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Thanks, man. It's going really well. I've progressed to jogging, and am up to being able to go for about 5 miles. Very very slowly, but I do it. I got the all clear on my liver, which is the only thing other than the "COVID changes" in my lungs. That is *really* awful. Heart breaking. Wishing...

A lot to take in here, but I think I understand. I am recovering from severe COVID (I was in an ICU) and as part my recovery I learned to do 'diaphragm breathing'- breathing by expanding the abdomen and expanding the diaphragm, rather than breathing with the chest. I found this really helpful...

Suuucks. I got it badly too- I had to be medically evacuated (in an air ambulance) from West Africa. 5-6 days in ICU in the UK and another 6 in a general respiratory ward (after being in a clinic for 5 days in West Africa- that wasn't that much fun). At the worst I was on high-pressure oxygen at...

This is a video of two Oly/S&C coaches talking about the S&C of Ono Sohei- the Japanese Judo Gold Medalist. They have footage of him doing the Oly lifts, squatting, accessory work and conditioning. Interesting footage, and excellent commentary. Never seen this much footage of an elite athlete...

I so don't care about this fight. I don't want to see two giants have a terrible boxing match. I don't care enough about the dispute between them that watching them have an awful boxing match would have any meaning for me.

I mean, that's always a good thing to say. So, yes.

Thanks, Dr. B. It's definitely going well. I started jogging again last week. I am up to being able to jog continually for about 40 minutes now- albeit at a speed slow it's not really that different from a walk.

Thanks! I recall we went back and forward on this quite a few years ago, and it turned out that the International JauntyPoint Committee doesn't allow me to get JauntyPoints. It's a burden.

And I didn't even go into how much mass I have lost from my pecs and biceps. This disease is truly monstrous. Thanks! Three months is definitely the target.

So, I got severe COVID-19 while I was in Liberia. It's quite a story. Contracted it right at the end of May and became symptomatic in early June, with fever, cough and sore throat. Because of the obvious, got a PCR test and it said negative. FYI at that point, as now, I had had my first shot...

There's a book called "The McKinsey Way" and a follow-up called "The McKinsey Mind" (I think). McKinsey rightly has received a lot of criticism over the years for some of its clients and some of the advice it has given, but they have spent decades and many millions of dollars developing ways of...

Nothing going on for me. I was hoping my partner (I am coupled up now) would be here in Liberia by now but she is stuck in the US sorting out passports and other things. I could head out to a beach resort or something but my appetite for travel is really limited when I am on my own. So will...

Yeah, maybe. I have been to a few restaurants where there are signs saying "No guns". While I am not super comfortable, I don't think it's as bad as a lot of the UK is these days, with all the stabby young people around.

In terms of climate and topography, very similar to Thailand or another SE Asian country. Hot, humid, rains a lot. Lot of plains and rolling hills. Rice, rubber, cocoa, oil palm, very green. Lots of mosquitoes. The country's poor as hell. It was doing quite well in the late 90s and then the...

Yeah lockdown was tough. I am sure you are still pretty darn sexy.. your standards are just very high. Not bad. Still doing the same stuff (being a super-secret government spy). But now I am in Liberia, in West Africa. Been on a pretty easy beat for a long time- Turkey and Jordan for 6 years...

How are are the sexiness levels holding up? You must be a good bit leaner/lighter if that's your thing now. Still hot, I am sure. But how hot? This is the update that the crowd is really asking for.

I could go for a burger.

Yeah, I saw that. Respect due, that is cool.

International development- ie programs funded by rich countries to help poor countries. I usually do economic/business-related projects, or projects to improve government systems- trying to make them more efficient, more transparent etc. Which is why in the last 17 years my CV has been...

Greetings, fellows of f13. Somehow the shortcut to this forum got deleted from my toolbar and I forgot to log in. How has life and Coronavirus been treating everyone? Here in Jordan the government locked down super hard, early- for a week or so you couldn't go out of the house for any reason...