Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:Been going to PT for my neck and back and they seem to be improving (but mostly from doing exercises on YouTube). Been testing it out for a couple of weeks at the old battlestation, and it seems to be holding steady. Also the therapist is super cute and gives good massages, and my insurance covers it so that's a nice bonus. Was a very long year

Burt, I don’t expect you to do this but…

I have had neck and back surgeries, about a year and a half apart. And while it helped the intense sciatic pain I was experiencing, there was still some discomfort in my lower back (right side).

A little over a year ago, my wife and I started going to Pilates. We go to one class a week, twice if we can make it work, and we have things at home that allow for some exercises.

I don’t know your situation, but it has been life-changing. Strengthens the core, and lengthens the spine. We mostly go to the reformer classes, but there are tower, and mat classes as well. Totally worth it.

Obviously, do the PT, if that’s helpful, but I tell anyone and everyone who suffers neck or back pain to give it a try.

Pilates and yoga are excellent for your body. You're a good man, father.

But yeah, I think we know that's not going to happen for Mr. Battlestation. He needed a gun and a 'vette to feel like a man, so he's essentially toast.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Been going to PT for my neck and back and they seem to be improving (but mostly from doing exercises on YouTube). Been testing it out for a couple of weeks at the old battlestation, and it seems to be holding steady. Also the therapist is super cute and gives good massages, and my insurance covers it so that's a nice bonus. Was a very long year

Lifting this up in prayer

Thank you, brother Leonard

dad wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Been going to PT for my neck and back and they seem to be improving (but mostly from doing exercises on YouTube). Been testing it out for a couple of weeks at the old battlestation, and it seems to be holding steady. Also the therapist is super cute and gives good massages, and my insurance covers it so that's a nice bonus. Was a very long year

Burt, I don’t expect you to do this but…

I have had neck and back surgeries, about a year and a half apart. And while it helped the intense sciatic pain I was experiencing, there was still some discomfort in my lower back (right side).

A little over a year ago, my wife and I started going to Pilates. We go to one class a week, twice if we can make it work, and we have things at home that allow for some exercises.

I don’t know your situation, but it has been life-changing. Strengthens the core, and lengthens the spine. We mostly go to the reformer classes, but there are tower, and mat classes as well. Totally worth it.

Obviously, do the PT, if that’s helpful, but I tell anyone and everyone who suffers neck or back pain to give it a try.

I was doing a Pilates workout pretty regularly before I moved last time (just following along with YouTube videos). I found it helpful for the body in general. Don't know about the neck specifically though. Lately I've been lifting weights focusing on back and shoulders and it seems to be relieving some of the smaller muscles that are overworked. I do a lot of shit every morning to keep it from freezing up. I guess I'll have to do that until I die. Fun.

Also no more work all nighters and twelve hour work days. I will miss the days when I could tune out and make art until the sun comes up.

Neck and shoulder surgeries sound scary. very hit or miss. I've known people who ended up worse off, and others that it fixed completely

Pilates is woke. You played yourself.

Good shit tho.

Whenever I mention the smallest ache, my wife immediately tells me
I should do Pilates and use her reformer more often (the one she uses like once a week).

What’s a reformer?

burt in all honesty is the neck and back pain from having your head up your ass?

Pilates is wonderful yeah. It can get very difficult too.

VinylGuy wrote:Pilates is wonderful yeah. It can get very difficult too.

Yeah that and yoga are no joke.

spike wrote:

Higgs wrote:

spike wrote:The Arizona thing is annoying af. My old company was based in Phoenix, so that’s where the servers were that generated all our reporting. Half the year an hour’s difference from the Midwest, half the year two hours.

I guess here in Australia, Queensland pulls the same shit. Then there’s Adelaide, which is a HALF HOUR difference from AEST. Would make
Bammer weep.

The problem lies with the Fuckwit states that actually play with time and bring in arbitrary daylight saving adjustments. The stoic states that accept that time is what it is and don't try to bend it to their whims are the ones keeping it real.

Spoken like a truer WAer.

The "n" and "k" are silent, yeah?

Higgs wrote:

spike wrote:

Higgs wrote:

spike wrote:The Arizona thing is annoying af. My old company was based in Phoenix, so that’s where the servers were that generated all our reporting. Half the year an hour’s difference from the Midwest, half the year two hours.

I guess here in Australia, Queensland pulls the same shit. Then there’s Adelaide, which is a HALF HOUR difference from AEST. Would make
Bammer weep.

The problem lies with the Fuckwit states that actually play with time and bring in arbitrary daylight saving adjustments. The stoic states that accept that time is what it is and don't try to bend it to their whims are the ones keeping it real.

Spoken like a truer WAer.

The "n" and "k" are silent, yeah?

Haha

very grey day here.

Ill be watching Platonic, i have like three eps to watch. Probably Spike Lee´s latest too.

windy and mixed sun

big long bike ride followed by lunch at a nearby marina

now some more coronas at the homestead

listening to my rear neighbor’s latest endless d-i-y appalachian backyard project

a lot of sifting rock noises maybe he is installing another place to park work trucks

A store I was in today was already playing Christmas music. WTF

fuck yeah

Christ is Lord

Lord of Hosts

Hosanna in the Highest

not only is he Jesus Christ the Christian

but he is also Jewish and The Messiah

AND he is something something Santa Claus

AND enjoys tax-exempt status

he also doesn’t exist

but you get to savor the phlavor of his phallus in your phace often

and you will like the taste

You can't breathe without Him

You're only cream without Him

You can't walk without Him

You're only weak without Him

buy stuff

<opens another corona>

Play Thanksgiving music before Christmas music, please.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:A store I was in today was already playing Christmas music. WTF

Which song

This morning we woke up to a giant tree frog on our kitchen floor. It was alive but looked to be in the house for a while as it looked to be in bad shape. I caught it, it pissed on me, i took it out to the garden and it hopped away.

Then on my way to the hardware store i had to stop and moved a turtle out of the road, and it pissed on me.

These god damn ungrateful critters.