PeterSam
Footballguy
The more you drink, the more you look like a St. Bernard shaking its head to dry off when you move.
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St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
WTF is your Paypal addy?
ForteWillLeadTheWay
Footballguy
I'll let you know via FB.I need to make sure I can take PayPal payments and deposit them into my bank account in time to actually get the cash to pay for the tix.
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General Malaise
Footballguy
There are certainly more paypal experts in here than me, but my experience is that a paypal to bank transfer (maximum $500 PER MONTH
) takes anywhere between 3-5 days, but I rarely see 3 days and mostly see 5. Pretty sure Paypal loves using that 'interim' period to make money off your money (in much larger, pooled sweeps).
jplvr
Footballguy
I looked into this today. $56 bucks for 3 months. F-it, I'm going to clear out the alcohol in possession and start this later in the week. Probably Wednesday.I liked the low carb thing, and planned on getting back at it again, but I've been planning that for over a month now.I'm still down 10-15 pounds from where I started, but still need to go a lot more.I've told this story many times on this board. Weight watchers is 100% legit. It's not a diet...you can eat whatever you want...it's an eating/lifestyle program that "teaches" you portion control.Initially I lost 30lbs in 3 month (195 to 165) follwoing weight watchers very strictly. After Katrina, I gained a ton of weight any got back up to 205...eventually got down to 160 via weight watchers over the course of a year or so (following it semi strict).I know you're probably laughing at this point b/c even 205 isn't ridiculous. But I absolutely love food and drinks, and I hate exercising (outside of playing sports). But WW makes weight loss easy, S.It's not hard to do...and you will feel much better for it!GLLLSo a guy I work with was, and I stress WAS as big as I am. I started noticing he has been shrinking and finally asked him what was up. He stated that about 6 months ago he started on Weight Watchers for Men and has lost about 70lbs so farHe is off his insulin and is doing great.So to make a long story short, I am going to give this a try starting this week.I absolutely need to do this if I want to live a long life. The problem is I absolutely love food and think I'm, scratch that, I KNOW I'm addicted.I'm going to try this and try hard. I feel, and this is sad commentary on me, but I feel like I will need to call someone to talk me out of stopping at fast food joints on my way home from work.I have a couple of very close friends who would absolutely take those calls and not look down on me, but it's so damn hard admitting to anyone I have a problem.Should I tell them that I might call them for support, or man up and try to do this on my own?
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
Good luck to our GBSLB's Pops!
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
Is there anyone else here who is married/in a relationship and doing absolutely nothing for Valentine's Day? No special dinner, no gifts, no cards...or am I the only one who thinks this way?
Although I did get her a card when I was picking up some medication tonight.ProTIP - make your weigh in days on Thursdays. Rationale is that you want to weigh in on days after it's "easiest" to stick to the plan as much as possible. Mon-Wed is typically just work and not many social functions.You can still drink, you just need to bank the points. I basically eliminated beer and drank a lot of rum & diet cokeI looked into this today. $56 bucks for 3 months. F-it, I'm going to clear out the alcohol in possession and start this later in the week. Probably Wednesday.I liked the low carb thing, and planned on getting back at it again, but I've been planning that for over a month now.I'm still down 10-15 pounds from where I started, but still need to go a lot more.I've told this story many times on this board. Weight watchers is 100% legit. It's not a diet...you can eat whatever you want...it's an eating/lifestyle program that "teaches" you portion control.Initially I lost 30lbs in 3 month (195 to 165) follwoing weight watchers very strictly. After Katrina, I gained a ton of weight any got back up to 205...eventually got down to 160 via weight watchers over the course of a year or so (following it semi strict).I know you're probably laughing at this point b/c even 205 isn't ridiculous. But I absolutely love food and drinks, and I hate exercising (outside of playing sports). But WW makes weight loss easy, S.It's not hard to do...and you will feel much better for it!GLLLSo a guy I work with was, and I stress WAS as big as I am. I started noticing he has been shrinking and finally asked him what was up. He stated that about 6 months ago he started on Weight Watchers for Men and has lost about 70lbs so far
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
GLGBKSo I had an ultrasound done on both legs today. Obviously, this is a rich opportunity for shtick, so I was thinking something along the lines of "Look into my eyes when you do that" or "How about some more gel right here?"
