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Baboontyme

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  1. The neighbor thing really had me in my feelings before the baby news. Family of 4 that lives a few doors down from us. When we moved in, in our late 20s, the girls were young. Got to know them all. The dad, who speaking of Homer, used to remind me of Ned Flanders. He would take the youngest daughter around as she got into her early teen years with a lawnmower to mow ours and other lawns so she could raise money for college. She would babysit my kids when they were little. Apparently at some point they got a goldfish. When the girls went off to college, one day Terry and Sandy asked us if we could watch the goldfish when they were going out of town. Young and naive I did not recognize this trap. When they returned, Terry told me congratulations, your kids now have a goldfish. They were excited of course, and renamed him Simba. A few years later, I think it was 2017 or so, Terry in his mid 50s and very healthy, had a massive heart attack while on the treadmill and died. It was very sad to see those girls have to mourn their father. And now, just a few years later, their mom is gone as well. Simba outlived both of them. We were talking to the girls at the visitation, the damn goldfish is 15 years old and still going strong. Anyway RIP to Sandy and Terry.
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    Getting old sucks

    Happy Birthday Wally.
  3. It has been a really depressing week. First found out my early 60s, healthy, widowed way too early, neighbor died suddenly last weekend after a massive blood clot. Saw her on a dog walk Friday night, a few hours later she called EMS and was gone. Then the school shooting. Then yesterday we found out that my wife's niece's newborn has an extremely rare genetic disorder and will never walk or talk and probably will have a short life. I am pretty close with the niece and have been her fun uncle since she was a toddler even before we were married. She was the flower girl in our wedding. I got a call from my fil today to ask that my son and I go over to my nieces house tomorrow to carry a freezer into the basement. Of course. They are home from the hospital, this will be my first time seeing the baby. I am going to cry, for sure. I have no idea what to say to them. Just some absolute tragic stuff. I'm ok really, just venting a bit. The sadness that I'm feeling can't even begin to compare with what others are going through. Thanks for listening.
  4. That would be 8. I'm not sure what Roll Left's intent is. I think we need at least ten. I posted it up on the football board the other day and no interest. Not hopeful but we've got a week so no harm in letting it play out and see if we can get 2-4 more.
  5. Didn't think so. But if you do, or know anyone who does, looking for 4-5 others to fill out a league. It will probably be a $100 league, and if we're lucky we might be able to get @Derka's mother to draw our draft order out of a hat. Please post up here if interested.
  6. @Steelers Roll Left I don't know what platform. Would like to fill the league first. If you're interested it's at 8. I would hope for a minimum of 10. Think we could get 2-4 more by next Thursday?
  7. Draft was tonight. If your league pays any kind of attention don't count on those rookie discounts. Hampton, Henderson, Harvey, Kaleb Johnson, T Mac all went for a premium well beyond where they were projected (auction). I have the worst RB room in the history of my league that has been going since 93. James Connor, the Jags (with BT Jr as my keeper) and I better hope Cam Skeetebo comes around. On the plus side it's a ppr league and I'm 7 deep at WR/TE/Flex. Still not what I was going for. Josh Allen is my RB1 I guess.
  8. FYI the Chase Reserve card bonus is now 125k points after 5k spend. Unfortunately I am ineligible I guess because I collected the bonus for the Preferred card. At least they told me during the application before the credit pull. I wound up going with the Amex Delta Gold which gave me 60k Skymiles after 4k spend.
  9. Your buddy, as well? If so we are up to 6. 8 would be pretty dumb but we could do it. Start recruiting fellas.
  10. So that's 4, we only need 8 more. 😂
  11. I saw that Dept Q got renewed for a S2. Good news.
  12. @Doc Sam Beckett @tokamak @Jack Straw @ITHorn I tried last year, might as well try again. Any interest in a $100 - $200ish 10-12 team redraft league? Anyone else interested? All welcome.
  13. Definitely would utilize transfer partners. I'm thinking about going for the Reserve for a year. 100k points when I hit $5k plus $500 Chase travel bonus. I would use the Apple TV, Door dash and might even sign up for Global Entry as next year's trip will probably be abroad. That should negate the annual fee. Then cancel before next year's fee unless I change my mind. I have plenty of open cards and unused credit so I'm not worried about closing a card after a year. Anything I'm not thinking about here? Is the $500 travel credit through Chase straightforward to use? I should then have a nice stash of Chase points to shop around through partners for next summer.
