Category: General Mooredom
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Workout Days 1 and 2 – February Cycle
3 sets of each unless otherwise noted and every two entries are paired to allow switching between exercises (hex bar deadlifts alternate sets with split leg rope side pulls, etc.): Day 1 Hex Bar Deadlifts Split Leg rope side pulls with cable machine Floor bench press with Swiss bar Goblet split squats with 3 sec…
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Some things to look into in 2020
Measuring glucose levels, inflammation markers, and heart rate variability. Ben Greenfield ideas: regular, at least low level exercise low carb, mediterranean diet prob best for most people daily exposure to sunlight (justification is along the lines of a model of batteries and/or photosynthesis barefoot? exposure to heat… sweating is incredibly healthy… hard to raise body…
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Amazon thinks I should eat bugs
We DO buy quite a bit from Amazon, so I understand it might be difficult to determine our consumer pattern, but how did it come to this? Hello, Andrew… Amazon has some recommendations for you: Edible Insects Sampler Pack of 3- Crickets- Bacon & Cheese, Larvets- BBQ & Chocolate Dipped Insects Larvets- BBQ Well… I wasn’t…
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Chatham Vacation 2015 has begun!
More Pictures. Things to do next year: Get together with Burnie. Hit a bayside beach. Whale watch out of Provincetown. Fishing. Maybe get out on a boat.
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Horses
American Pharoah (hors kant spel?) won the Belmont Stakes and completed the triple crown, and my wife was recently in Kentucky, oddly enough, and even dropping down a ‘fecta or two at Churchill Downs. That was plenty enough inspiration for me to casually look up the venerable James Wyllie. Wyllie was many things before a…
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Thanksgiving Survey Results
Results are in from the 2014 Pre-Thanksgiving Survey. Prime Rib and oysters are a go! Almost full reporting below: Thanksgiving 2014 Final Survey Results
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Great moments in backyard projects reminds you that…
One bat house can hold up to 100 bats. One bat can eat over 600 mosquitoes in an hour.
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Jackson emails Santa
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2012 15:37:36 -0500 To: santa@northpole.com From: Jackson Moore <jman@destructionchaos.org> Subject: Whistleblower Protection ————————————————- Hi Santa, Sorry to email at what must be a particularly busy time of year for you and the tiny northern Foxconn elves, but I feel the need to bring certain developments to your attention in order to…
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Entering the Jacksonian Era
Now that a year has passed since Jackson moved in with us, differences between Jackson and Abigail are becoming apparent even to the casual observer. Whereas Abigail tends to build things (or mandate that her parents construct things for her), Jackson tends to knock things down. Whereas Abigail sees little use for food or drink,…
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Reality check
Obama, Warren, and Tierney may have won, but the Jets, Mets, and Knickerbockers won’t be winning anything of note anytime soon. The status quo really does have its good points!
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Universal Emily, Lindsey, and Nancy Thought Ticker
Overwhelmed (and a little frightened) by the sheer volume of phone calls between Emily, Lindsey, and Nancy, Verizon has announced that the unlimited friends and family plan will be discontinued for this particular family. In its place, LTE engineers have proposed an instantly-gratifying digital thought ticker to help Rooks women stay connected. Miss you so…
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Better pony ride than the pony ride at the crap circus we saw in Lowell
When in doubt, trust Market Basket over circuses in Lowell.
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Adults at our house = FAIL!
With a combined weight of less than 50 pounds, you’d think that a 3-month-old and a 3-year-old would be no match for their larger, presumably experienced parent(s). You’d think that, but you’d be wrong. We are now in little more than a controlled retreat until we can coax these malevolent beasts out of our house.