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Feel better, Mike! Nice, CJ!

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Santa needs to carry a camera in order to document these awesome stories. More simply stated, pics please!

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Shelly, I think you may like it. They also have a great selection of olive oils, if you end up ordering from there. My favorites are the garlic one and the Italian herb ones. http://www.oliveandwell.com/store/default.asp?dept_id=8

That's my favorite. They always have free tastings, if anyone's ever in town. They also have a bunch of flavored stuff, but my fave is that 18 year old stuff. Pretty good drizzled over a good vanilla ice cream! They also ship! http://www.oliveandwell.com/store/default.asp?dept_id=12

Nice job, Al! It looks like a very solid diet. Keep us up to date!

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Glad to hear so many have already done this, it gives me hope! Live sports is definitely the last and toughest area, and it's what has kept me from making the jump. It's not quite there yet, but it might be close enough for me. Most of the major sports have an online subscription option wherein you can view most, but not all, online or OTA. Here is what I've found so far: NBA: You can get online subscriptions to watch both live and past games online via mobile and computer. This is what's turned me around, because it's actually been pretty great to be able to watch the games on my iPad wherever I am at the time, while the kids are doing whatever they are doing. I can watch live, pause, rewind, watch an hour later, the next day, whenever and wherever I want. And the pic quality is really good on the iPad. I haven't tried connecting it to a big screen TV. I don't know how far back they store previously played games, but I've gone back and watched games from a week or two ago. It's pretty much Netflix for the NBA, and I think this is the future of sports. NFL: live games are available OTA for whatever is showing locally on the major networks. I don't believe I can get ESPN OTA. oogabooga, You get ESPN ... OTA? You can get NFL subscriptions from NFL.com which allow you to watch every game online, BUT ... after the game is over. Plus, the service is blacked out during Sun,Th, and Mon night games, so that you have to watch the live game currently playing. This was a deal breaker to me before, but since having kids, I've found that I rarely sit all Sunday afternoon and watch football like I used to. Now it's DVR the games I want and watch when I can, which is usually weird times like 6am or 9pm when the kids are asleep. I actually might be better off having an online subscription so I can watch on iPad while the kids watch their kid shows or whatever it is we're doing that doesn't really require my attention, but does require my presence. DTV must be paying the NFL crazy money to prevent access to all live games online. They must realize they would lose a ton of subscribers if it weren't for their monopoly on live NFL. Access to all live NFL games are only available via DTV subscription. The technology is there, because if you subscribe to DTV, you can have access to it, so it's purely a contractual restriction. MLB: haven't tried yet, but I saw on their web site there are online options for live and past games. Other sports - don't know, but just Google the sport and 'online access' or go to that sport's web site, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they had an online subscription of some sort.

Hmmm ... all very interesting ...

KG, have you stopped getting any cable or paid satellite? Thanks for the links. I'll have to think about whether I want to deal with more dishes on my rooftop. Looks pretty amazing, though! Ric, good to know you havent missed cable. What is BT?

I am considering getting rid of all cable/sattelite TV service (currently DirecTV) and going with the combination of Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, and online sports subscriptions. I have neighbors doing this and they've liked it, while saving a ton of money. For what I pay for DTV, and how little we watch TV, it's hardly worth it. As it is, we currently watch mostly Netflix and Amazon anyway. For sports, I'm watching mostly on iPad, because my kids are on the TV, and I've found this to be fine, sometimes preferable, since I don't have to scroll through 600+ channels to find the game I want. Plus I can watch it on my lap while I passively watch whatever the kids are watching .. 'Air Bud' was on a few nights ago. I'm curious who here has already cut the cord, what their experience has been, and tips/advice/new services as I move forward, and as technology progresses.

RIP.

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Hubby is good! Still haven't heard back from my friend!

I'll ask my friend who is an artist.

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That's helpful, thank you both!

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Do you run diagnostics regularly?

Curious what folks do - knowing that HDs inevitably fail, given long enough use, do folks wait until they fail, then replace them, knowing the backup(s) (I only have a 2 bay device) will recreate the data? Or do you proactively replace them after a set period of time, say 5 years, even they have not failed? Or do you replace one at a time in a rotation every few years?

Glen Hansard, Rhythm and Repose

Almost missed this ... Happy Birthday, fellow mountain goat!

Pics, please! Sounds like a good time!