Windows to Russia

This morning I am at 92.5 kilos or for you USAians * (Americans) as I am, 205 lbs….that is down from a peak of 160 kilos or around 355 lbs. I vary by as much as 2 to 3 kilos daily (+ or -) and that is mainly in too many factors to explain, not the least the accuracy of the scales. But a big issue is water weight and I take a pill for that. It works better some days than others and at the weight I am now, that water weight is how big my stomach potbelly shows or not…

But I regress and you asked how did I lose it?

Very simple:

You are what you eat!

With the exception of a medical issue and those as far as weight gain are few and far between, the more you eat the fatter you get. I decided to eat according to my diabetes issues and eat 5 to 6 times daily and only eat just enough to keep my diabetes sugar levels under control. The bad sugar days, less food, but always eating 5 or 6 times…

I toss in activity at a higher level to burn a few more calories, but mainly, stopped putting so much into my mouth and stopped eating out of boredom….eating should never be something you do just to do it. If hungry? Eat a bit and wait for twenty minutes and if still hungry, eat a bit more. The “bit” is what is important. A bit of food, not three Big Macs, two fries and a large refillable Coke…

Remember a bit is a small piece, part, or quantity of something….and Oh Yes….twenty different bits adds up to a bunch….no cheating and saying, “But I just ate a bit of food!”

Today I ate:

Two cups of coffee with milk, four chicken nuggets and a biscuit cookie thingy that I love dearly and a piece of cheese as a snack. That is all I had from when I got up and now it is 1 p.m., I am not hungry and I always take a vitamin to supplement any lack of variety and in a little bit, I will fix a lunch that has more substance to it. But, I will eat bits for lunch and never a Double Whooper with cheese, large fry and soft drink… (Like I use to do.)

The secrete is to shrink your stomach in size. I eat four chicken nuggets and I feel full. Yet I have to wait a few minutes and let that sink into my system. When Sveta and I eat? I tell her after a few bites, I am getting full. If I ignore that feeling? I eat too much and pay for it with feeling stuffed. If I eat too fast, then it is worse in the long run. Fat people in general are eating as fast as they can and they eat way too much, before their system says, “Excuse me you are full!” The more you stretch your stomach out the more it wants to say it is full. That is why people at first do so well with having their stomach stapled to make it smaller…

Another thing is to get away from the table as soon as you are full….I get up and do dishes or something and if I do not? I find that I always grab one more bite and one more cookie and whatever. I also have containers and pack the leftovers fast and put them away in the fridge. I may eat them later for one of my five meals a day, yet that is a good thing. Spread your food out over several meals…

I read this quote by Michael Keaton (He spells his name wrong though. 😉 ):

I’ve changed my diet a few times. Now I’m trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I’m busy, it’s easy to lose weight. – Michael Keaton

That is what I do to be truthful and it works…

Just stop as you eat:

Pizza, burgers, cheesecake….stop and eat, but one slice of that pizza, half that giant burger and sorry, but one bite of that cheesecake. Still enjoy it, but cut those portions and by all means, stop eating that whole damn pizza that just came from the delivery guy…

Better yet, never never never have any delivery brought to your home. Never and did I say never? At least walk to get your food…

Really you do not need even half the food you eat most of the time and you definitely do not need four slices (but but but there are eight slices in my delivered pizza and yes it is all going to your butt) of pizza, even if it is only cheese pizza!

The truth is:

Many of us fat people can spread one of our meals into three meals. That should tell you how much too much we eat at one time…

Of course your mileage will vary!

If I can do it? Anyone can…

WtR

* A citizen of USA, United States of America. As an American would be confused with people of South and Central Americas as well as Canadians.

Source: Urban Dictionary: USAian

No it is not a pregnancy test!

It is a Coronavirus test that Svetochka just took and she got a bunch of them from her British based family when they came to Russia, when Sveta’s Uncle died recently. Sveta took the test before she went to her mom’s…

Guess where it is made?

I had to laugh…

Made in China!

