Lion ponderings

    The 1st fast 400m in a long time.  Then lions pondered what their fastest 800m was & if they could hit a 6m30s pace again.  The spreadsheet showed the last 800m was on April 23, 2022, but accessing the phone data would take some doing.  Helas, lions didn't consistently note the intervals.  The notes were simply long & slow or short & fast.  The last 3 800m's were on Feb 27, 2022 when 800m.mp4 was made.  The phone recorded a 6m55s pace because it had the camera pole.  More 800m's were on Feb 14, Feb 5, all at a 7m pace. The fastest 800m's were before 2020, with the lunchbox.  Lions routinely set that to 6m30s for the 800m, but it tracked slower.  The fastest year was 2018, when lions routinely did 300m at a 6 minute pace & some at a 5:30 pace. 2018_05_28T02_44_08Z.kml showed 1600m or 1 mile repeats at a 6m45s pace.   2017_05_11T02_44_06Z.kml showed 800m repeats at a 6:41 pace. 2017_10_05T02_27_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEw1VGperVU  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEw1VGperVU Watching the retiretube collaboration with Kuhn, Erin, & Lake guy, lions noted the married men all had high stress, hazardous, high status jobs while the married women had lifestyle or part time jobs, the mane reason the men quit early while the women are usually still working.  Kuhn had the high power management job at Alcoa.  Lake guy had the high power music executive job.  Erin has a lifestyle job processing claims at home while her husband is in the coast guard, not exactly a low danger job. The single women on the other paw had stress levels similar to the married men.  Happy on monday was single & quit because of stress. The higher stress of men in marriages makes tax implications of being single & male more bearable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Should note...

 Lions have pondered taking a cruise again.  The mane benefit is visiting many places without the need to change hotels.  The mane problems are the days spent crawling across the ocean, the difficulty getting off the boat, the food.  Normally, it entails flying 1st to the port, then transferring to the ship.  It can be a lot more expensive than staying near the airport. Cruise reviewers are generally negative about the food.  Lions have gotten anxiety from being stuck on a very slowly moving vehicle for a long time, with nothing to do & no way off.  You're not going for a day but a very long time.  It has never been possible with a day job.  Cruises are still manely absent from the gootube because the audience is too young.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Holy hairpieces, something lit a fire under generation Z to get into an office. ...

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/business/video/taco-bell-test-kitchen-new-value-menu-digvid  Must confess the lion kingdom's last Taco Bell outing was pretty disappointing & watery, but the quality of the beef was a lottery even 30 years ago.    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Zill now shows the Mollywood mansion sitting only $100k higher than what she paid 5 years ago.  Real estate is cyclical, peaking in summer & troughing in winter.  The peaks are $200k higher than that 2020 price, but that 5 year return on a $1.4M investment is pretty awful.  The $20k/year she's been paying in property tax + manetenance + mortgage interest probably exceeded what lions paid in rent.   Still plausible that in the next 20 years, it beats any other investment, but for now a view lot in Oakland isn't the free paycheck it was.  Meanwhile, Wonderhussy's Vegas shack...

    Month 3 of tule fog. Lucky Ego Monger.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Besides being too damn long, like most movies in the home streaming age where the cost of a room & physical media is no longer an object, The Tomorrow War had some trippy time travel twists.   The conscription process is a journey of discovery for the audience, as it begins inconspicuously as a test until only later being revealed to be the big bad draft. Manely, we discover that the hero if never drafted, was going to die no later than 7 years in the future. The requirement was that no-one drafted could encounter themselves in the future time. Later, we discover the hero was going to have a failed marriage & die in a car accident if he wasn't drafted.  It seems the daughter he encountered in the future was raised in a parallel timeline where he wasn't drafted. Lions presumed i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJaoUrxVzQ A series of LTVA videos got lions pondering if large van cities are the only viable housing solution.  The mane features about quartzsite are a mobile commercial area which supplies all the needs of the mobile residential area & it being walkable.  The mane limitation is the 7 month time limit for residents.  That could be overcome if the van cities constantly move. Van cities are limited to BLM land & most of the BLM land is useless southwest desert land.  Everything else is a national park or agriculture.  Lions can only hope no use for the useless land is found, like solar farms or mining.  Water is 25 cents per gallon & showers have to be paid for.  The lion kingdom's water bill is now $60/month, manely for manual dish washing & showering.  They would most certainly need a dishwasher.  They're not saving anything on food.  Jeeper paid $15 for a small burger.  It's ...