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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: betarhoalphadelta on May 01, 2025, 05:30:23 PM
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These days, it might seem like good news is in short supply... So my question... What made you happy today?
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setting up a lunch meeting with a potential customer for tomorrow
and setting up meetings for next week in South Dakota
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I woke up 6:30 ish, made coffee, woke up some more, read and posted here.
My wife and I took a trip to a nearby state park and walked the trails about three miles or so. We had a decent lunch at a BBQ place, got stuck in traffic a bit. The world didn't end, no meteors hit, Trump didn't declare martial law, I didn't get deported. I wrote some in my book, trying to get that restarted, had some pretty OK ideas earlier about where to go with plot. I've had no alcohol since Sunday. I may take a nap.
I'm not broke, all my kids seem to be doing well, the ones I know about anyway. Some of them are planning to come visit us this year here, and in Hawaii, which is nice. I get along particularly well with my stepson, we seem to understand each other pretty well, and he can fix about anything from a computer to a light switch to a car.
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It wasn't today, but last night just after dusk I was doing driving lessons with my 15 yo son. He nicely asked his sister if he could borrow her convertible for the exercise, and she conceded as long as I agreed to fill up her tank. :)
There were storms about 10-15 miles out and the weather had just cooled, with big clouds off to the side but not directly above, with a lot of sheet lightning mixed in between them. We had the top down and were just cruising the streets out in my part of suburbia, almost no other cars on the road. And my son said, "Dad, I think this is going to be one of those memories I'll have forever."
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I won't go deep into details, but today was our internal company all-hands the day after earnings.
Our CEO was asked a question that was right in the wheelhouse of a topic I've published about, and his response basically quoted a portion of what I wrote. I know he'd been apprised of it, so I don't consider this accidental or coincidental, like he came up with the response on the fly. And a couple of colleagues agree.
It seems to coincide with some exciting job opportunities that I've just been given (i.e. voluntold I'm about to be doing lol), which makes me again think I've been positively noticed.
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My son called me on the way home, and I got to the house, changed clothes, and grabbed the airpods.
Went out while chatting, skimmed the pool, checked my chemicals, then sat in a chair —- continued to chat, and watched the blue birds and cardinals eat from my bird feeders.
72 degrees and breezy. Nice.
Edit: to add, my Dobie and Dobie mix laying on the deck at my feet, also enjoying the nice evening.
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It wasn't today, but last night just after dusk I was doing driving lessons with my 15 yo son. He nicely asked his sister if he could borrow her convertible for the exercise, and she conceded as long as I agreed to fill up her tank. :)
There were storms about 10-15 miles out and the weather had just cooled, with big clouds off to the side but not directly above, with a lot of sheet lightning mixed in between them. We had the top down and were just cruising the streets out in my part of suburbia, almost no other cars on the road. And my son said, "Dad, I think this is going to be one of those memories I'll have forever."
Thats cool. You should treasure this period in your life. Time goes by so quickly. Seems like yesterday when I would go out on driver traing trips with my son. Just another thing no one ever tells you about being a parent. I must have done a pretty good job cause hes never been in an accident or even goitten a ticket. Hell I probably had at least 10 by the time I graduated UT. Course Id never tell him that.
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Yesterday I heard my boss caught his tie in the paper shredder
And when I got home from work I practically hand fed the robbins which has been a spring/summer ritual since '01. Also spread out seed,chopped dried fruits - raisins/figs/dates/prunes/cranberries and anything I can scupper together around the back yard and watch small parties of cardinals,doves,sparrows,chickadees and host of others I recognize but can't identify emerge from the woods/park and have at it
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This is an important thing to try and do daily, I think. We often take so much for granted.
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I woke up.
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It wasn't today, but last night just after dusk I was doing driving lessons with my 15 yo son. He nicely asked his sister if he could borrow her convertible for the exercise, and she conceded as long as I agreed to fill up her tank. :)
There were storms about 10-15 miles out and the weather had just cooled, with big clouds off to the side but not directly above, with a lot of sheet lightning mixed in between them. We had the top down and were just cruising the streets out in my part of suburbia, almost no other cars on the road. And my son said, "Dad, I think this is going to be one of those memories I'll have forever."
Reading this reminded me of my boys and myself. Ans this little diddy popped in my head.
https://youtu.be/1epFa69A2nk?si=zSl9MxKgawPldiE2
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I woke up.
and had myself a Be-e-e-r
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Amen, brother
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So, I've had no alcohol since Sunday, and supposedly I'm "allowed" some this evening. I'm thinking of avoiding it again. It's not that I feel terrific this morning, I feel fine after drinking some. I find abstinence easier han moderation.
I stopped losing weight which isn't great but it's only been a few days. I hoped to knock of another pound anyway. I guess it takes longer.
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Some neighborhood news made me "happy" of late. There has been a 4 acre hold in the ground in a prime commercial spot near us. It was supposed to be a high rise luxo condo building, they built a fancy sales center years ago and then ... hole in the ground. The Midtown Alliance has bought the property and plans to make a park out of it. It'll take a while of course, but it's better than the hole.
Then the Piedmont Park folks have announced a $150-170 million upgrade to the park. That's a chunk of change, what they are showing looks pretty good, we go there regularly.
Then the botanical garden which is adjacent announced a big expansion a year or so back that looks fabulous. They bought up 23 acres of junky stuff between the current park and the Beltline and plan a new entrance and various features.
Three rather large new apartment buildings are about to open hopefully soon with some restaurants in the ground floors. There are more "planned" but only two now are UC, one is pretty tall for this area. It's at about 40 stories now, to be finished next year, hopefully with interesting stuff at street level.
So, the 'hood seems to be advancing, which is good.
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Having asked the question yesterday, what made me happy that day....
Well, probably not what you're looking for, but I have a rx for Tramadol which I hardly ever take, for a number of reasons. Yesterday morning was atypically rough, so I popped one. I forget that in addition to being a pain med it's also a serotonin re-uptake inhibitor. It can cause me general happiness for no reason, which it did for most of the day.
I decided I was probably just going to do drugs from here on out. Maybe find a meth dealer or something. Our grocery bill would go down quite a bit, which might make me even happier.
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Extension from yesterday that someone mentioned to me but I forgot to look at...
On my company's web site main page, the big banner at the very front and center links to... My white paper (that the CEO quoted).
But even beyond that, there's a section farther down with four tiles of content. One is a white paper I wrote. One is a tech brief that was existing but I rewrote and modernized to keep up with more recent innovations. And one is an innovation web site that was championed by a coworker but I'm probably 1/3 responsible for the content.
Not bad :)
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What made you happy today?
Sent a postcard to my friend Joe (and his wife).
Outside of immediate family, no one has been a longer term friend than Joe. We go back over twenty years, to our adolescent days in Texas. An untold aspect of friendship is how well friendships can age without either party realizing it until a decade or so goes by. And that quality of time going by becomes a point of strength in the friendship.
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Extension from yesterday that someone mentioned to me but I forgot to look at...
On my company's web site main page, the big banner at the very front and center links to... My white paper (that the CEO quoted).
But even beyond that, there's a section farther down with four tiles of content. One is a white paper I wrote. One is a tech brief that was existing but I rewrote and modernized to keep up with more recent innovations. And one is an innovation web site that was championed by a coworker but I'm probably 1/3 responsible for the content.
Not bad :)
Awesome, good news.
In a few months after I'm replaced by AI, any chance you're hiring?
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Extension from yesterday that someone mentioned to me but I forgot to look at...
On my company's web site main page, the big banner at the very front and center links to... My white paper (that the CEO quoted).
But even beyond that, there's a section farther down with four tiles of content. One is a white paper I wrote. One is a tech brief that was existing but I rewrote and modernized to keep up with more recent innovations. And one is an innovation web site that was championed by a coworker but I'm probably 1/3 responsible for the content.
Not bad :)
Pulled them up to read them, but since white papers often have unlisted authors and these are no different, how I do know it's really you if it doesn't say "BRAD! dammit!" at the top?
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Pulled them up to read them, but since white papers often have unlisted authors and these are no different, how I do know it's really you if it doesn't say "BRAD! dammit!" at the top?
You'll just have to take my word for it.
Or you can read it and realize that's it's so long-winded that it could be nobody other than me :57:
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You'll just have to take my word for it.
Or you can read it and realize that's it's so long-winded that it could be nobody other than me :57:
I don't know, that would make me think @medinabuckeye1 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1547) might have written them... ;)
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My wife c=accumulated a bunch of Delta FF miles. She told me she wanted to use them to fly her son and GF to Hawaii in December (to meet us). I said "I doubt he accepts."
She told me today he accepted her offer to fly them here in August, which they had already planned. She said they try and fly on United and there were not any good deals. So, she was pretty giddy about it. Simple things.
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Saving money always makes me happy
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She was happy to be spending "money" or value of a sort, by being able to do something for her child. I suspect all of us who have children understand that.
He's a super "kid". (He's not a kid of course.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rml4CQUVpqM
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Bing Videos (https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=ohio+state+georgia+game&&mid=41E82170F62A3F6CA44241E82170F62A3F6CA442&FORM=VAMGZC)
Bing Videos (https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=ohio+state+georgia+game&&mid=01A73EAA7AF8B401BC3D01A73EAA7AF8B401BC3D&FORM=VAMGZC)
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She was happy to be spending "money" or value of a sort, by being able to do something for her child. I suspect all of us who have children understand that.
He's a super "kid". (He's not a kid of course.)
understood. doing something for children and using earned points or miles is a double whammy in my book
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Drilled two good wells last week. At least my crew did without my direct involvement. Got enough money in the bank to pay all the bills and payroll.
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Not having to work today is making me happy.
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wakin up to a freshly mowed yard and a 12:15 tee time makes me happy
grass got it's first cutting of the season yesterday after 5pm
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I liked mowing our yard except when it rained all week and I couldn't and then had to try and mow it still wet and very tall. My Snapper ride on gave out and I bought a pretty nice mower from HD "used" for $200, I thought that was a deal, and it was. The mower had grass stains on it, a bit, someone used it once and returned it, it was in great shape. I had to walk behind it but that was fine, and it mowed better than the Snapper. By then I was at my wife's house which had a smaller grass yard.
I didn't like bagging, I would have to stop every so often to dump the clippings, but it made the yard look really nice. For relatively little effort I could sit on the deck and admire my handiwork and the wife would bring me a cold drink.
Her yard slopped down the back to a green belt, it was really nice, but I decided to terrace some of it that was a bit wild. I ended up digging up huge flat rocks of limestone to build the terrace, some so large and heavy I could only move them a bit with a pick. That area was all about limestone. I was pretty proud of my walls though.
I planted a lot of flowers back in the ungrassed area that would come up early Spring, always a good time. Just reminescing makes me happy.
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nice work
bagging grass is silly
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This is me at lunch at a spot on the Gironde River. I was driving back to Bordeaux and out tiny motel room using a "back road", which is saying something, it was one lane but two way, along the river, a bit hungry, and we spotted this place, stopped, and inquired if they were still serving. The lady told us they would make something for us though it was after 2 PM. It was terrific. They had a B&B "castle" across the road they showed us after we ate, I think my wife took their information somewhere. We were their only customers for lunch. I left a large tip which they no doubt found surprising.
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A buddy of mine, an Ohio State fan, took a trip to Oxford to see Ole Miss host UGA. Ole Miss whomped the Dawgs bad that day but it was a great time. This is in The Grove, at a TG where folks hosted us. After the game we came back and some players from OM came by to watch other games, I think these folks were connected. They had a great TG and wouldn't take my money. My buddy is wearing an OSU hat and UGA shirt.
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Folks take gillions of photos with their phone, I wonder idly how many ever good looked at afterward. I'm at the CFB HoF which oddly enough my wife enjoyed (or claimed she did). She does like doing things that make me smile, usually.
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I had a 60th birthday party in our back yard with hundreds, well, tens of friends, and had this guy come and play with his son, I really liked his music. We had a burger truck set up out front, and a lot of wine pouring. Yes, I was libated enough to try and sing, but not much.
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This was the core of our "wine group" at the local wine bar in Glendale, OH. We showed up every Friday and spent way too much money. I proposed to my wife in that room in the back on April Fool's Day a few years back.
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grass got it's first cutting of the season yesterday after 5pm
Dafuq I'll be on my 3rd cut if it ever dries out
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The gardens at a place called Vaux-le-Vicomte near Melum, France, probably my favorite chateau in France. Geesh, I had this little digitcal camera back then. Good times. Time keeps on tickin' tickin' tickin'
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte - Vaux le Vicomte (https://vaux-le-vicomte.com/en/)
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Dafuq I'll be on my 3rd cut if it ever dries out
I'm usually the last guy in the neighborhood to mow........ not this spring, beat my neighbors on both sides, across the street and across the alley
they are probably all going to mow today or Sunday, I've got tee times so had to Git'r done Friday afternoon
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This was the core of our "wine group" at the local wine bar in Glendale, OH. We showed up every Friday and spent way too much money. I proposed to my wife in that room in the back on April Fool's Day a few years back.
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Where the hell is the wood bar,pinball machine,dart boards,juke box, beer signs and TV's with the games on? That place gives me the creeps
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I'm usually the last guy in the neighborhood to mow........ not this spring, beat my neighbors on both sides, across the street and across the alley
they are probably all going to mow today or Sunday, I've got tee times so had to Git'r done Friday afternoon
FORE!!!
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My youngest daughter is a HS freshman. Most of our conversations go like this...
Me: saying literally anything
Her: one of "OKAY-AH!" "OH MY GOD-AH!" or "STOP!"
Me: You don't have to yell.
Her: I'M NOT!!!
The end.
Thursday, she set PRs in long jump and 100 hurdles.
Last night, she spent two hours on the couch with me, nerding out on Bound to see where she ranks in the conference, where she ranks in the state as a freshman, what she would need to do to make it to State in various events, etc etc.
She wouldn't shut up, and it was glorious.
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Where the hell is the wood bar,pinball machine,dart boards,juke box, beer signs and TV's with the games on? That place gives me the creeps
It's a "wine bar", a classy place, doesn't need that stuff at all. We liked it a lot. Obviously.
Home - Piccolo Wine Room
A (https://piccolowineroom.com/) funny historical note, it's in the old building where the second Kroger once was, a long time back.
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It's a "wine bar", a classy place, doesn't need that stuff at all. We liked it a lot. Obviously.
Meh,gimme a dimly lit smoky tavern with a pool table and a good choice of draft beers....and the game on
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tough to find'em smoky any longer - it's a damn shame
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Obviously, there are bars for beer drinkers out there aplenty. Wine bars are much more rare, as I think wine drinkers are fewer in number, though they often spend a lot more on less volume.
We have a pretty neat "beer bar" not far from here where my stepson went a while back and noted Charles Barkley sitting in the back by his lonesome. The bar tender said he comes there when in town and prefers to be left to himself.
We 've had lunch there a few times, the food is better than a typical sports bar. There was a large water main break just outside a few months ago that caused quite a bit of damage to the place, they were closed for a couple months.
Midtown Atlanta pub destroyed in water main break reopens | FOX 5 Atlanta (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/55-days-after-water-main-break-midtown-atlanta-pub-reopens)
Eleventh Street Pub (https://www.eleventhstreetpubatl.com/)
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Obviously, there are bars for beer drinkers out there aplenty. Wine bars are much more rare, as I think wine drinkers are fewer in number, though they often spend a lot more on less volume.
We have a pretty neat "beer bar" not far from here where my stepson went a while back and noted Charles Barkley sitting in the back by his lonesome. The bar tender said he comes there when in town and prefers to be left to himself.
We 've had lunch there a few times, the food is better than a typical sports bar. There was a large water main break just outside a few months ago that caused quite a bit of damage to the place, they were closed for a couple months.
Midtown Atlanta pub destroyed in water main break reopens | FOX 5 Atlanta (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/55-days-after-water-main-break-midtown-atlanta-pub-reopens)
Eleventh Street Pub (https://www.eleventhstreetpubatl.com/)
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you see the problem?
I'd have to swing by just to see if Sir Charles was holding court
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I'm usually the last guy in the neighborhood to mow........ not this spring, beat my neighbors on both sides, across the street and across the alley
they are probably all going to mow today or Sunday, I've got tee times so had to Git'r done Friday afternoon
I mowed for the fourth time Tuesday.
Played 18 on Thursday; four 3-putts and made one outside four feet all day. A candidate for a "What Made You Sad Today?" thread.
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I mowed for the fourth time Tuesday.
Played 18 on Thursday; four 3-putts and made one outside four feet all day. A candidate for a "What Made You Sad Today?" thread.
We've already got one of those (https://www.cfb51.com/big-ten/in-other-news-18271/).
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As usual on Saturdays we strolled through the local pop up market. The crowds are down today because of weather, but it's fun. I noticed a new flower shop in an ancient filling station that turned into a bike shop then some solar energy company and has been vacant for a long time, with various an sundry plans announced that fell through. We stopped by and chatted with the couple there, it was very pleasant, bought a vase. She does arrangements mostly on order, the one she was doing for some graduation she said was $200, so not cheap. Duh.
I really admire the folks who start up their own businesses like this, the small ones, the market has several who grow vegetables to sell.
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Sheesh. Been mowin' since February, when it got close to 90 deg here, or at least seemed like it.
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tough to find'em smoky any longer - it's a damn shame
I'm being repressed, I blame the damn,dirty,Demo,Russians
https://youtu.be/YAA-G947ofg
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I mowed for the fourth time Tuesday.
