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Some green and/or yellow stripes, especially on the helmet, sure would have helped. Otherwise it's just so plain and boring. Does the Graphic Arts Department have an offseason, too? Of course now I'm really really hoping for a hard snowstorm for that game because that would be hilarious. Unrelated, I've been hearing a lot about Kalen King recently and that he's been getting reps with the 1st team and is looking great. Another 7th Round CB find? And CBS seems to think Morgan has locked up the RG position and it'll be Walker getting the starting LT spot.

So mocking The Last Supper, a golden calf and even a Horseman of the Apocalypse.

Newhart's phone bits are incredible. He was so effortlessly funny.

Five months of boring unless you're in alts. Think I've eaten about an 80% loss from January except in my BTC. But we hit 60k way way way early, and despite this all, provided every cycle rhymes ETFs excluded we'd probably have done a slow climb up to 60 right about now. What I consider great about that is we can largely dismiss the idea which was floating around that we'd have our final top a year sooner than expected. Probably better overall that we're back on track for a top late Fall of next year. Crossing my fingers with these alts falling so hard that there's a solid 20x in a lot of them from today. edit: Spoke too soon. Please somebody make it stop!

An upset pancreas seems to explain the stomach pains, recent weight gain, high lipase and glucose levels. Guess I'll have to drink more water and quit having my usual nightcaps for a good while.

RoaringKitty is doing a livestream I think right now. Lotta folks wonder if he'll exercise his options. He controls something like $400m worth of options. He could very well skyrocket the price even more. Not that I want to wade into all that craziness.

You might be thinking Medicare Advantage and the prescription drug plan, which you're ineligible for if you move away. You can get back on it if you move back, but there's a waiting period between signing up and actually getting it. You can still sign up for and keep A and/or B since you don't lose your US citizenship with a new passport, though it's not going to cover you for anything outside the US. Whether a person chooses to keep any premium-paying portions of it usually depends on how often the person thinks they'll be back in the US. From what I've seen the median price for international health care plans is $500/mo.

We have a couple different income streams when we retire. Last week the boss was calculating them out and accidentally used the 1.83% pension number for his 0.83% special supplement, and for two hours until I came into work he was all excited to retire tomorrow. edit to Tbilisi: Georgia doesn't allow second citizenships, so it's out. Not gonna renounce my US citizenship and give up social security payments nor would want to give up the possibility of moving back home permanently. They're a candidate State to the EU which I assume would change citizenship laws, but I've read they're unlikely to be accepted. Crete (Greek island to the south of the mainland) is a new Top 3. Good bit pricier, though. About $250/sq. ft. Okay golf course. But views of the very blue water and the food look pretty fantastic. I understand the island of Corfu is like that but greener, but haven't looked at that yet. And they just upped their citizenship-by-investment to $400,000. Another option exists which is basically just like the US citizenship test, but of course conducted in Greek. Still searching the map for the island of Mepos (yeah, I know it doesn't exist). America or burst! Possibly my new #1 choice (I still have 8+ years to change my mind) is Bulgaria. One of the prettiest golf courses in the world at Thracian Cliffs on the Black Sea. About $160/sq. ft. for a place at the resort is cheapest yet. $312,000 residence-by-investment. May have to jump to the Christian Orthodox denomination, though, which I'm not super thrilled about. edit: With Bulgaria I think I'm weighting the golf too heavily. Housing there certainly looks like an ex-communist designed it and it doesn't look so permanent-resident-friendly. Crete seems better even if the golf isn't. The investment minimum will be tough, though. Other option to residency is language fluency, which I'm not too optimistic about.

Morgan Spurlock, 53 years old, cancer. The "SuperSize Me" director.

I paid attention because of the Nvidia earnings yesterday and dumped whatever AI coins I had which didn't really move. Consolidated into ones which did. That and I guess I hadn't realized I had one token with a FDMC:MC of 10:1 and got rid of that, too. In my book a scummy thing so many projects are doing now and I don't feel like getting dumped on by VCs selling their shares throughout the run. I gotta figure gaming will start jumping pretty soon, but it's been pretty nuts that up until now that whole sector really hasn't done much of anything yet. Nice like bump for Fantom recently. A good project which has really been flying under the radar for a while now.

Thanks. Green peppers are right at the height of my heat tolerance, actually. I've stopped ordering the Subway Spicy Italian because the pepperoni was a bit too much. But stomach has been getting better lately and in a month go back in to make sure it's not some organ refusing to work right. And eating celery and plain lettuce for dinner is probably good for me in more ways than one.

More than two weeks of my stomach hurting me has kinda stunk. It's waking me up in the middle of the night, even. Finally saw a doctor today and at least got some better-than-Pepto pills.

Just heard about this one and am anxious to test it out: The Saltine Cracker Test We all produce amylase enzyme in our saliva (brewers and distillers will know about amylase) to break down carbohydrates into simple sugars. But of course everyone's genetic makeup is a little different. This test apparently determines our body's tolerance to carbohydrates, how well we break it down, and can factor in how many carbs our bodies should really be eating in a day. Put a saltine in your mouth and see how long it takes to go from salty to sweet: 1-14 seconds--you've got a high tolerance and 250g of carbs in your diet should be fine without the resulting weight gain 15-30 seconds--moderate tolerance. Aim for 100-250g of carbs per day 31+--low carb tolerance. Aim for <100g

Goff makes me wonder if there's going to come a day when some sort of individual salary cap is put specifically on the quarterback position. A mid-tier QB getting $52M is obscene, and from the players union perspective, that's a lot less of the cap which can be spent on the rest of their players. In all I think this is a bad deal by the Lions. If no salary cap, I wonder if it'll come to be that QBs are treated a little more like running backs where maybe they'll get one good contract but once they get into their mid-30s that it's thought of as better to dump the guy before he's too old and go with a first-rounder you'd have on the cheap for the next five years. How happy will Lions fans be when they have to shed Sewell or St. Brown for salary cap reasons?

Also probably get every top coach to boycott this ownership group if you fire Doc in the offseason, as it says you better win the Finals that year or you're fired. Lopez has another year left at $23M and Connoughton has two years left, same as Middleton. I just can't figure what you could really do with those contracts. A trade of Portis and/or Lillard is the only way I can figure to shake things up, but you'd sure have to find a scorer in return for either. Not really sure what this team can do apart from just waiting for the Lopez/Middleton contracts to expire.

I was kinda thinking they'd wind up consolidating some of their extra picks and nab an extra 2nd or 3rd and shed a few Day 3 picks. Maybe it's just the opposite.

That's presuming they all grade out about the same. Despite a heap of CBs if there's one guy they like in particular it could still be valuable to make sure you get him.

If we traded Lillard this offseason he'd certainly get a haul back in return, though we'd be dreadful if we had to rely on Middleton to be the #2 scorer.

Well they got drastic to change things after their exit last year. Maybe again this summer?

If the Packers moved up I'm more in favor of Powers-Johnson.

Tom can be the team's Bill Hall.

Any OL or NT automatically gets that "Oh. Ok." reaction. I was curious what the Packers brass thought of Walker, if he held his own in the second half or if it was more because he got a lot of help. This feels like the answer. Plus we're really shallow there, so I'm good with the pick.

Time to trade up and get Quinyon.

I'd written him off because everybody in the world had him going to the Colts. I'd be interesting to know what Gutenkunst is thinking with all this.

Byron Murphy or Terrion Arnold would sure be tempting to move up and get.