“I proffer my contrition for any infelicities in my English articulation, as my proclivity for linguistic precision may yet be inchoate.”

OK, cool. Good to know! Thank you!

Didn’t know that. I’ll give it a try. Thanks!

It was doing that for me so often that it became unusable for me.

Gorilla infestations again!

Also, anyone notice that this took place in Roanoke, VA? Where they’re especially known for gorilla attacks?

Legit LOLed at this bit:

“I noticed that David had lost a lot of weight over the past couple of months, especially when he came in with his arm torn off,” fellow claims adjuster Kevin Delano said.

I kind of knew something was off, but then I got to the sunglasses and realized.

“My wife and I noticed you from across the bar and thought you looked quite honorable. Would you like to go back to our place with us and seek some glory?”

Ricearoni

Absolutely!

Here is an excellent article on setting goals:

https://www.strongerbyscience.com/goal-setting/

The idea is that you use a goal heirarchy:

The nice thing about this setup is that if some of your subordinate goals don’t work out the others will still help push you towards your goal.

So that being said, my goal is to get to a healthy weight (again) but to do so in a healthy manner. So I’m:

• cutting my calories for two weeks, followed by
• eating at maintenance calories for a week (practice eating “normally”, upregulate metabolism a bit, give myself a mental break)
• weight train regularly (maintain muscle)
• jump rope (additional physical activity, fun skill)
• walk 10k steps a day

Types of chocolate, or chocolate foods?

If the former, dark chocolate. 72% is the sweet spot for me.

If the latter, chocolate cake. The rich dense fudgey kind with ganache frosting. A close second is hot chocolate. I’m a big fan of champurrado in particular.

Thanks, I’ll have to find that

He must have eaten at least one to find out how good they are, right?

Do you want explosion free screens, or screens you can sit on? You can’t have it both ways.

100% yes.

We were going to bring a rotisserie chicken in a gift box for a white elephant gift exchange, but worried about it going bad.

Today we’re not doing anything, and it will be glorious. Tomorrow we’re exchanging gifts (my wife, the dog*, and I) cooking up a ham with beans and asparagus, and watching Christmas movies.

*she didn’t get us anything, but we still love her