TGIF! The madness continues, and the brackets are all broken (Hopefully not yours, of course), but it’s still good Friday. Onward to the weekend!
Survival – Personal Edition
It’s spring time, which means it’s time to get into swimsuit shape. Now some of you may go a little overboard on this and find yourself with a tidy little gym addiction. Let’s get that treated.
- Start by examining your behavioUr. An honest self assessment is crucial to start recovery.
- Are you working out multiple times a day?
- Find yourself going to the gym even though you know it’s closed?
- Are you regularly confused as a gym employee?
- Do you lie to friends or family about the amount of time you spend at the gym?
- Is some gym equipment dedicated to only you?
- Are you constantly exceeding the time limit on the treadmill?
- How do you feel about the gym closing for a holiday?
- If you answered a lot of yeses to those questions, you have an issue. However, you have to admit to yourself that you have a problem and that you need help. Recognize you are not responsible for your addiction, buy you are responsible for your recovery.
- Share your problem with one other person. And no, this person cannot be someone that goes to or works at the gym.
- Wean yourself off the gym by spending less time there. Instead of that gym session, read a book, go to the movies, even take a nap. You want activities that do not involve exercise.
- As with breaking any addiction, there is a strong likelihood of a relapse. Be prepared to forgive yourself and then reach out to others for additional support.
- Get as much help as you need. Talk to a therapist, join a support group, or create one if there isn’t one.
- And remember, working out at home instead of the gym is only a further sign of addiction and not the road to recovery.
Alright good. Now you can enjoy the benefits of rest days too! Best of luck on those beach bods everyone.
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Survival – Species Edition
Time to put the sexy in Friday!
Enjoy the weekend, folks! Alright, now let’s get to the comments!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cE1fzfOogo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ10wLxSYUs
I live in a fourth floor condo with a balcony that gets covered with pollen from trees right outside it. I can kind of clean it with a shop-vac blower, but there’s nothing like a good hosing down. Unfortunately, the second floor condo beneath me is a patio that extends out, so if I hose off my balcony it all goes down there.
We have a good heavy rainstorm after midnight tonight! I already have the hose hooked up (to my master bathroom shower outlet) and I’m ready to spray her down! Everything goes down on the patio, but they have no excuse complaining about water falling from the sky during a torrential rainstorm, and not at 1:30AM.
I only get to do this about once a year. Tonight’s the night!
How did it go?
You fall?
OMG. Cheesecake factory has a chicken parmesan pizza style. Bascially the Chizza with pasta on top. yeah right, you have a new assignment.
I’m afraid you’ll never find me in a Cheesecake Factory.
They do carry out
But still.
Sigh. Then I will sacrifice myself for the cause.
Let me know if you want to write about it.
I’m all for taking guest hosts.
Pacific Palisades, 03/28/24
Waiting for a big storm to roll through tonight.
https://ibb.co/tPb6976
That’s fucking beautiful.
Getting raped on those gas prices
oh god yes
On a weekly basis.
But only a nobody walks in Pacific Palisades
That’s Pacific Palisades prices. Costco is about $1.20/gal cheaper.
The people getting gas there don’t even notice that price.
Makes more sense. Still paying 5.09 for premium here and expected the same down there.
Pacific Palisades is deluxe livin’
That was a pretty fun game.
I also dug watching real baseball yesterday.
After 2 days off, motherfucker got to work on a Friday after two days off?
It was a one day event and it was easy. Closing a quarter is always work and reports.
But it’s Friday again!
Watching the 3 Body Problem instead of hoops. We’re a little more than halfway through, and it’s okay.
That’s a ringing endorsement!
Lady number 6 is my fellow addicted gym rat bunny this week. Sensational lay out Mr Ayo. And my humble contribution is sweet Sofia.
And she’s newly single!
If I were Creighton I simply would have tried not to get outscored 18-0 over a 5 minute span.
Solid game plan.
Yet no one ever asks me to coach.
They know it’s not worth the effort.
So it’s not common that all 1 and 2 seeds make it into the Sweet Sixteen, and it’s looking like four of those eight will have failed to advance. I wonder how many times four (or more) 1’s and 2’s have lost in the Sweet Sixteen before.
the greatriots may be dead, but duke hate never dies
Man, fuck Duke.
Yeah, even though it was good for my bracket, it still left a bad taste in my mouth.
Man, Creighton just fell apart.
Stupid cheating coward
https://twitter.com/ArtButSports/status/1773914944452665661
Peace be with you, fuck Altuve.
Amen.
Holy shit, the Knicks lost to a .500 team for like the 2nd time this year.
And JB had… 61? Thibs is gonna have a one-man riot.
Nothing but net on the free throw!
(literally nothing but net)
Pickleball : Tennis :: Boogie Boarding : Surfing
I dunno about that. You don’t see many 60 year olds on a boogie board.
Maybe longboards instead?
Nah, longboarding is perfectly acceptable for older surfers. Not much shame for young surfers either, especially on a small day.
I have issues with a bobcat being the mascot for the Diamondbacks. Why the fuck is it not a snake???
