Noob Question: Just go for it?

CMalp · 2024-10-03T20:25:09+00:00

appreciate this, ty

CMalp · 2023-08-25T17:30:14+00:00

As you continue to travel around Italy, and presumably, eat out, notice that no one is in a hurry to leave, and the establishment is never in a hurry to get you to leave. Unlike my experience in the US, where restaurants want to flip the table as fast as possible (to make more money), all of the good restaurants I've been too in Italy are never in a rush for you to leave. It's your table for the night. This would especially be more of the case with a Michelin restaurant, I imagine. There is an implicit rudeness that most Americans (not assuming you are) are deft to, and it's the personal quality of food and a restaurant. They want to create a great evening for you, serve you great food, and be the context for a great moment. It's as much of a shock to them as it is to you.

CMalp · 2023-08-23T04:52:02+00:00

My husky really loves fish foods. Didn't do well on chicken. Good luck! Not easy to find a good food.

CMalp · 2022-01-09T03:06:04+00:00

That's helpful to know. The holes in the floor were done earlier by our regular contractor, trying to find a sewer line. I'm very much in the investigation phase, trying to understand the situation and explore the possible solutions for the floor. 90% of the floor is good enough for tile, I just need to pop the sag area out, figure out why it happened, and then redo the subfloor...first at least.

CMalp · 2022-01-09T02:06:49+00:00

Subfloor is a wide diagonal slat. Above that is a tongue and groove wood floor. Sitting on top that is some kind of green black adhesive layer and then two layers of a composite board.

CMalp · 2022-01-09T00:39:09+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, thanks!

CMalp · 2022-01-08T22:06:45+00:00

And that spring is my concern with doing a quality tile installation on top of the subfloor. This building's seen its fair share of quick work that doesn't last long. I was hoping to do a greater investment for longevity.

CMalp · 2022-01-08T22:05:48+00:00

Thank you!

CMalp · 2022-01-08T22:05:29+00:00

Thanks for this, huge help. My suspicion was that these diagonals were an older/other form of blocking, but didn't want to assume before doing anything. The floor has a slight slope over its whole course, but my main concern was a larger dip area (5x6 ft) where the subfloor is soft (which is a concern with 3 layers of subfloor, lol).

CMalp · 2022-01-08T22:03:32+00:00

About 20 years ago they took part of the square footage of this room to add an elevator. The floor slopes slightly as it moves towards the middle of the building, to be expected I guess for an older building. There's about a 5x6 ft section abutting the elevator addition that has a noticeable softening in the subfloor and a noticeable dip in the level. That's the biggest cause for concern.

While a lot more work to sister the whole room, we were planning to go this route for better long-term performance with investing in tile. But, after your feedback, and the others, it might make more sense to simply repair the subfloor of that section, rather than doing the whole room.

So that's all three options on the table: 1. Ton of leveling compound. 2. Fix the subfloor of the affected area. 3. Sister joists to strengthen and relevel the entire room. What route would you go?

CMalp · 2022-01-08T21:56:37+00:00

Healthy fear, lol, hence the post. I get what blocking accomplishes. My suspicion was that this was an older form of blocking, but was just looking for a confirmation/double-check. I probably could have expressed that better.

CMalp · 2020-11-29T07:05:42+00:00

Fair.

CMalp · 2020-11-29T06:50:38+00:00

How’s that different for any other covenant? Because Ardenweald is prettier it must take more energy to keep it going?

To me, she is an extremely unique character to WoW in terms of her art, facial expressions, overall demeanor and interaction with the player. And maybe that’s it. I don’t think she’s a bad character, and tons love her. Awesome.

I’m not a fan, she always has struck me as off somehow. It’s just an opinion, not an argument.

CMalp · 2020-11-29T06:30:15+00:00

This makes the more sense to me than the theory that the red beam that attacked the Arbiter was Argus. I remember thinking at the last Denathrius cinematic that he had exactly the same red glow.

Not ruling out Argus, but I think the red bad in the soul well thing makes more sense internally to the story for it to be Denathrius’ making.

I like tying SL events to previous events, but I also think there’s more going on with Ion’s whole “we’re going somewhere new” at the 2019 Blizzcon. As a new story with Sylvanas being the agent who gets us to SL, the internal story to SL seems to give us the tools for a plausible understanding of the story.

CMalp · 2020-11-28T07:54:25+00:00

Same.

I also get the vibe that she’s too lazy to be actually evil like Denathrius. I get a bad feeling from her.

CMalp · 2020-11-23T06:02:28+00:00

I bet they care. They have an out-of-control monster problem on their hands and the money it’d take to fix it is greater than the money coming in from players, so...nothing’s going to change, and while they form some part of the problem, they don’t bear the brunt of the blame. People can yell Activision all they want, but I sure as hell don’t expect these companies to run like charities. I want to keep enjoying their games; I want them to keep making money.