  14. Question, the Chase Southwest RR card has a 100k "bonus points" offer after $4k spend. I'm not seeing in the t&c whether those points are Chase points or RR miles. I'm guessing the latter? If they're regular Chase points I think this would fit the bill. I am half considering the Sapphire preferred as some of the credits may offset the annual fee. The Southwest card only has a $99 annual fee.
  15. This was a bit overstated by some of the guys I was hearing it from, at least if this weekend's game is any evidence. I think Hall is the main back, but they will use Allen in short yardage situations and on the goal line.
  16. Sorry I was in a hurry with that post. I'm out of DTW so Delta but I already have all of Amex cards. preferred Hotel is Marriott (or AirBnb/VRBO) but I have the Bonvoy card. I think Chase points make the most sense because of flexibility and transfer partners so I was leaning that way. My award travel is always going to be for 4 people so adding a bunch of points to my Chase bank would be ideal, I think, but I'm not expert level at the travel hacking stuff which is why I threw it out to you all.
  17. I have to make a ~ $4500 purchase and I initially was just going to put it on my Chase Sapphire Preferred to rack up some points but then I thought hmmm....the 5/24 rule isn't in my way anymore, maybe I should apply for a new card with a $5k spend bonus in the first 3 months and get some real points. The only really good bonuses I'm seeing are for the reserve and the ink business, but that is an $8k spend. Any recs?
  18. Wasn't the Mexican Martini just basically a margarita in a shaker with orange juice? No wonder they had to limit us at two. Man, I generally like our Generation but that was a bad era for us.
  19. I used to play in a shaggy league but it dissolved. Might be interested in another paid league if you need fillers. Back to draft matters, who do you all have on your DND list? I'm not touching these guys at current ADP. CMC. I'm hearing a lot of recent chatter that the pros want this guy at his current ADP. I'm not worried about general injury, I'm worried about THE injury. I'm an NBA guy and recent track record for guys coming off of calf strains with tendinitis in the AT isn't great. Plus I'm a jinx and I don't wish that on him. Jeanty - unless keeper league All Dolphins - getting bad juju about this team this year. Implosion seems like a real possibility. Breece Hall is apparently trending towards being more of a pass catching back in a 3 man timeshare. No thanks. I fear pretty big regression with James Cook. I have listened to a lot of podcasts and I have yet to hear anyone mention in regards to Cook that Josh Allen had a broken left hand for a big chunk of the season and the Bills were not calling his number in the red zone. Any others?
  20. I don't really care either way, my interest level in college sports is way way down. But someone posted this elsewhere, thought it was interesting. Full report https://t.co/WT1wVTCIgn
  21. Holy shit, this. The hoodies are my go to. Also, is it just me or does Brian Kelly come off as a big fucking phony? I'm only on E1. Either this man has changed tremendously or he's a big fucking phony. Good coach either way.
  22. I would maybe get a second opinion before getting cut on. Also re the cortisone shots... I'm far from an expert but I've had a few on my elbows due to weight training related tendinitis, and shoulder for weight training related stuff. My understanding from my Dr is that they can miss. He said he's usually 85-90% accurate but if it didn't work and I wanted to be sure he got it into the joint to see if it helped or not, the best bet is to schedule it using an ultrasound. It would have been another Dr in fact. I tried a lot of options for the elbow, what worked ultimately was to stop curling and a hired a personal trainer to work around my joint issues. He designs workout plans for me that target my weak areas that I had no clue were weak (hips, for example) and allows me to work some of the painful areas in ways that aren't as damaging.
  23. Nothing too exciting thus far but I'm still liking it. I wonder why they didn't profile Keon Coleman. He is hilarious.
  24. Asking because I don't know... Why cold smoke? When I have made batches, I always smoked them in the 250-300 range until they were 160. I'm not saying that's the correct way by any means it was just what I did because I didn't know any better. They were pretty tasty.
  25. Hey all. Has anybody been hitting the podcast draft training circuit as hard as I have been? It's that time of year. Who are you all liking and disking? I'm looking at a lot of the rookies at RB and WR. Hampton, Harvey, Henderson, Johnson. T Mac, Egbuka, love all of these dudes. We draft 8/23.
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