Some cool lose weight quickly images:
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Image by Deb Stgo
once in a while i act like a child to feel like a kid again it gets like a prison in the body i’m living in cause everyone’s watching and quick to start talking i’m losing my innocence wish i were a little girl without the weight of the world ♪ ♫…*
Cold Swiss Spring What’s In My Bag
Image by Do8y
Last time I did not have the time to write a detailed description. This is nevertheless one of my favourite parts of the whole What’s In My Bag process.
You will notice that I have continued the process of thinning out and making lighter the content of my bag. With time, my back (which I took care of, by streghtening my back muscles), but now as well my hands have signaled with joint pain that it’s time for me to face reality and drastically cut the weight I lug on a daily basis. Which I did. To paraphrase Churchill – If you listen to you body’s signals at 20, you’re a coward, if you don’t after the age of 40, you’re daft.
So here it goes – the content of my mag in a very cold and very rainy spring. Numbers/descriptions go on an inward spiral from left to right.
1. Bag: TUMI – I think the model was the Alpha 2 Slim Deluxe Leather Portfolio
2. Umbrella: Doppler German-made carbon steel body umbrella. A very good quality umbrella with pleanty of small things to love it for – fabric quality, silent tip, silent and smooth opening, very strong and resistent to those pesky winds we’ve got here.
3. Bose QC25: Not the best sound – the Parrot 2 I had until now were twice as good, but the Bose is so much more reliable – the Parrot had terrible sound artifacts while the noise-cancelling was active, up until that time when the microphone got completely messed up and started distorting any sound while in noise cancelling mode. I have a rather long commute on which I imperatively need noise cancelling on – the QC25 are good and reliable. I can live with them having a little less depth of sound.
4. Woolen Casquette Lacoste: a woolen golf hat to match my woolen sports coat – I am trying to make sure that, at least my exterior, matches my age and girth.
5. iPhone 6 Plus in a brown leather Apple case. Amazing device – the first phone I own that I like that much since the passing of my beloved Palm Tréo680 and 650.
6. A new vice of mine. Gave up cigarettes over 8 years ago. Have been smoking pipe from time to time. Now I indulge in cuban cigars. Favourite brands are ‘Cohiba’ and ‘Romeo y Julieta’ – this here is the Churchill Shorts – very good, very flavourful.
7. Colibri cigar cutter and cigar lighter/torch: The cutter is reliable, lies very well in the hand and can fit even a cigar of the gauge of the one in this picture. The lighter has three flames. Isn’t really wind resistant , but is beautiful, has a good size tank and matches the cutter.
8. Mont Blanc Meisterstück Classic Platinum: Let me ask you this – if you love cars, what will you do when you buy a Bugatti Veyron? How will you justify buing anything after it? That it’s better? That it’s more elegant? Right. Indeed. That’s what happened to me after my wife gave me this one as a present – there is no way for the pen afficionado in me to justify writing with anything else, but this jewel. Smooth writing and reliable lines, without having to press to much. Unless you write in a Moleskine, which is terrible for fountain pens, everywhere else writing with this is the ultimate writing pleasure.
9 and 10. Rorting rapidPRO ballpoint pen and 2.0 mm lead holder: whatever non-fountain pen and pencil I get seduced by, I always come back to this brand and mostly to this specific design. Pleasant heft, reliable and elegant, without being over the top.
11. Cross Star Wars Stormtrooper edition roller ball – come on, I’m still a geek and it writes with amazing smoothness – it’s Cross after all, not some random Chinese knock-off.
12. BIC HB leads for the Rotring.
13. Clairefontaine notebook in an artisanal leather cover (not self-made).
14. Starbucks chewing gum.
15. Disneyland Paris tin with Advil (ibuprofen) pills
16. JustMobile’s USB-to-Lightning short cable – very useful for a quick sync and emergency charge without the bulk. Soon to be replaced by a USB-C-to-Lightning.
17. STABILO swing cool Jeans Set: highlighters in a cool, but mostly practical package that I use to highlight in the book pictured above.
18. GEO Guide Tout Paris: GEO is a family of geography, science and travel magazines. This is a very good, detailed and well documented guide forthe city of Paris – yes, no matter how well you know a city, if you haven’t stayed in for a longer period of time it since over 18 years, you should admit it to yourself and let the professionals guide you. Preparing for an extended weekend in Paris with my wife and daughter (let’s see now how many of the copycats who read my posts will run to Paris now).
