Hello Arelor,

Monday September 13 2021 19:48, you wrote to me:

Vitamin B megadoser pills are one of the items I sell the best. I give
a lot of them to people with neurological damaged or opressed nerves. Having it via injection seems very inconvenient to me when there are
many affordable pills in the wild.

My pills aren't "mega-dose" but standard dosing. They're prescribed so I don't have to pay for them; I have no co-pays since I have no income.

But then, a lot of people is taking Vitamin D shots when there are
good Vitamin D pills out there. I think, in Spain, people is taking
the shots because they come with state healthcare programs while the
pills are not covered.

I take 5000 IU of Vitamin D3 daily in pearls that I buy from the Vitamin Shoppe. They work great.

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I take 5000 IU of Vitamin D3 daily in pearls that I buy from the Vitamin Shoppe. They work great.

Same here, but in gummies. The best way to stay healthy is to have a solid immune system which we know Viatmin D3 assists. That and sunlight (being outside).

- Mark

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MARK HOFMANN wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

sunlight (being outside).

Oh HELL NO! :P give me the pills

Kev


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Hello Kevin,

Sunday September 19 2021 12:26, you wrote to Mark Hofmann:

sunlight (being outside).

Oh HELL NO! :P give me the pills

For Vitamin D3 to be processed, you need to be out in direct sunlight for 30 minutes for your body to convert the pro-hormone from pill form into the vitamin form it can use.

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SEAN DENNIS wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

For Vitamin D3 to be processed, you need to be out in direct sunlight
for 30 minutes for your body to convert the pro-hormone from pill form into the vitamin form it can use.

30 minutes huh? hmm I might get that in every day, walking to/from
truck, checking mail, etc. Hopefully that counts!

Kev


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Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

30 minutes huh? hmm I might get that in every day, walking to/from
truck, checking mail, etc. Hopefully that counts!

It all counts. :D

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For Vitamin D3 to be processed, you need to be out in direct sunlight for 30 minutes for your body to convert the pro-hormone from pill form into
the vitamin form it can use.

I try to make a point to be outside at least that long each day. Only exception would be bad weather days. That and good hygene (washing hands when returning home from doing anything).

I will say that I might not have always done that years ago. When you think about how many people touch a gas pump, grocery store cart, etc, you REALLY should be washing your hands when you get home.

- Mark

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Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Same here, but in gummies. The best way to stay healthy is to have a solid immune system which we know Viatmin D3 assists. That and
sunlight (being outside).

The silver lining of the spring of 2020 was that we had both kids home
remote schooling. We'd all meet for lunch outside, away from the computers
for 30 minutes, and it really helps improve afternoon focus getting fresh
air and a little bit of sunlight.

I helped both kids with time planning; they both started making or printing
a weekday calendar and blocking out time on the calendar for tasks. They
still do that to this day.


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Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

30 minutes huh? hmm I might get that in every day, walking to/from
truck, checking mail, etc. Hopefully that counts!

I've always tried to eat my lunch outside - get away from the computer, take
a walk, and get some sun. I feel so much better when I go back to work.


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KURT WEISKE wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

I've always tried to eat my lunch outside - get away from the computer, take a walk, and get some sun. I feel so much better when I go back to work.

That sounds like a great idea, but for my area, the majority of the
year it is 95+ degrees at lunch time. But when it is cool, I'll try to
start doing that. There is a small park with tables close by my office.

Kev

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Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

I try to make a point to be outside at least that long each
day. Only exception would be bad weather days. That and
good hygene (washing hands when returning home from doing
anything).

I walked down to my local Dollar General this evening. About a mile's walk down and up a gentle hill. About killed me since I'm out of shape but I did it.

I will say that I might not have always done that years ago. When you think about how many people touch a gas pump, grocery store cart,
etc, you REALLY should be washing your hands when you get
home.

Oh yeah. When I was still working, when I'd do the "payday errand run", I'd wash my hands after filling the gas tank, after shopping, and if I grabbed a bite to eat, wash before eating. I've always been a germaphobe but even
more so now with my health but ironically I'm probably in better health than some.

