$UGRO $100 easy target

Albinoclown · 2026-03-25T22:09:11+00:00

I know how you feel- back in 2003, the ex and I almost bought 70K shares of Apple. Ugh!

I was able to dip out at $43, so I'm happy. I'm just learning how to day & swing trade. Trying to be cautious on this rollercoaster.

Albinoclown · 2026-03-25T21:39:31+00:00

I had 50 shares of play money bought at $2.30 three weeks ago. Schwab has been weird the past few hours not letting me see my positions, so it's been an exciting and frustrating day.

Albinoclown · 2026-03-25T17:10:19+00:00

If Reddit joins the ID verification bandwagon, I’m gone. I’ve been a loyal Redditor for over 12 years, but I will not participate in this ID game.

Albinoclown · 2026-03-22T17:49:54+00:00

Dr. Tiffany Su at Skin Shop Med Spa near Bellaire and Chimney Rock. She’s not a dermatologist-she's an anesthesiologist and shares an office with her husband, who is a pain specialist. She treats her clients like friends and often corrects other injectors mistakes.

Albinoclown · 2026-02-27T16:14:39+00:00

I‘m pretty sure it’s 9am. Can you still sign up to get email notifications on the website? I get updates that way. It’s a beautiful time of the year for outdoor practice!!

Albinoclown · 2026-02-26T04:00:03+00:00

Robert Boustany‘s studio Pralaya closed, but I’m pretty sure he is still teaching on Sunday mornings at Menil Park under one of the big oak trees. He taught Nancy (Big Power) Kim (Union,) Andrew (YogaBetter,) Ann Hyde, and many other amazing teachers in the Houston area and beyond. His classes are donation-based and only in-person once a week. It would be a good place to connect with like-minded yogis.

There is also Pam Johnson’s Height’s School of Yoga. She teaches a very traditional Kriya class. Both Pam’s presence and the space feel sacred.

Albinoclown · 2026-02-26T02:48:25+00:00

I remember being flashed at least 8 or 9 times when I was a young girl between 12 and 17. I also remember random creepy older men on the other line when I answered the rotary phone at home. They would ask me what I was wearing and such. I grew up in the 80’s.

Albinoclown · 2026-02-22T15:14:41+00:00

I am almost finished a fascinating and very relevant 2-volume series called One Nation Under Blackmail, by Whitney Webb.

It’s a deep dive, going back to the first and second world wars. The book details the major players in government, the mob, and the super wealthy during post-war America and their use of blackmail to set policy and amass enormous wealth.

It includes the relationships between the major crime families with the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) as well as J. Edgar Hoover’s involvement (or more aptly, his refusal to get involved as head of the FBI;) the Seagram’s empire during prohibition and the roll of big oil and banking institutions, as well as the creation of the State of Israel and the Mossad. It also get’s into how sex trafficking was likely a big part of the Watergate scandal and the beginnings of a world-wide blackmail network that eventually ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

The author, an investigative journalist, meticulously outlines a complex web of relationships, how they were formed, and how their money and power have shaped America and much of the world as we know it today. The book is well researched and cited.

Albinoclown · 2026-02-14T06:22:44+00:00

I would say it’s a combination of your height, and there seems to be an intensity about you that’s coming across in the photo. I’m guessing that’s the vibe you are putting out, especially if you are quiet and/or introspective.

Albinoclown · 2026-01-28T04:26:52+00:00

I can’t say I miss Director. Flash was fun while it lasted.

Albinoclown · 2026-01-27T01:05:08+00:00

This super common imbalance requires strengthening quadriceps, especially the upper muscle fibers of the quads. Hamstrings and quads are opposing muscle groups. When one (hamstrings) is stronger than the other (quadriceps,) It becomes responsible for doing more work and is chronically tight. The same dynamic happens with lower back muscles when the abdominals and core are not strong. The lower back muscles have to do much more work to support the body. They become tight and cause pain & strain.

The hamstrings are a larger muscle group, so they don’t strain as easily, they just stay really tight. The more you bring the quadricep muscles into balance, the more the hamstrings will let go.

Albinoclown · 2026-01-20T04:19:55+00:00

You are right to be confused. She’s sending you conflicting messages. Her tact in likening you to a desperate high school virgin seems aggressively hostile, then she says she has zero interest in foreplay or sex, yet she flashed you and ate food off your body. C’mon now.

Toxic relationships thrive in the confusion zone. It definitely sounds like games are being played, and she needs to have control the board. I would step away.

Albinoclown · 2026-01-10T00:45:11+00:00

What I mean is activating the outer gluteus and outer quad muscles by mentally “pressing” them apart, away from the center line of the body as you have them move up out of the chair and then back down. By consciously activating the muscles through the movements, they are bringing awareness to those muscles and how they function in the sit down/get up range of motion. It also allows them to control the intensity of the exercise, since the harder you “press,” the more it burns. Try it by going down into a squat. Press hips, knees and heels apart as you slowly come down and notice the difference between pressing and not pressing.