19. Disneyland Paris Phantom Manor (the equivalent of the US Haunted Mansion) key lanyard with keys and 256 GB memory stick: while waiting for the delivery of my USB3+USB-C combined drive, I will stick with this one (pun intended, sorry).
20. Ordning & Reda pencil case with batteries for the headphones and a SnowPeak spork: rechargable and not batteries to never stay without noise cancelling and a utensil which will be appreciated by anyone who has ever tried eating with plastic cutlery.
21. 2015 MacBook 12" Retina: last summer I tried to buy one of those in the US, where an employee of BestBuy on 5th was telling me that those laptops are nowhere to be found, as Apple found out, after the fact, what a poor design it was to produce a laptop with one port. When I came back to Switzerland, and they came out here a couple of months later, my wife has inherited the MacBook Air 11" that I bought in the marvelous Grand Central Station Apple store, because I bought this one and it has been a machine that I have loved and cherished every signle day. I have written a post on Quora as a response about this laptop, which describes better what this machine does for me:
www.quora.com/Should-I-get-the-2016-rMB-or-the-refurb-201…
22. Leather gloves: old gloves, bought over 14 years ago in Bulgaria. Been looking for something similar since – it’s always either too thin or too thick. Will have to do a better research online.
23. RayBan Clubmaster sunglasses: Never leave home without them. Style doesn’t rest, neither does the sun.
24. Victorinox Cadet Limited Edition 2015: This is a lightweight beautiful knife in dark (cobalt?) blue which is a perfect gentleman’s knife – it has enough size to be useful for everyday tasks, without looking menacing, and that has a length that allows it to be carried even in Chicago (I think).
25. Victorinox Alox Mini SwissChamp: Alox refers to the aliminium scales – the same material that allows the knife abov e it to be carried in your pocket (or in this case – in your bag) next to your keys and not be scratched. the MiniChamp is a very useful helper. No, I do not feel not even the tiniest little bit embarrassed that I have two Swiss knifes in one bag.
26. A comb: When I still had proper hair on my head, I never had one of those on me. Now it’s either that or an unruly beard. Which let’s admit it, is quite weird. (OK, I’m done with the puns)
27. Sony ICD-SX1000 voice recorder: whenever I’m not around people and I don’t have to write down, I spare my fingers the pain and just dictate my notes. Most of the time, just debriefing myself is enough for me to remember everything.
28. Apple USB-to-USB-C adapter: as I mentioned in point 19 above, I have native USB-C+USB 3 sticks coming soon – that’s when I’ll lose this, and the USB-to-Lightning from point 16 will be replaced by USB-to-USB-C.
29. Mass Transit subscription card.
30. SecrID – RFID blocking thin profile card wallet.
31. Damn Handsome Beard Kit: Great present from my wife. Contains a small metal moustache comb, small beard and moustache scissors, beard oil and beard wax. Just dandy!
Apollo’s fatty liver
Image by Kerri Lee Smith
Apollo is a wonderful young cat who is obese, as are many orange cats, and developed fatty liver disease (hepatic lipidosis) when his owner cut back his caloric intake too quickly. Cats with fatty liver disease stop eating and it’s pretty hard to get them to start eating on their own again. Most cats with hepatic lipidosis require hospitalization for about a week getting i.v. fluids and food and medications delivered through an esophageal feeding tube (the tube is fed through a small incision in the neck that leads directly into the esophagus). Once they start acting bright and alert – as Apollo is in the main pictures – they can usually go home where their owners will have to continue feeding them through their tube until they start eating on their own. This could take up to four weeks and there is never any guarantee that after all this effort the cat will recover and survive.
You can see part of the tube in the pictures above – it’s orange with a purple port. To feed Apollo, his owner will pull the purple cap off the port and insert a syringe filled with watery, high-calorie food into the tube. The tube is sewn into place and secured with the large "bandage" around his neck. He’ll need to be fed at least four times a day until he gradually works up an appetite and eats on his own.
This post is in no way intended to scare people out of helping their obese cats lose weight – it just needs to be done very gradually. It is also NOT intended to place any blame on Apollo’s owner who was trying to help him.
I’ve included a blurry picture in the comments that shows the big bandage that keeps Apollo’s feeding tube in place.