Augie

RIP It’s easy to not notice when someone doesn’t show up here for a while. Thanks to SDS for letting us know as I’m sure many would want to be aware. And cancer does suck.

While we are on TV’s, we have a Samsung Frame TV in the living room. It’s awesome because when it’s not being used as a TV you can put pictures on it, anything from a Monet masterpiece to family photos or holiday themed art. It’s pretty cool to not have it look like a black TV on the wall. It can be motion activated so it can turn itself off if you are not around.

I don’t know about the QLED aspect, but with 4K it depends on what you are watching. Go into Best Buy or Costco and they display stuff designed to catch your eye and give you a WOW moment. If you’re watching the news, it’s no big deal. It’s better, but it’s pretty darn good without the 4K. Bottom line is there its still limited content, but you can find 4K stuff if you look for it. .

I’ve got a 77” LG OLED TV in the family room, and we LOVE it. I ordered it thru Crutchfield because they had free delivery and it was about $200 less than Best Buy or Costco. Win/win. The free delivery saved me from renting a van because it would not fit in either of our cars at the time. That may be helpful to you. I was watching Notre Dame play in Dublin and a box popped up asking if I wanted to watch it in 4K. Yes please! I learned that I get several 4K stations already, plus you can search in Netflix, etc for 4K only. It’s nice, but the picture is pretty darn good to start with. I think of TVs a being disposable these days. I hope the next one lasts longer for you. EDIT: The 4K channels do not always have programing available. There’s only a few of them, and sometime they are just blank on my DTV Streaming setup. You can search for 4K on other streaming services. .

Yeah, restraining orders are not fun at all. 🤷‍♂️

At nine we are probably almost onto shots, and that doesn’t come easy until about 12-14 years old in Buffalo. (Un)Fortunately, we got to practice well into the night/morning until about 4am. That’s growing up in Buffalo.

Josh just announced he signed with the LIV Tour. Oil money > Football money. Still happy now?

So……….better.

It was a special occasion, nothing wrong with that! 🍺

I would not wish that on my worst enemy. Thank goodness for Hospice and the people who do that work. They are special people. I don’t know if I could handle that position. I hope his loved ones can take some comfort while he is in their care.

You old fart…..I was 5. Hearing his voice was as cool as watching the game. In 3rd grade his son Jeff was in my class and I used to walk home to their house after school sometimes. It was the first color TV I ever saw, and the chest inside the front door was full of all kinds of AFL game balls. Jeff’s toy chest was filled with more balls. It was pretty cool, but I don’t think I realized just how cool at the time. Jeff turned out to be an NFL QB as well, lasting about a decade or so. It was only with Jeff visiting and on my team that we could beat the older kids from my neighborhood. I got curious and looked him up one time and learned he had become a motivational speaker. It seems he inherited his father’s gravelly voice as well a his smarts (he went to Dartmouth) and football ability. It was a weird thing to notice.

I barely remember him talking. It was hard to hear over the smell. 😂 I don’t know where he was originally from, but it wasn’t anywhere clean. He was up there with the Limburger cheese sandwiches my dad would eat when I was a kid. There was no just ignoring it. It has to beat “the squirts”, doesn’t it?

There was another dad on my son’s middle school basketball team who, for some reason unknown to me, always wanted to sit next to me in the stands. He wasn’t a bad guy, other than the stench that comes with someone who hasn’t bathed in a year or two. That man’s stink could gag a maggot! Other parents on the team knew he was going to come in and sit next to me, so they would go find another seat when he walked into the gym. They saw no reason why they had to breathe near that man if they didn’t have to, so they cleared out in advances and make it less obvious. I didn’t blame them. So, what would I do to avoid him? I would fake trips to the restroom or concession stand, then come back and take a different seat. Sometimes it worked, other times he’d just join me in my new location, much to the chagrin of my new neighbors. Decades later that will still get a hearty laugh from the whole family! You almost have to try to stink that bad!

Thanks, but you lost me at vampires. I don’t do vampires or zombies. I’ll have to wait for the next thing she does.

I find this more interesting than most.

I think I’ve been to a movie theater once since Covid, and it was a Silver Spot dinner theater (like Cinebistro). The world changed rapidly on that front between Covid and streaming options.

I don’t know anything about her, or her movies, but she came off as very likable here promoting the new film. .

You can’t fix accuracy problems. That’s been proven over and over.

ESPN has no idea what year it is, or really much of anything. 🤷‍♂️

Somebody had to. 🤷‍♂️

I don’t eat either, so I’ll take your word for it.

What’s the difference between grits and polenta? About $5. There is a place I used to go for lunch. (Note the past tense.) They have a great muffuletta sandwich. Few people do, but this was great version and heavy on the mortadella with a strong garlicky/olive paste. With a tiny bottle of Sprite and a bag of chips, and a dill pickle of some flavor they insist you have , plus tax and tip it was like $30!!! Someone posted a name of some tavern with a good fried bologna sandwich and it looked it up. Their on-line menu will get you one for I think $5.70. You decide. .

I make my own kimmelweck for beef of weck. Would it be a good idea or sacrilege to try fried bologna on weck? I know I haven’t had a fried bologna sandwich in a half century, but if the store were open I’d have one today.

There may be a new ashtray in it for you. Reconsidering? I’m on team GunnerBill with a handful of people in the next tier, then the tier who thinks they know their stuff, then people like me. I know I don’t know so I come here to learn about these guys.

My wife is very careful with her diet and we always have fresh fruit in the house. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, watermelon, etc. I just keep going for the blueberries. I can’t help myself. I must say, there are some telltale signs that maybe you need to diversify your diet if you go overboard, if you know what I mean…. My wife paid someone to hold her accountable early in this weight control process. One surprise was they would make her stop and eat. She was working a crazy schedule with no time for the bathroom but she had to stop for a snack between meals. It kept her from getting too hungry, then pigging out on chips or something bad. That was interesting. She also has warm water with lemon every day. 🤷‍♂️ Good luck with the weight loss. Go pick up a 10-12lb bowling ball and know you’re already carrying around that much less.