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thunderlounge

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  1. Kinda digging the weekly serial type deal. Wasn’t sure with season 1, but it grew on me. Isn’t going to win awards in a landslide, but that’s ok. It’s a fun little show that doesn’t take much effort.
  2. Harry, I'm comin in! Oh, well you can't pit right now, Cole. What!? We're eating ice cream. (Side note, Bill France is rolling over in his grave, and has been for nearly 2 decades.)
  3. So can I. So can Shadow.
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    Our state works in a very similar way. I think it’s bullshit. It should be that you either sign it, or it’s dead. Talk about passive-aggressive.
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    ^^ Not my most shining moments this week, but it is what it is. Feel a little guilty, honestly, as it’s been solo flights. l think I’m good. When it’s gone it’s gone. Shouldn’t have had another roll of the dice after 5 years from the last. But it kinda fell into my lap out of the blue, so told myself a little won’t hurt and will remind me of why I don’t. Well, not a proud moment, but so far I seem ok overall.
  6. Cute little thing. Looks like it could be in Toy Story, Cars, or others. By that, I’m saying it’s aesthetically well designed, and while I have no experience with it (or anything newer than the 80’s, honestly), but if they put half that much thought into mechanical operation/cleaning quality, and quality parts, it looks like you got a big win.
  7. Don't worry, Xander, it'll come right back for ya.
  8. I didn't notice the "post" was from Microcenter. Glazed right over that. I saw the pic and thought it was a Best Buy. While we're on the topic of said pic, why do people feel the need to take their dog (or try to) into every freakin store? I love the hell out of my pup, but she doesn't belong in a store or anywhere else like that. PetSmart excluded, but that's a different deal. They encourage it. (Maybe that's the problem.) Even then, I still don't take her in there, either.
  9. Why is this not surprising me?
  10. Scottie solo at -10, through 13. JT and Eckroat at -9, through 15 and 5, respectively. Rors/Bradley at -6, just starting their round.
  11. Take the whole thing out. You don’t want to start a new tree from a volunteer. At least that’s what I’ve always been told, FWIW.
  12. Oh no, man, far from it. Now you go messin with someone’s sister, or their meth stash, you can be escorted across state line right quick.
  13. Ha ha ha ha ha. That’s funny. My cousin wrestled in high school. Made state every year, podium each time. Had some smaller schools after him hard. We went to watch him several times, and even then I’m the same way as you. Couldn’t tell you how it scores. Maybe then I could have in the moment a bit, but that left my head when walking out the door. Nothing against it, just not really my cup of tea. Prior to my cousin, the most exposure I’d had to it was a two-week stint in gym class in jr high. Which pretty much turned into a bunch of boys imitating WWF moves.
  14. You think it will take that long to start losing recruits? I’m skeptical they can hold out that long. Surely before that time, at least one of them gets pulled aside by someone in the know and steers them clear. Then again, for some of their class, that’s their “best” offer, which isn’t saying much. The replies are gold. "Uhhh...WRONG stupid whorn...they were unranked in 2010, 2012, 2021 and finished ranked!" Yeah no shit...that's why he clearly said their AP ranking at the beginning of the year...if you're unranked you can't be worse than that Their logic in defending that is funny. Granted, they did finish ranked, but you’re spot on. Those years aren’t included in the scenario from the jump. Those years they weren’t ranked, which means the discussion of going from ranked preseason doesn’t apply. The semantics they try to grasp can be quite the gymnastic routine. This one isn’t quite as bad, basic twist off the vault, but damn they just can’t help themselves from trying in any situation.
  15. I played a golf course called Cosmo, so this hits close to home.
  16. Ol Tate Martell has a sister, Rylee. Just sayin. What’s this Sandell kid got to share?
  17. Scottie and Eckroat tied at -9. JJ got one back, now +5.
  18. Scottie gives one back on 6, sitting real pretty for the bounce back on 7. The guy he was tied with hasn't teed off yet, but highest on the course other than Scottie is Henley at -5 and he's on 17. Rest at the top will be on the course by 12:45. ETA: JJ's +6 through 7.
