Live Long and Prosper: Tank's Neverending Trek for Fitness and Health

[Cheetah]

[Shello]

Dang, page 3 already?  I'm here!

[Snarkyfishguts]

Waiting for hopefully good news 🥰

[Rurik Harrgath]

I'm wishing you all the good news you could ever hope for, brother!

 

 

Am I doing it right?

 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

5 hours ago, Cheetah said:

Welcome!

3 hours ago, Shello said:

Dang, page 3 already?  I'm here!

Glad to have you!

2 hours ago, Snarkyfishguts said:

Waiting for hopefully good news 🥰

Us too  

1 hour ago, Rurik Harrgath said:

I'm wishing you all the good news you could ever hope for, brother!

 

 

Am I doing it right?

 

 You really ought to watch TNG (and trust me, tough it out for the first two seasons).

 

Today is a good day. I did NF Kettlebells, and I made myself do two full rounds with my 20 pound bell. It was difficult, but I had it in me. I really needed the movement and the revving of my pulse. We spent the day at home, which to be fair probably would have happened even without the quarantine order. We contacted our respective employee health offices. I believe I mentioned Sra. Tanque was told not to get a test unless she was symptomatic, and she'd have to quarantine for two weeks even if she got a negative test. I was told to come to work as long as I was asymptomatic (we already practice universal masking in the hospital, risk of transmission there is low). I specifically asked if I could still go get vaccinated tomorrow morning and was told as long as I was asymptomatic to go on in (and wear a mask, but I would have done that even if there had been no risk of exposure). I felt restless a few times, but the forums being so busy helped with that.

 

Dinner was very good. Remember, if you're hungry, or haven't eaten in a while, stop here and have a snack to hand.

 

I cut slits in the sides of chicken breasts (I know, I didn't sub thighs, but it was because I was stuffing them and thighs don't work for that) and stuffed them with a mixture of cream cheese, shredded mozzarella, pesto, sun dried tomatoes, and fresh basil. There was plenty leftover after stuffing them, so I put the rest of the mixture on top of the breasts. I put them into a 400 degree oven (for the record, I have to set my oven 15 degrees above whatever is called for, so the oven was set to 415) for 25 minutes. 

Meanwhile the recipe called for a salad to go with the chicken, but we weren't feeling salad. What I had was a bag of baby spinach. I also had a bag of frozen chopped spinach (loose, not the kind that comes in bricks and puts out way too much water), so I combined them in a skillet with avocado oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and white wine vinegar. When the frozen spinach was thawed and the fresh spinach was wilted I added milk, shredded mozarella, and cream cheese. I let it cook for a while then turned the heat down while we waited on the chicken.

 

It was all amazing.

[Rinna]

 

What about these guys?  I’m surprised it made it onto prime time. This was before sweating and naked butts on regular tv.........at least as I remember it.

[Amazon Ninja]

9 minutes ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

Dinner was very good. Remember, if you're hungry, or haven't eaten in a while, stop here and have a snack to hand.

 

I cut slits in the sides of chicken breasts (I know, I didn't sub thighs, but it was because I was stuffing them and thighs don't work for that) and stuffed them with a mixture of cream cheese, shredded mozzarella, pesto, sun dried tomatoes, and fresh basil. There was plenty leftover after stuffing them, so I put the rest of the mixture on top of the breasts. I put them into a 400 degree oven (for the record, I have to set my oven 15 degrees above whatever is called for, so the oven was set to 415) for 25 minutes. 

Meanwhile the recipe called for a salad to go with the chicken, but we weren't feeling salad. What I had was a bag of baby spinach. I also had a bag of frozen chopped spinach (loose, not the kind that comes in bricks and puts out way too much water), so I combined them in a skillet with avocado oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and white wine vinegar. When the frozen spinach was thawed and the fresh spinach was wilted I added milk, shredded mozarella, and cream cheese. I let it cook for a while then turned the heat down while we waited on the chicken.

 

It was all amazing.

That sound delish! I will be trying it!

Also, I must confess I was telling a friend of mine about my favorite 2021 Rebellion challenges and yours was one of them. But she has never seen Star Trek anything.

I then asked her to watch Star Trek TOS with me and... she's lovin' it!!!

