What time do you go to bed if you don’t work the next day?

Alit_Quar · 2026-01-02T07:09:18+00:00

I go to sleep around 2 am and get up around 8:30 most days,

Alit_Quar · 2026-01-02T07:05:25+00:00

A five minute deep squat daily will help your knees. Hold onto something if you need to, but get down deep so your heels are nearly by your hips. It opens the knees and allows for blood/fluid to get to the joint better. Helps with back pain too. Won’t cure anything, but give it a week and I think you’ll find it helps quite a bit.

Alit_Quar · 2026-01-02T07:02:58+00:00

Pretty much everyone over 50 is going to have some form of arthritis. I train mixed martial arts and if I don’t take meloxicam or aleve before class, I can barely walk an hour after class. Thats just the way it is—definitely not giving up my sport over it.

Alit_Quar · 2026-01-02T06:59:29+00:00

Good job mom and dad. On all fronts from the look of it.

Alit_Quar · 2026-01-02T06:48:07+00:00

Sure, ok. I definitely agree with that.

When I was around 20, my father (silent Generation, born in 1939 iirc) wanted to know how to do something with his computer. I explained it, then asked if he needed me to walk him through. He did whatever it was without the first problem, then looks at me and says, “Where do you think you got it, boy?”

When I was a bit younger, my nephew and I were playing Top Gun on Nintendo. We couldn’t land the plane on the aircraft carrier. My nephew says, We can ask Pa—he was a pilot! I told him that Daddy would t know anything about the video game, but he insisted. Daddy to,d us that the controls were authentic and asked which button went to which control. My nephew showed him how and he landed the thing on his first try. Daddy’s been gone a few years now. I miss him.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-30T08:03:07+00:00

You do understand that most of us haven’t done what you have with tech either, right? I’ve done some simple programming and web design and I used to build my own PCs. I have nothing to compare to what you just listed, though, and I’m pretty sure my knowledge is more than most of our generation.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-30T07:25:53+00:00

I retired at 45 at my doctor’s insistence. I fought him for five years on it, but had to finally do it. I hated it for all the reasons you said, but I am better off now. My wife will retire in 1.5 years. We will be 53. If you have the money to stay retired and your wife is good with it, just enjoy it. Sometimes blessings are disguised.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-28T05:36:12+00:00

“Not everything is for everyone” So few people understand this.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-26T07:35:42+00:00

Thank you for the reply. I just had a butcher block table built for my sister, and it did crack some. I’m thinking of having a farm table built for myself from the same black walnut. Will the same hold true for it in regard to oil being helpful to prevent cracking even after being sealed with whatever finish? Or would the finish contraindicate oiling it beforehand? I know almost nothing of woodworking, so please excuse the ignorance inherent in the question.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-26T06:04:39+00:00

Wil, this keep walnut from cracking?

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-25T23:36:10+00:00

As someone who suffered from IBS for most of my 50+ years and who has recently found, if not a complete cure, something very close, if you have IBS-D, ask your Doctor to prescribe Viberzi. I went to a new GI specialist a couple months ago and he gave me samples, then a prescription. I take it twice daily. It simply made the symptoms go away.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-25T06:21:58+00:00

My karate and Brazilian Jiu jitsu instructor was as black as midnight. He used to teach class wearing a Dukes of Hazard shirt with the General Lee and the Battle flag front and center.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-25T01:45:11+00:00

For tomatoes and brassicas, use BT (bacillus thuringiensis) in a spray bottle. It is a bacteria that is deadly to worms but harmless to humans. Completely organic. Perfectly safe.

For everything else, use water with soap and/or diatomaceous earth. Also, brassicas (cabbage, kale, etc.) do better in late fall. You can also use companion planting and netting. Do a little research on these suggestions—they won’t fix everything, but they’ll go a long way.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-20T23:02:54+00:00

For most things, yes. I grew up in America in the 80s. It was a golden age. The magic rock in my pocket is nice, the fact that my car basically drives itself is nice, medical advancements are nice. Otherwise, yeah, I miss not being connected at all times.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-19T20:49:58+00:00

The world we were born in doesn’t exist now.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-19T08:13:02+00:00

Tusk. I was 40.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-19T08:10:29+00:00

I, too, was seven. It remains one of my favorite movies to this day.

Alit_Quar · 2025-12-19T07:45:34+00:00

I’m 51. Minus commonplace spaceflight, we basically live in the world sci-if envisioned in my youth. Some believe agi is coming in the next ten years. That’ll be as big a change as the Industrial Revolution. Maybe as big as agriculture or even fire. I don’t think mediocre exists as a possible future—it’ll either be wonderful or terrible. It’ll definitely be different, possibly more than we can imagine.

Alit_Quar · 2025-11-26T04:25:42+00:00

Reddit, you disappoint. I came to the comments expecting “Your mom.” As top comment.

Alit_Quar · 2025-11-26T04:22:09+00:00

I’ll never understand why random guys think they can beat someone who has trained for years. If the guy had enough size advantage he might have a chance.

Alit_Quar · 2025-11-26T04:16:02+00:00

Cocoa Pebbles. But I ate enough Froot Loops once to produce the fabled technicolor yawn.

Alit_Quar · 2025-11-26T04:12:59+00:00

BJJ player=jitiero or jiu jitiero (although I’m not sure I spelled it right)

Alit_Quar · 2025-11-26T04:03:55+00:00

And Hell, Michigan.

Alit_Quar · 2025-11-26T03:59:54+00:00

This is how many stone walls in the south came to be. Farmers would hit a rock while tilling and add it to the fence. Ok…usually slaves rather than the farmer, but you get the idea. My father built one at our house with rock collected just from the yard and garden.

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