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Puppies put to sleep for the summer.
127-103, better luck next year.
Puppies in a gutless performance, just go away, please.
‘only’ down 77-44.
10m or so left in the 3rd.
Plenty of time for an epic comeback.
I wouldn’t recommend holding your breath waiting for it though.
Dallas better, bow out.
Puppies close to within 23 with 5m left.
Comeback run will start any second now.
Y’all Minneapolis residents okay? Seeing reports of an ‘active incident’ in the Whittier neighborhood. Not super familiar with the city – hope everyone is safe.
An active incident in Murderapolis?
Shocked/Not Shocked.
Hope the ‘Good Guys’ are all ok.
Think a few people killed, one cop. Society at it’s finest. This country is on the precipice of destruction.
Yup, looks like 6 shot (2 cops) shot with 1 killed (cop).
So all the Good Guys made it out ok.
Had a retirement party today for our outgoing director. She’s been on campus for 40 years. Cake. Cards. Some tea. Was nice.
Then news of the Trump conviction came in….
College campus, predominantly liberal if not full-on progressive for the most part. I’m pretty centered politically but leaning more right as I get older. I generally keep my opinions to myself at work – kind of a not-shitting-where-I-eat thought process.
Inevitably someone asks me what I think – I start by saying that I’m not convinced that these convictions will stop Trump from being elected – I mention that I think this will likely do nothing more than rile up his base, further convincing his supporters (whether die-hard or party line voters) to show up on November 5th (my 46th birthday btw…) and vote him into office. I also proffer the idea of newly-minted Americans from Europe (those that have seen and experienced show trials) drawing parallels to today’s convictions and the political unrest of the places they just left and therefore might be inclined to vote DJT in November. In short – this conviction doesn’t change a goddamn thing.
I also go onto mention that in 2016 I voted for Trump – I bought into the idea of change and an outsider genuinely speaking for everyday Americans. 4 years later I’d grown tired of DJT and all that comes with him. The arrogance. The buffoonery. Just flat grew to dislike the man. Right or wrong it’s the truth. (None of those qualities make him unqualified to be our country’s leader btw. Unsavory perhaps, but not unqualified either)
So I was left with a difficult choice in 2020, really no choice at all – I detest Joe Biden. I think he’s a complete fraud. He’ll buy votes, insinuate racism in others that don’t vote for him and enact racist policies that have gone a long way to perpetuate stereotypes regarding minorities, in particular the African American voting base. He’s a career politician with the dirtiest hands in D.C.
So I wrote in Joe Pesci – because as the late, great George Carlin put it ‘Joe Pesci is a guy that gets shit done’
In reality my write in vote for Joe Pesci was my own form of political protest – I refuse to not vote. A lot of men of far better intellect, guts, valor and integrity died for me, for us – to have that right. I don’t take that responsibility lightly. I’ve voted in every major political election (and the local ones) since I was 18. I’ll continue to do so until the undertaker fires up the oven – even if to some it’s a meaningless or ‘throw away’ vote.
Which brings me back to today’s conversation. I mention that neither DJT or FJB have done anything to earn my vote, so I’ll likely vote a 3rd party or write-in candidate (RFK? Stein? Billy Bob Thornton?)
And the immediate response from a coworker was: ‘You’re stupid if you do that, it splits the vote’ – verbatim. She didn’t say the idea was stupid, she said I was stupid. Which translates in my mind to ‘You’re not voting for my guy so you must be voting for the wrong guy’ She then went on to say that I should not vote at all. That it will mean more if I don’t.
Did I miss a fucking meeting or something?
Is it not my right to vote for whomever I like, provided they’re of the age of 35 or older and an American citizen? Aren’t those the rules?
I’m sure it’s okay with all of the aforementioned good men (and their families) that died to ensure that I have that precious right if I instead make a mockery of them and the sacrifice they made by not voting – because it’s not helping either of the major political candidates (by her logic actually hurting her candidate – because there have been soooooo many examples of major political elections that have been decide by a single independent voter not voting for either of the two major candidates ) I mean, y’all remember that single vote for Perot in ‘92 that swung the election in Clinton’s favor right? Right? You don’t? Oh….because it did not nor has it ever fucking happened that way.
