{"id":1657,"date":"2008-04-30T23:43:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T06:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2008-04-30T23:46:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T06:46:47","slug":"no-matter-what-they-say-my-mouse-arm-is-pumped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1657","title":{"rendered":"No matter what they say, my mouse arm is PUMPED."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to decide what my &#8220;target weight&#8221; should be. I know it&#8217;s less than what I have, but not sure how much less. A couple of guys at work are shooting for 20lbs in 20 weeks and they have about 60 pounds on me already, I think. In any case, my ultra-accurate bathroom scale (a relic of the 1960&#8217;s) tells me I weigh about a pound less a few hours after dinner. The only thing I&#8217;ve been doing in that time is watching TV and moving my mouse around, so I&#8217;m figuring I&#8217;m getting a really good burn from computer use. OK, so I probably go to the bathroom, but I&#8217;d have to lose like a pint of liquid to lose a pound there. Maybe I need a better scale.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a bunch of time trying to make a graph of how many years I&#8217;d have to wait for someone lower than my &#8220;dateable age&#8221; to make it to my &#8220;dateable range&#8221;. It&#8217;s really just about the math, because let&#8217;s face it, I&#8217;d have to be a lot richer to get anyone that young to go out with me. I work out in the suburbs and a 38YO woman requires a median income of at least $80K\/year to pronounce you dateable (from my friend&#8217;s Yahoo profile). I kind of figure I&#8217;d have to be a multimillionaire to go out with a 18-year-old, so let&#8217;s just figure an income about $50,000,000 per year like a Formula One race car driver.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/income.png\" title=\"How much I'd have to make to date a real woman.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/income-300x208.png\" alt=\"Income graph.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Obviously there&#8217;s something wrong with my math because I&#8217;d have to make $5,000,000 a year to date a 36-year-old. Or maybe not. Numbers don&#8217;t lie.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my computer has crashed once from my graph-making and it&#8217;s late. However, I will insert another disturbing graph which shows if I wanted to go out with a 27-year-old, I&#8217;d have to wait five years (and make $28,000,000 a year according to graph #1). Yeah, it goes all the way down to 18, but I don&#8217;t have that kind of time or make that kind of money (or have that kind of patience to listen to 18-year-olds).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/waittime.png\" alt=\"waittime.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to decide what my &#8220;target weight&#8221; should be. I know it&#8217;s less than what I have, but not sure how much less. A couple of guys at work are shooting for 20lbs in 20 weeks and they have about 60 pounds on me already, I think. In any case, my ultra-accurate bathroom scale (a relic of the 1960&#8217;s) tells me I weigh about a pound less a few hours after dinner. The only thing I&#8217;ve been doing in that time is watching TV and moving my mouse around, so I&#8217;m figuring I&#8217;m getting a really good burn from computer use. OK, so I probably go to the bathroom, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No matter what they say, my mouse arm is PUMPED.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}