OK, so were you ever reading something and think, "Wait. What the heck did I just read?"

I know it happens a lot on forums and social media but in scientific studies?

I was looking over the report in my medical records authored by my Physical Therapist.

One comment he made was about my spine curvature and he described it as "lumbar lordosis". It is a natural curve of the spine, but too much can cause problems like low back pain, problems walking, etc. Thus my PT stretches and exercises are specifically to correct my lordosis.

Doing a quick internet search on lordosis confirmed the exercises and that I am doing them correctly, but it will take time to fix the problem.

Then I came across a study that says, "... arching the back in women is considered to be a display and reliable signal of sexual receptivity, which is a phylogenetically conserved mechanism across the taxa. This behavior in females of different species elicits male's response through increased attention and copulation attempts, not because animals consider the female attractive, but because the posture signals a female′s sexual receptivity.

The arching of the back causes the buttocks and the belly to stick out. One signals sexual receptivity and the other " signals the ability to successfully support multiple pregnancies."
Link to Study

Moral of the story:

If you have a fat butt and a beer belly, women will think you are attractive and therefore a threat to their relationship because men will think you are hot and will hit on you. It doesn't matter what you look like.

I guess there is hope for all of us. 

23 years today, on September 10, 2001, my late wife was reading the local paper.

She asked me, "Did you know that tomorrow is National 911 Day?"

I said, "No, what's that? Are they celebrating 911 Operators?"

She said, "I don't know."

How did she know that? I remember that conversation like it happened yesterday.

I have searched Federal records on "National" holidays and there is no "National 911 Day" before September 11, 2001. I have searched newspaper archives, internet archives, and even the Library of Congress Digital Collections. No mention of any 911 Day before the Twin Towers fell.

There is a National Public Safety Telecommunicators holiday, but that is the second week in April. There is a National First Responders Day in October.

{ insert Twilight Zone theme music }

I can believe this, I mean how can I find water or pipe work or electric cables in the ground with 2 bits of bent wire?

Quote from: davina61 on September 10, 2024, 02:34:09 PMI can believe this, I mean how can I find water or pipe work or electric cables in the ground with 2 bits of bent wire?

I knew a guy who was quite good at "dowsing". He would use two welding rods bent at a 90-degree angle. I have also seen him use a forked tree branch looking for water. He was a well-driller. He would look at hydrology reports to locate the best area, then use a tree branch (usually a Willow) to locate the exact spot to drill. He used the welding rods to locate metal, like underground wires or pipes.

I do not have that skill, so I use my metal detectors. 

I went to visit a family friend with my folks at their farm in Wales and he cut a forked stick from the hedge and said see if you can find the under ground water course. Well I had done the wire thing but never the twig, to my surprise it twisted up so hard it nearly jumped out my grasp!!

Very often, during the earliest part of our transition, we wonder what our place in the world really is. We wonder if we will fit in, will we be accepted, and we fear that we could lose everything just by being ourselves.

My first psychologist diagnosed me with Gender Dysphoria and I was very concerned about what that meant. He told me that I should just be who I am.

He said, "It should never be difficult to be yourself."

This is not a new concept. The late, great Sammy Davis, Jr. talked about it in his song, "I've gotta be me." Give it a listen.

A busy morning today.

I paid the VA the prescription copay for this quarter. A whole $42.07, so no complaints here.

I renewed my vehicle registration on my Jeep. Cost $77.80, then they add another fee if I use a bank transfer, credit or debit card, plus another fee to process said payment.  Total of $80.80 but it is better than standing in line for an hour just to pay cash and save $3.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to renew it just yet or not. The plate stickers expire at the end of this month. The Jeep gets paid off next month and I want to get something with at least 6 cylinders. This Jeep has been good to me. The 4-cylinder engine has been very good on gas and is great on flat-level ground. But it can't pull its own weight going up a hill. I drove to Yellowstone a few years ago and climbing the Big Horn Mountains on the highway had the engine screaming trying to maintain 50 mph.

Fortunately, here in South Dakota, you own the plates and they just get transferred to a new vehicle. So mine will already have valid tags, just have to pay the title transfer fees, which a dealership will handle and tack it on to the price of the vehicle.

I got a letter from Dakota Imaging. They have been doing my mammograms (through the VA) every year since 2020. My PCP said that since I have no risk factors, she is switching them to every two years. So the letter was to remind me that it is time for my annual mammogram. No, sorry. Talk to my PCP.

  They miss my boobs. 

Quote from: Lori Dee on September 12, 2024, 02:01:06 PMA busy morning today.

I paid the VA the prescription copay for this quarter. A whole $42.07, so no complaints here.

