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I want to live to 100 and get killed by a young woman's jealous boyfriend.
I've never heard of insulin resistance causing weight loss-- just the opposite. There was a doctor who did a Ted Talk about how he was exercising, eating "right" etc & still packing on pounds. Found out he was insulin resistant. His body was producing it.
I was a healthy weight for most of my life up until I dislocated my ankle & couldn't walk, then I hit age 30 & my metabolism changed so I got hit with both at the same time. Then I developed hypothyroid and insulin resistance. Hypothyroid made me gain weight, but so does the medicine I take for it. I also have two prolapsed heart valves so when my heart rate goes up, I don't get oxygen & I nearly pass out. So my doctor recommended exercises that don't stress my heart.
I've got chronic fatigue to boot, but I know it could be a lot worse.
Today was a waste. Power went out & it was too hot to do anything and no light to see. My backup unit didn't keep my computer on so I lost some stuff I'd put in Notepad. The power surge managed to make it through Mom's backup unit & killed her computer (I think it's the internal power supply). It's also possible I may need a new wall outlet there if it's not giving the backup enough juice to power the computer back on. If it doesn't power back on in the morning I will take it over to my friend's house for diagnosis.
He came out and took the battery out of my brother's truck (battery was dead-- it started last week but this week decided to nope out). Friend had trouble lifting it so I picked it up & put it in the back of my truck. Need to make sure we take his tools back to him tomorrow. I grabbed him some Popeyes as a thank you.
I was a healthy weight for most of my life up until I dislocated my ankle & couldn't walk, then I hit age 30 & my metabolism changed so I got hit with both at the same time. Then I developed hypothyroid and insulin resistance. Hypothyroid made me gain weight, but so does the medicine I take for it. I also have two prolapsed heart valves so when my heart rate goes up, I don't get oxygen & I nearly pass out. So my doctor recommended exercises that don't stress my heart.
I've got chronic fatigue to boot, but I know it could be a lot worse.
Today was a waste. Power went out & it was too hot to do anything and no light to see. My backup unit didn't keep my computer on so I lost some stuff I'd put in Notepad. The power surge managed to make it through Mom's backup unit & killed her computer (I think it's the internal power supply). It's also possible I may need a new wall outlet there if it's not giving the backup enough juice to power the computer back on. If it doesn't power back on in the morning I will take it over to my friend's house for diagnosis.
He came out and took the battery out of my brother's truck (battery was dead-- it started last week but this week decided to nope out). Friend had trouble lifting it so I picked it up & put it in the back of my truck. Need to make sure we take his tools back to him tomorrow. I grabbed him some Popeyes as a thank you.
I watch tons of welding videos. Guys out there put on weld so pretty they ought to be an art gallery.
The one thing that I've seen a lot of is guys doing individual welds is stopping then starting, stopping, starting, and stopping so it keeps the weld area cooler than laying one continuous bead. Less warping. Really important with thin metal like body panels, but I also see them do it on round or square objects, alternating from side to side or corner to corner to keep the metal from bending out of alignment. In high school shop, I hated welding. I like the lathe the whole lot better. Welding was boring.
Later in life you realize a welding skill would be really nice to have.
Tallest building in our city is 10 stories. Still it probably wouldn't end well. Especially if it was a Stanley FatMax.
Insulin is what allows the glucose (sugar or fuel if you will) in your blood stream to go into your cells. Whether it gets burned as fuel or converted to fat depends on how much you eat and move (exercise) No insulin, no fuel. This is why diabetics need insulin. Otherwise the sugar just hangs out in your blood stream and you end up pissing a lot because your body is trying to get rid of all that sugar. It has to go somewhere or it just builds up and you die. Insulin resistance (as I understand it) is when your own insulin is becoming lazy if you will and it isn’t allowing your body to access the glucose that’s in your blood stream properly. That’s why one of the symptoms of diabetes is weight loss and constant pissing. The pissing is your body trying to remove the unused sugar from your blood stream. If your gaining weight, your insulin is working just fine you just need to change your diet, not be put on medication.
