Augie

PICs or it didn’t happen.

I doubt I could get that svelte (even Whole Foods!), but I hope that catches on…..at least for all the guys in Seattle.

But, as Bills fans……we have no reason to wear them as hats!

But….doesn’t that mean the sky is falling? How are we ever going to extend him and keep us under the cap? This is horrible news!

Have you been to the beach lately? I don’t think it’s gotten any better. Just keep walking, listen to the waves and look at the water. In case you think I’m being “judgey”, I’m sure you’d prefer that I keep my shirt on covering my pasty white soft body.

Was it Chris Rock who says “we’re only as loyal as our options”? These guys have a LOT of options! I suspect she has far fewer. .

DeShaun Watson thinks that’s weird and creepy!!!

It might be included above as I skipped ahead, but I heard language today that says, basically, it doesn’t matter if it was said in jest. You can’t use “joking around about it” as a defense. As it should be, especially from the top guy. You’d still have to prove what you allege, but that excuse has been removed from the table. Again, as it should be.

In Cobb County where we live outside Atlanta the school board portion of your taxes go away when you turn 62. I’m all for funding education, but they just get more money from you younger, I guess. They make it work, and we will save about $5k on our taxes this year. The schools are about 2/3 of your overall tax bill. 😱

There are 3 main reasons I hate winter. First, it’s cold. You may have known that already. Second, and maybe more important, is the gray skies. I hate the gloomy skies, and Atlanta gets a lot of that in the winter. Last, it just lasts FAR too long. It sounds like Colorado Springs is an improvement in at least two of those categories.

It is…………less enjoyable. All my friends in Florida.

Out of all of my family and friends growing up, only one person that I know of as a friend (not some high school classmate) lives in WNY right now. (And even he moved to Boston for 15 years.) You are heartier than myself, I like early fall, but then I’ll come back for a week or two during the Holidays. To each their own, and I hope we all get what we want the most in retirement!

A periodic cool weather trip during the summer is the reverse for us. Every time we go back to Hilton Head Island, SC (met wife there, kids born there, etc.)I look at condos for sale that we could use and rent when empty. I just know I’d feel like I had to go there for every vacation rather than experiencing new places. I’m retired, the wife is not yet. Her work and our family nearby determine everything…..for a few more years, at least. I’ve got a plan and can’t wait to put it in place.

I’ve honestly recently looked at options around where I grew up in WNY. My hope is to get back to Florida but have a place to avoid summer heat. If the NC mountains prove to be too expensive, plan B might come into play. Like @ExiledInIllinois it would be a secondary home, but with great summer and fall weather and a special brand of people.

Is he a MLB….or a safety replacement down the road? Either way, I just hope he’s a terrific football player!

Visited decades ago when my sister-in-law worked at UVA while her then husband was in medical school. BEAUTIFUL area and nice college town. Loved the campus and downtown. Had a little picnic on top of a hill with a very nice view. I’d love to get back some time before we make our final decision. There is a lot to like!

Probably true. Probably. However, now that a price has been set, there is no ruling out some additional women coming forward for their checks. It’s not Ray Rice in a single event, and even that they got wrong when the video came out. How did they set a punishment before knowing of the video? Wouldn’t that be one of the first things they would go looking for? I would not be shocked if someone else came forward, because I’m pretty certain these were NOT the only cases of this behavior.

Now, what happens if another dozen or so pop up next week, or next month? THAT, to me, is why this is so tricky. The Browns and the NFL get dragged thru the mud again not knowing if/when it’s finally over.

Yeah, not a good choice of words in my opinion. I was just pointing out that I had no idea there was a Dee Haslam until I read that statement. NOW is the time they chose to trot her out.

Interesting, but not surprising, that they made a point of including Dee Haslam on that. I’d never heard of her before, but you want support from the female on this one.

I am fortunate that as the youngest my parents followed us (actually our kids). My sisters come to see my parents several times a year so I felt no need to visit them…..until the Bills played the Packers near my sister in Wisconsin. She had lived there 23 years and I had never visited, but it was a great trip! If/When our son eventually moves back to Florida to be closer to his wife’s family we will follow. That’s years from now, and the wife will be sure we have a summer place to escape the looooong hot summers.

You are not alone. We moved to Sarasota, Florida in 1993. My parents came to visit one weekend and it was eye opening. We went out to dinner on Saturday and they ran into people they knew from WNY. We went to church Sunday morning, and they ran into more people they knew. We went out to see a Bills game Sunday and my father ran into a guy he went to high school with. They hadn’t seen each other in about 50 years so I don’t even know how they recognized each other! It seems half the people who fled WNY landed in Florida. My wife works with someone who lives in L.A. The co-worker is originally from WNY. How she got to LA came up and she volunteered that she is there for the weather. She puts up with the taxes and the traffic so she can have the weather she craves. My kids say growing up in Buffalo scarred me. That connotation may be a little harsh, but there is a LOT of truth to it. My happiness is largely weather dependent. I’d rather have two modest homes with good weather options than one more grand home where I had to suffer bad seasonal weather.

If not, he’s being well compensated for getting the tar beaten out of him!

You can vote with your feet, and I’ll vote with mine. Not many places in FL that I know and really like, but I love Sarasota. (The Naples, Venice and St Augustine areas also intrigue me.) It’s “home” to me where we raised our kids and most of our friends are there. It gets long summers, much like Buffalo’s winters. It’s rarely severe enough to bother me, but it can last FAR too long. I have Blowing Rock weather on my phone app which I check almost daily. My “happy window” in BR weather is relatively brief. The summer, a little fall and maybe one week of what they call winter. I need 6 months and a day to avoid state taxes and homestead my FL place, so that slant works for me. I don’t recall restrictions, just the where and the why. What would you enjoy, and why?

Sarasota, FL where we lived for 18 years. Love downtown and the different walkable areas with sidewalk cafes, great water views and fantastic restaurants! Hot summers, but not hotter than Atlanta, just longer. It’s CRAZY expensive right now (like most places) but I see that correcting a bit. We were in Blowing Rock, NC all of last week, and that would be our summer escape from the heat, I think. It’s optimistic, but also realistic. Blowing Rock is cute touristy, while Boone a few minutes north is a college town (Appalachian State) with the vibe that offers. My wife LOVES the mountains and plans to do a month there next summer. I could do the ENTIRE summer, so maybe one day. .