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Anything that's not zero. Also, I'm back (hopefully). Hi guys. Missed y'all.

hi guys. just popping in to say hello. @shanaber so sorry to hear about Hilde. @quilteryoyo glad to see you doing well, despite your brother... hang in there. @Avidkeo hugs! @CMorning99 sounds like things are slowly but surely coming together? you've got so much done already. not much happening with me over here. the…

This just happened. Run safe guys. https://www.irunfar.com/twenty-one-runners-die-during-100-kilometer-ultramarathon-in-china

Hi yall, long time no see. Welcome and welcome back to everyone! Goal for May is to get back to running. Stretch goal is working back up to something akin to distance by the end of the month - say 12km? @Avidkeo Memorial run sounds good. Bingo run sounds even better (but I don't have a tutu to run in and I'm not getting…

Thanks everybody. Y'all are really great. @swenson19d Do you have frozen wonton lying around? Making them yourself at home is a giant PITA and I only do it when my mother makes me / does most of the work. If you go the frozen route, just pop some soy sauce, vinegar and some nori (crispy seaweed snack thing?) in a bowl, and…

Hi everyone. It's been a while. @quilteryoyo sorry to hear about your cousin and your mom. Sounds like you're doing pretty good with your own recovery, so congrats on that! Hope things start looking up with your cousin and the taxes and All The Things soon. @swenson19d a few years ago my ex thought she might have adhd and…

Thanks everyone. I have nasal spray that's pretty much useless and do a daily saline rinse. The doc tried to give me loratadine but they make my brain sluggish and I've got too much work at the moment to want to use them. Besides, I took them for a while last year and they didn't really do anything. There is this other…

Happy Easter wonderful peeps. Hope you enjoy the holiday. Been reading and hugging on this thread and the main one and not much else. No running lately so nothing to report. Spent yesterday herding a friend's kids around. The three year old is going through that contrary antisocial stage where he'd stomp around and refuse…

10 runs again. Failed miserably last month. Also, thanks for setting us up! @martaindale

Just popping in to say hi. No running for the last few days because the air quality has truly been *kitten*. Woke up yesterday to a true sandstorm outside, not kidding. The sky was yellow. I haven't seen a sandstorm of this caliber since I was in middle school. And it's still very dusty today. On another topic, a friend's…

March runs 1/10 done. Took me long enough.... HR was a bit high but I guess that's to be expected when one has potatoed for the better part of three months. @Scott6255 Sorry to hear that. Hope the next one goes better. @quilteryoyo Puppies!!!!!

LOL at the cat and raccoon antics. My cat likes to walk around on the rim of the bathtub when I'm sitting in it and meow loudly. I imagine he's yelling at me to 'get out of the durn water what is wrong with you'. Welp one time he fell into the water completely and then spent the rest of the day mad at me because of course…

Happy birthday!! @Camaramandy648

LOL. Sheep can be quite dignified when they're not... chewing. Or otherwise looking ridiculous. This what you had in mind? @Avidkeo - there was a character in the cartoon Battle of the Planets called Keyop and I always get the image of that character bouncing around in excitement when I read that. I need to +1 to…

I need to run. Instead of a mileage goal, I'm going to try to run 10 times this month. :/

@rheddmobile Jeez that sounds like a harrowing experience. So glad to hear that nothing is broken or injured too badly! All your points about safety with weights are really valid and easy to overlook. I know I've done plenty of lifting at home with bad setups and nobody around. I need to put "practice failing" on my to do…

Hey! How'd you like it here? :D

@CMorning99 Welcome back and I'm really really sorry to hear about your mom. Hang in there. To think of it, I don't think I've ever seen a coyote... @quilteryoyo Sorry to hear about the continued saga! You deal with what you can. Some things just kinda have to run a course before they can work themselves out, it seems.…

Finally got a run in! 9.4km in a park with a friend who kept talking and would not stop... a good distraction. Added to the run the world challenge - we're nearly 1000km ahead, how the heck did that happen?! Y'all are really killing it out there, especially with the cold and snow. Stay safe everybody. @Avidkeo Yay on the…

Aw shucks. Next time then, maybe we could make it a semi-regular thing.

Let's say Saturday 8pm Central (which is tomorrow, right?... the international date line is confusing). @rheddmobile @shanaber @quilteryoyo joining? We could chill out, talk about food, and I could do something quick and easy.

@quilteryoyo Happy Lunar New Year to everyone on the thread! Not late at all, today is the first day of the year of the Ox!

@swenson19d I think MFP ate my PM. Resent. @shanaber That cookbook is so cool! I love how it nonchalantly asks you to "form dough around balls", I would probably fail that step really hard. @eleanorhawkins Congrats on the job!! As one translator to another, yeah machine translation is not very reliable. Sometimes I use it…

Happy Chinese New Year everybody! Here's my one-person celebration meal. @shanaber She sounds like an awesome person! My mother would make dumplings for potlucks too and everyone loved them (although I do remember that she added salt twice on one occasion, but luckily they were pork and carrot so we got away by adding some…

@HonuNui Can't believe you're in the "CH" already! I've been thinking about which part of the country would be good for running, and decided I really really want to show you my city. So come to Beijing! I'll show you around and we can do all the classic run routes.

German has been on my to do list for years, but right now Japanese is on the top of that list. If you ever want to pick up Mandarin again we could language exchange. I'd love to be somebody's cooking buddy! No idea how that would work though.

@swenson19d Sorry you lost your post! May I ask which 4 words? Hope you love your new phone! Which model did you go with? Black or green tea are both fine for eggs, I usually use Lipton teabags because they're cheap, always lying around and easy to clean up. Does your kumquat tree have fruit? I think I've heard of people…

Fast food? Ugh. As a hardcore northern Chinese person, dumplings are consumed straight out of the pot or not at all. I'd even take frozen dumplings over takeaway any day. (I'm kidding, any dumplings are better than none at all.) But in all seriousness, some frozen dumplings are actually pretty good. Do you have any legit…

Re: laptops. I am a windows person. The ex had a macbook, and I could sort of use it, but didn't really see the attraction. When the first ipad came out, I had to use it for work - one occasion stayed up until 3am to sync about 2G of photos. Hated its guts. I also have no idea to use an iphone. I'm kinda the tech person in…

lol i thought i was the only one.. recently i've been eating everything in sight. and not running. but i'm starting a week-long national holiday for chinese new year day after tomorrow so there's a glimmer of hope there.