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We are also "Talkin' Proud Buffalo".

We visited my sister in Denver, back in September 2021. I saw something in the men's room at DEN that I will never forget. Now let me share it with you. Don't say you weren't warned. I'm warning you now. 🙂 I have this oily skin, so I washed my hands and toweled off my head to keep the oil in check for a few hours. And in the mirror, I see behind me, buttocks. This guy has his pants around his ankles, and his arms are moving rapidly by his sides. I was wearing a mask so nobody could see my dropped jaw. But it was dropped, I assure you. I made the mistake of looking in his direction before I exited the men's room. His junk was full-on OUT, and he was soaping it up in the sink. I think that King Missile wrote a song about this, but not 100% sure.

Our 12 year old nephew just told us about brickpicker. Amazeballs. Plus all of the LEGO stuff on YouTube. I might invest in a couple of these sets. About 20 years ago, after I had my first house built, my parents told me that I still had a lot of stuff left at their house. Makes sense, given the itinerant nature of college habitation, and how I moved to Boston right after graduation from UB. So from that I got Tonka stuff, GI Joe stuff (the 3.75" figures and tons of gear like a F-14 and so on), the original "squad" from the show Emergency!, LEGOs, and so on. The only stuff that I kept was from Tonka and LEGOs. My sister, when our nephews were old enough, asked if I still had LEGOs, and I would sit there with the boys and just build. It's incredible that these sets from the 1970s and early 1980s still resonated with kids, and I forgot how much fun it was to create something out of nothing, and with LEGOs as the conduit. Sure, I've created a lot of stuff since the LEGO days, but you get what I'm saying... Thanks for the suggestion about sets. I think that is a wise move, and I've seen what virginal stuff on ebay goes for, and that people actually buy it!

Yeah, the coliseum is pretty awesome. I'm kinda into the Millenium Falcon as well.

I would TOTALLY build that. Too bad that it probably costs a mint!

So true. I lived in Boston for years, and people were totally fine (although they did rib me about the Bills -- which is fine). It's the media, though. I assume that Sullivan didn't end up at the Globe because he wasn't caustic enough.

Totally sucks.

Exactly. With 6 games left, consensus here seemed to be that it was a 6-game season. The team I saw today was one that I had been waiting for, looking for -- for the last 2 months.

For... Baker Mayfield? LOL.

Anything can happen, but what I don't takeaway from today is that the Bills are a team that's on their heels.

True, but don't you think that losing today, given the gravity of the situation, and breakdowns over the past couple of months, would've made even an appearance in the playoffs one with a lot of uncertainty and doubt? I'm not going all AFC-CG again, much less SB, but this was a quality win today, and it came at precisely the right time.

My take as well. Yeah, some D breakdowns, but the intensity of this game made me take to OTW for a few minutes (my heart! my heart!), and definitely a satisfying and well-fought win.

Had someone told me a few short years ago that we'd have a QB who would throw 40+ times, to over than 300 yards, and beat the Pats at home (i.e their home, i.e. away) in a crucial game, I'd have asked you if Mother Theresa came back to life. Seriously. JA is seriously ***** great. We are so lucky, because at least QB isn't a hole to be filled for a change, and yeah, I'm sure that great will-be be FAs will definitely want to play for the Bills as a result.

I've always been into LEGOs. It's this quirk that has followed me deep into adulthood (although, full disclosure, I do not have a room filled with LEGOs at the house). My sister won the (Christmas) gift day yesterday by buying the LEGO (world) map for my wife and me. When talking to the family yesterday afternoon, my nephew informed me that LEGO also has these kits where you can build muscle cars and so on. Mind blown. So I looked it up today, and there are several sets that look pretty interesting and fun to build in that LEGO collection. And then I found it. The Titanic. The mother*****ing Titanic. Look at it sitting there, all in placid calm, just sitting there on a display stand as if nothing happened. I would build this model a lot differently. How would you build it? Someone whispers to me, "there's a game on." Oh, right! Back to that!

It started as Groin then (d)evolved into this one. As a tech nerd, I got involved in this programming language called "Ruby": mailing lists, code patches, going to conferences, etc. This one person appeared on the mailing list using the name of 'bigmacturdsplash', and at first I thought they were going to ruin the mailing list. And yet, they were super nice and helpful. In that light, and not to say that I'm helpful, but...