Played 18 on Thursday; four 3-putts and made one outside four feet all day. A candidate for a "What Made You Sad Today?" thread.
what course, I'd like to avoid it if the greens are that treacherous??
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Sheesh. Been mowin' since February, when it got close to 90 deg here, or at least seemed like it.
don't move to Texas
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Many of you don't seem to be getting the point of this thread...
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well, it's pretty early to be happy
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well, it's pretty early to be happy
I'm happy, pretty much, drinking my morning coffee and reading stuff here is good. My wife is still asleep, I think, I usually take her tea in the AM. We had a line of storms pass through last night while we were at the symphony, could hear thunder at times, it had pretty much ended when we got out, just some light sprinkle which was good as we had walked, it's less than a mile.
The concert was ... interesting? It featured a Pagaini violin concerto with a young soloist who played like crazy, Paganini of course wrote silliness so hard few can play his mess. I wasn't crazy about the entire program but is was ... OK I guess.
The weather today should be very nice, a bit cool, we may go for brunch at this Persian restaurant we live that has nice outside seating.
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what course, I'd like to avoid it if the greens are that treacherous??
No, no. All operator error!
I played 9 yesterday and shot a 37, so I'm happy again.
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Today is my wife’s birthday. A happy birthday day.
Immediate family, and a few friends coming by to celebrate. Nothing too elaborate.
Steak, chicken, shrimp, and veggie skewers on the grill, cold beer, and cornhole.
Over/under on May the 4th be with you knee slappers? 8.5
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My wife got me some new shorts, and so I guess I'm finally moving on from cargo shorts. Hopefully the dad police doesn't make me give up my New Balance or Ford Flex too :57:
Then we went through and cleared out a BUNCH of clothes... So I finally have some room in the closet.
And I told her that we should have a moratorium on any new clothes for a while...
And she's in the process of cleaning out her closet too.
Goodwill is going to get QUITE the haul from us.
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My wife got me some new shorts, and so I guess I'm finally moving on from cargo shorts.
One step away from becoming fanny-pack guy, in order to make up for all that lost pocket space.
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One step away from becoming fanny-pack guy, in order to make up for all that lost pocket space.
Oh, I don't actually USE the pockets. If I did, I wouldn't be getting ride of them!
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No, no. All operator error!
I played 9 yesterday and shot a 37, so I'm happy again.
played in a 5-man scramble today, great weather - tied for first - 2nd place on tie braker - drank plenty - good food - I'm happy to be home
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I was offered and have accepted a new job as a principal at a charter school in Indy. 27K raise, commute time cut by 66%, an opportunity to make a difference for kids who need it.
Also, I get to play golf tomorrow morning in what should be great weather.
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Perfect weather here today, I went running and did double what I hoped to do (my legs are tired). I'm happy I'm not running now.
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I was offered and have accepted a new job as a principal at a charter school in Indy. 27K raise, commute time cut by 66%, an opportunity to make a difference for kids who need it.
Also, I get to play golf tomorrow morning in what should be great weather.
Congrats! 27K a year will buy a lot of beer!
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I was offered and have accepted a new job as a principal at a charter school in Indy. 27K raise, commute time cut by 66%, an opportunity to make a difference for kids who need it.
Also, I get to play golf tomorrow morning in what should be great weather.
This made me happy today.
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We're doing a crawfish boil tomorrow and I just bought a couple cases of beer. That made me happy.
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I was offered and have accepted a new job as a principal at a charter school in Indy. 27K raise, commute time cut by 66%, an opportunity to make a difference for kids who need it.
Also, I get to play golf tomorrow morning in what should be great weather.
Congrats!
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We're doing a crawfish boil tomorrow and I just bought a couple cases of beer. That made me happy.
1 or 2 go to the crawfish or you're doing it wrong.
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SFIrish did her annual mothers' day-related show at our local dive bar, which is always a good time. Got to hang out with SFGopher's girlfriends' parents (who came to the show) for longer than I have before, and they are cool people.
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Woke up really sick this morning. Headache, no energy, nausia, can’t keep food down, can’t get out of bed. What makes me happy today is how much the pets appreciate my few sick days. After getting their dishes filled for their usual 6am breakfast, the dog and the cat took over the other side of the bed and, nearly 10 hours later, haven’t left my side since.
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I made coffee, the weather is rainy/stormy, no running today, probably go to the gym. My wife is up getting ready to go to her pilates which she really likes.
She keeps claiming it's the greatest thing and I should go back to it.
Something that is great for one person may not be for another. I think folks like to have confirmation that something is great by getting another opinion, which suggests they aren't convinced.
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Got my official approval from DHHS to be my sister's Personal Assistant/caregiver and just in time -- got my sister home from the hospital this weekend after her knee replacement surgery. After working out a schedule, today was the first day I got to actually get paid for all the personal care work I have done for her for years, lol. Took a little doing and quite a bit of time for the state to get around to approving me as her personal care assistant/caregiver. I did discover that is in a pain in the patoot to figure out a workable schedule around her needs and other family duties I have (she lives with me and my hubby and my youngest son). Way too used to just doing what she needs on the spur of the moment compared to having to schedule everything, lol. I am doubly happy that even though she is 71 years, she is recovering nicely and still has a great sense of humor about all of her health issues. Not getting paid a whole lot, but she feels better about having me do stuff for her and for her pride's sake, I am not complaining, haha. Every little bit helps.
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very good news
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My wife has had three hip replacements, which is not nearly as rough as a knee, and rotator cuff surgery, which is a lot worse than a hip.
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My wife has had three hip replacements, which is not nearly as rough as a knee, and rotator cuff surgery, which is a lot worse than a hip.
Yeah, her knee has been pretty rough; she did really well in February when she had a total reversal of her shoulder (instead of rotator cuff) and bounced back really quickly. Hoping she does the same now so we can convince her to do the other knee sooner rather than later - she has been bone-on-bone with both knees for a decade or more.
and ouch - three hip replacements? I hope that when it comes time for me to have my hip replacement that it doesn't turn into that!
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There was an issue apparently with some early ball-socket joints, they started shedding iron particles, which obviously gets bad. So she had a "revision" they call it. She came back from them pretty quickly, but the rotator cuff thing was really bad for her, and in general.
The bad thing is I had shoulder surgery a week after hers, not nearly as complicated, but bad enough. We had some help for a couple weeks. The good thing is my shoulder no longer is unusually painful. I had hurt it at age 16 pitching, nobody back then had a clue what it was.
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Freakin’ knee has been killing me this week. For almost no reason. Just hurting. Got an appointment with the ortho doc on Monday.
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Well I'm not gonna complain about soreness or ailments. I earned my current soreness.
I've been slacking on the Peloton, so I rode 60 minutes Saturday, 45 Sunday, and 75 today (Monday). My hip is tight and my foot sore, but I'm happy to start pushing the minutes again.
Doing this so I'm capable 30-40 years from now. Or 80 years from now, like CD.
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Unfortunately for me, I really let myself go for quite a few midlife years. I'm paying for it now in terms of fat, though I'm fortunate my moving parts are mostly OK.
When you hit around 45 I think there can be a tendency to let it all go for some reason, the weight of "life" can get oppressive. Then I had a bout of depression I treated mostly with alcohol. Get up walk, he says, while posting here.
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I had hurt it at age 16 pitching, nobody back then had a clue what it was.
Called an ouchee - get back in there and play thru the pain. Well maybe not the amatuers
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Freakin’ knee has been killing me this week. For almost no reason. Just hurting. Got an appointment with the ortho doc on Monday.
a year or so ago my freakin knee was killin me for no reason - couldn't even squat down on my haunches to read a putt - told the Doc about it hopin for some help, he just smiled and said I was gettin old.
It's better today but I still can't squat all the way down
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ICE is your friend - not Bud Ice
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Called an ouchee - get back in there and play thru the pain. Well maybe not the amatuers
Yeah, I played and continued to play into my 40s, and started back again at 60. It was odd to me that on rare occasions I could still throw with a lot of zip, but most of the time my are felt dead. There is a sound the catcher's mitt makes when a pitcher throws about 80 or more that I found quite pleasing.
It got to the point I couldn't raise my arm without pain, so I had it checked out, torn labrum and miscellanous debris. Surgery fixed the pain by my arm is still quite dead. I can MAYBE throw 60, but probably more like 55.
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ICE is your friend - not Bud Ice
Bud Ice is a friend to no one.
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BTW this isn't so much a "today" thing...
But my son started playing golf at 13. He got hooked on it, and tried out for his HS team as a freshman 3 years ago. At the time, he was probably somewhere around a 33-35 handicap. THANKFULLY, it was a weak year for his team, and he made JV. Which gave him the ability to play and practice a lot, and it's paid off.
By the end of his freshman season, he was probably low-mid 20s. By the end of his sophomore season, he was probably mid-high teens. And now, as his junior season is finishing, up, he's on the cusp of reaching a single digit index.
His last two rounds at our shorter course (par 59) he's shot 67 both times. And his most recent school/competition round at a longer/regulation course, he shot 83. His team won the conference for JV golf.
It's a little bittersweet to watch him go from MUCH worse than me to MUCH better than me over 3 years, as I'm just as terrible now as I was then... But I still get to be the proud dad.
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Don't feel bad. He's getting lessons. Almost free.
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Happy?
I made it to the Sheraton in west des Moines w/o incident. Lobby bar has sam Adam's Boston lager bottles for $2. Going to supper on the boss's tab soon. Hopefully find some customers at the lobby bar later
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Don't feel bad. He's getting lessons. Almost free.
Well, the golf team / coach doesn't do swing coaching. The [few] lessons I've taken him to since HS golf started were not almost free lol... Far from it. But they were with a guy who is worth what he charges.
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geez, is the golf team / coach getting paid???
what does he do besides fill out the lineup card and drive the bus?
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5 guys made me happy - haven't been to one in nearly 20 years - it was worth it.
(https://i.imgur.com/uPkc7DU.jpeg)
and I couldn't eat all the Cajun Fries!
not to mention, it's on my boss's tab, but I get 3% cashback on my Capital One Savor card and 23% cashback on my Upside app.
(https://i.imgur.com/VCCDwzw.jpeg)
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It got to the point I couldn't raise my arm without pain, so I had it checked out, torn labrum and miscellanous debris. Surgery fixed the pain by my arm is still quite dead. I can MAYBE throw 60, but probably more like 55.
Ya I tore my labrum not sure when,MRI even showed it looked like the liberty bell crack.Physician perscribed therapy which waisted time. So I got a cortizone shot and said come back if it hurts. Well I went back at 2 yrs even thought I wasn't hurting but the appt. was covered so what the hell. Told me to come back when it hurts again and that was 2019. I just don't golf anymore,not that i was any good before just didn't want to aggravate it
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5 guys made me happy - haven't been to one in nearly 20 years - it was worth it.
[img width=259.818 height=375]https://i.imgur.com/uPkc7DU.jpeg[/img]
and I couldn't eat all the Cajun Fries!
not to mention, it's on my boss's tab, but I get 3% cashback on my Capital One Savor card and 23% cashback on my Upside app.
[img width=259.818 height=500]https://i.imgur.com/VCCDwzw.jpeg[/img]
Hey, $23 for fast food, in Iowa, on the boss's tab, is certainly reason for joy!
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Holy cow $20 for a small combo add bacon?
I'm glad that made someone happy.
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well, there was nuttin small about it - couldn't finish it
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I go to this place fairly often. $15 gets me this and fries.
(https://i.imgur.com/BvUwOjf.png)
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wasn't cheap, but it was damn good!
I'd go back, ........ on the boss's tab
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This is sort of a combination of things encompassing more than today, but it had a singular point this morning that made me think to post.
My youngest stepson graduates this Friday with his Mech. Eng. degree, which makes me happy.
We don't have to pay tuition ever again, which makes me happy.
When doing a project for the Registrar's Office last month one of them mentioned to me that they could get me reserved seating at the arena where the graduation takes place. I snagged 7 seats and this morning my confirmation email came. We're right by the "exit" side of the stage, where graduates are facing as they walk, and where they walk off after receiving their diploma, on the first row. Mrs. DeT will have a prime spot to take some really good pictures as he's walking. That made me happy.
Oh, and lest I forget, I get half the day off Friday with no vacation/sick time used, so that I can attend the graduation. That also makes me happy.
Now, if the little fart will get a job in short order, that will make me even happier.
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T-minus 3 days until I depart for a 7 day Gulf of America vacation.
The wife, 2 daughters, son-in law, and 2 grandkids --- that makes them happy.
We'll see about how I feel about it after a few days......;)
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Now, if the little fart will get a job in short order, that will make me even happier.
He should have one lined up by now. ME's are in high demand.
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He should, but that probably goes in the "What did not make you happy today?" thread.
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End of the month we fly out to San Diego because a step grandson is graduating HS. The family makes a much larger deal over this than mine did back in the day. I don't mind the trip much, but they have a small house and invite over a large number of folks and it gets quite noisy. My wife limited our time in SD to 2 days, which I can manage better than the five we spent last trip. I don't do well with a lot of noise.
I never viewed graduating HS as a major thing, but whatever. A good thing is I hope anyway driving up to Palm Springs after for a few days. I stayed there years ago with a kid was being "hosted" by a certain military branch for MOS training at "The Strumps", it was called. They managed to find a desolate area for it, freezing at night and very hot in the day.
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How can you NOT graduate high school, unless you drop out?
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How can you NOT graduate high school, unless you drop out?
Didn't some places put in exit exams? You could fail those? Or just fail a lot of classes?
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How can you NOT graduate high school, unless you drop out?
I'm sure it can vary, some, like with some private schools that are pretty good.
Anyway, they view is as a cause of celebration, meriting a somewhat expensive 4 hour flight and $1200 of three hotel rooms paid by me. The daughter (aunt) is coming from France for it, she of the long unemployed variety, so my wife footed the ticket.
I know when I married there would be such things, and I have navigated them pretty much by staying relaxed about it all.
I graduated HS and started college less than a week later, it was just a transition.
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I'm sure it can vary, some, like with some private schools that are pretty good.
Anyway, they view is as a cause of celebration, meriting a somewhat expensive 4 hour flight and $1200 of three hotel rooms paid by me. The daughter (aunt) is coming from France for it, she of the long unemployed variety, so my wife footed the ticket.
I know when I married there would be such things, and I have navigated them pretty much by staying relaxed about it all.
I graduated HS and started college less than a week later, it was just a transition.
Graduating high school is not nothing, it's something -- although the bare minimum expectation by any functional family.
I can tell you what it is not. And it's this: :)
meriting a somewhat expensive 4 hour flight and $1200 of three hotel rooms paid by me. The daughter (aunt) is coming from France for it, she of the long unemployed variety, so my wife footed the ticket.
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I'm sure it can vary, some, like with some private schools that are pretty good.
This is a complete tangent, but I went to a pretty decent private school, and it was actually paradoxically much harder to fail there than to fail at the local public school.
When mom and dad are shelling out money, you get a lot more leeway. The public school was really sink or swim.
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This is a complete tangent, but I went to a pretty decent private school, and it was actually paradoxically much harder to fail there than to fail at the local public school.
When mom and dad are shelling out money, you get a lot more leeway. The public school was really sink or swim.
I felt the opposite and saw it at my public school. They just process you through. Kids are just tax dollars and the more you have and the more you keep around, the more tax money that comes in.
This is not a happy thought so I'm done.
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I have a long and frustrating story that very much does not belong in this thread, but the gist is that my daughter is graduating as a home school student despite transferring from dual enrollment to full-time at the HS two years ago and she will not be participating in commencement. She would be Valedictorian.
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I have a long and frustrating story that very much does not belong in this thread, but the gist is that my daughter is graduating as a home school student despite transferring from dual enrollment to full-time at the HS two years ago and she will not be participating in commencement. She would be Valedictorian.
Well, congrats to her anyway. If she were eligible to be Valedictorian under different circumstances, that speaks well of her (and probably you).
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I have a long and frustrating story that very much does not belong in this thread, but the gist is that my daughter is graduating as a home school student despite transferring from dual enrollment to full-time at the HS two years ago and she will not be participating in commencement. She would be Valedictorian.
Sheesh....bummer for sure. I hate that.
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I'm happy she is so smart. What's next?
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I'm happy she is so smart. What's next?
We're filing a civil rights complaint with the BoE on Monday. (The school twice accepted unaccredited home school transcripts from male students, then denied hers on the basis it was unaccredited).
For her, she is going to Iowa Central for one year to join their dance team and get an AA, then transfer to Iowa to get a BA.
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We're filing a civil rights complaint with the BoE on Monday. (The school twice accepted unaccredited home school transcripts from male students, then denied hers on the basis it was unaccredited).
For her, she is going to Iowa Central for one year to join their dance team and get an AA, then transfer to Iowa to get a BA.
Save that money!
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Snagged some extra lunch at the office today. Gonna save it and see if I can limit some degree of spending on food for the week.
(Saving and figuring this out brings me joy)
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Snagged some extra lunch at the office today. Gonna save it and see if I can limit some degree of spending on food for the week.
(Saving and figuring this out brings me joy)
Hmm.....much like me and SFBadger, we are more alike than the surface might suggest.
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Hmm.....much like me and SFBadger, we are more alike than the surface might suggest.
The surface didn’t suggest that?
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Heh.
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The surface didn’t suggest that?
Well, I mean, you're from San Francisco and I'm from Louisiana. The surface suggests that you're out fishing for halibut and I'm digging in ditches for crawfish.
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Mmmmmm crawfish.
Our boil was SO good on Saturday. I'm always a little sad when the season comes to an end.
