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National Beer Day

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National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7, marking the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act was enacted after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933. This led to the Eighteenth Amendment being repealed on December 5, 1933, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Get out there and support your local craft breweries!
Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=breweries+near+me
Craftbeer.com find a brewery near me
Veteran Owned Breweries – This is an interactive table and map of breweries owned by United States Armed Forces Veterans.

This is me enjoying a beer flight and some food at Blue Mountain Brewery last Thursday. It was a nice relaxing afternoon. Beginning to feel better. Thanks for all the well-wishes.

Samsung SSDs On Sale

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Samsung 860 EVO 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSDs On Sale
These are some of the fastest most reliable SSDs out there. Great value. Add some fast storage.
I have a many Samsung SSDs and they are my preferred SSD brand.

250GB
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Price: $57.99
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500GB
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1TB
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Fitness Watches

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Anyone use a Fitness Band or Fitness Watch?
I’ve been looking for one but I can’t find one that fits my needs. A significant portion of my fitness activities involve weightlifting. My research seems to indicate that these products fail to accurately/effectively deal with this activity. Also, I’m not sure something around the wrist is a great idea as I use lifting straps for shrugs and back exercises.
The only products I see that do weightlifting are sleeves which are well, just no (if you are a weightlifter you’ll understand on sight).
I don’t need it to even track a workout. I really would just like it to accurately reflect cardio and calories burned during the weightlifting. I guess to do all that it might need to track a workout, I dunno.
I also don’t want to stand there fumbling with the product before each set.
Does anyone have any input on this?

Edit 04FEB2019
I give up. All I wanted was a watch that accurately measures cardio and calories burned across all my activities. Especially and including weightlifting. I don’t need a coach, or advice. I don’t want to input my reps. I could live with a external monitor of some kind tied to the watch but not an arm or chest band. AFAIK the device I want doesn’t exist.

Storage Deals

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Samsung 970 EVO 250GB – NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD
My pick for your OS drive.
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Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD
My pick for data drive.
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WD Black 6TB Performance Hard Drive
My pick for storage.
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Seagate Expansion 4TB Desktop External Hard Drive
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WD 4TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive
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SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable External SSD
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*prices accurate as of this writing, 12JAN2019