SinceThe70s

Stayed at Zion Mountain Ranch a few years ago. They have a herd of buffalo that roam the property. Buffalo are fenced in so we were able to get up close a few times. https://www.zmr.com/

Nope, but one time I was nearly convinced. When my first was in the crib we had a black & white video monitor. Picture was very grainy. Woke up one night and wifey was transfixed on it. Wondering what was up I took a look and saw what looked for all the world like ghosts flying back and forth above the crib. White wispy apparitions flying randomly over the crib. Not gonna lie, it freaked me out. Started doubting my doubt of ghosts. Actually pissed me off that anything was messing with my son so I went to take a look. Absolutely nothing to see in his room. Just a baby enjoying a good nights sleep in a calm ghost-free room. Which made no sense so I went back to check on the video and sure enough the 'ghosts' were still there. Turns out there was an oscillating fan in my sons room blowing a huge cobweb that was hanging in front of the video camera. Good times.

Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams Blinded by me you can't see a thing

The mention of Myrtle Beach reminded me of this from a few years ago:

Correct on the Ramones. No clue on yours 🤷‍♂️

On my honeymoon in Tahiti. Wife-to-be was somewhat of a thrill seeker. Bungee jumped off a hot air balloon, went parachuting, all before I met her. I'm risk averse, so when we were planning the honeymoon and she mentioned swimming with the sharks I was like wtf. But she was all in and male pride being what it is there was no way I was gonna sit on the boat. So the day comes and we circle Bora Bora on our excursion stopping a few times along the way. At one stop we got inundated by rays, but no sharks. My wife hated the rays. She had gotten slimed by them in a previous trip without me. As we come full circle and it appears there will be no sharks, we make one last stop and lo and behold the sharks make an appearance. Rays too. They were black tipped reef sharks which are supposedly docile. To be honest, as sharks go they weren't very big so I jump in. As I'm watching the sharks swim maybe 10 feet from me - which was cool as hell - I notice wifey is still on the boat so I wave her in. She's having none of it. Says she doesn't want to get slimed by the rays. And I'm like, trust me the rays will be the last thing on your mind, but she doesn't budge. Around this time to enhance the experience the tour operator starts throwing chum in the water to draw the sharks closer. The sharks start doing the aggressive tail swing thing and I nearly sh!t myself. Seriously can't remember when I've been more scared (maybe on the altar). I know they were relatively small, docile sharks but I got back on the boat as fast as I could. Little did she know that the biggest risk she'd take was marrying me. Little did I know the true terror that lied ahead after I married her. Good times.

Chewin' out a rhythm on my bubble gum

Don't think I ever heard that one. I'll have to check it out. BTW that Bubble Puppy band sounded pretty good. Shout out to @Joe in Winslow for starting this thread. Very cool that music from very different genres is being posted without the customary 'that sucks' responses.

Akerfeldt (and Steven Wilson) put out some great music but then they went in different directions. All the best to them, if they stayed with what didn't interest them anymore the music probably would have suffered. Just not for me. Back to Opeth. Another night my bud - who was on the Iron Maiden side of the Remember Tomorrow story and tbh kind of stuck in the 80's - and I were going back and forth about what we were listening to that was heavy. I pretty much shut him up with Ghosts Of Perdition.

A few years ago I was driving north to go skiing with two close friends and put the following on, knowing one would say it was Iron Maiden and the other would say it was Opeth. Of course they were both correct.

I'm not a big fan of the growling, Cookie Monster vocals but sometimes I like the backing music enough to tolerate it. Opeth is the only band I've heard where the Cookie Monster vocals augment the song. Drapery Falls is a great example. Funny thing is Akerfeldt has a great voice.

I've only been to three Bills home games, but I do have a Big Tree story from the first trip. 1998, a co-worker that I'd had beers with a few times asks me if I want to go with his friends (who I'd never met) to a Bills game. Hell yeah! As it turns out my b-day was on Friday and my close friends had me out way too late. I got less than 3 hours sleep when they picked me up. The hangover hit about halfway to Buffalo. Regardless, we hit a club that night and the game the next day (13-10 over the Pats). After the game we went to another bar (yup, The Big Tree). Little did I know some of the Bills would be showing up. Cool as hell. What I remember most was squeezing past Bruce in the packed bar. Wall of a man, holy crap. Funny thing is none of the guys I was with were hard core Bills fans, one guy was marginal. Good times.

Indeed.

Has the schedule on the TBD home page been updated yet? jk

Eddie Feigner. I saw the King and his court in the early 90's.

There's a few reasons I can envision it going downhill fast. That doesn't mean I'm predicting it will happen. The number of players/coaches on each team make it more difficult to control in a few ways, particularly without a bubble. The more people you have the more likely someone will break from the protocols. The players/coaches interact with families and friends outside of the facility.. Throw in the close contact of a football game for three hours and the risk seems higher to me. You mentioned there hasn't been a known case of transmission on the field. Does that mean that we haven't had a player with Covid play on Sunday yet or that we have had a player with Covid play on Sunday but nobody caught it. The latter would be more predictive than the former for me. One positive is that MLB had some cases early on and got it under control. Maybe that will happen with the NFL season as well.

It's a good point. The NHL and NBA went with the bubble, MLB had a plan to make up games on off days and with 7 inning doubleheaders. The NFL really made no concessions except acknowledging the season might get extended. I'm not in backfire mode just yet, but it's not looking good. Early in the MLB season things looked pretty bleak but somehow it never got untenable. With the NFL it's easy to envision things going downhill quickly.

I started with the premise that playing the Titans this week was off the table. If the NFL thinks it's safe to play the game, I'm on board. I agree there's a lot of $ on the line and I don't think the NFL would put the Bills at unnecessary risk because doing so puts the $ at unnecessary risk too.

I would hope at least privately they discussed parameters around extending/shortening the season and forfeits based on how bad things get. My vote is to extend the season unless the postponements become untenable. More weeks of football == more fun. I know some folks will complain about competitive advantages but that just doesn't bother me that much this year.

Does anyone know what the NFL's contingency plan was for postponed games? Having the Bills play the Broncos this week just ensures that one more game gets played. The opening a slot in the schedule on December 20 doesn't necessarily help the rescheduling issues.

I could remember not long ago We took a cruise down on Hotel Row. Mainline Florida, oh say. Mainline Florida, O.K.

I was thinking the same exact thing - before they missed the extra point.

Agreed on the Chiefs. Bills get the opportunity to make a statement in a few weeks.

Awesome. Thanks for the step by step.