Augie

I had a tennis buddy who was once hit by lightning. The courts where we played are surrounded by a golf course, and an alarm goes off if lightning gets within 5 miles or something. When the alarm went off, he moved much faster than anything he did on the court.

Yes, let’s fire that bum who coaches those bums. Some people are still whining while conveniently forgetting this was supposed to be a difficult transition year. We may flame out in the playoffs, but I’m happy with our overall season to date. I’ll look forward to seeing some of the younger guys this week. I think our backup OLine may be better than what we fielded a few years ago when we were picking up guys at the final cut to start for us..

I remember when “who do we want in round 1?” meant it was Halloween and we were looking forward to the draft.

I remember the Painful disappointment of seeing our starters lose to teams who were resting their starters. That is NOT a good feeling going into a looooong offseason, but that’s why we spend so much time looking at the draft. Hope springs eternal.

I have never met Alexa, and I hope to keep it that way. 😊 It’s wireless with whatever source you choose (Pandora, Sirius, etc) from your phone. We have speakers all over the house and my wife can turn them on when she’s in that area. They can be as small as a Coke can, but a tall boy gets you pretty good sound! You can hide it on any counter. Please look into it.

I’m not sure if either of them can be nearly the D-Bag Favre was.

I had Polk Audio surround sound at one point, and I was very happy with the performance. Of course, that was a long time ago and I was a virgin to that stuff! But times have changed (rapidly!) and I just hope that all the available options are explored. We have Sonos speakers all over, and you can carry them outside with you. .

We have spent significant money having old speakers and intercoms and other antiquated things removed from our current house. We have WiFi speakers everywhere, and you can turn it on or off by room. Please seriously at least look into that first. Cheaper and more flexible.

Well, for what will look like a cold weather preseason game, it will be interesting to see how that plays out. How much, if any, Von will we see? So, there you go, something interesting about this game. 😊 I don’t gamble, but I’d pluck Evans getting all the opportunities he needs from Baker.

Who are you kidding? You’s do it for $5. Baker will feed him early and often, and the beers are on Evans!

I have a nephew who was in a similar situation. He was the only one to walk away, and the cops said it was because he was driving a Volvo. Just horrible for everyone involved. That event rocked a lot of lives.

That’s how lust seems to go for me, too. 🤷‍♂️

Our son is a quiet, thoughtful young man. He doesn’t say a lot, but he hears everything and stores it away. As a result, he’s an unusually good gift giver. He knows you learn more with your mouth closed, I guess.

I don’t shop for gifts for my wife anymore. In the early days I’d go out and guess what she might like. The truth is, I have no idea which clothes or earrings she might want. If she wants something, she has it delivered to our door. More than half I end up taking back to the UPS Store. It works for us. This year we went clothes shopping for me together. She’s helpful to shop with, but I’m there to veto anything I don’t like. I told her I wanted to shop with her FOR HER. She said all she wanted was a TV for the bedroom, so this afternoon we’ll go pick up the 55” Frame TV (those are very cool, btw) waiting for us at Best Buy. It’s very comfortable to be able to do it this way, and people get what they actually want. I was hoping someone would get you a new mattress. 😊

I nominate @HOUSE. He could use a game check.

RIP I remember when these people were “old people” every year. Now? It doesn’t feel quite like that any more.

As always, I would warn anyone to verify the info you get. I’ve been burned by old info in the past and had to scramble come game time.

Does induction require replacing your cookware? I never had gas until about 15 years ago, and I’d have a hard time giving it up now. I look at a lot of houses (it used to be a profession, now it’s just a hobby) and if they don’t have gas I’d consider induction. Running a gas line to our last house in Florida was possible, but it was going to be a big deal. Induction might have been perfect there.

Happy anniversary! I’m glad you took steps to get help. We lost our son to fentanyl the next day, Jan 2, 2018. Addiction is a B word. A rash of deaths in Nashville that New Year.

Happy New Year.!!!!! Forrest Gump as a GM would not put that in a contract.

Thank you for proving my point! How is that working out? 😂

Respectfully, I don’t think his contract will include anything regarding control over management of the team. That would be insane. They will have an understanding, but you can’t give a player personnel power in their contract. How would that work if they disagree?

Will that also make them try? Maybe just a little? 😊 They will never give up the money they get for having such bloated, generally meaningless regular seasons.

Just start driving…..

IDK, I remember how this was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Where is the poll with how many games each of us thought he would win? (I hope it was a public poll.) I think this season has exceeded expectations in many ways. He should not be under the gun for that, imo. He’d have to do something incredibly stupid to make me forget what many expected. I thank him for a very nice season so far. We’ll see how the playoffs go, and that is obviously critical, but only one team wins it each year. I don’t like change for the sake of change. I like things done for a reason after solid consideration. I’ll quote this, because I can. I honestly don’t understand how so many people took 13 seconds so personally and hold a grudge. Yep, it was absolutely horrible, but it was 13 seconds several years ago. A lot has happened since. I’ve let it go.