rockpile
-
Posts
5,927 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Gallery
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by rockpile
-
-
SIX DAYS:
Sponsor total is now $1,150.
YOU ARE FABULOUS!
In 2015 we did $1,650 and our record is $2,150.
It is not too late to donate!
http://main.national...amilyrocksagain
Thanks to TBD and others:
Fezmid
Todd
JayRubeo
Harriett
jboyst22
Neal
Cecile
Larry
Kalene and James
Bob and Barbara
Libby
Rufous Ray
Grace
dsmack
Bilby
Jesse
Karen
Denise
Darin
Cugalabanza
If I missed anyone, please contact me (sorry!)
-
I caught a great deal and scored a Yard Machines five speed 38" riding lawn mower at a garage sale for $200 about three years ago. The owner had kept up the maintenance too. I needed it to replace an OLD John Deere mower/tractor that I loved but would need mucho $ in repairs. I have beaten the crap out of this mower, with minimum maintenance. My trapezoid yard is 80 x 185 x 225 X 175.
With a front propelled mower (walk behind) it used to take 45 minutes for the front/sides and at least 90 minutes for the back. Fifteen years ago, it was great exercise. In 2016, I have to do this kind of work in 45 minute intervals! LOL.
If I was getting a walk behind mower for a SMALL yard I would NOT get a front propelled mower. The drive gears in front are PLASTIC and molded to the wheels. They engage metal gears on the mower, so after a year or two you will be changing the stripped plastic gears/wheels. At the mower parts store, I have been told this was a best seller for them! People forget to release the "drive" feature when turning sharp corners or even backing up. Second issue is the drive belt. Especially on a mulching mower, a lot of grass gets packed in under the cover for the drive belt and pulleys. This has to be cleaned out pretty often (monthly?).
If the belt needs to be replaced, the new belt may not adjust with enough tension to allow the belt from providing a strong "pull". My front drive mower has lasted me almost ten years though, and it was a Sears sale item.
-
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS to go and we have sponsors totaling $1,050.
In 2015 we did $1,650 and our record is $2,150.
It is not to late to donate!
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/familyrocksagain
Thanks to TBD and others:
Fezmid
Todd
JayRubeo
Harriett
jboyst22
Neal
Cecile
Larry
Kalene and James
Bob and Barbara
Libby
Rufous Ray
Grace
dsmack
Bilby
Jesse
Karen
Denise
If I missed anyone, please contact me (sorry!)
-
I tried entering $0.00 and it rejected it.
It is the thought that counts. I will bring you an empty cooler of food to the tailgate.
-
Home opener is the home opener, that's what I say
I booked a room for Thursday night. I may cancel it and drive home in the middle of the night. I can go up early Thursday and do not work Friday, but may people do not have that choice, just like I cannot make it to Baltimore. I think the TBD tradition to open the season in Orchard Park will be strained this year. Next up: get some tickets! LOL
-
SEVENTEEN DAYS TO GO!
I want to thank my TBD family once again for their generosity. As of today you have helped sponsor me for $815.00!
We are not done so if you have been procrastinating, you are like me.
Although the sponsor donation page has boxes with suggested amounts, on the bottom right you can enter your own amount. Every sponsor helps. Donate what you can, if you choose, or like some others here - sponsor your OWN cause.
Good luck with your walk, "BarleyNY"
The important thing is to give something back to a cause you believe in!
-
WHY DO I WALK? Because I can!
Why do I do the MS Walk every year? The short answer is because I have MS! You can scroll through the MS Society web pages and read about the disease, the various ways it affects people, how many people have it, and more.
BUT for me this is personal! I want a cure for the disease. The treatment of the disease alleviates many of the symptoms, but not all. It is also noted that although MS is not a hereditary disease, it occurs more often among children who have parents with the disease then the general population. That seems like it is genetic or inherited to me, but I am not a scientist.
I WANT A CURE FOR MS!
Finding a cure and better treatments for people with MS takes money. Plain and simple.
