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Nope. No dairy during the entirety of Whole 30. I tried pulling back off the meds, but it makes life kind of unbearable. Oh well. Still have a week left to see some tangible results. I've had canker sores every once in a while since I was like 5.

Now that I've completed week 3 of whole 30: Still no real changes. Still need to take 2x allergy medications to not sneeze every 3-5 minutes. Still have some funny skin issues (my hands feel like paper and things slip out of them all the time). Those two things - sniffly allergies and skin issues - are my only two persistent health issues, and I was expecting them to go away at least a little bit. So far, nothing. I also have a canker sore (not a cold sore, they're different and I don't have herpes) and it's making me cranky. Ballin' on your deadlifts, tho.

That's pretty strange - any time I have a weird problem like that, I reinstall my soundcard drivers and it fixes it 80% of the time. Try that yet? I had issues once where if I opened my DAW and closed it, no other sound would work on the computer until I rebooted. Drivers fixed that.

How many minutes of non-looping music will the video require? That helps give potential composers an idea of how much time they're going to have to put in. 10 minutes of original music is a huge amount to ask for $50, for example. Most people will charge you $50-$100 per minute (though I'm not a font of experience).

I almost never use the same orchestration twice, and I've been continually upgrading and changing my samples, so a template doesn't make sense for me just yet. I've definitely thought of it though.

Check out www.bodeefit.com It's like Crossfit but less impact and less equipment required. At least, as far as I can tell. More bodyweight manipulation. I did today's WOT and it was pretty rough.

Made it! You should have 2 originals from me.

I really wanted to do something totally bizarre to What?! but I ran out of time. Oh well.

Yeah, you might be right. I just can't justify that...I'm going to have to mug someone at a con or something.

As much of a geek as I am, I don't follow the pulse of the video game market to really have understood what was going on, unfortunately. I'll get it eventually.

I can't find this game aaannnnyyywwwaarrree without paying stupid money for it. Every time I ask at Gamestop they laugh at me.

I'll be polishing mine and subbing in an 11th-hour fashion later today...deadline is midnight, right?

Very nice.

Yeah, that's an interesting perspective that makes sense to me biologically. I'm also doing immunotherapy weekly, so my immune system is getting a challenge on a gradient. I'll tell you what - you call my wife and explain to her why I smell and why I'm not doing dishes properly, and we'll give this a go

My wife is Paleo by necessity, as I've explained before, and she made my meals. So, I was probably 70% paleo, but if/when I wanted something with gluten or sugar, I would eat it. A typical day might be a protein shake for breakfast, yogurt with fruit and nuts for a snack, a salad with some meat in it for lunch, a banana with some almond butter in the afternoon, and then whatever my wife made for dinner that day. In the evenings I might have something like a cookie or a brownie or something, but not always. Beer and wine were regular, and pasta was maybe once every 10 days. Going out to eat I ate whatever the hell I wanted. Sometimes I'd have bread or rice or white potato with dinner or some beans.

Lastly - VFF Bilkakalalal or whatever are available on Woot for $27 today. www.woot.com

Never answered these, sorry. First, I'm pretty happy with where I am weight wise, though I could stand to gain another 5-10 pounds max. I have about 8% body fat. My chest looks a little 11-year-old-girl ish, but I can live with that. So my real goal is to be PRAGMATICALLY FIT by wasting MINIMAL AMOUNTS OF MY FREE TIME. Very primal mentality, so Mark works for me. Regarding the VFF; I have the Bilkilallalal or whatever. Wife got them for me for $30 on a sale. I'm still happy with the running aspect of them - sprinting in them makes me feel like I'm on a speeding train - but they keep doing weird things when I try to do anything non mainstream like parkour. I feel like they have the POTENTIAL to be awesome, but maybe I don't have the right model. If I got ones that laced up on top, I think that would eliminate the slippage problem. Too bad VFF names all their shoes stupid cool-guy names like See Ya and Kso (Japanese for 'shit'?) instead of describing what they're good for I don't want to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out which one works.

So, I am now officially 2 weeks into Whole 30. Honestly, I feel no different at all, and I'm not sure I experienced any adjustment period (flu-like symptoms from die-off, etc). Maybe that's because I ate relatively healthy prior to switching, but I'm not bristling with energy or feeling like I could move mountains or anything. My allergies are still persistent as well (though I know 2 weeks aren't going to do much but it was the only reason I wanted to try this diet). It's mostly annoying. My parents came into town to visit their new granddaughter and my dad brought a 12 pack of beer and pizza. It was a major, major bummer, since most of the good times I've had with my family revolve around awesome food that isn't necessarily good for you. The diet, so far, has done nothing except put a damper on social gatherings and make eating out the most annoying thing I've ever done in my life. [/bitterness] And I really want to smoke my f@%#@g hookah while I'm composing.

See, yeah, I'm not in touch enough with Japanese culture to even know what Moe was, except that I have an uncle named Moe and I was pretty certain he wasn't ruining Japan. I think he has the potential to ruin Japan, but right now he lives too far away. I had to look it up.

Gantz was one of the most effed up ones I ever saw. I actually thought it had the potential to get really good but I remember hearing that the anime got cancelled before it could tell the full manga story, so the ending was awful. Also Paranoia Agent was really strange, too. Shooooonen Baaatuna!

Just out of curiosity, have you made the deal potable yet? I.e. are you paying people or doing anything from your end to make it worth it for an artist? So far I've seen lots of "we're committed" but not "it'll be worth it for you."

Flex those forum muscles! Sorry for being so lame, and thanks for judging.