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Weather's good.  It's Saturday.  It ain't even noon yet.  Two pounds of filet mignon from the butcher shop pre-chunked up for kabobs. Grill is cleared for take off. Screaming hot charcoal chimney is white hot. Haven't even gone to the liquor store yet.

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Last summer the wife and I rented a condo for a weekend getaway.  As part of that, I bought a package of filet mignon from Costco, something in the 2 or 2-1/2 lb range.  First time I'd ever had filet mignon where I got as much as I could possibly want to eat.  Restaurants, you're lucky to get 10oz.  Had never bought it for myself to cook - I always buy ribeyes instead.  So this was a special treat.  And holy cow was it awesome.  The lobster tails we had with the steak was just a nice bonus :)

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Last summer the wife and I rented a condo for a weekend getaway.  As part of that, I bought a package of filet mignon from Costco, something in the 2 or 2-1/2 lb range.  First time I'd ever had filet mignon where I got as much as I could possibly want to eat.  Restaurants, you're lucky to get 10oz.  Had never bought it for myself to cook - I always buy ribeyes instead.  So this was a special treat.  And holy cow was it awesome.  The lobster tails we had with the steak was just a nice bonus :)

 

We NEVER go out for steak anymore because of the high quality ones you can get from Costco.  We typically get the New Yorks (which, for a pack of 4 is less than one steak going to a good steakhouse around here), cook them up rare in a grill pan and they are amazing.

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I weighed in yesterday at 269 lbs. When I started this journey at the end of May in 2012 I weighed 364 lbs. Five more lbs and I'll have lost 100 lbs. Through a combination of watching what I eat/drink and some exercise I was down to 289 by April '13. At Xmas I weighed in at 300. Somewhere between then and now the weight started coming off again. During that time the only real physical activity I have had has been loading/unloading my truck during my route at work.

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Thanks to the AHCA, I have health insurance for the first time since November of 2010. I am seeing a doctor at a practice which is under one of the big health care umbrellas here in town (which means they'll all take my insurance), and he has plans to send me to a pain specialist. While checking other doctors, the dude who put my pacemaker in back in Dec 2006 is now with a practice associated with the same group, so I can get that checked more regularly.

 

So, for the first time in a year or more, since the fibro got worse but I had no pain meds to help, I feel like I might be living a little, not just existing.

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Weighing up the skip vs stick it in the boot and take to the local tip option.

 

You likely lost most of the board with that sentence ;)

 

My good news is that I've made almost $500 in overtime this year... despite not having worked a lick of overtime this year. Our company started using a new payroll company at the start of the year, and three times now I've been paid a handful of hours overtime pay. I'm not complaining obviously, and I'm not about to mention it to anybody, but I'm still curious as to how. I can only assume it's some incompetence on their part. Good Friday ended up as 4 hours stat pay and 4 hours overtime.

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2 nations divided, by a common language, and about 200 years of new songs and dances.

 

Just the bits you got wrong though...

 

Let me rephrase.

 

Fixin' on decidin' whether I oughta dump the back yard vegetation in the purchased steel receptacle or whether I oughta dump the back yard vegetation in the trunk of my saloon and recycle it.

 

I need to lie down now.

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I gotta say, I thought the tour buses in NYC were going to be lame, but we wound up buying a 3 day pass for like $20 more and basically using it as a Taxi surrogate.  All in all they were pretty interesting too.

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