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WtR
Life is one of those things that crashes, when you wish it would not…
Two O’Clock a.m. and I had to end the terrible night I was having and simply got up. About an hour after getting up, I brewed some coffee and sat down at the computer. Then I decided to write this post…
Thank God that these nights are few and far between compared to the past. Ten years ago, these nights were every other night. It was rough and then I spent several years in the Tiny Russian Village and found a balance within myself. That is when things started to reverse…
But I am no stranger to long nights…
Doggy hungry and eye bothering him; only 1 a.m. in the Tiny Russian Village…
But, even with Boza gone and his issues, I still have to deal with once or twice a month a night of hell….night sweats and intense pain….my own issues are no fun at times…
Last night, or the attempt at a night, was one of those bad nights…
Sveta and I rode our bikes yesterday. She recorded the trip back and it was 10 kilometers one way. It was interesting and we ended up deep in the woods around Moscow. We also found the main source of water for Moscow in the old days…seems it supplied Moscow for over a hundred years or so. Really cool…
Need to go back to the water supply place. It is not on the internet and it is an important place for us to record on the blog….need pictures…
DPRK leader Kim Jong-Un and US President Donald Trump…
I doubt most Americans are able to see what I see in this photo. I have seen hundreds of photos of the meeting between DPRK leader Kim Jong-Un and US President Donald Trump. It was east meets west….DPRK showed total respect and that is how it should be. Trump is Kim’s elder and that is what the pictures show in respect to…
It is the east thingy….I guess you won’t see it?
#FreeAssange Today’s rally at the Sydney Town Hall pic.twitter.com/9YzQB0uu2s
— Father Dave (@fatherdave) June 17, 2018
Outer drivers side tie rod end went out on Sammy the Volga. The only joint that cannot be greased properly and poof it went bye-bye…
Therefore, yesterday was a day of hunting down a new one. Our car is getting rare and so when we found a replacement we bought several to have as backup. The same joint is used in four places on the front suspension. We even bought one rebuild kit for emergency use…
I will on Wednesday get the job done. Svetochka will bring the parts home Tuesday after the auto parts store get them in…
Always never ending things to do and never boring around my world…
WtR
Really cool….better than a zillion butter beans…
Not sure what I would do with it, but maybe rolling my cellphone up into a tube would be efficient… ???
WtR
You can sugar coat being fat all you want:
Oh I am pleasingly plump, just hefty, big boned, structurally challenged and so on and so on. It is simply that you and I am fat! We have way more excess mass than we should carry and it is 99% of the time, because we eat too much and or eat the wrong things…
Yes some people have medical issues, but you will find out that many of us, just put food in our mouths and do not even think about it. At one time, I would eat four Big Macs, two large fries and a diet soda! One meal….LOL…
Get that? Diet Soda….
I am still fat:
We have an issue happening in the world. Fat is being sugar coated so that feelings do not get hurt…
With that sugar coating, we have more people who are diabetic than we can keep up with…
Key facts – The number of people with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. The global prevalence of diabetes among adults over 18 years of age has risen from 4.7% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2014. Diabetes prevalence has been rising more rapidly in middle- and low-income countries. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation. In 2015, an estimated 1.6 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes. Another 2.2 million deaths were attributable to high blood glucose in 2012. Almost half of all deaths attributable to high blood glucose occur before the age of 70 years. WHO projects that diabetes will be the seventh leading cause of death in 2030. Healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use are ways to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes can be treated and its consequences avoided or delayed with diet, physical activity, medication and regular screening and treatment for complications.
Source: Diabetes
I weighed over 154 + kilos (340 + pounds). Right now I weigh 114 kilos and that is still a huge 250 # and while I am strong and big boned, I am also fat, fat fat and did I say FAT?
