APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

Looks like things continued after i went to bed

I pulled the chute after the sixth inning. I almost never do that, but it was either turn off the TV or throw a shoe through it. Either way, I wasn't going to see the end of the game.

Why do you wear shoes in your living room?

I usually come home from the gym and turn on the TV just as the game is about to start. The sneakers come off after I hit the couch, but I need them close enough in case the dog needs to be walked.
There is another dynamic in play. We've bought dozens of toys and stuffed animals for the dog, but he tends to prefer footwear. So shoes and such end up being moved around the house quite a bit. If you're not keeping track of your footwear, you're liable to never find a matching pair in our house.
 

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

Why do you wear shoes in your living room?

I usually come home from the gym and turn on the TV just as the game is about to start. The sneakers come off after I hit the couch, but I need them close enough in case the dog needs to be walked.
There is another dynamic in play. We've bought dozens of toys and stuffed animals for the dog, but he tends to prefer footwear. So shoes and such end up being moved around the house quite a bit. If you're not keeping track of your footwear, you're liable to never find a matching pair in our house.
 

We have redone all out flooring so shoes are not allowed past the door. Thats a semi hard rule but one we try to stick to. My dog is uneventful other then whining every morning at first light cause he wants fed, only to head back under a blanket afterwards.

Im glad i have a basement and a room to put workout equipment in. I procrastinate enough. I cant imagen if a drive to was involved. Id probably end up in the dq drive through line.

Don't get me started on the gym. It's a swamp filled with middle aged trophy wives who stare at themselves in the mirror, muscle heads who stare at themselves in the mirror, and middle school kids who get dropped off by their parents and run around like they're at a playground. The only two things they have in common is they use their cell phones (and talk too loudly on them), and never wipe down their equipment after they use it.
As soon as Zach goes off to college, I'm dropping the family membership at the Y and joining Planet Fitness on a single membership. For $10 a month, I'll put up with a douchebag component. I shouldn't have to for $100 a month.
 

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

We have redone all out flooring so shoes are not allowed past the door. Thats a semi hard rule but one we try to stick to. My dog is uneventful other then whining every morning at first light cause he wants fed, only to head back under a blanket afterwards.

Im glad i have a basement and a room to put workout equipment in. I procrastinate enough. I cant imagen if a drive to was involved. Id probably end up in the dq drive through line.

Don't get me started on the gym. It's a swamp filled with middle aged trophy wives who stare at themselves in the mirror, muscle heads who stare at themselves in the mirror, and middle school kids who get dropped off by their parents and run around like they're at a playground. The only two things they have in common is they use their cell phones (and talk too loudly on them), and never wipe down their equipment after they use it.
As soon as Zach goes off to college, I'm dropping the family membership at the Y and joining Planet Fitness on a single membership. For $10 a month, I'll put up with a douchebag component. I shouldn't have to for $100 a month.
 

Holy shit. You could buy a lot of equipment for that price.

I hate people. Gyms would not be for me.

We don't really have the space. I know that's a strange thing for one of three people who lives in a 4-bedroom house to say, but we have a lot of useless shit.
 

I have quite a bit of exercise equipment in my basement. Unfortunately, I need to find the room to set it up. I had a section in the unfinished part, but we knocked out a wall last year and finished that area, so now everything is crammed into a small space and not being used.

On the plus side, I now have a massive man-cave in my basement. I have a space that’s about 30x30 with a 70 inch tv, pool table, dart board, bubble hockey and bar.

But I know you don’t have the luxury of finishing your basement with all the moisture you get in Massachusetts.

Its been great. We don’t have room in the back yard for a pool, but it gave Bob a place to invite friends to hang out (there’s a PS4 hooked up to the TV), and we’ve had parties down there as well. I wish we could have afforded to do it a few years ago, but we’re using it as much as we can. Plus, the basement is 10 degrees cooler in the summer, so I love it down there.

forsberg_us wrote:

I have quite a bit of exercise equipment in my basement. Unfortunately, I need to find the room to set it up. I had a section in the unfinished part, but we knocked out a wall last year and finished that area, so now everything is crammed into a small space and not being used.

On the plus side, I now have a massive man-cave in my basement. I have a space that’s about 30x30 with a 70 inch tv, pool table, dart board, bubble hockey and bar.

But I know you don’t have the luxury of finishing your basement with all the moisture you get in Massachusetts.

Our house was built in the '30s, and we have a stone foundation. We've patched, spackled and plastered the cracks and it still leaks if it rains really hard for about an hour. We've had two major flooding events in the 15 years we've lived there. Both involved heavy rain on an unseasonably warm winter day with a snow pack on the ground. Had Sheryl not run out and bought the last portable sump pump at the hardware store, we probably would have lost our heating element during one of them (this is the same portable sump pump I loaned to the asshole who used to live across the street and when I asked for it back he said "Sure, come over and get it any time you want.")
I also have a wet vac for the minor events.

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

I have quite a bit of exercise equipment in my basement. Unfortunately, I need to find the room to set it up. I had a section in the unfinished part, but we knocked out a wall last year and finished that area, so now everything is crammed into a small space and not being used.

On the plus side, I now have a massive man-cave in my basement. I have a space that’s about 30x30 with a 70 inch tv, pool table, dart board, bubble hockey and bar.

But I know you don’t have the luxury of finishing your basement with all the moisture you get in Massachusetts.

