Skinny old people
While I was fishing around the internet I stumbled across a peer-reviewed paper that claimed that young and middle-aged people who are "underweight" have death-rates that are comparable to the population who are of "optimal weights". It also claimed that senior citizens who are underweight had higher death-rates than those populations with "optimal weight" (and possibly overweight). The paper's conclusion was that BMI targets for senior citizens should be revised.
I am leery of that proposal. There are assumptions of about the direction of causality. There are many underlying health issues that can manifest as weight loss....oral health, acid reflux, ulcers, colitis, depression, osteoporosis caused by inactivity to name just a few. Weight is data and not necessarily a stand-alone pathology.
Woodpile
I am still reducing the 48" bolts into 16" piece and then splitting-and-stacking them. If my calcs are right then 12000 pounds of wood has the heating value of 570 gallons of heating oil. It looks like I picked good year to beef-up my backup heating plan.
TMI
I was in a situation where I had to spend time in a confined space with strangers. Unfortunately, one of them felt a need to over-share information.
She shared that her parents are idiots because "they don't know how to handle money".
She does not like being married. Her mom and her children asked if she was going to divorce her husband but she doesn't have enough energy to pull the trigger on divorce. She is dating a guy "who is a lot of fun" but she has no intention of a long-term relationship him...but he is good enough for now. I got the impression that she was the kind of woman who rented containers of milk rather than buying them because she was not a "long term relationship kind of girl".
She "is triggered" by the people she is working with because they walk around behind her and fix her mistakes.
She moved into her dad's house and shortly thereafter banished him to a nursing home. She was fretting about how she could protect the equity of the $400k house she now thinks of as hers from Medicare claw-back*.
I took an instinctive dislike of the guy she was talking with. He was a "hipster" and spewed psycho-babble in a pious, soothing voice and spoke with precise diction in the third person.
"Cultural normative scripting is how other people control you and how they prevent you from reaching your full potential" was a typical bit of pseudo-wisdom he shared with the 304. Now that I look back, everything he said was some variation of that theme. That phrase was probably his Master's Thesis.
His clothing was a cross between John Lennon and somebody cos-playing a wizard from Harry Potter.
The girl was merely stupid and self-centered. The guy was pretentious and slippery.
"Unctuous" is the adjective that sprung to mind.
I made an executive decision to put in earplugs, something I rarely do in public places. I was sitting with my back to the wall and I wrapped a strap of my luggage around one arm. I pretended to fall asleep.
* The typical plan for a low-IQ person scheming to "protect" the equity in their parent's house is to falsify documents that fraudulently claims that they bought it from said parent(s). They back-date the document and forge the witness signatures. The attempt typically fails when the document is not notarized and there is no documentation of payments made or taxes paid on the $400k gift.