Im not a doctor but it’s 2021 and the information is out there. I told my buddy this, who has the same degree as I do so he already knows this exact same information, and we disagreed. Still buddies though. His doctor put him on insulin and bam, he gained 20 pounds. His body was able to use the glucose. That’s why they want you to check your blood glucose level, cus glucose can’t just hang out in your blood stream. It HAS to go somewhere
Diabetes is so rampant because we eat garbage all day every day. Sugar is poison and it’s in EVERYTHING. HFCS is like meth for the human body.
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You'd have to own an oil well to be able to afford this. 
Called the Dr. and told him I was done with the new med. My lymph nodes swelled. Read up on the med and it has been linked to lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes). Besides, he has me on a couple other meds that should not be taken with that one. WTF?
My younger sister was a medical transcriptionist. She knew all of her doctor's patients very well. She corrected him on a number of different prescription issues like that.
Work at the theater is moving slower than molasses, but not as slow as glass so I think we're good.
We have an office at 26 ft long board room, two isles and four sets of stairs in the balcony to do.
I could tell we're obviously going to run short with 45 ft of carpet.
The balcony runners were already cut and bound at 36 in wide.
The only way I felt I could make this work was by using the balcony runners in the lower two aisles. To chase electric wires for each of the rows of seating it will be ideal to have the runner as close as possible to the edge of the chair so the wire running out from the rubber reducer would be short as possible.
I talked to the people at the theater after spending a day and a half trying to make the runners layout as as well as I could.
Saturday, I suggested maybe just scrapping the upstairs office and using the 26-ft balance piece to make the aisle runners the width that we really needed.
They decided that was okay.
Yesterday, we glued all the rubber reducer in place in the aisle and cut up part of our balance to a width that we needed. Then I trimmed up a width that would work for the other aisle. That left a balance that would finish off the ends of each aisle.
So today I bumped into the maintenance guy and he said did you notice the extra carpet
. I said no I didn't.
He said it was rolled up behind the curtains for the last installer left it.
The section of carpet he set out on the stage was long enough to do one full section on the second aisle.
But the day before we trimmed off a piece for that second aisle not knowing about this extra 'surprise' piece. Dang we could have had a larger balance that may have worked out in the office
I suppose we can put the pieces we cut, back together.
Probably still not enough.
It's cool in the theater and the carpet is pretty stiff. Glue doesn't dry very well on cold concrete. We let one side flash for 45 minutes and you couldn't tell that we haven't spread the adhesive one minute ago. Had to leave so he dropped that side in, tucked it into the reducer and called it a night.
Tomorrow, we'll glue the other half and then go to the other side to lay out where the reducers need to be glued while it flashes off. One side of this aisle takes seven pieces. If we had more carpet it would have taken three.
And how was your day?
Being this is an old theater being restored I'm trying to figure out how to build this out. Between measuring, thinking, remeasuring, rethinking and getting this first aisle done, even at 35 bucks an hour this is going to be well over a thousand bucks. The second aisle once we get pieces laid in place is going to go considerably quicker. It's slightly shorter with a different configuration. we won't have to do quite as much thinking on this one since we have enough carpet to do whatever we need to do.
We have an office at 26 ft long board room, two isles and four sets of stairs in the balcony to do.
I could tell we're obviously going to run short with 45 ft of carpet.
The balcony runners were already cut and bound at 36 in wide.
The only way I felt I could make this work was by using the balcony runners in the lower two aisles. To chase electric wires for each of the rows of seating it will be ideal to have the runner as close as possible to the edge of the chair so the wire running out from the rubber reducer would be short as possible.
I talked to the people at the theater after spending a day and a half trying to make the runners layout as as well as I could.
Saturday, I suggested maybe just scrapping the upstairs office and using the 26-ft balance piece to make the aisle runners the width that we really needed.
They decided that was okay.