I felt this way about Christmas 2020. It was just so... off. I wasn't feeling 2021 either until a couple of weeks ago. My wife has been working on -- not one, but two -- SCOTUS cases, and it's meant 7-day work weeks -- for months. I joined a startup over the summer and I've been flat out as well. Thankfully SCOTUS relented on the second case, and she got an extension until January. So at least she was able to come up and breathe for a couple of weeks, so she took two weeks off, and here we are. My company gave us all next week off, paid, which is amazing. Once the Christmas stuff came upstairs, and we started playing all of the classic vinyl as we started decorating, it all came together. It's been a really great holiday season overall.

My boss bought a Tesla Model S last year, and when my wife and I visited him in November, it was my first time in a Tesla. I've gotta tell you that in as much as I think that Elon Musk is psychotic, the S-3-X-Y branding of their vehicles is precious, and that the Tesla is that kind of status symbol that I usually have zero interest in, the car is ***** hot. Now my wife is saying that her next car is a Tesla, and I'm leaning towards either the F-150 electric or the Bronco. I'm a car guy. I've always been. My dad was an engineer with GM (Harrison) for 36 years, so we basically had nothing but GM cars, for better or for worse (generally for worse if you look at their output in the 1980s through most of the 90s). Once he retired, I branched out into other brands. As a bachelor, I had some neat rides (fast cars, trucks, etc), but as a married guy I'm pretty much in Toyota/Hybrid land at the moment, well, sprinkling in a few years of Jeep Cherokee (XJ model) or Wrangler here and there. Plus last year I sold my '75 MGB. But, yeah. Tesla. Mind blown.

Freeland was a very interesting guy. I have some stories, but for some other time.

Wentz is the luckiest ***** in this league to be on the team that he's on.

This is super familiar, and is exactly what's happened with my parents. My mom has had serious mental health issues over the years: nervous breakdown, and other undiagnosed issues. My dad refused to get her the psychiatric care that she needed, because he worked and she was stay at home, and he didn't want the stigma of having a wife who had/has mental health issues. This is a macabre story, but sadly it's also a true one. So, 12 years ago my parents decided to move out west where our sister, brother in law, and nephews live. At first they were going to sell the house and just move. Then, after having looked at various retirement communities out west, my father dropped the hammer and said that he refused to move until my mother cleaned out all of her hoarding ***** from their house (I spent my teenage years in said house, and my sister spent four more than I). Well, that sealed the deal. No way they were moving. Over the years, starting in 1997 or so, more and more "stuff" kept appearing in the house. Suddenly, every nook and cranny was filled with stuff: books, trinkets, chochkeys (sp?), collectables, etc. Even the kitchen counter was filled with "stuff". You couldn't even cook a meal in there, in particular because my mom would get upset if you moved her *****, without moving *****. They are both in their 80s now, and we moved a ton of ***** to the basement so that they could live on the lower level of the house, after a major renovation of the downstairs, and without them climbing stairs (my wife and I live 600 miles away, and my sister and family live 1600 miles away, so us triaging them after a fall, regardless of whether or not it is our obligation to do so, is really, really difficult). On one hand, it pisses me off that my mother went from a "you will have no clutter in your room" custodian to someone who was both lonely (empty nest + absent husband) and suffering from mental illness to someone who literally spent thousands of dollars on everything that you can imagine. Hoarding is a ***** nightmare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYLWZwNr_Q

It's kind of like this for me as well, a fan of 45ish years. I went to bed kind of bent out of shape last night, and woke up this morning with a shrug. Life went on, and I found myself posting on Off the Wall, and of course hoping for better results in the future from this team, but without any of the angst or vitriol towards God, the coaches, the mistakes, or the refs. Kind of odd because I was not like this in 2020.

They do a reunion at the Town Ballroom every few years. I played there with many bands over the years. Such a great place it was; just avoid the broken stair going upstairs/downstairs and you would be all good.

I CANNOT LOOK AWAY QUICKLY ENOUGH. Given ol' Ritchie's football career after Buffalo, meaning his total insanity, I'm glad that he is no longer here. The dude needs help overall.

What I've read about the Mardones song is around how he saw his 16 year old neighbor taking out the trash or walking a dog or some such. Still a great song, but yes, 18 would've been a better benchmask. And yeah, that other song was from Silence of the Lambs. I know this, sadly, and that's what makes it even creepier. *jaw drops on keyboard tray* Will I regret looking this song up?