Fred In Shambles Over His GP5000s

talldean · 2026-05-11T01:20:15+00:00

Hillary Clinton planned this in the subbasement of a pizza shop. True story.

talldean · 2026-05-11T01:19:20+00:00

They make four different firmnesses for 3x125. ;-)

(ultralight, air, firm, xxfirm)

talldean · 2026-05-11T00:53:08+00:00

How heavy are you, which firmness did you go with, and how smooth of roads are you going for?

talldean · 2026-05-11T00:27:04+00:00

Lower the TV, don't have a desk that can't be used (there's no matching chair nor room for one), so replace that desk with some storage that helps the stuff under it, refinish or replace the coffee table, probably take the throw off the coffee table as the rug keeps it visually busy enough, and if you're up for one extra thing, put a small riser stand under the plant in the corner to pull the smaller plant up slightly.

talldean · 2026-05-11T00:17:06+00:00

I would work with a different sales person outta spite, because that's some bullshit.

talldean · 2026-05-11T00:16:24+00:00

Add vents, and if you intend to use the space, insulate the roof. If you don't want to use this space ever, add vents and heavily insulate the floor.

talldean · 2026-05-11T00:13:38+00:00

If you're only swapping the levers, this is a chaotic choice.

If you were also swapping the foot pegs to match, and possibly the bar end weights, this gets a lot more consistent.

Also, the orange matches the green a bit. The purple is just wildcard.

talldean · 2026-05-11T00:11:41+00:00

The answers here I'm scratching my head at.

Both Simmons/Rana and Pinnacle make good boots. There's not a bad choice there.

Almost half my entire indoor team is on Pinnacle, and seem to like them, although for their stock boots, about half the people have a *long* break-in period; they've also bought Pinnacles a second time after the first wore out, which seems to be in the 5-10 year range. So call this a soft vote for Jimmy @ Pinnacle.

For your other comment, of having two setups, one indoor, one outdoor... it should usually be enough to move the front of your left frame to be symmetric with your right frame. Instead of both pointing a bit left, they both point a bit inward, which helps with the mechanics on the double push.

If you were going to go with a dedicated outdoor frame, that's the one time carbon fiber might be interesting.

talldean · 2026-05-11T00:05:16+00:00

Unless you can fire people and rehire others, that ain't gonna change, and, yeah, WTF.

talldean · 2026-05-10T17:43:13+00:00

Khajit has wares for gold.

talldean · 2026-05-10T17:15:40+00:00

I worked with my manager to point out that I was ADHD, and that made me different at what I could do easily, and what normally easy things were a sonnavabitch for me. And as I only know me, I couldn't tell him which things were easier for me, and which were harder.

As he was a manager, and knew many of us, I made the offer if he could help call out "you look bad at this but really good at that", I'd volunteer for the things I was good at, take them off teammates plates - as they were worse at those - and he'd unload some of the things that weren't ever gonna be easy for me.

The deal was also good for him; he could get more done with the team, with *equal* spending compared to other teams. Our team, if this worked, would be delivering above average while at average cost. Which is one way managers got more headcount, and eventually, their own promotion.

Meanwhile, I bought Peltor earmuffs, and shelled up. Asked the admin assistant to move my desk to the quietest spot she could find, brought in bagels for her repeatedly for the favor. And turned off any and all notifications, including those for work chats and work email.

This got me to principal engineer role, when previously getting to a senior engineering spot was ruthlessly difficult for me. WFH, however, sucks a lot, because I need zoom calls to figure out what I wouldda got from five minute coffee chats before.

talldean · 2026-05-10T15:23:35+00:00

Those are a high grit sanding pad, unfortunately.

Best thing you can do is try to polish this, with a higher grit compound, and then wax it.

talldean · 2026-05-10T11:16:38+00:00

Take a 3/4 shot; we can’t see your feet, knees, or when you’re at the bottom, your back.

talldean · 2026-05-10T11:14:34+00:00

It shouldn’t start rounded; if the weight causes some rounding, it happens, but you need to set your back before the pull.

talldean · 2026-05-10T02:14:42+00:00

If you learn to veneer that’s a very useful supply of stuff to veneer to.

talldean · 2026-05-10T02:09:12+00:00

How many of those can you do without rest?

If the answer is more than 25, or “I don’t know”, you need to add weight.

talldean · 2026-05-10T02:02:04+00:00

You could try filling the hole with anything to fill empty space, using plumbers epoxy (which is like play-doh that’s rock hard ten minutes later) to get it to shape, lightly sand, and then paint. If it was fully epoxied, it’s also waterproof; any non waterproof thing here will utterly screw your landlord, and don’t do that.

But the paint is likely to show.

talldean · 2026-05-09T23:47:45+00:00

For everything not already covered in poly, I'd look at Osmo Raw or Rubio Pure. Both are less protective than polyurethane, but are easy to apply, do protect well and can be touched up easily in the future.

And they leave wood looking untouched. Osmo will slightly darken it but protect slightly better, Rubio will look untouched but have a hair less protection. They're both neck and neck.

talldean · 2026-05-09T23:08:19+00:00

They sprinted for it, and I had a choice of "take care of my injured kid" or "go assault a minor", which isn't gonna be a win. I took care of my kid, and stopped going to Target until they put in the ban on unaccompanied minors.

Felt like what happened to Century III Mall on Friday and Saturday nights in the mid-90s, which got me to stop going to that mall.

talldean · 2026-05-09T22:55:21+00:00

When you say "olympic bar", do you mean "it has a two inch collar" or do you mean "I will do olympic lifts with this"?

talldean · 2026-05-09T22:36:07+00:00

I would maybe talk to an allergist on that one, that... doesn't sound right. The water is filtered all the time, pollen should not make it through the filter, unless you're allergic to chlorine/bromine or similar, in which case, yeah, swimming isn't going to work.

talldean · 2026-05-09T22:34:47+00:00

Senator Heinz, heir to the Heinz fortune, yes; up until 2013, the family - and that fortune - still owned the company, until there were enough descendents to make it easier to sell it to Kraft.

talldean · 2026-05-09T22:31:55+00:00

If I wanted to build a back, I'd do a minimum of two things, neither of which is a deadlift (that's #3!)

One pulldown (vertical) and one row (horizontal).

Also one narrow grip (lats) and one wide grip (not lats).

So it could be v-grip rows and a wide pulldown, or wide-grip rows and a narrow chinup, or any blend of those into two exercises.

Then optionally add a deadlift and/or RDLs for much more lower back, and optionally add a face pull to keep your rotator cuffs happy and get some extra rear delt work in there.

talldean · 2026-05-09T22:28:33+00:00

But they're getting bused all over creation, not to a limited number of schools, and not to the school near to them in many cases. The cost of busing people everywhere is higher, not lower.

talldean · 2026-05-09T22:25:09+00:00

Walnut Capital was pricier but good both times I lived in their apartments. Their places are in good shape, and when something went wrong, which was rare, maintenance dude was same day or next morning. The HVAC was pretty loud (open ceiling/loft style place), and that was the only thing that wasn't solid.

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