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5 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:
What was your CK count? Also, what was your white count, and how long after your workout was your blood draw?
Up close to 2000, heavy upper body workout Monday, light legs Tuesday, blood draw Wednesday. He wants me to keep up the running/walking, go light on weights, increase water, retest next week and he’s going to order specific enzyme tests to try and narrow down what is driving it.
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Getting old is a beating. Been having issues with some tendinitis in my elbow/forearm, so I took a few days off from lifting. Then when I went back to it I just worked through it and it’s been manageable. Went in yesterday for normal cardio check (did hour+ long workouts Monday/Tuesday) and the doctor wanted do blood work to check inflammation levels. My cardiologist calls me after hours tonight (which has never happened through all my myriad issues including needing a stent ASAP) to tell me my CPK levels are off the charts high and be there first thing in the morning so they can put me on an IV to try to flush it some. He also wants me to lower the intensity of workouts which seems counter to him telling me to get serious and get in better shape. Now, I’m going to have to rethink what I’m doing after making quite a bit of progress in 4 months. Shit’s frustrating.
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15 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:
Fair I would’ve been on Tampa if I didn’t already use them. I thought Seattle was a risky play.
next week? Niners over titans? Eagles over dc?
Eagles have the Raiders this week, would normally take the Niners and that’s who I had planned. However, with the Indy injuries I would probably hold them until next week as that play is better than the Eagles on the road next week. Just depends on who you have left. My general rule is never take the road team, so that goes against it. If Indy’s backup is out, they will have a hard time even at home.
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My big dollar one looked similar. $150k in the pot, switched off of Miami to TB this morning. We had 51 teams left this morning, 1 has made it through with 3 still in play. Other big money pool was similar, 4 made it through with 2 still to play.
I won 2 college survivor pools so I don’t feel terrible, but it still sucks to change off a win with that much money on the line this late in the year.-
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13 minutes ago, Texas73 said:
Van Epps 24,046 57%
Behn 17,330 41%
Outlying counties are coming in, nothing from Davidson yet. The outlying counties will all go 70/30 Epps, so Davidson vote numbers will be key.
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On 11/30/2025 at 12:28 PM, Celery Man said:
Alright I don’t know which thread this conversation belongs in but I’ll do it here - a couple of years back we did a 10,000 burpees thing, that was very motivating. I don’t want to do fucking burpees but I am trying to come up with some year long metric based exercise goals for 2026 that will support a general goal of cardiac health and some strength building with a slight focus on core. Personally, I’m thinking probably some peloton mileage goal (easy enough) and then maybe…. 10,000 pushups? X minutes planked?
if anyone is looking for or has set a resolution/goal/whatever for 2026 and wants to do a surly challenge, within reason I’m game
I have no input on what, but I would probably jump in on something not riding related. I row most days with the time change and cold weather instead of walking/running.
Dropped below the 250 mark for the first time in 20+ years, getting closer to 230 which is where I figure I’ll settle. Been keeping measurements on quads, biceps, chest, waist, neck, weight since September. I’ve seen significant changes in measurements while only being down about 13 pounds in the time frame. Going to really start hitting weights hard next week to see what I can do over the next 3 month period.
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6 hours ago, BurntEyes said:
I just don't think that LSU is that much better of a gig these days than Ole Miss. Lane can do whatever he wants, but his track record speaks for itself. It's fine if you don't want to think him a villain, but he is, in broad terms pretty scummy.
I’m fine viewing him as a villain, but you’re crazy to think Ole Miss is in the same ballpark as LSU. The only reason they have any sort of relevance right now is because they tied themselves to Kiffin. It’s also just funny at this point to see the commentary. When is the right time for a coach to leave for a tier higher job with the way the portal system works? Kids sit out of bowl games, coaches jump ship before bowl games, it’s just the way of the world. I’m in the Ole Miss backyard, watching them sink back to mediocrity after riding the lightning and getting burned is entertaining.
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Some of these takes are quite entertaining. We’re talking about Ole Miss football. 4 out of the last 5 seasons have been their best ever. They got what they wanted out of Kiffin and him leaving was always just a matter of opportunity and money. LSU is a much better opportunity than Ole Miss, so here we go. It happens every year, maybe just not with a playoff team that best case scenario could win one game. We’re not talking about a blue blood job he’s walking away from. Saying all of that, he was king of Oxford (not saying a whole lot just for the record) so he may end up regretting this one. ESPN should run his 30 for 30 on how great it is at Ole Miss on a loop all afternoon.
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Didn’t take long for certain members of this fanbase to start SEC’ing themselves with some of these takes on scheduling and the season. You can’t lose to FL (not even counting OT against MSU and KY) and make some of these arguments with a straight face.
