Progress with weight loss

I like how the strange English weight measure of stone (fourteen pounds) easily captures that dimension of my personal goal. My having once weighed well over sixteen stone, I require my weight to stay between nine and twelve stone, which it has for a couple of years now. I weigh around eleven stone and my target is ten. On my regime of eating 8MJ per day and getting the minimal government-recommended exercise (double, on a good week) my weight slowly drifts downward but I regain it at slacker times, like vacations or family visits, when I stop keeping careful check. Some weekend reading suggests that a good rule of thumb is for one's waist to measure less than half of one's height which is comfortably true for me.

Bothered by English dubs

Yesterday I watched T-34 (2018), a tank battle movie set in WWⅡ. It features some slow-motion computer-assisted views of tanks firing shells at each other and, by means of an increasingly silly plot, appears constructed to make Russians feel good which, given Three Seconds (2017), may be how one does well at their box offices these days. Despite being simple and predictable it makes for moderately engaging fun if one overlooks the probably unintended daftness.

A few years ago here I mentioned how,

Though my hearing is good I have always found it a little challenging to decode sounds into human speech; in noisy rooms I often watch interlocutors' lips.

The DVD of T-34 offered only English audio for the Russian actors which rather disappointed me. I came to realize that I may find this so bothersome partly because it is my habit to watch actors' lips so perhaps it is doubly obvious to me that the audio is simply not fitting. At least the Germans retained their German audio.

Mixed messages on lockdown

Well, that was confusing. Earlier today, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, told us,

We remain in lockdown for now and my ask of you remains to Stay at Home.

albeit with the small adjustment that we we may now exercise outdoors more than once daily. Later on, Boris Johnson came on television to tell us that he is the Prime Minister of the whole United Kingdom and that construction work can now resume, people may drive to scenic places, sunbathe, etc., just maintain the social distancing. Then, Nicola Sturgeon was promptly back on our television screens telling us that actually he was just talking about England, he doesn't to make those rules here in Scotland. Of course, the border is heavily trafficked. I pity people trying to make sense of all this.