Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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...there was even a popular song in the 1960s by that title sung by the Four Seasons.
I'm not getting quite the results I want with X-Particles, so I'm giving EmberGen a shot, and WOW, it's really weird to use.
...hmm a whole 24 hours and 30 min with no new posts.
Complaint: I went to a household sale yesterday. They had a beautiful brown 100% real leather, overstuffed, recliner chair in perfect functioning condition, no rips, no stained or skuffed spots. Almost exactly what I was looking for (black would have been ideal), for only $400 (US). I know it's worth at least $1500 (probably closer to $2000). However, its one negative was cat scratches on the two front corners. Not bad enough to worry about though. I had just been to the bank and had $500 in my pocket. I dawdled around that chair for many minutes. Transportation would have been a problem, but the sellers said they had someone who could deliver it. So all problems solved, right? Nope. I wanted it, I could afford it, but I don't need it and couldn't justify it. I had just spent $400+ for a new 3060 graphics card and I was already $500 in the hole for this months budget. Wrong timing. So I walked away from my dream chair.
Good example of where my priorities lie, I'll buy magic electron mazes but a chair layered in dead animal skin gets a pass.
Gotta work on my priorities.
Complaint... It's supposed to be the warmest time of the year, something we are looking for, when suffering through the dark and cold winter, and it's only 11C (52F) and raining every day.
Swap you - the front door is sticking and it's forecast to be in the mid-thirties tomorrow and Tuesday (which is dwefinitely a complaint).
Absolutely beautiful weather here for weeks.
A bit dry, but in the low 70s, low humidity. Able to walk to grocery store without sweating.
But mind you, it does get chilly at night.
I lived in Florida for many years and I used to look forward to nights because the nights in Florida are a delightful relief from the sauna of the day.
Although I don't have diabetes or a heart condition (other than mitral valve proplapse discovered when I was a teen but likely had at birth), I've alway felt I am susceptable to both and act accordingly so I have similar experience and needing to loose weight from 215 lbs, I determined that on a strict 1000 - 1300 calorie a day diet.
Your sleeplessness and nightsweats may be allergies to the spores that are produced in the nightime hours by molds, mildews, fungi, and such in hot humid conditions. Your body will raise it's core temperature to fight off the allergens to keep the spores from growing in your body. I've had such allergies all my life but never so bad as the location I'm in now. I simply have to finish the work to dry out the interior of my house and that'll bring the problem back down to a more reasonable level for me. LOL, I still think I'm going to move and then rent my current place out, even after doing the work to dry out the house interior from it's present humidity.
a) After a two weeks about 8 lbs of the weight loss is actually my gut not being nearly so full of foods and liquids. So I set my diet target weight to be 8 lbs less than my actual after diet target ideal weight. However I won't let that diet target weight be less then the weight that makes me be less than the weight that would classify me as underweight on those BMI scales. For me anything less than 142 lbs would be BMI underweight so my diet target weight is 142 lbs - 145 lbs with my post diet ideal weight 149 lbs - 155 lbs. The 149 lbs - 155 lbs is what I should weigh after going off a diet. And there I must be careful and up the daily caloric intake slowly because I'm not going to know my body's actual daily caloric needs after completing a diet. Muscle mass loss and with it lesser caloric burn is inevitable without heavy muscle training. If you are overweight but a steady weight you may want to think twice about going on a diet at all unless you are classified as obese on the BMI scale because you'll almost certainly reduce your daily caloric intake needs by more than you'd guess would be the case. It's a mojor pitfall because you wind up feeling like your entire life is a diet. Well, in the nature of the wild before farming and such that's very similar to how they always lived - always hungry. If you are just overweight but steady weight on the BMI scale it's not really a life threatening condition that you should risk losing your physiological equilibrium on, on what might end up being yo-yo dieting because of potential and likely muscle mass loss.
b) I purposely lost 65 lbs from mid Feb to mid Aug in 2017. That weigt loss went like clock work according to the scientific literature which is always about 'averages' for this sort of thing. While doing that I did not exercise or lift weights or such. I feared I would loose muscle mass but unsure how much. The intervening 5 years to '22 made it clear I did loose muscle mass and now need substantially less calories. Regardless, natural instincts controle our behaviour absent any artificial behavioural rites intended to reign in our natural behavior, and so without any rites by 5 years time I was back up to 215 lbs. It was like a homing pigeon and strong evidence of genetic programming of behaviour and physiology in certain ecological conditions.
c) Well then, b) made it clear on my next diet I would have to start treating nutrition like I was a lab rat and in need of behavioral rites to stop my natural instincts from engaging in behavior that's only beneficial were I still wandering the cold outdoors of Europe on the edge of starvation my entire life. I'm not in that situation though so I have to design artificial restraints for my instincts. This time I started in Jan '22 and noticed right off that 1300 calories per day was excruciating slow weight loss even though I was walking 7 miles weekdays too. I was walking to help prevent more muscle mass loss. So I lowered calorie intake to 1000 calories a day and kept walking 7 miles a day. in 3rd week of February. Afraid of more muscle mass loss I added weight lifting to my plans and now all this activity just to control my weight is like a 20 hour a week part time job! If it seems like a lot of work that's because it is. I do get results now, though not as fast a 2017 but it's working.
Believe it or not, when I'm working outside in mid-90s temperature cutting down and dragging trees to their bonfire pile from mid-May til now I will actually loose 2 pounds of water and up to 3 pounds from what I weighed at in the morning even though I will have drank 4 - 5 litres of diet pop. LOL, sorry I'm not such a health freak that I'm going to drink tap water or bottled water; I deserve some kind of reward for all the steamy hot & soaking wet work I've been doing!
