How's that make you feel, gramps? 
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Drysart startled the peaceful upland Gorillas, blurting:
50 used to sound so old but that's becoming increasingly less so every passing year.
No kidding! I don't feel half a century old...I just keep reminding myself that "50 is the new 30" like the news keeps saying.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Of course, if I lay off exercise for a week or two for whatever reason, the aches and gimpiness return. So now I'm stuck exercising, not to be in amazing shape or anything, but rather to slow my deterioration as much as possible.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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How.... Karnaj.... uughhhhhh:
I find the ease with which one gets out of bed to be an excellent marker of one's age. Two years ago before I started exercising, I was all achy and gimpy basically until I had showered. Now I can pop out of bed like I'm in my 20s again, or something.Of course, if I lay off exercise for a week or two for whatever reason, the aches and gimpiness return. So now I'm stuck exercising, not to be in amazing shape or anything, but rather to slow my deterioration as much as possible.
I run half marathons for fun and and self-loathing now. 
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Karnaj said:
I like carbs too much to contemplate running a half marathon. Also, I'm in my 30s.
I love carbs too.
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Monica screamed this from the crapper:
I'll be 29 next month.
Well, you have a leg up, since you're already exercising. If you were to stop for a while (say, a year), then start up again, you'd discover that being 30+ suuuuucks if you don't exercise regularly.
Really, it boils down to this: exercising is awful and miserable, but as you get older, the alternative is worse.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm turning 35 this year, been married for a 3 in April, just bought our first house this year as well.
Working for iHeartMedia as a Digital Content Director for a few markets for the past few years, pays crap, but it's the most fun I've had working ever. Then my friend and I decided to make youtube videos, and that's been fun too, since all we are doing is playing video games now.
I feel strangely less adult than ever though. And I love it.
It took a long time of figuring out myself and what it is in life. But I am finally having fun, real honest fun, that I don't have to lie about and say I'm "having a good time" anymore.
It's pretty awesome.
ALSO, don't let Bajah fool you. He is a master train conductor, and trains follow him like lost puppies wherever he goes
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Brahmin Bloodlust said:
Feels weird to randomly stop by here on a whim and see everyone still doing their thing.I'm turning 35 this year, been married for a 3 in April, just bought our first house this year as well.
Working for iHeartMedia as a Digital Content Director for a few markets for the past few years, pays crap, but it's the most fun I've had working ever. Then my friend and I decided to make youtube videos, and that's been fun too, since all we are doing is playing video games now.
I feel strangely less adult than ever though. And I love it.
It took a long time of figuring out myself and what it is in life. But I am finally having fun, real honest fun, that I don't have to lie about and say I'm "having a good time" anymore.
It's pretty awesome.
ALSO, don't let Bajah fool you. He is a master train conductor, and trains follow him like lost puppies wherever he goes
That's funny, we do stuff with iHeartMedia sometimes (though I don't know a lot of the details involved - my boss handles it.)
daughter had major heart problems and almost lost her at least 4 times to different issues. She's now in pre-school and is a happy 3yo.
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Brahmin Bloodlust said:
I'm turning 35 this year, been married for a 3 in April, just bought our first house this year as well
I always thought you were way older than me. Turns out I'm 1 year older.
Huh.
I envy the US house market. Ridiculous prices in the UK mean I'll probably be a homeowner by the time I'm 45 or may just be in the rental market forever.
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Mortious had this to say about Captain Planet:
I always thought you were way older than me. Turns out I'm 1 year older.Huh.
I envy the US house market. Ridiculous prices in the UK mean I'll probably be a homeowner by the time I'm 45 or may just be in the rental market forever.
It depends a lot on where you are. Companies keep moving to the Dallas area, which of course is great for growth, but it's causing home prices to surge like crazy and we don't know if we're going to be able to purchase anything by the time we're ready to.
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Monica got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
It depends a lot on where you are. Companies keep moving to the Dallas area, which of course is great for growth, but it's causing home prices to surge like crazy and we don't know if we're going to be able to purchase anything by the time we're ready to.
That's the truth. I bought my home in 2008 for $120k, and now it appraises at $156k. A month ago the general appraisal was $152. And I'm on the northwest side of Fort Worth, in suburbia. (I don't fit in here. Send help.)
