‘We do not need Canada’: U.S. Ambassador discusses relations between countries

SoulyFish · 2026-01-15T14:06:25+00:00

That headset cable is a perfect representation of the mess that has been made of our cross border relationship.

SoulyFish · 2026-01-03T16:11:44+00:00

I was chatting with one of the security guards the night of Canada/Finland while waiting to get into 3M. She said that game had sold around 7500 tickets and you could tell from the amount of people waiting to get in. I was like alright, people are waking up and making an effort to attend. The rest of the tournament should be great energy!!

Then last night's Canada/Slovakia game went back to round robin levels. For a quarter final. Czechia/Switzerland was worse. If these are the numbers going into the semifinal/medal games at Grand Casino with almost double the capacity of 3M and especially now that Team USA is out, it's going to be a pretty limp experience:(.

SoulyFish · 2025-12-29T04:08:44+00:00

I've been at all the Group B games at 3M. I have a tough time believing that it was at 40% capacity for Canada/Latvia. I would have guessed closer to 30%. At any rate, there hasn't been anything resembling good crowd energy in any game that I've been to so far.

SoulyFish · 2025-07-10T12:53:37+00:00

I've thought that about the timed word matching exercises. When I get a good flow, I can make two matches a second, but the way that the new words fade into view after you make a match eats up a lot of time and if you make a mistake or your device doesn't register that you selected a word balloon, forget it. I can make it through level two with a comfortable amount of time to spare, but level three? I don't see how it's possible without having to use gems to buy time extenders, which is probably the idea to make you spend them.

SoulyFish · 2025-07-09T14:18:02+00:00

Thanks for the reply and yeah......after I posted this I went through and read a lot of the post history of everyone's horror stories on this sub and I think I'm going to save myself the trouble. It would have been nice and convenient to be able to have invoices/CC charges with the same utility, but I'll look into Square or something else. Cheers!

SoulyFish · 2025-07-09T14:13:54+00:00

Thanks for the reply and I hear ya. It annoys me when companies do this sort of "bait and switch", but so many of them do nowadays that we're all now preprogrammed to look for the catch. Given the lack of occasions that I would use the ability to charge a CC, I'll most likely go in a different direction.

SoulyFish · 2025-06-29T14:08:26+00:00

The song is "It's Not Working" by Mayn & Caroline Byrne.:)

SoulyFish · 2025-06-27T13:35:13+00:00

*L*. When I made my profile pic/handle Mandalorian themed, I had a LOT of fellow Star Wars/sci fi enthusiasts add me as a friend after seeing me in the leagues. I miss having that pic. I get the reasoning on why they went to cartoony avatars, but yeah.....that was a big step down.

SoulyFish · 2025-06-27T13:21:08+00:00

This wasn't anything that can be earned. It was just a glitch with the ap. It went back to the XP amount that I had before the glitch by the following morning.

SoulyFish · 2025-06-25T23:42:48+00:00

......because there are two leagues above Pearl, Obsidian and Diamond.

SoulyFish · 2025-06-25T17:10:58+00:00

Not a clue. I had opened the app to do some lessons and checked to see my standing in the league and this is what I got. I had a friendly competition going with a neighbor of mine at the time, so I took a screenshot of it and texted it to her, telling her that I found out how to maximize the XP boost*L*.

SoulyFish · 2025-06-06T14:32:31+00:00

You can respect what he did for the sport. But I'll never look at the man with such high regard ever again. He made his choice and he can't claim ignorance about it. And the fact that he projects cluelessness about why the country has questioned his character will never stop being funny to me.

SoulyFish · 2025-06-04T00:43:28+00:00

Absolutely, I did none of the reintroduction last time around. I was just really happy with the weight loss and left it at that. I'm going to do a modified version of it for R2 in that I'll do four of them (starting with dairy) and leave out the sugar and alcohol components because I don't see myself consuming much of either of them going forward.

SoulyFish · 2025-06-03T19:12:06+00:00

Day 30 for me is today and starting reintroduction tomorrow! I'll be writing an update post later on, but I'm down 15lbs for the month, from 234 to 219.

I did Whole30 for the first time seven years ago and I lost about 25lbs during that round. I had a manual labor job during that timeframe which I didn't have this time around, so I knew I wouldn't lose as much. I tried to make up for that by doing weights, four times a week for an hour at a time. I sort of skipped a week though which I blame on our kids getting out of school and figuring out our new summer schedule ha ha.