Cuz it’s hard to make a snake costume with arms and legs and have it not look like a lizard?
Go more nostalgic, Sleestaks.
Because it was Bank One Ballpark, not Snake Ballpark
But they are literally named after a snake!!!
Come to Snake Ballpark and play in our snake ballpit.
Snek One Ballpark.
SNEKS! 🐍
No step on snek
first it was old town road, then beyonce’s country album
but mo thugs was way, WAY ahead of the game. like, a quarter century ahead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ICvMCXEuqU
Someone on Twitter posted that “Marquette’s offense was like listening to rocks in a dryer” and I went “Oh shit! The laundry!” and ran down and changed it.
ran down and
https://youtu.be/xbz10IvihQw?si=bKwEMJDLyZOvTZxX
I owe Houston an apology. I wasn’t really familiar with their game.
Somehow I’m in second place in my bracket pool. It’s out of 3 but I fully expected to be in last by a mile
The last time I won my office pool we had 6 people in the office.
The effect of Marquette’s loss on my bracket (artist’s conception):
Test:
via Imgflip
Haha, I’m totally stealing this
not prepared for a successful purdue sports thing
well if it is sexy friday might as well put in a couple of purdue alums i actually like
local indy fox affiliate morning anchor (and cancer survivor) lindy thackston
and local indy nbc affiliate meteorologist angela buchman
cannot believe i almost forgot the time lindy almost said big dick on the air
“I said dip. I said it twice!”
https://www.facebook.com/lindythackston/videos/whoops-sorry-about-that/314404932470583/
No one ever is
I swear it seems sometimes like purdue is what you would get if vikings and the pacers had a baby
MLB’s new uniforms are made out of Kleenex.
https://twitter.com/mlberrors/status/1773884369356407113
You could drown a toddler in his armpits.
Not that you would.
cannot wait for the fanatics era of nhl hockey
all seven minutes of it until all the uniforms are destroyed
O AN U NOE HIPPO GON ZZZZZZZZ BULLEE DAT
I think Litre may have tapped into some Zombie TWBS juju…
I am begging him to bet against UConn.
Up until last night, I was in first place in the Pool. It was nice while it lasted. I think that’s the latest in the tourney I’ve ever been in first.
I’m in first now but there’s no way it’ll last for long with Marquette cooked.
Marquette is letting me, and more importantly the entire Big East down. Gonzaga seems to be collapsing against Purdue, which is expected but it still would have been a nice upset.
I will be over all of this if Houston can just drop an absolute hammer on Duke in the evening. I have no expectations for Creighton against Tennessee. That likely won’t be close.
This was really a no brainer for today:
I’m not sure who blue bikini’s coach is, but I would definitely switch that defensive assignment up. She’s gonna get eaten alive in the post.
Topical!
First gif makes me want to put a bib on…
What level of addiction would you say you have if you have a home gym setup with a rack, full set of weights, and a ton of accessories?
That’s like me having six boxes of freezer vodka in addition to the freezer vodka proper and the box of staged freezer vodka in the pantry next to the freezer.
So…. Twins?
I don’t have a problem! I have a stash!
That’s just good planning!
I’d don’t have a full rack but have a buncha gear and weights, so curious as to how my addiction rates
Step it up Buddy…
I’d just suspect you were a shut-in who liked to work out.
Now, if you’re also going to a gym on a regular basis that would be a bit much.
If I said I still have my gym membership so I could use the steam room, pool, and sauna, does that change anything?
Oh, do you not have a steam room, pool, and sauna at your own house?
Pity.
But no, those would be solid reasons to maintain a membership.
A garage gym? By itself that’s no more than 2 LaRons on the Landry scale.
We are dealers Buddy
I just stumbled on the Hartford Athletic game on local cable while searching for the Yankees game.
Let’s just say USL soccer is not quite up to the quality of the Premier League. Painful to watch.
Wrexham is better.
Wrexham is a great story and a fun team to root for, but my god the soccer is bad.
They’re about to go up to League One. Still better than MLS…
MLS is getting better. They’d be like League One-and-three-quarters.
Gonzaga kid didn’t travel as far from his campus to Detroit as he did just now driving the lane, and he still missed the shot.
Alright, here’s my legit contribution this week:
Nice
NC State’s fat guy makes it hard to root against them. My man just got a rebound, passed it off and waved his teammates forward while he walked up the court. “No, you guys run ahead. I’ll catch up. I need a minute.”
This guy is my spirit animal.
We’ve all waddled a mile in his shoes.
Me: “I’m rooting for Marquette today out of Big East solidarity. A #2 seed against a #11 see NC State is a good chance for the Big East to go 8-0 on the tournament and send another ACC team home early.”
Marquette: “Wait, is that today!?”
Man I just ate an apple with cheddar cheese and balsamic vinegar. Good stuff.
Evening
Dunno why you put that behind a spoiler tag but you do you.
To trick people into thinking it was something else!
Damn it Gonzaga, you’re not suppose to lead before half, gotta lure purdue into a fall sense of security, so they don’t come out swining in the second half
I’m only being half sarcastic
He’s got big…. Teeth
BUNNY!!!