America is the land where people are pretty much taught to sit on their asses and enjoy.

From Kindergarten to McDonald's to video games to the silver screen to cocktail parties, we are conditioned to believe that the best things in life are available from the sitting on the ass position.

I bet Shezbeth knows what I mean. Lol.

Sadly, when we give up the struggle of life and opt for the quasi life, the undeath of sedentary living, not only do our bodies suffer, our minds are restricted by poor experience and poor bloodflow.

When we sit down and shut up part of us dies.
But humans are magical creatures, and Nature is generous with us.

I think nature knows the difference between someone who wants to live and someone who wants to die. She knows whose fault it is too, but in being gracious to her we must take care of our physical vessel.

It takes less than six months of activity, water drinking, and dietary oversight to completely transform your body.

The mind awakens even more quickly and the body must be given a chance to catch up.


A fun way to avoid being home and engaging in a more sedentary lifestyle is activism. Volunteering anywhere that helps the less fortunate is a good way to lose weight and avoid boredom eating.


Hiking is another one but I must say fishing and cycling are very efficient weight loss together. You exercise different muscle groups crashing thru the underbrush than pushing bike pedal.

Kickboxing and judo and karate are generally good investments for those with the means. *looks toward Shezbeth's section*


I hope some of you inspire me this year to greater heights of fitness -- I've lost weight but theres still plenty of extra. My bmi was always pretty high cause I was one of those annoying asthmatic kids...


Hope you all have a nice Monday

I bet I know what hermit would say! And I have to say I agree, I worked out on my yard this weekend and it is ready to take some planting next weekend. Fantasizing about Johnny Appleseeding some spots in and near my hood, I tend to overbuy...I may purposely go overboard on my trip to the nursery this Saturday.

I like to play disc golf. And the forced get-up of owning a dog is how I sooth my personal moral issues with it. I don't need an excuse to get outside, but having the hobby and the dog gives me one in case someone is trying to get me inside and/or sedentary.

Phil wrote:I bet I know what hermit would say! And I have to say I agree, I worked out on my yard this weekend and it is ready to take some planting next weekend. Fantasizing about Johnny Appleseeding some spots in and near my hood, I tend to overbuy...I may purposely go overboard on my trip to the nursery this Saturday.

I like to play disc golf. And the forced get-up of owning a dog is how I sooth my personal moral issues with it. I don't need an excuse to get outside, but having the hobby and the dog gives me one in case someone is trying to get me inside and/or sedentary.

Very nice! Not too long ago I saw guys .. Teeing off? Lol at fort W2 there is frisbee golf course. Just seeing the VA nearby makes me feel sick though... Eek.

The dog thing sounds great. Most of the hicks here dont know the first thing about caring for animals. It's either toy sized ie getting stepped on by crackheads or a hunting dog trapped in a crate.

We have a few yuppies with purebreds and tons of wanabe cops with juvenile german shepherds. Of course our uber paranoid Neighborhood Watch (Your Step for Turds) loves any type of annoying dog. Active people learn to hate the Gestapo Plops.

There has got to be a better deterrent than dog shit. In walla walla.

There is a growing BMX and skater culture here. Ofc lots of locals hate weed smokers so even though these innocent kids mind their own business, I'm sure they feel the hate as well.

The paper barely ever talks about Meth.

Meth will sure get you off your feet Can't recommend it though, there are much healthier alternatives...

Phil wrote:Meth will sure get you off your feet Can't recommend it though, there are much healthier alternatives...

Sadly a couple years ago my former neighbor downstairs came home under the influence of meth.

He is a grandpa whose grown son had to pick him up from the crackhouse and bring him home... It was really sad and the awkward bit was, the kid saw us looking and told us his dad is recovering drug addict.


I saw some teens talking about it and possibly smoking it late last year as I cruised the pm on my bike.

sad eh?

I work between 55-60 hours a week, from 4:30 pm until finish.
I get one day a week off.
We have tried to hire someone to take some of the pressure off of both myself and my close co-worker to no avail. In the past 8 years we have gone through about 26 people. No one lasts longer than a few weeks, and those that do call in at least once every two weeks and are unreliable.

I have not had a vacation in 15 years.

At present, I wake up about 1:30 pm, walk my dog, and get breakfast going. By the time I'm finished breakfast even if I could get to my yard to do some gardening, I'd have to turn around 15 minutes later to come back.

I'm watching as the other people I work with work the same, if not longer hours. I looked in the mirror today and realized my beard in 6 months has almost gone completely grey.

On the other side of this coin, I see a great many individuals who believe they are entitled to time off, to benefits, without having put in the work that I've done. To say this makes me frustrated is an understatement. Added to this are hundreds of thousands of individuals who could work, but would rather depend upon social services (which here in Canada are a right, apparently).

I watch people who immigrate to this country work their asses to the bone at 3-4 jobs to make the 10,000$ they need for landed immigrant status. In the same breath, I know from having spoken to many immigrants that there are so many ways to cheat the system that for every immigrant who comes into this country legally there are at least 2, if not 3, who are not legally here. That's not the fault of the immigrant alone. If I was 19 and white, I'd want my mom and dad to buy and pay for my cell phone too. Why would I want to work a dead end job for little to no pay right out of the gate? Hence, immigrants who need to work take the jobs that normally would be introductory jobs for the work force of our own citizens. Who's children feel entitled.

Of course it's more complicated that that. But at the bottom of this is the reason I'm gently moving towards a life of full hermit: no electronics, no grid, no people. For many people, active life is a choice. But for many of us, we have never had the choice. When I see it phrased as a choice, I'm drawn to feel that there, somewhere in the background, is someone who's trying to justify staying attached to a system that is just as content to use them as capital as they are to be used as capital.

Sedentary life is selling your soul.

If you don't believe me, sell everything you own, get up, and walk.

Hermit, thank you for the working man's perspective.

After writing this believe it or not I did see the blazing omission of having left out those without a choice.

This was one of the reasons I had such a soft spot for lawyer and postman (and the cute k9 cop).

They work so goddamned hard yet manage to honor the law and not complain.

Two of the three were not technically surviving their job. Of the three men only cop looked consistently healthy, he has dogs who love him unconditionally whereas the other guys dont have time. Eek.


That said, i wonder aloud (again) why people fear Campanella's 4 hour work days. That doesnt count the hours people choose to volunteer to specific job details. Thats just subsistence and janitorial.

In the modern world campanella's model would be very interesting. I can see why folks would opt out, those who insist on having "more"... Seems like the time share concept would cover those needs nicely.

What if you could pool your vacation by working overtime and have a paid vacation in the islands every Two years or less?

What if the money balanced out to where everyone had a chance to see something and not just Brittney Spears and Mick Jagger, lol?


" youll have to pry the greed out of my cold dead hands"
In other news a local criminal managed to steal $10k off a stolen debit card the other day...

As in $10,000.00. People should not carry plastic debit if limit is so high, it's begging for trouble in a town like ours.

Three years in Walla Walla and never found more than 25¢ on the ground here.