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I've never been good at chatting up people or cultivating friendships. But I do have a "gym family" and we do socialize pretty much weekly outside of the gym. Those that hang the closest also now happen to be involved with rescuing/fostering/adopting needy animals, so we have more than just the...

Working with a pet rescue organization might be more rewarding to you. They always need foster parents to take care of the rescued dogs or cats in their home while waiting on adopters. While they are living with you, you may be helping them with socialization or other training they may have...

Yes Multi-employer... American Federation of Musicians. I've already retired from that, but too young to take early withdrawal. They've just entered critical and declining status, so couldn't even apply to PBGC before that, so the fund's not likely to get any help at this point. If for some...

ugh. I only had 15 yrs in, so wasn't scheduled to get much at age 65, but now I probably won't get anything at all. Why were these pension plans allowed to project outlandish yearly returns of 8% for so long to pretend they were solvent when they were clearly not? It's ridiculous. Luckily I...

Started Crossfitting when I was 40 with an all-ladies bootcamp. At bodyweight 125 (pounds) my highest lifts were DL 300, Back Squat 200, Bench 165, Shoulder press 117, Clean 172 Jerk 175 and Snatch 135. Now I'm 50 and have taken a lot of time off, barely back at it working out once a week- am...

There was a road rage murder in Colorado, the guy chased a family down. A mom was taking her 3 kids to the dentist, the guy got out with a gun and shot everyone except one kid who was able to run away. The guy started walking away and then came back and shot again at one of the victims laying...

Not a violinist but used to make my living playing in orchestras... Generally speaking the upbow is going to be weaker than the downbow, so the downbow is more often used for an accented note. When there are long sequences of fast running notes then the consideration is just how many notes do...

I found a Precor elliptical on Craigslist for $500 and paid 2 guys $100 to bring it on their truck and carry it into my house. I could probably sell it quickly for $1200 if I wanted to sell it. If you live in a metro area and are willing to be patient it wouldn't be too rare to find one for half...

Denver held the Chiefs to 27 pts. and 30 pts. in their divisional games this season. Denver held the Rams to 23 pts. Denver is one of the worst-coached teams in the NFL. So I think it follows that the Rams and the Chiefs are not at all unstoppable if they meet up with a well run defense.

Our cat has enlarged heart so must take blood thinner permanently which is horribly bitter, impossible to take as a liquid. He cooperated for a few months eating it inside a pill pocket treat, but if he happened to chew into it and taste the bitter he would spit it out and if you tried to pill...

We got married right out of grad school and immediately began paying off DH's 30k student loans. In 2 years they were paid off and we were shopping for a house and realized we didn't have the 20% down payment to avoid the PMI, so my folks offered to loan us 10k at the same rate as the mortgage...

It's my understanding (from watching real estate flipping shows, haha) that an "all cash" offer does not mean someone shows up with duffel bags full of benjamins, but rather that in industry lingo "all cash" simply means not contingent on any financing and the accompanying hassles (appraisals...

I get the vasovagal if anyone is tending to my wounds. Happened once as a kid, rode my bike barefoot, foot slipped and sliced off the tip of my big toe, friends mom was a nurse and I passed out on their floor. In college I had a plantars wart removed from my heel, back in the waiting room...

The gym I go to is in the last two weeks of a 90 day nutrition challenge. We decided to use counting Macros as our method this time around. So this means using a kitchen scale to weigh grams of food so you can have accurate counts of your protein grams, carb grams, and fat grams. Several...

We use our over the air antenna into our Tablo recorder into our Roku. We select the Tablo channel on our Roku, and can watch live or recorded shows. Selecting the Tablo channel on the Roku screen to watch live is as easy as selecting the Netflix or HBO channels, nothing more to it. All we...