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I've somewhat lost my taste for it compared to days gone by. I still enjoy it as a social event, but seasons come and go and I'd never think twice if my wife didn't bug me to take her out to eat some. There's several restaurants around here who do a good job with boiled crawfish, but their corn and potatoes are very disappointing, and I don't understand how/why that is.
If you want something done right, guess you gotta do it yourself, except that I lost my recipe a long time ago and I'd be winging it, anymore.
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Well, I mean, you're from San Francisco and I'm from Louisiana. The surface suggests that you're out fishing for halibut and I'm digging in ditches for crawfish.
I lived in the Midwest for a decent number of years and the deep south as well. I may take away is, folks are folks. People spend too much time imagining we’re somewhat different.
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Well, I mean, you're from San Francisco and I'm from Louisiana. The surface suggests that you're out fishing for halibut and I'm digging in ditches for crawfish.
Too bad neither of you gets Great Lakes Walleye/Perch
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Most of "us" are pretty much he same IMHO globally. Cultures and norms differ, basic motivations are the same. Duh.
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This morning I showed my "big" boss a machine-learning project I did in my spare time. The goal was just to demonstrate what's possible, not necessarily convey anything meaningful at this particular time, since the data I pulled needed sifting through by someone who knows more about universities than me. He seemed to genuinely be interested in what I'd done, impressed by the potential, and congratulated me for exploring something beneficial while things have been slow. He also complimented my documentation and clarity in conveying the objectives, findings, and limitations. He gave me a few suggestions on next steps to get more meaningful outcomes and told me to get back with him whenever I'd broken the project down into smaller, more targeted chunks.
I don't expect it to change my job description in any meaningful way or really amount to much of anything at all, but it made me happy to do something related to my schooling in the real world and get a pat on the back for it. If nothing else, it's going on the ol' resume.
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I'm in Philadelphia right now, helping my oldest pack up some stuff at college before coming home for the summer. That makes me happy. Perhaps perversly, they just screwed something up pretty badly in school, but they are dealing with it, and figuring out how to move on from a mistake that no one will fix for them. That makes me happy.
Life can be weird like that.
Also, being here reminds me that, indeed, different parts of the country are culturally different...and yet very much the same.
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Last night, the symphony had an event at the local Jones Day office near us. I thought the food was pretty good, my wife didn't at all. I'm not sure why. A string quartet played a piece I'd never heard before but enjoyed.
The view from their office space is interesting, I'll try and post a few photos. I understand that is a fairly large legal practice.
(https://i.imgur.com/qbjCYSE.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/H5Hyk56.jpeg)
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Nice office space.
(https://i.imgur.com/aZKc6Kw.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jibdQA4.jpeg)
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I'm in Philadelphia right now, helping my oldest pack up some stuff at college before coming home for the summer. That makes me happy. Perhaps perversly, they just screwed something up pretty badly in school, but they are dealing with it, and figuring out how to move on from a mistake that no one will fix for them. That makes me happy.
Life can be weird like that.
Also, being here reminds me that, indeed, different parts of the country are culturally different...and yet very much the same.
Honestly it just boggles my mind how some of you can be so spread around the country. Some of you born on one coast, went to school in the mid-west, kids living all over the country/world.
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I'm sure it can vary, some, like with some private schools that are pretty good.
Anyway, they view is as a cause of celebration, meriting a somewhat expensive 4 hour flight and $1200 of three hotel rooms paid by me. The daughter (aunt) is coming from France for it, she of the long unemployed variety, so my wife footed the ticket.
I know when I married there would be such things, and I have navigated them pretty much by staying relaxed about it all.
I graduated HS and started college less than a week later, it was just a transition.
I mean, you DO travel all over the world, quite frequently. It's not like you never get out or travel. We didn't make too much of HS graduation back in my day either, but we did have a small party with friends and family (1990's). Maybe a cake or something. I kind of see it as more of an opportunity to have a little family reunion with a common cause.
My youngest is graduating (HS) next week. We're hosting a party at a nearby beach-house and inviting lots of family and friends to celebrate. But I wouldn't expect somebody to fly in special, unless they really wanted to....but then again none of our relatives live very far from me.
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Honestly it just boggles my mind how some of you can be so spread around the country. Some of you born on one coast, went to school in the mid-west, kids living all over the country/world.
And then there's me-- born in Austin, raised in Austin, went to undergrad in Austin, worked in Austin, went to grad school in Austin, worked some more in Austin, and then moved all the way to... Cedar Park. Oh and I work in Round Rock.
I'm crazy like that.
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And then there's me-- born in Austin, raised in Austin, went to undergrad in Austin, worked in Austin, went to grad school in Austin, worked some more in Austin, and then moved all the way to... Cedar Park. Oh and I work in Round Rock.
I'm crazy like that.
And how about your and wife's family? Pretty much my entire family lives within probably 30 minutes from me, maybe a cousin here or there that may live somewhere else in Texas but I can't think of anybody who lives way off. College Station was about a 2-2.5 hr drive from here and that's about as far away as I moved. I did live in San Jose for a month when I worked for AMAT, but we were just training.
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And then there's me-- born in Austin, raised in Austin, went to undergrad in Austin, worked in Austin, went to grad school in Austin, worked some more in Austin, and then moved all the way to... Cedar Park. Oh and I work in Round Rock.
I'm crazy like that.
I'm old enough to remember when commuting between Cedar Park and Round Rock was quite a chore in rush hour. Or any hour, really. When I was living in Round Rock and dating a girl in Cedar Park and doing a lot of landscaping work in the CP and Leander area, I would've killed for that 45 toll road thingy y'all got now. All I had was slow-ass 680 with a bazillion red lights.
See, back in my day we didn't have all the fancy highways you kids enjoy now :72:
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Yeah both set of folks live in Austin. Only my MIL is originally from Austin, though. My FIL is from Terrell, my dad is from Alpine, and my mom is from Temple.
But of course one of the big reasons we've chosen to stay here, is to remain near family, especially once we had kids.
Both my brother and sister also live in Austin, although my sister lived in various places in Florida for about 15 years before coming back.
And my wife's sister is back in Austin after spending most of the past 20 years in Colorado and Oregon. She's very much a hippie chick but she's back in Austin, for now. Her brother is in New Jersey right now but that's because his wife is in the Air Force. They've also lived in San Antonio, the Bay Area, the DC area, over the past 10 years. But he's also lived in Austin much of his life and as soon as his wife hits 20 years in the Air Force, next year, they're going to move to the house they've built on their property just outside of Fredericksburg.
We're actually looking at some land very close to theirs, we just might retire there too, unless I can convince my wife to move to some island in the Caribbean!
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Alpine.....wow. I only recently learned of that town because there is a state university there our ERP department supports. They don't have their own, it seems. That's quite a haul to Austin. Did your grandparents remain there, or other members of your dad's family?
The ERP folks in my office have to go to Alpine for a week at a time every now and then. By the time they drive back, they act like they need vacations, except they don't want to drive anymore.
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Alpine.....wow. I only recently learned of that town because there is a state university there our ERP department supports. They don't have their own, it seems. That's quite a haul to Austin. Did your grandparents remain there, or other members of your dad's family?
The ERP folks in my office have to go to Alpine for a week at a time every now and then. By the time they drive back, they act like they need vacations, except they don't want to drive anymore.
Yeah Sul Ross State University. It was directly across the street from my grandparents' house. They lived there until my grandmother passed away and my grandfather came to live at our house until he also passed. I was in college by then but still living at home during the summers so I got to spend a lot of time with my grandpa those last few years.
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Honestly it just boggles my mind how some of you can be so spread around the country. Some of you born on one coast, went to school in the mid-west, kids living all over the country/world.
Born in the Chicago 'burbs. Have lived in San Jose, Orange County, Atlanta, and back to Orange County. My brother is here, one sister is in NJ, and another sister lives on a boat in the Caribbean part of the year and in Vail other parts. Parents were lifelong Chicagoans but now live in the Denver 'burbs.
For now, my kids are stuck in OC (bc they're minors) but I have no clue where they'll end up. Not sure whether I'll stay here once we're empty nesters either...
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Born in the Chicago 'burbs. Have lived in San Jose, Orange County, Atlanta, and back to Orange County. My brother is here, one sister is in NJ, and another sister lives on a boat in the Caribbean part of the year and in Vail other parts. Parents were lifelong Chicagoans but now live in the Denver 'burbs.
For now, my kids are stuck in OC (bc they're minors) but I have no clue where they'll end up. Not sure whether I'll stay here once we're empty nesters either...
Southern Florida is lovely!
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for reptiles & insects
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Southern Florida is lovely!
They have dinosaurs.
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And Anacondas maybe lions & tigers & bears for the exotic pet owners. Too crazy Austin it is - slow roasted meats all year and one can alway's crash 94's digs around the holidays for the best eggnog and cornbread on the planet from those in the know
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I woke up, again, made coffee, life is good.... so far.
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having a cup of Black Coffee - straight up been grinding my own lately.
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I drink it black also, used to add "stuff" years ago, broke the habit. I don't grind any more, I use the Costco 3 lb. can of Columbian and a French press.
I don't think the French press is anything magical.
When I was working, I got a safety violation because apparently a coffee maker at my desk was "not allowed". This meant I had to do the next safety audit (I didn't find any violations!). I kept the coffee maker, I put it on the floor at my feet to "hide" it, never got another citation. There was a small "cafe" that sold coffee in the building at some ridiculous price. It makes me happy to remember "sticking it to the man".
I still laugh that my boss somehow replaced me with two people. My job took about 15 minutes a week to do whatever was needed.
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Read this a few yrs back
Coffee is a complex brew with compounds that can influence cholesterol levels. An important one is cafestol, a diterpene in coffee oils. Cafestol can raise LDL cholesterol, often called “bad” cholesterol. Its presence is higher in unfiltered coffee methods like French press, as the grounds are in contact with water. This allows cafestol to seep into your cup.
Paper filters are essential in reducing cafestol levels in coffee. They trap the coffee oils, preventing them from entering the drink. Consequently, paper filtered coffee poses a lower risk of increasing cholesterol compared to unfiltered methods.
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Coffee and Cholesterol: What You Need to Know (https://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/coffee-cholesterol-connection)
Cafestol has also shown anticarcinogenic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticarcinogen) properties in rats.[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol#cite_note-ntp-7)
Cafestol also has neuroprotective effects in a Drosophila (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila) fruit fly model of Parkinson's disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_disease).[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol#cite_note-pmid20410106-8)[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol#cite_note-9)
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drinkin my coffee now - for medicinal purposes only
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Then you can have some tea with your pinkie in the air and toast to the BIG
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I'm from Iowa - dirt farmers don't behave that way.
You're thinkin of the folks in Austin
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We have a Bunn.
I don't drink coffee anymore.
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I love a French press, we have one in the house and one in the RV but honestly I only use it when we're camping. At home we just use the automatic drip machine.
But to hold the theme-- it makes me happy when I'm out camping and I wake up early, get the water boiling, prepare the French press, then take a cup of hot fresh coffee outside and sit in my camping rocking chair, with the cool morning air, and listening to the birds sing. That's one of my very happiest of places.
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We've slowly climbed the coffee snob ladder. Cheap drip to cheap Keurig to higher-end Keurig to Nespresso. Been eying a Breville espresso machine for the last year or so.
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We've slowly climbed the coffee snob ladder. Cheap drip to cheap Keurig to higher-end Keurig to Nespresso. Been eying a Breville espresso machine for the last year or so.
Oh yeah, we have a Nespresso machine as well. If all you want is espresso and don't do the fancy milk drinks, then the Nespresso is the best there is. When we stayed with our friends in Milan, they had a Nespresso and it made the absolute best coffee. All of their Italian friends had one. So we bought one as soon as we got back to the States and we've had it ever since. I don't typically drink espresso in the morning or during the day, but I love one after a big fancy dinner.
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My freshman daughter went bonkers and won her state qualifying meet long jump last night. PR'd by 7" on her last jump to win it.
Kind of a wake-up-with-my-head-sown-to-the-carpet surprised moment.
She should also make it in shuttle hurdles and 4x100 but we're waiting on official results.
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I love a French press, we have one in the house and one in the RV but honestly I only use it when we're camping. At home we just use the automatic drip machine.
But to hold the theme-- it makes me happy when I'm out camping and I wake up early, get the water boiling, prepare the French press, then take a cup of hot fresh coffee outside and sit in my camping rocking chair, with the cool morning air, and listening to the birds sing. That's one of my very happiest of places.
I'm sitting at my computer, windows and doors open, 69 degrees in the house, listening to the birds.
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I'm sitting at my computer, windows and doors open, 69 degrees in the house, listening to the birds.
Spring morning coffee on the deck is some of my favorite coffee.
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We've slowly climbed the coffee snob ladder. Cheap drip to cheap Keurig to higher-end Keurig to Nespresso. Been eying a Breville espresso machine for the last year or so.
I have one. It's in the box still. Maybe I'll offer it up as a prize for the B1G Pick'em game this year.
Was it you that won a smoker years ago?
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I have one. It's in the box still. Maybe I'll offer it up as a prize for the B1G Pick'em game this year.
Was it you that won a smoker years ago?
I think I won a cookbook. I forgot all the details on that one, haha.
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Whatever it was made me happy that day.
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my cheap Keurig works fine for me - it's convenient
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I'd like to drive a car I can't afford, maybe a $78,000 C8?
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having a cup of Black Coffee - straight up been grinding my own lately.
Yeah, we were doing the coffee pod thing for a while. I decided I wanted to go for better coffee. Pods are "fine" in a pinch, but nothing remarkable. And I drink coffee black, because I actually LIKE the taste of coffee, so I figured I might as well get a good grinder and brewer. Buddy is a coffee snob, so I just took his recommendation for a nice burr grinder and drip coffee maker. It's much better.
I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of trying to roast my own beans or anything crazy like that yet though.
Yet.
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Yeah, we were doing the coffee pod thing for a while. I decided I wanted to go for better coffee. Pods are "fine" in a pinch, but nothing remarkable. And I drink coffee black, because I actually LIKE the taste of coffee, so I figured I might as well get a good grinder and brewer. Buddy is a coffee snob, so I just took his recommendation for a nice burr grinder and drip coffee maker. It's much better.
I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of trying to roast my own beans or anything crazy like that yet though.
Yet.
It's like homebrewing. You can get as into it, and spend as much money, as you want. Dangerous.
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I have one. It's in the box still. Maybe I'll offer it up as a prize for the B1G Pick'em game this year.
Was it you that won a smoker years ago?
I've got a Breville as well. It was a $700 (or thereabouts) machine that we were gifted secondhand because it wasn't properly generating pressure, and the owner (family) didn't want to mess with trying to fix it themselves and know I'm an engineer so I have a fair shot at doing so.
I haven't messed with it yet. We don't have any more room on our "coffee hutch". But I probably need to figure that project out.
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It's like homebrewing. You can get as into it, and spend as much money, as you want. Dangerous.
Yep. And like homebrewing, probably go through a nice, long, learning period where your output is significantly worse than what you can buy. All while you're telling yourself it's great, because I'm sure new coffee roasters, like new homebrewers, suffer from ugly baby syndrome.
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My wife has a Nespresso machine, she makes what I guess is "espresso" fairly often. On occasion I'll ask for one when she's making one after dinner or whatever.
I don't find espresso to be somehow uniquely wonderful, it's OK.
My first trip to Paris we went to breakfast and the "coffee" I ordered came with about two small sips in a tiny cup. I looked askance.
She laughed.
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Yeah, we were doing the coffee pod thing for a while. I decided I wanted to go for better coffee. Pods are "fine" in a pinch, but nothing remarkable. And I drink coffee black, because I actually LIKE the taste of coffee, so I figured I might as well get a good grinder and brewer. Buddy is a coffee snob, so I just took his recommendation for a nice burr grinder and drip coffee maker. It's much better.
I haven't gone down the rabbit hole of trying to roast my own beans or anything crazy like that yet though.
Yet.
My dad's into that. He's got a roaster that looks very steampunk....I like the look of it more than anything it actually accomplishes. He buys beans from all different countries and tinkered around with the process for a while with them. Claims his stuff was actually wretched at first, and that he had to figure out a different process for different beans. Then he has some kind of grinder machine that matches the first, but it's smaller. The whole thing looks cooler than the utility of it, because I don't much care for regular coffee.
Semi-retired people get up to some stuff, let me tell you.
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I'd like to drive a car I can't afford, maybe a $78,000 C8?
I save some serious coin by avoiding long flights and cruises
Walking into my garage to see the red car made me happy this morning
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I work from home on Friday's. The wife works sales from home every day.
Hearing her work the phones, and clients, and then hearing her yell from the other room -- "Got another one.....made (whatever)" commission, followed by a "woo hoo, how ya like that!", always makes me happy.
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I did my 3 miles today and somee pushups, still have 30 of those to finish my target.
They were filming over in the park today, I have no clue what. A LOT of folks standing around.
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I mentioned somewhere here last year about my stepson's gf who is about halfway like an adopted daughter to me....comes from a less than ideal family and really pulled herself up by her bootstraps. Last night several of the wife's family members were out eating to celebrate my stepson's graduation this afternoon, but his gf couldn't join us because she had a "graduation" to take care of herself. She's a special ed. kindergarten teacher at a pretty small school district, so she only has four kids in her class. Because I guess everything gets a "graduation" now, the kids "graduate" to elementary school from kindergarten, and this was her first class. This morning I got a text, a photo of her last night while she was missing eating out with us. It's her and her little classroom kiddos in their cap and gowns, with their little adorable, snaggle-tooth mouths. And she's pretty adorable herself, appearing to beam with pride for these kids. It's all cataclysmically cute, and I'd post the photo here because she wouldn't care about her picture, but it's probably not cool to post photos to the web of other people's kids. Anyway, that made me happy today.