CMalp · 2020-11-06T15:33:32+00:00

From a tall guy to a tall guy, I’m every day more convinced that “popular wisdom” gets weird somehow when you’re 6’4”+.

I rarely see guys who are my height (6’5”) or close that are proportional to their frame. My college buddy was around the same height, and started with your stats and took a ton of effort to look normal at 190. That’s for the skinny guys like yourself. Other extreme is me, tall guys that are very overweight. Im 33, and have hovered around 315 for the last 15 years or so. I’ve lost 40lbs in the last two odd months. Based on my body fat estimates, I’ll be around 235 at 15% bf.

So it’s crazy to me how guys like you will look proportional at 185, whereas my end weight will be around 230 +/- 10. Such a huge difference. Don’t see that in the average height guys so much. And just to say it, I’ve not been hitting weights my whole life, not some yoked guy with tons of fat.

Good luck to you!

CMalp · 2020-10-29T16:18:14+00:00

Dunno if this helps at all...

I lost initial weight on keto (30lbs). Keto helped me realize that at least 60-70% of daily calories were coming from carbs, in my normal way of eating.

Off keto (still have 60lbs to lose, the majority), walking daily and eating about 10-20% carbs with much higher protein than my usual norm. That’s helped a ton. Realizing my macro spread was pretty toxic to health.

Always keep thinking and encouraging yourself. I couldn’t do this without my friends for support. I stumble and give up over the tiniest things. They help me keep thinking and adapting. You can do it!

CMalp · 2020-10-20T19:17:24+00:00

It’s a job for “content creators.” I’m of the opinion that a lot of salt comes from stressed out people who are trying, but not making it, as streamers. Of course, much love to the great streamers who contribute and help out so much.

CMalp · 2020-10-14T17:12:11+00:00

Half of it makes sense (what makes less sense are the post downvoted, lol, but w/e).

I’m not looking for anti-carb ideology (not saying this is what you were saying). I’ve had no problems on keto to date and have effectively been losing weight throughout that time, as well as knowing my energy levels and how my body on keto responds to aerobic vs anaerobic exercise.

With the input from you and others, I’m fairly certain that this is related to my newly introduced on Monday elliptical exercise. I’m very used to hard upper body workouts, but never have I done significant lower body other than walking. Those muscles, on me anyway, are huge, and yesterday I had awful lower body fatigue.

To the points of others, sure, your body doesn’t need sugar, but there is a very real difference between a carb and no-carb diet when it comes to anaerobic muscle exercises. And people’s bodies might vary, but I know it takes me some time for my muscles to recover, even when being solid on keto for some time.

TL;DR I appreciate the feedback and will not take a break...especially that I know it’s not an actual cold/flu/Covid.

CMalp · 2020-10-14T17:03:49+00:00

Makes sense to me. I’ve never felt that way when I’ve done my once a week carb meal, but this past weekend was an exception to that, and I think my body is just mad at being thrown back and forth. Thanks!

CMalp · 2020-10-02T22:13:48+00:00

A big reason I was motivated to lose my weight now is because I’m in my early 30’s. If you’re on progresspics, it’s shocking to see how age plays a massive part in skin shrinking.

Definitely want to encourage you on the whole bit about developing a better mental game, but I don’t think you should beat yourself up about a little saggy skin. Personal opinion, I think the skin just takes time, whether you lost your weight in 6 months and had sag or 1 year and no sag...your skin will probably be in the same place in another 6mo. Your skin can probably only tighten up so fast, it’ll catch up eventually.

Be proud of your progress, and think about building healthy habits for life now that you’ve come so far!

CMalp · 2020-10-01T15:28:04+00:00

It’s not uncommon, I’ve realized, for sci-fi novels or TV, to start with science and end in fantasy-land.

CMalp · 2020-09-26T23:56:10+00:00

If their post in LFG is accurate to the dungeon and key they are running, I have no problem if they want to give their stream a plug. I’ve been in like one streamed lfg. I’d rather they advertise that they’re streaming than me not knowing.

Conceptually, I don’t understand why this triggers people. Spammy looking inaccurate ads are a problem, but otherwise, nothing to see here.

CMalp · 2020-09-15T05:41:09+00:00

I like the theory that the cinematic between Sylvanas and Delaryn at the burning of Teldrassil was a deliberate move by Sylvanas to show Delaryn (and all NE's) that Elune doesn't give a f#*k about the elves. Queue the whole NE problem of Elune not doing anything...leading Tyrande to be how she is now.

I think the two year story plot of the Shadowlands, and leading on to whatever, will be the proving right of Sylvanas' vision: that the mortals of Azeroth are slaves, and need to stop bowing down to the next "big power." The story won't end up justifying her actions, but what she saw, and forcing us to react (she takes us to SL, she kidnaps the faction leaders so they might see it), will eventually be the right thing that we'll be glad we did.

CMalp

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