This was me: 

And this is now her: 

ANOTHER FAN TO THE TREK FANDOM! HEHEHEHE

So yeah, you've got someone else rooting for you!🖖

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

4 minutes ago, Rinna said:

 

What about these guys?  I’m surprised it made it onto prime time. This was before sweating and naked butts on regular tv.........at least as I remember it.

But remember? TNG wasn't on prime time. It was syndicated, which meant instead of being on Network hours local TV stations bought the show and showed it whenever they wanted. In my Market it was on Saturday night half an hour after the evening news. There were reruns on at 10:30 every weeknight too on a different station, so I lucked out.

2 minutes ago, Amazon Ninja said:

That sound delish! I will be trying it!

Also, I must confess I was telling a friend of mine about my favorite 2021 Rebellion challenges and told her about yours. But she has never seen Star Trek anything.

I then asked her to watch Star Trek TOS and she's lovin' it. 

Seriously, this was me: 

And this is now her: 

ANOTHER FAN TO THE TREK FANDOM! HEHEHEHE

So yeah, you've got someone else rooting for you!🖖

Star Trek is awesome, resistance is futile. 

[PaulG]

11 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

As I always say to people in the hospital hoping to poop (a legitimate concern after intestinal surgery) It will all work out in the end.

 

Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?

[fleaball]

Fingers crossed for a little less positivity in your life. ❤️

[Red1263]

Red Shirt reporting for duty!

 

... Wait.

[sarakingdom]

Just now, Red1263 said:

Red Shirt reporting for duty!

 

... Wait.

 

[fleaball]

5 minutes ago, Red1263 said:

Red Shirt reporting for duty!

 

... Wait.

 

I miiiiiight have this shirt. 

 

 

[Rinna]

3 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

But remember? TNG wasn't on prime time. It was syndicated, which meant instead of being on Network hours local TV stations bought the show and showed it whenever they wanted. In my Market it was on Saturday night half an hour after the evening news. There were reruns on at 10:30 every weeknight too on a different station, so I lucked out.

Star Trek is awesome, resistance is futile. 

I think I was in high school?  Wouldn’t have stayed up that late to see it.  But really, I just don’t remember I guess.   And some of those later ones we probably watched on AFN/AFRTS, who showed things at odd times.  (SNL came on at noon)

[darkfoxx]

It came on right before bedtime in my market - I can’t remember if staying up late was part of TNG, or not - or which day it was on - but I do remember not being harassed for bed. Probably good, since I refused to eat my 4th birthday cake because Trouble With Tribbles was on reruns. I was so damn happy to see them again. My birthday wish did not come true that year. 🤣

[iatetheyeti]

9 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

I cut slits in the sides of chicken breasts (I know, I didn't sub thighs, but it was because I was stuffing them and thighs don't work for that) and stuffed them with a mixture of cream cheese, shredded mozzarella, pesto, sun dried tomatoes, and fresh basil. There was plenty leftover after stuffing them, so I put the rest of the mixture on top of the breasts. I put them into a 400 degree oven (for the record, I have to set my oven 15 degrees above whatever is called for, so the oven was set to 415) for 25 minutes. 

Meanwhile the recipe called for a salad to go with the chicken, but we weren't feeling salad. What I had was a bag of baby spinach. I also had a bag of frozen chopped spinach (loose, not the kind that comes in bricks and puts out way too much water), so I combined them in a skillet with avocado oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and white wine vinegar. When the frozen spinach was thawed and the fresh spinach was wilted I added milk, shredded mozarella, and cream cheese. I let it cook for a while then turned the heat down while we waited on the chicken.

 

Delightful! Might actually go for that for dinner tomorrow...

 

[RhiaWolfe]

I watched TOS and TNG on reruns on cable. They were all out of order and whatnot though. I've thought about going back and watching them on Netflix or whatever streaming service they're on. I just haven't yet. I don't watch a lot of TV these days. I'm more likely to read a book or play a video game in my spare time. 

 

Although my friend got me hooked on an anime recently, so I've been binging that. 

[Amazon Ninja]

8 hours ago, Red1263 said:

Red Shirt reporting for duty!

 

... Wait.

Lol!

But technically, you might live...if you're Uhura or Scotty! 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

12 hours ago, PaulG said:

 

Did you hear about the constipated mathematician?

No, and I can't guess at the punchline, please enlighten me.

11 hours ago, fleaball said:

Fingers crossed for a little less positivity in your life. ❤️

Thank you.

10 hours ago, Red1263 said:

Red Shirt reporting for duty!

