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the best meal I've had there (in summertime admittedly) was at Fraser Valley Distillery. Good food and good atmosphere. Once again, this was during the summer, though.

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This fantasy book youtuber i follow absolutely swears by that series and hes read alot of stuff. Interested to hear your take on it

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I'm about halfway through the first book, and I am really enjoying it. To the point that I'm staying up later than I normally do once i get in bed to read at night. I think that the one thing that is a LITTLE weird is that it sometimes feels a little Young Adult in the writing style... but the content is very, very far from Young Adult and is pretty dark and edgy. Maybe the reason it feels a little YA is that in the backstory plotline (it starts in media res with the middle-aged protagonist as a captive and telling his story to a historian), the characters are like 14-15 years old.

What's crazy to me is the genetic tolerance for nicotine. I remember that Gladwell's tipping point talked about it to some degree that many people don't have the tolerance for nicotine to develop a true addiction. They tend to get sick or have unpleasant effects if they use amounts of nioctine that really hit the addiction threshold levels.

I started dipping when I was in 6th grade. Dipped copenhagen through high school. Smoked in college. Dipped again when we moved to Colorado and dipped on and off when we first started having kids. Went about 10 years without any nicotine except when I might bum a dip from someone camping or fishing or whatever because my youngest son gave me a guilt trip when he was a little kid about not wanting me to get mouth cancer. Didn't really ever have any issues taking it or putting it down. Part of that is probably because I can't dip at my job (education), so I didn't really have the option of constantly using it.

That being said, I'm also the guy that will have a few drinks, take a dip, and immediately regret it because I start spinning and feeling like shite. I also always took "small dips" compared to a lot of my friends. When we'd smoke while drinking, I'd often get woozy/dizzy/buzzed after a couple of drags and need to put my cigarette out.

Now that I've started using Velo and can track specific numbers of my use and my friend's use, I realized that I don't have the genetic makeup to intake large amounts of nicotine. I have a buddy who doesn't even use velo except when we're drinking, and he'll literally take 3 of my 6mg pouches and toss them in his mouth like it's nothing. After a few drinks, 1 6mg pouch makes me uncomfortable. I have another friend who basically pulls out a 6mg and then puts another one in immediately, basically having a pouch in his mouth all day. I usually have to wait an hour or more between pouches for me or I have an adverse effect.

Anyway, I've been enjoying the velos in the last year or so. I usually do 4-5 pouches a day, and I don't notice much affect other than some increased focus like caffeine and it helps with my oral fixation.

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This plus I wish the bike riders would use the damn sidewalk more.

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Not to be pedantic and I understand the sentiment, but bikes actually shouldn't be on sidewalks unless it's a sidewalk specifically designed around bikes (a cycle way or bike way). Bikes go too fast on a sidewalk and cause issues with pedestrians. Additionally, the way that sidewalks "cross" intersecting streets creates a lot of opportunities for collisions with cyclists on the sidewalk and cars pulling up to the stop sign to turn onto the main street.

This is counterintuitive for drivers because a sidewalk seems more convenient and safe for bikes to drivers, but if you've ever commuted on a bike, you understand the increased risk of riding on a sidewalk vs using a bike lane or just riding with the flow of automobile traffic on the main street..

I'll just echo what everyone else says. Pretty danged good rom-com. Of course, I'm that dude that always refuses to watch a rom-com and barters like crazy with my wife to not have to watch whatever rom-com has just come out... only to almost always enjoy the movie when I actually watch it.

For whatever reason, it's the last genre I'll choose willingly, but then also probably one of the most mindlessly enjoyable. Maybe it's because my expectations are always so low.

Egregious.

I really enjoyed this. It’s a bit of a clickbait title and concept though, as it’s really more of a documentary about the Tape Art artist dude and his collective. The Mall Apartment was just a part of it. Albeit, it’s the most interesting part, so I don’t blame the film makers for leading with that.

Season 1 was probably my least favorite season. I stopped after s1 during my first attempt at watching the series, then plowed through on my second attempt. It gets much, much better.

Ripped through first 3 books of Bobiverse in as many days (thank you snow storm). Did anyone else find the shift in narrative structure and style of book 4 jarring? I’m sure it will pick up, but I loved the pacing of the really short POV chapters of the previous books. With Book 4 it shifts hard to longer chapters and much fewer POVs. I understand why as the number of replicants because unwieldy to juggle all the possible plot lines but I’m just not as invested in the boojums and the megastructure as I was in the previous plots.

In all fairness, though, Auburn might say the same thing about us.

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I’m halfway through Shelby Foote’s civil war trilogy. Almost 3k pages with very small print so it’s taking me forever.

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I've started doing a lot of my non-fiction stuff on audiobook when I get tired of podcasts. Currently doing Rise and Fall of the Third Reich on audiobook. My general mode:

1) Fiction and narrative non-fiction on kindle.
2) Historical non-fiction and biography on audio
3) "Professional" books (on leadership and such) with a physical copy of the book.

It's weird, but it works for me.

After a foray into more "serious" literature (working my way through best books of 2025 lists), I started the Bobiverse. Perfect, funny palate cleanser after reading a lot of "heavy" stuff.

Hogs wasting opportunities.

Working my way through some top 10 of 2025 lists.

Finished the Correspondent and on to The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne which wasn't on a lot of lists, but I did see it on a few, and it looked appearling. Especially because it's a little more gritty/raw than a lot of the other novels I've been reading.

Schoolhouse

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Outside of the resort restaurant, there are a couple of little pizza joints/food trucks/bar combos right outside the resort.

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The Schoolhouse. IYKYK.

I'm a morning person. I get up at 4:40am and get back from the gym at 6:00am. My most productive work of the day is in the morning usually. I often crash and see productivity drop in the afternoons, so I try to manage my workflow so that I'm doing more meetings or active items in the afternoon, as staring at the computer lowers my energy even further. I get home from work pretty early, but it is kind of a bummer to feel just drained once I get home to my family.

It's completely counterintuitive, but if I go for a run or a bike ride or anything to get my blood pumping once I get home from work, my energy levels increase greatly, and I feel pretty good. If I sit down and read or scroll on my phone, I will feel very tired or even fall asleep (especially reading).

So yeah, I would say some activity.