Early Retirement Extreme

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Using evil lawns for crosstraining

Published in August 7th, 2024
Posted by in Health, How to
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If you’re fit and you have a lawn you have been unable to get rid off(*), you absolute should own a push reel mower and use it for cross-training. (*) If you must have a lawn because of the home owners association (something about unproductive vegetation increasing property values), I suggest encroaching on it slowly […]

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Simple pancake recipe

Published in August 4th, 2024
Posted by in Health, How to
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I’m making pancakes while blogging, so I figured I might as well blog about making pancakes. Now I understand it is possible to buy some kind of mix or powder, but I don’t even want to go there. Here’s the recipe. 1 cup flour 1 cup water 1 egg 1 teaspoon baking powder Scale accordingly […]

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Food, health, and (long and short-term) costs

Published in August 2nd, 2024
Posted by in Health
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I’m 3738 now. This is the age where the cumulative effects of good and bad living are beginning to show. When I look at the people I went to school with, some of the “health nuts” still look like they’re in their twenties. Conversely, some in the “beer & steak”-crowd look like they’re in their […]

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