Spencer

I visited the new Legends Brewery last month.

Beer is good, and the owner is really nice.

Worth checking out

http://www.yelp.com/biz/legends-craft-brewery-anaheim-2?utm_source=ishare

That makes 12 breweries now within the roughly 30 square mile area of Fullerton/Anaheim/Orange.

Lounging in my chonies with the A/C on does not suck

My grandfather worked for DuPont. There was a chemical spill at his plant (this was back in the 40s) and he was the guy who went back in to shut off the pipe where the leak was coming from. Shortly after he started getting sick, and he died a few years after. Dupont didn't do a thing for him.

This is why I want an effective EPA.

That's an OSHA thing, not EPA.

Convenient

+1 for British Airways. Flight was delayed getting into Heathrow, with a connector I was about to miss to Zurich. Last flight of the day.

They had folks waiting to escort us to the Zurich flight, and held it up for a few minutes while we boarded. Service!

Iberia, and the whole of the Spanish airline industry, can suck my wang. Laziest and rudest bunch of mf'ers I've ever had to deal with.

I booked tickets yesterday morning on Norwegian (thanks for the help cals), but I went in the opposite direction and booked as cheap as I can.

$820 round trip to Copenhagen, non-stop both ways, sitting in an exit row on the way there.

There's no food or alcohol included, and I'm not checking bags, but that's about half of what I expected to pay.

Now I have hundreds of extra dollars to spend on vacation essentials, like trashy euro sloots and techno dance parties.

Myfitnesspal does barcode scanning now.

It's easy enough to plug numbers into, and lots of different foods are already available for you to select. It's completely user based, so sometimes you'll need to sort through 5 different kinds of "carnitas" to find one that looks reasonable. No, Miguel, your 16oz pork omelette is not only 200 calories.

The exercise portion is pretty much BS, but it's something. The app counts your steps now too, and will automatically plug in the calories burned.

I don't exercise hard enough to where that really makes a difference (ie: 300 calories a day), so regardless or the exercise, I try to stay under my calorie goal.

Do you have a cheese addiction?  What about ice cream?  Do you drink a lot of milk as you were probably raised to do?

 

I dropped the cheese and milk to see if my acid reflux symptoms would go away.  They did!  No other changes and I was down 10 pounds in one month.  A year or two earlier, I also cut out 90% of the soda I used to drink, replacing it with iced tea.  I barely ever drink alcohol, so that wasn't a problem.  I've been holding 180 to 185 for the past year. 

 

You might benefit from increasing your walking to walking/jogging and doing 4-5 miles each time, but not everyday.  I love the rain but these recent storms really screw up my normal routine.  The trails I usually run on are currently under five to ten feet of water right now.

Not a big dairy guy, just milk with coffee (which is an everyday thing) and the occasional sprinkle of cheese on an omelette. I also rarely drink soda or chow on desserts, so my refined sugar intake is ok.

The summer of 2014 is when I lost all my weight, going from 200 to 145-150. Granted I look svelte at 150, but I'm not a muscular guy, so it's proportionate to my frame size.

To get there, I started with P90X and running for about 4-6 weeks, but it was impossible to keep up with, and it was killing me. After switching over to walking and light weights, I got the same results or better.

Most of my weight loss, however, I believe came from maintaining a low carb, low sugar, low bad stuff, high protein diet: meat, veggies, and I pound water as much as I can everyday. From time to time I'll incorporate a protein shake post-workout, or as a replacement for fruit or whatever in the morning.

I plan on aiming for about 5 miles a day this time around.

Looking to drop about 15 lbs by the summertime, in preparation for a trip to Europe.

Had good luck in the past with low-carb + monitoring calories, walking 2-3 miles everyday, and eventually working in some mild resistance training to build back some stamina.

No booze this month, feel better already.

I eat Del Taco for lunch, everyday.

Unless my staff or the wife want to go out/meet for lunch, then we will go to Hollinshead or Ostioneria Siete Mares

I've never been to that 7 Mares place, but heard it's good. Can't beat Mexican seafood.

Hollingshead for lunch is a near impossible proposition. Hard to not crush at least 2 strong beers each visit.

Got two gnar charley horses in my legs last night

Rolled around on my bed in agony for 15 minutes and then passed out

Woke up this morning like, "what am I gonna do about my legs Eddie Murphy?????

"UNITY!"

There's a place called Francisco's Meat Company at Miraloma and Glassell/Kramer, off the 91.

They have insanely good prices and quality, and can prepare you pretty much any cut from the pig/chicken/cow, even if it's not in their display case.

Bonus: they have a big temp-controlled case for dry aged steaks, also very reasonably priced.

Mexicans and asians don't have an interest in rocks, ergo my financial future is secure.

The gap between rich and poor, at least where I was in the Limpopo Province, is drastic.

I was told the Caltrans-type roadworkers live off like $20-40 a day in many cases.

I went to hunt, so I didn't see much of the cities, but I had a friend who stayed in Cape Town for a few weeks and loved it.

wear sandals, put book on ground, flip through pages with toes.

tape cheat sheets or study cards or whatever to the back of the desk in front of you.

for those long homework problem sets, wait til the day they get turned in, then grab one of the smart kid's work after they put it on the professors desk, and run to the library to photocopy.

I'm smart, but was really lazy in HS and college. For all the endless cheating I did, I don't think it has held me back in my career.

If you aint cheatin you aint tryin.

Paški sir

Pork bellies are used to make bacon, which you might find on a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.

Hot Tub Time Machine got shit reviews but it's probably my favorite movie of all time.

shotgun to the dick

Apocalypse Now

just awful

This is still Goose IPA

They don't look that bad considering most (all?) of the lines have changed from last year.

Can somebody give a rundown of the newcomers, or maybe the dofferent shifts? I haven't been able to keep up with the preseason stuff.

PS: I still have a major man crush on Jakob

Booooooo

I watched Lawrence of Arabia for the first time. Had to split it up into 3 viewings because of its length.

Soild movie. That period of time, from the turn of the century through the first world war, fascinates me.

Friggin nuts. I was complaining about annual pass prices 10 years ago when they went up to like 2 or 3 hundo.

I've lived across the street from Disneyland for the better part of the last year. Haven't gone once, but then again I don't have kids.

$3,000, if that's what it will cost for the average family, is a LOT of money that could alternatively go towards more cheaper and enjoyable vacations.

For those of you with passes, how many times a year do you actually end up going? Is it worth the cost?

I bought a king, firm, pillow-top Beautyrest from Macys earlier this year.

I don't know which model offhand, but it was one with the most positive customer reviews.

If you sign up for a Macys credit card, they'll give you a decent discount, like around 10%

I went with firm since I have heard that the more luxurious ones can get lumpy over time.

No complaints so far. Price delivered was something around $1,800