Make it Pop

It's Tuesday morning and I slept in until 0500.  Nice, huh?  Yesterday was busy... and I did other things than laundry... and clean.  Like I lowered the TV in the cycling, weight, computer room.  I don't know what was initially going through my head when I first mounted it on the wall, but what ever that reason was... I stuck it up high.  This meant craning my neck.  One the reasons it's mounted is so I can watch beautiful vistas while riding the bike.  Well, I never did because it was... too high.  Now it's at eye level.  Things should work out better.
As part of Big Seig's "take off pounds sensibly plan" we all went for a walk.  The dogs loved it.  By evening they were quite exhausted.  Lilly especially, she had her nose in everything.

The funny thing is Lily looks almost as large as Biggie and in reality she's half his size.
I watched a clip yesterday in which some guy named McCarthy (conservative talking head) told the phony talking heads on Faux and Friends that the Idiot Jerk will end up being indicted.  The clips was meant to show their utter disbelief, which it did, in a small way.  What it did in an obvious way was show the Faux propaganda machine in full bullshit mode.  The moment the he said 'indict' the skinny, bony chick pointed out that the Obama administration had their own campaign finance problems.  She failed to mention that charge was filed by the Satanic RNC, while there are 4 different investigations going on in regard to the Idiot Jerk.  What these four puppet heads attempted was quell any concerns his demented base might have about their guy going to jail.  They twisted and lied, but that's to be expected, they're crazy conservatives.  What they should have said was "the minute that indictment becomes a definite course of action, he'll be on a plane to Moscow."  These people are going to go bug shit crazy when those indictments start dropping.
On a lighter note, I've got to stop buying LED light bulbs.  They last for years... and years.  So why, in the name of Universal Consciousness do I have 10, am I planning on living for another 120 years?  The USPS dropped off 4 more this AM.  Right now the dogs are chasing each other around the house with bubble wrap in their mouths.  They like to make it 'Pop.'

I'll be honest, I like reading about health, and exercise and weight loss.  The things people either write or publish can be either be enlightening, uninformed or simply ludicrous.  I enjoy the enlightened ones, scoff at the uniformed and shriek with derision at those so obviously ludicrous.  I read one of the latter ones on the MSNBC website under health.  Going back to find the link I was amazed to find that it seems to have disappeared.  The subject was on lifting weights and weight loss.  Now most people who are overweight want to lose a couple of pounds.  You know, with this economy it's less expensive to slip into last summer's duds then have to go out and buy knew ones, and the five or six pounds you put on thanks to Thanksgiving and Christmas and simply being too lazy is going to make them a snug fit.

Oops, some one's been dipping into the ice cream a little too much

The ludicrousness became apparent in the second sentence, after the authoress complained that Cardio was not helping her lose weight after having a baby.  Then she said, "and then I noticed people at the gym lifting weights."  It must never have occurred to her that a number of people go to gyms for strength training.  Maybe she thought body builders just do it in their basements, or garages.  Her reasoning to use weights to lose weight was because "after a work out your muscles burn calories for a long time."  This makes me wonder if maybe her Cardio was only cardio.  You know what I mean.  We've all seen those boneheads bouncing away on an elliptical because they're not using any resistance, or those who get off a stationary bike after windmilling their legs for a good thirty minutes without so much as a grimace.  Let me tell you, when I get off my bike my legs usually feel like rubber because I've worked those suckers.  Maybe she didn't lose weight because she didn't really watch her diet, you know those four bowls of pasta you eat after a workout help keep the thunder in your thighs.  I'm serious, because the emphasis was so overboard on weight training the article became nearly bizarre.  A smart work out incorporates both weight training and Cardio, don't rely on just one.  But as my friend Shaun said a long time ago, "your legs are the engines of your body."