I've been at mid 170s since May because I've gotten wrangled into clearing some land elsewhere and that's taking my free time and the single minded determination I need to treat myself like a lab rat. I've built up my arm muscles, torso, and legs a bit though. I'm starting back on track though again finally this Monday on the 7 miles weekdays and restricting the tree clearning and odd jobs to 12:30 - 17:30 weekdays. The way I see it I will have to do this cardio, strength, and record this diet the rest of my life if I'm going to control those instincts. Too much of a good thing really does become problematic given the ecologies our instincts were evolved to cope with. Those gene switches are still turned on for those ecological conditions.
It's been a very informative scientific experiment that I've learned a lot from.
I got logged off of Daz3D's web forums and site. I didn't ask for that to happen but it did happen!
...same here been in the mid 70s to around 80 the last several days . However, 90s forecast for the last week of the month (which traditionally tends to be the hottest time of the summer here). Hopefully no "Phoenix AZ" like temperatures as we had last year.
I think I need to get up and decide what dinner is instead of thinking about what dinner is.
I wrote a song a while back that was based around A harmonic minor with D as the tonal center, and I've long wondered what the proper term for that is. I just remembered tonight and looked it up, and apparently it's called the Ukrainian Dorian scale.
How do I make oatmeal? I put the oatmeal into the bowl and then the water, but I forgot the next step.
Great morning...
I just noticed the "New EULA" thread about the new "Editorial"/Non-Commercial license tier...
WTF... Seriously, WTF?
This is the worst idea in ages besides the other worst idea in the form of an acronym...
Read that first post in the thread and tell me it you feel comfortable with this.
From https://www.eatingwell.com/article/153357/the-right-way-to-prepare-oatmeal-and-5-tips-for-making-it-better/
Oats, like other raw cereals, have a hard, inedible outer husk that must be removed before the grain can be eaten.
To properly make oatmeal, one must remove the husk from the grain, and then steam and flatten the grain using a mill press of some sort… I’d just look for a local historic flour mill and “borrow” the granite mill stone… it’s a lot of work by very satisfying to have fresh rolled oats…
Also, don’t roll them in the street as dog dootie residue or leaked oil from automobiles can interfere with the taste… also watch your toes, most mill stones weigh a couple of tons.
And lastly, "borrow" the stone at night as people are less cranky about the "borrowing" if no one is around and it's dark.
Thank you for the instructions to cook oatmeal. Charlie Judge's was very helpful. McGyver's was funny though.
Either my computer is too slow at the moment or I have too many software open. Let's see what I have open. Photoshop CS6, Illustrater CS6, Poser 11, Runescape, DIM, Daz Studio, Chrome, a facebook app, discord and possibly some other stuff.
I believe that neither a faster computer nor stopping various running applications will help speed up the time to cook your oatmeal.
Not nearly enough power, wait until you have an Intel-12900 CPU and an RTX-4090Ti GPU, and you might be able to cook your oatmeal in addition to heating your room.
Perhaps, some enterprising person will invent a cooking griddle plate to set over one's computer.
That has already been invented, the first Seagate 7200rpm drives were cooking plates - Got a bunch of them cheap when they were returned as not working... You just needed to build a cooling tower for them and they were good for 10+ years.
I don't have bbq sauce for my ribs. Nor do I have any honey mustard sauce. So I am trying to make something similar to honey mustard I hope. I also don't have any honey.
Why put BBQ sauce on your ribs?... is it moisturizing?... was it prescribed?... it's this a new TikTok challenge?... Plus, it's probably going to get sticky... especially honey mustard... then of course there is the danger of attracting stray bears or velociraptors... you don't want to season yourself for them.
I'd stick with body lotion or a good Kansas City Dry Rub...
Oh no a dino followed me home. along with a centaur.
It was the BBQ sauce... Carnotaurus can smell it a mile away... and the centaur is probably a cannibal... well, the top half... actually that must be very conflicting to be half omnivore and half herbivore.
On the plus side, they have an extra set of lungs, which must be good for long distance running!
Dana
I think I understand it now, and I know for a fact that I'm not.
Heck, I just want to render pics of game characters. If they're good, I'll post them to Pixiv and Deviantart. I don't make money out of it. I just do it for my own sanity - And I'd like to carry on doing it.
NFTs really are a "slippery slope" `_`
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Thankfully, living near the coast (three miles away) means that it hasn't been as hot as it has been elsewhere in the UK. The thermometer says 28 degrees. Then again, it said that during the winter... It's been quite blustery here too. Which is strange for this time of the year. Not that we aren't grateful for it (because we are). Tomorrow, were back to rain and thundery showers.
I hate writing messages...
...Done!
Now, I'll go to find the cat, then I'm starting a new cross-stitch.
This game wants to charge on a weekly basis to get their gems. I rather use that money at Daz instead.
I think I need to put my compurer down so I can sleep.
...two 3090s might work.
Just had a brain spasm envisioning a slovenly, exhausted, drooling, wild-eyed gamer frantically shooting bad guys while his bacon and eggs are charcoaling on the 'putertop griddle as the disordered, and dim yet garishly RGB colored room fills up with gray smoke.
Relocated complaints:
Non-complaint: My kitchen pantry is full to overflowing. Yay, I'm ready for winter already. And I've got three more cases of storeable foods coming next week. And tiny grocery bills for the rest of the year.
'Nother non-complaint: I bought that new 8.1 Minotaur. Wheee is he fun!