While official reports seem to be overall favorable towards the idea (and of course it's very "hip" to conserve water now, isn't it?), I can only speak to my personal experiences in this matter. No flush urinals stink. I'm certainly not the only one that thinks so: reference Link to see what some at the University of Iowa had to say. "Unusual," "they smell," "an unappealing nuisance," the custodians absolutely hate cleaning these toilets." And, again, while water conservation is o...

The latest truth.org commercial concentrates on Sodium Hydroxide. "It's in hair removal products and cigarettes! That means cigarettes are bad for you!" Assclowns, WATER is also an ingredient in Nair! Just because it's part of something that is harmful to you doesn't mean that particular thing is harmful to you. Sodium Hydroxide is also more commonly known as lye , which is also used in the preparation of some foods. Are olives as bad for you as cigarettes? Is hominy ? By yo...

Moderate drinking (1-2 drinks a day) can reduce your risk of heart disease by increasing HDL cholesterol, reducing the formation of artery-clogging blood clots, and quelling the inflamation that can contribute to heart disease. Those who consume one drink every day are 54% less likely to be obese than nondrinkers. The same study showed that those who drank two drinks a day (or less than one, but a few per week) also have a lower obesity rate than nondrinkers. Harvard researchers found ...

Last week, at the reccomendation of the on-base fitness guru (a retired Army 1SG), I purchased a Polar F5 Heart Rate Monitor. They've gone a model or two ahead of this one, but it fit all my needs and more and it was on sale (previously $99, they had it at $69, about $75 after tax). This morning was the first time I wore it for a workout. (I tried it on last night and was wearing it around the apartment, so now I know what my "couch potato" heart rate and my "laundering clothes" heart ra...

Having gone through an obstacle course on Friday, and generally more physically active than I had been in months, I thought I might run down a list of my "sports injuries": Right armpit - stretched skin (increase in muscle mass) Right elbow - bruised all to hell (deep, too, from the obstacle course) Left bicep - deep quarter-sized bruise (random damage) Both forearems - sunburn (from the o-course and the lake on Friday) Right wrist - scraped and cable burnt (o-course) Right thumb - ja...

I led PT this morning, light stretching, fast jog to the flight line, then a 4-mile run. This afternoon, the gym, ran/walk for just over 20 minutes (1.5 miles). Burned out my biceps on some curl machine. Need to do some pushups and crunches tonight. No PT tomorrow morning (unless I drag myself to the gym at 0530), maybe the gym in the evening. The battle rages on...

I've taken two PT tests this week, and I've been weighed and taped twice. Monday: 45 push-ups, 55 sit-ups, 16:25 run; 227#, 17.25" neck, 40.5" waist. Tuesday: 225#, 17.5" neck, 40.5" waist Thursday: 49 push-ups, 60 sit-ups, 16:44 run That's what I'm working from... I'm only going to get better.

I had been deferred to a later appointment time, 0915, but was instructed to return 15 minutes prior. (Ah, the “X minutes prior” rule… another topic for another time.) I jaunt home, bum around some, see the fam, and head right back. Have to be fifteen minutes early for the half-hour wait, amirite? While I was waiting, I noticed a somewhat skinny, somewhat pale man in civilian clothes, in a wheelchair. His right lower leg had a cylindrical “halo” traction device (I’m certain that’s not th...

Actions being taken against me by the Army (for my own failings, admittedly) led me to be at the clinic this morning for Sick Call. I managed to stick around work to watch the brief, encouraged by greywar that the clinic wouldn’t be open until 0730, regardless. While I was certain it was open at 0700, I felt it wouldn’t be a big deal to get there a few minutes late, at any rate. Of course, the doors opened at 0630, and there was a line over a dozen soldiers deep when I arrived. A mix of...