Noom — finished/not finished

The huge difference in Noom from anything else I've seen is the focus on psychology and what I recognize as Buddhist thought.  The Middle Way.  

Lots of Noom complaints on Reddit about how the calorie count is wrong and how the various density calculations (Noom rates food on a density scale — vegetables less dense than chocolate or steak, unfortunately) are inconsistent.  I suspect there is some focus in the Noom company to correct those errors.  But the more I got into it the more I realized that super focus on calories or density is beside the point and ultimately what is wrong with the other systems.  Starting there is fine but if your mind isn't trained to intuit healthy choices then the system becomes all there is and that will fall off eventually.  Kind of cerebral, I know.  Very Buddhist although they never use the word.  So much of psychology is Buddhist based it is hard to avoid even if one wanted to.

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Unintentionally productive

I had no ambitions today.  But Dana left, went down to see her cousin in Austin and is still there.  I was kind of watching the Texans' football game but it was absolute crap.  So I ended up vacuuming the house and then mounting the remaining bath safety bar.  And in the meanwhile I ran the dishwasher with the gas stove grates so they are clean now.   Not bad for a day with nothing planned.

I've kind of got the whole drilling into ceramic thing figured out now that I'll never need to use it again

The bar would hold probably 400 pounds.  It is solid.  I might put in a clamp handle on the close side of the tub too.  Extra safety.