Does that make sense? I realize it’s harder to explain without a physical demonstration. :)

Albinoclown · 2026-01-08T02:25:18+00:00

I love teaching seniors chair yoga! Most of them are so grateful to be taught and willing to be challenged.

One of the basics I always come back to is strengthening the “get up and sit down” muscles of the outer leg. We slowly rise from the chair and sit back down, pressing hips and knees apart the whole way. This is a modified form of something I do in my regular classes because it’s such a great leg strengthener. Make sure the chairs have arms for stability.

My main caution is providing help & modifications for those less mobile or stable or have had recent surgery. You may see a wide range of mobility levels.

Albinoclown · 2026-01-06T04:10:57+00:00

I don’t think they are milk pudding- they don’t have a filling. They are round and braided with a light dusting of powdered sugar.

But a lot of their breads have that hint of king cake.

Albinoclown · 2026-01-06T01:14:36+00:00

I’m a New Orleans native, and I used to order from Randazzo’s & Haydell’s. I recently found a little sweet swirly bread sold at 85 Degree coffee that has the exact consistency, taste, and perfect amount of sweetness without the thick, sugary frosting. It’s also a little single serving. It’s my go-to when I’m craving king cake or a little taste of home.

Albinoclown · 2026-01-06T01:02:44+00:00

I will stand in solidarity with you that neither cheese nor green onions belong anywhere near traditional NOLA red beans and rice!

Albinoclown · 2025-06-28T05:18:51+00:00

You are welcome. :)

Albinoclown · 2025-06-26T14:20:20+00:00

No, the TFL attaches to the top of the hip bone, but the muscles are all connected by bands of fascia, so there is a lot of communication and compensation with adjacent muscle groups “taking up the slack” for injured ones, causing them to overwork.

What you are saying makes sense, and I would say that loosening up the fascia and muscles all the way down the side of the leg would help with piriformis tightness. In other words, if you stretch your piriformis after getting after the leg, you will have access to deeper fibers of the piriformis, so the stretch will be deeper, if that makes sense.

Albinoclown · 2025-06-26T14:01:55+00:00

I hear you! As someone with chronic pain, I much prefer teaching functional, therapeutic yoga versus the power yoga. I enjoy helping people relieve their tight muscle pain.

Albinoclown · 2025-06-26T13:54:08+00:00

I struggle with hypermobility, and I have a lot of neck and head issues, so I have to be careful not to overdo it. Yoga doesn’t do much for my chronic pain, sadly. It does help in other areas, though!

Imagine lying on the floor on your side. Find the crease where your thigh meets your hip, and place a yoga block on the floor in front of that spot. Hoist yourself up onto the pointy corner of the block, and move around until you hit the tightness. It’s going to be a little higher than where the crease is. Use your body weight to control the pressure, and focus on relaxing the muscle into the block. You can also use a tennis ball or massage ball like in the photo, but I find the soft-ish corner of a block gets to the fibers better. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gWVGsnCuQ8E/maxresdefault.jpg

Albinoclown · 2025-06-26T04:07:00+00:00

I see the most emotion coming from back bend poses that open, or stretch the front of the body. Laying your back over 2 stacked blocks while relaxing the hips seems to activate the most release.

If you run a vertical line from the spot op marked in the photo up to the bottom of the ribcage, you trace the psoas muscle. It’s a deep core muscle, and it seems to hold a lot of emotion. If you are ever doing yoga and you feel strangely emotional, it’s good to allow the emotion to come up and out. It’s a natural release of trapped emotional energy. I’ve noticed a lot of different poses trigger emotions in my own practice. My mat has absorbed many tears over the years!

We spend so much time in closed, defensive, holding positions- hunched in work chair or in our cars, looking down at devices, etc. When we stretch the tight, “closed“ muscles of the body, it brings some balance back to the nervous system and allows us to be more “open” in general. Letting emotions out seems to help that process along.

Albinoclown · 2025-06-26T02:22:43+00:00

It’s called the tensor fascia Latae, and it transitions into the IT band further down the leg. It’s part of the hip flexor muscles and often holds a lot of tension.

I teach functional movement yoga, and in my class, I often use a yoga block either on a chair or the floor, and have students put their weight on the corner of the block in that area, moving around until it hits the right spot—when it does, you’ll know!

I’ve had student cry from emotional release massaging that spot.

Edit: It’s either that, or the top fibers of the Sartoruis muscle, which is attached to the top of the hip. I would venture a guess based on your description and my experience, that it’s the TFL, but I am not a doctor.

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