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The silver lining of the spring of 2020 was that we had both kids home remote schooling. We'd all meet for lunch outside, away from the
computers for 30 minutes, and it really helps improve afternoon focus getting fresh air and a little bit of sunlight.

Exactly. I always focus on the positive in things. I have been able to spend way more time with my family since I am not spending two hours a day in the car going to/from work.

I went from working 5% remote to 95% remote - and that is permanent now. I get way more done, have a great setup at home for working, and can take a walk around the neighborhood with my wife at lunchtime. When I am done work, I log out and am already home. No more commute.

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I've always tried to eat my lunch outside - get away from the computer, take a walk, and get some sun. I feel so much better when I go back to work.

Me too. We have a picnic table outside my work where I would always go to get some sun and get away from people in the office. These days, I can eat at my desk in my home office, go on the deck, or side in the front yard and have lunch.

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I walked down to my local Dollar General this evening. About a mile's
walk down and up a gentle hill. About killed me since I'm out of shape
but I did it.

We went to North Carolina for vacation a few weeks ago and I saw tons of Dollar Generals. They are way more popular in the south. There are not that many here. We have other Dollar stores.

The bonus to the south is you can get beer at the Dollar General. Around here you can only get beer in a liquor store so the state can continue to make loads of money with their liquor licenses.

Oh yeah. When I was still working, when I'd do the "payday errand run",
I'd wash my hands after filling the gas tank, after shopping, and if I grabbed a bite to eat, wash before eating. I've always been a germaphobe but even more so now with my health but ironically I'm probably in better health than some.

I used to be a bit lax on that at times years ago, but have gotten much better. Now when I come home from being anywhere, the first thing I do is wash my hands.

- Mark

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Kevin Nunn wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

I've always tried to eat my lunch outside - get away from the computer, take a walk, and get some sun. I feel so much better when I go back to work.

That sounds like a great idea, but for my area, the majority of the
year it is 95+ degrees at lunch time. But when it is cool, I'll try to start doing that. There is a small park with tables close by my office.

95 degrees is OK, but how's the humidity? Nothing worse than being a sweaty mess after lunch.

I live on the California coast and work in Silicon Valley. In the summertime there can be 20 degrees difference between work and home.


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Mark Hofmann wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

I went from working 5% remote to 95% remote - and that is permanent
now. I get way more done, have a great setup at home for working, and
can take a walk around the neighborhood with my wife at lunchtime.

Ditto. I'm not the only one who like their home setup much more than an open-plan office. The one thing I miss is the 600/600 internet at the
office.

My son started college this semester and is living with us fulltime. This
was the first month we went over Comcast's 1229GB data cap. He downloaded a game on Steam that was "only" 30 megabytes, but when I looked at the game directory it'd downloaded 50 gigabytes of textures.

Since we get a "free" month with no overages, I told him, "Game On". At
least until the end of the month. I just backed up all of my music and
videos to the cloud. :)


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Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

We went to North Carolina for vacation a few weeks ago and
I saw tons of Dollar Generals. They are way more popular
in the south. There are not that many here. We have other
Dollar stores.

Give DG time; they'll be in the Northeast soon enough.

The bonus to the south is you can get beer at the Dollar General.
Around here you can only get beer in a liquor store so the state
can continue to make loads of money with their liquor
licenses.

None of the DGs in Tennessee sell liquor; it must be a NC thig.

I used to be a bit lax on that at times years ago, but have gotten much better. Now when I come home from being anywhere, the
first thing I do is wash my hands.

Me too since I have to do all the cleaning. :D

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Ditto. I'm not the only one who like their home setup much more than an open-plan office. The one thing I miss is the 600/600 internet at the office.

Most of our larger sites have 1Gbps/1Gbps Internet via business fiber. The most used connection to the Internet by far is our wireless guest internet. It normally has over 5000 users connected and using 800Mbps-1Gbps during the daytime.

