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A lot of people lose the ability to walk because... they don't walk. I can look at my mom, who's done a good job of managing her weight and is still healthy and active and living independently* at 88 years of age, while her younger sister who let her weight get away from her in middle age is in assisted living now and can't move without a walker. My mom has arthritis and peripheral neuropathy, but because she's kept her weight down she can still function. *Independently, but she's got a boy toy of 93 living with her and he still can play 9 holes of golf.

On the food side you and I are doing similar stuff. On the activity side I'm doing mostly bicycle riding and "yardio". Get off my lawn and stuff. I've dropped 25 pounds in just under two months.

If this were accurate, the guy would be 50 lb. heavier and wearing cargo pants and sandals with socks.

For the record: Round 2: East CAR @ NYR BOS @ FLA West COL @ DAL EDM @ VAN (Home teams for Game 1 are the higher seed) So I guess my rooting interests are: Carolina (meh, don't care really, but root for the underdog) Florida (i.e. Sabres South) Colorado (go Mittsy!) Vancouver (Buffalo's expansion partner)

Actually I think the stat was that Afinogenov played more games for Lindy than any other player.

One thing that helps how you (the general you, not any you in particular) feel is weight. I was as heavy as I'd ever been in March and I felt like I was in a death spiral of aches and pains. I thought I was going to have to break down and see a doctor about my knees. I've dropped 25 pounds and the aches and pains have largely evaporated. I've done bigger weight losses in the past and this was true each time. Taking the load off feet, knees, hips and back (particularly losing that offset weight of a big belly) does wonders.

Heck, I'd even go up to $7 mill. The justification would be that with cap increases, later contracts will be smaller percentages of the cap. Maybe $7 million is too much for a 3C but I think Casey is more of a 2C and with Cozy, Mitts and Tage all on the roster as centers a good coach could move them around to get the most out of them as a group (as Donny did in 22-23 when Tage was coming off injury and he let Mitts run the top line and let Tage play 2nd line wing for a while). Aside from the stats, I think the thing that Casey Mittelstadt brings is versatility to play high quality minutes anywhere in the Top Nine, providing depth for your Top Six. My biggest frustration with Kevyn (assuming the reports are true) is that he didn't even contact Mittsy's agent about an extension. It would be one thing if they talked numbers and it was apparent it wasn't going to work out, but apparently Kevyn didn't even attempt to find out what the numbers were. Nor do I; I was more just trying to list players he traded for. I think if we see a prominent piece that Adams acquired via trade moved, it's a sign that Lindy is contributing to roster construction.

I think the first sign that Ruff is driving roster tweaks is when someone like Byram, Tuch or even Krebs gets traded. As was said above, Kevyn gets too attached to his guys and I think doubly so for players he acquired via trade. If Byram is traded for more of a hard-nosed defenseman with Top Four bona fides, that will be a sign that Lindy is calling (or at least influencing) the shots. If $6.25 million x 7 would have signed Mitts, I think you make that deal all day.

I think Mitts will command more than that, but we'll see.

And to be fair, Ralph Intranuovo was drafted at the very end of the fourth round of the 1992 draft.

So I'm basically 2 years older than you.

The problem there was the officiating, not a player reacting in the heat of the action.

Welcome to the club.

That's an oddly optimistic take from you. I'm not sure if it will happen this season, but I'm hopeful that UPL/Levi become a tandem like Swayman/Ullmark.

She looks like she's made out of plastic.

Creep is one of the very best songs to cover. And this guy nails it, in my opinion.

I enjoyed that game. I've watched games in that building and I can testify that is one LOUD arena. The crowd was jet engine loud all third period.

Probably if they put it into some kind of trust where it was held in trust for some number of years, with small portions doled out to the kids per year? (I am certainly not a tax lawyer.)

It's way over a million dollars. It's currently $13.61 million under an act that expires next year; if not extended it will revert back to "only" $5.6 million. The $13.61 million figure, incidentally, is keyed to inflation, which may well be yet another factor why corporations are pushing up prices: Not only are they pocketing more, but their kids get to keep more when they die.

This guy?

Yep.

That felt inevitable. The Lesser Satan defeats the Great Satan.