What's Making You Happy Today?

QuandoDio said:
The Arctic.
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ter1413 said:
Damm...where you live again?
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Seems I do still live in the Arctic sometimes but I live in Saskatchewan.

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A chef once recommended Art Culinaire if I wanted a food magazine. The magazine looks nice enough to just be a coffee table item. I had kept it locked in the back of my memory if I needed it for a gift.
 
Fwiffo said:
10 to 30 hours... now I get even more pressure.
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That is ridiculous. You also wouldn’t perform the Ring at home, on your own, for a few friends. Even if you enjoy cooking more than eating (which I certainly don’t).
 
güero said:
That is ridiculous. You also wouldn’t perform the Ring at home, on your own, for a few friends. Even if you enjoy cooking more than eating (which I certainly don’t).
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That's an intriguing, if not comical proposition, the Ring cycle performed at home, on piano or on guitar. Over several nights. By one person.

Cooking has never worked for me, a bit like DIY. I see the less than perfect execution and it grates. Like those home sushi kits, it's not the real thing.

Always preferred the event of going to a fancy/great restaurant. Missing lunch so you're hungry, good conversation and dressing stylish for it. Prefer that than going on the piss in the English colloquialism. But also like a bit of fish 'n chips, Starbucks ciabatta and Subway tuna sandwiches. Even some of those vegetarian pizzas are good from franchised places for home delivery. You can slum it a bit, but not everyday.
 
Picked up my pair of shoes from the cobbler. Sole and heel completely re-done, rubber and tap. I promised not to muck it up with salt. Going into the head office with them today so plenty of use on polished concrete.
 
Fwiffo said:
Picked up my pair of shoes from the cobbler. Sole and heel completely re-done, rubber and tap. I promised not to muck it up with salt. Going into the head office with them today so plenty of use on polished concrete.
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No pics for the show thread?
 
Fwiffo said:
It's a lowly AE Park Avenue.
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I saw they were in the sale sub last week and had EEE sizes. For those of us who aren’t Big Shoo Daddies, they seem like decent value along with the Dalton boot.
 
Dropbear said:
I saw they were in the sale sub last week and had EEE sizes. For those of us who aren’t Big Shoo Daddies, they seem like decent value along with the Dalton boot.
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How do you know I have wide feet? I think E will do but it always depends on the model.

I just realised I am here to entertain the facilities staff because the return to office rules were to be decided today and in effect next week. I'm a week early.
 
Fwiffo said:
How do you know I have wide feet? I think E will do but it always depends on the model.

I just realised I am here to entertain the facilities staff because the return to office rules were to be decided today and in effect next week. I'm a week early.
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it is not all about you Fwiffs. Dropbear Dropbear and Grand Potentate Grand Potentate have wide feet. They've mentioned it many times in posts.
 
Fwiffo said:
Dropbear. Yes. Wide feet. I thought was E.

It is not all about you - what my CxO often said to me in my old company and I'm following his footsteps now into redundancy.
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don't be a tone deaf cunt like the recently departed Pimpernel/Cuckly
 
I did my annual check-up with my doc yesterday. I told him to do every damn test that’s covered by my insurance and he did. I was sure they would find something for me to be concerned about but all of my labs are excellent. I felt like the last two years aged me 20 but the blood work says otherwise. The good die young and I will live forever.
 
Dropbear said:
I did my annual check-up with my doc yesterday. I told him to do every damn test that’s covered by my insurance and he did. I was sure they would find something for me to be concerned about but all of my labs are excellent. I felt like the last two years aged me 20 but the blood work says otherwise. The good die young and I will live forever.
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right on, J
 
Dropbear said:
I did my annual check-up with my doc yesterday. I told him to do every damn test that’s covered by my insurance and he did. I was sure they would find something for me to be concerned about but all of my labs are excellent. I felt like the last two years aged me 20 but the blood work says otherwise. The good die young and I will live forever.
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That's great news. How many tests are we talking here? What were they?
 
QuandoDio said:
That's great news. How many tests are we talking here? What were they?
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Thanks. I’m still a little shocked. I was sure something would come back high enough for him to tell me to moderate intake of something, but everything is between good and great.

Full blood screening. Everything is in a difficult to access safe app, but there is page after page of results. Honestly, I don’t even know what some of them are for, just that they are good.
 
One of my usual vendors at the market gave me a free box of coronavirus rapid tests. I only bought $12 of veg so I felt a bit guilty.
 
Things are opening up consistently and I was at another home bar down the street and I had no idea Martina was Slovakian.

Amazing after so much time she is double zero.
 
More than one person or household can get into the lift! Hurray coronavirus.
 
Getting my money tomorrow. Part 2 of 3.

It doesn't look like I'll see part 3 of 3 because the vesting period isn't how I understood it when I first signed up.
 
Fwiffo said:
Getting my money tomorrow. Part 2 of 3.

It doesn't look like I'll see part 3 of 3 because the vesting period isn't how I understood it when I first signed up.
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That vesting period mantra is a bit of a bitch, isn't it? I walked away from a gig a while back and it was a VSOP vesting period of five years and I didn't peruse all the clauses and sub-clauses and left in year two and walked away from a seven figure sum as the company's valuation rose exponentially and was eventually bought out. That stung and still stings to this day.

Hence, why I am poor.
 
QuandoDio said:
That vesting period mantra is a bit of a bitch, isn't it? I walked away from a gig a while back and it was a VSOP vesting period of five years and I didn't peruse all the clauses and sub-clauses and left in year two and walked away from a seven figure sum as the company's valuation rose exponentially and was eventually bought out. That stung and still stings to this day.