Our house was built in the '30s, and we have a stone foundation. We've patched, spackled and plastered the cracks and it still leaks if it rains really hard for about an hour. We've had two major flooding events in the 15 years we've lived there. Both involved heavy rain on an unseasonably warm winter day with a snow pack on the ground. Had Sheryl not run out and bought the last portable sump pump at the hardware store, we probably would have lost our heating element during one of them (this is the same portable sump pump I loaned to the asshole who used to live across the street and when I asked for it back he said "Sure, come over and get it any time you want.")
I also have a wet vac for the minor events.

Have you called helitech?

artie_fufkin wrote:

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Don't get me started on the gym. It's a swamp filled with middle aged trophy wives who stare at themselves in the mirror, muscle heads who stare at themselves in the mirror, and middle school kids who get dropped off by their parents and run around like they're at a playground. The only two things they have in common is they use their cell phones (and talk too loudly on them), and never wipe down their equipment after they use it.
As soon as Zach goes off to college, I'm dropping the family membership at the Y and joining Planet Fitness on a single membership. For $10 a month, I'll put up with a douchebag component. I shouldn't have to for $100 a month.
 

Holy shit. You could buy a lot of equipment for that price.

I hate people. Gyms would not be for me.

We don't really have the space. I know that's a strange thing for one of three people who lives in a 4-bedroom house to say, but we have a lot of useless shit.
 

Damn.  I don't know how the hell I missed this thread yesterday.  I don't know whether to start out on the subject of fitness facilities or home ownership.  And I think my keyboard needs replacing.

We moved into a much larger house in 2003, a year and a half after our daughter got married.  Most of our friends started downsizing about the same time but we wanted to get a large yard for our increasing flock of canines and we certainly did that.  We have six bedrooms but that proved to be very misleading.  Two of the upstairs bedrooms are much smaller than they seemed when we bought the house.  The air conditioning doesn't work well in the two end rooms, which are the largest.  I took one of the others for an office, since I was still teaching.  Another I've completely filled up with empty boxes because I'm convinced we'll move someday.   The third small one includes the bed that we inherited from my wife's family that's too short for anyone over 5'8."  We had planned to turn one of the corner rooms into a fitness room but it wound up being completely filled up with books, magazines, and files that I should send to recycle.

So, when I was diagnosed as diabetic about three or four years ago, I've been under orders to exercise at least 30 minutes a day.  We have a Planet Fitness that is within walking distance but it's very crowded and I don't think they have $10 memberships.  I joined the Youfit about 1/2 a mile away where the membership is $10 per month and is not nearly as popular, especially with the young women.  They do a terrible job of keeping the equipment maintained but I seldom have any problem with accessing a bike and no problem getting the elliptical or a treadmill.  I do often have to settle for one with no t.v. reception.  I manage to spend about an hour and a half there 4 or 5 days a week, mostly on the elliptical.

I don't like most people either but the folks at Youfit are generally great.  My best friend is a retired Marine who just turned 71.  He's black and extremely religious.  He's 6'2" but looks taller.  I would guess he's got a 32" waist, at most, and I'd guess about 48 inch shoulders.  He shames me, solely by example, to push myself.  This morning, I got 350 calories on the elliptical while he got 540 in just a little more time.
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APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

I have quite a bit of exercise equipment in my basement. Unfortunately, I need to find the room to set it up. I had a section in the unfinished part, but we knocked out a wall last year and finished that area, so now everything is crammed into a small space and not being used.

On the plus side, I now have a massive man-cave in my basement. I have a space that’s about 30x30 with a 70 inch tv, pool table, dart board, bubble hockey and bar.

But I know you don’t have the luxury of finishing your basement with all the moisture you get in Massachusetts.

Our house was built in the '30s, and we have a stone foundation. We've patched, spackled and plastered the cracks and it still leaks if it rains really hard for about an hour. We've had two major flooding events in the 15 years we've lived there. Both involved heavy rain on an unseasonably warm winter day with a snow pack on the ground. Had Sheryl not run out and bought the last portable sump pump at the hardware store, we probably would have lost our heating element during one of them (this is the same portable sump pump I loaned to the asshole who used to live across the street and when I asked for it back he said "Sure, come over and get it any time you want.")
I also have a wet vac for the minor events.

Have you called helitech?

No, but I once went intro a Mobil On the Run and tried to pay for a drink with a quarter, the day after the Cardinals scored six runs.

APIAD wrote:

Idk if every team has as many of these gimmicky advertising. There is also a doughnut one. Crispy cream i think. The 99.99 for cardinal car. And homers for whatever.

Most of them are worse. The Rockies have had a promotion with Taco Bell for forever that involves giving away a free taco whenever the Rockies score at least seven runs in a game. Whenever the Rockies score, a flashing graphic comes on the screen that reads: "(Fill in the blank) more runs until we get TACOS!"
Even the haughty Red Sox aren't immune. In 2004, a local furniture store ran a promotion. If you bought furniture during the 2004 season, you;d get it for free if the Red Sox won the World Series. Three years later, the same furniture company ran a similar promotion, with the Red Sox having to sweep the 2007 World Series. From then on, the promotions have gotten far more specific. I think this year's free furniture giveaway involves a Red Sox pitcher whose name ends in a vowel throwing a no-hitter on the third Thursday in July.