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I mentioned somewhere here last year about my stepson's gf who is about halfway like an adopted daughter to me....comes from a less than ideal family and really pulled herself up by her bootstraps. Last night several of the wife's family members were out eating to celebrate my stepson's graduation this afternoon, but his gf couldn't join us because she had a "graduation" to take care of herself. She's a special ed. kindergarten teacher at a pretty small school district, so she only has four kids in her class. Because I guess everything gets a "graduation" now, the kids "graduate" to elementary school from kindergarten, and this was her first class. This morning I got a text, a photo of her last night while she was missing eating out with us. It's her and her little classroom kiddos in their cap and gowns, with their little adorable, snaggle-tooth mouths. And she's pretty adorable herself, appearing to beam with pride for these kids. It's all cataclysmically cute, and I'd post the photo here because she wouldn't care about her picture, but it's probably not cool to post photos to the web of other people's kids. Anyway, that made me happy today.
As a parent of a kid with special needs, all I can say is that anyone who is willing to be a special ed teacher is someone that--I mean this sincerely despite my religious lack of belief--is "doing the Lord's work". Kudos to her for taking that on. Teaching is brutally difficult, and it's even moreso IMHO for these kids.
So if you tell her you were bragging on her to random people on the internet, at least tell her that the work she and others like her are putting in does NOT go unnoticed.
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I mentioned somewhere here last year about my stepson's gf who is about halfway like an adopted daughter to me....comes from a less than ideal family and really pulled herself up by her bootstraps. Last night several of the wife's family members were out eating to celebrate my stepson's graduation this afternoon, but his gf couldn't join us because she had a "graduation" to take care of herself. She's a special ed. kindergarten teacher at a pretty small school district, so she only has four kids in her class. Because I guess everything gets a "graduation" now, the kids "graduate" to elementary school from kindergarten, and this was her first class. This morning I got a text, a photo of her last night while she was missing eating out with us. It's her and her little classroom kiddos in their cap and gowns, with their little adorable, snaggle-tooth mouths. And she's pretty adorable herself, appearing to beam with pride for these kids. It's all cataclysmically cute, and I'd post the photo here because she wouldn't care about her picture, but it's probably not cool to post photos to the web of other people's kids. Anyway, that made me happy today.
Guess what?
This made me happy today as well. Good on her!
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Partly happy, partly bittersweet.
I joined a start-up company in 2007. That company was acquired by my current employer in 2009, and ever since, one of our IT guys from the original company has emailed out a "survivors list" of who remained with us from the 100 or so that started as part of the acquisition. He sent out that list today, and there are 13 names. BUT, the company spun off / split out a division back in February, and of those 13 names, 6 went with the new entity. So now they're truly not "remaining" with our side, anyway. So it's actually only 7.
I don't know if it's crazier to think about all the names that are no longer on the list... or that my name is still on it?
But I guess I'm happy that I've had the opportunity to be here for now 17 1/2 years, and that what for 29-year-old me was still a "job" when I started in 2007 has now truly developed into my "career".
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Going on 2 and a half years of no longer smoking (started at 19, quit at 67) and after gaining tons of weight post stoppage, I finally lost 5 lbs! Will be going back to my arthritis swim class next Monday and with all the physical work I am doing helping my sister post knee replacement, my fingers are crossed I will see more weight come off. Might not seem much to some people, but considering I didn't hit 100 lbs until my sophomore year in high school (5'6" and skinny - those were the days) getting down to 240 lbs now is so nice and brings a smile to my face
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5 pounds is 5 pounds
my Father quit smoking twice, both times he gained weight
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Spring morning coffee on the deck is some of my favorite coffee.
Well I don't have a deck but a finished 3 season room off the back. But I do have a decent city park behind me with 2 beisbol diamonds. Between my 1100 sq ft palatial estate and those sits a small stand of trees with a path thru that. Then between us and that is a 15 ft ravine with a creek meandering thru that and trees and natural growth aplenty. Think I mentioned before with a wide assortment of Birds I can recognize but can't Identify. With all sorts of choirs converging every morning so a nice relaxing start with a kick start of a 5 bean mix of Black Coffee
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I save some serious coin by avoiding long flights and cruises
Walking into my garage to see the red car made me happy this morning
A couple of Red Cardinals right now eating seed I spread around makes me happy
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I'm from Iowa - dirt farmers don't behave that way.
You're thinkin of the folks in Austin
Didn't know Dirt Farmers had little red corvette's parked in their garages. What kind of equipment used to help prepare fields for planting can you drag behind that, besides screaming Hawkeye/Sooner fans? Bet that makes you happy
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yup, business expense. Use it to check cattle and crops. I like to be happier than the tax man.
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Serious question…how the heck do you get in and out? The few times I’ve been in one I had major issues getting my 6-2 self upright.
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it's not easy to get out. I'm 5'10" that's not the problem
I'm 62 years old - that's an issue.
I push real hard with my right arm on the steering wheel. Gotta squat with the single left leg.
It's not cool to use your left hand to grab the roof or door (leaves finger prints)
Getting in??? Easy peasy, just fall in.
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The granddaughter is happy on her first jaunt into the Gulf of America.
(https://i.imgur.com/M5bJUhi.jpeg)
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Never heard of it. Is that somewhere up by Maine or something? Sounds yankee.
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I'm happy to have a tee time this afternoon - weather is very good and the course is hosting a tournament, so it will be in great shape.
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I'm happy to be headed out to the lake today. Only our second time out this spring, it's been busy, but the summer will be better.
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I'm gonna take the red car out for a spin - past a show & shine event - Sorry didn't have time to shine it this morning
Happiness
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Hit my first bucket of balls since the left knee replacement. No issues. That was nice.
The results……. Well, I have some work to do.
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I'm gonna take the red car out for a spin
Then hook up that tiller attachment to it and get onto the back 40 you sharecrop for some sowing
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golf outing in Kearney, NE this morning - reception to follow, then dinner and more drinks
not all Mondays suck
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Hit my first bucket of balls since the left knee replacement. No issues. That was nice.
The results……. Well, I have some work to do.
Just got back from the ortho doc. Been in pain all week on my knee, said it was likely a meniscus tear and it was probably already healing. Got to go back in a week for a check-up but for now taking anti-inflammatory and watching. He did say that most of my joints were in good shape (on the knee he xrayed) and I was a long way from needing knee replacement.
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Can a meniscus tear heal? I was told they can't.
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Can a meniscus tear heal? I was told they can't.
Well, I got a ambiguous answer. Apparently some can heal, but only if it's on the outer edge or in a certain place. And it also depends on how badly it's torn. You need an MRI to determine that and we only did x-rays. Since it was much better today versus last week he told me to come back in a week and we'll see how it's doing.
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My daughter had a torn meniscus in one knee, had surgery, the doc told me she'd have problems later in life. The next year she tore her ACL and damaged the meniscus in the other knee (soccer both times). I was told the surgery would be about an hour. After two hours, I was getting pretty frantic. He finally came out and told me she was doing fine, at that point I didn't much case about the knee. This all was 20 years ago and she's OK so far.
She boxes to stay in shape, of all things. Not competitively. She's my ten thousand dollar baby.
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I got a note to renew my insurance policy today with a lot of graphics and congratulations as my rate went down ... $11.
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insurance companies are evil
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I got up at 5:14 to pee, and went back to bed and slept until after the sun came up.
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I got up at 3:30 with heartburn, finally got some sleep from 5:30-6:45
not happy, tired
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The grumpy old man thread is over there ---->
(cincy will be your esteemed host)
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I'm not usually grumpy, but can be at times. I feel OK today, have eye doc appt up shortly, I expect nothing to change.
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I'm expecting a GREAT day, just wish I'd slept better. It's gonna be a long day, but good. Headed to Lincoln tonight to have dinner with my daughter.
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Yesterday evening I got an updated golf schedule for my son, which means he's got no golf after school today.
That means he can drive his siblings home from school and I don't have to go do it. That'll save me at least an hour not being in the car this afternoon.
That makes me happy.
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I'm expecting a GREAT day, just wish I'd slept better. It's gonna be a long day, but good. Headed to Lincoln tonight to have dinner with my daughter.
You being in Iowa, I had to look it up. Not that far from Lincoln to Iowa. Strange for me to think about traveling to another state, but I can be in Louisiana in about 2-2.5 hours.
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Or better yet, you can go to Beaumont, which is even closer, and sort of like being in Louisiana, except that you're still in Texas :)
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It takes me a while, to get to any other state or country.
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You being in Iowa, I had to look it up. Not that far from Lincoln to Iowa. Strange for me to think about traveling to another state, but I can be in Louisiana in about 2-2.5 hours.
2 hours and 20 minutes from my house to my daughter's in Lincoln or to the stadium. Easy drive, all interstate.
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I can be in 3 different states in 20 minutes.
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I can be at 5 different Costcos in 20 minutes. Probably 1-2 more if there's no traffic...
...but this is SoCal, so that never happens during the hours they're actually open.
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Or better yet, you can go to Beaumont, which is even closer, and sort of like being in Louisiana, except that you're still in Texas :)
It's funny, we can both say we're in SE Texas, but we're so far apart we'd be 2-3 states over in a lot of other states.
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Silly one here: just thinking about SFGopher graduating high school on Saturday, turning 18 on Sunday, and, generally, watching him grow into a man. Nobody's perfect--he's not--but he is a damn good kid, and he's becoming a damn good man.
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It used to be pretty easy to get to Wisconsin and Indiana for us.
I think we could get to the Bahamas or Cuba by boat faster than we could get to Georgia or Alabama.
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I can be in 3 different states in 20 minutes.
NW Tennessee?
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I can be in 3 different states in 20 minutes.
me too - Iowa, Nebraska, & South Dakota
90 minutes to Minnesooota
90 minutes to Costco in Sioux Falls - 100 minutes to Costco in Omaha
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For me it's about 4 hours to the closest part of Oklahoma, 5 hours to the closest part of Louisiana, and 7 hours to the closest part of New Mexico.
I can get to Old Mexico in 3 hours 45 mins. But sadly, that's no longer a part of Mexico that any Americans need to be visiting.
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sadly, most Mexicans shouldn't be living there
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Today, utee94 started an old-fart ranting thread, which, frankly, is right up my alley. That made me happy.
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Our flight to San Diego next week has a dinner option of Fox Bros. short rib (and some other burfle I ignored). Sign me up.
It's nice Delta is offering Fox Bros. food options I think.
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Silly one here: just thinking about SFGopher graduating high school on Saturday, turning 18 on Sunday, and, generally, watching him grow into a man. Nobody's perfect--he's not--but he is a damn good kid, and he's becoming a damn good man.
Yep. Gigem Jr is 18 and graduates on Thursday.
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Today my students promoted to high school. And thus, my one-year mistake of teaching 8th grade is over.
FUUUUUCK.
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Today my students promoted to high school. And thus, my one-year mistake of teaching 8th grade is over.
FUUUUUCK.
Good on you. I'd kill one of them, or myself, if I had to teach 8th graders for a year. I couldn't do it. Kudos to you.
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this made me happy yesterday............ sorry for not posting last night when I got back to the hotel at 1:30am
We both had the tasting menu. The daughter paid for the food, I picked up the wine pairing for $95 each.
We were upgraded a couple times on the wine and a couple times on the menu we had some items added.
Probably the most impressive meal I've had.
(https://i.imgur.com/bdMlAcg.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/TVeOQ5D.jpeg)
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this made me happy yesterday............ sorry for not posting last night when I got back to the hotel at 1:30am
We both had the tasting menu. The daughter paid for the food, I picked up the wine pairing for $95 each.
We were upgraded a couple times on the wine and a couple times on the menu we had some items added.
Probably the most impressive meal I've had.
(https://i.imgur.com/bdMlAcg.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/TVeOQ5D.jpeg)
🤤🤤🤤
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There is a restaurant near us where the tasting menu is $250 per, and the wine pairing is $185.
0337ff_ed38ecb0328d4e659dcb29f9c845ca50.pdf (https://www.lazybettyatl.com/_files/ugd/0337ff_ed38ecb0328d4e659dcb29f9c845ca50.pdf)
I just can't do it. Someone said you can sit at the bar and order al a carte, but that would get pricey as well.
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We've done some Prix Fix. Best ever was at Topolabampo.
Home - Topolobampo (https://topolochicago.com/)
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There is a restaurant near us where the tasting menu is $250 per, and the wine pairing is $185.
0337ff_ed38ecb0328d4e659dcb29f9c845ca50.pdf (https://www.lazybettyatl.com/_files/ugd/0337ff_ed38ecb0328d4e659dcb29f9c845ca50.pdf)
I just can't do it. Someone said you can sit at the bar and order al a carte, but that would get pricey as well.
it was outstanding but, if I ever go back on my dime or my daughter's, we'll sit at the bar and keep the bill down some. $600 for two is more than I'm comfortable with.
We also started with oysters and bubbly wine before the tasting
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We have done some prix fixe here but not at $250. Yet. We've been twice to Bacchanalia which is quite good I think, and is $125 last I checked.
One can hit $125 at "normal pricey restaurants" of course (no alcohol). Around us, a "good meal" out with no alcohol will be $50 per, that's at a nice place that isn't a "one star" or whatever. If you want an expensive appetizer or dessert it'll be more of course. So, add two small appetizers, the main course, and dessert, and you're over $100.
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you could stay around the $50 range with the menu - the steaks are impressive for the price.
the Butcher Cut last night was a tomahawk ribeye, 36 oz
I've also purchased the steaks from the market in the same building and grilled them at home
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it was outstanding but, if I ever go back on my dime or my daughter's, we'll sit at the bar and keep the bill down some. $600 for two is more than I'm comfortable with.
We also started with oysters and bubbly wine before the tasting
Yeah, I'm a little fancy sometimes, but even when my wife and I go out to Mastro's Ocean Club for special occasions, even with alcohol it usually stays under $400 and that's for a VERY good meal--usually an appetizer or salad, steaks with sides, wine & beer, and sometimes dessert.
We generally avoid prix fixe menus though. Usually there's something on there that we're not as excited about as what we might order for ourselves, so it feels like a bit of a ripoff to be forced into a menu that isn't exactly what we each want for that kind of money.
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Yeah, I'm a little fancy sometimes, but even when my wife and I go out to Mastro's Ocean Club for special occasions, even with alcohol it usually stays under $400 and that's for a VERY good meal--usually an appetizer or salad, steaks with sides, wine & beer, and sometimes dessert.
We generally avoid prix fixe menus though. Usually there's something on there that we're not as excited about as what we might order for ourselves, so it feels like a bit of a ripoff to be forced into a menu that isn't exactly what we each want for that kind of money.
On the flipside, I've often had items on a tasting menu or omakase that I never would have ordered, and turn out delicious.
My i s c & a aggie wife and I do it about once per year, usually either on her birthday, or our anniversary.
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my daughter really likes the tasting menus, they obviously change regularly. I went along with her wishes. I'm happy that I did.
I'm not sure what a prix fixe is, but it doesn't look like a Nebraska term.
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my daughter really likes the tasting menus, they obviously change regularly. I went along with her wishes. I'm happy that I did.
I'm not sure what a prix fixe is, but it doesn't look like a Nebraska term.
It means a set price for a multi-course meal. Often includes an app, main course, and desert. Sometimes more courses than that. Might or might not have a separate fixed price for a wine pairing add-on.
You can think of it kind of like this:
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After storms last night, it's a beautiful day here. I went over to the park and threw off the tennis practice wall and ran steps, worked up quite a sweat.
My wife is bringing suishi for lunch from Kroger, we both like it.
My eye exam yesterday was fine.
I'm slightly sore.
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my daughter really likes the tasting menus, they obviously change regularly. I went along with her wishes. I'm happy that I did.
I'm not sure what a prix fixe is, but it doesn't look like a Nebraska term.
Thank you for asking, I felt clueless.
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Today my students promoted to high school. And thus, my one-year mistake of teaching 8th grade is over.
FUUUUUCK.
Our 8th graders have been awful this year. I've had to go sit in a classroom to help the teachers with them several times this year. And these are good, veteran teachers who can handle their classrooms.
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Today my students promoted to high school. And thus, my one-year mistake of teaching 8th grade is over.
FUUUUUCK.
What grade do you prefer?
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I had the option of "teaching" every year in college, lab courses. The freshmen were the best, they were most inquisitive and mostly cheerful, eager to learn. The seniors were pretty much going to med school, they were really smart, mostly, but beaten down quite a bit, they put their heads down and did whatever was needed.
The sophs and juniors were the worst, they were a mix of kids going to med school and kids with little shot at it, they were always asking "Is this going to be on the test?" and "Why do I need to learn this?". They were often whiners.
I can't remember anything about 8th grade. That was high school for us, they didn't have junior highs.
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I remember 8th grade. Cassie Zammit was hot. Wonder how she's faring 30 years later.
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I remember 8th grade. Cassie Zammit was hot. Wonder how she's faring 30 years later.
I remember my 8th grade social studies teacher. She was young--pretty much fresh out of college.
It was really funny the summer after that year when I was playing our local muni golf course and ran into her as she was driving the beverage cart. I'd guess she got some decent tips.
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Some in our building want a "grill" out by the pool, propane etc. Some dude posted on FB how we should all vote yes on the proposal. I pointed out how a grill is NOT a barbecue, made my day, he got quite annoyed. I don't know who he is.
I also told everyone to vote NO! and that I was very much against it. That also annoyed him.
