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  1. I know a number of Ole Miss sophomores as well as kids on every class. My daughter is a sophomore at UGA and has a lot of friends there from her high school graduating class. She is over there once a month or so to hang out with them. I also live in Ole Miss country as far as graduates go. Posting that in Oxford takes a lot of gumption.
  2. Anyone have healthy protein shakes or bar options that aren’t overly sweet? I saw the TL mention, but is there a flavor that is less sweet? Someone gave me a couple of Barebells and they were like eating a candy bar. The shakes have been like drinking chocolate milk or a milkshake. Vanilla’s have been a little better. Outside of a piece of cake on my birthday, I haven’t had sweets in months and even then it was rare. Just not a big fan of sweets in general.
  3. We haven’t talked on that split specifically, but I would say based on looking at the first week it would be moving more of the carb percentage to protein. Somewhere in the 30/30 range but I’ll have to bring that up. Main issues right now with the calorie numbers are not much appetite, not big on an abundance of animal protein, and a super low active heart rate. I’ve got some built up weight to burn off anyways. Activity wise I’m at 3-4 miles a day walking, light weight training every day in some capacity, and then I’ll cut the walking in half and row 5-6 miles a couple of days a week.
  4. No hard target, I’m staying right around 1600 calories on average maybe a little less. He is wanting me around 1800-2000 calories and 170-200g in protein which doesn’t leave a ton for carbs and fat. I think leaning even heavier on proteins at the expense of carbs this first couple of weeks is what the goal is. With 2 protein shakes today I got to 160g and 1750 calories and I really wasn’t interested in the second shake. Not a fan of Stevia sweetener aftertaste, so I need a different shake taste.
  5. To be fair, that was from text messages back and forth after I sent him last week’s meal notes. Talked today at workout, he wants me to cut them to a minimum and only eat for lunch if I’m going to eat them for the next couple of weeks. Dinner chicken/fish, broccoli, cauliflower and a few other things mixed in. The medical issue would be getting some weight off near term and limiting carbs to help. I have a low metabolism and a very low active heart rate, so my diet needs to look different to make some difference in the weight category.
  6. I rarely if ever red meat, I’m not up for chicken and eggs every day at the volume I probably need. I haven’t thought too much on other sources like cheese/milk. I averaged out to about 110 grams a day last week which was primarily from egg whites, chicken, yogurt, and beans and the egg whites are a new addition. My high day was 160 when I consciously tried to eat more. With a protein shake yesterday I got to 130 grams but I didn’t eat much for supper because I felt like shit. I assume on the potato/rice discussion it’s carb related. May also be because of the lower protein intake and trying to replace those staples with proteins. He’s more of an eggs, grilled chicken salad, chicken and broccoli 7 days a week kind of guy. I’m looking for something I can settle into long term even if the weight loss on the front end is slower.
  7. After getting some issues cleared up, I’m back on the train. Haven’t done much of anything other than walk the last year or so because I haven’t felt great. Wholesale changed my diet about a month ago, down 15 pounds from that and walking more. Started working out with a trainer last week and he skipped the getting back into this slowly session. Using Strava and LoseIt to track everything. Main issue I’m having is protein intake. I’m not a big meat person, so eggs and chicken/fish are only going to go so far. Need to find a solution for a protein shake I’ll stick with this week. Other issue is he wants me to limit rice and sweet potato’s. That has been the base of a lot of meals for us because it works well if you’re not consuming a lot of meat.
  8. Said it above, but starting to see a cardiologist at 40 or so was the best thing I have done. I had heart defect and other issues that none of my doctors had ever picked up on that have been able to be managed. Did end up having to get a stent at 46 but I’ve known since I started seeing him it was coming. Since then, I feel better than I have in a long time. I thought work and no sleep was the issue, but it was clearly blood flow. Back working out again, ran 2 miles yesterday which wasn’t going to happen 2 months or even 2 years ago, etc. Also dropped 15 pounds in the month since.
  9. The reporting out there doesn’t really support your first point. Everything clearly makes it sound like Jerry got a grade A case of butthurt and took it as far as he could.
  10. https://www.si.com/nfl/micah-parsons-trade-is-proof-jerry-jones-should-no-longer-lead-cowboys Connor Orr didn’t pull any punches on his view of this trade and Jerry Jones specifically.
  11. They only get taxed for the game check in the states they play away games at which works out to a small percentage of the overall comp. The vast majority gets taxed in the state the team they play for is located. Primary residence state has no bearing because the money is earned in Wisconsin. I don’t know where GB holds training camp but sometimes that can get them some state tax benefits. I do a number of current players tax work. I told my wife tonight, we need to find a new team to half ass follow and not really care about if anyone has suggestions. I’m moving on from the Cowboys at this point. They clearly don’t give a shit about the fans, so I’m checking out.
  12. Are you still using the same Venmo as always?
  13. Lived to fight another day, I’ll keep you in the will in case something else takes me out. I have to admit, I’ve felt better the last week after the procedure than I have in awhile. I was chalking up feeling like shit to lack of sleep and 18 months of hell at work after a transaction. Guess there was more to it. Start cardiac rehab next week with all the old guys, should be lots of fun.