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On 10/31/2025 at 8:51 PM, Brew said:
Looks like the youngest is locking in on Mizzou if they will give her in state. We were surprised by the campus visit there. The campus was in great shape, most things renovated, easy to move around, and the med school/hospital system is integrated into the campus and a plus to the whole campus itself. Columbia was pretty surprising as a college town. We’re going to tour Arkansas in a couple of weeks and see how that goes.
Guess I will have another SEC kid, Mizzou made her a great scholarship offer (kind of amazed because she filed test optional) and she is going to go ahead and move forward with it. It has been her first choice from the time she started looking. Going to be a pain for us with one in Athens and one in Columbia and us dead square in the middle, but we’ll make it work.
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3 minutes ago, Cap Hooked said:
The refs are fucking us. They are calling a completely one sided game. I'm sure those corrupt fucks love when random dipshits like you defend them for no reason while they continue stuffing money in their pockets under the table
You sound like an Aggy repeating the same thing over and over every page. 3rd downs, missed throws, just sloppy ass play, etc are much more to blame than penalties at this point.
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They should be paid or shut the whole thing down. No one should have to show up on a promise of getting paid at some point in the future. That’s not the way this would work.
As far as private, I’m fine limiting at the largest airports but past that it would be everyone or no one in my eyes. Park them all or let them all fly. I fly 2-3 times a month and rarely if ever use a major airport. I generally use the smaller airports for 95% of my flights. I had to go into Dulles this week and the FBO’s were loaded down with jets. I bet there were 100+ Saudi (I’m guessing) military guys at the FBO on Monday going out on several Gulfstreams and planes were sitting everywhere they could find a place to put them.
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In DC for meetings the next couple of days. My wife and I went down and walked the loop around the reflecting pool and part of the national mall. All I felt was an overwhelming sense of sadness as we walked through the memorials for the hundreds of thousands of citizens that have died in the wars commemorated there just for us to be sitting here today in the shit show that has been created by both sides. The whole system is fucked and dishonors the memories of those that gave their lives for us to get to this point.
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Looks like the youngest is locking in on Mizzou if they will give her in state. We were surprised by the campus visit there. The campus was in great shape, most things renovated, easy to move around, and the med school/hospital system is integrated into the campus and a plus to the whole campus itself. Columbia was pretty surprising as a college town. We’re going to tour Arkansas in a couple of weeks and see how that goes.
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Hit 58 straight days yesterday of some sort of weights and cardio after deciding the first of September to jump in the deep end of the exercise pool. The guy I’m training with convinced me to run a 5k with him this week which sure as hell wasn’t happening 2 months ago. Didn’t set the world on fire but finished in what I considered a respectable time of 35 minutes (had to take a couple of walks in the middle).
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On 10/25/2025 at 11:07 AM, naija said:
it would have taken hours to have gotten everyone to the Raven Rock Mountain hideout. the fact the people from all over where arriving and being bused into the tunnel, indicates the bomb had indeed gone off and that we were at war. granted, it is also possible that everyone on the list is forced in there anyways to wait it out until the situation is entirely clear, which wouldn't happen immediately even if the bomb didn't go off. so read it the 1st scenario as my own interpretation of things
SpoilerHad not considered that train of thought, still would have preferred a more clearly defined ending after 2 hours. Even the explosion and then a fade to black would have given some confirmation. Also, did not find the 3rd act all that interesting having already been through 2 sides of the same story.
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7 hours ago, NoName said:
I want Lando to get a track limits penalty so bad.
He isn't a bad driver but he absolutely isn't close to the same tier as Max, Charles and Hamilton, etc
Ummm, one of these things doesn’t seem like the others.
Daughter started feeling bad right before the start and had to go to the med tent about 5 laps in. The weekend of open to close in the sun/heat caught up with her. Looks like we didn’t miss much. Did get to move my flight up which was nice. Airport was a cluster. Probably going to try a different track next, the setup and the heat were a lot.
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For the Austin people, we’re in town for the race and staying out in the airport area. I’m looking for a place to go get 4-5 miles running in this afternoon because the kids want to go downtown to the pop up shops after the afternoon interview session. Is the McKinney Falls area a decent enough place? Not really feeling running the neighborhoods we’re in plus I would rather have some limited scenery.
Didn’t run at all until 2 months ago, down about 22 pounds since the beginning of August walking/running 30 or so miles a week and working out 30-45 minutes on top of that every morning.
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1 hour ago, wood said:
That'll work.
