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[pshaw_raven]

Fox got another set of MRIs done on his leg. Since it's Friday evening I doubt anyone will read them until next week. I'd never really been in the new Baptist Hospital they built out here but it's really nice. My doctor's office is in the building next door, and I've been in some of the offices, but not the main hospital.

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer is amazing. Unsettling. It's ... not quite science fiction, not really horror, but I got so engrossed in reading it that Fox was back out and done in what felt like no time flat. I was recommended it because the "Area X" in the story is probably somewhere in Florida. I believe the author lives in Tallahassee. He's written a lot of other books, so I'll be busy for a while. I'm really curious why the biologist narrator keeps referring to "large reptiles," when she's very particular about other species. Why hasn't she called them alligators yet?

I learned some interesting things about weight manipulation from a podcast about this guy who is a nutritional advisor to UFC fighters. To make weight, they used to starve themselves and go jogging wearing trash bags and shit. He helps them make weight by simply controlling their water weight. And how he does it came in very handy this week because I ate WAY more dandan noodles than I ought to have and gained a comparatively large amount of water from all the salt. I can blather more about it if anyone's super interested, but I find this stuff fascinating. This guy gets these fighters down to their "weigh in" weights, then by the time they're ready to fight, they've gained ten or fifteen pounds, and it's all water. Human bodies are wild. :D

Speaking of salty things I shouldn't be eating that much of, Chili's chips and salsa is great. Just chips 'n salsa. I love it.

I saw an Eastern Bluebird while I was running this morning. They don't usually come all the way back here, but I'll see them closer to the highway. I think they prefer it up there where more people have open yards, where back here we tend to leave more forest and have less open space. But it's still cool to see them. It's the Bluebird of Happiness, y'all.

Comments

[expandranon]

Seems to me that the fighting world ought to adopt a different metric than weight. I'm sure that a person's "dry weight" could be calculated without all that tomfoolery.

[pshaw_raven]

I can kinda understand it, but it does seem like trying to "make weight" is mostly gaming the system so that you can try to fight smaller opponents.

[foggynights]

I dated someone that did MMA and then transitioned to BJJ and I found his food routine to be super interesting. Like you said, it's mostly water manipulation for the most part.

[pshaw_raven]

Water manipulation makes more sense than the older method of fasting and sweating. Missing out on all those calories could easily cost someone hard-earned muscle.