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.
I have some nieces and nephews in their 20's, listening to them talk amongst themselves is like watching a science fiction movie - they live in a completely different world than us. I hate to lay blame, but we all saw this when their parents started having them.
ReplyDelete(Un)Fortunately, it has helped me to understand that generation a little better. Their world-view really is completely different than yours and mine. The who's, what's and why-for's are debatable, but what isn't, is their mental state concludes completely different results to questions than you and me.
As to the estate issue, most of the time when I've dug down that rabbit-hole with them, it really isn't selfishness driving the desire. They feel they've paid enough into the system, been screwed enough by the system, and watched others extract from the system, they argue by-george it's my turn to get something from the system for a change! Can't argue with it. I started an LLC to reduce my tax-burden, customers all paid in cash, I didn't claim shit. Same reasoning and logic.
During the conversation the woman revealed that she is 54 years-old. So it isn't just a "young people" thing. I suspect that her parents have been "helping her" with money and they are now tapping-out. (that mismanage "their" money thing). Her ability to attract men is falling off of a cliff due to age. It sucks when you never thought about tomorrow and then tomorrow shows up.
DeleteWow what an odd mix "tape" you've done this morning ERJ.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm "Dating" myself here LOL.
Age isn't always an indicator of "irresponsible" youth vs the "responsible adult".
I've seen well raised young people behave in a responsible caring manner and elders older than me (YES, there are older than I, quit laughing Filthy) who were Unctuous USERS All their lives.
Bible has numerous scriptures about this. Probably because this toss your daddy away into a seldom visited "Home" and steal his inheritance is as old and humanity.
Proverbs 30 13There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances— 14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men. 15The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:…
BTW Joe, I didn't think you saw my question what that current 50 pound bag of urea for 40 dollars was last year.
ReplyDeleteI looked it up and was amazed at how many uses for it and how seriously natural gas prices affected it.
SNIP Urea led the four fertilizers with lower prices than last month. The nitrogen fertilizer was 5% less expensive compared to last month with an average price of $601/ton.
So 40 x 50 pound bags is a ton means each bag was 15 dollars each.
And this from Progressive Farmer site for fall 2025.