Yet all you hear about in the West is bad China, bad China, bad China and yet their test for Covid are made in China?

~~ But I thought everything made in China is BAD! ~~

It is a good thing to check before going to elderly to visit. Not perfect, yet still a good thing and easy to do. Russia has their version and it was made in Russia….but very expensive and these from Britain are free to the British…

Just a tidbit of info…

WtR

Well that was slicker than counting to 7, err I mean to 11 (Windows 7 to 11 updating!)

Well now what? Do I sit on Windows 11 on my laptop and leave it? Or do what I do best and strive for the best and learn about the best OS’s as I seem to always do?

For myself personally I dislike Windows as an operating system and what it stands for. Yet, I understand that my Sweetpea needs that stability and just working every time she fires up the system and wants to do what she wants to do and not have anything mess around with that “want to do stuff”…

Since I want my Sweetpea happy and not grouchy with me, I worked out all the bugs on my laptop and then transferred all I learned and install Windows 11 on her computer. This was a good thing and as I write this I am doing so on a desktop that is very stable and very good for my Sweetpea and it is good for me to do my everyday stuff as I write and dwell deeper into much of what I desire to do. When it works and just works great, do not mess with it…

I guess the best way to put it is this; Windows 11 is good and for my girl it is perfect, yet for me, it is boring and I need to move onward. Besides, I have Windows to do anything I need when I need such an operating system….except, I get bored quickly with OS’s that are stagnate and everything is too stable…

Therefore, it is time for me to search for the next victim of my quest for the best OS that I can play with. That is not boring and the challenges to overcome are what makes it worth doing. Linux is the only place for me and that is that…

We have three viable (as in the sense of useful) computers right now:

1. Sveta’s work computer is a Lenovo Yoga that I won in Estonia at a raffle…

Center Hotel – Tallinn, Estonia Just wonderful… (Coffee Time)

I do not touch it except to update what Windows says I should and she has a stable platform in Windows 10 to do what she does for work and not have any issues. That is good and why Windows is a good thing and the Yoga is one sweet laptop and I am glad that I was able to get such a device and find a use for it in the real world. 1 Euro at a raffle and what a deal…

2. The desktop I built years ago…

Honey I blew up the computer, so lets have coffee…

In 2017 I killed the old desktop and now it is almost 5 years old soon. That is a long time in computer years….hey it is five lifetimes in a tiny mouse in your house years. Longtime for somethings in our life…

Yet, I just gave it many more years of life….so here is to 5 more years!

3. My laptop that has about 1 year and then I will need to think about what to do…

Maibenben Laptops (XiaoMai 6Pro-E5100)

Yes I can keep it going for 10 more years….but that is no fun as I strive forward and forward some more everyday to keep up with the times and the OS’s calling my name…

About a year and I will be getting grouchy at the inability to perform the upgrades the way I appreciate doing such things….gotta have one computer that does it all and my laptop is such as that computer for that function…

It is a powerhouse after I have done my tricks of the trade on it….yet, I see a 10 Gen processor getting old and limited to 32 GB of RAM is getting old and only a 248 GB SSD getting old and I am getting old and both the laptop and I will need some rejuvenation in some form…. 😉

Those are my thoughts today….just started to download a new Linux as I write this….Oh Boy! I can’t wait…

WtR

Like in the Tiny Russian Village, I record many things day in and day out. This is an issue that will harm someone and most likely when a mother is pushing her stroller and or carriage…

Look and see the chunk of wall that has come loose. It is at the top between floors and the whole section of facade is cracking. Hairline cracks are appearing as the moisture freezes that gets behind the cracks and then pushes the wall concrete layer off the building…

This is not a new issue and has been going on and jimmy rigged three times in the past…

Big section fell this morning and the workers just pick it up and go about their business and no one seems to care…

Ouch that will hurt as it falls upon a head and or into someones baby carriage…

WtR

Started last night moving (hours of transferring files to external hard drives) and backing up data for the mess I was about to peregrinate upon and I tried to cover all bases twice and or more over and over! Nothing worse than an upset better half when you demonstrate your abilities and foolishly fail…

