Interesting! I’m fairly certain Mc and Mac are Scottish and O’ and Fitz are Irish. They’re all patronymics (son/daughter of), like the Polish -witz, Russian ov/ovna/vich, and myriad others in different languages. A quick internet search for “etymology of your Mc name” may yield fascinating results.
Yep! The prefix then the legendary sea monster. But since this is the internet it must remain a mystery. Mc’s and O’s on both sides all the way back to the old country, which isn’t very far, actually. Grandparents came over in the early 1900’s.
Awesome! I’m honored to be bested by a worthy opponent. 
. Not that I’m going to let that stand, I just have to find a work around to the watchful eyes and monitoring devices. 
How did you like the increased resistance? I know that everybody has there own internal cadence that feels right. Me and my one buddy are (had been) physically identical, and even mighty close on the same lifts, but when we ride bikes his cadence is slow, but up several gears, whereas mine is higher rpm, lower in the gear range, both at exact same speed. I might actually do better at a slightly lower resistance with a higher spm.
It is a different place without people, music, noise, the occasional “Emergency response team to the ICU. Code blue…” while the helicopter is coming in. If that doesn’t motivate you…
There aren’t many that I do like. I have one, but the belt/track is too short. Like, You can’t open up your stride on it at all.
I think it was a Nordic Track that I did like. Long track and firm but springy bed with good return. They have Precor at this place, which are eh, I dunno.
Now I’m curious. That could be really nice. It took me a little while to get the motion down on a standing elliptical. My hips are tight and don’t go with that kind of flow without some coercion, but once they loosened up a little it worked really well.
That’s good then, right?
I like to cut loose on Fridays and I think that the therapists also kinda do too. Like, last one of the week, make it a good one. Then I go home and take it easy with the weights, yard work, some fabrication & repairs. You know, relaxing. 
Absolutely! My one brother has recently taken a deep dive into our lineage and history. If you have any leads or resources that would be appreciated. The records that he has found have been kind of spotty and I guess there has been some disagreement over the clan name origin or something.
He’s also having a full formal kilt and ensemble made. I can check with him on what resources he uses on that stuff too.
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Well,
You both might be right.
But I’m not going to vouch for the validity of anything that comes from those people. 
I think there was a lot of mixing that occurred throughout the regions back when.
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I’m so confused by the idea of a recumbent elliptical. I assume I’m misunderstanding somewhere.
Well, last one for the week, and miles to go before I sleep.
Actually, 1.25 miles on treadmill at 3% grade, maybe 3.something miles on airdyne, and about 980 meters on the yankymathinger.
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Ohh! Broke 1 kilometer in just at 5 min. I was a bit over 500 at 2:30 and just tried to hold on to that and not bonk in the 4th minute.
(Without getting told to bring it down)
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Cooking now:
Sirloin roast w/chanterelle and red potatoes.
Also have this guy for a week.
The boss wasn’t too crazy about it, but that took about 5 minutes to go from “eh…” to “Ohhhh!
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Coincidentally, I was contacted earlier this year on Facebook by someone putting together a massive family tree, that started with “the thirteen,” which was my paternal grandfather and his 12 siblings, and traced forward and backward from there. Here is the final document, which I did not request a copy of, figuring it would be expensive to mail from Ireland and just get shoved in a box in the basement. This was posted by some unknown Aussie relative:
You assume correctly. I misspoke. It’s a recumbent stair stepper, I guess. This one, I think:
I didn’t love it. I’ll need to keep playing with it all, see where I’m most effective.
If we both die, it will not be MY fault.
Holy moley, Thats a lot of seedlings!
Then again, that’s back when family pictures required multiple rows. There’s a page on Facebook that does some really neat collections and pieces on regions throughout Pennsylvania called Jackson Township Historical Society. There will be a series on Altoona or something and it looks like a company photo of some sort, but its titled like “McMasters Family, 2 generations, 1906” and has like 4 rows of people.
I was just looking at that exact model Friday thinking “How can you stick a tablet on that panel?”.
I’m fully willing to absorb the blame after the fact. At any point prior we can both default to “Those people on the internet” if any problems arise.
Beautiful, huh?
“I had to do it. You see, there’s this guy I don’t know, and he…well, not exactly issued a challenge, but…sort of…”
Let me note for the record that I didn’t have a water bottle holder on the one I was using.
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I had a very similar conversation. It actually kinda made sense.
The therapist said “You have to take it easy. Your way beyond the target range.”
And I responded " I keep a workout log on line with a bunch of other people, and some of them are doing a 500 meter challenge…"
It’s all casual but pertinent. Real issues too, like cutting the grass. Innane as it may seem, that messes a lot of people up.
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That looks pretty close to an elliptical, I’ve never seen one before and I was having trouble wrapping my head around how it would work. I could definitely spend a lot of podcast or TV time on one of those.
Turned leftover roast into shepherds pies.
Up close.
Back a little.
My furry buddy. 
Of course he got some.
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That looks delicious mate.
Not a shepherd’s pie, but definitely delicious.
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Thanks. I gotta head out later and get some more chanterelles. Those things took the roast from good to really something else!
Is this going to be the next pig in a blanket/stuffed cabbage subject?
I use the term loosely. I’ve never had the same one twice. Even from the same place. It’s not a nice formal one in a ramekin, that’s for sure.
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Am I right in thinking that in 'Murica, you guys do pigs in blankets by wrapping a sausage in pastry?
You’re right about some of them!
It’s one of those terms that covers every regional variation under the sun.
In my, and many others upbringing, pig in a blanket is a hunky hand grenade. Stuffed cabbage in crushed tomatoes.
@Basement_Gainz knows the truth.
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I find that weird because over here pigs in blankets are universally sausages wrapped in bacon. It’s odd to me to find something that Americans take and more more healthy and less bacon-ey.
That is a hilarious observation!
I think the ones we eat are Hungarian or otherwise eastern European.
@loppar might know better. 
Gotta run. Cardio therapy time! I don’t wanna go. I want to play with dog and nap.
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Wish I could help you with this, but I’ve never eaten a pig in a blanket and have only occasionally seen them on gas stations.
Upon seeing one, I usually exclaim loudly “who in their right mind would eat a gas station hot dog” to no one in particular and look around expectantly for a volunteer.
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