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I was a contractor, data contractor so all I did was walk and go up and down a ladder for days and weeks.
I weighed 180 lbs.
Then I took up programming in 2003
to avoid injuries, and not wear out my body.
2007
First was the carpel tunnel in the hands. So I took up wood working, and built a new ergonomic desk with ergonomic keyboard, mouse, everything measured at the correct height. After about 6 months, the carpel tunnel went away from the wood working, never had it since. Took up bowling as well as something else to do, and gained 64 lbs. in 4 years since 2003
2009
I stated walking and running 2 or 3 miles a day 5 days a week. Lost 34 lbs.
2011
I started getting knee injuries, the left or right knee would swell up and take me out for 3 weeks at a time.
I thought it was the running or the bowling, plus I stopped eating fast food. Lost 10lbs.
2013
Was stilling getting the knee injuries 2 times a year, always in March and July.
Broke my left foot in several places, stopped eating Subway and Togos, lost 24 lbs. in 3 weeks because I could not walk to get food.
Now I prepare food at home, and brown bag it to work. Drop to 180 lbs.
2015
Finally figured it out, with the help of a sports medicine therapist and a doctor at the bowling center.
Current weight is 174, almost my drivers license weight og 165 lbs..
The phrase, always in motion stay in motion, stay at rest always at rest.
Yes that does apply, but ....
What I learned
I was pulling the ham string muscle, tearing quite bad in up to 3 places, the knee swelling was just the body saying whoa ..
When the body is at rest, the muscles contract in length and size. So you have to stretch them out again. When the body is in motion, the muscles are constantly being stretched and those little micro tears occur to thicken up the muscle.
You have to stretch daily, and stretch before physical activity and even more important, after physical activity.
So yes the bowling and the running, running downhill which is more dangerous, was tearing the leg muscles real bad.
So now I have a stretching routine, Stretch at lunch, and before and after activities.
I took up coaching for bowling to get me out of the chair, and limit programming time to no more than 6 hours a day.
Plus I started taking calcium pills to supplement the my diet, because bone and muscles are made of calcium and I don't drink milk and eat enough cheese, and yes I don't really like kale.
I'm 51, and all of my contractor friends that went office are going through the same issues, now we think we have it solved.
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...in advance for the 1,234,567 rep points. He has them not yet, but since I will be offline during the next 4 days, he'll probably be there by Monday.
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Wildly optimistic! 
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He still has 30k to go ...
Join me in my dastardly plan to make him jump over the magic number. All it takes is one strategic up-vote!
muhahaha 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Ok, counting...
1, 2, 3... only 29830 to go. 
Then, we can wish him a congrats and more points.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It will never be actually...He collects his point by hundreds or more and not ones...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You have 98K + and I have 78K +. He has over a million. Damn the 1%.
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If he doesn't hit it exactly, does he have to start again from zero?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Is a good pun its own reword?
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modified 4-Mar-15 11:28am.
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A maze does amaze.
Life is too shor
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And a muse does amuse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you ever mooned the moon?
/ravi
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I'm not into that kind of behaviour.
Others might get aroused about a roustabout, but not I.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Were you so excited to type in your pun on a pun that the second 'is' was spontaneously generated or is it more subtle than I realise?
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Nope. Don't do subtle. 
Apparently, I'm "as subtle as a flying breeze-block" --- Herself, "Gospels"
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The philosopher you referenced sounds oddly familiar, I think I know someone from the same school
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LOL!
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We need to take punitive action against weak puns. You need to be punished, possibly a punch (just a punt at an appropriate punishment). The punishment must be delivered punctually. You might even be banished to Punjabi or even Pune, a poor fate for such a pungent pundit.
Now stop being a punk with the puny puns and I might reward you with a punnet of strawberries.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is a good pun its own reword?
Only if it was intended.
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Why don't we call 'bacon' fryon? Nobody bakes it...
Will Rogers never met me.
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That's messed up on so many levels.
I'll leave it to you to decide what they are.*
* Don't take this as pandering
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Nice looks like it's afire!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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