My wife thinks it would be a disaster, and something we don't need, at all.
I'm thinking of posting that IF a bullet were to hit the propane tank it would burn the building down.
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You're stirring the pot more than Fearless, CD...
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He fears less, I fear nothing.
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I went back to post how it would contribute to more climate change, but the dude took it all down. Wuss.
I was going to add how grilling increases the carcinogens in food, some of which are volatile and would permeate into units above the pool.
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8th grade is a really fun year, before you get cut back down to size as a HS freshman.
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What grade do you prefer?
These kids were 8th grade in age only. Many have plateaued since 4th grade. That might be covid-related, idk.
Maybe 15-20 out of 75 of them are proper students who value their academics and take any pride in their work. Most of the 75 would be perfectly fine if we didn't have to send them (to their) home everyday.
I'm going to try 3rd grade next year.
The younger they are, the more intrinsic they are when it comes to learning. Curious, happy to do well, etc.
At some point, most don't care at all about school. I recognize in any average 8th grader, they're discovering the opposite sex and gaining more responsibilities, etc. That's fine and good. Hair in strange places, all that.
But for many of these very poor hispanic kids, apathy has taken over. As a teacher, when I see that, I mix it up, do something fun, spice it up......nah. They (the 2/3-3/4) just dick around, ruin the supplies/materials, and don't turn anything in.
I maintained my efforts and those students know how much I cared, to the last day. But god damn, it was absurd. I'm accustomed to a ton of academic and social/behavioral improvement over the course of the school year. This year, I didn't see much of either.
My expectations of their school functionality were way too high.
I was looking forward to deep, nuanced conversations...or at least minimal interest and opportunities for higher-level content and back-and-forths than I was accustomed to.
That didn't happen much at all. It was a poor decision on my part.
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¿Cómo se dice "orange afro man" en Español?
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hombre con afro naranja
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gringo maestro de piquito grade level rapido
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Google translation is a wonderful thing boys,huh boys.Or maybe you picked it up from S.W. spanish influences. But talking about Dicks on social media isn't something an aspiring 3rd grade teacher should be broadcasting - maybe it's just me
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At least OAM is out there trying to make a positive difference.
Maybe I did at some point before giving up. Shame on me.
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Google translation is a wonderful thing boys,huh boys.Or maybe you picked it up from S.W. spanish influences. But talking about Dicks on social media isn't something an aspiring 3rd grade teacher should be broadcasting - maybe it's just me
What? :34:
gringo maestro de piquito grade level rapido
white teacher little/lower grade level quickly
You're inserting something weird where there is none. Cool. You're the creep here.
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I remember my 8th grade social studies teacher. She was young--pretty much fresh out of college.
It was really funny the summer after that year when I was playing our local muni golf course and ran into her as she was driving the beverage cart. I'd guess she got some decent tips.
https://youtu.be/LetJHQ_V05o
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It always comes back to Van Halen.
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I'm happy we just got done 1/2 hr ago unoading 11,000 lbs of food for the Pantry Drive tonite....in the rain
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https://youtu.be/LetJHQ_V05o
In 9th grade my English teacher was young and beautiful. She also happened to have a twin sister who was a lingerie model for JC Penny's catalog. It was nice
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It always comes back to Van Halen.
That makes me happy today, and any day.
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Perfect weather here today, we took a nice walk. My wife did a guided tour of midtown the other day and gave me part of it, I saw some things I'd never seen before.
This is tucked behind an office building, I'd never been back there, the really nice news is the midtown alliance folks bought 4 acres adjacent to this to turn it into a park that will join up with this smaller space. I don't know what the statue thingee is, maybe a phoenix.
(https://i.imgur.com/KaWGbtL.png)
That open area and pit was supposed to be a 55 story condo tower. They built this fancy sales center but it never got off the ground.
You can see the "google building" in the back. Green spaces in an urban area are of course highly prized. We live about half a mile from here.
(https://i.imgur.com/niCD7U4.jpeg)
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We then walked up to our favorite Italian restaurant and chatted some with the owner and had a great lunch.
Pasta da Pulcinella (https://pastadapulcinella.com/)
We usually dine outside on nice days, but it was quite windy, so we sat at the bar, which of wonderful. The restaurant used to be in an old house that got demo'd for a new office complex, but the owner bought this house built in 1930 that was derelict and redid it, it's fabulous inside I think.
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that certainly does NOT make me happy
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I love watching construction, seeing all those dude on the top floor, with 20 more to go. Concrete trucks were lined up in the street to make pours, guys are making rebar junctions, it's cool.
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was referrin to doin yer own research
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Google translation is a wonderful thing boys,huh boys.Or maybe you picked it up from S.W. spanish influences. But talking about Dicks on social media isn't something an aspiring 3rd grade teacher should be broadcasting - maybe it's just me
Some college students were explaining to me that you can circumvent the plagiarism detection software by downloading a term paper that was written in a foreign language, and then running it through google translate.
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Vette got it's first bath of the season and a Gtechniq - Easy Coat Kit
Shiny makes me happy
and a Frosted Schooner of Banquet Beer didn't hurt
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Some college students were explaining to me that you can circumvent the plagiarism detection software by downloading a term paper that was written in a foreign language, and then running it through google translate.
smart!
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The lack of smarts of making ignorant accusations lives on, though.
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The lack of smarts of making ignorant accusations lives on, though.
Lack of smarts?
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Nubbz won't even acknowledge his error, just goes on posting as if it never happened. He's a peach.
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He "liked" your post where you called him out. What more do you want? A pequito peck or kiss?
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He could grow a pair
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It meaning peck or kiss is slightly less creepy than talking about dicks to third graders, but not much. Now you're going on about peaches and a pair of balls?
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Well, that’s a wrap. The youngest is officially a HS graduate. Whew !
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It meaning peck or kiss is slightly less creepy than talking about dicks to third graders, but not much. Now you're going on about peaches and a pair of balls?
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I can always count on you to double down for someone else, especially when it's something creepy.
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You idiots are really fucking up bwar's thread.
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Anyway, today's the last day of school for my 11th grader and my 9th grader. It's a half-day and my 11th grader only has two classes, and they're both band. So she's skipping, and she's happy. And that makes me happy.
My poor 9th grader still has an assignment to finish though, so he has to go to school.
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Nice weather here again today, I'll take advantage. My wife is off to pilates which she swears by, and I'm sure it's good for her. She has mumbled a bit about going to the gym with me, I told her I could show her some good stuff with light weight that would help some, but she's not really interested.
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We got about 1/4" of rain during a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, and so it's nice and cool this morning. Went for a quick 3 mile run earlier this morning, it felt great. That makes me happy too.
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I can't do a "quick 3 mile run" any more, I can do 3 miles run/walk, but even my run is slow. I usually do the first mile "jogging", then run/walk the other two. I run hard enough to max out respiration. Our pool is open now, our site maintenance guy did a superb job cleaning it, parts had gotten a bit grungy, it looks brand new now. We'll be using it frequently when the weather gets hot. Tuesday we're off to SD and PS.
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I can do a quick mile on the elliptical in less than 12 minutes
2 miles at a 4mph pace takes around 30 minutes, maybe I'll try to get 3 miles someday. Maybe turn down the resistance from 9 to 3 or 4?
I'm happy I'm still regularly using it.
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Maybe 3 years ago I was happy to be running a mile in under 11 minutes. That was a strain, but I could do it using my watch, on the track (which has 200 meter markers). I'm over 13 minutes now. I think I can get under 13 with more running, we keep going out of town. My weight loss efforts thus far keep bouncing around netting about zero.
The good news, I think, is I'm still out there doing stuff.
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I'm finally back to being able to do a relatively quick 3 mile run in under 30 minutes. I try to do that 3 times per week, during the week. And then on Saturday or Sunday I usually work in a 5 mile run, or a 10K on a Sunday if I'm training. There's a 10K coming up in a couple of Sundays from now that I'm signed up for, it'll be the first official one I've run in several years.
One year ago, I couldn't even run a mile without stopping. I'd let myself get very, very out of shape. Never again... I hope.
Getting back in shape makes me happy today.
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As much as I enjoyed the 38 days away, it is good to be home in the heat. Nothing like floating in your pool with an adult beverage, smoking a good cigar and listening to classic rock.
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Nothing like
floating in your pool driving down the fairway with an adult beverage, smoking a good cigar and listening to classic rock.
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Nothing like floating in your pool or on the lake with an adult beverage, s
moking a good cigar and listening to classic rock.
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Nothing like floating on the lake with an adult beverage, smoking a joint and listening to classic rock.
;)
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No thanks.
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I knew the reply - I don't indulge it that stuff anymore, been a decade or better
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Took the afternoon off. Have out of town company- going to cook and drink and hang by the pool. That makes me happy.
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The Jazz Festival is across the street tomorrow, going to be noisy. Which is OK. We might even go for some of it.
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I don't run, so I don't know my mile time, and certainly not my 3 mile time.
But my FTP on the Peloton is 320W, and that's pretty good. I'm usually pretty near the top of the leaderboard.
And I'm happy about that.
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I like these protein drinks called Core Power, especially the chocolate flavored ones. But they're like $3.50 a bottle or something like that and they add up in a hurry, so we don't hardly ever get them. But my wife's employer recently started buying snacks for them, including boxes of those chocolate Core Powers. The other employees don't take many of those so she started bringing them home for me. That makes me happy.
It's a very minor thing, but I'll take any win I can get.
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Running is not a great idea for folks my age, but then again, I'm so slow the impact is minimal.
I threw off the wall today, I think I'm making some progress.
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the elliptical is very low impact, I think
I got my 3 miles in just less than 41 minutes - resistance level 6
personal bests make me happy
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Funny story…. Long game yesterday and bled iver into dinner on an outdoor beach patio at Kenny D’s here in Destin.
Was watching on my phone and just so happens, the next 2 tables next to us were all Vols as well. I drew a crowd with the game on my phone. They were all apologetic for intruding on our dinner but we didn’t care obviously. It was pretty cool.
Nothing like the love of sports to make strangers into friends in an instant.
That made me happy.
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McGuire's Irish Pub is a weakness of mine
Knoxville Super Regional – Knoxville, Tennessee (All games at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium)
Friday, May 23: Nebraska vs. No. 7 Tennessee | 6 p.m. CDT | ESPN2
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Husker ladies winning makes me happy
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Didn't know you bowled also getting ready for the Decathlon are you
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I like these protein drinks called Core Power, especially the chocolate flavored ones.
Try an Edmund Fitzgerald Porter,you can thank me later
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not much of a bowler, but if there are beer frames, I'm in
Golf will still allow a cigar on the back nine
Life was better with a cigar at the bowling alley
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Getting back in shape makes me happy today.
Round is a shape
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Life was better with a cigar at the bowling alley Race Track
FIFY
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race track is outdoors - be happy
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I love watching construction, seeing all those dude on the top floor, with 20 more to go. Concrete trucks were lined up in the street to make pours, guys are making rebar junctions, it's cool.
One of the Guys(Bob) who sponsors our food drives started a company in the '60s that makes concrete pumps. Brilliant as long as we have a modern society that need will be there. I told Bob I only knew one guy in my whole life affliated with that.Turned out Terry works for him, the nice neighbor chic who grew up next to me married him - small world. They go all over the place I know Denver for the last 3 weeks on a job
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Nothing like floating in your pool driving down the fairway with an adult beverage, smoking a good cigar and listening to classic rock.
That's mondsy
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that was yesterday, today, tomorrow, and Monday!
FORE!!!!
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I thought yesterday was Saturday, so a free 24 hours makes me happy.
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Nice lunch at Indian place then walk about.
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Then I took a nap.
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Having my last remaining Pliny the Younger bottle.
That makes me happy. Or at least it makes me :singing:
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I'm home & the beer cart girl is richer
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I woke up. I think.
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I woke up quick
At about noon
Just though that I had to be
In Compton soon
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FORE!!!
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FFS didn't you just get back like 12 hrs ago
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Got one of the few modestly cool mornings we’re gonna have left here and managed to sneak in a 7 mile run.
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We went on a fairly long walk, the weather is nice, they are playing jazz in the park. We had brunch at a Mexican place we live, I had not seen their brunch menu before, had something benedict which was outstanding. And two Margaritas.
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3 Margs would make me happy
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Just finished 4 and half hrs toiling around the property. Up on the roof blowing off debris from 6 days on/off rain and wind. Oak moss,Maple whirly birds,sticks. Moved the ladder over to the 2&1/2 car garage(no red vette in there) and did the same.Then edged & cut back and front lawns. I'm happy it's done and headed for a few cold refreshments.
Good things can come from Michigan BTW, my kind,sweet sister in law(RIP) and Bell's Oberon(American Wheat Ale) according to the back of the bottle "Sunshine in a glass",so put on your shades,kick up your feet and get into that summer state of mind. Those are instructions I can stick to.
Backing that up with some Blue Moon Belgian White(Wheat Ale). According to them "a beer this good only comes around once in a blue moon." Going to have to wait for their Mango Wheat though,So ya I'm happy
Edit: Cindy just made some home made Fudge,I guess it's an old Fanny Farmer recipe,now I have to make some popcorn
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Edit: Cindy just made some home made Fudge,I guess it's an old Fanny Farmer recipe,now I have to make some popcorn
:)
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Just finished 4 and half hrs toiling around the property. Up on the roof blowing off debris from 6 days on/off rain and wind. Oak moss,Maple whirly birds,sticks. Moved the ladder over to the 2&1/2 car garage(no red vette in there) and did the same.Then edged & cut back and front lawns. I'm happy it's done and headed for a few cold refreshments.
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This one is from Friday, but here goes anyway. A popular LSU fan site I read daily does an annual 100-day countdown to football season and picks historical events about LSU football related to the day number of the countdown. Last week the site owner was asking for suggestions for days 100-96. I emailed him one for day 99 and he emailed me back and said it was a good suggestion. In fact, on Friday, day 99, he did use it, with about the first half of his write-up using largely my exact wording. It was against the grain of the usual write-ups which tend to focus on something positive. I highlighted something LSU fans don't tend to remember fondly with the intent of dwelling on how good we have it now, as well as pointing out the silver linings that get lost in the general story which should still be remembered. Anyway, that made me happy. Tons of LSU fans across the world read that site every day, and they all read my thoughts about something, so that made me happy.
And in general, a completely separate thing.....my brother-in-law is in through the month of June, who I get along really well with. He's a recovered alcoholic with decades of his life lost with heavy, heavy abuse. He's been sober for over 6 years now, and after never really functioning as an independent adult for much of his life, he now rents a place and holds a job. His job now has summers off, during which time he comes to visit us. I'm really happy for his progress, and I like being around him, and my wife likes having her little brother around, so that makes me happy.
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Burnt orange sunset last night makes me happy, this was taken after a major storm rolled through Grit, Texas.
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Off to go look at a possible new boat.
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Awesome. Preparing for the first of the two best days... :)
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Well I got the day off and it's sunny and 70 deg. with a hi of 73 expected 😎 after 4-5 days of intermittent rain or haze from the canadian wildfires. Almost like hitting the sun light after coming out of a long tunnel
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Went to Costco and spent way too much money on wine and other stuff, then had lunch at Canoe, one of our favorite places on the river.
Bought up Kirkland Chateau Neuf and Vacqueyras wines and a beef tenderloing, having neighbors over for dinner.
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We bought it. They bought ours.
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I'm meeting customers here in 30 minutes
https://fielddaybrewing.com/ (https://fielddaybrewing.com/)
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Man now I want to buy a new boat! This is probably what I'd get if I won the lotto...
(https://i.imgur.com/zuYLZwh.jpeg)
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I'm meeting customers here in 30 minutes
https://fielddaybrewing.com/ (https://fielddaybrewing.com/)
Several Czech style lagers, I like it. If the weather is like it is here, I'd order one of the Czech pilsners. If it were a little cooler, I'd get the Czech dark lager.
For food I'd be trying the bulgogi steak tacos.
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Man now I want to buy a new boat! This is probably what I'd get if I won the lotto...
(https://i.imgur.com/zuYLZwh.jpeg)
Malibu and Pursuit are owned by the same company. Pursuit is an offshoot from Tiara.
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I'd certainly be trying the milk stout... Don't see those all that often. Of course then I'd probably move on to IPA. The Americans, not the hazies.
If I were there with my wife, there's no way we're not starting with that pretzel. She loves a good brewery pretzel. For food, I'd probably lean towards the Cuban or the Fat Alec burger.
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Malibu and Pursuit are owned by the same company. Pursuit is an offshoot from Tiara.
I have friends who've had Malibus, Nautiques, Axis (which is Malibu's entry brand), Supra, and Moomba (which is Supra's entry brand). And of course we currently have the Mastercraft. I've driven all of them and ridden behind all of them, and the best ride and easiest drive is definitely the Malibu right now. They're just at a different level IMO.
I don't love their current styling, I think they looked better about a decade ago, but you just can't beat the drive, the ride, and the ease of use for all the features.
Of course, at $250,000 new, it better be freaking great.
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I have no desire to own a boat.
But if I *did*, it would be something more like this:
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Actual photo of bwar:
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Sailboats are a pain in the ass.
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Sailboats are a pain in the ass.
Looks like to much work to me.
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Sailboats are a pain in the ass.
I brew my own beer. I cure and smoke and slice my own bacon. Sure, it'd be easier to buy Miller Lite and store-bought bacon. But what's the fun in that?
Looks like to much work to me.
Sometimes the work is its own reward.
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Have you ever sailed? I have. It's a shitton of work.
It can be rewarding in its own way, but it's not my ideal of a good time.