Unfortunately, one look at the mousey little Indigo Girl that was going to perform the procedure told me that this would be a shtick-free environment. I can't ever remember having less fun having warm gel smeared all over me.
The followup with my doctor, a guy I have known since he was in medical school 30 years ago, a guy I have been to Vegas with, went fine. I don't have clots that would make air travel next month a risky proposition. But one thing leapt out the bloodwork and pimp-slapped me. My glucose was high. Real high. High enough that I have to get it tested again, and if I roll the same number, I'm diabetic.
On the plus side, he re-upped my Vicodin prescription.
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondaies
Mr.Pack
Footballguy
I think it's daies.
mr. furley
Footballguy
difference between a "passport book" and a "passport card"?
Dark Matter
Footballguy
I'm pretty sure the card allows you to go to Canada and Mexico only while the book is for travel around the globe.Passport info
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urbanhack
Fight The Power!
book is the standard passport
Kubes
Footballguy
We're on this plan. So much easier.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
Although I did get her a card when I was picking up some medication tonight.
Tecumseh
Footballguy
Just ate at this place: http://www.panzano-denver.com/index.php
Ridiculously good, and the company picked up the tab. Also, I need to not drink wine around my superiors. Tomorrow should be a hoot.
Ridiculously good, and the company picked up the tab. Also, I need to not drink wine around my superiors. Tomorrow should be a hoot.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Wow, you're really having trouble with this. I was trying to make a joke, that a lot of the locals there tend to put an "s" at the end of a lot of proper nouns. "Biomets", "DePuys", "Zimmers", "Othys", "Wal-Marts", etc. Just forget it, man.
It's changed a tad since I did it, but the premise is the same...quick and dirty - basically all food/drink items are assigned a point value, and you're allotted a certain amount of points per week depending on your age/weight. Some filling foods are virtually 0 points...so you learn to work more of these into your diet to allow you the fun stuff. You can earn more points by working out.
Senor Schmutzig
Footballguy
So what are you really paying for?
the formula, system, organization, system tools etc.Like jplvr said...it's $56 for 3 months...if you follow it, you'll have the system down pat where you can probably cancel...or if you need the continued motivation/support of having everything handy for you online, keep paying.
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General Malaise
Footballguy
What did you have and what did you do?
General Malaise
Footballguy
My mom used to like to go to the meetings and meet people. She used to work for weight watchers when i was growing up. I just ate two cookies. Think I'll go barf now.
ForteWillLeadTheWay
Footballguy
What's with all the gluten free stuff?
General Malaise
Footballguy
Colorado?
ForteWillLeadTheWay
Footballguy
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
I'm sorry I didn't get your joke.
Guster
Footballguy
the best jokes are the ones you have to explain
Bogart
Footballguy
I'm really surprised how much gluten free stuff is out there now. Back a few years ago, when we thought a gluten-free diet would help my autistic nephew (It doesn't), it was hard to find anything.That said, I would still like to free my gluten all over Elizabeth's Hasselback.
Bogart
Footballguy
So went out last night and bought one of these.
For the longest time, I would just shave, then not shave for a couple of weeks, letting the beard grow out, then shave it all off. Rinse and repeat. Going to give the short, well groomed beard a try for a while.
The good news is that the beard looks great, the bad news is that I got a bit carried away, and made something below the belt bleed for the first time ever.
Being almost-single hurts sometimes.
For the longest time, I would just shave, then not shave for a couple of weeks, letting the beard grow out, then shave it all off. Rinse and repeat. Going to give the short, well groomed beard a try for a while.
The good news is that the beard looks great, the bad news is that I got a bit carried away, and made something below the belt bleed for the first time ever.
Being almost-single hurts sometimes.
Crazy Canuck
Footballguy
Speaking of personal grooming, I need some type of gizmo thingamabob electronic hatchet to get at this forest that keeps cropping up in my nostrils. Bikini wax?
I never would not shave (other than maybe a long weekend). I think an unkept beard looks pretty nasty.That being said, from my early 20's to early 30's I often either had a full beard or goatee.
Imo, keeping a nicely trimmed full beard is more of a pita than shaving every day.
Now I just keep a clean shaven face and the ladies wife likes it just fine so that works.
Idiot Boxer
Footballguy
This is more disturbing than SLB's coconuts on the bathroom sink.