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Mortious spewed forth this undeniable truth:
I always thought you were way older than me. Turns out I'm 1 year older.Huh.
I envy the US house market. Ridiculous prices in the UK mean I'll probably be a homeowner by the time I'm 45 or may just be in the rental market forever.
Funny how that always seems to happen on boards and in person.
As for the house market, everyone else said, it totally depends on where you live.
New Jersey sucks ass for prices, we lucked out with a 2 bed 2 bath 1589 sq ft house with a finished basement... for 280k after some negotiation.
This same house in the midwest is around 100k.
We got extremely lucky too on it, most other houses in the similar size and 2b/2br configuration were 350 - 500k.
And property taxes here in NJ are stupid too, considering we only have .2 acres and our home price, it's close to 7300.
The interest rates we got locked in though are pretty sexy though.
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Drysart's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
50 used to sound so old but that's becoming increasingly less so every passing year.
I hit 30 this year. I feel old so i have no idea how that makes you all feel.
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Karnaj startled the peaceful upland Gorillas, blurting:
I like carbs too much to contemplate running a half marathon. Also, I'm in my 30s.
People running or training for distance running should be eating high-carb diets. Carbs are the fuel for endurance athletes. If you're doing a lot of aerobic exercise on a low-carb diet, your body essentially ends up burning your muscles for fuel.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Azakias wrote this stupid crap:
That's the truth. I bought my home in 2008 for $120k, and now it appraises at $156k. A month ago the general appraisal was $152. And I'm on the northwest side of Fort Worth, in suburbia. (I don't fit in here. Send help.)
I'm in the county part of So. Cal and got our house for $240k, it's up to ~320k. Home prices in the city are between 750k to 3m on avg.
LA's insane. we're looking at purchasing some rental property up there, and the building we're looking at is 850k for 2 units and rents looking to be 2500/mo + utils. We looked at a place across from a pot doc and dispensery and it was asking 1.3 mil, and it was dumpy with rents closer to 3k.
It's massively cheaper out east.
For reference, my hone is on 6500 sqft lot. Its a 2000 sqft house, two stories, 3 bed 2.5 bath and two car garage.
I had a navy buddy come visit a couple years ago. He lives in Richmond, Via and does personnel management for Target at corporate level.apparently, a house like mine in his neighborhood would have a price tag of over a million, and that's at the low end, "fixer upper" price.
There's plenty to dislike about my area, but housing and land is cheap.
Through, I'm planning on moving to Seattle when I get this thing paid off in 8 years.
Went to Fairfax, VA for a work trip a few years back... All the houses I saw would give me claustrophobia... 1500 sqft but 3 stories because each floor is basically a room and a half. And of course they want like 600k for a place like that with a postage stamp back yard, no front yard and maybe a carport. The people I was sent out there to work with were shocked that I had a 2br/2ba apartment that was almost 1k sqft.... "How can you afford that?" "Uh... it's like $900 a month.. not that bad." "WHAT?!? How is it that cheap?"
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Bloodsage said:
People running or training for distance running should be eating high-carb diets. Carbs are the fuel for endurance athletes. If you're doing a lot of aerobic exercise on a low-carb diet, your body essentially ends up burning your muscles for fuel.
I was thinking of telling him to "eat pasta, run fastah" but that works, too.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
In any case, I'm more than happy to be able to just run 3-4 miles without too much difficulty, and having enough cardio not to gas out running up a couple flights of stairs.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Karnaj had this to say about Tron:
Realistically, I'd need to drop between 30 and 40 pounds to run a half marathon. Well, to be able to run the whole time. And dropping that kind of weight in a reasonable time frame (say, a pound a week), would mean A) cutting 500 calories a day from my diet, or B) burning an extra 500 calories a day through exercise. Doing B) would probably wreck my knees before long, so I'd have to bid adieu to the empty calories--the proverbial pizza and beer.In any case, I'm more than happy to be able to just run 3-4 miles without too much difficulty, and having enough cardio not to gas out running up a couple flights of stairs.
There are plenty of fat runners. Promise. 
It's pretty much the best. I was in this and it was just kind of an above average day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPBCh-xDsQ
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ACES! Another post by Ferret:
I work over at Double Fine as one of their IT guys, primarily. Working on Unity in my spare time cause brain can't stop won't stop.It's pretty much the best. I was in this and it was just kind of an above average day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPBCh-xDsQ
Were you the one playing Spyro the whole time?