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Have you ever sailed? I have. It's a shitton of work.
It can be rewarding in its own way, but it's not my ideal of a good time.
Yes. It sucks.
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I brew my own beer. I cure and smoke and slice my own bacon. Sure, it'd be easier to buy Miller Lite and store-bought bacon. But what's the fun in that?
Sometimes the work is its own reward.
I’m exhausted with the rewards I already have.
I need my leisure activities to be leisurely.
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Have you ever sailed? I have. It's a shitton of work.
It can be rewarding in its own way, but it's not my ideal of a good time.
Have I sailed? Yes. Quite a few times. Have I helped out somewhat with the sailing? Yes.
Have I ever been the one in charge of the boat? Nope.
So maybe I'm just looking at it through rose-colored glasses.
But every time I've sailed I've enjoyed it more than I've enjoyed powerboating. There's just a certain serenity to it. It seems like the type of boating I'd prefer if I owned one.
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Have I sailed? Yes. Quite a few times. Have I helped out somewhat with the sailing? Yes.
Have I ever been the one in charge of the boat? Nope.
So maybe I'm just looking at it through rose-colored glasses.
But every time I've sailed I've enjoyed it more than I've enjoyed powerboating. There's just a certain serenity to it. It seems like the type of boating I'd prefer if I owned one.
My recommendation-- become fabulously wealthy, buy a nice big sailing yacht, and then hire out the captaining/sailing to someone else. :)
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My recommendation-- become fabulously wealthy, buy a nice big sailing yacht, and then hire out the captaining/sailing to someone else. :)
I've gotta get that first part figured out...
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I know a sure fire way to make a small fortune with a sail boat.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16Wq9nmep9/
I saw Kirkland Lager today and picked up the 12er, have yet to try it.
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I know a sure fire way to make a small fortune with a sail boat.
Break Out Another Thousand
A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into
Which reminds me, the name of my last boat, the 22' Cobalt, was Hole in the Wallet
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https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16Wq9nmep9/
I saw Kirkland Lager today and picked up the 12er, have yet to try it.
I shop a lot at Costco. I’ve seen it, but haven’t pulled the trigger.
Give a review after you try it.
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Kirkland wines are 98% outstanding in my experience, I'm more than willing to try their Lager. It's one of my two favorite kinds of beer. Might have one now.
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https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16Wq9nmep9/
I saw Kirkland Lager today and picked up the 12er, have yet to try it.
Solid beer. Made by Deschutes, a well-known and well-respected brewery from Oregon.
I generally buy a 12'er on my weekly Costco visits.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHXo-BpE8T8
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I brew my own beer. I cure and smoke and slice my own bacon. Sure, it'd be easier to buy Miller Lite and store-bought bacon. But what's the fun in that?
Sometimes the work is its own reward.
That sounds like a lot of work and then actually going to work? Then the wife,kids,house,yard,IPAs and the dog,dayum.And then hoisting masts and dodging yard arms and booms,plus posting here - are you some kind of masochist??? Not that there's anything wrong with that
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Man now I want to buy a new boat! This is probably what I'd get if I won the lotto...
(https://i.imgur.com/zuYLZwh.jpeg)
I really enjoyed Jimbo's boat on Lake Michigan.
Could go below to mix a drink or whatever needed attention
Maybe I should buy another lotto ticket?
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My recommendation-- become fabulously wealthy, buy a nice big sailing yacht, and then hire out the captaining/sailing to someone else. :)
(https://i.imgur.com/GCOqhw5.png)
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Several Czech style lagers, I like it. If the weather is like it is here, I'd order one of the Czech pilsners. If it were a little cooler, I'd get the Czech dark lager.
For food I'd be trying the bulgogi steak tacos.
it's 79 degrees, sunny and no wind
I started with the Czech Dark(very good) then Revival Stout - Imperial / Double Pastry 14% ABV(extremely good), they were out of the Nuremberg Style Red Lager, so another Czech Dark. Finished with a High Point Pils Pilsner - Czech / Bohemian 5.2% ABV with my wings.
Had the WINDY CITY BEEF Italian Braised Beef, Provolone, Giardiniera, Au Jus. (good for Iowa) Side salad was very good, started with the Brined Chicken Wings, Celery & Carrots (very tender and good)
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So, my wife invited over some neighbors, I thought it was last night, but it's tonight. Whatever, She picked up a tenderloin at Costco and I already seasoned it, which is fine. She was talking about having beef tacos with the leftovers and I thought "I trained her pretty good."
I'm still debating how to cook the steak. I cut it into halves because she wants her steak blu rare, rarer than most folks including me. It's a lot easier to cook it in the oven with the T probe than on the grill. One option is sear it on the grill and transfer it to the oven, another option it turn on broil in the oven for a few and then cook it.
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I really enjoyed Jimbo's boat on Lake Michigan.
Could go below to mix a drink or whatever needed attention
Maybe I should buy another lotto ticket?
I believe CDawg and GopherRock also liked it. And Gator. Can't forget Gator. And SkiUMah98. And Burny.
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My friend in Sturgeon Bay sold his boat just after we visited, so we got a ride in that one also. My cousins here used to have boats on Lake Lanier, obviously a different thing, but they enjoyed them apparently.
There isn't one in my future though.
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CDawg saw that boat when it was a few weeks old.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM
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I'm still debating how to cook the steak. I cut it into halves because she wants her steak blu rare, rarer than most folks including me. It's a lot easier to cook it in the oven with the T probe than on the grill. One option is sear it on the grill and transfer it to the oven, another option it turn on broil in the oven for a few and then cook it.
I'd sear on the grill 1st - that's a bout all the wife's steak would need
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I'd sear on the grill 1st - that's a bout all the wife's steak would need
I think I will do this and transfer it and cook her piece to 120°F and the rest to 130°F.
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I pull mine at 124-125, they rest to about 130 I suppose
my weber grill is usually over 400 degrees
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My grill is a small electric Weber, it does reasonably well. My wife insists on keeping it covered, which to me is a waste of effort, she wants the cover fully secured and I am lazy and dislike unhooking all the hooky things. So, I don't use it much. She also wants it "clean" which to me is a large waste of effort beyond knocking off grungies.
We recently had a referendum on adding gas grills to the pool deck, we voted against it, and the no vote won.
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mine is gas and sits in my attached garage off my kitchen, never has a cover, and only the grates get cleaned
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A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into
Buddy of mine in Austin has a boat that makes him gobs of money.
I don't have his stamina for no days off. He works a full-time job and only does this on Saturdays and Sundays, I think. Between the bookings and then keeping it clean, he basically works all weekend.
https://www.austinpremierboat.com/
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I brew my own beer. I cure and smoke and slice my own bacon. Sure, it'd be easier to buy Miller Lite and store-bought bacon. But what's the fun in that?
Sometimes the work is its own reward.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays immediately
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Break Out Another Thousand
A boat is a hole in the water that you throw money into
Which reminds me, the name of my last boat, the 22' Cobalt, was Hole in the Wallet
I've been looking at fishing boats the last 4 years, but I can't beat the price of a Buddy With A Boat.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ELLLKAdw0&t=3s
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I finally finished Book 3 in my fantasy trilogy. Now to lean back and let the earnings flow in.
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I learned that Costco, starting Jun 30, will open 1 hour earlier (9 AM) for executive members only.
So not only can I get my weekly Costco trip done earlier in the day, I'll have fewer "Gold Star Member" riffraff milling around to contend with. Nice!
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Those Gold Star folks are annoying, and stole my nomenclature. I have the license plate, they don't.
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I learned that Costco, starting Jun 30, will open 1 hour earlier (9 AM) for executive members only.
So not only can I get my weekly Costco trip done earlier in the day, I'll have fewer "Gold Star Member" riffraff milling around to contend with. Nice!
What is the executive member cover charge?
It's a cool $200 for us lowly Gold Star dregs.
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What is the executive member cover charge?
It's a cool $200 for us lowly Gold Star dregs.
$200??? Gold Star is $65/year and Executive is $130/year. But with the Executive 2% cash back I not only cover the difference between the two memberships... I cover about 2x the cost of the membership every year.
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$200??? Gold Star is $65/year and Executive is $130/year. But with the Executive 2% cash back I not only cover the difference between the two memberships... I cover about 2x the cost of the membership every year.
I think you misunderstood.
The joke is....you can't go in to Costco without dropping $200 bucks (cover charge).
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$200??? Gold Star is $65/year and Executive is $130/year. But with the Executive 2% cash back I not only cover the difference between the two memberships... I cover about 2x the cost of the membership every year.
Yup we've had Executive for years, ever since the kids were in diapers. Saved a ton of money on formula back in the day.
But the Costcos in the Austin area have opened at 9 AM for Executive members for... years. As long as I can remember, actually.
Still, don't get too excited. They don't check all that closely, and the dirty, unwashed, huddled masses of goldstars will still come through the doors at 9AM. The benefit is that most of those savages don't know about it, so that's the advantage.
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I think you misunderstood.
The joke is....you can't go in to Costco without dropping $200 bucks (cover charge).
Ahh, got it... Yeah, if I get out of there for even CLOSE to $200, it's a light week lol...
Including gas, we spend on average $1K/mo at Costco.
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Friday is a WFH day for me. I finished out yesterday without much to do today. Had a meeting scheduled for 10:30 but that got canceled. I basically have nothing work-related to do.
I am about to get some serious stuff done around this place.
lolz, j/k, I'm going to take the dog for a walk and then probably forcefully and dynamically nap on the couch.
(if you're wondering what about this made me happy today, it's all of it)
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Friday is a WFH day for me. I finished out yesterday without much to do today. Had a meeting scheduled for 10:30 but that got canceled. I basically have nothing work-related to do.
I am about to get some serious stuff done around this place.
lolz, j/k, I'm going to take the dog for a walk and then probably forcefully and dynamically nap on the couch.
(if you're wondering what about this made me happy today, it's all of it)
The US Open could make for some good "napping to". Golf is great napping background noise.
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The US Open could make for some good "napping to". Golf is great napping background noise.
Yep. And it's playing like a bloodbath so far. Only 8 players right now below par.
If you like watching golfers get punished by tough conditions... It's certainly that.
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Yep. And it's playing like a bloodbath so far. Only 8 players right now below par.
If you like watching golfers get punished by tough conditions... It's certainly that.
I'll be on it all weekend. Father's Day weekend, and thunderstorms in the forecast for today through Tuesday.
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Not today, but tomorrow, what will make me happy, is that I'll be going on a Brewery Crawl for Father's Day. Best part-- my now 17yo legally driving daughter, will be our DD.
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Not today, but tomorrow, what will make me happy, is that I'll be going on a Brewery Crawl for Father's Day. Best part-- my now 17yo legally driving daughter, will be our DD.
Nice!
This is one of those things that gets hard when splitting kids across two households. My son's car is registered at his mom's house and his insurance was added to his mom's plan (which got her multi-car multi-driver discounts; my wife and I already had those). And obviously I pay towards the insurance.
What we do NOT do is cover him on our own insurance as well, which I'm sure would be expensive. Which means he can't drive any of our cars... Which means we couldn't do the same and make him pull DD duty, unless we went in his car. And I'm not sure any of us want to ride in his 22 year old vehicle...
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Yeah our daughter is covered as occasional driver on all of our cars. And yeah it's expensive.
Although in this case, we could just take her car. Should be decent weather for a convertible Mustang. :)
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Which reminds me of something else that makes me happy-- my i s c & a aggie wife's aggie parents, bought a car for my daughter. And they're about to buy a car for my son.
We're really blessed that they are so generous.
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Which reminds me of something else that makes me happy-- my i s c & a aggie wife's aggie parents, bought a car for my daughter. And they're about to buy a car for my son.
We're really blessed that they are so generous.
I've bought the entirety of 5 cars for kids. And helped (1/2) on 2 more.
Ask me why I'm broke.
(Can be moved to the Grumpy Old Man thread.)
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I went over to the park earlier and threw a baseball against a concrete wall, which is pretty good exercise, and then ran some and did steps. The ATL Athletic Club added new sand to the track which is much improved now. They show up on weekends sometimes which is nice because their group includes a number of 20 something females.
The guys run in a group, very fast, as do the ladies. The track is a 0.55 mile oval and they can turn it in "no time" without breathing hard. The track used to be used for horses pulling "surries" which have rise to the Piedmont Driving Club which is positioned next to the park, and used to own the entire thing. The PDC is one of two "elite" ATL clubs. They aren't one you can "join". The driving part in the name referred to driving surries.
But I digress. This area has some peculiar history.
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I went over to the park earlier and threw a baseball against a concrete wall, which is pretty good exercise, and then ran some and did steps. The ATL Athletic Club added new sand to the track which is much improved now. They show up on weekends sometimes which is nice because their group includes a number of 20 something females.
The guys run in a group, very fast, as do the ladies. The track is a 0.55 mile oval and they can turn it in "no time" without breathing hard. The track used to be used for horses pulling "surries" which have rise to the Piedmont Driving Club which is positioned next to the park, and used to own the entire thing. The PDC is one of two "elite" ATL clubs. They aren't one you can "join". The driving part in the name referred to driving surries.
But I digress. This area has some peculiar history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIG_GVE-KiE
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Another happy thing. Costco just started carrying a mix 24-pack from Alpine Brewing Co. Alpine is a pretty well known brewery in the SoCal region, partly because it for a very long time was nearly impossible to find north of San Diego County. They weren't often even readily available in San Diego, because they were way out in the sticks in, well, Alpine CA.
Some of you wouldn't like it (it's all IPA), but I'm excited.
I was lucky enough to go to the brewery once. Myself and a couple other guys did this hike (https://hikingguy.com/hiking-trails/hiking-san-diego/el-cajon-mountain-trail-guide/). It's one that's been described as "going uphill both ways" because while it's MOSTLY an out-uphill / back-downhill hike, there are enough rolling hills that you still have to do some climbing on the way back.
I thought I was going to die. By the end of that hike, the uphill portions were me maybe making it halfway up the hill, stopping and keeling over until my heart rate came back down, and then struggling to try to go the rest of the way up. The only things that kept me going were A) knowing I'm too effing big for my buddies to carry me out and I wasn't going to let myself fail to where I'd need a "rescue", and B) I knew there would be Alpine beer afterwards.
Also, they had the Kirkland Alexander Valley Cab that my wife likes. I think @Cincydawg (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=870) had talked about this being a pretty good wine, but I haven't had luck finding it before going to a different area Costco last week.
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Kirkland labeled wines are nearly all terrific. They had Chateaneuf du Pape here for $18 a bottle and Vacqueyras for $20. I won't open the former quite yet.
The California chard they sell is not to my liking, very flabby. Their box cab is great at that price.
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And I'm not sure any of us want to ride in his 22 year old vehicle...
Wuss,where's your sense of adventure?I just got rid of 22yr old ride last yr It survived a few pub crawls.A VW Passatt that needed tie rod ends and brakes to a guy who volunteers at the food pantry. He patched it up and gave it to co-worker who went thru divorce who was low on coin - it's still ticking
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Kirkland labeled wines are nearly all terrific. They had Chateaneuf du Pape
I go for the Chez Floyd label myself
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Kirkland labeled wines are nearly all terrific. They had Chateaneuf du Pape here for $18 a bottle and Vacqueyras for $20. I won't open the former quite yet.
The California chard they sell is not to my liking, very flabby. Their box cab is great at that price.
Yeah, my wife isn't a fan of their chard. BevMo has a house label brand called Unruly that makes a chard she likes, so that's her go-to.
I recently picked up their red blend on a whim ($7.99 / 1.5L) and she finds it quite drinkable. Prefers a cab most of the time though.
Wuss,where's your sense of adventure?I just got rid of 22yr old ride last yr It survived a few pub crawls.A VW Passatt that needed tie rod ends and brakes to a guy who volunteers at the food pantry. He patched it up and gave it to co-worker who went thru divorce who was low on coin - it's still ticking
Well, it IS a Toyota Highlander, so even at 130K miles it's running fine. But it's certainly not as comfy as my 11-year old Ford Flex...
And if we're going, we're probably taking his siblings too... 5 people fit more comfortably in the 7-seater Flex than the 5-seater Highlander.
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Ask me why I'm broke.
The Vols Preferred season package with parking?
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This makes me happy...
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I called an auto shop a few weeks ago about getting my front suspension fixed. Quoted me about $1500.
I go in to another location, same company yesterday and ask for an estimate. $2400.
I told them about the price I got over the phone weeks earlier and without any haggling or arguing or anything, they said they'd make it work. I couldn't even specify which location I had spoken with.
Got it done for $1500.
That's a place I'll come back to, for sure (as long as it doesn't fall apart on my way to Sedona, lol).
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I'm happy my yard is mowed
mower waited until I was done to break down
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I broke down and opened a bottle of Kirkland Chateauneuf last night, and then another. *My wife liked it too.
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We're going to see Luke Bryan at Fenway South tonight.
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headed to a small town 9-hole golf course 10 miles south of here
fundraiser scramble golf tournament for the local fire department/Ambulance
Happy!
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Very to happy to have a FD without a bunch of forced activity. great morning diner style breakfast at home, perfectly executed.
finished up plans for upcoming Alaska trip and watched a very entertaining US Open. Good for Spaun, especially the way his day started.
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jj had a little tough luck to start but made a couple putts late
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Having a few drinks and then a nice dinner at Outback with my youngest daughter made me happy today
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We hit up a brewery for lunch, then my wife made shrimp moqueca for me for Father's Day dinner. I'm happy.
