Begin by standing on a comfortable surface with plenty of room.
With a a five pound potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute and then relax.
Each day you will find you can do it for longer periods of time
After 14 days, move up to ten pound sacks, then after 30 days move up to fifty pound potato sacks.
After about 60 days you will be holding a 100 pound potato sack in each hand for at least a minute.
(I’m at this level now.)
After you feel confident, put a potato in each sack.
Somebody and/or something is changing. Nancy is off filling up on Texas fiber. She left Thursday and will return soon. In the meantime, she made up a crock pot full of chili for me to eat because she knows otherwise it will be Miller Chill and M & M’s.
We had a bowl before she left and were chatting about a friend who makes very hot chili. We have yet to partake, but we gave her a big bag of home grown chili peppers and she said they were suitably hot for her to use in her chili.
Nancy can’t handle the spiciness anymore so I told her I was going to spice up the chili for me. She dug out a can of chili peppers and I dumped them in the crock pot. It simmered all day Friday.
Yum. I added some Louisana hot sauce. More yum.
The chili made my nose run and I coughed a couple times, but it was gooo-oood.
I told my daughter what I had done and she was flabbergasted. She said my taste has changed.
She is right.
I didn’t like spicy food when she was around. Except for horseradish sauce. I’ve always love horseradish sauce, but avoided anything spicy. I’m eating a lot more spicy food now than ever before. Love Thai, Wasabi, etc.
AARP magazine arrived today.
Lo and behold, I find out there is actually a reason I’m eating more spicy food. Boomers are loving spicy food! Chili Pepper consumption is up from 4.7 lbs in 1998 to 6.3 lbs in 2007 according to the magazine – per person! These stats always amaze me because I may eat a couple pounds of peppers in a year, so somebody is eating my share plus some!
Bold flavors are In! And Boomers are making them more inner!
Our sense of smell is getting whacked and that effects our sense of taste. The demand for hotness is gonna be hot as Boomers age. Chili peppers are getting on our menu more often – even sharper cheeses like feta or Gorgonzola.
AARP Magazine even pointed to www.fiery-foods.com which they claim is popular with guys over fifty.
The first thing they discovered was that many spices were incredibly antibacterial. For example, garlic, onion, allspice, and oregano were the best all-around microbe killers, killing almost everything. Next were thyme, cinnamon, tarragon, and cumin, which kill about 80 percent of all bacteria. Chile peppers were in the next group, with about a 75 percent kill rate. In the lower ranges of 25 percent were black pepper, ginger, and lime juice.
This stuff is good for you! Who knew? OK, I didn’t know that!
The new corollary of eating in the 21st century might be: “The healthier you eat, the more you need to spice it up with chile-laden condiments.”
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! But a stock picker says this is a good thing. I’ll leave all the punny stuff for the more lame bloggers (but commenters can have at it.) Investing in funeral homes is a wise and prudent thing to do, says one investment anal-cyst.
I didn’t know there were chain funeral homes. I knew that many funeral homes had multiple locations, but thought they all had a grey haired woman sitting in a back room someplace running things. Ha! Service Corporation Inc. has a friggin’ “brand.”
Seems there are 38 locations within 100 miles of my old bones right where I sit. They have 20,000 people all over the place just waiting to plant the huge baby boomer generation.
And those baby boomers dying as fast as they can, means the hedge funders are loving the potential upside for being in the downside. (damn! hard not to write punny, sorry.)
“There is a demographic benefit as the Baby Boom ages and the death rate rises,” said Dana Walker, a portfolio manager at Kalmar Investments Inc., which oversees $3 billion in Greenville, Delaware. “The flow-through, in a top-line and a bottom-line sense, ought to be very generous.”
Yeah, flow through, that’s us boomers. We’re just flowing through!
If you look at the number of deaths that occurred within the U.S. over the last few years, it’s been relatively flat, Ryan, 43, said. When you get out into the Baby Boomer years, you’d begin to expect that volume would increase to the tune of 2 percent a year.
Now that’s interesting, the number of deaths in the U.S. has been “relatively flat.” I don’t think about death much (never) but it sure seems that there would be a change in the death rate – up or down. Either we are getting healthier and living longer, or vice versa. But it just doesn’t compute that the death rate would be flat.
We’re invested in the boomer economy: jails (CXW), replacement knees (ZMH), blood tests (DGX), pet fixers (WOOF), cancer sticks (MO), cancer drugs (NVS), Velveeta (KFT), fake hearts (CTE) and anti-chaffing powder (JNJ).
So we’re kinda betting against dying.
But maybe we should consider that our future lies in death.
The company yesterday offered to buy its largest competitor, Stewart Enterprises Inc., for $11 a share in cash, or about $1.04 billion, based on 94.6 million shares outstanding as of April 30. Stewart rejected a bid of $9.50 a share earlier this month. Together, the companies would control about 20 percent of the market, Ransom estimated.
Cornering the market on the death business isn’t a bad strategy. Both SCI and Stewart are beaten down.
SCI peaked in the mid-$50s in summer 1996 when its stock split 2-for-1. Stewart stock reached the mid-$50s in spring 1998, when it also split 2-for-1. Those party-poopers, the SEC, said both companies would have to restate earnings based on the fact they counted “pre-need” revenue before the need was needed. SCI sells for about nine bucks a share now.
Dumbass stock market. If the companies were worth $50 a share a dozen years ago, why are they now just worth $9? Stock Anal-cysts that’s why.
Bah, Die Boomer Die, doesn’t seem to be a strategy we should pursue. Even the blog is dead.
I’m going to live forever…
The city where I live has an ordinance against modifying motorcycle exhaust systems from manufacturer’s original. I’m not positive, but I think this is one of those “look the other way” ordinances. Like spitting on the sidewalk, or that buildings must have posted a “no spitting” sign.
Have you ever heard a quiet Harley? I love the pahrump-pahrump-pahrump of a Harley. What I don’t like is the conversation drowning roar they put out when the owner shows off.
Do they teach you in Harley school to make as much noise as possible in the city limits?
I watched the Teddy Bear run one year (a fund raisers sponsored by Harley owners) and in the block in front of city hall, Every. Single. Harley. gunned it the whole block. As the noise echoed off the Federal building and Courthouse, the police and sheriff officers just smiled.
Here’s a case where Boomers could take a note from Millennials. Even though millennials wouldn’t be caught dead on an American made motorcycle – the Japanese manufacturer’s have learned how to muffle noise without sacrificing performance.
I can say without equivocation: every Harley rider is guilty of making obnoxious sounds every time they ride. Get them in a group and each one has to top the other. Peer pressure run amok.
But since they are Boomer law-breakers, the cops just look the other way.
BTW: these are the same people that just HATE the boom-boom-boom bass blasters coming from car stereos.
