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What would it take for Rodney Terry to earn the job?
Jiggy-Z replied to HookEm's topic in Basketball
He has already proven he can coach with a talented roster and staff without totally fucking it up, which apparently is more difficult than it would seem. Some head scratching losses costs us the regular season title and a #1 seed, so there is that to consider. Given a number 2 seed, I think the team's performance needs to exceed the expected outcome of elite 8, so Final 4. Even that type of performance would need to be qualified with style points and nothing goofy happening along the way to the #1 and #3 seeds in order for a final 4 appearance to make him a lock. As others have said there are some similarities to the 1989 Michigan team (so far) who lost their coach to Arizona St. right before the tournament. Steve Fischer (who had no head coaching experience)was appointed interim head coach and lead a talented team to the championship. After a couple of tough years, he landed the Fab 5 recruiting class and subsequently made the championship game twice before a slow decline and some scandals which ultimately led to his dismissal in 1997. The two championship game appearances were later vacated, but nobody really cares about that. I would definitely take a Michigan scenario if offered. -
After death substantial weight loss occurs.
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Wulaw, Good on you for sharing your journey. Down the road when you start choosing different forms of exercise, recognize that just going an working out can get kind of boring, so seek out activities that have some kind of game component to them and also be on the lookout for possible opportunities for joint injury. Back when I was 45, I was up around 200lbs and made some changes, and pretty quickly got down to 175lbs and looked great. I was kind of reveling in all sorts of rediscovered physical abilities that had been dormant since my early 30's. I don't want to say I overdid it, because I was never really pushing myself all that hard, but some garden variety ailments cropped up. Stuff like Achilles tendinitis, pulled calf muscles etc. So I would rest and rehab and wait it out and focus on other body parts that I could work on safely. Thus began a never ending cycle and rotation of injuries that really made things frustrating. Fast forward to my early 50's and I was slowly gaining the weight back almost entirely because I could not find the extra motivation to go play and have fun due to some mild depression because of my injuries and fear of re-injury. So over time my normal weight went from 180lbs for a year or so, then 185 then 190, until you see the 200lb man I am today at age 56. Because you are only in your mid 40's you have time get his right. You really don't need to work out all that hard, so follow your Drs advice on all of that but definitely mix in a lot of flexibility and mobility work, think I wish i had done that would have saved me a lot of trouble. I think rediscovering what your body can do all over again is going to be a huge motivating factor for you. Good luck.
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You know how you know you’re not cool anymore?
Jiggy-Z replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Lulz
Took that train this summer, except went Oslo to Bergen. There is a bike tour you can take from the high point in the mountains, spend the night somewhere on the way down, take a couple of ferries, and walk, your in Bergen. -
Has anybody else's wife become an expert at picking up screws, nails, and flats in their tires? It doesn't happen all that often, maybe every six months or so, but it is baffling to me considering the following. We both drive to all the same places, except I go to my construction yard and job sites almost every day (concrete construction) where that stuff is all over the place and we have taken my Tacoma all over the country. In addition I have been to my parents ranch, a bunch of deer leases, the beach, and other off road locals so many times I have lost count. She is driving around in a Volvo with Michelin's or Pirelli's or whatever which end tire they put on those things and I have some shitty Cooper's all terrains on my truck. Knock on wood, I have not had a flat in the 23 years I have known her. She tries to blame it on construction debris in the road, lol.
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...of 2024.
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Not a huge fan of live oak, but I have done a few brisket with it and they were really good. Just not the best aroma when cooking compared to other stuff that is available. I prefere using mesquite in my fireplace due to the oak smell and the fact that it is much easier to split. I have basically an endless supply of downed and dried mesquite at my parent's ranch. I have taken many trailer loads of it out of there over the years and it never seems to make a dent.
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Power out in 78736.. Austin Zoo area. Power out down the 290 west corridor since about 1030am today. 2021 never lost power. 2023>2021 qed.
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With smoke signals or carrier pigeon.
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What I would do if they only didn't have a monopoly on my water
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Johnny Generatorseed .
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Was 2007 storm the crazy one that hit on like a 65 degree and sunny day? Dropped the temp like 40 degrees and put ice all over the place in the mid to late afternoon.
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I remember the second snowfall was the best. I think it was Jan 12. This snow was well before Jim Spencer, and all the weather guys were geeking out . What was even better is that it was rolling in overnight on a Friday. Sure enough, I woke Saturday morning with snow on the ground. It snowed on and off all day and well into the night. I think San Antoinio got more than Austin. Besides the snow, that winter was pretty cold in general and by the time the third snowfall was done, I was good with only two foe Austin each winter.
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The tree damage just west of oak hill is worse than in 2021. We lost quite a few branches and trees then and subsequently had more removed and thinned as a preventive measure and we are getting far more damage now even after proactive work. On pec and we have not lost power. Temp has not gotten above 29 in two days. Being a lifelong austin resident since 1968, this event is in the top 5. Snowpocalypse is no 1. ..and then really a multi way tie for no 2 depending on what you hate the most. Winter if 85 it legit snowed 3 times with days long freezes each time. Winter of 89 it hit -2 and lots of stuff died. 2023 tree Macedon. Getting ready for bourbon on the rocks #2. Probably going to bed when the sun goes down.
