a pet crow; in fact a creepy sailor with a pet crow

I am sure you can guess what state I live in.

Run for office?