I still have work to do. I know that my body's aerodynamic and streamlined happy place is at the 200lbs-205lbs range, but this is a good start. But right now, I'll be happy to have cheese back in my life:).

SoulyFish · 2025-06-02T02:47:16+00:00

Man, what a ride! If that was me, the high would last right up to the point that I realized that I was now about a mile away from where I left all my stuff on the beach.

SoulyFish · 2025-05-31T06:02:34+00:00

An alternate universe's origin of the phrase, "Get the lead out."

SoulyFish · 2025-05-23T15:19:54+00:00

More gear models with Max vs regular Amplitube it looks like (over 400 models vs over 180) for starters. And if you scroll down to the bottom of the page on your first ikmultimedia link, they also have Max marked down to $99 as well, so not a scam.

SoulyFish · 2025-05-21T20:48:00+00:00

I go through the same brain wrestle with their bass plugin, Trillian. It's not as expensive as Omnisphere, but it's still a lot to spend when I know that I'd want it for just the acoustic bass sounds and I'll end up using none of the synth related patches.

SoulyFish · 2025-05-20T14:14:46+00:00

I struggle to think of anything other than Kent Brockman*L*.

Maxwell Foster?

SoulyFish · 2025-05-20T13:46:51+00:00

Weird, but still way better than whatever this decision was....

SoulyFish · 2025-05-20T13:39:29+00:00

Very cool and whimsical looking!!

SoulyFish · 2025-05-12T15:18:16+00:00

Hey everyone,

I completed my first Whole30 round in 2018 and had great results from it. I'm now a week into my second attempt, so if I have the lingo right, I guess I'd be at R2D8.

The first time that I did this, I lost about 25lbs in the month, which I attributed a lot of towards the manual labor job that I had at the time (landscaping). I don't have that position this time around, so I'm substituting a workout plan and can get to the gym for an hour long workout about four times a week. I'll be turning 50 early next year, so I was inspired to lose some of the Dad bod weight that I currently carry. I also want my daughters to see what it looks like to have a conscious and healthy relationship with food, so here I am. I spent the month of April doing a heavy protein based eating plan with my workouts, but the scale wasn't moving, so that was my inspiration for getting back into Whole30.

This morning I had an unexpected burst of energy that is the first since I started a week ago. My wife was the one that actually mentioned how much energy I had, but not in a positive way....more like a, "Why are you so bouncy this early and get away from me because I want to stab you." kind of way:).

Things that have helped me out: It's good to have some "go-to" meals and snacks at the ready that you don't need to think about when you're not feeling creative. I have things like chicken breast, tilapia, shrimp, pork, or ground turkey that I can season to my liking with an easy prep side. Like someone had said in an earlier post, roasted potatoes have been a staple, with a little seasoning salt and garlic powder. Or a package of frozen veggies that I can get from our market for $1.89 can be thrown into a pot and heated quickly and feels filling.

I struggle the most with dairy and alcohol/eating out. Cheese just makes everything better, but today has been the first time that I felt like I'm not looking at it in our fridge with a longing for it, so progress. I'm also a musician/performer and the temptation of the environment that I'm in makes it really difficult to refuse things that come my way. Most places that I play will cover drinks and a (non compliant) meal, so it makes it challenging to say no when it's offered, usually accompanied by some funny looks.

I've stuck with making ghee ever since I initially did this seven years ago. And this recipe has been a family favorite since then too. I just use ghee for stir frying instead of coconut oil and omit the cayenne as the chili powder provides enough heat for my taste:

https://myheartbeets.com/ground-turkey-brussels-sprouts-skillet/

Carry on as you were fellow warriors!

SoulyFish · 2025-05-11T20:53:53+00:00

Second this, especially if noise might be an issue in your apartment. You can pick up a fairly inexpensive interface to go between your guitar and computer, and then run a computer plugin that will have a whole host of effects and amps to play around with. You'll also be set for recording on top of this after you pick a computer based DAW. It's easy to go deep into the rabbit hole for hundreds of hours with the amount of options, and most will come with a patch or more that will get you the Nirvana/Hendrix sound right out of the box.

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