My story: I was officially diagnosed with relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 1994. I know now that I had MS before then. My legs ached and I had to elevate them at night. Sometimes it hurt so bad I could not sleep. I was losing sensation in my hands and feet. My GP sent me to a neurologist around 1990, only to be told that my problem was I had four kids, worked two jobs, and went to night school to get my A.A.S. in Business. He was wrong and I got my degree with "high honors".By 1994. I would tire easily, and walk with a slight limp. My vision would be blurry or I would see double. Sometimes my brain seemed blurry too. *-) Tasks that had been simple for me to do in my head now sometimes took me a couple of hours just to sort out the facts and make a decision. FORGET about multi-tasking. If I am concentrating on something and get interrupted or side tracked, I get "lost" and have to start all over. I am a procrastinator, and I now suspect part of the reason is that I want to make sure I am doing things correctly, and delay making a commitment.
The symptoms were quite acute in the late summer/fall of 1993 but went away as winter approached. I loved to play softball and was still playing in my early forties. I did not want to admit I might have a problem. When I went back out to practice and play in the spring of 1994, the symptoms from the previous fall came back during the first practice. I would put an ice pack or cold can of soda on my right temple to chill out which seemed to help. My vision got so bad when I was heated up from playing, that it was not safe for me to try to field a hard driving ball, so I became a designated hitter. I used to close one eye when at bat so I would only see one ball!I finally went to see my doctor, who immediately sent me to an ophthalmologist who immediately set me to an optic neurologist who ordered multiple tests: an MRI, a spinal tap (lumbar puncture), and took several annoying visual field tests to confirm the diagnosis. I admit I was scared. I knew NOTHING about MS. I could not even spell "sclerosis". The first thing I asked the doctor was "Am I going to die?" Now, we are all going to die someday, but MS is not fatal. Without treatment, it will get worse over time. Every MS exacerbation TAKES AWAY A PIECE OF ME and when over leaves me with a little less functionality than before.
I am one of the lucky ones! Twenty-two years after my diagnosis, I am walking the MS Walk again this year. I have a wonderful family and close friends who walk with me, or sponsor me. Others are not so lucky and I walk for them. I am stubborn and do not like to admit I cannot do something, so I do what I can.
As many of us with MS say: I HAVE MS, BUT MS DOES NOT HAVE ME!
by Tom Benson on Wed, Mar 23, 2016 @ 2:33 PM
-
It is time for my annual request for sponsors for the MS Walk in Rochester NY.
ALL contributions are welcomed. Please sponsor me if you can. If you cannot participate, God Bless.
This year the walk is Sunday, May 1st. Me and my family and friends will doing the Walk for a Cure - approximately five miles - with multiple sites coordinated across the state by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
I first posted on Two Bills Drive looking for sponsors in 2003!
TBD has been my biggest group sponsor, helping me raise over $15,500. Diagnosis, research, treatment, and methods to improve quality of life have dramatically improved, BUT there is still no CURE.
Donations can be made at the MS Society page OR on Facebook
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/familyrocksagain
https://www.facebook.com/groups/349924721875823/
Jack, I will be posting pictures as the event gets closer.
Personal stuff:
I was DIAGNOSED with relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 1994. I know now that I had MS before then, because there were times when things were “not quite right”. I would tire easily, and walk with a slight limp. My vision would be blurry and I sometimes felt like I was seeing double if I did not concentrate on an image. The symptoms would come and go, and were not stopping me from doing the things I wanted to do. But the official date I was tested for and a diagnosis confirmed for MS was June 1994. The nature of a relapsing-remitting disease is that it can “come and go”.
