I’ve had that before, but I thought it was pronounced “Brain Melt”.
Incidentally, that beer was supplied by the brother of the rich guy I mentioned above, also quite wealthy, also a minivan driver. The last time I was with both of them they were blowing their big bucks primitive camping in the Chequamegon forest of Wisconsin, dining on $0.00 fresh fish every day.
I think for a lot of people the stuff they do or the stuff they buy, is as you said, a way to be individual. The lifting for me is a way to have a unique thing I do. Before that it was rock climbing. Before that snowboarding. I do actually enjoy all of these things, but part of the motivation was to have a “thing” about me that is individual. I had to be at least pretty good at them.
It is one of the old local beers from MN (Summit and Hamm’s are also fairly popular).
Couple types of rich people out there. One of the types is rich because they don’t like spending a lot of money (in fact, they get enjoyment out of finding ways to be frugal).
For example Warren Buffet I think enjoys being frugal (although he would be rich either way).
I confess that I am considering dropping out of society. For me, that would be quitting my job, buying a travel trailer, and hitting the road.
Should go the extra step and return to monke.
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Good point. My middle brother (the one that passed in 2001) could give a shit about status, was infatuated with being the millionaire next door - multi-millionaire that no one realized had any money.
My oldest brother has now amassed quite a fortune and drives a brand new GMC 3500 PU with the Denali package and the biggest diesel engine available, lives in a big house overlooking a canyon, and cannot stop talking about how much money he makes.
Same genes - gotta be nurture?
Have thought about it - have actually camped and worked at an ashram in upstate New York. Was pretty happy there.
We talking Kerouac or Emerson here?
I sometimes find myself thinking this same thought. Or an old boat I could live on. Basically, getting my expenses so low that I could live off of what I currently have. Health care makes this tough to do in the US though.
That or moving to another country with low cost of living and low cost health care. Maybe somewhere in South America.
Sounds like your middle brother was satisfied. He didn’t want more. Could be wrong?
Kerouac - great question.
I have always been in love with the idea of disappearing - especially since I visited Key West. Am also seriosly considering ex-pating in Ecuador or Mexico.
Not wrong. Hawaii was his favorite. He would spend 9-10 days at the Royal Hawaiian hotel and drop ten grand and feel guilty, but it cost less than 20% of his monthly income. He loved it.
I’ve done quite a bit of research on this. Medellin, Bogota, Cuenca Ecuador, Thailand - live like a king for less that $1200 per month. Pretty good health care as well, cheap office visits.
I confess I’m taking today off even though I’ve already taken a day off this week.
I further confess that I feel crap not because I’ve been working particularly hard in the gym; I stayed up late with Econ discussion friend and couldn’t sleep thinking about what happened
Meanwhile… my friend (that one) presented a paper at a conference and got the attention of a big name economist… 
I really should have stuck with the “wait after grad school” plan but I’m enjoying this too much
I skipped breakfast today because I knew I was taking the kids to a bbq cook off. 20+ Competitors and I ate all their bbq, and their desserts, and the ones my kids didn’t eat.
@T3hPwnisher i feel like I went to your ideal event today 
. Just endless baskets of slow cooked meat
I try to follow 16:8 but read Thibs article saying that’s just skipping breakfast and you should go 20:4, so because I’m not really IF according to Thibs, today I had two egg burritos and two HoHo’s for breakfast, a ton of cashews for a snack, and I just ate a pimento cheese sandwich (Masters), a bowl of chili with cheese, and three cinnamon rolls.
I’m calling it a cheat day.
@jshaving Yeah, we’ve definitely got our share of weirdos here, but I gotta say that the West River crowd makes us East River folks look normal. Also, South Dakota’s got nothing on Wyoming - just when you think you’ve seen it all a “But wait there’s more” moment just comes out of nowhere and totally proves you wrong. lol
How so? My mom grew up in central SD (Burke), and my dad’s from the Nebraska panhandle, so most of my childhood summer vacations were to Rapid City and, most importantly, Evan’s Plunge in Hot Springs. In fact, I’ve never been to Sioux Falls but have heard of the West/East River (friendly) rivalry.
Ha, even I’ve heard about that. I mentioned thinking of moving to Wyoming, and both my mom and uncle (her brother) said something like, “Don’t move there! Those people are WEIRD!” To be fair, one of my dad’s brothers lives in Newcastle, and it’s beautiful.
Close. I need less of this
And more of this
But seriously: that’s an awesome time. BBQ is especially anabolic: Paul Kelso said so.
I did 2 heavy squat singles yesterday. That’s it… and my legs are trashed today
Still cutting weight into the peak for this?
I confess that I’m skipping all manners of training today. I successfully hung gutters on my house and only had one close call with the ladder, luckily I’m a decently quick scrambler. Going to crack a beer and stare at them now.