In other news, the crazy clusterfuck F1 fan police escorts are back. Second time I've seen this shit - idiot off duty cops escort rich folks to the track, but super-aggressively. Bullying people to run red lights to get out of the way (big no-no), weaving around all over the place, approaching cars at high speed differentials, tailgating, confusing people and causing general chaos, etc. They don't coordinate well and don't seem to be clear on their own route plan, then they get seperated from the cars they're escorting, leaving them trying to maneuver to reconnect with the more maneuverable police bikes & cars ... but it's all happening very fast at high speeds. Saw 3 or 4 near collisions in a matter of about a minute. The way these guys operate violates multiple code 3 response rules. They're gonna get someone killed.
Fuck these assholes.
If you see these assholes coming, don't do anything rash to get out of their way. Esp don't run a red light. Even they are only supposed to do that after stopping, then clear the intersection slowly. And they have the benefit of lights and sirens. We do not. It's much more dangerous for us, but they're pushing pressure on people to do it very quickly and with no protection. If you need to move over, don't let them bully you into doing something unsafe, esp on the highway.
We were trying to figure out what some of the guys on motorcycles were doing in traffic on the way out there, but that explains it.
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All of mine are in real estate. Coming out of the financial crisis, I bought real estate with buddies. By the 2019 or so timeframe we were at close to 300 doors, had a property management company managing 800-1000 doors, lawn company, etc. Property values were not increasing in our market and it was all a big ass headache with our day jobs, so we liquidated leading into and through Covid. The values I’m seeing on the same properties selling now is significant. One 8 plex we sold for $300k (needed some work) is currently listed for $1.2M.
I also had a chance to buy 30+ finished condos in a development on 30A out of receivership for $250k each back then. We put the money together and had an accepted offer at less than that with the bank and got cold feet during due diligence because it had what we thought was a strange beach access setup and a couple other issues. The association had a pontoon that ran you back and forth across a dune lake to a beach access and we thought for rentals it just wouldn’t interest them. Last time I looked they were selling in the $1.3M range and the building stays heavily rented.
The state helped fund developing a 1000 acre lake about 30 miles from me. During the time frame where they were doing surveys, I had a chance to buy what ultimately would have been 20+ waterfront lots and additional land for less than $200k. We walked the property after they had surveyed it and just couldn’t get a good feeling about the static water level line and there were a lot of questions about homeowner access still. Needless to say that was a bad call.
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On 10/7/2025 at 5:59 PM, mchookem said:
decided to risk our lives 😆🙄...
headed to Chicago in two weeks for first time! 😊
combining with a short road trip to Wisconsin to visit niece, but will have 4 nights. staying near Millinneum Park downtown.
will be perusing recent pages for food recs. thought we'd do a boat tour, basically see what TripAdvisor top 10 things to do are.
might try a show...any suggestions on theaters?
2.5 hours to Madison, hope it's a pretty drive this time of year...hotel in Madison near the capitol on the isthmus is as much as d/t Chicago! 😮
You are on the side of the river with the Art Institute which at least according to my wife and kids is excellent. Walk through Millenium Park and see the faces, the bean and the fountain. We usually take a water taxi from the aquarium/planetarium area through the river and also do an architectural tour. We’ve been to most of the theaters and opera house, just pick a show that interests you. One of our favorite places to eat right now is Sienna Tavern.
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Nashville has one of the highest rack rates in the country, but your search ability isn’t great. The Drury Plaza in Franklin is a decent enough property that is under $200, has free beer at night, and decent breakfast availability. There are also plenty of hotels in the Vandy/right outside of downtown area for under $300. You’re not staying in a JW, but for a night with kids a decent room should be all that matters.
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1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:
Ah, you missed the liabilities of their own making part. Not difficult to misinterpret my sentence, I'm notably not a wordsmith. Yes, I expect parents to feed their own children. I can't say I ever actually did the math on whether I could feed my own before having them, but apparently that's actually math many should be doing. #butthattaxcredittho
A movement defined by a population of people only worried about “I” without realizing that what actually makes America great is the “we”. By the time this is all settled, I hope there is a still a “we the people” to stand for because it doesn’t look good at the moment.
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15 minutes ago, Incredulity said:
“Adult” like repeatedly asking the same question, which you already know the answer for? In some utterly transparent attempt to gain consensus on eliminating the filibuster.
It is a rhetorical question, but I don’t read it in the same context you do. The filibuster is always a threat, yet somehow the votes/negotiations usually work themselves out. Seems odd this time around that isn’t happening nor is there even much movement towards it happening. Why oh why could that be?
2025 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
in Can You Help Me With This?
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Middle of the normal range on both including everything else that was checked. Dehydration would be odd because I only drink water and the occasional unsweet tea and it hasn’t been an issue. Stopped statins, switched to plant based protein supplement, and took the week off from any significant weights and have just walked more. Retesting Friday and will go from there.