  14. Curious what options you would look at for a spend over that amount? We’ve been debating whether to keep the Reserve or not. We’ve had it for years, but we don’t ever book travel through Chase which is where the main benefits are. We have Preferred cards for the kids, but it’s still $1000 for our two cards. I’m not ordering DoorDash, rarely fly SW, etc. Use an Amex Platinum for the company card so get airport benefits and some of the positives with it although the Amex airport lounges have been overrun the last few times we have flown.
  15. This was my thought. A fully optioned G25 MSRP may get in that range, but no one should be paying that. However, my next thought was whether it made a difference if they said $450k, $500k, etc. the whole thing is just nuts. I’ve owned a lot of wake boats over the years. The biggest check I ever wrote for one was $115k on a brand new 210 right around Covid. I kept it about a year and got rid of it because I didn’t enjoy having it. I worried about boards hitting the sides, I worried about the kids messing the seats up, I didn’t want to pull into the beach, it just wasn’t fun. One thing the pricing has done has really screwed up the used market. I got together with my nephews a couple of weeks ago to look at picking something for them I could use occasionally. I used to be able to pick up a 205 for $10k-$12k every other year or something newer in the low $20’s. It doesn’t look that way any more.
  16. What exactly does that have to do with the issue? It’s fine because there are worse things out there Sure, they can see worse lots of places if they look for it. The whole thing is ridiculous, not funny, disrespectful to the players and the fans, etc. I’m also not one of those fans that yells at players, cusses the people around me or the players, or acts like a general asshole in public venues or private venues for that matter. Sports fans have taken on a weird sense of entitlement to do what they want. Even with that, dildos are a bit of a bridge too far in my opinion.
  17. That’s a terrible comparison. Throwing anything on the floor, field, pitch, whatever else there is, isn’t funny. You want comedy and sports, go to a Savannah Bananas game.
  18. I have two daughters that watch a lot of WNBA now. I can assure you that sex toys weren’t on the list of topics we discussed at 15 and 11. Throwing dildos on the floor of a women’s basketball game isn’t humorous. What it’s turning into online isn’t humorous. It’s not something that a lot of parents of teen and preteen girls expected to have to be talking about when watching a basketball game.
  19. I wish I had some of the problems you all have with our youngest. She is the polar opposite of her sister. We sat down tonight to talk about a plan for the application process and I should have just kicked myself in the nuts for an hour. I might have felt better at the end. I think we have a tentative list of colleges to research, we’ll see if she follows through with it. We’re also going to meet with an admissions counselor because she doesn’t want to work with the school ones. Some progress is better than none I suppose.
  20. We used a consultant with our oldest. They started working together sophomore year to tailor her school schedule and start working on other things that would help her through the process. By the time her senior year started, she was completely done with everything application wise and was just waiting on the process to open. They spent her senior year working on scholarship applications, trying to get another point or two on the ACT, etc. My oldest wanted to go out of state to schools that were hard to get into, so it made sense to us to do it. My youngest is a senior this year and hasn’t done anything at this point. She has no interest in going to an exclusive school, so she should be fine. She’s going to work with the school staff, so we’ll see what the differences are.
  21. That doesn’t make much sense in the grand scheme of the way things work in pro sports. Most of the other leagues have some revenue split with players, that revenue is part of what drives valuations as well as player pay. Using the Lakers as the example is an outlier because of the franchise itself, but you can look at the valuation of the lower tier teams and what they have increased along with the overall cost of entry/expansion. Most of the people entering ownership now aren’t doing it for hobby purposes, teams are investments they they expect to continue to increase in value which comes from revenue growth.
  22. Yet, here you are going in the same circle over and over. The NBA owns a significant portion of the league, it’s not like they are just ponying up money for the hell of it. Using just your numbers from the attached article along with the difference in the TV rights deal going forward, the WNBA numbers look much different in 2026 and beyond. Along with everything else that has been pointed out to you, now is the time for them to argue for more money.
  23. Why does the NBA need to open their books for anything? What other sport has done that in a player pay debate? The people that see the numbers are paying significantly more for existing franchises and new ones, so that should tell you quite a bit about what the real numbers look like. The NY Liberty valuation was $450m for a team with less than $1.5M in player payroll. That math doesn’t work for the lower pay argument. The reaction to the WNBA players looking for more money (again on the back of a new media rights contract, valuation increases, expansion, attendance increases, etc) seems odd compared to other sports. I’m sure the owners are happy to know that for the first time ever the fans are worried about their pocket books while their investment value continue to multiply.
  24. The social media engagement by a number of other players is what’s bringing them and their friends to the games. They were all in on the Studbudz All Star streaming. We were moving the oldest back into college this week and she had her college friends that were with us watching Min/NY at supper Wed night. For them, it’s about engagement not what appeals to you or me and that’s one thing the players have gotten right the last few years. Sustainability will be interesting, might be a good time to get a bigger piece of the pie while it’s there.
  25. Would you call the new TV deal and the increased attendance numbers “producing it first” or not? That’s without getting into the valuation increases and the expansion fees. Someone paid the bills for every league for a long time. Look into the NBA numbers for the first half of its existence.
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