Yesterday, we glued all the rubber reducer in place in the aisle and cut up part of our balance to a width that we needed. Then I trimmed up a width that would work for the other aisle. That left a balance that would finish off the ends of each aisle.
So today I bumped into the maintenance guy and he said did you notice the extra carpet
. I said no I didn't.He said it was rolled up behind the curtains for the last installer left it.
The section of carpet he set out on the stage was long enough to do one full section on the second aisle.
But the day before we trimmed off a piece for that second aisle not knowing about this extra 'surprise' piece. Dang we could have had a larger balance that may have worked out in the office
I suppose we can put the pieces we cut, back together.
Probably still not enough.
It's cool in the theater and the carpet is pretty stiff. Glue doesn't dry very well on cold concrete. We let one side flash for 45 minutes and you couldn't tell that we haven't spread the adhesive one minute ago. Had to leave so he dropped that side in, tucked it into the reducer and called it a night.
Tomorrow, we'll glue the other half and then go to the other side to lay out where the reducers need to be glued while it flashes off. One side of this aisle takes seven pieces. If we had more carpet it would have taken three.
And how was your day?
Being this is an old theater being restored I'm trying to figure out how to build this out. Between measuring, thinking, remeasuring, rethinking and getting this first aisle done, even at 35 bucks an hour this is going to be well over a thousand bucks. The second aisle once we get pieces laid in place is going to go considerably quicker. It's slightly shorter with a different configuration. we won't have to do quite as much thinking on this one since we have enough carpet to do whatever we need to do.
Local Walmart is short 40 employees.
Thank you, government. You're making the economy move like greased lightning.
Thank you, government. You're making the economy move like greased lightning.
It really is something to behold. I mean here we will pay morons to stay at home more than most of them made working but we won't offer working people paid sick leave because somehow that would be foolish. There is a lot in life I try and understand and a lot of leeway that I can give to people put into situations they are not overly qualified/prepared for, such as a global pandemic but caress my sweet ass there has been a whole lot of not a whole lot of thought put into a lot of this.
There comes a point in time where doing something really is not a whole lot better than doing nothing.
Kudos to America, they are at least getting their vaccine game up to a fantastic level, here in the great white north we can barely manage to figure which way is up any longer. For the record I am neither for/against a vaccine, I won't get one any time soon.... maybe in a decade or so when i feel a bit better about it lol but I can see how perhaps it would be a good idea.
There comes a point in time where doing something really is not a whole lot better than doing nothing.
Kudos to America, they are at least getting their vaccine game up to a fantastic level, here in the great white north we can barely manage to figure which way is up any longer. For the record I am neither for/against a vaccine, I won't get one any time soon.... maybe in a decade or so when i feel a bit better about it lol but I can see how perhaps it would be a good idea.
After watching my cousin in ICU for over 6 weeks and in so much pain from covid he begged to die, I decided it might be easier to die from the vaccine. He got his wish and they let him die.
It definitely rips through a lot of people. It probably would be a lot easier to die from a vaccine complication than respiratory illness. My mom went down from lung cancer and I can assure you I would take a bullet before I go down that road.
I didn't watch the awards either.
It's amazing that the academy awards gives every single person a $205,000 gift bag full of creams and lotions for appearing at the word show.... I meant gala event.
They had to bulldoze the homeless people and homeless camps out of the way so they can hold the event at the location of their choosing.
Ben talks faster than I can comprehend but I still love his sharp wit and common sense.
It's amazing that the academy awards gives every single person a $205,000 gift bag full of creams and lotions for appearing at the word show.... I meant gala event.
They had to bulldoze the homeless people and homeless camps out of the way so they can hold the event at the location of their choosing.
Ben talks faster than I can comprehend but I still love his sharp wit and common sense.
Well we finally got one aisle done.
If they had not decided to add wiring for lighting of the armrest on every chair in the aisle, this job would be going at least five times faster.
