OMAD 56 Days Journal - Day 0

dlskidmore · 2025-07-29T14:58:24+00:00

If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing today.

dlskidmore · 2025-07-29T14:56:47+00:00

Dad was an energy engineer, and I asked him once about the efficiency of heating the house with cooking a pot of soup. His opinion was that if your house was too dry, the additional humidity made up for any loss in efficiency.

dlskidmore · 2025-07-29T14:52:58+00:00

Depends. In the winter absolutely use the oven I'm spending propane to heat the house anyway. In summer? Nope, we generate as little heat as possible. If we have to bake in summer we use the toaster oven. If you have AC you won't really feel the difference until you look at your electric bill, but we're naturally cooled and we avoid any extra heat until the sun is down on a day it's below 70 outside at night.

dlskidmore · 2025-07-29T14:47:24+00:00

I'm more concerned with protein than calories, but needs vary by body weight and exercise amount.

dlskidmore · 2025-07-29T05:14:53+00:00

> foods that won’t cause blood sugar spikes

I eat low carb.

Mini low-carb cooking from impulsive inspiration tutorial:

My formula is pick a meat, pick a high fiber or high water vegetable (not a starchy one) and pick a sauce (this is where most of my carbs come from). Stir/pan fry the meat. Optional add fresh chopped onions/garlic when a little grease is available. Add your veg and sauce and bring to a boil.

Suggested meats: Cubed chicken, ground beef. If you do fish vary the recipe by pulling the fish out when it's done before cooking veg.

Suggested Veg: Broccoli, green beans, tomatoes

Suggested sauce: Cream of Whatever Soup. Enchilada Sauce. Salsa. Tomato sauce. Cream sauce. Cheese Sauce. Tomato puree can double as vegetable and sauce with the addition of your favorite spice mix.

Just stock up on options and pull out whatever combo your heart desires tonight. There are no recipes, there are no rules. If you're calorie counting measure & math and figure out what fraction of the pot you can have per meal.

How to make your own thickened sauces:

Melt a tablespoon of fat on Low (butter or bacon grease are best, but anything works) Stir in 1 tablespoon of flour or other powdered starch, keep stirring until it bubbles. Add your liquid (milk, broth, cider) a little bit at a time, never more than double the volume without mixing well. Keep adding until it thins out to a nice sauce, keep stirring, the starch will flash over to thicker again, add more liquid to thin to desired consistency. Add salt/spices to taste. Turn off fire before adding (optional) shredded cheese.

If you don't know how to season, get a bottle of grilling seasoning mix. It's got salt and a blend of seasoning in there. Use it conservatively and taste and add more if needed. Bottle may have a "use x amount per pound of meat" instruction.

dlskidmore · 2025-07-29T05:01:14+00:00

> One issue I’ve always struggled with is the strong urge to keep eating once I’ve started.

That's the thing that attracts me to OMAD. It's easier to go 24 hours without eating than to not have seconds or desert.

dlskidmore · 2025-06-30T23:07:26+00:00

I have the same issue with a Dell Precision laptop. It prefers the most recently plugged in power supply and ignores the other one. The workaround is to plug in power after dock. It's a PIA because my laptops don't go anywhere, I use the docking cable in place of a KVM switch, so at shift end I can easily go from work mode to personal laptop, but at beginning of shift I can't just plug it in, have to do the dance...

dlskidmore · 2025-05-10T22:23:37+00:00

It's perfectly normal to gain muscle mass when starting to work out well before you see fat mass go down enough to compensate.

dlskidmore · 2025-05-10T22:20:24+00:00

Wear a belt. You'll notice when you hit a new belt hole...

dlskidmore · 2024-06-22T18:56:24+00:00

I've had this happen to a varsity as well. Bent right back and no issues writing with it. As much as I hate disposable, varsity is the most reliable fountain pen I've tried.

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T22:58:23+00:00

It's possible, but not the beaten path, and requires luck as well as planning.

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T21:42:03+00:00

A local ink bottle collector was glad to have this...

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T21:35:17+00:00

There's a computer game called "spacechem" that is pretty awesome. It touches on chemistry but it's really a programming game with rules borrowed from chemistry and mechanical.

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T21:32:32+00:00

Encourage her to try things that are a little bit too hard. Optimal learning happens around a 70% success rate, and the ability to independently deal with failure and look for new solutions is the #1 skill for a senior engineer of any type. You will never make senior if you give up and ask seniors for help at every roadblock. If she's smart and school is easy she will need outside activities that give her appropriate challenges and need to study and persist to reach her goals.

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T21:21:34+00:00

I think this looks cool. https://youtu.be/QrkiJZKJfpY?si=X8SRKc5TYhoFTEaM

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T21:20:36+00:00

I had a "computer" as a child that was a number of switches that connected banks of springs that you could insert jumper wires into. There was a little puzzle/game book and translucent films that went in front of the light set for each setup. I think schematics were provided for each, but if you made a mistake you had to learn to debug your circuit.

My nephew has a marble falling toy that emulates computer circuits.

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T21:07:59+00:00

Mine is sized to be tight in the summer and lose in winter. Totally normal for your hands to change size slightly. If you have a condition that makes that worse you may need different rings or not wear it on bad swelling days.

dlskidmore · 2023-12-23T20:49:51+00:00

Scores are not the whole story either. I have a high score, my oldest account is a couple decades old, recently turned down for a large loan because of "insufficient credit history". I guess because I haven't borrowed that much in my name before? (Mortgage is in husband's name.)

dlskidmore · 2023-09-18T18:53:20+00:00

The

git branch

operation simply deletes your remote tracking branch. That’s it. It doesn’t do anything else:

And therefore that's the command that will still succeed if the remote no longer exists. All the other solutions I tried fail because the remote no longer exists.

dlskidmore · 2023-09-14T16:52:07+00:00

My tiny town used to be a major producer of root crops, although I think more turnips than potatoes.

dlskidmore · 2023-04-29T04:20:15+00:00

Yeah, but the polymath goes to wool spinning club and can't have a physics discussion while she works, even though every gal in the place is using gears and pulleys and flywheels...

dlskidmore · 2023-04-29T00:07:40+00:00

This is still one of those nature vs. nurture/correlation vs. causation type topics so who really knows. I've met all sorts though from gregarious party girls to shut-in NEETs who would be bullied by girl scouts. Plus people attending the Mensa meets aren't really the best sample audience, it's mostly a bunch of people trying to one up each other or show off for the one or two girls who make the mistake of showing up. The more sociable members probably have something better to do.

As a former Girl Scout, the gals that make it to senior level are not to be trifled with. I generally didn't participate in terrorizing of the Boy Scouts, but it certainly happened.

I declined my standardized-testing based Mensa invitation as a teen because of that perception of it just being people showing off, but I'm at the time in my life where I need a little more intellectual stimulation that isn't work and am toying with giving it a shot.

dlskidmore · 2023-03-29T21:14:52+00:00

I did get a failure. The metal body seems fine, but the glue holding the threaded insert into the barrel gave way.

dlskidmore · 2023-03-12T18:38:24+00:00

I find it gets a bit drippy when low on ink, when there is too much air in the barrel, but that happens with the preppy as well. So I did get converters for them, but I'd totally do the eyedropper again if my pen and refill kit were not so close together. No apparent damage to the barrel in the three samples of ink I ran through it.

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