The dodge is also beat the hell up! I absolutely never take pictures of rentals, definitely did a walk around this time.Limit time with the folks, train hard, dodge sucks. There's nothing about your come back I don't like
Ironically I've worked with my dad every day since I was like 16, I do love it but I'm a total introvert otherwise who's content to live mostly alone in the woods
Nah, we had a lot of stuff and the ex wife already took 99% of what she wanted, the rest is just enough to make the main areas look cozy or enormous (10' ceilings). I wouldn't be surprised if the realtor came in and wanted to stage, but the goal right now is to just get it listed asap. Using the VA loan, my next place is contingent on it.
Yeah they're ugly right now, the rates. But real estate here seems to be moving as fast as ever, so fingers crossed.
Hahaha, I'm right there with you, 1924 house here. The first winter here I was a broke-ass college student and the wife wasn't making much. We ran the propane furnace for a month and ended up with something like $450 in electric, and $250 in propane. That next month I got a Lowes credit card, a pellet stove, and a pallet of pellets lol. That thing kicks some serious ass, but still going through about 3-4 pallets a winter. I won't mention the space heaters, storing them before the showings so people don't know any better. I look for them in house postings.
If you're on Reddit, there's a wood stove sub that nerds out over the things. I'm ashamed how much I know about wood stoves and firewood from doom scrolling and reading.pretty smart though! I keep trying to figure out if we can maybe do an insert on our fireplace. The hard part is a blower though. if you can get a little air movement then you can do a lot with those pellet stoves or a wood setup. the funny thing is my folks have this tiny wood burning stove in their house that can only hold like 1-2 logs at a time. huge vaulted ceilings, and that tiny stove gets the place so hot they have to open doors in the winter lol.
meanwhile I can throw 6 logs on and still have blankets out
Yeah a regular fireplace is really not very efficient at heating. If the flue is open enough to not get smoke in the house all of the heat get's sucked right out the chimney, close it enough for all of the heat not to get sucked out immediately and the house slowly starts to fill with smoke. Pretty much useless until the burn box finally gets hot enough to radiate a little heat. I am going to end up buying some nice glass rocks or something to hold the heat more so it can radiate and just use the natural gas.pretty smart though! I keep trying to figure out if we can maybe do an insert on our fireplace. The hard part is a blower though. if you can get a little air movement then you can do a lot with those pellet stoves or a wood setup. the funny thing is my folks have this tiny wood burning stove in their house that can only hold like 1-2 logs at a time. huge vaulted ceilings, and that tiny stove gets the place so hot they have to open doors in the winter lol.
meanwhile I can throw 6 logs on and still have blankets out
Yeah going from way out west back to east coast time can be a bit of a catch up. Hope it lists and goes quick!
Forward momentum!
Getting there! Unfortunately, this house I've been drooling over for months went contingent, feels wrong throwing in an offer knowing someone else may have been doing the same. Then again, it is for something fairly important in life lol. Every other place I'm bookmarking is within a specific distance of a specific gym in this town I'm committed to joining
Get you fifth wheel the you can just camp out close to all the good gyms!Getting there! Unfortunately, this house I've been drooling over for months went contingent, feels wrong throwing in an offer knowing someone else may have been doing the same. Then again, it is for something fairly important in life lol. Every other place I'm bookmarking is within a specific distance of a specific gym in this town I'm committed to joining
Lol I'm not actively seeking it, I don't mind the distinguishing features lol. But the only thing different in my life is SNS products
That was honestly my guess as well, I've added in all of the products gradually, but all signs point to that. I even sent a picture to my ex wife and she said "wtf?!" Very interesting. The thicken plots
I'd like some hair growth please.
Adding in that I'm 1.5 months into pepti plex, for posterity reasons in case eventually google leads someone here
I'll start taking more pictures on a weekly basis. I noticed 2 weeks ago, and the change since seems fairly dramatic.
I'm going to keep the beard around to see how this progresses, I'm not sure if it's ramping up or just becoming more noticeable. Very interesting stuff though.
I am over here trying to get that full white beard, no pepti-plex for me I guess.
Man, this area I'm in, Banner Elk NC, is a bit of an anomaly. It's a huge tourist destination, the 2 closest cities are Boone (Where App State University is) and Johnson City, TN (Eastern TN State University). Houses are selling like nuts here, but it's all second/third homes for mostly Floridians. They rent them out as short term rentals, but all of this causes our taxes and property values to skyrocket while no one is actually living here year round. Most of the local industry is hospitality based, IE not a lot of people make good money, and so locals are being priced out causing a shortage in workers as well.
That's insane. I mean I get it, other than wanting to live amongst so many other humans. I can't imagine 10-15 years ago saying "Tacoma is going to be a desired place to live"and Californians... i know some that moved out there. Our town here in WA is literally about 50% Californian transplants. My wife calls them locusts lol. When we go to AZ I'm hesitant to tell locals I'm from WA and they always say "oh that's fine, you're not from Cali".
yup, see above. The worst of it started about 1-2 years after I moved to Pierce County so my commute went from 25 minutes to 90 minutes in a matter of a couple years. Tacoma was the fastest growing city in the nation I think for the 2 year prior to covid.
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Glad you were able to get after it today! I can imagine the stress is pretty high trying to sell and move etc. etc. if you can get back in the groove of going and help get rid of the stress on the weights!I've trained twice now in the last month
6/4/24
Main - Bench
Supplemental - Bench
- 5 x 110lb
- 5 x 140
- 5 x 170
- 5 x 180
- 5 x 215
- 5 x 245
Assistance
- 10 x 5 @ 185
Legs/Stuff
- Kroc row 5 x 10 @ 100
- DB fly 5 x 10 @ 30
Time 50min
- Super set cable crunch/oblique cable pushdown
Weight 206.2
This was hard, I've fallen out of the groove pretty hard form everything but gave my all today. The gym was 76F degrees, and the damn water fountain was at a trickle. Anyway, I made it through, but it was a struggle and I moved way too fast.
In other news, everything is settled with the house I'm trying to buy, last thing is I just need an offer on my place. The stress of showings, let alone getting the house ready, was wrecking me and my ability to get out to train. This week is a new chapter and I'm getting on with it! Unfortunately, I'm going to run out of my supplements mostly before next pay period thanks to making a quite large due diligence/earnest money payment. Yay adulting.