I woke up one day:
I was taking maximum dosage of Glucophage (Metformin) daily, maximum dosage of two other sugar pills, I also took heart medicines, happy pills, blood pressure medicines and I peaked at around 30 to 35 pills twice a day… That is nuts…
I have been working at getting it all under control for many years…
I have lost weight and I have lost pills…
Today it dawned on me:
I took three pills this morning. I wake with normal fasting blood sugar levels and I take only two pills at night before bedtime. One pill is an aspirin, I will take it to thin blood until I die. Another pill is a nitrogen long acting pill, I will most likely take it until I die. The last pill is 500 of Metformin and as I lose weight, I hope to quit taking that. I take five pills total a day now, from the peak of 60 to 70 pills in a day…
You better believe I feel better and now I can gripe about little things like arthritis, hangnails and stubbing my toe… 😉
If I can see 100 kilos in stable weight, I feel that I can stop all sugar pills completely. Then I will control it with diet, just as I do now, with some medicine help…
I was way too fat:
I was, am too fat. If you have type two diabetes, you most likely are too fat. I am not say that there are not reasons and exceptions that you have acquired Type 2, but diet and weight is the biggest culprit. You could be thin and have type 2, guess what? It most likely is what you ate all your life…
Weight loss is a big factor to getting diabetes under control. Not the medicine (I call that a band aid). The medicine if used correctly will allow you to get your weight under control and medicine usage down, took me years to figure that out. Many hard and body damaging years to figure that out…
Mary Tyler Moore said it best…
I’ve always been independent. I’ve always had courage. But I didn’t always own my diabetes. – Mary Tyler Moore
You either own it or it owns you. No in between and no détente will ever be acquired….you either own it or it owns you…
WtR
Moscow”Moscow is very large and appears even larger from a distance. It is built entirely of wood. For this reason the artisans, most of whom have fire at hand, are all outside the town and there is a long row of buildings beyond it. In between lie large squares … the Prince had had the houses counted six years ago [probably 1520] and found there were forty-one thousand five hundred of them.”Herberstein refers to the dwelling place of the Grand-Duke as a ‘castle’. However, he also says that “. it could be called a townlet, for many walled apartments of the Grand-duke’s lie within. … There are two fine churches here … those of Our Lady and St Michael, as well as other churches of which two, at the time that we were there, were being walled.” (Grundy, pp20-21) Here, Herberstein is referring to some of the palaces and churches which make up the present-day Moscow Kremlin, parts of which date from a period of extensive construction in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Sometimes I wonder why we cannot just have a world game and not be politicized?
Russia 2018 “The Tournament of Dreams”. So goes a slogan for the next FIFA World Cup. For anyone aside from Russia and Saudi Arabia fans though, the opening game of this year’s elite tournament looks more like a footballing nightmare. A far cry from the days where the current holders automatically kicked the tournament off, the two teams raising the curtain this time round will be the two currently lowest ranked in the whole competition.
Source: • Chart: World Cup 2018: The Worst Opening Game Ever? | Statista
Yes Russia won and it was a good game…
The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia got off to the perfect start for the hosts as the Russian national team cruised to a 5-0 victory over Saudi Arabia, using three goals from substitutes, including two from Denis Cheryshev. Russia scored just 12 minutes into the match thanks to a header from Lury Gazinsky, but they would need nothing more to take all three points and move atop Group A.
A comment left at my email…
Mike Masr – I really could not expect anything less.
Putin has expressed that sporting events should not be politicized, and the US does not hold to this principal. Fair competition and innocent athletes should not suffer from political fallout says Putin.
The World Cup is not even 24 hours old and it’s starting, Statista’s Martin Armstrong says World Cup 2018: The Worst Opening Game Ever.
William Evanina, an FBI agent and director of the US Counterintelligence and Security Center says, if you’re planning on traveling to Russia for the World Cup, you might want to think twice about bringing a personal device. Just ask Robert Mueller, Eric Swalwell or Adam Schiff our most famous tin foil hat paranoids that see Russians in every shadow. Russians are even watching and listening to you in the toilet don’t you know. (sarc) The MIC deep-state narrative says big bad evil Russia is watching.
When Sochi, Russia hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic games the US was in a 24/7 campaign to discredit it due to the then recent law passed in Russia banning the promotion of homosexuality to little children. Never mind our best friends in Saudi Arabia that ceremonially execute gays by tossing them off rooftops and behead women for adultery. After all, Russia should allow a 5 year old to learn all about anal sex and that it’s perfectly okay to like that and to be gay. There is no end to duplicity and hypocrisy in US criticism.
