Have you lost your aggressivness...your drive?

You could make your own crantomato!! You put the cran in the tomato and mix em all up~ lol Almost sounds good!

we'll outsource the patent to India.

mk5000

"terrific family of liars and drunks ... redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." --mary karr, liar's club

you speak the bitter truth

The way it works for me is to exercise every day for about an hour under normal work hours. When I have to do a Herculean effort I just skip the hour and I have a huge reserve to draw from.

I skipped the meeting, but the Memos showed that Gunner wrote on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:24:11

-0800 >>>Just wondering if this is a natural part of this trade or am I burning out?

With age comes wisdom. Sometimes age travels alone. There are times, when faced with the choice of two evils, you chose whichever one will let you get to bed and get enough sleep.

cheers pyotr

-- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

you speak the bitter truth

Yah he does...but... If you analize life without things "culture" or "instinct" force on us, all that seems left is trying to get that injection of herion our brains give us when we do whatever triggers an injection. Building stuff gets that injection in all human beings. And it tends to last a little bit longer than when you get an injection from say getting good news...or a good tv show. Sence of acomplishment is nothing more than your brain injecting heroin into itself and loving the feeling. My guess is you combine "cultural" training, like working hard just because your parents, friends, etc.. do, it's all you know, and that heroin injection at periodic times when finishing projects, or steps in projects. I say heroin because supposedly it's the same drug? I don't know the actual name.

Sence of acomplishment = drug induced.

Shame on all you drug users in here! lol

Labor-intense work is the new welfare.

Yeah; with grape, raspberry, vodka . . . .

Urhm . . . .

Very few people can do this, for sundry reasons. 'course, it depends on what's being done during the hour. What do you typically do in an hour? When?

Most of our culture is fundamentally incompatible with a meaningful exercise regimen, ergo all the bullshit and trickery you see in mags/TV.

We have been painted in an economic corner/lifestyle that actually excludes basic physiological requirements, such as a decent diet, meaningful physical activity, sufficient sleep, and instead foists mounting psychological stress on a hapless Pubic -- who copes via mindless entertainment, which just worsens the situation.

And there is also the issue of cause and effect.

Altho there is no doubt that almost everyone would enjoy markedly better health from a hour a day of vigorous exercise (and a rational diet), not everyone will see increased *productivity*, as said exertion may actually subtract from available energy reserves!

It really is a dicey issue of optimization, that varies from individual to individual.

But without a doubt, Merkins need to do more than they are doing exercise-wise, and more than the Dr. Oz "10,000 step" vagaries.

Optimal exercise/diet would virtually eliminate all conditions associated with the Big Pharm advertising blitz (ie, our litany of "lifestyle diseases" aka western disease), and cut drug sales by 95%.

Few agree with this (and certainly not yer doc), but then most docs don't understand basic science, much less physiology or metabolism -- too busy fighting with yer hmo, and finagling a new lease fer dey Benz.

If inyone doesn't bleeve me about docs, I can give you a few basic Qs (and the answers), and you can quiz yer doc. You will, or should be, floored by what you hear -- or don't hear.

The fact does remain, tho, that exercise is its own effing purgatory. goodgawd....

There is now a "walking desk", where you stand on a treadmill at an elevated desk, so's you can walk and work at the same time. I think Steelman or Steelcase makes it. goodgawd, it never ends. We are indeed becoming rats in a cage.

Somewhere in CA, the commute is so long, people actually get the bulk of their sleep during the commute! Mebbe they'll figger out a way we can exercise in our sleep, as well.

Ergo, the possibility of revolution is over. We have rolled over -- for the want of enough sleep, and the promised pittance of an effing pension. goodgawd....

Amidst a seeming unending litany of one-liner stupidness, this is actually an interesting observation.

To celebrate this wondrous event, why don't you crosspost it to 50 *new* ngs??

More like: I'm driven (read: I get a chubby) by the chance to f*ck my cow-worker, and serve them up on a silver platter to my bosses. Ergo the lines waiting to kick my large-ish ass. Ergo my itinerant employment.

Oh yeah, this got omitted:

.......and serve them up on a silver platter to my bosses, whose ass-cheeks I like to wear as earmuffs.

yawn

I skipped the meeting, but the Memos showed that "Proctologically Violated©®" wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008

You can work hard, or you can work smart. Doesn't matter if you are machining parts, sweeping floors, or changing the government - you can work hard, or you can work smart. Working hard will get you by, but can you keep it up? Friend was a plumber for the Air Force back in his yout' (He was from "Pizzboig", spelled "Pittsburgh"). One day, they're cutting and threading (by hand) three inch pipe. The hard working guy - "new kid" - goes all out and in three turns of the pipe cutter has cut the pipe. John says "Now do that fifteen more times."

To rephrase it a bit: With age comes wisdom. Sometimes age travels alone. When you are 'young' and faced with the choice of two evils, go for the one you haven't done. (Usually said in the context of ... ah "embracing the sins of the flesh" - yeah, that's the ticket.) But when you get older, and with more experience, there will be times, when faced with the choice of two evils, neither one is new to you, so you chose whichever one will let you get to bed and get enough sleep. Or as one character who shall remain nameless once said "Not so old as to need virgins to excite him, nor old enough to have the patience to teach one."

-- pyotr filipivich We will drink no whiskey before its nine. It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

Mostly aerobic activity; running, exercise bike, swimming, stairclimber, ellyptical trainer, heavy bag. One hour of one, or two half hours of two of the above every morning. 3 evenings a week I have a dozen or so exercises I do on a bowflex that take about an hour to get through.

Come up here studmuffin--we'll each split a rick of red maple--whomever finishes first gets to bean the loser over the head with the sledge.

Sounds like fun. It's a date. I'm going to retire somewhere it snows just so I can shovel it.