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up a little early this morning, but for a good reason....... headed to a golf outing near Des Moines - large scramble event that starts at 10am. about (30) 6-man teams followed with catered meal and keg by the beach.
Means I'll be on the road at 8am and won't be able to attend the Monday morning Teams meeting!
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Had the kids and their significant others for dinner last night after playing a 9 hole round of par-3 golf with SFIrish. Pretty darned good father's day.
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I'm happy my yard is mowed
mower waited until I was done to break down
Prolly pissed at that pretty red bitch you keep doting over and keeping clean in the garage
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I proclaimed it Father's WEEK. My wife did not agree.
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Prolly pissed at that pretty red bitch you keep doting over and keeping clean in the garage
no worries, that pretty young bitch doesn't owe me anything after the past 15-20 years
I'll buy a younger model in a week or so
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Waking up with all the cabin windows open, 58 degrees and knowing it will hit 80 today. Great Bass/perch/pike lake calling me.
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Landed in Madrid in the afternoon, cleared customs and checked into a hotel in central Madrid. First trip to Spain - first order of business is ordering a Sangria in its native lands:
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I slept though the night until 7 AM, went to bed 11:30, didn't drink last night. Small things.
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Last night we finished getting our vacation plans squared away. I wanted to fly somewhere a bit further. Either a tour-de-Tennessee with a couple nights in Pigeon Forge which is very pretty, a couple nights near Nashville so I could touch base with some old friends (which is also very pretty), and maybe a night or two in Memphis to visit my mom. Or I had Colorado Springs on the menu, which is very pretty and would give us a chance to see Mrs. DeT's dad. Or another trip to Arizona where we went several years ago....maybe Sedona again....which, again, was very pretty.
Mrs. DeT wasn't in the mood for any of that and wanted to take less days off so she'd have more time off for Christmas/New Year and opted for something within easy driving distance. She voted for another trip to the Texas Hill Country for just a few days, which I've learned is her default get-away trip. As I mentioned, I'd rather travel a bit further and see something a little more different as central Texas is not overly exciting to me since I lived there for a number of years. The plus side is I know where everything is and how to get around with no maps or GPS and it's a very comfortable, easy trip because of that.
Most importantly, she's happy, and the Airbnb she found looks really nice with a beautiful view overlooking a valley. It's not too far from San Marcos, so I'll probably get to visit a few of my old haunts and maybe touch base with a few friends there as well. She absolutely loves the area, and I'm looking forward to the time off.
Also, since I had put away for bigger/longer trip and this won't cost near as much as I was planning on, I've got a head-start on saving up for next year's vacation.
Happy!
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My wife told me if I ever take her through Pigeon Forge again, we're done.
I can't stand the place either.
If we go to the area we stay in Townsend.
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I like the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area, though it's been close to 20 years since I've been. It was a recurring vacation site for my family growing up, I have a lot of good memories there.
Chattanooga is also very nice. Scenic views outside of it, anyway.
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I suppose I've been through Townsend on the way to Cade's Cove, but I don't remember it.
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We used to drive through Gatlinburg and PF on the way to my grandparents several times a year, they lived outside Sevierville. Pigeon Forge back then was about 4 small motels, a couple restaurants, the mill, and a lot of corn fields. I just dislike what it has become.
Put this in the Grumpy Old Man thread.
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Yeah. Go piss in my corn flakes over there. Not in the what made me happy today thread.
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I suppose I've been through Townsend on the way to Cade's Cove, but I don't remember it.
Townsend is on the Maryville side of Cade's Cove, so it you went to CC from Gatlinburg, you didn't go to Townsend, unless you came out using the Rich Mountain road.
There are two little known little used exits from Cade's Cove aside from the main one.
Rich Mountain Road: The Most Underrated Scenic Drive in the Smokies (https://www.myinnontheriver.com/blog/rich-mountain-road-underrated-scenic-drive-smokies/)
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We used to drive through Gatlinburg and PF on the way to my grandparents several times a year, they lived outside Sevierville. Pigeon Forge back then was about 4 small motels, a couple restaurants, the mill, and a lot of corn fields. I just dislike what it has become.
Put this in the Grumpy Old Man thread.
It inevitably became a touristy, economic goldmine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra1AEFbCQn0
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There also is a Parson's Branch Road to the south out of Cades Cove. Both of these are gravel and one way. I've done Rich Mountain but not Parson's.
Cades Cove is smothered these days with traffic.
Townsend advertises as the "Quiet Side of the Smokies". It has some clean motels not too pricey and enough restaurants to be OK. It's is starting to be built up though.
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It inevitably became a touristy, economic goldmine.
BUT, a touristy, economic goldmine with a ton of gorgeous scenery to drive around and take in. That's really my attraction, I can do without all the shows and tourist stuff in the actual town. I mostly just like to see pretty nature scenes.
There was something called the Alpine Slide in either Gatlinburg of PF that I had a blast on as a kid. I'd probably do that again.
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BUT, a touristy, economic goldmine with a ton of gorgeous scenery to drive around and take in. That's really my attraction, I can do without all the shows and tourist stuff in the actual town. I mostly just like to see pretty nature scenes.
There was something called the Alpine Slide in either Gatlinburg of PF that I had a blast on as a kid. I'd probably do that again.
We usually take a yearly sojourn over there --- usually while taking in a Vol game. Stay in Gatlinburg.
It is beautiful, and that's what draws us back time and time again. I wish to live in East Tennessee eventually.
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Quick OT aside since you mentioned going to a Vols game.
My dad lived in Knoxville for a year when I was about 8 or 9. While staying with him in the summer he took me to see Neyland, along with a bunch of other stuff. I remember thinking it was an impressive structure but I wasn't sure why I was supposed to care or why he was taking me there. Maybe to go along with taking me to LSU/Ole Miss games when I was growing up, I think he just wanted to show me another venue, another place where other people got together en masse to do the same thing we do back home, but with different colors and different songs. That might explain why I've always tried to stop and see college football stadiums when traveling, if one is in striking distance. Never been to a game there, but I have seen the place from the outside.
It's possible he's just a closet TN fan, but the dude sure has a lot of LSU crap around his house so that he hides it well.
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I had a blast in Gatlinburg as a kid. Any time our uncles would drive us there was a big deal. A lot of my aunts worked there, at the Busy Bee I think it was called.
It's interesting how "nice things" can get ruined because people learn they are nice things. I've driven US 129 now called the Tail of the Dragon a number of times when I was one of 2 or 4 vehicles the entire route, it's not a "good highway", and it's one to avoid today i think. The Cherohala Skyway is still pretty nice.
My wife likes Highlands.
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Quick OT aside since you mentioned going to a Vols game.
My dad lived in Knoxville for a year when I was about 8 or 9. While staying with him in the summer he took me to see Neyland, along with a bunch of other stuff. I remember thinking it was an impressive structure but I wasn't sure why I was supposed to care or why he was taking me there. Maybe to go along with taking me to LSU/Ole Miss games when I was growing up, I think he just wanted to show me another venue, another place where other people got together en masse to do the same thing we do back home, but with different colors and different songs. That might explain why I've always tried to stop and see college football stadiums when traveling, if one is in striking distance. Never been to a game there, but I have seen the place from the outside.
It's possible he's just a closet TN fan, but the dude sure has a lot of LSU crap around his house so that he hides it well.
I like to take in the "enemies" venues and traditions as well. Maybe your dad was that way.
The SEC is pretty magical, and I can hate the school on gameday, but still think their "things", and traditions are really cool.
Speaking of "things". What is this I've seen recently at LSU? This "suck this Tiger D***, B***h!"
That's not cool. At all. @MikeDeTiger (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1588)
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Well, it's actually "suck that Tiger ****, *****," and it's not recent. It's a chant the student section does along with one of the band's old fight songs, "Neck." I'm not sure how long it's been going on, but for a long time now. The university periodically bans the song because the student section (and inevitably other parts of the stadium) starts chanting it. It has bled through microphones on tv several times that I recall, despite CBS and ESPN's best efforts to cut it out.
They did that when I was at the A&M game in 2013 with UTerin03 and her husband. She blushed and asked what was up with that, her husband thought it was hilarious.
It gets banned, fans complain, they bring it back, more vulgar chants, it gets banned.....
Circle of life.
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Well, it's actually "suck that Tiger ****, *****," and it's not recent. It's a chant the student section does along with one of the band's old fight songs, "Neck." I'm not sure how long it's been going on, but for a long time now. The university periodically bans the song because the student section (and inevitably other parts of the stadium) starts chanting it. It has bled through microphones on tv several times that I recall, despite CBS and ESPN's best efforts to cut it out.
They did that when I was at the A&M game in 2013 with UTerin03 and her husband. She blushed and asked what was up with that, her husband thought it was hilarious.
It gets banned, fans complain, they bring it back, more vulgar chants, it gets banned.....
Circle of life.
"Calling Baton Rouge" cool.
"STTDB" not cool. And I'm by no means a prude, but Good Lord.
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There's a chant/cheer break in the middle of our fight song, where the original 30s/40s/50s lyrics say "Hail, Hail, The Gang's all here."
Sometime in the 50s/60s that got switched to "Give 'em hell, Give 'em hell, Go Horns Go!" and that's what most of the old folks will say.
But since the 70s at least, Texas students have chanted, during that break, "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell, make 'em eat shit."
And then of course when we're playing hated rival OU, it switches to "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell, OU sucks." You can hear this quite clearly on the TV broadcast every time the song is sung, which is after every Texas score and also after forced turnovers or other big plays.
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Oh and to make it relevant to this thread, chanting "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell, OU sucks" whilst watching the Texas Longhorns beat the hell outta OU, makes me happy.
:)
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Worst one I know of....
We don't give a damn about the whole state of Alabama, the whole state of Alabama, the whole state of Alabama....
We don't give a damn about the whole state of Alabama --- WE'RE FROM TENN-EE-SSEE!
Sung, of course.
Pretty tame compared to "suck this wang, unsavory lady".
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Back when I was in school and TTUN's band would play their fight song. We would sign Hail to those M*****F*****, Hail to those old C***S******, Hail Hail to michigan the cesspool of the world. and other things along those lines
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I don't think Dawg fans have a chant over about four words because it's hard to remember more than that.
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My favorite Badger cheer has always been the rewrite of the Budweiser commercial: When you say Wis-con-sin, you've said it all!
That makes me smile, even right now typing it out on this screen. (The polka-ish song is now on repeat in my head.)
That said, as an adult, the "Shoot 'em like a horse" cheer that students hurl at injured players seems a little untoward. (Not sure if they still do that one.) As a student it was great fun.
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There's a chant/cheer break in the middle of our fight song, where the original 30s/40s/50s lyrics say "Hail, Hail, The Gang's all here."
Sometime in the 50s/60s that got switched to "Give 'em hell, Give 'em hell, Go Horns Go!" and that's what most of the old folks will say.
But since the 70s at least, Texas students have chanted, during that break, "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell, make 'em eat shit."
And then of course when we're playing hated rival OU, it switches to "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell, OU sucks." You can hear this quite clearly on the TV broadcast every time the song is sung, which is after every Texas score and also after forced turnovers or other big plays.
I don't think the "make 'em eat sh!t" is all THAT bad. It's certainly not on the STTDB level.
Purdue has tried to quell for a long time the post first down cheer. It started, I think, as "1, 2, 3, 4, FIRST DOWN!" But then got extended to "1, 2, 3, 4, first down, b****!"
But with our recent teams, you don't hear it very often during games any more... We don't cheer that for the OTHER team, after all.
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I don't think the "make 'em eat sh!t" is all THAT bad. It's certainly not on the STTDB level.
It's nearly impossible to out-vulgar a bunch of Cajuns.
That said, I want to reiterate that only goes with one song which the band doesn't even play for seasons at a time, and most of the gameday experience in Baton Rouge is outstanding and fun.
.....in November, when it finally drops below 90 degrees......
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My favorite Badger cheer has always been the rewrite of the Budweiser commercial: When you say Wis-con-sin, you've said it all!
That makes me smile, even right now typing it out on this screen. (The polka-ish song is now on repeat in my head.)
That said, as an adult, the "Shoot 'em like a horse" cheer that students hurl at injured players seems a little untoward. (Not sure if they still do that one.) As a student it was great fun.
That stopped about 20 years ago.
I'm not a fan of the "Eat Shit - Fuck You" garbage, which they still do between sections O and P.
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That stopped about 20 years ago.
I'm not a fan of the "Eat Shit - Fuck You" garbage, which they still do between sections O and P.
That's what I thought, but I haven't been anywhere near the student section in a long time--and haven't been to that many home games, either.
Agreed on the O/P "cheers."
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One of my kids went in and edited my trilogy and made a map, which is awesome. These books are my stab at fantasy stuff. I am really not a good proofreader of my own writings.
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I hear the weather and dining options in Twixt are outstanding, but real estate prices are sky high.
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Only beach property is expensive, once you go inland a couple miles there are bargains.
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That stopped about 20 years ago.
I'm not a fan of the "Eat Shit - Fuck You" garbage, which they still do between sections O and P.
why would anyone be a fan of that?
even drunken college freshmen
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Drunken college freshmen are fans of lots of stupid stuff.
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Yep.
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It's an indication of how humans will react when in a crowd differently from how many would react by themselves.
We're herd animals.
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MWF I try to go over to a tennis practice court in the park and throw a baseball off the wall for 30-45 minutes. I work on control and some other things, it's kind of fun, but sweaty this time of year. Anyway, today I was walking back across the "quad", which has two soccer fields and two softball fields surrounded by a track, and I cut across it. A guy was kicking the soccer ball around and the ball landed in front of me, and 50 yards from him, so I walked up to it and kicked it back to him. And my plant foot slipped on the wet grass and I went down. It's wet enough that I plopped, and had mud all over my backside and arms. I was OK, but muddy. I had a T shirt in my hand and managed to wipe off some of it. But I was half covered in dark black mud.
Managed to get home and strip down in our half bath and get off some of the mud, and then make it upstairs to the shower. I found mud crumbs along my path later. The shower looked funny a bit, and I was still sweating, I hate to shower when sweating but whatever. Came down and rinsed off my shorts and T shirt and socks and put them on the deck to dry. They are a mess.
The happy part is I didn't physically hurt myself. Yay.
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just reading that post made me happy
film at eleven would be much better!
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Yeah, that's one of the things I hate about showering right after a workout... I get out of the shower, and then start sweating again.
When we went to the brewery on Sunday, my wife had done her Peloton ride first, and then (as usual) I do mine while she's showering and getting ready. It was a pretty heavy 60 minute ride, and as soon as I was done, I hopped right in the shower... Even took a cold shower b/c I was trying to cool off faster. But I started sweating after the shower and had to have the AC in the car blasting on me the entire time we were driving to the brewery to cool me off enough to stop.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmLcqBHLmg
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MWF I try to go over to a tennis practice court in the park and throw a baseball off the wall for 30-45 minutes. I work on control and some other things, it's kind of fun, but sweaty this time of year. Anyway, today I was walking back across the "quad", which has two soccer fields and two softball fields surrounded by a track, and I cut across it. A guy was kicking the soccer ball around and the ball landed in front of me, and 50 yards from him, so I walked up to it and kicked it back to him. And my plant foot slipped on the wet grass and I went down. It's wet enough that I plopped, and had mud all over my backside and arms. I was OK, but muddy. I had a T shirt in my hand and managed to wipe off some of it. But I was half covered in dark black mud.
Managed to get home and strip down in our half bath and get off some of the mud, and then make it upstairs to the shower. I found mud crumbs along my path later. The shower looked funny a bit, and I was still sweating, I hate to shower when sweating but whatever. Came down and rinsed off my shorts and T shirt and socks and put them on the deck to dry. They are a mess.
The happy part is I didn't physically hurt myself. Yay.
Careful there, old-timer!
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Finally got a bookshelf in this office I got moved into!
Now I can finally pick up my office crap off the floor and quit looking like I'm a hoarder who forgot to buy furniture.
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Drunken college freshmen are fans of lots of stupid stuff.
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Which one is which?
\Sarcasm
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I'll be enjoying a cigar on the golf course later.
Received a new shipment from Thompson Cigars yesterday
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Got today off, so after some medical appointments I'm gonna meet Mrs. DeT at her job and bring her lunch. We never get to see each other during the day on work days, so that will be nice.
I noticed the commode acting up this morning, I think it's time to replace the fill valve, so I'll probably stop by Lowe's on the way home and take care of that this afternoon. I like fixing things, I like it even better when it's an easy fix.
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Pool, A Cuban cigar and beer. Life is good
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My wife wanted to go to a farm and pick peaches, so I set it up for today, to a place about 35 miles to our south. Got there, the place is kind of a mob scene, cars parked deep in a grassy area. We go up to pay and the young couple in front of us with a small kid paid $55. To pick peaches. Huh. When I was a kid, we'd do this and come back to a farmer standing at the edge who'd look at your bags and say "Yup, about a dolluh and half."
So, we turned around and went to their main store which had peaches already picked at an OK price and some other things. Spent $29 on stuff, my wife said just now the peach she ate was really good. On the way back, I stopped at Panola Monutain State Park and we walked around a bit. They have an interesting nature center, you can't walk on the mountain except on guided tours, usually one a week. It's like a small "Stone Mountain" (which is pretty large) but has been preserved from humans, mostly.
Drove back the back roads a bit and had lunch at Fox Bros which is always a good idea. I tried their ribs, which ... are not as good as their brisket. Have plenty left over for dinner. My wife is cooking some of the peaches, they are ones she bought that are bruised. Doesn't make a lot of sense to pay extra for "fresh" and then cook them, but whatever.
