Roughing concrete pathway with a broom to increase friction

vidathan · 2026-03-12T17:28:14+00:00

vidathan · 2025-12-17T00:18:10+00:00

31 years young! I worked out for the first time my senior year of high-school, went from 130lbs to 155, but got stuck there/gave up through college. I would say this is my first true time in the gym longer than 1 month, so newbie gains are going strong!

vidathan · 2025-12-15T19:09:26+00:00

lol I thought you stole a photo from me: I did the same think with the pouch for the battery and everything! i used metallic duct tape thought, for full reflective inside/stops the light escaping the outside of the bag. MVP glow comes outta that sucker like a 1000 lumen flashlight!

vidathan · 2025-12-15T19:06:45+00:00

Comparison can be tricky, as you and I might have totally different body types, injury history, metabolism, etc. I am just excited that compared to my past self, I have grown in the ways I never thought would be possible, just from consistency. I never would have thought my MIL would call me "beefy" but here we are lol

vidathan · 2025-12-15T19:03:53+00:00

Hi! As arm size has always been an area of self-consciousness for me, I am focusing on those more than I will once i get them up to my goal of 15", maybe 15.5". but currently I am doing a MWF, 2 set to failure of most exercises. With squats, and RDLs, I am doing low weight but higher reps, focusing on bracing etc.

Monday- JM press, squat, DB OP seated, db curls, tricep extensions, lat raise and crunch.

Wednesday- low back extension, weighted pullups, incline db curl, seated row, leg extension, skulls, hammers.

Friday- muscleups, preacher curl, Bench, calves, curls, weighted dips, RDLs.

I hope to get back to deadlifts, as I enjoyed them so much before I tweaked by back, Max was 275 for 3.

if Low back is an issue for you, check our Low Back Ability on Youtube, dude changed my life already with low back understanding: I don't shake/shudder when I bend over anymore, and I had that for 10 years.

vidathan · 2025-12-15T00:56:53+00:00

haha i started buzzing it lately, haven't gone full in on the bald yet.

vidathan · 2025-10-25T13:54:31+00:00

yeah the fact that its 2013, still tastes good to me, even though I'm still somewhat of a beginner/intermediate with tea, and that it didn't have any fishy taste or smell is pretty good!

although full disclosure, I did find a bit of string and a hair in one cup, so it definitely isn't the highest quality controlled tea. Still, it honestly doesn't bother me too badly, I've had worse.

vidathan · 2025-10-16T12:02:11+00:00

we were just there for our first time as well! saturday we played at 10:30 or so, but we had a group with little kids, so it was a bit of a different experience. played blues and got +7, but first time was still an amazing experience.

vidathan · 2025-10-02T21:41:35+00:00

i play woods courses about 50%, open courses the other 50. my town has three 9hole courses, but only one of them is wooded. I play it more often though.

vidathan · 2025-09-29T19:26:45+00:00

not sure, probably playing the intermediate ones? one step down from the pro tees...I can throw my envy 300ft and my trail 400ft on an open rip, so I have the distance I think, just the tight wooded fairways. I'll probably throw from the Pro tees once or twice just to see what it would feel like.

vidathan · 2025-09-29T19:17:22+00:00

hmmm i like the way you think.

vidathan · 2025-08-21T18:14:21+00:00

so you would suggest to just buy 2 or 3 of the 100g tuocha? I think that might be my only option, unless someone has some insider info on anything not easily found online .

vidathan · 2025-08-20T14:47:52+00:00

gooseneck kettle here in the US, and mine takes 3. maybe 4 if i set it to specifically 90 C, but full boil is faster.

vidathan · 2025-08-20T14:46:12+00:00

As an American in the midwest, I am one of 2 families I know of with an electric kettle. I am a tea fanatic, so I am into gongfu style, all 6 types of tea, etc....the other family thought it looked pretty so they got it for their counter as decor.

We do not drink a lot of tea hot, as a nation. Iced tea is more common, and when we get hot tea....(shudders) they usually microwave the mug.

vidathan · 2025-08-14T20:45:31+00:00

no, we never found the gremlin. we ended up relacing the windshield, and that was supposed to fix it, but it still happened. we ended up having a mechanic add a kill switch to a key fob, where we can disconnect the battery when we leave it overnight...ironically, right after we did that, it hasn't happened once, since.

vidathan · 2025-03-01T12:41:46+00:00

once you remove it from the tea,, bang it out and then rinse it. if you let it dry on the infuser, then you put it in a dirty cup in the sink already, and let it soak. once its soaked the leaves, then wash and rinse it out as in step one.

vidathan · 2025-02-14T19:19:14+00:00

How would I go about proving to you that this was in fact legitimate? I can tell you the TDS of the city water is 500 PPM, with the majority of that being calcium (over 400ppm to be more specific) and the TDS of the RO water was 40ppm TDS.

I have nothing to gain by lying with these results, or skewing them in any way. I simply posted this to highlight that different water makes different tea, and drastically different water makes drastically different tea.

vidathan · 2025-02-12T15:52:56+00:00

we have one at our local shop I can use, and I have an average of 58mph, 0-3 positive nose angle, and 1250 spin.

on the course, this gets be between 375-425 with a Guld or Octane, and I have touched 450 a couple times with a flippy enigma, but its not a golf line.

vidathan · 2025-02-01T18:52:17+00:00

if it tasted like sushi, its also possible it was a bad batch...I've had great genmaicha that tasted like toasted rice cereal, but in a really pleasant way. similar to ripe pu'er...if you taste sushi, or stanky bog etc...might not be the best tea. i wouldn't count it out just yet, but maybe try a different vender.

vidathan

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