In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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BRENDA

Friday, July 6, 2018 1:01 PM

108F, yes I can believe it Sig. I wish I could send the rain down there.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, July 6, 2018 5:58 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Good for you Jack and I hope you can fix it without BP meds.

Thanks! Me too. :)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Damn, SIX! That's progress. Did you add anything special to that diet of yours????

Just the canola oil, actually. Not sure if it could have results that fast on top of the rest of my new diet, but I'm not going to stop it now.

I think I'm sleeping better too. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, July 7, 2018 6:12 PM

136 over 86 with a BPM of 84 today. :)

Fourth day straight and I only had a moderate amount of pain in my feet between last break and end of shift. Was able to walk fine from my car to the house, which after the half hour drive is when it would really hurt and I'd be walking inside like I've got a stick up my ass.

I've got two more days, so I do expect a bit of pain in the future, but usually by day four I'm in agony by the end of the night.

It's been a long time since the phrase "my new normal" has been anything but bad news. I could get used to this.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Saturday, July 7, 2018 8:53 PM

SIX: I'm so happy for you! This is nothing but good news! :D

******

Meanwhile, here is So Cal .... it was brutally fucking hot today in my fair suburb of LA. 109 F. Needless to say, I sure didn't plan any gardening, but we did run a number of errands and every time we stepped out of the house/vehicle/ Post Office/ store it was like walking into an oven. The only time I felt something like that was in Phoenix when I helped someone drive their car over there. I can't believe that people actually choose to live there. But then, I'm here in the armpit of the west, so .... hmmm....

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

BRENDA

Sunday, July 8, 2018 2:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX: I'm so happy for you! This is nothing but good news! :D

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Meanwhile, here is So Cal .... it was brutally fucking hot today in my fair suburb of LA. 109 F. Needless to say, I sure didn't plan any gardening, but we did run a number of errands and every time we stepped out of the house/vehicle/ Post Office/ store it was like walking into an oven. The only time I felt something like that was in Phoenix when I helped someone drive their car over there. I can't believe that people actually choose to live there. But then, I'm here in the armpit of the west, so .... hmmm....

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics.

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876

Oh sweet heat. Been a couple of reasonably warm almost hot days up here over the week. But today it is trying to rain as I was going out to get my laundry done. Luckily it has held off.

1KIKI

Sunday, July 8, 2018 9:09 AM

Hey Jack!

I'm so happy to read the good news!!

SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time).

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, July 8, 2018 6:19 PM

Thanks everybody!!!

And thanks again for any dietary tips. Can't be sure, but I think putting that canola oil into my diet might have been what finally made the dam break? I had kind of plateaued on any health improvements for a while but only about a half week after starting with the canola oil on top of everything else did I start seeing these results on both my BP and the pain issue. :)

By the way, today was even better...

135 over 79, with a BPM of 84!

I always take these numbers after I've been working for at least 90 minutes too, right before a break. That way I didn't just ingest coffee or a cigarette and inflate the numbers that way. So chances are if I ever tested it while truly "at rest" I just might be copacetic now.

Day five out of six straight and like yesterday the foot pain was only mild and was gone by the time I got home from work.

This is such a huge change from even only a few weeks ago.

An older woman who comes in around 3AM every morning that we've developed quite a rapport comes up and says to me today "lift up your shirt". I laughed and said "what?". She told me to lift my sleeve. So I did and she said "that's what I thought". I asked her what she meant and she said that she was lifting a few of the gatorade and juice packages to fulfill customer orders and she's already out of energy by first break. She didn't know how I could do that all night and she wanted to see my muscles. :)

My job wasn't nearly this physical when I started, and frankly I wouldn't have been able to handle it if it were. It's now known that whenever I work at night I get all the heavy stuff, and I only get help if there was too much in that area and I let them know that I require some toward the end of the night.

For what they're paying me, it would almost completely be a waste of time for me to work there all night if I wasn't also getting a killer workout every night too. I'm glad my body is finally agreeing with me and that it's starting to become almost easy to do at this point. If I'm still working there by this time next year I'll be palming 50lb containers and tossing them with one hand. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

BRENDA

Monday, July 9, 2018 8:28 AM

Starting to look for a publisher again. But sticking to my own side of the border.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 9, 2018 6:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Starting to look for a publisher again. But sticking to my own side of the border.

Good luck with that Brenda. Wish I could give you some advice, but I don't know anything about writing and publishing. Don't let somebody beat you up into a one-sided contract though.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 9, 2018 6:16 PM

Sixth day is done at last, and hardly any foot pain at all. :)

BP was quite a bit higher when I tested it today than any other day this week at 137 over 91, but the BPM was still really low at 84 compared to my "old" usual of around 110... so there's that. Still not really worried about the higher reading today. All of those numbers are still much lower than I was consistently testing up before the last week, and since all of these tests are being done during breaks in between some pretty hard labor, they're all higher than they'd actually be at rest.

I'm also wondering if my scale at home is not accurate. The same unit also tests your weight, and the two times I tested that this week it said 144 and 145lbs. That seems low to me by about 5-8 lbs, especially considering I'm fully clothed when I test it there. My scale at home always shows 150-155lbs for the last few months. The only other time I tested my weight on that was around 4 months ago and it read 160+, so that's about in line with what my scale at home has said I lost in that time.

Oh well... not really important. It's not like I'm coming up to a weigh in or anything. I think my days of bare knuckle boxing are far behind me.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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