 

... Wait.

10 hours ago, sarakingdom said:

 

10 hours ago, fleaball said:

 

I miiiiiight have this shirt. 

 

 

That's a good shirt.

10 hours ago, Rinna said:

I think I was in high school?  Wouldn’t have stayed up that late to see it.  But really, I just don’t remember I guess.   And some of those later ones we probably watched on AFN/AFRTS, who showed things at odd times.  (SNL came on at noon)

I was in middle school. I saw reruns in the summer, and watched the new ones on Saturday night.

8 hours ago, darkfoxx said:

It came on right before bedtime in my market - I can’t remember if staying up late was part of TNG, or not - or which day it was on - but I do remember not being harassed for bed. Probably good, since I refused to eat my 4th birthday cake because Trouble With Tribbles was on reruns. I was so damn happy to see them again. My birthday wish did not come true that year. 🤣

I really enjoyed the Deep Space Nine mashup they did with Trouble for Tribbles.

4 hours ago, iatetheyeti said:

 

Delightful! Might actually go for that for dinner tomorrow...

 

It was very good.

2 hours ago, RhiaWolfe said:

I watched TOS and TNG on reruns on cable. They were all out of order and whatnot though. I've thought about going back and watching them on Netflix or whatever streaming service they're on. I just haven't yet. I don't watch a lot of TV these days. I'm more likely to read a book or play a video game in my spare time. 

 

Although my friend got me hooked on an anime recently, so I've been binging that. 

1 hour ago, Amazon Ninja said:

Lol!

But technically, you might live...if you're Uhura or Scotty! 

 

 

[Mrs Van]

On 12/28/2020 at 6:54 AM, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

I've heard good things about The Orville but haven't seen it yet.

It is a cross between comedy (some really ridiculous scenes) and some very serious topics. From what I can remember from Star Trek, it is about similar. I think it is a skit on ST. I like The Orville spaceship though, the looks.

[Big_Show]

As far as I remember, BBC 2 always had TNG at 6pm on a Wednesday when I was growing up, then DS9 joined it at 6pm on a Thursday as well.  Eventually Voyager came along on a Sunday evening too.

[Hazard]

On 12/27/2020 at 11:54 PM, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

I've heard good things about The Orville but haven't seen it yet.

 

It's a love letter to ST:TNG with an almost Galaxy Quest feel to it, but surprisingly poignant at times.  Totally worth a watch.

 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

9 hours ago, MrsVan said:

It is a cross between comedy (some really ridiculous scenes) and some very serious topics. From what I can remember from Star Trek, it is about similar. I think it is a skit on ST. I like The Orville spaceship though, the looks.

We need no longer fear the banana (something I remember from commercials for it).

6 hours ago, Big_Show said:

As far as I remember, BBC 2 always had TNG at 6pm on a Wednesday when I was growing up, then DS9 joined it at 6pm on a Thursday as well.  Eventually Voyager came along on a Sunday evening too.

Sounds like 6pm was a happy time for a while.

5 hours ago, Hazard said:

 

It's a love letter to ST:TNG with an almost Galaxy Quest feel to it, but surprisingly poignant at times.  Totally worth a watch.

 

I looked it up, and it's on Hulu for streaming, and we've already got Amazon Prime, Netflix, and CBS All Access (for Star Trek). We'd get Disney+ for Star Wars stuff before Hulu but a fourth streaming serivce seems silly.

 

Today is a good day. I'm off today again, but I did get the first round of the Covid Vaccine today (the Moderna one). No side effects other than some mild soreness at the injection site. I just looked and realized they gave me a minion band-aid and that made me happy. We had a chill morning, enjoying the leftovers from the chicken the night before. In the afternoon we went for a walk that we cut short due to impending rain that never happened. However, I did rake the back yard and filled up our organics bin. There is still one small pile of leaves that I'll put in the bin after it gets emptied tomorrow. I was gonna do Yoga but anyone who's raked leaves know that counts for a workout. Dinner was a dissapointing roast beef. The meat itself was good but the veggies were disappointing. I forgot to put it together in the crockpot until it was almost too late, and the rushed manner in which I put it together resulted in bland vegetables (baby potatoes and chopped carrots). The broth was good.

 

[miss_marissa]

Glad to hear you were able to get the vaccine! Although  the roast beef was a miss the previous stuffed chicken sounds delicious!

[Sciread77]

Picard is my captain.