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One hopes. I've got moldable liners (only molded once) so ... theoretically I can have them remolded? Tested out the custom insoles tonight, and they seem to be able perfect. Iono, do moldable liners shrink over a couple years of abandonment? Eh, if the shells are big enough but the liners not I guess I can probably go up a size in liner. I've pretty much got until next winter to sort this out. Actually, I should put the weights down and stop. It sucks in a lot of ways. All of a sudden, you notice that your suit jacket's too tight across the chest and in the shoulders. You find your well-fitted dress shirts won't button up. You need to buy a whole new wardrobe.

Let your body fat get low enough...

Responses in chronological order: My last exam is on the 21st. I think I might manage one day trip out, and that's it. Considering the use I've gotten out of the board, I'm pretty happy with the idea of using it late-season/last-minute and getting a few scrapes and some damage. Just means I'll have more incentive to buy something new and shiny. (Right.) Thanks. I put on a little more weight than I'd like. When I was 170 and boarding every day my bodyfat was low enough that if I fell on my back I'd take kidney damage and start bleeding. Now I'm slightly heavier than what I'd like to be, but still in pretty decent shape. Sure, that'd be great. Och, kids eating up life seems something pretty reliable. Dodging that bullet though :p --- Since I'll be shopping for a new board (for the 2010-2011 season), any Western Canadian opportunities next winter to try out some of the new designs?

Well, just saying hi, really. Four years ago, I bought some Suzukas and TD2s from BomberOnline and a Coiler AM177 from D-Sub. I spent the winter living and snowboarding in Lake Louise, Alberta. Came home slightly before the season ended due to the horrible bad timing of starting dating the girl of my dreams four days before moving away. After a winter of Greyhound buses (sometimes for a single day off! Bus out at 5pm, arrive at midnight, leave the next evening to arrive at 6AM and start work), it got to be too much so I came back. The wedding is this fall. After I came back, university killed snowboarding for me. Money, time, everything. Now I'm graduating in three weeks, missing snowboarding like crazy and I'm looking to get started again. On a side note, I've been trying my boots on, and then it came to me: my shoe size has increased! My feet are now a centimeter longer than they were when I was 19. I'm just hoping a bootfitter can fix this for me - I really don't want to buy another pair of boots since I only got one short season out of these so far. I may have to buy another board though - the Coiler AM177 D-Sub sold me was great, but I've gone from 170 to 220 pounds in these four years. It was probably a little too stiff for me then - but I'm not sure about it now. Guess I'll just have to try it out, and if not, buy a board for next year. So, hi. Looking forward to getting started again, really looking forward to trying out the BTS unit I've had installed but never used. Wanting a custom snowboard along the lines of a Coiler AM200metal sidecut12m waist 22cm. Annoyed that TD3s exist because now I'm going to have to buy some but not quite yet. Wishing soft E-rings weren't yellow but rather black. Hope to see some of you on the mountain in coming seasons.

Well, that part's bad. Ouch. The other part is...mew.

Yeah...we've got it here as well. Just...not so much, relatively. Still a lot though. I know quite a number of conservatives and liberals (or of other affiliations) who quite simply cannot accept that another political party could do anything good. I know liberals who think the conservatives are evil incarnate. I know conservatives who think the liberals are evil incarnate. I know conservatives who believe that their party can do no wrong. I know liberals who believe their party can do no wrong. I enjoy shooting both down when they are foolish about pursuing the "party line" in an illogical manner. It's as though many who identify as belonging to a political party (partisans) see it as defining their beliefs and values, rather than the other way around. Actually, since we're deep into politics, I'll comment on our last election: Best possible result: Minority conservative government - the liberals get smacked down for some corruption scaldal issues, but we do not get a conservative government that can do whatever it wants without getting agreement from at least some non-conservatives. Actually, the federal conservatives have been rather nice this time around, even going so far as to chastise our provincial conservatives for their privatization programs and attempts. I like minority governments, which is why I want proportional representation. Well, that and the fairly major facet of getting more than two viable political parties, although if I could I'd do away with parties altogether. We really need to get on that...(either/or/both)