I was initially told that I was going to install the carpet and the theater was going to install the reducer trim and connect the wiring to the chairs.
It turned out, that the reducer trim has to be installed first. That creates a lot of issues. The carpeting starts in the entry of the theater so I have to start my pattern match from that and continue it down the aisle and it centers wherever it centers. I can make a straight line but I have to start way up on top at the entry so the pattern will not be equal on each side.
We have the second aisle laid out and are ready to install reducer. With any luck we might be done with the second aisle on Friday.
Here's the first I'll completed and I included some pictures of how the wiring exits from underneath the vinyl trim that they picked out. It basically runs down the aisle underneath the vinyl trim and then exits into each chair leg and comes back out of each chair leg then continues on to the next one.
If I was them I would have ran a concrete saw all the way down the aisle and buried the cable in the concrete to avoid an issue like this.
I added a couple of photos of the wiring and also of the pattern match. I discovered too late in the game that the pattern does not have an offset pattern match. I thought it was 18 in with a 9 in half drop. The pattern is 18x18 but the same at the top of the aisle does not match. That said it's virtually impossible to tell unless you know what the mistake was.
If they had not decided to add wiring for lighting of the armrest on every chair in the aisle, this job would be going at least five times faster.
I was initially told that I was going to install the carpet and the theater was going to install the reducer trim and connect the wiring to the chairs.
It turned out, that the reducer trim has to be installed first. That creates a lot of issues. The carpeting starts in the entry of the theater so I have to start my pattern match from that and continue it down the aisle and it centers wherever it centers. I can make a straight line but I have to start way up on top at the entry so the pattern will not be equal on each side.
We have the second aisle laid out and are ready to install reducer. With any luck we might be done with the second aisle on Friday.
Here's the first I'll completed and I included some pictures of how the wiring exits from underneath the vinyl trim that they picked out. It basically runs down the aisle underneath the vinyl trim and then exits into each chair leg and comes back out of each chair leg then continues on to the next one.
If I was them I would have ran a concrete saw all the way down the aisle and buried the cable in the concrete to avoid an issue like this.
I added a couple of photos of the wiring and also of the pattern match. I discovered too late in the game that the pattern does not have an offset pattern match. I thought it was 18 in with a 9 in half drop. The pattern is 18x18 but the same at the top of the aisle does not match. That said it's virtually impossible to tell unless you know what the mistake was.
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No, that doesn't look like a giant pain in the ass at all...........
Well done sir.
Well done sir.
In the last picture, I showed the mismatch in the seam. The pattern has an 18 by 18 match. I thought it had a half drop with those four flamboyant wings emanating from the center of one pattern.
I measured and figured like I usually do but after lining up the dots and those wings that you see in white, I discovered I was half a pattern off.
I'm glad I discovered that by accident because we actually do not have enough material to shift it up one and over one. Had I known beforehand my brain would have been strained even more.
Just saying, it's a fairly forgiving material to work with. To add one small section that no one will ever see, we gave it a quarter turn and it was still virtually invisible.
This project would go four or five times faster if we could cut the material to fit the shape we wanted it and put the vinyl reducer on afterwards.
Because the rubber reducer had to be installed first, we have to fit the carpet to the trim. Normally with these type of moldings you might have a 15 or 20 ft run of carpet with a three or four foot doorway to far end that you fit the carpet to the reducer.
The carpet we are working with is stiff and the auditorium is cold and we have to fit the material into the vinyl reducers on all sides. Not to mention the pattern and seams.
We have one side completed and the second side has a very good start, we might even finish it tomorrow.
I billed out slightly over $1,000 for the first aisle. I'm guessing the second one will be closer to $600.
I have spent more time on this job measuring and thinking that I have actually installing carpet. There are just too many steps between pattern alignment and positioning the reducers as close as possible to the chairs.
I don't do much work with these vinyl reducers, mainly because I avoid commercial installations like the plague. To install these vinyl reducers, we used to use a product I believe called D-914?
