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Happy early birthday, we've! I'm picking up the bf this evening from the airport and we're headed out to dinner, then hiking tomorrow and snowshoeing on Sunday. Looking forward to a few days off work with someone I care about and don't see nearly enough.

Adorable!

I couldn't do what you do, either, so we're even! ;)

Thanks! :) I know it's nothing compared to the miles Doohickie logs on his bike (that's like 4 or 5 days for him, haha), but I'm pretty happy with it.

With today's outing, I've officially hit 200 miles hiking over 29 days since March, not including any snowshoeing done from Dec-March. Holy cow. I wouldn't have believed that number if I hadn't been keeping track along the way out of curiosity. Go me! Now if only I could transition to being less of a weekend warrior and weekday couch potato / workaholic to getting consistent exercise throughout the week, I'd be all set!

I opened this thread specifically for this reason. :thumbsup:

lol very nice. And this! Hardly recognize ya, haha.

I think either you got a dud or I was just lucky, because after 20-21 months my Nexus 5X was still going strong... only trouble I ever had with it was when I got lazy about deleting pics and the memory was too close to full. I actually kind of miss it right now because I finally got the Moto X4 that I'd ordered last week... it's not bad, but the camera isn't very impressive so far, and it's a lot heavier than the 5X (mostly because it's sturdier construction). I'd just gotten Oreo a few weeks ago on the 5X and now I'm back to Nougat, although Motorola has promised an update by the end of this year. I'm a little nervous the updates won't be released as quickly as they were with the Nexus line since it sounds like it's up to Motorola rather than Google, but we shall see.

I finished watching season 2 of Stranger Things tonight. Well done, Duffer Brothers.

One of the ski resorts here is already open for the season and was encouraging costumes today. My friends and I went as Calvin and Hobbes. ????

He is, but the show is so terrible... I watched the first episode and had no interest in seeing more. Shame that his talent is being wasted, and hopefully it won't negatively impact him going forward, since Ramsey was such a great (in an awful sense) character.

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I haven't seen it, but I saw this article the other day: The director of 'The Snowman' explains why he made such a terrible movie Terrible excuse, but it would explain a lot.

Haha that was a great bit. I totally had a haircut like Barb's in 1992. :ph34r: :w00t:

Two of my friends suggested last week that I should try out Stranger Things so I could watch it with them when the second season is released this coming Friday. Didn't know much about it, but since GoT is done for a while I figured I'm game. Watched the first 3 episodes at my friend's place Sat. night, watched 3 more on my own when I got back home, and watched the last two yesterday. I guess it was okay. :lol:

:o :worthy: This should've gone in yesterday's thread. :devil:

I appreciate it, (bob, too!), and although I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm still working too much this week, I did cancel pretty much all my plans last weekend so I could stay home and sleep as much as possible, and I'm going to try and take it easy this weekend as well. Fingers crossed that the job candidate we're interviewing this afternoon is a good fit and can start quickly.

For me it's tired mixed with any amount (even one drink) of alcohol... seems to just exponentially magnify my exhaustion. But I'll agree that tired and sober is worse than awake and a little drunk. (And thanks.)

I've been burning the candle at both ends for a few weeks now with crunch time at work and still only having two people to do it all. (My co-worker is awesome, but he's a junior person and I can't expect him to work insane hours just because I choose to.) Multiple 12+ hour days, 4-5 hours of sleep (and sometimes less) per night. So worn out. But last week we successfully finished the first major test for our group, so my co-worker and I went out for happy hour after work on Friday. I probably had a little more than I should have, but I thought I was okay to drive, and the restaurant/bar was only about 10-15 min. from home. This is somewhere around 7:30pm. About halfway home, extreme tiredness kicked in and I realized I was in trouble. I'm sitting at stop lights, struggling to keep my eyes open, praying to God just to let me get home safely without hurting anyone. I don't remember getting home, and woke up almost 2 hours later still sitting in the driver's seat of my car, somehow safely parked in the (narrow!) garage, when my boyfriend called me the second time to make sure I'd gotten home okay. Scared the bejeesus out of me. I'm so, so lucky and grateful that I didn't hurt anyone (including myself).

:( Hard to know, but it kind of sounds like his back injury sort of triggered it (I don't recall whether he'd had surgery at that point or not), so it's fairly likely he was struggling with it while he was with the Sabres. But even so, no one (including CoHo) knew he was "injured".

For any fellow nerds interested in more about malignant hyperthermia: https://www.my46.org/trait-document?trait=Malignant%20hyperthermia%20susceptibility&type=profile Most people find out (too late) that they have it when they've had anesthesia for surgery, but in rare cases strenuous exercise can trigger it as well. He is seriously lucky to be okay.

Holy cow. That poor SOB went through so much just to try and play, and none of us had any idea what he was battling. I'm glad he's gotten a diagnosis and still has the ability to participate (if only peripherally) in something he loves, but damn.

I've never seen it. :ph34r:

Congrats, man!

:D :thumbsup: