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Same deal here, late diagnosis at 35 in 2016… Asperger’s (I pronounce it with a soft G as they do in England), as-was.

I watched a couple U.S. Open 🎾 matches, including the Benicic (Switzerland) - Cirstea (Romania) 😍, this afternoon on the ESPN+ app and they didn’t have any commentary. Just the court sounds (neither of these gals are grunters / screamers) and it was amazing. Just like you’re there in the crowd, but with the best angles and replays. Wish they could have that option / to turn off the commentators for football. I don’t need all the glad-handing and to know that Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard etc.

Play by play announcer: Looks like he got some wood on that slider! Color commentator: Yeah, it came in inside and tight! At least *someone* from Oakland scored at an A’s game.

And for a guy who brings home the bacon with his legs, maybe a career ender. I’m seeing that over 30% of all players in the NFL who suffer an Achilles never play in a game again.

I’ve never posted a lot, with the possible exception of the epic “LOST” episode threads on OTW, but I’ve been around on the SDS-led boards since the D&C days, probably 25 years(?). Geez, when you say it like that… a quarter century! 😲 RRich ___inOhio (?) who used to wish us Merry Natal Anniversary on our birthdays — a phrase I’ve taken up on the FB as a way to break up the strings of plain ol’ “Happy Birthday.” I think someone asked about him once and someone said he’d passed. Lori AiO ajzepp, who I’m FB friends with, but he hasn’t been active on that either 😕. Hope he’s OK. tgreg VABills I think Crap Throwing Monkey was DCTom’s alter ego. 😋 He and Alaska Darin mostly kept to the dark side of the site, PPP. I even — just a little tiny bit, mind you, miss ICE and his Boomer Sooners and whatever was “giving [him] the red ass” that day/week.

Have any of these people seen a Mac Jones interview? The guy seems to be perpetually stoned. Literally sounds like and resembles Sean Penn’s Spicoli in “Fast Times…” Cerebral? Only if they’re talking about cerebral *damage.*

Anything to set up situations / storylines to try to boost viewer ratings. Shameless.

My shoes are almost exclusively crocs-type (in black) and Uggs type (with tough male boot treads, I’ll have you know!!!). It’s a nuanced but important transition between the two in the spring and later fall. My feet had never EVER stayed warm during the winter after five minutes outside before the Uggs-type and now my toes are always comfy cozy. I mostly go barefoot in the house and in the yard.

That looks like a big cold sore on his upper lip. #TheHerp 🤨 Uhm… It’s on WCCT 20 - Hartford.

It’s my natal anniversary as well! Happy Birthday to us! (Martin Sheen, as well.)

As a teen in the mid-‘90s, I would take Amtrak Lake Shore Limited from Springfield to Rochacha to help haying at the maternal side dairy farm and spend time with cousins… and become a Bills fan watching in black & white on my grandparents OLLLLD console teevee that would take 20 minutes to warm up before it got a picture. It was ALWAYS delayed in Albany. One time that was 6 hours. SIX. HOURS. In Albany. Which is what the whole trip should / was scheduled to have taken. Got a $50 voucher toward a future Amtrak ticket for that, whoopdedoo. Simpler times.

Is this relating to how Mac Jones sounds like he was dropped on his head as a baby & sounds like Spicoli from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”?

With those 🔥🍗, any polyps will be cauterized on the way through.

Godspeed for recovery, Mazie 💛🐾! The Berneses, being a large breed, have a shorter lifespan. Best friend’s ex-gf had a string of them and the oldest got to ~8 1/2. But those were males weighing 120-130 — really big boys. Her last, Hunter-Boo, was a lovable oaf who had one incident of knocking down a neighbor kid & grazing with a claw while playing ball and immediately knowing & having that look on his face of ‘oops I just messed up 🥺’

He seemed to just implode at critical times, and rather than focusing on whether he thought his coach/family box was cheering loudly enough for him, MAYbe he should have gotten prepared on getting just one more point when he had *several* situations of being up 40-0 on Djokovich and then losing. Another case of multi-million dollar talent, and a 10 cent head.

That site is about to get a marked increase in traffic. Maybe not as much as the Pixyland Fairy guy, but… certainly a higher Alexa number.

Meh. But they do have a pretty stiff luxury tax with some $ and signing rules penalties. And still, a team even like the Red Sox have a hard time affording to keep their home-grown guys who became stars — Mookie Betts (altho… no matter what he says to the contrary, just wanted out of Boston), and now possibly Xander Boegarts. 🤷🏻‍♂️ And teams like the Yankees and Dodgers can buy wins. What MLB really needs is a salary floor. Some teams are literally jokes with a $25-30M payroll as the owner makes off with $100M net from teevee money even before any gate/concessions/etc. and they only serve as farm teams for the 15 teams that actually put resources into trying to win games.

I get the sense that the owners are saving the second bye to introduce in conjunction with the 18th game, as a ‘favor’ / trade off to the players. My guess is it’ll be one preseason game, two teams get a second for the Hall of Fame game, and leave it up to teams to conduct joint practices. Then again, we saw what the lack of all but like 5 minutes of preseason vs Packers last season did for Josh as he seemed pretty rusty to start the season.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-george-kittle-advocates-for-two-bye-weeks-says-he-spends-a-couple-hundred-thousand-on-body-upkeep/amp/ Absolutely going to be a necessary addition, especially when the owners go to 18 regular season games. It’s needed even now with 17. Wonder what the “upkeep” costs are that aren’t covered by the team / insurance…. League year went into mid-February and the sky did not fall, interest did not decline, over-saturation was not a thing. Even during the Kelly years there used to be two bye weeks. Time to go back to that.

Again, with the news of using the leg, I stress trying the Cosequin joint health supplements. They help with pain, increase mobility, and reduce inflammation. My cousin's dog had the TPLO surgery and just a couple of weeks ago they had to go back in to remove the metal and screws because she was going after them. She's a small frame yellow lab and they were irritating her. Cousin said the vet reported that these are getting more common because dogs aren't being allowed to grow fully before they're spayed or neutered. Timeframe should be about 1 year, but many are doing it at 6 months, especially rescue places that have a mandatory s/n policy before they adopt pets to people. One cat rescue near me does s/n to 8 week old kittens! That's really not good for these animals' health.

My GSP had a knee issue about two years ago, iirc. He was off leash in the yard during winter and came back to me hobbling, not putting weight on his rear left. Thought it was a sprain / strain as it had happened many times before on ice / snow. It improved and he could put weight on it, but was still limping and it was clicking. Vet did X-ray and said it was likely a tear of some degree of the meniscus and there was a shadow that showed fluid build-up. We did a watchful wait and limited his activity (difficult for a pointer!) and walks limited to about 1/4 mile a day down from a usual 1 1/2. So it was a quite awhile of that. His knee kept clicking, sometimes with every step and I cringed at every one but he largely seemed unfazed by it. Started giving him Cosequin tablets on recommendation of cousin who raised Fidelco German shepherds that had leg issues… 2 a day for first month it said and one a day afterward. It was awhile and in like March of this year I noticed, hey, no more clicking, and he’s back to running around when the shin suits him, although at 12 1/2 he’s slowing down a bit. The Cosequin was literally the only thing we changed. I mean… I had a partial tear of my own left meniscus when I was a teen and they only ordered physical therapy and it sometimes still clicks and I have some stability issues with that leg. Maybe *I* should take the Cosequin too!

Based on the “unexpected” wording and what has been revealed — that she’s been recovering well in the last few days — I would hazard a guess at a heart issue or a slimmer possibly of a stroke. She’ll share *if* she wants to at a time of her choosing, but the main thing is that she’s getting the best of care and will hopefully be back to rights soon.

Being honest with people… by toxic-positivity-sidestepping the question.

I’ve done a daily multi for about 5 years now to pick up the slack of anything I might be getting in diet. I have been eating less meat and the last lab test a couple months ago showed lower iron so I started on that and it’s helped some very irritating leg cramping at night when trying to get to sleep. It surprised me to find that most multis don’t have iron. Who knew? … Also do fish oil with a D3, that some studies have said helps with autism symptomology. Ten years? I’m not a fan of doctors myself but you really ought to get the basics checked. At the very least do the blood work and routine physical once a year.

FAR more than the money, Mr. Depp has some fair amount of his reputation back and maybe he’s not completely blacklisted now.