Bogart
Footballguy
The kit I bought has a nice ear and nose trimmer attachment. I think you can buy just that tool for less than 10 bucks.
I worry about this. Last night was fun and cool trimming it up, but at what point does it become a beating.
Just trying to add to the conversation GB. My lack of content has been lacking as of late.
heckmanm
Footballguy
phishphan
Footballguy
I shave my junk with a Shick Extreme. Even works well on the ol beanbag. This may be TMI
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I just thought of this for some reason
about 12 years ago when i was a sophomore in high school, my buddy and I would get all drunk and convince people from Yahoo! Euchre that we were the guys from the band Live. People seemed genuinely excited if they knew who we were.
about 12 years ago when i was a sophomore in high school, my buddy and I would get all drunk and convince people from Yahoo! Euchre that we were the guys from the band Live. People seemed genuinely excited if they knew who we were.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Get the book, not the card. The book will let you travel anywhere by any means (cross any border by car, plane, or boat). The card is only valid to cross from Mexico or Canada, and not by plane. So if, in the next 10 years you ever travel internationally by plane, you'll need to spring for the book anyway.
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
I thought the brief mention of my seeing two pairs of boobies pressed up against each other sans clothing would evoke more of a reaction from this group of old pervs.
Y'all just keep up the scrotum talk.
Y'all just keep up the scrotum talk.
ForteWillLeadTheWay
Footballguy
You got a joint on you right now, man?
General Malaise
Footballguy
For the Uranium players....
Why is Dallas Federal Reserve president Richard Fisher holding as much as $250,000 worth of uranium in his portfolio?
FORTUNE -- If you are worried that inflation might soon soar and you want to protect your 401(k), here's an investing tip: Buy uranium. At least that seems to be the thinking of one of the top officials at the Federal Reserve.
In early February, the Federal Reserve revealed for the first time the portfolios of the presidents of the Fed's regional banks. Unlike Fed governors, the bank presidents don't get a regular vote on whether the short-term interest rates set by the Fed should go up or down. But they are the Fed's top ranking regional officials, leading the Fed's efforts in monitoring the economy around the country and regulating local banks. So they should have better insight into where the economy is headed than the rest of us. Or so you would think.
Which is why the investment portfolio of Richard Fisher, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is interesting, and perhaps worrying. For the most part, the presidents' portfolios are what you would expect for relatively wealthy Americans - a mix of stocks and bonds and mutual funds. Among the stock picks of the Fed presidents are Apple (AAPL), Boeing (BA), Coca-Cola (KO) and JetBlue (JBLU). Generally, the portfolios of the Fed presidents are positioned to do well when the U.S. economy does well.
But Fisher is the one exception. Fisher's portfolio includes 7,000 acres of land in Texas, Georgia, Iowa and Missouri; a $1 million investment in a fund that tracks the price of gold; and as much as $250,000 worth of uranium. He has also at times invested in funds that rise in value when the stock market falls.
Fisher has a large portfolio - $21 million - and the ethics officer at the Dallas Fed is careful to say that Fisher doesn't select his actual investments. That's done by an outside broker. Nonetheless, Fisher has been one of the most outspoken critics of the Fed's own current low-interest-rate policy. He thinks Bernanke policies could setting us up for a big jump in inflation, even if there appears to be little sign of that yet (and price increases have actually been slowing lately). And Fisher's portfolio seems to confirm his fears about the economy, and inflation in particular. Commodities, metals - gold in particular - and real estate, are traditionally seen as a good inflation hedges. Still, even among those who worry about inflation, uranium is an unusual pick.
One reason is because you can't own the actual metal. Storing radioactive materials in your house is generally frowned upon by neighbors. Fisher owns shares in a company called Uranium Participation Corp., which is based in Canada and generally tracks the value of the metal, much like an ETF. Still, uranium hasn't had the run up that gold or other traditional inflation hedges have had in recent years, which is why uranium could be a good pick now, but not because it will protect you against inflation.
In fact, it hasn't. Early last year, when oil prices, commodities and prices in general, though more modestly, were heading up, uranium was going in the opposite direction: Down. That's because of the Japanese tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster. The primary use of uranium is to fuel nuclear reactors, and it appears the price of uranium is more tied to the projected future use of nuclear fuel than inflation. So when the Japanese disaster raised concerns about the safety of nuclear reactors, and predictions that some countries would abandon using them, the price of uranium fell by about a third in 2011 to a low of $49 a pound. It recently was priced at $52.