The Kushiel Series - One of the books has the only scene I've ever read in a book (or seen in a film or .. well, anything that is passively absorbed) that made my knees weak enough to not be able to stand up. Just...wow. (If anyone's read it, it's the Flechette scene...) "Stranger in a Strange Land" was good, although it seemed that Heinlein had a few...interesting...ideas about free love. Quite enjoyable, particularly the ideas about how seeing the universe differently could change things. "Guns Germs and Steel" was quite decent. Reading it, it seemed to mostly mesh with what I know of biology, evolution and sociology. Actually, I should pull it out and go through it again. It's been a while. Charles Sheffield's "The Mind Pool" was truly excellent. All I know is that I want me a simulacrum setup. 'Cause damn, but that'd be fun.

Fixed. (With partisan meaning - someone who firmly identifies as belonging to one political affiliation, who considers those of other political affiliations as being both very, very wrong and utterly possessed of absolute unchangeable [and immoral or evil] opinions that are focused on destroying the life, country, society, culture, and family of others.) This is why I hate partisan politics. The either/or setup means that polarization, and the dehumanizing of the "enemy" is very nearly inevitable. Why can't I support some policies from one side that I agree with, while supporting other policies that are "politically opposed"? Why do two-party systems (left/right) have these particular groupings of policies or political ideologies, and force me to choose one or the other? I'd much rather just vote for individual policies, or for individuals who I believe possess integrity, honesty, the will to do what they set out to do, and a true intention to do good than decide if I want to compromise some of my values for others. I am very much tired of the "Liberals are evil"/"Conservatives are evil" mudslinging. It's bad enough that upon occasion, one party will refuse to back the other's attempt to do something that both parties likely think is the right thing.

No no no .... controls we place upon ourselves and others are natural too!

I own both, and I think it's less effort and commitment to be domesticated by a cat than it is to domesticate a dog. I know if I'm living in a condo/apartment I won't have a dog. No yard, no dog.

That's adorable. It's wonderful when they get along. I wonder if the kitten will grow up to chase the dog. Mine did, to some degree. Really funny to see my large, clumsy dog that never grew up (still a puppy...somehow...) trying to be playful with my small manx cat, and then having the cat decide that it's not time to play and chasing him off.

skategoat: What's wrong with the D62U? I'm currently looking at the 37" GP1U, which is basically a D62U with a few more inputs (notably DVI) and lower signal delay. Too bad it's $2k for a 37" 1080p :(

It really seems to be based upon the perception of the world as a dangerous place or not; to feel threatened. I don't. If I did, I probably would want a gun. But except for one part of town that I avoid (mostly) after dark, I don't feel threatened or vulnerable as an unarmed person. Then again, I'd feel a lot more vulnerable if I was significantly smaller, or female. So...I guess it varies. Then again...it may be more dangerous where you are than where I am...although I do live in the murder capital of Canada, virtually all of that is either drug-based, gang-based (with surprisingly little collateral damage, other than family) or club-based (and I don't go clubbing).

Seriously...I don't know why so many people like it. It's rancid. (And yeah, I tried it a couple times, just to make sure it wasn't a bad batch.) I don't drink beer much though. I either go for girly drinks, or hard liquor. Or both.

Funny that you'd mention Hite...I've got a couple friends who order that whenever we're out for dinner, but they've never gotten drunk off of it (and I don't drink it at all since I'm always driving, dammit - although perhaps that's a good thing, after your description of it). My worst? Guiness. Oh. My. God. It's horrible. Hell, Colt 45 (an ultra-cheap, extra-large bottle beer usually purchased by alcoholics, the homeless or teens) is better. Although I will need to try skittlebrau sometime. Actually, I've never had a hangover, so I can't comment on beer giving me that. But to finish on a more positive note, berry coolers and traditional beer go very well together - one in each hand, sip back and forth, bliss indeed.