Rate your year

1 - Twas one of my worst in history

Great stuff Hank.  Pleased for you and your family. 

I think mine is 7.0/10. Better than average, did my first ironman, staying out of trouble at work, finances all good, saw England in Bangladesh. On the downside relationships still a bit sh1t and got a limited handle on the drink.  Still not doing drugs mind.

did my first ironman

wow -w/d

4.  However there's still a few days left and I think it could go even lower.

What was his name, Rob?

Here's hoping for a better 2017 for you Aspro and Ron. Well done on the Iron Man Rob - what was Bangladesh like?

Work 8
Home 6

Earned more money than any other working year(and there have been lots of them)
Both daughters switched jobs and are much happier with new careers.
Number one son got the grades to do Physics at uni , and is loving it.
Still have no health issues as I rapidly approach 53 , and very grateful for it too.

9/10

....all years are good years .  Always grateful to see the sky blue and the grass green ,although i'm sure some  guru out there is working on changing that arrangement.

Glad to hear your boy is on the improvenment ,marvellous stuff Hank 

I'm alive and so is everyone close to me, 10/10.

3.5 another shyte year Losing my Father in Law being the Low point .

Cheers coach - we're getting there. All years are good years - in the grand scheme of things yeah you're right, though we can't always appreciate that. Hope the next one improves for you too casemoney.

Thanks for the words Hank, appreciated. I hope your year continues as this one ends

All years are good years - in the grand scheme of things yeah you're right
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and of course not for everyone ,but i always like to hear  when folk have good happenings - so much depressing stuff in the news on a daily basis  and it just seems the world is full of evil stuff ,so it's dwelling on the positive  .

I always say, If the news was all good news no bugger would watch it .

No major deaths for me (including myself!) I'm healthy, fit, don't smoke but I booze too feckin much especially at weekends.

Daughter graduated while son #1 got engaged (2017 wedding), son #2 is still at Uni.

My footy team won feck all but that has become the norm, we could be announcing a new ground soon.

Poker I turned zero into $1k. It was one of my worst years however as playing freerolls really restricted me.

Normal punting I was hopeless (as usual) but made a few £££ via matched betting.

Overall I'd say 8/10 but 10/10 for being alive.

1

Ataraxia and Aponia.

50% due to some worries about Mrs Foin's health and the loss of several friends and relatives.

5/10

Because I had a good win on Donald Trump

except for that my usual 1/10...my life is rubbish

10 because I wake up every day in fairly good health.

Making sure that your 4 threads are kept on the front page must give you something to live for, bigmo

bit harsh crags, like bigmos picture threads

Was meant to be humourus

No crags, what he meant by the text is that bigmo's picture threads are also harsh

Work of art my threads

They are bigmo but some time soon you're gonna need to upgrade them; they take forever to load now

Strange they load normally for me.

really? Geez, I find the picture ones a chore and I've got a good internet connection (Virgin). Could it be my PC?

I call them the slow cooker threads. I open them before I go to work and by the time I get home they're just about done

They load fine for me too. I love your threads bigmo - if I am having a shi tty day they can cheer me up - you're like the bf forum mental health officer

It could be my browser.. I'm currently using IE.. do you guys use another?

Thanks Hank. I'm on Chrome.

Chrome for me

OK, I'll give that a go and see if it improves

Definitely an improvement but still taking a while to load. Just loads of pictures flashing up. Do you guys get an instant load?

No takes about 5 seconds on the picture ones. Unless it says 1 new then straight to it.

strange, both Chrome and IE are taking a lot longer than that

Maybe your computer needs a maintenance. Could be something slowing it down.

Clearing your cache can often be the answer .....

That's good advice guys but I'm not that good at maintenance and I ensure that my cache is cleared every time I close the browser (automatically) - I'll start researching maintenance as the thread is clearly a good and worthwhile one

How old is your machine and how much junk do you have on your desktop ?
I like to keep my personal laptop lean and mean.

It's not that old at all; a few years at most. I'm also one for keeping the desktop clean and tidy. I don't play games either and none are stored on my machine. I use internet streaming a lot, especially the live sky games but as I said, I have it set to automatically clear my cache.

8/10

Punting's been hit and miss and my first 'win' ever in democracy is being stolen from me by the Remainders

But daughter is the most decorated Paralympic rower in history, was blown away by the Iguazu Falls and Rio and did a personal best in the British Indoor Rowing Championships. Family are healthy and we do loads of insane cool stuff and I've been accepted on the ride across Britain (LLands End to John O Groats) next September - and I'm seeing Sabbath on their farewell tour in Birmingham in February - so a great year to look forward to too.