I am so sick of this with-us-or-against-us mentality. I’ve got no time for it unless it pertains to sports fandom or Coke vs Pepsi.
TL;DR (your move sawbones…🙂)
Timed to get stoned to the bejeezus and watch some cartoons.
Skol!
How did you reply to her ‘You’re stupid’ comment?
Deflect?
Call her on Her BS.
Change the subject?
I said ‘I don’t think that makes me stupid’ and then politely excused myself to my office, citing the urgency of needing to finish my Blue Cross/Blue Shield benefit elections before my 30 day window.
I have found arguing with the ‘progressive’ never works.
Logic goes out the window once they are woke.
’pick your battles’ my mother said this all the time. Does me no good to argue – it’s the same as playing chess with a pigeon. They’ll knock over every piece, shit all over the board and then flap their wings as though they’ve won and fly away…..
Good analogy.
Once the discussions go off the raid and become an augment I usually disengage.
I grew up with an Alcoholic and know that arguments become fights which by definition are meant to hurt/subdue the other person.
If they refuse to see it nothing you will do will change that.
Same – both of my parents were/are high functioning alcoholics – part of why I’m a cannabis smoker. Both were successful people and my heroes – but both could be incredibly mean spirited when drunk – if the mood struck. Most of the time they were happy drunks, which brought it’s own set of problems – not as bad as those that get violent when drinking, but issues nonetheless.
My dad a mean drunk once he got started.
Since I evidently was a ‘spitting image’ of a younger him I was told constantly how much I was ‘just like him’.
That was fine when I was a youngster but not so much as I become more aware. Decided that was a road I didn’t want to go down.
Good for you SoCal – genuinely mean that. It’s a tough cycle to break.
My brothers managed to enjoy beer and not become him.
But they looked like my mom’s side of the family. Don’t know how much the genetics played a role but I wasn’t willing to risk it.
‘septuple-bogey’ sounds bad.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nelly-korda-suffers-unbelievable-meltdown-us-womens-open-early-septuple-bogey
Happens to me frequently on the course if I play strictly by the rules from the pro tees.
As a medical professional I assume you know the regimen to survive such a thing.
That’s 7 strokes over par on one hole. I think she shot 8 over for the round. Just one bad hole really.
She did say ‘it was just a bad day at the office’.
I guess you could also say that if you worked in a post office and someone went ‘Postal’.
Update on Griffen.
Pulled over 11:35 PM Tuesday. 82 mph in a 55. DWI and possession of cocaine. WTF?
FJB
FJB
Both, get it?
Hope that judge has his head on a swivel
I can bitch all day about this, but am thinking of maybe an alternative.
I have two Republican Senators from my state.
If I don’t hear those two yelling their asses off in the press, I’m going to wear their offices out with emails. And maybe we can talk some of future political donations.
Treasury yields are up today, making the market jittery. Should be a rough ride tomorrow in the market with this news.
I look forward to months of entertaining Democratic attack ads. I’ve already seen hundreds of (Montana senate seat) “shady Sheehy” ads, he’s just another “rich out of stater”…hmmm by Montana definition I too am an out of stater. Bow and I will be tarred and feathered before you know it.
Good thing you have your ‘compound’ to retreat too.
Those ‘Pig Blood Drenched Trees’ should keep the rift raft out.
Yep. Lived here for more than half my life and 100% of my adult life but it’s be an out of state too .
Sad thing is people will fall for it and look past the fact that Tester has received more money from people than anybody in DC.
How many of the jurors do you think are Veterans or have even done one GD thing for this country.
They believe that finding Trump guilty is saving the country from the threat to democracy.
So in their Woke brain that is a good thing for their country.
Well – let the Woksters go fight the wars then.
Can you imagine any of them even managing to survive Basic Training let alone an actual battleground?
Hell no – I can’t even imagine most of them holding a regular job and paying taxes.
Army – right over the hill.
Wouldn’t that lard ass Bragg make a good drill Sergeant.
He would make an excellent role model of what not to be or do.
Trump found guilty on all 34 counts.
