Thrifty

It was weird hearing people talk about the nostalgia factor. I'd never heard of Farrell's until the first Farrell's episode. After the revamp, I read reviews and some people don't like the way they handle birthdays. They prefer the old way with the loud celebratory singing and noise. I wonder if "Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag" in that one episode of The Simpsons was inspired by Farrell's. I should pull out my DVD and listen to the commentary again.

She could have killed him elsewhere and thrown the body in. Still raises the question of how she got there in the first place. If she killed him off site, then lugging a dead body in would have made it even harder to sneak in.

Probably overexposure.

LA to Vegas was marketed as being by the creator of the hugely popular Modern Family. I'm sure that helps a ton.

The consensus was that he was doing well before the lymphadema surgery. He stopped taking the pain medications and didn't try to get more. He did the exercises assigned. He lost hundreds of pounds. He didn't have food smuggled in to him, like Penny, James K, Lisa, Steven, or many others. I don't know what you want from him or why you can't give a man credit for progress.

The thing is that there's being overweight, which is common, and being very, dangerously overweight. I'm about 50 pounds heavy, but I can walk around pretty well, move well, and generally take care of myself. I don't like walking up stairs and I wish I didn't get winded after only 4 flights, but it's not an insurmountable task. I think what everyone is kind of expecting of Whitney is that she work her way down to being just somewhat overweight. That's what most of the patients on My 600 Pound Life do. Most of them are still a bit chubby and overweight, but they don't need nursing home level care and their weight isn't an imminent threat to their lives. There was an article in The Onion once. It said something like "Man To Get Fatter Before Losing Weight". The man was fat, but reasoned he wasn't super fat, so he didn't need to lose weight. I wish I could find it. I basically got motivated after my pants started feeling tighter and I couldn't fit into my collection of humorous t-shirts. Whitney needs to find her own motivation to lose weight. It would have to come from within of course, or it would never work.

Not to mention that TLC needs to free up the hours for more shows about polygamists.

I hear so many horror stories about people getting hooked on pain killers, that I'm afraid of them now. I have to go for a few minor dental surgeries later this year to fix some missing teeth. Bone graft, followed by implants. I hope the pain isn't too bad and I can get by okay without them.

There are billions of women in the world. Infamous criminals get girlfriends and wives, so it's not hard to believe Steven Assanti would. My DVR didn't even pick this up on the season recording. Probably for the best. I wouldn't have wanted to watch this kind of exploitative nonsense even if it did.

Next week's episode had better have a happy ending and a good patient, or I am going to be super angry.

I will say this is much better than her fellow Sunny actor Glenn Howerton's attempt to branch out into a new sitcom. AP Bio is almost unwatchable. If The Colonel is comatose like that, why is he in a chair instead of a bed?

I was thinking the same thing the entire time. His body was a really weird shape at the beginning. He looked like a big pancake at the beginning.

TLC should show Whitney and the rest of the cast last night's episode of My 600 Pound Life, and make a renewal of their contracts be contingent on it.

It's doubly tragic because he was doing so well until the lymphadema surgery. He was trying hard, losing the weight, doing the exercise. You couldn't have asked for a better patient. Then it all went to crap after that surgery. I really thought this was going to be one of the great success stories. I need to hug my kitties.

He had a heart attack.

That was so sad. I was so shocked. I really thought he'd make it. He was doing so well there. I'm crying right now, and this show has never made me cry.

Some of them got out before the quarantine went up. It seems like they could have some apparatus for screening to keep zombies in and let humans out. I mean, checking for blood pressure is one of the most elementary medical tests you can do.

I have a feeling things are going to get really bad over the season. It's established already that there are homeless zombies who have trouble finding brains to eat (but not spray tanner and hair dye). We all know what happens when a zombie goes hungry. Chase Graves said something about how they might have supply troubles. And you just know that guillotine is going to be used. But seriously, why the fuck is the entire apparatus of searching for a cure limited to a single Seattle based pathologist? It seems like if he could somehow figure out a cure, the apparatus of the entire United States government, and probably the World Health Organization to boot, would be able to figure something out pretty quickly.

I don't know that most people go quite that fast. 4 MPH is bordering on jogging. I do 4 MPH on the treadmill and it's pretty brisk and I probably wouldn't sustain that speed if the belt wasn't forcing me to. I would bet that most healthy walkers were doing 3 to 3.5. And of course, the 1.5 MPH speed is an average brought down by lots of stopping. When she was moving she was probably going around 2 to 2.5. If her actual walking speed were actually 1.5 MPH. then with the stops, her finish time would have been longer.

I don't understand the conflict in this episode. In the previous episode, they were throwing around luxury cars like they were toy matchbox cars. Now suddenly $100,000 is an insurmountably huge sum of money? And how did some small time Rhode Island based bookie have the cash to cover a bet like that?

I tried to do ketogenic for a while. Maybe I'm mistunderstanding the system, but it feels like you're trying to trick your body into losing a lot of weight fast by keeping it deprived of carbohydrates for a while. It is analogous to driving a tractor trailer on a freeway. Those things are big and lumbering, so they have terrible acceleration. They can eventually get up to about the same speeds as cars though. But if they slow down and come to a stop, they have to go through that slow acceleration process again. Ketogenic seemed like it was sort of like that. Acceleration was staying under 26 carbs for about a week, then you were at "freeway speeds". Screw up and eat something with too many carbs, like a bowl of Cheerios, a sandwich, a candy bar, or some fruit, and you've slammed the brakes and have to start over again. I found I could only eat a narrow band of the same foods over and over again, and it tended to make me go crazy. Then I would slip up and that slip up would turn into a three day eating bender. I had the logic "might as well cram it in while I'm stopped". So now I'm trying to go on a more basic "don't eat excessive junk food and stay under 1800 calories a day" plan. Also I do exercise.

Maybe it's not something in your social circles, but believe me, it is quite common.

You could buy the season for $17 on Amazon.com. There was also a site I used to use when I didn't have cable and newly aired shows weren't available. It's called putlocker. I think the URL is putlocker.is and you can try that.

Not as many as shows about fat people.

That episode made me really want some ice cream. I don't have a lot of really complex thoughts on it. Marcus said something about owning the Farrell's brand, which he would be using to revive the location that was closed up. So what was that to mean for the other locations? They would be able to operate as ice cream shops but they would have to change their names? I don't understand how you can be so neglectful that you fail to pay something as basic as rent when your store has the operating revenue to do so.