My son started college this semester and is living with us fulltime. This was the first month we went over Comcast's 1229GB data cap. He downloaded
a game on Steam that was "only" 30 megabytes, but when I looked at the
game directory it'd downloaded 50 gigabytes of textures.

Since we get a "free" month with no overages, I told him, "Game On". At least until the end of the month. I just backed up all of my music and videos to the cloud. :)

I can't explain just how much it irritates me how some carriers take advantage of certain locations that don't have many connectivity options. Having any type of cap or limit in this day and age is insane to me.

I know that Comcast does this in areas where they can get away with it. They were never able to do that in the Northeast only because we have Verizon Fios in many areas.

My last month of having Comcast 2 years ago, I downloaded over 3TB of stuff knowing that I was canceling at the end of the month, anyway. There were never any caps here, but they still watched it and would send "excessive usage letters" from time to time to try and move you to the business service which is no different other than you pay more.

I have been on Verizon Fios for 2 years now and love it. Verizon Business sucks, but Verizon residential has been wonderful. I average 2-3TB of traffic per month over here and have the 1Gbps/1Gbps service for $79.99/month. Less expensive than my old Comcast and I get way more speed.

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Give DG time; they'll be in the Northeast soon enough.

Just saw a Dollar General not too far from me yesterday. I forgot there is one in Jarrettsville, MD which is about 10-15 minutes away.

Another thing I really like about the southern states is you can buy beer in the grocery store. Around here, the only places that can sell any alcohol are ones that own a "state issued liquor license" which are VERY expensive and hard to get.

- Mark

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KURT WEISKE wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

95 degrees is OK, but how's the humidity? Nothing worse than being a sweaty mess after lunch.

It's very humid I live about 20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico,
and the only time the humidity drops is when a cool/cold front comes
there. It stays low for a few days, then back up again. Agerage
humidity around 70%-80%.

This morning I got groceries like usual and had a little walk, 72
degrees outside and I still came back in sweating.

I live on the California coast and work in Silicon Valley. In the summertime there can be 20 degrees difference between work and home.

It might be similar then, you being on the coast, just higher temps
here I guess.

Kev


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Mark Hofmann wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

My last month of having Comcast 2 years ago, I downloaded over 3TB of stuff knowing that I was canceling at the end of the month, anyway.
There were never any caps here, but they still watched it and would
send "excessive usage letters" from time to time to try and move you to the business service which is no different other than you pay more.

Yeah, it would chap to have the benefits of "business class" service be them removing self-placed limitations on their service. I'd like port 25 to work, for example.

I have been on Verizon Fios for 2 years now and love it. Verizon
Business sucks, but Verizon residential has been wonderful. I average 2-3TB of traffic per month over here and have the 1Gbps/1Gbps service
for $79.99/month. Less expensive than my old Comcast and I get way
more speed.

AT&T Fiber had gig options a year or so ago, but now I see 300 mbit options.
I hope I didn't miss a sweet spot there.

My concerns were that I wasn't sure where they'd place their premise equipment, and my next door neighbor had a fiber outage (fiber laying on the road where a branch knocked it over) and it took them 4 days to fix it.

I wish I could get local channels over the air; I could easily dump cable in that case.


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AT&T Fiber had gig options a year or so ago, but now I see 300 mbit options. I hope I didn't miss a sweet spot there.

My concerns were that I wasn't sure where they'd place their premise equipment, and my next door neighbor had a fiber outage (fiber laying on the road where a branch knocked it over) and it took them 4 days to fix
it.
I wish I could get local channels over the air; I could easily dump cable in that case.

When they ran the fiber to my house, they left a nice service loop in the box outside on the side of my house. I opened it up so that I could re-run everything cleaner and put the fiber in a better conduit. It goes from underground fiber cable to a fused single strand of single mode fiber.

I ran the single mode fiber from there to a location near my network room in the basement where the ONT is mounted on the wall. The handoff from that is copper, which goes to my firewall. I would imagine at some time they might have an ONT that allow a fiber handoff.