Cocaine party tonight at WH.
Now it gets interesting.
Appeals.
Appeals won’t be finalized until after the election.
Will FJB attempt to jail him?
Will Sleepy try to keep him off the ballot now?
Will Brandon bail on the ‘debate with a convicted felon’?
Yes, yes, yes and more. Follow Zelensky’s lead and suspend the election to protect democracy.
Who’s going to die the first shots or will it continue to be nothing but hot air from the right? If this was turned around, the left would have burnt half the country weeks ago.
Have to believe violence will escalate.
If It does Diaper Joe will use it as an excuse to not hold elections.
And if it doesn’t they will take it as approval and go further. We have reached a point that I fear nothing is going to stop until blood is shed. I am absolutely not hoping for it, but I see no way this plays out that doesn’t end in blood shed or further corruption.
They will for sure. go further if our guys don’t fight back and I don’t mean just DC political parlor games.
I don’t think anything will happen and the dems will keep pushing. Biden will call tonight for Trump to be disqualified from the election and then they will suspend the election if necessary “to keep a convicted from from getting into the whitehouse”.
Let’s hope not. But every elected republican in this country, especially in leadership positions, better get on the horn and blow the crap out of it. /they cannot take this lying down.
Win the court of public opinion.
Time for the party who claims to be pro law and justice to be anti law and justice… Gawd I love when this shit happens… To both sides.
Hopefully everybody is keeping their powder dry.
The last time I was this excited to watch one side go comepeltly against one of their core rallying cries was during covid when the Dems had been yelling for decades “My body, my choice!” Start going, “Here, you have to put this in your body!”
If course when I pointed that out to my Dem friends they said it’s a different situation which of course it was but the idea is the same.
Just like this deal with Trump being found guilty on all charges… Of course the law can be skewed and pick on certain people or groups of people but it’s only unfair and injustice worth being upset about when it’s hurting your side. Otherwise it’s RA RA LAW AND ORDER BLAH BLAH BLAH, YOU’RE NOT A VICTIM IF YOU BREAK THE LAW AND I SUPPORT THE LAW… Now it’s, “NO FAIR THE LAW IS PICKING ON MY SIDE WE’RE A VICTIM”
I am not saying that’s everyone here’s stance but that is the narrative trying to be spun by right wing media. And many folks eat that up. Just like left wing media spinning the and twisting on support of vaccines.
Trump has been the most litigated President (and former President) in history. The DoJ conducted a raid on his house for God’s sake. The liberals have weaponized the DoJ against conservatives and everyone better be very afraid now. This trial was a total sham. A petit jury must unanimously agree on guilty, or not guilty, or else it’s a hung jury. The judge said the jury could find Trump guilty though, on any of the charges, even if they didn’t all agree. Travesty of justice here Edge. This was a Kangaroo court if I’ve ever seen one. Gag order after gag order on Trump, while the prosecution tried their case in the media. It was a complete political assassination. Put your political opponents in jail so you can maintain power. This is a horrible moment in our Nation’s history.
Twinkies win 7-6 to stretch their winning streak to One.
Beating the team in front of them in the standing 2 out of 3 is not a bad thing.
Maybe a wild card and draw Yankees, that usually works out.
(checks standings) Yankees on top, Jays in cellar. My interest in MLB now satisfied for another season.
Jill Biden on sniffer:
Has integrity, he’s strong, he’s a leader, he’s smart and energetic.
Ok Jill. The View.
She also said that “the other guy” can’t even string a sentence together and the choice this fall is a choice between good and evil.
I can’t stand her either.
When they sprout that garbage I want to ask them
‘Are you so stupid that you believe it, or do you believe that I am so stupid that I will believe it?
It really is. I mean she wouldn’t say those things if they weren’t true, right?
Well they are ‘preaching to the choir’.
There is nobody watching The View, CNN, MSNBC, ABC that isn’t already woke and have a massive dose of TDS.
an honest question for everyone – if we owned a McDonald’s who would we hire to run it, Old Joe or The Donald? Now imagine an executive position of any type!
I’d buy robots so I didn’t have to pay unskilled workers 15 bucks an hour.
