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goldendesign

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  1. I'm just trying to pull myself together for the end-of-the-month run rally. I've been chasing 100 miles a month for the past 3 and each time right at the finish I get sick and it derails a run or two. Last month I got 97.75. Crimminies sake.
  2. School has only been in session for maybe 2 months and the lil munchkin has gotten herself and us sick at least three times already. The newest one I feel is my fault though. Went to a one-day tech conference and only after the event my co-worker called in sick with a viral sinus infection. The daft bugger. I'd only been near her for a few minutes the whole day! We prefer not to rove in teams at these things, we see/speak to each other daily. The point of these conferences is to mingle. Guess I did too much mingling!
  3. Utterly wonderful pictures. I am very happy for both of you! Congratulations on the engagement. Please keep us in the loop when you have a ceremony and if you register.
  4. I had to search pretty hard to see if I ever contributed to this year's post. I couldn't find anything so here's a year-so-far update: Running: 667.38 Walking: 208.8
  5. Woke up 5:30 and got out for an easy pace run. Easy Run today as I have my Long run tomorrow, tempo pace for 45 mins then a 50 min easy pace. Barely any sun yet when i hit the bridge.
  6. My dog, Aidan, unfortunately, had to cross the rainbow bridge this week. She's 16 and has been in heart failure for several years. She's been strong and resilient for years on the medications and overall just a happy old-timer. Over the weekend she took a turn for the worst, stopped eating, throwing up a bit, and began to smell sour. Took her to the vet on Tuesday and confirmed the medication for the heart failure has contributed to renal failure. Took her in by myself as there was no way my wife could handle it. This was her first dog and child.
  7. Happened just recently. My music server has about 40k albums and it grows at a pretty good clip. I'll often just have my playlist creator set genre, decade, and song number limit. But occasionally I just hit Random and have it grab a couple hundred songs. Yesterday I was jamming along all happy and wondering who this awesome artist was. Looked at the playlist and saw the guy's name was John Mayall and the album A Sense of Place. Mayall is 80+ years old and that album came out 33 years ago.
  8. I have several jerseys for professional sports. NFL- Buccaneers: Cadillac Williams (24), Jameis Winston (2), Mike Evans (13) NHL- Lightning: Slater Koekkoek (20), Mikhail Sergachev (98), Nikita Kucherov (86), and Oh Captain, My Captain; Steven Stamkos (91) MLB- TB Rays Home and Away Jersey with no names I like certain players, I support their achievements with a jersey. The Winston jersey, however, is an abomination both in style and who's name is on the back. I prefer to forget it is in my closet.
  9. Safe and sound. Mostly just heavy thunderstorms.
  10. Yeah, we went from not really worried to battening down the hatches. The last three hurricanes with this path in very hot waters swerved sharply to the East when they got to shallower waters. We will not rule out a near-direct hit. Took off work, kids' schools closed, and no gas in the TPA area to be found. We're deep in the panic buying mode here with all the recent transplants. Charging up my backup ups, prepping the emergency lights/rations/etc., and readying the bailout vehicle. Gonna hunker down most likely.
  11. I have a Capital One Venture card. I booked all my recent my flights there. I'll research other sites, Expedia, etc... I find their prices are comparable, within a few dollars either way, I get miles/points, and I get their concierge service in case of flight changes. This came in handy to our Vancouver flights got rescheduled/canceled 4 times. They handled each for us, adjusting flights, seats, and the works all for no additional charge from my original booking.
  12. I use those little portable, collapsible lanterns. LED, use AA batteries, and lasts for hours. I have a 12-pack with 2 basically in every major room. Hurricanes or big storms come in, we have lights. I also have a Jackery Explorer 2000 too, a Solar/car/outlet rechargeable battery backup system. Powerful enough to keep my refrigerator for 3 hours last year in a power outage and still had 20% charge after all that.
  13. Locally? The World War II museum in New Orleans. Was in NOLA for a conference a few years back, I was part of a tech vendor group but was pretty flexible, saw a lot of sights, this blew me away https://www.nationalww2museum.org/
  14. Please take some of my heat and humidity then. 96* with 75% humidity today, it was a swampy mess all day. Feels like temp sat at 108 since 8am. Tomorrow's forecast is worse
  15. goldendesign

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    Ohh that looks good.
  16. I've already hit my favorite childhood park, Cedar Point. Being on the west coast, of central Florida though, my theme park history for the last 20+ years has been spoilt. A 20 min drive has Busch Gardens with its Bier Gardens, wildlife, roller coasters, and actually impressive food. The story there is, when I was living really close to the University (5 mins from Busch Gardens) a bunch of us bought the Florida resident yearly park passes with the dining package. We could get two full meals from not just the fast-serve areas but the actual restaurants on the property, 8 times per month. We ate well above what broke college students usually ate. Hell, we used the bus service, Bull Runner, to take free rides to the park practically daily to ride a few rides, eat some free food, then go home for the night. That ended sadly when a few retirement communities found that awesome loophole and a bunch of geriatrics would flood the park around 4 pm daily for their free meals. Further out but still around two hours, I have my choice of all Disney World and Universal Studios have to offer. Easy enough to hit the parks on multiple days with a cheap hotel for the extended weekend, we do it basically yearly. Disney and Universal Florida resident passes usually work out to $50-$75 a day when you buy the 3 or 4 days upfront.
  17. Maybe not weekly but as a teen living in East Detroit, we would alternate between putting the boat in St. Clair or road trips to the campgrounds at Lake Higgins or Cedar Point. I do kinda miss Michigan outdoorsy activities. My folks just moved back to the Comins area.
  18. I was just explaining to some of my FloGrown friends, the majesty of living in Detroit growing up and summer weekly trips to Cedar Point. For reference: FloGrown = Florida natives. Yes, there are bumper stickers and T-shirts and it is as annoying as you can imagine. Anyway, I even told the story of how I convinced my wife, then girlfriend, we needed to do a trip to Cedar Point as their perception of Busch Gardens as a "great" amusement park was laughably inadequate. Then this popped up in my Google feed. Looks like another weekend trip to Ohio!
  19. While some of the technical specs have not changed, @Razors Edge, got it right. There have been large improvements across the years, even if the basic specs remain the same. They've boosted the size of the sensor, changed the glass, and drastically improved the image processing software and GPU acceleration. This is true for most Android phones as well. Technology has allowed us to get more from the same.
  20. I've used quite a few brands and types. By far my favorite:: The Brumate Imperial Pint
  21. Decades. I was never a big gum chewer, ever. In the jewelry industry, we just kept toothbrushes and mouthwash to keep the mouth fresh for appearances. Now I'm remote and couldn't care less about my coffee breath. My wife chews when in the office so she does her part to keep Wrigley spearmint afloat.
  22. Full send. Ride harder out of spite.
  23. I have a third-generation Kindle, the one with the keyboard, that has a good visual for how far along in books you may be. There is a series of dots across the screen, under the title. Each dot becomes bold for the progress throughout the book. At a glance, you can easily get a rough order of the percentage of complete books you're reading. That little machine is 13 years old and still trucking.
  24. In business, I have a natural propensity to easily speak in front of crowds and am able to pivot between multiple technological stacks with ease. I understand tech easily conceptually and on a level where I can speak authoritatively and work in-depth in each stack as it's brought to me.
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