You used to be able to use Locast for local channels in many areas (free streaming service). That was until the local networks sued them and won, so the service was shutdown. I didn't need reason to hate the local media outlets more, so even though I feel for Locast, it will be fun watching the local channels/news die off. The new generation could care less about them.

- Mark

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Mark Hofmann wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

When they ran the fiber to my house, they left a nice service loop in
the box outside on the side of my house. I opened it up so that I
could re-run everything cleaner and put the fiber in a better conduit.
It goes from underground fiber cable to a fused single strand of single mode fiber.

I ran the single mode fiber from there to a location near my network
room in the basement where the ONT is mounted on the wall. The handoff from that is copper, which goes to my firewall. I would imagine at
some time they might have an ONT that allow a fiber handoff.

I suppose that if AT&T delivered anywhere on one side of the house (which is where the old copper came in) that I could get the fiber to my upstairs office. Once it gets there, I have a run of copper between the floors.

I might just consider that when it comes time to re-up my contract with Comcast.


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Mark Hofmann wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

Just saw a Dollar General not too far from me yesterday. I
forgot there is one in Jarrettsville, MD which is about 10-
15 minutes away.

DG is making their money with small footprint stores in rural areas or in
"food deserts". Where I am, the nearest grocery store is about three miles away; both too far and too dangerous to walk to.

Another thing I really like about the southern states is
you can buy beer in the grocery store. Around here, the
only places that can sell any alcohol are ones that own a
"state issued liquor license" which are VERY expensive and
hard to get.

We do have blue laws to deal with but Tennessee has eased up on a lot of
them including my own county and the cities within. I know beer and wine is sold at most of the grocery stores here but liquor has to be sold at a
liquor store.

-- Sean

P.S. It's legal in Tennessee to make moonshine for your own use but you
cannot sell it.

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I suppose that if AT&T delivered anywhere on one side of the house (which is where the old copper came in) that I could get the fiber to my
upstairs office. Once it gets there, I have a run of copper between the floors.

One of the first things I did when we moved here almost 16 years ago now was run Cat5e everywhere. I have a total of 94 cat5e cable drops in the house. I ran quads - in some cases (2) quads to each room, not to mention a quad in the garage, under the deck out back, and in the kitchen.

I have (2) 48 port switches for the house and a total of (5) wireless APs for maximum 5Ghz coverage - even through the woods outside.

When you do networking for a living, you tend to take things to the extreme. :)

- Mark

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We do have blue laws to deal with but Tennessee has eased up on a lot of them including my own county and the cities within. I know beer and wine
is sold at most of the grocery stores here but liquor has to be sold at a liquor store.

It is rediculous that Maryland won't allow beer sales in grocery stores, but it is all about the tax money they get for selling liquor licenses. That goes way back.

Then again, at least we can pump our own gas which is more than I can say for New Jersey.

- Mark

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Sean Dennis wrote to Mark Hofmann <=-

The bonus to the south is you can get beer at the Dollar General.
Around here you can only get beer in a liquor store so the state
can continue to make loads of money with their liquor
licenses.

None of the DGs in Tennessee sell liquor; it must be a NC thig.

They do sell beer though...

It's odd - we go to Sikeston to eat at Lambert's and we go in a
gas station and they have hard liquor. Feels weird to me - LOL




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Kevin Nunn wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

It's very humid I live about 20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico,
and the only time the humidity drops is when a cool/cold front comes there. It stays low for a few days, then back up again. Agerage
humidity around 70%-80%.

We went to Orange Beach last week for Fall Break. I noticed the temps
and humidity were pretty much what we have here in Northwest Tennessee,
but witht he almost constant breeze blowing in off the gulf, it didn't
FEEL as hot. :-)

Course wearing a t shirt and shorts with only a key fob and wallet
instead of my normal EDC probably made a difference. LOL





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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

They do sell beer though...

I've only seen one DG selling beer in my area and it was in Blountville (Sullivan County). I haven't seen any in Washington County selling any alcohol.

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