Guard Dog Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I became king of Sweden in CK3 this morning. I can only imagine what feats I'll accomplish in the real world before the sun sets! BTW, @Azdeus you should refer to me as hans Majestät until further notice! 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Guard Dog said: I became king of Sweden in CK3 this morning. I can only imagine what feats I'll accomplish in the real world before the sun sets! BTW, @Azdeus you should refer to me as hans Majestät until further notice! Givetvis, ers majestät! 2 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 3 hours ago, bugarup said: I ordered my first blood pressure measuring apparatus today. I feel so ancient now, and it feels that the logical thing to buy next is an urn. The results from those automatics ones shouldn't be taken as gospel. You should use them 3 time a day (after you wake up, before lunch and before dinner) and average the results over the week. We played around with those at work (friend had genetic heart issues) and would measure our bp all the time. I had a very stressful day once and measured something like 160 over a 100. 1 "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugarup Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 3 hours ago, BruceVC said: Blood pressure apparatus are an important part in understanding hidden health problems caused by things like bad diet, stress, lack of exercise and hereditary, genetic high blood pressure You want to know because their are lots of solutions like lifestyle changes and medication. But high blood pressure is a silent killer so these types of apparatus make sense to understand the problem What is the reason you bought a blood pressure monitor? Went to the family doctor about fever and sore throat, got hit with 180. Didn't even know it was a very bad number, now I'm still pondering what to do with this information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceVC Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 15 minutes ago, bugarup said: Went to the family doctor about fever and sore throat, got hit with 180. Didn't even know it was a very bad number, now I'm still pondering what to do with this information. Most people I know, including myself, who have had high\elevated blood pressure (BP) do one of 2 things make lifestyle changes particularly around diet and then monitor your BP after 6 weeks or so to see if its dropped. Exercise is important because this is not about weight loss so diet isnt everything they take daily BP medication and dont change their lifestyle that much but they still monitor Sometimes if you sick or stressed that can artificially inflate your BP. Thats normally why many doctors will suggest the BP monitor device so they can understand your overall BP But you should use it when you better and not sick. And its very " normal " to go on BP medication but a lifestyle change is better. I haven't used medication yet but I will if I have to 1 "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Spent the weekend pitting CDF and Russian troops against each other in Arma 2 while monitoring some servers. AI really needs to realize that one BMP doesn't need 4 AT13s. Nothing like being a human cron job. Didn't realize today was an NYSE holiday, I thought it was just federal workers and such - so at least no clients badgering me today. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 Holiday! Celebrate! I worked. 1 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 9 hours ago, Guard Dog said: I became king of Sweden in CK3 this morning. I can only imagine what feats I'll accomplish in the real world before the sun sets! BTW, @Azdeus you should refer to me as hans Majestät until further notice! I recently became King of Bohemia (starting from Austria in the 867 start)! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 hour ago, ShadySands said: I worked. no such excuse for us. starting tomorrow and for the next week the area temps is gonna be 100F. as a result we did yard work and a whole lotta cooking 'cause am not gonna wanna be using anything other than a microwave oven or outdoor grill for a while. heck, we didn't even go to berkeley which were part o' our ordinary pre-pandemic observance for juneteenth. color us embarrassed. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, ShadySands said: Holiday! Celebrate! I worked. Well, at least you got paid, right? Edited June 20, 2022 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 4 hours ago, Gromnir said: no such excuse for us. starting tomorrow and for the next week the area temps is gonna be 100F. as a result we did yard work and a whole lotta cooking 'cause am not gonna wanna be using anything other than a microwave oven or outdoor grill for a while. heck, we didn't even go to berkeley which were part o' our ordinary pre-pandemic observance for juneteenth. color us embarrassed. HA! Good Fun! 1 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 ^ Yeah ... hubby said "it's supposed to get hot again this week." ...a bit of an understatement. I'm going to be grumpy again. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 20 hours ago, Guard Dog said: I became king of Sweden in CK3 this morning. I can only imagine what feats I'll accomplish in the real world before the sun sets! BTW, @Azdeus you should refer to me as hans Majestät until further notice! we became the king of siam last night, but then we realized we were dreaming we were yul brynner... again. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uuuhhii Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 have some electrical problem hope it didn't get worse weather does not really allow a no electricity situation right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) On 6/15/2022 at 4:58 PM, LadyCrimson said: I can't be bothered to sit here and keep playing or do the "git gud" process (if needed), so I turn it off. So this guy's reaction to PoE's passive tree is exactly what I mean. Even if in the end it's not as complicated as it "looks," I don't have the patience/dedication for that anymore (I used to). Although one of the issues with PoE in particular was they were constantly erasing/resetting your tree for patches/updates (with a single free respec given) so you'd have to "start all over" for newly added nodes/tree redesigns, and/or remember the pathing of what dozens of nodes you liked every few/several months. And while there were respecs, getting them was grindingly difficult. Anyway, yeah, not doing that anymore. Edited June 21, 2022 by LadyCrimson 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 4:30pm. That's in the shade. I'm not putting that thing in the direct sun, it might melt. 42.22222 for you C people. I expect it to get a tad higher before dusk comes around. 2 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 11 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said: 4:30pm. That's in the shade. I'm not putting that thing in the direct sun, it might melt. 42.22222 for you C people. I expect it to get a tad higher before dusk comes around. The forecast for midsummers temperatures are at 29C, and I'm thinking about cancelling celebrating with my friends, because **** that temperature. I would quite probably go to a gunshop and buy a tool to end myself at 42C Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 *chuckle* so, bout the sacramento valley heat today is first day of summer and wildfire season hasn't even started. mid july through late september is gonna be unpleasant given worsening drought. news report from last year o' a typical few days: HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Azdeus said: If you decide to visit Australia some day, I would recommend doing it during the winter Temperatures rarely gets above 22c here in Queensland then “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 25 minutes ago, Gorth said: If you decide to visit Australia some day, I would recommend doing it during the winter Temperatures rarely gets above 22c here in Queensland then Not gonna lie, todays 18C and overcast is about what I can comfortably tolerate I can work in -15C in a shirt and simple pants on though, easy peasy. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 Working on one of the international editions of Bono's forthcoming (November) autobiography. Interesting fellow, I must say. Weather fine, about +20C, and rising towards the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted June 22, 2022 Author Share Posted June 22, 2022 We hit triple digits Fahrenheit yesterday. It cooled down well enough over night though, and that's all I really care about. The tough part is when it stays warm after dark. We are heading to the beach today to cool off in the ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 It's triple digits here with a humidity of a bit less than 90%. Really miserable outside. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "Am I phrasing in the most negative light for them? Yes, but it's not untrue." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 10:30AM --- outside in the shade: 100F/37.77C --- inside majority of home: 79F/26.11C --- inside my "room cave": 72F/22.22C --- *stares at electric bill* .... WORTH IT! 3 hours ago, KP wants Blue Velvet said: humidity of a bit less than 90% Ow, ugh. At least here "it's a dry heat." Humidity can make even moderate heat temps intolerable. Which is why I will never move to anything tropical. Vacation is fine. Moving to such a place ... heck no. Anyway...it's fine in the house, I just like to observe/marvel/complain. I was wondering if it would reach 110F yesterday, but only got to 109. Got two large bowls of water in the yard for birdies. The bluebirds like to sit in them, it's cute. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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