Wednesday Weigh-In 20250911

Let us hold thoughts of peace today for the loved ones who were harmed 24 years ago today. In some sense, that's all of us.

Waist = 44.0"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wonderful Weirdos Day

Today is Wonderful Weirdos Day.

According to National Today, “Wonderful Weirdos Day is celebrated across America on September 9.” ¹

Why is it celebrated during an ordinary unit of time such as a day. Isn’t that boring and totally not weird? Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to designate it as Wonderful Weirdos Nychthemeron? ^{2, 3}

¹ https://nationaltoday.com/wonderful-weirdos-day/

² https://english.stackexchange.com/a/595618

³ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nychthemeron

Wednesday Weigh-In 20250902

I'm losing hope that I'll get another job at the salary I was making at the beginning of the year. I had hoped to keep working for another eight years. In the mean time, I'm taking in weekly unemployment payments plus SNAP. Yet I'm burning through a lot of savings each month. I still need to apply for energy assistance and SAGA.

Waist = 43.75"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

The Hawk and the Crow

An image of a hawk in flight with a crow just above it showed up in my feed on a popular social media site yesterday. The text below it said,

“The crow is the only bird that dares to peck at the hawk, he sits on the hawk's back and bites it on its neck, but the hawk does not respond, nor does it fight the crow nor waste time on the crow. He just opens his wings and starts to rise high in the sky, the higher the flight, the harder it is to breathe up [sic] and then the crows fall due to lack of oxygen! Stop wasting your time with crows, just go to the heights yourself and they will disappear like that!!”

The post is supposed to be motivational. But it demonizes the crow. As well, all I could think of is how the crow was defending its nest against the hawk’s predation. There’s no other reason the crow would bother a hawk. If the crow were not there, we’d see the hawk with a baby crow in its talons.

The message I get is that if you go around causing trouble and making people’s lives difficult, you can escape retribution and get away guilt-free.

Image attribution:

Husky Mom on Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/raven-in-2025--443745369554885955/

Wednesday Weigh-In 20250829

My scale didn't recognize me last week because I weighed so much. I'm serious!

It needs to know the user's height in order to calculate BMI. And to avoid entering it everytime, the user steps on the scale first to tell the scale what the user's weight is. The weight serves as a "user ID" of sorts. This makes it possible for everyone in the family to use the device without having to change the user setting. Dad is "180;" Mom is "140;" the teenage daughter is "110" for example.

But when it gets "190," it can't find a user height. In this case it doesn't calcuate BMI and defaults to showing just the weight.

Waist = 43.75"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20250823

Just another weigh-in

Waist = 43.75"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.

Wednesday Weigh-In 20250730

I'm creeping up again on the ominous 190lb mark. This is the most I've ever weighed. When I was approached 190 before, I got serious and limited my eating to keep the weight gain in check. But right now I don't really care.

Waist = 42.75"
Height = 5' 7"

References:

1. Wikipedia BMI page
2. Balance Body Composition Bath Scale
3. Javascript must be enabled to view the data.