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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • He’s saying the call to close a beach should be local, not at the state level. Of course the locals will never close a beach. Anyone seen Jaws?

    OTOH, I’m not aware of anywhere here in NW Florida that suffers pollution. Red tide maybe should call for a shutdown, and I believe it occasionally does.

    And I have to agree. Anyone choking our economic lifeline isn’t getting back in office to do it again. Seems an easy call when you’re not fucking with 10’s of thousands of livelihoods.

    No idea what the answer is, but a higher authority (the state) should make the call.


  • Worked tech support for an ISP. The tech side was well managed and smart. (Left when that changed.)

    The customer service side fielded TV and account related calls. They were driven by average calls times. What a cluster. Guess who straight hung up on customers when the call went too long? Some people would call be 4-5 times.

    Meanwhile, we could take all the time it took to resolve. A 1-hour call is way cheaper than rolling a truck. Yet some assholes would roll trucks for nothing, then bitch there were no trucks left.













  • Everyone is fat, no one moves around. Hmmm… Chicken and egg problem? More on that.

    In 70’s elementary school, we started gym class with a 1-mile jog, twice around the track. I can’t imagine the kids I see walking home from the middle school doing that. We also had 3 recess periods. Asked my step-son about his recess breaks. “What’s recess?”

    No, I’m not laying all the blame on my anecdotes, but it is interesting. As I get older, the harm becomes more and more obvious. Not something my young self thought of because A) hardly anyone was fat in school (nothing like today) and B) I was a scrawny kid, not my problem.

    I see so much harm that I’d ignored, or it wasn’t as prevalent. People at the store who can’t walk normally, people with mobility gear, almost every person in my doctor’s waiting room is obese, stuff like that. Ever notice that most everyone you see in an ankle brace or the like is well overweight?

    It’s sad seeing the things they’re left out of. Met a big girl online, wasn’t interested in dating, but she wanted to kayak. Only person I’ve ever met that actually fell out, repeatedly. Center of gravity far too high. Hiking to the local creek is a non-starter if you’re too big, over a mile of deep, sandy trail. Tough for me to make the round trip and I’m only 145lbs.

    I never see fat people on the trail or any kind of unpowered boat. OK, not fair, I see some on river where the kayak/canoe rentals places go, but it’s clearly a rare lark for them. (I’d be an obvious noob if a regular jogger or regular beach goer saw me farting around.)

    Back to the chicken and egg. Maybe some overweight people can chime in. Know the old saw about fat people being (physically) lazy? Do you get fat from not moving or not moving because it’s too hard? As I age I see how easy it is to hit a downward spiral with health. Arthritis is eating my hands, but it gets worse if I don’t use them.

    Done skipping work. Going outside to work and see what I can manage.