Today will be consumed by upgrading our Desktop OS…

Well that went smoothly and other than a bit of communication upon the World Wide Web and a couple of twists in the the system, we now have, as I write this, Windows 11 on our older desktop with…

1. Processor – AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor – 3.80 GHz, Installed RAM – 16.0 GB…

2. Edition – Windows 11 Pro, Version – 21H2, Installed on – ‎12/6/‎2021, OS build 22000.348, Experience – Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22000.348.0…

Plus I installed all updates and saved literally all usable software and all of my Sweet Pea’s data is in place just like it was before…

Sweet Pea will be surprised at how it all worked, for she is one whom expects everything to work and just work….like all of her 4TB of saved data to be available and all her favorite software to be waiting for her to use it. My past record has been tarnished at times! 😉

Hmm, I guess I will not be in trouble?

The main thing is that after I have played with Windows 11 on my laptop that just loves Windows 1,1 how do I get it installed the same perfect upon our old desktop and make it all work?

Work hard, smart and efficiently….than a touch of magic…

Every drive installed perfect, our old NVIDIA card, the old monitor, the whatnot’s are all installed without a hiccup and it just works…

All of her data is available and put back in place….thanks to Firefox sync and Microsoft sync….everything, passwords, sites, hmm….everything….it also is very fast, much faster than Windows 7…

Kinda scary actually….(Knock on Wood!)

As Grandma would have said, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth!”

“Ooh Eeh Ooh Ah Ah Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang”

~
WtR

So South Korea announces Hypersonic weapons and we hear crickets chirping…

SEOUL—South Korea has revealed plans to begin testing a prototype for a ground-launched hypersonic cruise missile in 2022. The Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and local defense prime Hanwha debuted the Hycore prototype concept Dec. 3 at the Defense Acquisition Program Administration’s Core…

Source: South Korea Unveils Hypersonic Cruise Missile Prototype Concept | Aviation Week Network

But China has been doing the same and we have heard nothing but condemnation…

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region”.

Source: US defence chief slams China’s hypersonic weapons tests for ‘destabilising regional security’ during South Korea security talks – ABC News

One more about China and there are a bunch to read….just search. Yet SK is basically crickets singing in the night…

SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. defense chief said Thursday that China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region.”

Source: U.S. defense chief slams China’s drive for hypersonic weapons – POLITICO

So South Korea is good to have Hypersonic weapons and China bad?

Hmm…

WtR

Russia has to fight, because it wants to live…

WtR

I know: Lets do a “Straight from Windows 7 to Windows 11 Upgrade!”

And…

Do not lose any of my Sweet Pea’s stuff, data, bookmarks, history and whatnot’s…

And…

Ignore Microsoft’s attitude about such things and get a much more secure system for my Sweet Pea…

Now this will be a very fun day!

Talk to everyone tomorrow…

WtR

Not easy at times being in a foreign country and getting things done at times. The only vaccine that I find safe to take is a Russian Vaccine and that means I must find the hoops and jump through them again to get that vaccine…

Sputnik V is the only safe vaccine, nothing else will I trust…

We will see, for the Russian Duma has instill blockades for some of us to get this done within Russia. This is like so many countries where the intentions of the main leaders are messed with by a bunch of bored Gov wannabees and they have nothing else to do but toss around trash as they try to find some importance between the times they sleep at their jobs while in session…

Yes it is the same everywhere and us peasants always pay for wannabees and their power grabs…

WtR

Red Lines aren’t a dance invitation one accepts or rejects but a Notification of Intent to Act which one can take seriously or Dismiss out-of-hand. If certain conditions prevail, Then certain actions Will be taken. No “and or buts.”

It’s no wonder that Washington cannot grasp the import of a Red Line. They take no use of language seriously, even their own. But as a helpful hint, someone might suggest an alternative phrase, one which Washington understands well and practices on the regular: Deal Breaker, instead of Red Line, with Peace and War being the alternatives.

WtR