Still, if you are worried about the growth of U.S. economy, uranium could be a good way to play emerging markets, particularly China and India. Casey Research's Marin Katusa, who is one of the few energy analysts who follows uranium, says he thinks prices of the radioactive metal could jump 50% in the near future. There are currently 440 working nuclear power plants in the world. China is planning to add 200 reactors to that nation's energy infrastructure. India could add as many as 60 reactors. Russia another 50 or so. Not all of these will be built. But the point is that uranium should be in more demand. So uranium could very well end up being a good call for Fisher, even if his prediction that inflation will take off is not.
FORTUNE -- If you are worried that inflation might soon soar and you want to protect your 401(k), here's an investing tip: Buy uranium. At least that seems to be the thinking of one of the top officials at the Federal Reserve.
In early February, the Federal Reserve revealed for the first time the portfolios of the presidents of the Fed's regional banks. Unlike Fed governors, the bank presidents don't get a regular vote on whether the short-term interest rates set by the Fed should go up or down. But they are the Fed's top ranking regional officials, leading the Fed's efforts in monitoring the economy around the country and regulating local banks. So they should have better insight into where the economy is headed than the rest of us. Or so you would think.
Which is why the investment portfolio of Richard Fisher, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is interesting, and perhaps worrying. For the most part, the presidents' portfolios are what you would expect for relatively wealthy Americans - a mix of stocks and bonds and mutual funds. Among the stock picks of the Fed presidents are Apple (AAPL), Boeing (BA), Coca-Cola (KO) and JetBlue (JBLU). Generally, the portfolios of the Fed presidents are positioned to do well when the U.S. economy does well.
But Fisher is the one exception. Fisher's portfolio includes 7,000 acres of land in Texas, Georgia, Iowa and Missouri; a $1 million investment in a fund that tracks the price of gold; and as much as $250,000 worth of uranium. He has also at times invested in funds that rise in value when the stock market falls.
Fisher has a large portfolio - $21 million - and the ethics officer at the Dallas Fed is careful to say that Fisher doesn't select his actual investments. That's done by an outside broker. Nonetheless, Fisher has been one of the most outspoken critics of the Fed's own current low-interest-rate policy. He thinks Bernanke policies could setting us up for a big jump in inflation, even if there appears to be little sign of that yet (and price increases have actually been slowing lately). And Fisher's portfolio seems to confirm his fears about the economy, and inflation in particular. Commodities, metals - gold in particular - and real estate, are traditionally seen as a good inflation hedges. Still, even among those who worry about inflation, uranium is an unusual pick.
One reason is because you can't own the actual metal. Storing radioactive materials in your house is generally frowned upon by neighbors. Fisher owns shares in a company called Uranium Participation Corp., which is based in Canada and generally tracks the value of the metal, much like an ETF. Still, uranium hasn't had the run up that gold or other traditional inflation hedges have had in recent years, which is why uranium could be a good pick now, but not because it will protect you against inflation.
In fact, it hasn't. Early last year, when oil prices, commodities and prices in general, though more modestly, were heading up, uranium was going in the opposite direction: Down. That's because of the Japanese tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster. The primary use of uranium is to fuel nuclear reactors, and it appears the price of uranium is more tied to the projected future use of nuclear fuel than inflation. So when the Japanese disaster raised concerns about the safety of nuclear reactors, and predictions that some countries would abandon using them, the price of uranium fell by about a third in 2011 to a low of $49 a pound. It recently was priced at $52.
Still, if you are worried about the growth of U.S. economy, uranium could be a good way to play emerging markets, particularly China and India. Casey Research's Marin Katusa, who is one of the few energy analysts who follows uranium, says he thinks prices of the radioactive metal could jump 50% in the near future. There are currently 440 working nuclear power plants in the world. China is planning to add 200 reactors to that nation's energy infrastructure. India could add as many as 60 reactors. Russia another 50 or so. Not all of these will be built. But the point is that uranium should be in more demand. So uranium could very well end up being a good call for Fisher, even if his prediction that inflation will take off is not.
heckmanm
Footballguy
Planning to eat it at room temperature?
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