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I started 8w2l because I wanted to work on my cardio endurance (idgaf about being “lean”) - and it’s working! My Fitbit tracks my cardio health score and it has been steadily on the rise since I started this program. But be warned - every single workout is a glute burner. I’m used to rotating muscle groups so they have a chance to recover, but Woody is literally not giving my ass a break. I can barely get in and out of chairs!

I have some purple oxalis I planted from nursery starts years ago in a shady region of my yard and they have come back beautifully every year. I want to try planting a row of like 20 of them, so it would be most economical to start them from bulbs. Anyone tried that here?

I have a watermelon plant that came from I think a Bonnie start that I got at Home Depot back in April and it finally yielded a nice, volleyball sized, beauty of a melon. I cut into it and the flesh was ruby red and juicy. I handed a slice to my toddler, then my husband. Suddenly my toddler is spitting it out and saying “that’s yucky”. Then I heard my husband retching. I took a nibble and this thing tasted like dirty socks smell. It was naaaaasty. What went wrong??

I got my first Bodyspec Dexa scan today. I want to get these quarterly to track changes in body composition with my lifting. I'm a 41 yo woman for context. The report says my bone density is in the 85th percentile for my age/gender cohort, which is great and I'm glad to hear that. But then it says my total bone mass is 5 lbs. I asked their "ai assistant" and it said yes, that means my whole 5'4", apparently quite dense skeleton weighs 5 lbs. Google is telling me a woman's skeleton usually weighs between 15 and 22 lbs. Is this a flaw in the Dexa results? Or are skeletons lighter than I thought?

I signed my kid up for a day camp program in Leander. I knew 183 had added toll lanes. I naively did not realize that north of a certain point all lanes are toll lanes and it was costing me $4 - $5 per trip, nearly $20 per day, to drop the kid off at this camp and pick them up later.

Not only is this a massive middle finger to everyone who works in Austin and moved north trying to get a more affordable COL, it's a huge disincentive for anyone in Austin to journey up that way to visit a business or restaurant or church or whatever may be going on. Whose bright idea was this??

Anyway if you need me I'll probably be sitting at a red light somewhere on Parmer for the foreseeable future.

I'm planning a Rainbird drip irrigation setup for ornamental beds in my front yard. I am planning to do a basic grid/outline in 1/2 inch tubing, then have 1/4 inch "branches" to each plant. I need the system to hop over a sidewalk into a bed that's bound in by building or sidewalk on all sides. It would be easiest and least ugly to run 1/4 inch tubing through one of the cracks in the sidewalk. Once it's on the other side, can I have the 1/4 inch tube feed a 1/2 inch tube that runs the length of the bed? Or should I stick to 1/4 inch for everything on that side of the sidewalk?