It was a glue down carpet seam sealer/ contact cement. You could lay a bead of that down on the floor, then smooth the molding into it, then lift it up for 30 seconds or a minute and restick it. It held on like gangbusters. It was like contact cement on steroids.
That product is no longer available, so we're using contact cement. I discovered that two very thin coats of quickly applied contact cement on the floor and on the vinyl reducer, are much better than a heavier, single coat on each surface.
It cost so much to do the first aisle because we were short of materials and it was agreed upon that we were going to attempt to use carpet runners of the same material, that were designated for the balcony for this lower section. They were 4 inches narrower than we'd have liked them to be because of the wiring being fit into the vinyl reducer. The wires would have gone from the chairs, them traveling four inches out to the vinyl reducer on each side of the aisle. That would be unsightly and create a long-term cleaning issue to avoid damaging the wires.
They wanted the wire a short as possible between the vinyl reducer and the metal chair leg.
After wasting a bunch of time trying to make the 36 in runners from the balcony fit into this main aisle, I made a suggestion to eliminate one office so we could do these aisles properly. They agreed that would be best, .......so I pretty much wasted two days worth of time trying to make these pre-cut stair runners for the balcony, fit into the main isles of the auditorium. I feel bad that this is costing as much as it did, but I can't work for free.
This is a local historical theater that is being restored. It was built in 1924.
There are a couple hundred seats downstairs that were totally remade and only the cast iron end pieces were retained so that visually it is still the old theater.
Every seat in the auditorium has an engraved brass name plate of the local person that donated money for that seat. I know of one family alone that has purchased six of those seats. They're the same kind of fold up seat you'd see in a movie theater. They must cost 300 bucks a piece.
A local commercial transportation company paid for transportation from the West Coast, almost to the East Coast, to a facility that refurbishes these types of seats.
The transportation was donated.
It's amazing the outpouring of money that comes from small communities for a project such as this. I'm not a theater person and I don't even go to theaters to watch movies, so for me I don't have a personal attachment.
This theater doesn't do movies, it does plays. My mom was in the play, Annie get your gun, and The sound of music back in the mid-60s. I mentioned that to the vice president of this theater and when I began the job she came out with a newspaper photo with my mother and two other ladies from back in the 60s.
It's really cool to see a local community so concerned about an old building. The lady I deal with is someone that I know. she is a fundraiser like none others and has acquired tremendous amounts of money in donations from local businesses plus grants from the state to make this building virtually brand new.....
..... Actually it's considerably better.
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Highup, that's a lot of painstaking work for a rug that will likely not be seen most of the time due to the dark. LOL.
CJ, my mother has been diabetic for over 30 years. I have numerous relatives with diabetes (it runs in the family). I am pre-diabetic and have insulin resistance. I spoke with my doctor about the symptoms & he said weight GAIN is one of the symptoms. Insulin resistance occurs when insulin levels are sufficiently high over a prolonged period of time causing the body?s own sensitivity to the hormone to be reduced.
Being resistant to insulin is similar to not producing enough insulin in the result-- sugar stays in the blood rather than being absorbed into cells. This can lead to fat build up.
I've cut back on carbs & sugar and am trying to walk more. It's an uphill battle since I'm tired all the time & get overheated/exhausted easily.
The other day I used my laptop to get Mom to order a new power supply for her computer. Old one is still under warranty so we need to figure out the RMA process. They wouldn't deliver the new one to our address so we had it sent to our friend's house & he put it in and also put in her new SSD. He told me how to link the two to make them act as one.
