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 Being back at 2g of vitamin C every morning, as well as slowing down the cadence made a slight improvement.  It became possible to run every day at 11min/mile & slower without cumulative tendinitis.  It wasn't a slam dunk.  9 minute miles & 180 steps/minute seem to be permanently out of reach.  The pungent smell of soy beans returned.  Spring valley tablets are made in China, probably from soy beans.  Fortunately, the summer heat makes higher speeds impractical regardless of age.   The philosophy was to try to get supercompensation from speed work, but after 6 months of various speeds & number of intervals, every combination only reduced speeds in the long term.  Lions may have run their last 6 minute pace.  There definitely needs to be an extended time before the next race in which no intervals will be run. Effects of aging were most unexpected.  Instead of muscle atrophy, heart attacks, or arthritis, the problem ...
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 The lion kingdom embarked on a study of kayaking around KSC.  The off limits bodies of water seem rather poorly documented.  Goog hit an old fashioned personal website with limited maps & random text descriptions.  https://www.kayakingksc.com/ that guy is a badged KSC employee which allows him more access.  For the rest of us, the Banana river north of the NASA causeway is off limits.  It has motion sensors which go off if anyone goes under that bridge.  https://www.kayakingksc.com/No-Motor-Zone.html     Motorized boats are not allowed on the Banana river north of the 528.  The shores north of the 528 seem to be off limits.  KARS park has a $5 fee.  An extended area of water on the east side is marked off limits with buoys. Banana river is closed north of the 528 during rocket launches.  That covers the Banana river.   The Banana river would be a good place to see starship barges, but not the contents. -----...
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Continuing the lion kingdom's real estate saga  https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/102857268473278281/1225684921613193845   Finally signed the contract disposing of the lion kingdom's land of 20 years.  That left no land, no equity, & no tax deduction.  At least there will be a small payment in 1 year.  There is an option to repay all the payments, fees, & exit from the deal, but the buyer can collect additional money for damages.  He's going to invest a lot on improvements.  Suspect by the time lions retire, the cost of exiting the contract will  be greater than any alternative .  There's another chance he won't really have the money & will exit on his own.  He is deferring the payments as long as possible. There were still ideas for building a man cave but lions don't envision ever living there now or finding another buyer.  Someone else could buy the property by buying out the contract, but they'd have to pay...
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 Lions finally began Gladiator II after much dread.  A still appeared earlier to try to imagine the modern politicians of Rome II in Rome I.   https://growmane.blogspot.com/2026/02/youre-saying-vibe-coding-now-requires.html  The thing that appeals with the gladiator series are the visuals of ancient times.  They're a lot more faithful than movies 40 years ago.  These scenes probably existed in real life, in some form.     This was a plausible scene facing the coloseum from the  Pons Aemilius/ Ponte Palatino bridge.   The  Pons Aemilius bridge collapsed during the middle ages from floods & was rebuilt in the 1500's.   The current bridge was built in 1887, leaving only 1 arch from the 1500's.   So much for roman concrete being invincible.  The aqueduct was plausible but it should have been on the south side of the coloseum.    We're probably getting a mashup of many artifacts, very loos...
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   Principal recording finally ended on Escenas Romanticas, after 4.5 months.  Many days of lens correction, color timing, sound synchronization, camera switching, edit tweeking remane.   Recording has evolved to a process like movie making over the last 40 years.  Gone were the days of recording an entire piece in a day.  Then the days of recording multiple pages in a day ended.  A week had to be dedicated to just the 1 climax in the allegro, trying to get the crosspaw smoother.  Lions still had misgivings about allegro page 3.  Recording it in the daytime didn't go as well as night, yet the daytime recording represented more practice.  Lions just don't seem to be as focused in the daytime.   That was the 1st in a long Granados cycle which began in July 2025.  It was the most copyright trolled video lions ever made.  At least 5 users claimed it.  2 difficult Goyescas pieces & 1 dance remane.  Every...
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An example from Greenspun made lions ponder the reality of buying the absolute cheapest house.  https://www.lennar.com/new-homes/florida/orlando/eagle-lake/ranches-at-lake-mcleod/cottage-collection/kitson     It's pretty depressing in even the sales pitch, with just a garage, a small window for the facade & all wood. No-one even uses garages anymore.  The price difference is so small, the owner would have to be extremely stretched to not go higher.  6 small windows in total, with 1 small window in the bedroom.  The apartment of the last 25 years & most other apartments have more exposure.  That's $265k nowadays or $185/sq ft.  Lions could probably get used to it.  They're sacrificing exterior for square footage & the interior is a pleasant cocoon.    The next higher one is the $252k & has 2 front windows.  That would be less depressing.  Proximity to water causes the depressing one to cost more.  ...
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