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Ojo Rojo

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  1. The umpires are having far too much of an effect on the outcome of games. It's maddening.
  2. I don't hate this. Would I like to have Vlad, Jr.? Sure. But as a roster piece that would allow us to extend or sign other dudes, this could work.
  3. Texas 38 Michigan 17 Michigan receiving yards - 224.
  4. I fly fish freshwater rivers and tie my own flies for that. Recently got a Renzetti rotary vice that I love. I still use a casting rod in saltwater and fish about half bait, half lures. I have a saltwater fly rig and I've tied a few saltwater flies. I'm definitely heading the direction of doing that exclusively (if it's not blowing 20 mph). I have the ALPS wrapper.
  5. This year I took up rod building. It marries two things I really enjoy: fishing and making shit in the garage. I'm still very new. I've only built two rods from scratch. I've added thread wraps to several rods I already had. Here are some pics:
  6. Here, lazy ass.
  7. In a bind with a scheduling conflict. I have six tickets to Saturday's game I'd like to sell at face value. Sec. 107 Row 17 Seats 3-8. $120.56 each.
  8. There's a whole YouTube rabbit hole you can go down of people from different parts of the world trying different kinds of food. The tribal people (Pakistan/Afghanistan border area) ones are my favorites.
  9. We also have the classic married couple situation where I can't find anything in the fucking house so I have to ask her all the time where shit is. Sometimes, the item is right in front of my goddamned face. My theory, supported by copious evidence, is that my wife never puts shit back where it belongs or puts shit in illogical places so frequently that I never expect things to be where they should be. So there is an automatic assumption in my brain that whatever I am looking for is not where it is supposed to be and is in a place I would never look. It's just easier to ask her.
  10. I don't know if I changed or my wife changed, but I started to not want to have to listen to all of the irrelevant details maybe two years ago or so. Either that or she started conversing only in 99% irrelevant details. I will ask a simple question, like, "Where is that salsa I bought yesterday?" The answer: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." When I stop her at Deuteronomy and ask for the end of the story then I'm the asshole.
  11. Or maybe not. Winning doesn't necessarily translate to an increase in profits. They had an operating income of $68.4M last year (among the highest in the league).
  12. 1. Go see some fucking dinosaurs. 2. Nov. 22, 1963. Grassy knoll, Dallas, TX. 3. Go back about 30,000 years before there were people in N. America and have an epic fishing session on the TX coast. 4. Go back and ask Jesus how he feels about women terminating pregnancies and ask him to write it down for posterity. Going to the future would be interesting, but possibly terrifying. It would be pretty sad if you went a couple thousand years in the future and Earth is nothing but ash.
  13. Does anyone else think it's weird that Tucker has been out so long with a bruise? Are they just resting him or is it a more serious injury than they let on?
  14. Yes, for sure.
  15. It used to be fun, but the last couple of times have been...really not fun. Sucks that it's something I can't enjoy. But I think I've learned my lesson and I'm pretty much where you've landed.
  16. Unfortunately, this was self-induced. Smoked some pot after years and years of not. Didn't know how strong it was or anything. So dumb. Basically initiated my worst living nightmare. It was very hard to get a hold of myself. I'm still sort of quivering about it. In my nightmare, talking about it is some sort of damning admission, which made the whole thing worse because I felt I couldn't talk to anyone about it.
  17. Having some fucked up anxiety mixed with OCD runaway thoughts. Sucks. Need someone to tell me I'm not going fucking crazy.
  18. Did it stop dripping? Do you have a two story house? I learned something at our last house. The AC drain line ties into the drain system for the rest of the house, usually at upstairs sinks. If you look at the plumbing under those sinks you might see a Y fitting with a hose attached to it. This is where the AC drain line ties in. Several times I found that sediment would clog that Y fitting and even if I blew out an obstruction it would still fill up because the clogs were still there at those Y fittings. So I removed the pipe clamps and took a screwdriver and reamed out the fitting to clear it. Voila.
  19. So he wasn't an international gangster, but was he the serial check skipper? I wasn't clear about that.
  20. He is 8.
  21. I saw a guy at a washers tournament with no arms and he had burn scars over most of his body. He had mechanical claws for hands and I'll be damned if he wasn't really good at washers. I found out what happened to him - he was powerwashing a building near an electrical relay station and either backed into a hot transformer or made contact with the sprayer. Either way, it fucked him way up.
  22. Thanks. Really appreciate the insight and offers for help. I actually didn't know about the county-provided resource. Is it for people over 18 who still need services?
  23. Another update since it's been a while and others might benefit from our experience. We ended up enrolling our son in a private school for kids with behavioral problems. When we went to tour it the situation was a bit jarring. We could hear a kid raging out in a special room they have for such episodes; a couple of kids came up to us and just started talking to us about random stuff. They were nice, but it was socially awkward. That said, the administrator was great and when we toured the school our son really seemed at ease and liked it. At the end, uncharacteristically, he gave the administrator who gave us the tour a hug. His reaction to the school, our perception of it, their resources and professionalism and approach, plus our own research and conversations with other parents who either had their kids there or knew someone who did all led to us enrolling him. He started a few weeks into the fall semester last year. They told us that the first month or so was going to be tough, but that he would eventually get more comfortable. That is exactly what happened. He would do the same things he'd done before - cuss, scream, try to run out of the classroom, hit people - but the teachers were trained for this type of thing and all of the kids there were like that so they had a ton of experience dealing with it. They had basically perfected methods to address his exact types of behaviors. So even though at first his behavior wasn't better, the school was able and willing to deal with it and we didn't get calls or have to go pick him up or sit with him. It was a huge relief for my wife and me. The downside? Tuition is $40K/year. We made the decision that he would go to that school no matter what because it was so clearly what he needed. Our son even told us later that his life changed (for the better) when he started at the new school. Hearing that made all of the sacrifice worth it. Fast forward. We got a recommendation from our pediatrician to take him to a pediatric neurologist. We did and they ordered some additional testing. The result? High-functioning autism. My wife cried when we got that diagnosis. I was surprised she did. After everything I had learned, I was expecting it and wasn't surprised or upset by it at all. If anything, I was relieved to get an even clearer picture of what my son has and how to deal with it. We've also changed his meds because the Abilify made him gain a lot of weight. So he's on low dosages of Lexapro and Vyvanse. His behavior overall is better, but he still has many, many episodes. He still melts down and cries and screams when things don't go a certain way. He still does socially unacceptable shit; mainly cussing. During the spring semester at the private school he showed strong progress, both behaviorally and academically. He was able to do more academic work and progress because he was trained by the teachers how to cope when he got frustrated. He's still behind, but he's made a lot of progress. He can read, but it's probably not at grade level. Because of the cost of the school we had to sell our house and move to a smaller, less expensive house. I resisted that as long as we could, but ultimately it was the decision we had to make. It was still hard for me, but now that we've actually moved it's really not so bad. I've actually kind of enjoyed the change of scenery. Over time the lack of financial stress will also probably prove that the decision was totally worth it. I guess the takeaway I would have for anyone starting to deal with this is that it has taken us A LONG time to get to a place, with a diagnosis and medication and the right school, where we can actually live our lives without total anxiety and misery. It's been like five years or so since all of this started.
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