Hence, why I am poor.
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I was under the impression it was 3 years but I joined in Q4 of year 1. It looks like they only started counting from the beginning of the first full fiscal year so I lost 3 months and then it's a 5 year term with the pay out being at the end of the year 5 rather than your 5 year anniversary.

The incentives were all based on operating entity performance and we had sh*t results for 2 years so it's not like I'm walking away from a lot but if it was 3 years from my start date I would be due already.

It's small enough that I can ask for the next company to match.
 
I did 18 of 31 days in the gym last month. 10 or 12 this month and 7 days straight alternating between 20lb dumb bells and the elliptical. I'm still hovering around 50-60km walking every week. Finally, finally, finally, the weight is coming off.

I'm probably half way there to buttoning a 36S jacket again but hopefully all the 38S are good even with mobile phones in both chest pockets.

I ditched all the junk food and stopped skipping lunch. For lunch I either do sashimi + salad + miso soup or greek salad with chicken or kale salad with fish. Also started cooking smaller portions on the weekends and I stopped snacking on prosciutto or anything else unhealthy. I buy an avocado if I really want to fill up in between meals.
 
36S? Mate, you probably need to to be adding more mass (lean tissue, not fat) than cutting down.

Kudos on the discipline of ditching crap though.
 
QuandoDio said:
36S? Mate, you probably need to to be adding more mass (lean tissue, not fat) than cutting down.

Kudos on the discipline of ditching crap though.
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Indeed. I thought a size 42L/44 was the kind of chest size with a bit of muscle a man should have? But I am 185cms with a heavy weight boxers reach, but sadly, wasted on me, on account of my delicate hands. I could of been a contender, if I had inherited my grandfathether's hands.
 
QuandoDio said:
36S? Mate, you probably need to to be adding more mass (lean tissue, not fat) than cutting down.

Kudos on the discipline of ditching crap though.
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Pimpernel Smith said:
Indeed. I thought a size 42L/44 was the kind of chest size with a bit of muscle a man should have? But I am 185cms with a heavy weight boxers reach, but sadly, wasted on me, on account of my delicate hands. I could of been a contender, if I had inherited my grandfathether's hands.
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I have one jacket and two suits that are 36S which I bought at the peak of my weight loss a few cycles ago. The rest are 38S - obviously wide ranging of brands, cuts and fit.

I was afraid the dreaded middle age metabolism crash finally hit me. I read about the tragedy of losing X% of muscle mass every Y years but that was a joke for me given only my thighs are big. I was never built up.

After the first lockdown, I started to lose weight in the summer of 2020 and was nearly back to "normal" by the beginning of winter 2020. I skipped lunch and walked 50km/60km and simply stopped eating like the world was ending tomorrow. I did start some medication during that summer. Then everything started accumulating again. After the start/end of the 3rd lockdown a year ago, the walking I maintained didn't make a dent. When gyms reopened my 1 or 2 weekly elliptical visits didn't do much either so I started adding some weights at the end of 2021. I don't have any muscle definition but I can carry a briefcase with two laptops in one hand and a basket filled with groceries in the other so that's a marked improvement from before.

When I finally start losing weight I tend to overshoot my weight loss targets so I'm crossing my fingers there was simply a lot of inertia in the beginning of this cycle. Otherwise I have to admit I'm old or drop the medication and accept defeat, but the money I spent on my wardrobe makes me a determined man.
 
Fwiffo said:
I have one jacket and two suits that are 36S which I bought at the peak of my weight loss a few cycles ago. The rest are 38S - obviously wide ranging of brands, cuts and fit.

I was afraid the dreaded middle age metabolism crash finally hit me. I read about the tragedy of losing X% of muscle mass every Y years but that was a joke for me given only my thighs are big. I was never built up.

After the first lockdown, I started to lose weight in the summer of 2020 and was nearly back to "normal" by the beginning of winter 2020. I skipped lunch and walked 50km/60km and simply stopped eating like the world was ending tomorrow. I did start some medication during that summer. Then everything started accumulating again. After the start/end of the 3rd lockdown a year ago, the walking I maintained didn't make a dent. When gyms reopened my 1 or 2 weekly elliptical visits didn't do much either so I started adding some weights at the end of 2021. I don't have any muscle definition but I can carry a briefcase with two laptops in one hand and a basket filled with groceries in the other so that's a marked improvement from before.

When I finally start losing weight I tend to overshoot my weight loss targets so I'm crossing my fingers there was simply a lot of inertia in the beginning of this cycle. Otherwise I have to admit I'm old or drop the medication and accept defeat, but the money I spent on my wardrobe makes me a determined man.
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Towards the end of this month I will go on a vegetarian (mostly) eat once a day diet. Also the weather should be better, so I can get out biking which will help get the muscles toned. As I've got older, I have zero interest in high wind/bad weather cycling. I will do weights everyday at home. I don't eat any biscuits and very careful with my diet, but still not easy to keep my weight in the zone of 34-36 waist. The vintage 501's I got I needed to get 38'', although they've loosened up, but they'll shrink first time I wash them.

The metabolism slowing down is real, but also, you don't walk the same or be as active as you were in your 20s.
 
My Brompton gears were broken and I went to the local bike shop before Christmas, on the missus's advice because it's very cheap, and they said it was the wheel as well needed replacing and it was going to cost circa €600. Went to the place I bought it from, the Brompton dealer in The Hague, fixed it this morning and service: €114.50. There's lesson there, as I was going to go there originally.
 
I can do 3 pull ups after about 35-40 minutes of dumb bells. 300 percent better than January. Yes. Laughable.
 
Finally going with a 27 year old girl to the wedding. The only issue is she loves dancing. Took awhile because I am out practice and a bunch of money.
 
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