The Harm of Porn

Adam Savage is ffrom mythbusters.  Adam Savage gives advice on fighting the new drug: porn.  Going to this website by clicking on Adam Savage and there is an interesting article, with plenty of links to sites to fight porn.  

It answers questions like: What should I say to y kids when they find porn?  How do I talk to my kids about sex?  How does the internet hate women?  What is the cost of porn?  How to put porn in context?  

Weight Wars #4

 

Weight Wars #4

 My previous weight post was during the middle of Covid, April 2021.  At that time I weighed 240, obese. Now I am hovering around 220.  My eventual goal is to be under190 overweight instead of obese.  My wife blames the weight loss on continued use of Victoza.  I feel this helps but it is more.  I don't eat quite as much.  I could exercise more.  I developed sciatica in 2022 which really limited my exercise.  But to be honest it has resolved enough I could be exercising more.

Weight Wars #3.   4/19/2021

 I have posted twice before, but not for the past two years.  I saw my weight go from 298 in 2003 to 248 in 2019 and 245 in 2019.  My weight has not dropped much more.  Now I weigh about 240.  I am no longer grossly obese but just obese.  However I have been stagnant in any further weight loss.  I was able to take pills to help with weight loss, and then Victoza shot.  Victoza helped me lose about ten pounds but then no more.  However it is going to take something more to get me below the 240 line and continue my trek to 190 which is my ultimate goal.   I was doing better before Covid made everything be work from home.  Then I did not walk near as much as I no longer took the train to work.  I have not gotten into a pattern of exercise since having retired.  I keep thinking something will change.  I guess that something will need to be myself.  I need to lose that last 50 lbs to be as healthy as I can be.  

So I commit to a half hour walk or activity everyday.  I commit to doing exercises to help my frozen shoulder.  I commit to watch my food intake.  I commit to no food after 8 p.m.  

Weight Wars #2. 4/11/2019

I published a previous post about my weight and being half way to not being obese, down from 298 to 248.  I can now say I am down another 5 lbs but still only half way.  The difference is an adjustment in my height.  I guess I am shrinking, which means I have another 10 pounds to lose before escaping the obesity line.  So down 55 pounds with a goal of 55 pounds more.  I hope this sharing will motivate me, as my life is at stake.

Weight Wars. 9/29/2018

I came across something really scary: a record of my weight from 2001 through 2003.  I started at 292 in December of 2001.  However I was down to 285 by mid January; only to blossom back up by the end of the year.  My last recorded weight in 2002, early December, was 292.  Then I became my heaviest.  I started 2003 at 298.  That is just gross.  That is the most I have weighed my entire life.  That is 100 pounds above the obese line.  I recorded that by the end of 2003 I was back to 285.  I have continued a mostly downward spiral, with significance periods of getting stuck.  I am half of the way to the obese line--in other words I am 50 pounds lighter than my heaviest with another 50 to go.
What have been the consequences.  I have diabetes and tinnitus, and sleep apnea and high blood pressure.  Weight is a contributing factor in all these areas.  I hope when I am no longer obese--some of these health issues will be resolved.  I would be grateful if just one or two  would improve and I not have to take so many medications.

Dust Storm Safety on the Highway

 

I came upon this at a rest area.  In 2021 there was a 22-car pileup that claimed eight lives in southern utah on the I-15.  Arizona highways are more prone to dust storms than Utah.  ADOT provides this information on how to stay alive in a dust storm on the highway.  The problem with a dust storm is there can be hardly no visibility.  The major solution is to slow down.  Also important to pull over if possible.

If you get caught in a dust storm follow these tips. 

1. If you encounter a dust storm, immediately check traffic around your vehicle and slow down.

2. If possible, pull off the highway before poor visibility makes it difficult.  Look for a safe place to pull completely off the paved roadway.

3. Do not stop in a travel lane or in the emergency lane.

4. Turn off all vehicle lights, including flashers.  You don't want vehicles behind you to use the lights as a guide, possibly crashing into your car.

5. Set your emergency brake and take your foot off the brake.  Stay in the vehicle with your seatbelts buckled and wait for the storm to pass.