I still walk funny
but the medications to keep my MS in relapse have improved from syringe self injections, to a daily pill. It has also been a couple years since my last major relapse, that required an MRI scan, IV steroid pulse, and Prednisone.Keep in mind I have the BENIGN form of MS. Others have it much worse, so I do not complain (much
).It is amazing to me that it is 2016. When I looked back I realized that I started internet fund raising for the MS Walk by posting on TSW way back in 2003.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has excellent ratings as far as the percent of donations received, how they are used, and the percentage of “overhead” for salaries and facilities. Here are a few examples:
The National Health Council Standards of Excellence Certification Program reports: “The National MS Society meets the highest standards of accountability, ethical practice, organizational effectiveness, and good public stewardship”
http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/about-nhc/members/national-multiple-sclerosis-society?id=40
BBB Wise Giving Alliance: "onfirms that an evaluation of informational standards provided by National Multiple Sclerosis Society to the BBB Wise Giving Alliance shows that the organization meets all of the Standards for Charity Accountability"
http://charityreports.bbb.org/public/seal.aspx?ID=597382011
Charity Navigator gives the NMSS a 87.1 out of 100% rating
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4189#.VvGNdeIrKM8
-
Sometimes, like an e-Bay bid, the money comes in last minute. Have faith, Jay!
To all who can, skip Starbucks this week and send that Latte money to a good cause!
Rock -
Interesting variety of opinions here!
I started going to games when I was about eleven years old at the Rockpile. My father parked at the Armory because he said if you parked on the side streets or lawns, you might come back to find the wheels missing from your car.
There were drunks all over the place. At eleven, I knew it was stupid behavior and ignored it, except for the time a drunk tripped and fell into my lap from the row behind me.
I always go to one game a year - the TBD tailgate on opening day in OP. At Stub Hub prices, that is about all I can afford.
We arrive on Saturday and often hang around until Sunday evening. I see a lot of good friends who I might not see again until the next year's opening day.
I bring family and friends who like to tailgate - anywhere from 10 to 25 people - with me.
We stay outside in tents or a cheap motel Saturday and meet with the regulars at Danny's.
We park at Hammers on Sunday with more TBD friends.
It is a bargain compared to most sporting events or concerts.
It is a tailgate with some of my best friends and family with a three hour football game along the way. YES I want the Bills to win, but I tailgate for the party. We go for the fun not to get drunk. Moonshine with a breakfast sandwich is a treat though.
I believe a downtown stadium would price ME out of this event, and I actually LIKE the Ralph.
Yes, I am an old fart, but I have a color TV and a smart phone. LOL.
I welcome positive change, but for many reasons others have cited in excruciating detail, I do not think a downtown stadium is practical in western New York.
-
"Pay now, wait until next year"
"Dream On!"
"There's a Bills fan born every minute"
Support the One Bills Drive Super PAC"
-
I watched the video up until the attempted FG. I could not watch that again and have no desire to watch it.
You are correct, it was a great catch. It probably (not definitely) changed the outcome of the game.
What matters most to me at this point is that it was 25 years ago. Nothing can change that.
I understand your passion, but it is time to let it go.
Peace.
Rockpile
-
That was interference on Salas, but then he got them for the first down..
-
Just announced Green Bay vs Minnesota will be flexed. We play at 1.
I am glad for those who travel a long way to go to games in Buffalo.
Besides the usual season tickets holders driving several hours to go to a game, who would have to change plans from 1PM to 4PM or 8PM, the Jets often draw both Bills and Jets fans who cannot get tickets at the NJ Swamp Stadium. They would probably need to change airline plans or make hotel reservations.
The game is still significant to the Jets wildcard rank.
-
Completely disagree. Tyrod has not impressed me at all. I mean, I guess because our bar is so low over the past 20 years that Tyrod by default is playing slightly better than typical Bills football but I absolutely do not see him as some sort of magical solution.
I would love for him to prove me wrong - but in the Giants, Patriots, Chiefs and now Eagles game he had the ball in the 4th and did nothing. I'm not a fan of complacency and I don't know how many excuses you want to give him, he didn't get the job done, we missed the playoffs with a stacked offense and there's nothing in the offseason we can do to make me feel confident about our future moving forward with Tyrod.
