Get a bottle and push it on down.

[reddragdiva]

This evening I got home and read LiveJournal sitting out the back with the laptop having a refreshing cig. (Smoking cloves is big, clever, gets the chicks and makes you thin and gorgeous.) Here's to wifi. I was slightly annoyed that the Netgear card could only pick up signal if I sat right near the back window; I'm sure it could pick up signal all the way to the table at the far end when I tried it in April (on the 560X under Windows). I might try again with the NetComm NP5430, which I already know Just Works under Ubuntu. This is living.

arkady came over with body fat scales — you put in your height, the device sends currents through your feet and tells you your body fat and water percentages. £14.95, down from £44, at the Lloyd's Pharmacy on Higham Hill Road. Since when did scales need a manual.

I spent today at work doing work (my boss is just back from two weeks' holiday; in the civil service, they happily let you go on holiday and happily let two weeks' crap build up for you to come back to) and doing exercises at my desk. Leg lifts under the desk, lifting myself onto my elbows by the arms of the chair. Keeps the heart rate up, keeps me from falling asleep, keeps my arse from falling asleep and I can feel the strain in my upper arms. Let's see if this has a visible effect.

I remember Karl Rove quoted in the NYT magazine having a go at "the reality-based community" and saying "that's not the way the world really works anymore." Where reality now appears to be that which is not susceptible to spin. It's such a pity their all-encompassing incompetence had to come out in quite this manner. Faith in castles in the air is a fine thing, but you do need to put foundations under them sooner or later. When the rubber finally hits the road, burnouts are so unstylish.

Comments

[ladykathryn.livejournal.com]

Please to be noting that said scales can be up to 20% off routinely on their body fat estimations. Don't do it when you're dehydrated, you'll come away convinced whalitude is nigh.

[paulsoth.livejournal.com]

Wait, a device that measures electric current and resistance through your body...

Does the manual ask if you ever debased a nation's currency or given robots a bad name?

[reddragdiva]

I must say it did wonders for the Cipramil buzz!

[reddragdiva]

Or just-caffeinated. With the number Liz got, she wouldn't have enough mass for a skeleton in there.

[zillahgoth.livejournal.com]

I am desperate for a set of scales that do that because I cannot afford full membership to Just4Weeks - Where can I get them that cheap in Berks? Please email me back - kyoto-chanAThotmail.co.uk

[reddragdiva]

Buggered if I know! Note above caution about their vast inaccuracy. I'll see what I can do if there are any left at the local place.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

When I picked up yours, the pharmacist asked me how many I wanted - I got the impression that they'd been going quite well, with people picking up more than one. I coulod probably get away with picking up another one or two.

(And they're £14.99, not £14.95, btw. Not that 4p makes much difference....)

[reddragdiva]

Liz emailed a Lloyd's link to Neph, in case a local one has them, before we go out and get another!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

My glass Hanson scales are very pretty and leet, but I'm tempted to pick up a set of body fat scales myself anyway, particularly at that price.

I rather like the buzz of the electricity through the soles of my feet. ;-)

[reddragdiva]

Xenu prevails!

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Scales are evil.
Clove cigarettes taste rank but look gorgeous.
Excerise is the spawn of the devil.

[reddragdiva]

Scales are evil.
Gudangs look like ordinary cigs but taste like essence of goth in carcinogenic form.
Gothercise is sustained bouts of drinking, dancing and fucking.