From alpha testing to the QUERCUS 200

Thanks Cowboy! I'll get there eventually.
Thanks LaMa! I wish!
Thanks Cate! Im happy to be back.

262.0 this morning with no change for yesterday's weight. So the big drop is rebounding, but I have stayed in a caloric deficit so no worries. Its just a bigger drop on its way.

The back sucks.
Running doesn't suck, but my ability to run does.
You guys are awesome!
 
Q, did you seriously hand carve all of those? Those are great, man. Seriously. That reddish tinted spoon with the hint of gold is sharp as hell. Do you do it just for fun or do you sell those?
 
Thanks Chef! It's a skill I'm working on. I don't sell them. That's aromatic cedar and the red is heartwood and the goldish is sapwood. I use a hatchet to rough out the billet and knives and gouges to carve it. I'm making a bearded carving axe by cutting, grinding, and filing a 2.5 pound felling axe into a less than 1.5 pound bearded Viking axe with a handle carved from a tree from my woods. I also built a full size working helicopter with a carrot using my excess chest hair.
 
Thanks LaMa! I have to work on my self-reliance in case my country decides to become a "reality" TV network.

259.2 this morning. That's puts me more than half way to my original year's end goal (245), so I feel good that I altered it. So I've lost 14 of 34.2 to make 239 by December 31st.
 
Quercus said:
Thanks Chef! It's a skill I'm working on. I don't sell them. That's aromatic cedar and the red is heartwood and the goldish is sapwood. I use a hatchet to rough out the billet and knives and gouges to carve it. I'm making a bearded carving axe by cutting, grinding, and filing a 2.5 pound felling axe into a less than 1.5 pound bearded Viking axe with a handle carved from a tree from my woods. I also built a full size working helicopter with a carrot using my excess chest hair.
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Damn- you should change your name from Q to MacGyver. You have a real talent with the carving- maybe you should start selling it? Just a thought. Great job on the weight loss. 239 here you COME!
 
Quercus said:
Thanks Chef! It's a skill I'm working on. I don't sell them. That's aromatic cedar and the red is heartwood and the goldish is sapwood. I use a hatchet to rough out the billet and knives and gouges to carve it. I'm making a bearded carving axe by cutting, grinding, and filing a 2.5 pound felling axe into a less than 1.5 pound bearded Viking axe with a handle carved from a tree from my woods. I also built a full size working helicopter with a carrot using my excess chest hair.
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I understood about 15% of what you just said, HAHAHA. Bearded carving axe? Felling axe? Chest hair? What's that?
 
Ha ha, I like the nickname LaMa. Thanks!

Thanks Cowboy! Maybe Q like James Bond? No, too few lasers and exploding things.

The bearded means I've umdercut the head to lighten the head and allow you to choke up on the handle for precision cuts. A felling axe is one used to fell trees (chop them down). The end was bullshit Chef.

I hiked around in the woods all day and then ran the fastest mile in a while. I didn't time it, but I really pushed.
 
Quercus said:
The bearded means I've umdercut the head to lighten the head and allow you to choke up on the handle for precision cuts. A felling axe is one used to fell trees (chop them down). The end was bullshit Chef.
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Ahh, now the term "felling axe" is ringing a bell. I've never heard the term "bearded" though. Well, not in reference to axes, anyway. As for chest hair? I hear people talk about it all the time but I'm still wondering what it is. Every time I look at my own chest I just see little pubic hairs that have somehow managed to make their way up to my torso. A werewolf I am not.
 
Thanks LaMa and I like the way you think!

It's overrated Chef. Having to adjust your watch to make sure the cowlick in your arm hair doesn't obscure part of the watch face gets as old as having to separate your eyebrows from each other and your hairline.

258.6 for 15 pounds in 12 days. I know these kind of stats cant last, but it's giving me a jump on my 239 year end goal.
 
Thanks Tru!
Thanks Cate!
Thanks Jen!

The weight jumped back up to 260.3 today. Im still doing everything right and my weight loss chart is bouncing around a very steep trend line still, so the rapid loss is still happening. I actually did a lot yesterday. I ran 2.1 miles for day 696. I roamed our woods, felled (handsaw), limbed, and hauled a dead elm sapling from our creek bottom, and hand sawed some small firewood from an oak and hophornbeam. Then we went and roamed the fairgrounds of the local festival celebrating yams which we do just for the outstanding people watching. Then we went to town and shopped until 10pm. It's by far the most I've managed in a single day in a very long time. I hurt and it wore me out, but I did it and that's way better than usual. I didn't eat anything ectra or bad. So it's day 13 of the good food habit streak.
 
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