On paper it looked like a stacked offense, possibly. Very few QBs can be successful when the running game is absent, first downs are dropped, and extra points are missed.
Possibly the single most INEXCUSABLE thing about this defeated group of players is that every single time they made a good play, I did not cheer until I was certain there was not a penalty flag on the turf to negate it!
There needs to be a team and there needs to be discipline.
Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl and passed for 165 yards.
-
Wow - best thread of the day (maybe the year), lotta good thinking going on here...
I am sorry. I did not realize that good thinking was allowed here. I feel like I should be calling you names or something.
P.S. Tyrod Taylor should be the starting QB next year no question.
Yes!
-
Or as Hank Bullough would say "We keep beating ourselves, but we're getting better at it."
-
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
For most of their career the Beatles were four mediocre musicians who sang melodic three-minute tunes at a time when rock music was trying to push itself beyond that format (a format originally confined by the technical limitations of 78 rpm record). They were the quintessence of "mainstream", assimilating the innovations proposed by rock music, within the format of the melodic song.
They were influential, yes, but on the customs - in the strictest sense of the word. Their influence, for better or for worse, on the great phenomena of the 60s doesn't amount to much. Unlike Bob Dylan, they didn't stir social revolts; unlike the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead they didn't foster the hippie movement; unlike Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix they didn't further the myth of LSD; unlike Jagger and Zappa they had no impact on the sexual revolution. Indeed the Beatles were icons of the customs that embodied the opposite: the desire to contain all that was happening. In their songs there is no Vietnam, there is no politics, there are no kids rioting in the streets, there is no sexual promiscuity, there are no drugs, there is no violence. In the world of the Beatles the social order of the 40s and the 50s still reigns. At best they were influential on the secret dreams of young girls, and on the haircuts of young nerdy boys.
The Beatles had the historical function to serve as champions of the reaction. Their smiles and their choruses hid the revolution: they concealed the restlessness of an underground movement ready to explode, for a bourgeoisie who wanted to hear nothing about it.
They had nothing to say and that's why they didn't say it.
Did you live through the sixties? I am not going to argue with you, but to state the Beatles had nothing to say is so untrue on too many levels to even know where to begin.
The Real Buffalo Joe, on 09 Dec 2015 - 09:52 AM, said:
In all honesty, I love the Beatles, but I do feel they're over rated. Great song writers, but from a musician standpoint, George was above average, Paul and John were ok, and Ringer was below average.
I object. Ringer did not play for the Beatles. -
Nice block Gragg
Nice catch Clay. Why do I feel like I have seen this game before?
-
Kelso going crazy that Hoyer wasn't called down when Bryant had him wrapped up.
At what point is he in the grasp?They wonder why there are "late hits"on the QB!
-
https://www.nfl.com/gamepass?icampaign=Watch_HP_GCmodule&cvosrc=Homepage.GC.contentmodule on the Game central page for the game...under the BILLS click on the watch icon.
On my laptop, only option is audio for this game.
-
Man, this sounds it would be fun to watch!
Signedup at nfl.com, but can only get audio. wtf?
-
Guess I need to get a digital antenna. #$%^%$# This NEVER happens!!
-
Your cable provider is experiencing difficulties?
yes.
time warner channels only. internet works
Your cable provider is experiencing difficulties?
MS WALK 2016 - May 1st - Please Sponsor Me!
in Off the Wall Archives
Posted
THREE Days Left!
New Sponsor total is now $1,250.
YOU ARE FABULOUS!
In 2015 we did $1,650 and our record is $2,150.
It is not too late to donate!
http://main.national...amilyrocksagain
Thanks to TBD and others:
Fezmid
Todd
JayRubeo
Harriett
jboyst22
Neal
Cecile
Larry
Bob and Barbara
Libby
Rufous Ray
Grace
dsmack
Bilby
Jesse
Karen & Fred
Denise
Darin
Cugalabanza
Jason
Kalene & James
jan
gg
If I missed anyone, please contact me (sorry!)