Stay Hydrated

[Rodney Mills]

Back to heart matters.

I too have a heart problem and I'm taking Ranolazin 500mg twice a day. I had chest pains a couple of years ago, no damage, but the heart specialist put me on it.

I told him I do ten floor exercises x 35 reps which includes push-ups and sit-ups and I do this x 3 times, then I walk 2 miles up and back over a couple of good size hills. I was worried I was now doing too much. The cardiologist said, "That's what has kept you alive keep it up". So, I have taken the pills and kept at it, but I carry .4MG Nitroglycerin with me. If I get chest pains, I can find a place to sit down, stick a pill under my Toung wait five minutes, repeat, five minutes later and again repeat, then of it's not gone phone for an ambulance.

I have a glass of wine with my dinner and two shots of bourbon after my dessert. I watch my weight, I am 5ft 101/2 down from 5ft 113/4, just couldn't make six ft. I weigh between 150lbs to 155lbs, I try and stay around 152lbs. When I hit 156 I go on a diet to get back to 152lbs.

I like a cookie (biscuit) with my morning and afternoon coffee, Then, ice cream for dessert, and those and my wine and bourbon go.

Ten days to two weeks and I'm at 150 lbs again.

So let's face it, I'd love to live a few more years, but the big C or the Heart is going to do 90% of us, the rest are going to be run over by a bus, drowned in the bath, fall down the stairs., or bitten by a rabid dog.

I can't do much about cancer. I quit smoking when I was 22. I've never been a boozer. Half a pint of Mann's Cream Stout as a young guy with my mates and I made 6 or 7 trios to the toilet. This happened a couple of times more and that ended beer for me before I even got started. I'll have a beer once or twice a year in the summer if I'm working outside (tastes yummy) so I'm sweating like a pig and no loo trips. Working outside has ended and so has my two beers.

Cheers, Rodney (no pun intended)

[j.sabourn]

#19 As long as we can remember our correct name John someone will always help us to get to our destination intact. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Rodders, that is about 69 kilo.

John, there is always some one who will tell you where to go.

[Marian Gray]

#23, John 69kg/152 pounds = 10 stone and 12 pounds in proper money

[happy daze john in oz]

#23, John 69kg/152 pounds = 10 stone and 12 pounds in proper money

Oh dear Marion, what a mess, currency in pounds and pence, kilos for weight, liters for liquid but pints for beer and still miles and inches for measuring.
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[Ivan Cloherty]

Oh dear Marion, what a mess, currency in pounds and pence, kilos for weight, liters for liquid but pints for beer and still miles and inches for measuring.
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inches No! we are fully metric, Miles YES! although the BBC insists on using kilometres when describing distances within the UK, although our speedometers are calibrated in miles and our roadsigns are also in miles, they will never give up in wanting to be in the EU

[James Curry]

The pound is now 100 pence instead of the old 240 pence.
Have I got this right in old money slang was a (half crown 2/6) referred to as 1/2 dollar?

Some things just sound bigger in Centre Metres like 22.86 cm's = I wish

[Ivan Cloherty]

[QUOTE=James Curry;418696]The pound is now 100 pence instead of the old 240 pence.
Have I got this right in old money slang was a (half crown 2/6) referred to as 1/2 dollar?

Some things just sound bigger in Centre Metres like 22.86 cm's = I wish[/QUOTE

Never heard the 1/2 Dollar comparison

6d was a tanner
1s was a bob
2s was a florin
2s 6d was half a crown, but never heard of 5s being a crown
10s was half a note
21s was a guinea or guinee

probably missed some.

[James Curry]

Ivan I was doing my usual trawl through the net found this.

http://projectbritain.com/moneyold.htm#back

Five shilling piece or crown was sometimes called a dollar, hence my 2/6 (half Crown ) 1/2$ maybe just a (colloquialism, had to spell check that!!)

I wonder way back was a £1 = to 4$, maybe our Curnard yanks would know if it was a term used by them?

[happy daze john in oz]

Thanks for that bit Ivan, knew you would have the correct answer.
But in Ireland it was until a couple of years ago a mess.
Sign posts in Miles and underneath in Kilometers.
But hire a car and you could get one with either, depended on if you wanted a manual or automatic.