Yesterday, I realized we probably couldn't put Mom's computer back without breaking her desk (it halfway broke removing it) because of the massive trash pile she built up. My brother was supposed to be taking trash out but didn't. He promised to clean it up last year but kept putting it off & it got worse. It was up to my waist. I finally got him to help me by holding the bags up and open for me while I picked it all up. At first I sat on the couch and used my hands. When I got away from the couch I used a large dustpan to scoop it up and dump it in to the bags. When the bags were full my brother tied them off and set them in the kitchen. On about the 5th or 6th 50gallon contractor bag he started complaining about how he had the harder job (and he was being serious). I gave him side-eye and kept working. Mom came in as we were filling the 7th bag. She started criticizing how I was picking up & I was starting to overheat so we took a break after the 7th & hauled the bags outside. I rested a bit and then went back to it. Filled an 8th bag by myself (it's so much easier with someone holding the bag). Found 3 of Mom's slippers, her missing blood sugar test kit, some missing dice, one of her walking canes, some random stuff I don't even know what it was but it was hers, and a full 30 gallon trash bag from a time when I'd tried to tackle the pile before but my back gave out on me & my brother wouldn't take the bag out. For the record, I cleared this pile by myself twice before but it had not been this massive. I managed to clear up to the desk & get a clear path so the computer could be put back in. When I filled that 8th bag I stopped. I still have another bag or two worth to fill with Mom's trash. I think there may be a trash can still hidden in there. I'm going to make a mental effort not to let it get that bad again. Fortunately, I had taken naproxyn and the magnesium seems to be helping with my back so I was able to keep working. If I hadn't overheated I probably could have finished cleaning it up.
We then went to pick up the computer from our friend's house. Mom now has her computer back and is happy.
CJ, my mother has been diabetic for over 30 years. I have numerous relatives with diabetes (it runs in the family). I am pre-diabetic and have insulin resistance. I spoke with my doctor about the symptoms & he said weight GAIN is one of the symptoms. Insulin resistance occurs when insulin levels are sufficiently high over a prolonged period of time causing the body?s own sensitivity to the hormone to be reduced.
Being resistant to insulin is similar to not producing enough insulin in the result-- sugar stays in the blood rather than being absorbed into cells. This can lead to fat build up.
I've cut back on carbs & sugar and am trying to walk more. It's an uphill battle since I'm tired all the time & get overheated/exhausted easily.
The other day I used my laptop to get Mom to order a new power supply for her computer. Old one is still under warranty so we need to figure out the RMA process. They wouldn't deliver the new one to our address so we had it sent to our friend's house & he put it in and also put in her new SSD. He told me how to link the two to make them act as one.
Yesterday, I realized we probably couldn't put Mom's computer back without breaking her desk (it halfway broke removing it) because of the massive trash pile she built up. My brother was supposed to be taking trash out but didn't. He promised to clean it up last year but kept putting it off & it got worse. It was up to my waist. I finally got him to help me by holding the bags up and open for me while I picked it all up. At first I sat on the couch and used my hands. When I got away from the couch I used a large dustpan to scoop it up and dump it in to the bags. When the bags were full my brother tied them off and set them in the kitchen. On about the 5th or 6th 50gallon contractor bag he started complaining about how he had the harder job (and he was being serious). I gave him side-eye and kept working. Mom came in as we were filling the 7th bag. She started criticizing how I was picking up & I was starting to overheat so we took a break after the 7th & hauled the bags outside. I rested a bit and then went back to it. Filled an 8th bag by myself (it's so much easier with someone holding the bag). Found 3 of Mom's slippers, her missing blood sugar test kit, some missing dice, one of her walking canes, some random stuff I don't even know what it was but it was hers, and a full 30 gallon trash bag from a time when I'd tried to tackle the pile before but my back gave out on me & my brother wouldn't take the bag out. For the record, I cleared this pile by myself twice before but it had not been this massive. I managed to clear up to the desk & get a clear path so the computer could be put back in. When I filled that 8th bag I stopped. I still have another bag or two worth to fill with Mom's trash. I think there may be a trash can still hidden in there. I'm going to make a mental effort not to let it get that bad again. Fortunately, I had taken naproxyn and the magnesium seems to be helping with my back so I was able to keep working. If I hadn't overheated I probably could have finished cleaning it up.
We then went to pick up the computer from our friend's house. Mom now has her computer back and is happy.