  19. This is a random thought, more about media formats than equipment, but it sure would be nice if they came up with some sort of "sync" signal at the beginning of the media (whether on connection to a stream, beginning of a program, whatever video bits start the disc, whatever.) Sure, but a sync signal for what? Audio levels. A signal to let the audio device(s) know what base level the audio is. Based on that, a receiver/tv/whatever would be able to reference that to its current volume and adjust behind the scenes to keep things consistent. End result? One show/app/blu-ray/stream/etc is the same overall base volume as the next. So no more having to turn the volume up and down between shows/ads/etc because one has a higher/lower base than another. So a volume setting of say 20 on your tv. Well, the next show comes along and to have the dialog at the same level you have to adjust the volume. Granted it's not every show, but for example right now I have the ESPN app up with Scotties featured group. The volume is at 32 on the dial. That app is loud. Normally the volume is set around 45. Other times you go to watch a different app or start a movie, and you have to turn it up to 50, 55, very rare occasions 60, just to have the volume at the same level instead of basting your ears out, or making you wonder if you need hearing aids. So the tv/audio device would get a signal saying this show/moving/stream is based at whatever dB level. The tv can take that info and adjust it's output so it's still at the same volume you have selected. Not talking about things like night mode, and damping signals. Talking about the actual volume levels being different between sources/shows/streams/etc. I mean if we can split signals into however many audio channels and this and that, why can't they add a level signal? Seems like it wouldn't be difficult to create, and not terrible to implement on the hardware side. Sorry. Just a random thought after I opened the ESPN app and got smacked in the face. lol
  20. Absolutely. There is a lot we can all learn from his open performance, and not just Sunday. Quite the inspirational event.
  21. Great insight and sharing going on. Thanks to all. I pretty much stopped drinking often about 10 years ago. After that, it was maybe a few times a year I’d have a few. Typically at an event or get together. Other than that, I was having a beer every now and then, that was it. One was plenty. In the past 5-6 years, it’s came to where maybe 2-3 times a year, if that, and one is more than enough. More times than not, I get 2/3 of it down and I’m content. There’s a big family history with it, grandpa, both my aunts were bad (although socially functional), my mom some but not near as bad. When I was about 4, I was staying at my grandparent. At the time it was about a 3.5-4hr drive from where we lived. My grandma calls my mom one afternoon, grandpa was out cold on the couch, they better come get me. That incident caused my mom and grandma to put the fear of God in grandpa. He quit cold turkey. FF almost 30 years and grandma passes away. This hurt my grandpa severely. Within 18 months he was off the wagon. He went though a phase where he’d drink himself sick over many months (roller coaster going down), end up in the hospital, they’d fix him (roller coaster going up), and he’d be good for a little while. Rinse, repeat, until 9 years later and they couldn’t fix him that time. A few weeks later, he passed. My brother got bad for a while. Two DWI’s, didn’t phase him. Thankfully they were far enough apart the first one had dropped off. Both times were slaps on the wrist. Then maybe 7-8 years ago he was coming home from work (at a bar/restaurant) late at night after closing up and hanging around after for some drinks. About 6 blocks from his house, he drops his smoke onto the floorboard, ends up going over the right side curb, plowed through the corner of someones fence, taking out about 30ft of fence and “totaling” his car. Cops show up, he blows a .13, and takes the ride. He gets a good lawyer, and he was lucky he did. After dragging it out about 4 months, out of nowhere he gets a call: all charges dropped. Apparently during discovery or whatever phase, after a couple months, the city could not prove whatsoever that the breathalyzer was checked and properly calibrated. Not just that shift, but on-going for the previous few weeks. So the judge dropped it, since they didn’t take a backup blood test. If they knew the machine was having issues, why not take a backup just to be safe? Their loss. However, to be fully honest, it was probably the better outcome for everyone. Yeah, my brother was one lucky mother fucker, and should have had some form of punishment. However, that one night scared him straight. He hasn’t had a drink since that night. In the long-term grand scheme of things, it’s better for everybody. Better for him, as he quit the sauce. Better for the community as he isn’t out there driving intoxicated. Had he ended up in the system, I don’t think the same result happens, and the next time might have been fatally worse. So yeah, that stuff has weighed heavily into my consumption. As well it should. I didn’t want any part of shit like that. Thankfully I can keep it in check. I was able to walk back from that line and be alright.
  22. Oh this is not going to go well.
  23. Thanks, nutsack, now I have an ear worm
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