I renewed my vehicle registration on my Jeep. Cost $77.80, then they add another fee if I use a bank transfer, credit or debit card, plus another fee to process said payment.  Total of $80.80 but it is better than standing in line for an hour just to pay cash and save $3.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to renew it just yet or not. The plate stickers expire at the end of this month. The Jeep gets paid off next month and I want to get something with at least 6 cylinders. This Jeep has been good to me. The 4-cylinder engine has been very good on gas and is great on flat-level ground. But it can't pull its own weight going up a hill. I drove to Yellowstone a few years ago and climbing the Big Horn Mountains on the highway had the engine screaming trying to maintain 50 mph.

Fortunately, here in South Dakota, you own the plates and they just get transferred to a new vehicle. So mine will already have valid tags, just have to pay the title transfer fees, which a dealership will handle and tack it on to the price of the vehicle.

I got a letter from Dakota Imaging. They have been doing my mammograms (through the VA) every year since 2020. My PCP said that since I have no risk factors, she is switching them to every two years. So the letter was to remind me that it is time for my annual mammogram. No, sorry. Talk to my PCP.

  They miss my boobs. 

We certainly must take care of our boobs.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on September 12, 2024, 02:07:57 PMWe certainly must take care of our boobs.

I went through a lot to grow them in the first place. I love them and won't take them for granted. 

I know better than to comment on peoples' blogs that grow like bacteria in a petri dish.

Lori... you make rocks look beautiful. Just looking at all those pictures... just reinforces what a beautiful place we live in. There are no ugly rocks. I think that is a metaphor for life. <3

They can make for pretty jewelry. 

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on September 12, 2024, 02:25:17 PMThey can make for pretty jewelry. 

Uh... like your avatar, Chrissy. What is up with that? Never figured you for a blonde chica.

Speaking of, I think I need to change my avatar, although I really like this one.

Quote from: Sephirah on September 12, 2024, 02:28:03 PMUh... like your avatar, Chrissy. What is up with that? Never figured you for a blonde chica.

Speaking of, I think I need to change my avatar, although I really like this one.

When I was on vacation I did try on a blonde long hair wig.  But I did not buy it.
The story behind that avatar remains a secret for the time being. I put it up only briefly at times.

Chrissy

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on September 12, 2024, 02:51:05 PMWhen I was on vacation I did try on a blonde long hair wig.  But I did not buy it.
The story behind that avatar remains a secret for the time being. I put it up only briefly at times.

Chrissy

Please do tell. PM me if you want. <3

Quote from: Sephirah on September 12, 2024, 02:54:44 PMPlease do tell. PM me if you want. <3

I would need to get permission from the creator of that avatar before and IF sharing.
Yes, if I said anything about it, it would be in a PM.

With that said some things are more interesting when they remain a mystery.

Chrissy

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on September 12, 2024, 02:57:51 PMI would need to get permission from the creator of that avatar before and IF sharing.
Yes, if I said anything about it, it would be in a PM.

With that said some things are more interesting when they remain a mystery.

Chrissy

I get that, lol.

All good, girl. You are kind of like me with the avatars.

I just received an interesting text message. I get these from time to time and they are from a trusted sender.

"There is a considerable difference between concentrating upon a dream or hope and concentrating upon building that dream into realization."

Sometimes we forget that there is a difference. Don't dream that dream, go build it!

AS Bad Chad says to the youngsters "do you have a dream, then follow that dream and make it real". Bad Chad is a Canadian hot rod and custom builder who now builds cars for himself and earns from his you tube feed, living the dream!

Friday the 13th

Why is Friday the 13th day so fearful?

Some attribute the origins to the Code of Hammurabi, one of the world's oldest legal documents, which may or may not have superstitiously omitted a 13th rule from its list. Others claim that the ancient Sumerians, who believed the number 12 to be a "perfect" number, considered the one that followed it decidedly non-perfect.

One of the most popular theories, however, links Friday the 13th with the fall of a fearsome group of legendary warriors—the Knights Templar.

Founded around 1118 as a monastic military order devoted to the protection of pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land following the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the Knights Templar quickly became one of the richest and most influential groups of the Middle Ages, thanks to lavish donations from the crowned heads of Europe, eager to curry favor with the fierce Knights. By the turn of the 14th century, the Templars had established a system of castles, churches and banks throughout Western Europe. And it was this astonishing wealth that would lead to their downfall.

For the Templars, that end began in the early morning hours of Friday, October 13, 1307.

History.com - Why Friday the 13th Spelled Doom for the Knights Templar

A bit like Monty Python, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition But they were forewarned and hid and moved a lot of treasure, see the curse of oak island .