I totally understand the can't stop won't stop reality of the world. Between work and personal projects I generally sleep about 3 - 5 hours a night depending on what I'm doing.
I am trying like hell to get to the point where personal projects take over completely and can sustain me so I don't have to do work projects.
Then I can be where I want to be.
But, that might be in another year or so, just got to keep pushing forward every day on it.
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Brahmin Bloodlust had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Were you the one playing Spyro the whole time?I totally understand the can't stop won't stop reality of the world. Between work and personal projects I generally sleep about 3 - 5 hours a night depending on what I'm doing.
I am trying like hell to get to the point where personal projects take over completely and can sustain me so I don't have to do work projects.
Then I can be where I want to be.
But, that might be in another year or so, just got to keep pushing forward every day on it.
Yup, normally they have someone passionate about the game play it but Tim finds it hard to talk and play at the same time so I drive for him on occasion.
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Ferret was listening to Cher while typing:
I work over at Double Fine as one of their IT guys, primarily.
You son of a bitch. That sounds like a dream job.
And I shoot guns. And write about that. Because when you spend your days writing thinly veiled incestuous rape fantasies that involve zombies, St. Bernards, or outlandishly endowed aliens, you absolutely must have a manly side job you can talk about in public.
Women are nasty.
At the Moment, Have a New job, still retail, but still overly well paid for the area, Plus as RTM clerk no dealing with guests and I break a ton of stuff all day long. I'll be starting to take some classes in fall since chief benefit of new Job is set hours(This is an amazing work/life balance thing). With longer term goals of either landing a state Job Or making the move to Boseman of Missoula for schooling.
Also Get live under very pretty sky most days
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Got a pay increase to move to a security company. Once I actually get used to all the new shit it should be interesting... Still a Unix Server Monkey, but now I'm in an Escalation position (Level 3) instead of Customer Engagement (Level 1).
Wonder how long until I have to write up a root-cause of "Mr. Customer, you're an idiot"....
Got some of that good old fashioned nostalgia and stopped in...
Spent 6 years as a mechanic, 6 years as Director of Safety for an aerial survey company, and now I'm a 2nd year First Officer on the Barbie Fun Jet (Canadair CRJ-200/700/900) for SkyWest Airlines.
Occasionally play Minecraft but that's about it these days.
Glad to see y'all still alive.
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Structural Kermitov3ity is failing, captain!
Got some of that good old fashioned nostalgia and stopped in...
Still working as an IT Systems Admin, though I changed jobs 4.5 years ago to a better paying position at a company that's more stable and a surprising fit to my interests. They make ice removal and temperature control systems for airplanes and helicopters.
When I'd been there a few months, I had to help an engineer set up some hardware he'd purchased. During the process, I started my usual routine of making sure he knew how to recognize a USB port, because I found out at my previous job just how many people not only fail to recognize a USB port, but don't know how to match a rectangular plug to a rectangular hole. In response, the engineer told me that he was part of the team that originally designed the USB port (i.e. the hardware & software standards). I was pleasantly surprised. That incident symbolized the difference in competence level of the average user between my previous job and my current one.
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Married seven years now. Bought a house four years ago. `Doc fucked around with this message on 08-21-2016 at 04:24 PM.
Lost my job in May, unemployed and stressed for three months, then had three companies offer me jobs last week. Accepted a medical field engineer position paying $20/hour more than my last job, and am still in talks with another company that is putting together a position for me. Current job is a contract-to-permanent position, so I don't feel bad about continuing to look further afield so quickly.
All my kids are now in school. Beennhappily married for 10(!) years.
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This insanity brought to you by Azakias:
Oooh, updateness on my situation.Lost my job in May, unemployed and stressed for three months, then had three companies offer me jobs last week. Accepted a medical field engineer position paying $20/hour more than my last job, and am still in talks with another company that is putting together a position for me. Current job is a contract-to-permanent position, so I don't feel bad about continuing to look further afield so quickly.
All my kids are now in school. Beennhappily married for 10(!) years.
10 whole years! My second anniversary is here in like a month and some change. 
