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  1. 42 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    "free churro" episode of bojack is pretty emotional.

    To this day, I consider "The View from Halfway Down" the best half-hour of television I've ever watched, and you're damn right I cried. I know that's high praise, but I stand by it. I think it's made all the more impactful by the fact that you really have to have watched the entire series to that point for the full weight of that episode to land. The absurdity of the cartoon animal world, held up by the writers incredibly, sometimes painfully accurate portrayal of many, many societal and personal illnesses ... it's a hard show to get into, and i suspect that lots of folks have watched the first season, and probably have that "I tried but I couldn't get into it" vide from Bojack. And that's fine, I get it, and in lots of places the show is REALLY unapproachable. But holy fuck ... the last season just hits like a mack truck. 

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  2. 15 minutes ago, Modessit said:

    If you can sleep at all. It takes a while to get over the terror of "is the baby breathing?"

    Which is replaced with a new kind of terror when the kid first sleeps more than 3 hours. "Holy fuck it's WHAT time?" followed by the sprint to their room (to find them perfectly fine, and actually SLEEPING and oh holy god thank you for the rest)

  3. 1 hour ago, South Austin said:

    Sounds sappy, but I absolutely loved those 2am wake-up calls when it was my turn to feed the kids, sitting in their dark room while the world felt still and I’d stare with wonder at those little creatures. It’s not for everyone, but those are some of my favorite moments in my life.

    There isn't a big-enough all-caps font for me to use that captures the amount of THIS. Fucking THIS. 

    I'd hold my daughter in the crook of my left arm, and pat her butt until she went to sleep. I'd try and see how deep I could make the footprints in the carpet as I swayed, singing to her. For the first 3-4 months, she stayed in a room just off of the master (like an office space, attached to the master but with a door). I was able to be the baby retriever when it was time for mom to feed her, and the baby returner. Awesome balance for me and my wife, and amazing bonding time for my daughter (and my son, tbh - same setup). The time with those babies is irreplaceable, and it does my heart good to see all these great dads in this thread.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, demos said:


    I see lettuce. It qualifies.

    And honestly, pretty damn healthy. Good protein, I don't see rice or quinoa so should be low-carb, ain't nothing wrong with some hard boiled eggs and OG shredded cheddar. A-, would eat.

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  5. Who was it on the old site that used to do game breakdowns each like? The mini film study really helped guys like me who never played football beyond 7th grade. He'd use clips from a replay and make a few of them into gifs with lines drawn on them, and then explain what the key players were looking for, what the key concepts were, and why it worked or didn't work. And it was awesome because it wasn't all sunshine pumping - he'd show plays where the opposition just straight up beat our D, or where our O overcame a missed block or a blown assignment to still make a play. Really helped my understanding not just of that particular game, but of how our team fit together and what our coaches were doing.

     

    I'd happily contribute to a fund or a charity or something if someone were to take this back up.

  6. 9 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:

    I guess. I’m not sure with Casey, Card, our OL, and our terrible front 7 that 9-3 was ever a real possibility. We shit the bed last year because we were a very mediocre team, at best. Our lines and linebackers were unquestionably bottom 10% in P5. 

    When the announcers called out that Brockermeyer had just entered the game at MLB, and then he fails to scrape to the hole and watches the RB waltz through for a TD, it was just #chefskiss.

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  7. can't this weekend - taking care of that whole "able to father children" thing on Friday.

     

    next week after work is a maybe. Aside from it being 9000 degrees outside, it's the first week of school.  Maybe next Friday morning for an hour or so? 830-930, something like that?

  8. 55 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    LOL that was a shot at myself for not hitting the cutoff man, not a shot at you. The first time I did it by accident and you let me hear about. The second time I did it for the LOLZ and would have got the runner out at home if ROFLBOX or whoever was playing catcher could catch. 

    I remember that I started laughing when the ball wasn't even to you yet, because I knew the hero shot was coming and that throw wasn't going anywhere close to me lololol

  9. On 7/14/2022 at 7:19 PM, Murfdogg21 said:

    The shaggybevo softball team that played down at Riverside and Pleasant Valley back in the day wasn’t terrible. I’d say I’m sorry we didn’t play again, except I bet y’all did play again and didn’t invite me because I refused to utilize Captain America as a cutoff man. 

    I finally find this thread, and come to find out I'm already catching strays. Brutal, guys - just brutal.

     

    I could be convinced to take some BP and play some catch ... can't this weekend, but could do something after work basically any night next week?

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  10. You never realize you're in the golden age until it goes away. We did a buddies trip in 2007, maybe 2008. 8 guys. The Casino Royale on the strip still had a tub table, and we managed to snag every seat. $2 minimums with 3x odds if you wanted to play low stakes, $5 min unlocked 20x odds (or maybe 100x). We played for 12 hours straight. 

     

    During that same timeframe, you could pretty regularly find $2/2x tables (the others at the CR were this, but also at the IP and Stratosphere), and $5/345x tables were everywhere.  Man, those were good times.

  11. I swear I've used this phrase so many fucking times in the last year, and I hate it. I hate it.

     

    "I NEVER THOUGHT THE LEOPARDS WOULD EAT *MY* FACE!" shouts supporter of the leopards-eating-face party.

  12. 6 minutes ago, davidg said:


    Flush and sanitize your water system. Drain and flush the water heater (and inspect/replace the anode if it has one)

    Inspect all the tires, air them up to recommended pressure (or close to max. I run my trailer tires 5lbs less than max cold.). Check the spare too.

    Inspect the roof tears/holes and for cracks in the sealant. Re-seal as necessary.

    Inspect/re-pack the wheel bearings if it has set up a while or a lot of miles since last done. Check/adjust trailer brakes while the wheels are off. Torque the wheel lugnuts to mfr spec. Re-torque after 100-200 miles. Important if you have aliminum wheel.

    Inspect the suspension for cracks, bent parts or missing bolts.

    Check battery water levels/top off with distilled water.

    Great stuff. 

    Had a full re-seal late last year so I'm confident there. 

    Sanitize water system - love that.

    tire check - great call. 

  13. Pulling the rig out of storage and to my in-laws place where they have full hookups. Going to give her a full once-over - aside from the obvious things like water lines/pressure, checking lights / switches, battery charge, smoke alarms, tire and trailer integrity, general shell integrity, the pumps, and the water heater, what other items are usually on your pre-season checklist?

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