I'm a bit tired now and not hungry, may take a nap.
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I like peaches. Peach cobbler makes me happy.
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They should name a state after peaches. Or maybe a bowl game.
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Eat a Peach.
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Wife and I are both off today for Juneteenth.
I did a Peloton ride that I thought wouldn't be too hard. It's called sprint interval training. In a 45 minute ride there's only 195 seconds of hard work... Literally 30 second, 20 second, and 15 second efforts, with 3 minutes of recovery in between, repeated 3 times. But oh my god those efforts... Ouch. I was on the floor for 20 minutes after I got off the bike... I'm happy--because I survived lol.
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She's running an errand, and then when she gets back we're going to head out to a local brewery with the dog and have a nice lunch. That will be nice and happy too.
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My wife got rear-ended on the freeway in traffic on the way home. But... She's perfectly fine, and there's no damage to the car. So that makes me
happy relieved.
And we had a nice time at the brewery where she had some prosecco to calm her nerves afterwards lol.
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Glad everyone's okay.
"If I could just get off of that LA Freeway without getting killed or caught..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLwYKkxo9Dc
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my schedule for today makes me happy
8am - go to the golf course
midnight - return from the golf course
and it's all paid for!
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My oldest just found out he scored 1530 on the SAT.
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Shooting 40 on my first 9 holes since full knee replacement. (Not so great on back- 45 for 85)
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Power came back on after two days 84° in the house.AC kicking in after cleaning the condenser coil 😎
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getting home after thurssay, friday saturday golf tournaments with free drinks
I need a nap
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getting home after thurssay, friday saturday golf tournaments with free drinks
I need a nap
Yeah, you are slurring your speech. :043:
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Guess what makes me happy today.
Hint: it could also go in the CWS thread :)
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I'm unsure if my 6 hour drive and 2-day trip to Wichita will make me happy
but, there's a reception to attend at happy hour with free food & drink!
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My oldest just found out he scored 1530 on the SAT.
Holy cow! I'm more familiar with the ACT, and that's like the equivalent of scoring a 35 on the ACT.
I knew a highly intelligent guy in high school who scored a 33, and he was accepted into the Air Force Academy. Colleges must be lining up for your son.
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Holy cow! I'm more familiar with the ACT, and that's like the equivalent of scoring a 35 on the ACT.
I knew a highly intelligent guy in high school who scored a 33, and he was accepted into the Air Force Academy. Colleges must be lining up for your son.
We're hoping.
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We're hoping.
Colleges lining up is good.
Scholarship providers lining up is even better!
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Power came back on after two days 84° in the house.AC kicking in after cleaning the condenser coil 😎
Actually non of that is accurate the unit did come on and started to run but kicked out.Had a tree take out some wires after high winds the wires stopped the tree from landing on a neighbors garage. However two poles were snapped between 7 houses. So after having no power for two days when it was restored it evidently smoked the start capacitor on the condensor.So now two straight days over 90° w/o A.C. and hopefully the tech comes back with the right part he thought he had on his truck. Otherwise another evening in the basement-rec room really or snoozing in front of the fan and open windows
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Cease fire would do it….
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agreed, especially if it's a very prolonged cease fire, like a couple decades
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My oldest just found out he scored 1530 on the SAT.
👍😎,ya well I got drool on mine from nodding off,Nice job Bwarb. So where is he off to? Gonna become a Boilermaker or Banana Slug?
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👍😎,ya well I got drool on mine from nodding off,Nice job Bwarb. So where is he off to? Gonna become a Boilermaker or Banana Slug?
Taking him to Ann Arbor and West Lafayette in a few weeks for campus tours. He's already been to UC-Berkeley.
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Berkeley would be an easy pick for me outa those 3.
But, I grew up in midwest winters
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Berkeley would be an easy pick for me outa those 3.
But, I grew up in midwest winters
I think the fact that he's never experienced a Midwest winter [and doesn't want to] makes it his top pick as well...
I mean, on top of the fact that it's a stellar engineering school, of course.
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helluva lot closer to home
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Georgia Tech is a pretty good engineering school with milder winters. But then he'd be a nerd.
The state used to hand out National Merit Scholarships, I don't know if Tech does any more. They look good on a resume though it's not much money.
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My National Merit Scholarship paid for most of my school. Then a couple of other scholarships from the school of engineering and the local Austin UT alumni chapter paid for the rest.
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Oh, and all engineers are nerds, doesn't matter where they go to school. Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas...
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Wisconsin was $2,200/year when I was there. Most of it was paid for by others.
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Georgia Tech is a pretty good engineering school with milder winters. But then he'd be a nerd.
Oh, and all engineers are nerds, doesn't matter where they go to school. Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Texas...
Yep. He's already a nerd.
We're thinking he might apply to GT and that be one of those that we only go visit if his higher priority schools don't accept him.
He's a bit limited with his intent to be a nuclear engineer, and BSNE programs are not offered at a good number of highly-rated engineering schools as it's a more niche specialty.
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Best Nuclear Engineering Programs in America (https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/nuclear-engineering-rankings)
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Best Nuclear Engineering Programs in America (https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/nuclear-engineering-rankings)
Texas A&M ranked #8. He could be an Aggie!
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Texas A&M ranked #8. He could be an Aggie!
:c002:
my nephew is an Aggie
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Texas A&M ranked #8. He could be an Aggie!
Wisconsin ranked #3. He'd be better off there and experience a Winter while at it!
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Winter blows. I don't see you living in Wisconsin.
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Living in the Midwest for 53 years made a man out of a boy.
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Sounds like you just weren't smart enough to move, until you got older.
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Texas A&M ranked #8. He could be an Aggie!
Too nerdy.
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Sounds like you just weren't smart enough to move, until you got older.
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I'm older
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I'm older
Not an engineer, and therefore not as smart.
No offense, of course.
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no offense taken
dirtfarmers specialize in common or horse sense
apparently we also specialize in harsh weather conditions
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harsher??? 90 + the last 3 days
Sounds like you just weren't smart enough to move, until you got older.
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He's good the Freshwater lakes don't dry up around here like the wagon ruts around the 40 Acres
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Shows what you know. The wagon ruts haven't had any water since the 50s!
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I'll show myself out
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Best Nuclear Engineering Programs in America (https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/nuclear-engineering-rankings)
That's apparently grad school, not undergrad.
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Nuclear Engineering, BS - College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison (https://engineering.wisc.edu/programs/degrees/nuclear-engineering-bs/)
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Nuclear Engineering, BS - College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison (https://engineering.wisc.edu/programs/degrees/nuclear-engineering-bs/)
Not saying they don't offer it... Just that the ranking wasn't for undergrad.
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They're probably the same. UW has always been high in that field. I used to go check out the reactor they had in the Mechanical Engineering Building.
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I've made the decision to retire.
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I've made the decision to retire.
!!!!!!
I hear Austin is nice :)
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Best Nuclear Engineering Programs in America (https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/nuclear-engineering-rankings)
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I've made the decision to retire.
corngratulations!!!
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Texas A&M ranked #8. He could be an Aggie!
Marcus beat me to it. I vaguely recall A&M had a really good program. Small compared to other Depts.
Word was that most students were ex Nuke Sub navy looking to get a degree. Not sure if true.
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#8? Meh.
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Night at the Wichita Wind Surge Baseball Game - Outfield space with a picnic buffet and space to mingle! (Game 7 pm)
Minor League Baseball team of the Texas League and the Double-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
starting the 2nd half of the season tonight
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If one is headed to grad school, I don't think the undergrad choice matters much, though being stressed as a student to keep up would be good, usually.
Grad school in an engineering field usually is not "worth it" from what I could see.
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It would be worth it for Nuclear Engineering.
Not for Civil. That's what a P.E. is for.
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I had a coworker who had a PhD in ChemEng from Columbia, smart guy, but very unmotivated. He was my "idle" sic.
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My 9 am meeting got canceled. This is shaping up to be a good Wednesday already.
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I'm going to a lunch meeting in Hays KS
Gonna spot by Wildcat Forever's office
If Colton is there, I'll be happy
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I'm going to a lunch meeting in Hays KS
Gonna spot by Wildcat Forever's office
If Colton is there, I'll be happy
Tell ol' WildcatWhateva howdy for me.
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My dental checkup went fine, stopped at Chick-Fil-A on the way home. It's OK.
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So you were unimpressed with CfA?
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It was what I expected, I was neither impressed nor depressed. My wife met me after my appointment and we happened to be standing next to it discussing where to have lunch. She didn't want to walk very far. I've certainly had much worse chicken in my life, and occasionally better.
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White Castle makes me happy.
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My 18 year old son is arriving home today, after a year in Salt Lake City. I pick him up at the Airport at 6 PM.
I'm happy.
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I woke up this morning, played a round of golf had a couple of cigars during the round. Ate lunch after the round with a cold beer. Life is good
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I woke up this morning, played a round of gold
ya played around with gold,ya well I'd be happy to. But I do have some Dortmunder Gold Lager in the Fridge so I'm not to teary
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ya played around with gold,ya well I'd be happy to. But I do have some Dortmunder Gold Lager in the Fridge so I'm not to teary
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Why proofread when I can entertain with my typos 🙃
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So you were unimpressed with CfA?
High floor, low ceiling food. Never a thing I really need to get, but at times a lot better than any of the other options.
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Realizing I might have a good chance to slip out to a couple of high school football games in the fall. That should be fun.
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With two kids in marching band I see a lot of high school football games these days. Some of them are pretty good too.
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How many instruments do they have?
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too many
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I had a local Irish Red ale (Barn Burner) with my Wings on a Wednesday night at the Nebraska Ale Works in Kearney
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Nicely paired you Foodie
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I've been posting here (or this site's predecessors) for 19 years.
I like you clowns, I've met a number of you multiple times, and whether or not you like me and despite the fact you root for the wrong teams and have weird politics, I think of a lot of you as friends.
That makes me happy.
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Same here amigo.
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Tell ol' WildcatWhateva howdy for me.
unfortunately, the wheatfield lawyer was in court and actually working at 1:06 in the afternoon
his secretary seemed to be genuine in her story
I did get a text from him later.
He seems to be doing well.
Hays, KS seems to be a nice town. I was not expecting as much. Small college there.
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I was very touched some twenty years ago (coming up in August) by how so many posters here responded when I was in a bad way.
I still am.
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I've been posting here (or this site's predecessors) for 19 years.
I like you clowns, I've met a number of you multiple times, and whether or not you like me and despite the fact you root for the wrong teams and have weird politics, I think of a lot of you as friends.
That makes me happy.
It's crazy to me that I've been posting with some of you since 1997, which by my recollection is about 2 years after the internet was actually a real thing. Maybe 3 years, because I started college in 1994 and I think I got online at school either that year or the next (1994 or 1995) for the first time. Unfortunately I wasn't on the CFB News site or whatever it was that many of you posted to but I was on the original CNNSI site with utee and JCG (Hooky Hornstein, whatever his other names were through the years). We moved several times over the years after CNNSI shutdown, Winged Helmet had a site, Dustin R had a site, several others that escape me. When Dustin's site shut down (whatever happened to him?) I was homeless for awhile, and finally did a search for "Hooky Hornstein" and stumbled onto this one.
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I hardly ever post, but I find this site (and HuskerMatwitter.com) to be my go-to place for fun times reading and sometimes communicating with my fellow football fans - regardless of school affiliation; we are all just fans of the sport, I think. When I do post, I tend to blather on, and I never know what weird tangent we might go on, but it is always fascinating and usually brings a smile to my face. I find it comforting to see how this group rallies around one another in times of need from all parts of the country and no matter our sport, political, or religious affiliations - we are all in the same boat of humanity. Makes me happy and hopeful for the future.
my husband may think I am a bit nuts, and he makes fun of my Husker devotion at times, but he says at least this way I can inflict my sportsdom on someone who appreciates my craziness, and he can go off and do his thing without inflicting his craziness on me, lol. This always makes me happy.
My doctor visit yesterday revealed what I was a bit afraid of; bilateral hip osteoarthritis - so some adjustments to be made with my trips to the games this year; handicap parking lot and the golf shuttle that takes me right to the northwest corner of the stadium. All I need to do is exchange my tickets with row 55 seating to the mobility assistance seating in row 7. So game enjoyment without too much pain! Woo hoo! And that makes me the happiest of all!
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With two kids in marching band I see a lot of high school football games these days. Some of them are pretty good too.
Having been officiating High School football for 25 years, I have seen a lot of high school football games, most just aren't that good, but the good ones are worth the bad ones.
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Always good to see you around @huskerdinie (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=14) !
Having been officiating High School football for 25 years, I have seen a lot of high school football games, most just aren't that good, but the good ones are worth the bad ones.
Yeah, our kids' high school regularly competes for 5A state titles, and their archrival won the state 6A championship last year, and overall the district is pretty good, so many of the games I get to see are pretty high-quality Texas football games.
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Always good to see you around @huskerdinie (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=14) !
Yeah, our kids' high school regularly competes for 5A state titles, and their archrival won the state 6A championship last year, and overall the district is pretty good, so many of the games I get to see are pretty high-quality Texas football games.
The only thing I have to brag about my HS Football team is that we had the #1 NFL pick this last season. Other than that we're not very good.
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New boat got delivered today, and the old one taken away.
Double happy!
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New boat got delivered today, and the old one taken away.
Double happy!
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My senior year in HS, the football coach asked me to come onto the team and play tight end. Bear in mind, I had never played organized football before, and I was 6'4" and 175 pounds. I declined, I wanted to focus on the two bballs, but looking back I find it remarkable he needed a TE with no prior experience, and I probably would have started. The team ended up "defeated" as I recall, I think they managed a tie.
The HS now is a football powerhouse, the ethnicity of the students has changed a lot.
The HS nearest me now has a rather impressive stadium (for Georgia) that I understand was built for the Olympics as a practice field. I don't think they win many football games though.
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My high school was a football powerhouse as well. The home of Red Grange... Two of the four years I was there we went to the state championship, and then they went either the year before I got there or the year after to make it 3 of 5.
We competed in 5A which was the biggest in Illinois at the time IIRC. I think a couple of the championships were against Mount Carmel, a private school that was too small in enrollment for 5A, but was able to recruit for football, so they punched WAY above their weight class...
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Mount Carmel is still a powerhouse program.
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With two kids in marching band I see a lot of high school football games these days. Some of them are pretty good too.
That was the only way I was able to watch games when I was in high school - I played flute in the marching band so got in free to all football and basketball games (the only two sports teams we had, lol). Loved the atmosphere and it hooked me on football (not so much basketball-our gyms were so small it was downright dangerous with the band right next to the court). Played in summer marching bands where we would play at a lot of rodeo parades like the Days of '76 in Rapid City and Deadwood and a couple years I lived in a town where we had regular Thursday evening concerts in the band shell at the park. Good times.
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had a martini, a 30-day dry aged steak and a beer at my favorite place
they are closed and on vacation for the month of July, so........... got it done!
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We competed in 5A which was the biggest in Illinois at the time IIRC. I think a couple of the championships were against Mount Carmel, a private school that was too small in enrollment for 5A, but was able to recruit for football, so they punched WAY above their weight class...
In FL, before all the private school nonsense took over, we had a rural 3A school that could have beaten most 5A teams - Lake Butler. Their uniforms looked like LSU. We didn't play them, but in the mid-late 90s, they were scary.
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When I was a kid, the main HS in Augusta was Richmond Academy (public depite the name). Often they'd run off ten wins in a row and then play Valdosta and get beat 41-3 or something bad like that. Valdosta recruited all over south Georgia. If some junior high player looked good, his Dad would get offered a really nice job in Valdosta.
Now one of the powers is Lowndes Academy, also in Valdosta, which still has that HS. Some of the schools around ATL have major programs because they have money and "feeder programs" at the lower levels.
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Their uniforms looked like LSU. We didn't play them, but in the mid-late 90s, they were scary.
In the mid-late 90s, they probably could've beaten actual LSU.
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Today I took my 17yo daughter down to the UT campus for an official campus tour and visit, and she really liked it and said she can imagine herself going to school there.
It was a good day.
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Saw the cardiologist. Things are good. Took me off of one med that was causing headaches and weight gain and another that causes water retention. He replaced those two things with one thing.
I'm happy.
And even more happy when I come off of the blood thinner in a few months. I used to be able to give blood and not even use a bandage after. Now I bleed like crazy when I scratch a no-see-um bite. I also bruise easy. Never was a bruiser. (This last bit was a grumpy part - sorry.)
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Tonight we're headed back downtown with my daughter, to go to an outdoor concert just off campus. One of my favorite rock/blues musicians of all time, Ian Moore, is playing.
We've always played a lot of our favorite music for the kids, and several years back, my daughter realized that she too really loves Ian Moore's music. We've been unable to take her to hear him live since he typically plays 21+ clubs, but tonight it's an outdoor concert open to all, and on top of that it's free!
So the good day shall continue.
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Saw the cardiologist. Things are good. Took me off of one med that was causing headaches and weight gain and another that causes water retention. He replaced those two things with one thing.
I'm happy.
And even more happy when I come off of the blood thinner in a few months. I used to be able to give blood and not even use a bandage after. Now I bleed like crazy when I scratch a no-see-um bite. I also bruise easy. Never was a bruiser. (This last bit was a grumpy part - sorry.)
Well if you're not not bleeding a little after donation that's like having gravy in your veins.Good that things are getting balanced out for you. Probably good he put you on thinners. I've donated since like '89 and those needles are good bit bigger in Dia. than those that they fetch blood samples or I.V.s with. How are the stents doing they put in to you?