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Awesome, what kind? I've had some great sushi down your way. My wife is taking me to Seabar for my birthday next week...can't wait. I absolutely love sushi but haven't been to Seabar yet. I keep looking at the menu online and trying to decide what to get...any recommendations from anyone who's been there?

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Sounds great. Where'd she catch it?

I've got the blu-ray arriving tomorrow on the release day (thank you Amazon Prime)...but I want to finish the first book before I watch the show. Anybody know if the first season of the show ends at the same point in the story that the first book ends?

I must be the only person who goes out of my way to avoid seeing previews for the following week. When the preview starts I'm literally lunging for the remote to turn it off...I don't want them to give any surprises away, I think it makes the show more enjoyable if I have NO idea of what's going to happen. Love this show.

Almost finished with the first Game Of Thrones book...I don't read a lot of fantasy, but this is excellent stuff. Been waiting to read the book before diving into the TV show. If the show is half as good as the book I'll be very pleased.

Agreed. That sounds awesome. Over-easy I hope.

Good lord, I certainly hope so! :sick:

Asian Night tonight at Left Bank. Favorite restaurant, been there at least 20 times, but never on a Wednesday. Can't wait! :)

Good man! :thumbsup: Chicken burrito from Chipotle for lunch today...gonna have to eat a very light dinner to make up for it.

There's a whole thread about 'em right now :P

Awesome avatar!

Wow, this looks fantastic.

My favorite restaurant. And the Panko Chicken is fantastic. :wub:

I thought we already had a breasts thread.

As usual, The Onion absolutely nails it: http://www.theonion.com/articles/jerry-sandusky-ill-never-forget-all-the-things-joe,27169/

I made the mistake of buying my wife a Neon once. :sick:

My wife ran her first half last summer and absolutely loved it. Now she's training for a full. I don't think I'd ever be that crazy! :lol: Good point. You may be right about the small sample size, especially with the less popular models. This, for sure. :thumbsup:

Sorry Weave, do you work for them or something? :) I politely raised a legitimate difference that I found between the two, one which appears to favor CR pretty significantly for a huge number of people like me who like to (or have to) buy older cars. I didn't mean to argue with you about it, but if I'm wrong about the point I raised then please let me know (I may very well be, as I only looked at their site very briefly).

Thanks. A quick google search for "jd powers used car ratings" yielded some helpful results, so I searched their ratings for my vehicle (2002 Subaru Forester). After what initially appeared to be ratings similar to what CR offers, I realized that their Overall Dependability (long-term) ratings are only projections based on problems reported during the first three years. As far as I can tell, that's not as accurate as the way CR does it, and not nearly long-term enough for someone like me who always buys cars that are older than three years-old. But still, thanks for pointing me to an additional resource.

:lol: Point taken, but still...where else can you go to get independent reliability ratings for every model of car for the last decade, broken down by individual car components (engine, tranny, body integrity, etc)? If there is another source please let me know.

Hyundai has improved greatly over the last half-decade or so in reliability, I would not flat-out rule them out. They are still a step below Honda, Toyota and Subaru, but they are also cheaper so you have to weigh that. The #1 piece of advice I would offer is to get a Consumer Reports Car Buying Guide and use it.

Exactly. I think the most important thing for me from the very start of this journey was knowing that I needed to make permanent lifestyle changes, not just "go on a diet". Dieting is fine for losing weight, but absolutely useless for maintaining it long term. I was in no hurry, and I averaged less than 1lb per week. There were many weeks that I gained a lb or two. But over time my losses exceeded my gains, and here I am. And it's not over, there is no finish line. But that's OK. It's totally worth it. I'm striving to be the 5%. That is how many people who lose weight actually keep it off. Sobering statistic, but hey somebody has to be that 1 in 20, it might as well be me. :) Thanks to everybody for the kudos, I sincerely appreciate all of your words of encouragement. Oh, and also...it's 51 degrees and sunny on Jan 6th in Buffalo, NY. F'N FANTASTIC!!!

Thank you! Yes, I am immensely proud. And no, it was definitely not easy to do. But really, losing it was the easy part (relatively) - keeping it off is even harder. But I'm confident that the lifestyle changes I've made are permanent. 43.28% B-) Nice!