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Agree. Even when you factor in the added costs of organic/farm raised/local food there are ways to meal plan/freeze/container/systemize/leftover the process so that you get good food at a reasonable price. Of course all of that hippie shit is not completely necessary, but a plan and a system is...and that takes work and a small investment in some cooking stuff and consistency of execution. Also, it takes willing participants. Case in point: I have two teenage boys still at home and they are not big on left overs, even if I get them ready, unless it is something that lends itself to reheating like brisket. They are competitive rock climbers and kick my ass up and down the crag, but have no clue how this shit works despite my involving them in meal prep and family budgeting-perhaps it will sink in when they are paying the bills. Also, the wife is good a torpedoing my meal and leftover plans too. As others have also said, Fatness is but one El Guapo that we deal with. Most other unhealthy habits and their manifestations are largely hidden from all but the most observant, but may nevertheless be even more destructive than excess weight and a poor diet. There are numerous threads on this site devoted to the El Guapos of alcohol addiction, self made personality disorders, drugs, relationships, and, of course, following Texas Longhorns football.
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So Bengals/49ers III. 20-16 or 26-21? We got oh so close last year to that match up, but I think not. Eagles/ Bengals. Bengals take it.
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Denial is a powerful trait we all have and it is not just with our own weight. Case in point. My parents live on a ranch and my dad(89) is pretty skinny and mom (83) is overweight, but not crazy, and actually pretty good considering she has really bad knees and does not move around a whole lot. Over the last 30 years or so they have had many dogs come and go, and all of them gain an enormous amount of weight while under their care. It doesn't matter the source or age. They have had new born pups, strays, rescues, purchased pure breeds, you name it. All of them have gotten morbidly obese. The worse case was when I could no longer have my Hungarian Visla at my house because he had become overly protective of my two toddlers and he was interfering with their ability to have friends over. He barked a lot and would scare the other kids, so my folks took him in at the ranch before anything bad happened at my place. That dog was the model for a fit hound. He looked like an Olympic sprinter and had to have all kinds of activity for his enjoyment. So my folks got him and he absolutely loved them and they him. He could spend as much time as he wanted outdoors chasing cows and other critters. It only took about a year for him to gain so much weight the he was flat on the top of his spine and went from his sleek form to a walking five gallon bucket with legs. At which point I had to say something to my parents. i pointed out what happened to him and all of their other dogs and the vet vet bills, and the doggy insulin, and all of it. It was like talking to a brick wall and they looked at me like I was crazy and then accused me of starving my my own dog before I sent him over to the ranch. Despite all of the evidence, the years of pictures with fat dogs, vet bills etc., they refused to believe that they were doing anything wrong. JUST COULD NO SEE IT.
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That kind of looks like what happens to me as I get down into the mid/lower 180's lb range. At 5'-11" (age 56) breaking into the 170's is damn near impossible. I kind of think something has shifted in my body, because at age 52, I was in the upper 170's and felt very little difference from how I felt in my 30's even though I weighed about ten lbs less back then, which is saying something because I was able to run a sub 5:00 minute mile in my 30's. A couple of years ago, I had gained some weight up to 200 lbs and I set out to lose weight by at what I thought would be a modest 2lbs per week goal. I gave up alcohol, dedicated each day to walk an hour, and try to stick to one meal a day (a big salad) during the week. Weekends I was free to eat sensibly. To my surprise, my weight came off in a linear fashion to the tune of 4lbs/week until I got down to 184, at which point it predictably slowed. At that point, being more than happy with things, my plan was to slow things down and get into the 170's with a less drastic approach, but that never materialized and i eventually gained the weight back. Even though I know, eating is probably about 80% of losing weight, I think once a man gets under 20% body fat, that we need some kind of movement related motivational factor to keep things going. That could be a race you want to do in a few month's, or a ski trip to get ready for, or some activity that you just want to get better at like cycling, or rock climbing, surfing, skiing etc. However, as I have gotten older, doing those fun things has become more difficult. There is a stiffness and struggle component there that was not there when I was just a few years younger. Joints hurt more, mobility is less, minor injuries occur all the time from seemingly out of nowhere caused by the most minor and random of movements. What was fairly easy to do just a few years prior has become something like pushing a rock up a hill. It has been a major adjustment for me not having that extra motivational factor out there and within just a few month's reach. I still think I can get there, but I have really had to slow my roll and adjust my timelines, which does not always work as your graph has pointed out.
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Daniel Jones?...more like George Jones.
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Dallas Cowboys 2022 Regular Season Thread: Fuck Jerry Jones
Jiggy-Z replied to Vic Mackey's topic in Football
Another interesting factoid about that game: Although replays will have the familiar voices of Pat Summerall and John Madden, the pair were working for Fox Sports instead of their longtime CBS Sports team. I remember it being kind of shock to hear Summerall plugging the FOX Sunday night lineup of the Simpsons and House of Buggin' instead of 60 minutes. I am more cautiously optimistic about this game than I was about last year's game. Last year was just a bad mismatch for Dallas and this year is less so. The NFC west was a meat grinder last year and the roles are reversed this year. Causes for concern: SF has extra rest days and no cross country travel. Dallas kicker issues. Dallas' 2 blown leads and wtf performance against Washington. Possible over hype of Tampa victory. There were a few blown defensive holding that could have been called on Dallas, inexplicable TB interception that changed the trajectory of the game, lots of Dallas 3rd down conversions that usually only work <50% of the time, and some TB drops. That game could have been much closer and then who knows what happens. If Dallas plays mistake free and has success or a stalemate early then I like their chances as long as it does not come down to the kicker. -
Idea stolen from Hogan's Heros, when Hogan had to disarm a bomb that had landed in the stalag but had not detonated. It came down to clipping one of two wires where one disarms and the the other detonates. Hogan ask Clink which wire to cut and Hogan cuts the other wire and saves the day. Hogan said he had no idea which was the right wire to cut, but was pretty sure Clink would pick the wrong one.
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RIP coach GUS. I will forever be grateful for his input on the design of the visiting bull pen walls that could easily be scaled with a back pack full of iced down beer or by my girlfriend in a miniskirt. On more than one occasion I exited the ballpark by going back over the wall out of respect and possibly because I was pretty drunk.
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