Voted, Brent. Good luck to Kenny, and I'll take a few laps around the oval at Homestead if he makes it. He must be on pins and needles waiting for this to end.
Thanks for starting the thread, Al, and for sharing the diet link. Keep up the good fight, and 'grats on progress so far. Thanks, too, to Stretch, Mikey, and mrarroyo for sharing experiences.
Brent .... of course the Lynskey family makes great bikes, they're irish. I found them a while back from a google search and was intrigued. Have you gone over there to check them out? Maybe we need a HC group buy - let Dinny, Fitz, JP, and me do the negotiating. It's easy when you know their weakness ... "give us a good break on the bikes or we cut off your potatoes"
Nate ... we get a lot of that these days. Have a great day and night off.
Mike ... I feel your pain - presently in Ridgewood with 7 and 3 yo with two more incoming. It's all good.
No reason you can't install the SSD and bigger HD at the same time. You are going to boot from ML SD card, so no worries - just boot to card, then run Disk Utility from the ML Install menu.
Antonio ... yes, I strongly second Haj's recommendation to put the SSD in place of the original system drive, and the 1tb into the optical bay. This is what I was assuming you would do. No need to manually figure which files/folders to backup and restore - migration assistant is smart enough to bring back only what you need from a full backup.