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Vik, we drove right on through from Council Bluffs without stopping anywhere. Would like to have visited with you guys, but we were ready to get home.
 
I figured as much when I saw your post about being home last night.
it's my cologne, isn't it?
 
There are people in the chat, you just have to check in at different times.
 
This calorie counting crap works.

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Congrats Guyon!

Keep up the good work!
 
Chameleonbear said:
Congrats! Are you just counting calories or are you doing something with it?
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Mostly just watching what I eat. The site has me on 1700 calories a day. And I've done some light exercise.
I'm going to start working out more than just my walks. I signed up for my first 5K in October.
 
Good luck with the 5k! Is it just a normal 5k or is it like a Tough Mudder one or something like that? I've had to go out a couple of years now and help with the photo taking on a Tough Mudder 5k. Those people is CRAZY!
 
No Tough Mudders yet.
I have a friend who is having a mid-life crisis and has taken up Tough Mudders, endurance running, jumping out of airplanes, etc.

Looks interesting, but not for me at this point.
 
Guyon said:
Mostly just watching what I eat. The site has me on 1700 calories a day. And I've done some light exercise.
I'm going to start working out more than just my walks. I signed up for my first 5K in October.
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Try jujitsu for great cardio and mad skills.

Congrats on your weight loss. I consume as many calories as I can but 4 minutes rolling with someone else will beat your heart more than the entire time of running alone
 
stvpourciau said:
Try jujitsu for great cardio and mad skills.

Congrats on your weight loss. I consume as many calories as I can but 4 minutes rolling with someone else will beat your heart more than the entire time of running alone
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I practiced Shito-ryu karate for over seven years before school and then family got in the way.
Martial arts will eat the calories; there's no doubt in my mind.
I stayed in touch with my sensei till his death from prostate cancer in 2010. I miss him all the time these days.

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Guyon said:
I practiced Shito-ryu karate for over seven years before school and then family got in the way.
Martial arts will eat the calories; there's no doubt in my mind.
I stayed in touch with my sensei till his death from prostate cancer in 2010. I miss him all the time these days.

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That's a real cool pic Biscuit. I studied Akidio for 7 years, but unlike you, I hated my instructor. I'm double jointed in my arms, and its next to impossible to get me in a arm bar/hold that I can't get out of. This anoyed him to the point that he tried until he could. That equaled hundreds of ass kickins for me over the coarse of 7 years. The last straw was me getting thrown through a window in the dojo. He claimed it was a accident, but there was a couple of hot chicks there that he was trying to impress, I'm pretty sure he was showing off.
 
TMHunt said:
That's a real cool pic Biscuit. I studied Akidio for 7 years, but unlike you, I hated my instructor. I'm double jointed in my arms, and its next to impossible to get me in a arm bar/hold that I can't get out of. This anoyed him to the point that he tried until he could. That equaled hundreds of ass kickins for me over the coarse of 7 years. The last straw was me getting thrown through a window in the dojo. He claimed it was a accident, but there was a couple of hot chicks there that he was trying to impress, I'm pretty sure he was showing off.
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Yeah, I get you. In the past year, I bought a good quality gi and thought I might try to find a dojo. Main reason I haven't? Egos. In my past experience visiting other dojos, going to clinics, and participating in tournaments, too many instructors have had ten-story egos. Kind of like that asshole in the Karate Kid movie. :eek: My sensei was mentor and father-figure more than drill instructor. He studied eastern philosophies and practiced eastern ways in his daily life, and in the time I knew him, I saw his art grow fivefold. In other words, he walked the path with his students. Anyway, with this latest lifestyle change, I really would like to start training again and may take up the search for a school.
 
So I went into Small Fart the other day...

I'd looked up the Coleman Peak 1 stove and found it listed at $20.88. Decent price, methunk. So I cranked up the Find in Store feature and saw my local Small Fart had it. When I dropped by to pick up the stove, it was priced $28.88. Bait and switch, methunk.

Here was the conversation that ensued with a SF manager.

Me: I found this stove priced $8 cheaper at Small Fart online. Will you match the price?
SF: No, everything is cheaper online. But you can order it online and pick it up here.
Me: Yeah, I saw that. Says here that I can pick it up same day.
SF: That's right.
Me: So I'm going to order it online, you're going to send somebody back to the shelf to bring it up to customer service, and then you're going to charge me $8 less.
SF: That's right.
Me: That is a stellar business practice.

So that's what I did.
If that's Small Fart's model of efficiency (paying someone to do what I would have done voluntarily), then you might want to sell any Small Fart stock you have.
 
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