I knew this was coming.
We can’t let the games proceed we need to continue our program of Russia bashing.
Oh how true. How true…
WtR
1. Crimea would still be Ukrainian if not for the coup in Kiev which overruled and nullified Ukraine’s constitution, and disintegrated its territories, violating and ending the Budapest memorandum. Crimea’s parliament announced that Ukraine no longer existed because of that. They were right, and Crimea had to choose their future identity…
2. Crimea’s 2014 referendum fully obeyed international and all laws. Those claiming it was not according to law are just inventing propaganda to be a naysayer because they don’t like that it happened. But it was fully lawful. What wasn’t lawful, however, is the coup in Kiev that nullified Ukraine’s constitution disintegrated its territories, and violated the Budapest memorandum…
3. The USA is projecting its own offenses onto others. The US has invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and many others in recent years, murdering many millions of innocent people and laying waste to otherwise peaceful countries. But RU has not invaded any country during Putin’s tenure as president…
I would like to know who sent them. They hid behind a proxy, but they are correct and accurate…
WtR
SOVIET GROUND-BASED LASER The Soviet Strategic Defense Program involved extensive research on advanced technologies in the 1980s. The USSR already had ground-based lasers, conceptually illustrated here, capable of interfering with some US satellites…
MOSCOW, June 14 (Xinhua) — Russian scientists are developing a new space laser cannon that could shoot down potentially harmful space debris, according to local media reports.
The powerful “laser cannon” will be based on a three-meter optical telescope, which was first designed to monitor space for satellites and space junk, according to Russian TV network RT. The space trash destroyer will rid the space debris by piercing each junk with its laser beam until the object evaporates by the energy heat.
The new technology is currently under development by researchers at Scientific and Industrial Corporation “Precision Instrument Systems,” a subsidiary of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.NASA estimated in 2013 that there were more that 500,000 pieces of space junk “the size of a marble or larger” orbiting around the Earth. They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 meters per hour, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft.
The rising number of space debris increased the potential danger to all space vehicles, especially to the International Space Station, space shuttles and other spacecraft with humans aboard.
Source: Russia develops space laser cannon to evaporate space junk – Xinhua | English.news.cn
WtR
We were able to get the money together to get two more windows like the front one we replaced…
So that means we have the windows to replace the side ones at the Russian village home. The windows cost about 3000 rubles (under $50) each. Exactly the same as they were two years ago when we bought the first one. It was nice and is nice to see inflation cease to exist for awhile here in Russia. The windows are real wood and double paned, very nice…
It stretched the budget, but some things have to get done. The windows in the village home were in very bad shape…
I also bought for 20 rubles some rose fertilizer and I hope we still have cherries to munch on in the village. I know that we are going to have a huge apple crop this year and we also have strawberries to pick. The last time we were in TRV that white lilac was doing good and in a few years lets hope to have some wonderful white flowers…
I have to work on the Sammy the Volga. I still need to discover where the oil leak is coming from and we have a strange noise in the rear axle area. I think the brakes are having an issue on the right side in the back…good old drum brakes…
Therefore, today I will be crawling around under the car and trying to see what is going on…
Sveta and I walked for hours last night, the weather is perfect and Moscow is so nice when everyone goes to the dachas and villages. It really is a good thing for the kids to be raised spending months in the villages, learning to grow gardens and raise animals…
Have a nice day..
WtR
The nerve of them damn Russians to: 1) show up at court; & 2) expect to be able to look over the evidence against them. Who the hell do those damn Russians think they are? ~Sarc~
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russian intelligence services still have active “interference operations” into U.S. elections and that handing over certain evidence in a criminal case could imperil ongoing investigations. Mueller on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Washington for an order to protect voluminous evidence sought by lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting LLC, one of three companies and 13 Russian nationals charged in a February indictment alleging election meddling…
Source: Russia Keeps Meddling, Mueller Says in Bid to Guard Evidence – Bloomberg
Darn Russians were indicted and they showed up….Hmm…
WtR