Man I love Alan Thrall. Such high signal low bullshit fitness content. One of the best channels out there for newbies to get into lifting.
I avoid those “100 pushups per day till x” trends because I don’t like having tendonitis in my shoulders and elbows
I do sets of EMOM pushups like 3-4x per week.
Merry Christmas from the Z’s
Not gonna dox my family with our Christmas card pic so just picture your average white family with matching pajamas (the dog has matching pajamas too)
🫂🫂💜💜🎄🎄
It does end. We finally after about 6 or 7 failed offers end up in a nice home.
Keep in mind though we did have to essentially pay more than the appraised value of the house to get our offer accepted, which does eat into our equity a little bit.
The market is just weird right now. We could see another 2008-2009 style crash, or the money printers could just inflate prices higher and higher as soon as interest rates drop. Who fucken knows.
We bought a house that we could conceivably live in for 10 years to weather a bad market, rather than a smaller, cheaper house that we might outgrow immediately if we pop out another kid.
Ga.
Agenda today is replacing the heating element on the dishwasher.
Also replacing the plumbing on one of our sinks.
Feeling Hella handy for a white collar fella
Gm. Dreaming of breaking from the 8-5 grind so I can have a few more hours during the day to get things done around the house on personal projects.
#coffeechain ☕️☕️
Been tossing the idea around of writing. Like a substack and/or some freelance writing.
Kind of in that catch 22 when I wanna change things up because I don’t have time/energy to do the things I want, but also don’t have the time/energy to effectively learn a new skill.
Can’t complain too hard; I’m employed, bills are paid, btc is zooming. Just trying to solve my first world problems over here.
Man am I jealous of home made honey!
I try to buy local organic unprocessed honey whenever I get a chance. The taste is just so head and shoulder above that of the basic grocery store honey.
Gm everyone.
I am officially past the 6 week mark from surgery. Cleared for normal activity and exercise.
My body is doughy, skinny-fat, and very deconditioned.
Going to spend the rest of this month with some general conditioning and progressing weights from light to heavier.
Gonna be gangbusters at the beginning of the new year.
Bulk is gonna go crazy.
Bull market? 🙅♂️🙅♂️🙅♂️
Bulk market ✅✅✅
Feeling bullshit this week.
#fitstr #gymstr #healthstr
I only salt if I’m gonna be doing something that will get my sweaty like exercise or yard work.
But I don’t really measure. Maybe 1/4 teaspoon to a 32 oz bottle.
The little Z just pushed through his first 2 teeth. Been a fussy 3 or so week process but he has been happy as a lark since getting his gums to calm down.
The wife and I moved into her parent’s basement (very nice mother-in-law suite) for a year to save up for our house. That was the “responsible” thing to do and helped accelerate our savings by almost $10k
The fiat clown world price inflation of the housing market inflated the value of any house we tried to buy by about $100k, completely wiping out any savings we had accomplished over that year of being “responsible” and saving up for a down payment.
Still lucky enough to have ended up owning a home before interest rates hiked to the moon (also result of fiat clownworld money), but man when you get punished for doing the “right” thing… that radicalizes a person.
The wife and I moved into her parent’s basement (very nice mother-in-law suite) for a year to save up for our house. That was the “responsible” thing to do and helped accelerate our savings by almost $10k
The fiat clown world price inflation of the housing market inflated the value of any house we tried to buy by about $100k, completely wiping out any savings we had accomplished over that year of being “responsible” and saving up for a down payment.
Still lucky enough to have ended up owning a home before interest rates hiked to the moon (also result of fiat clownworld money), but man when you get punished for doing the “right” thing… that radicalizes a person.
Thank you fam 🫡🫡🫂🫂💜
Life is good, I’ve got the house, work, and bitcoin.
Many people weren’t so lucky and are now essentially locked out of the housing market forever
When it comes to health, I really wish more people believed that they can help themselves.
So many people have tried these bullshit fiat diets without success and genuinely believe that it isn’t in their power to help their weight and improve their health.
Makes me sad. America gets a bad wrap for this, but obesity and chronic disease rates are climbing all across the developed world.
#healthstr
Gm. Im with everyone else wishing they stacked more corn at discount prices. Oh well.
Still thinking there will be another downswing before the bull run really takes off. Probably won’t see sub 20k again, but that’s alright.
I think this caveat is something a lot of people on Nostr don’t get. “Better” isn’t good enough to disrupt an established network effect. That’s why railroad tracks are the same width as Roman chariot cart wheels. Network effects are that strong. They can last for 1000 years.
To upset a network effect, you typically have to be about 10x better than the thing you’re replacing.
Like telegram replacing the pony express. Learning Morse code was hard, but sending messages at the speed of light was just so next level that it upset the whole communication system.
I think we will find a niche where Nostr works insanely well and really takes off, but tbh I don’t think that is gonna be twitter-clone social media apps. It’s not gonna replace twitter or Facebook entirely unless those companies completely collapse from within.
But I think we build like crazy on the use cases we have so the network is strong. That way when we find the right niche, it’s really to really take over.
I think this caveat is something a lot of people on Nostr don’t get. “Better” isn’t good enough to disrupt an established network effect. That’s why railroad tracks are the same width as Roman chariot cart wheels. Network effects are that strong. They can last for 1000 years.
To upset a network effect, you typically have to be about 10x better than the thing you’re replacing.
Like telegram replacing the pony express. Learning Morse code was hard, but sending messages at the speed of light was just so next level that it upset the whole communication system.
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