I’d worry they are programming robots to do ‘democratic’ things. Maybe Chimps.
I guess I could just use the McDonald’s as a front to trade and sell guns too. That would be my kind of happy meal. Here’s your burger with a side of AR10.
Guns – you know Joe used to be a big game hunter and bagged an elephant and a lion.
Swam across the Nile while on the continent too.
Was that before or after getting arrested protesting side by side with Mandela?
He part the Red Sea too? His experiences are lengthy, at least in his mind.
And $15 for a “unhappy” meal.
Just like Jon Stewart said… If he’s so energetic why is there no video of that? We have plenty of video if him being an absent minded or wet rag… 🤷♂️
Could question all her accolades but energetic? Give me a break.
Now come come, she is a doctor after all.
She needs a doctor.
You like basketball? I can’t watch pro ball.
I’m starting to believe…dangerous…Dallas Stars are tough…but maybe, just maybe, bring the Cup home????
Prob watch tonight. Last 20 years of the puppies have dulled my interest a tad. Prob watch Oil tom, hope they kick dallas ass.
As an outdoorsman, you might find this mildly interesting. Now that my 350 trees (or more importantly, my financial investment – shallow well, pump, piping, irrigation tubing, drippers, $430 for the trees) are in the ground my worries are far from over, next up will be the durn deer that will sneak over and help themselves. DNRC recommended a product called Plantskydd, I figured it was some topical agent that tastes bad and would wash off quickly.
Read about it, turns out the active ingredient is none other than pigs blood. Safe for the environment and effective at making the deer think a predator is about. I LOVE it. Gonna get some granular concentrate and mix up a batch of stinky pig blood, spray it on like a vampire movie.
Good idea, didn’t know they had. Whitetails get all over food plots. Buddy has them on his land but to attract them.
The only reliable methods I have previously heard of were either putting wire around the trees or leaving a dog outside, and even then with the latter I’ve heard of the deer just staying out of reach of a chained dog, or coming in to feast while the dog is off snoozing in the barn or sniffing a rabbit hole. Well, I’m not shelling out $$$ for chicken wire and poles nor am I gonna leave a dog outside so this product is worth a try. Sounds like you have to be very meticulous mixing it up, not surprisingly it can clump or clot as you mix it up.
Add heparin
I know, that would be nice!
An electric fence can work also. Not high like you would for cattle. Run one wire at a normal height (doesn’t have to be electric) then run an electric wire 12-18 inches tall 18 or so inches outside of the tall wire.
When I get on my computer again, I might have a fence document that could help ya. Not sure as it’s been awhile since I used it but I’ll see if I can find it.
This is a slight variation of what I was describing.
That’s an interesting solution. Even though I own the land I’m loathe to install another fence as it will encroach on a watering station for the cattle.
If you don’t extend it past the trees you should be alright. Cows might trample it though. The inner fence is just a visual thing. It’s too get the deer to look at it while they walk into the lower fence since they can’t feel an elective fence anywhere but their legs. Cows would destroy your trees too and horses would be death to em. The problem with scent and noise is that the deer begone accustomed to it. I could tell you some stories but I’m the interest of not revealing too much to the hooligans here I won’t. I can’t email ya some other information though and tell ya about a case study I personally know of on this electric fence.
Ev Griffen in jail, 2nd DWI in less than a year. Has his off the field issues it seems.
Maybe he just wants the Chiefs to sign him. They’ve had quite the run of arrests this offseason.
Read where some folks are thinking the WR market may soon be going the way of the RB market in the NFL. Too many WR’s that can play at a high level. Sooner or later the position will be devalued. JJ might want to strike while the iron is hot.
That’s what he is trying to do and why he hasn’t signed. He wants his bag.
Off to take another pickup truck load to the dump.
Sorting, organizing, packing, loading, moving sure is fun.
Dump only open until noon today, don’t ask me why.
Back after a bit.
I bet we hauled eight pickup loads to the local charitable organizations. They told us we had “the good stuff”. Essentially brand new Canon camera and all the lenses, etc…
And the comic book slaughter. Oh the humanity!
We have 3 loads to Goodwill so far, a few more scheduled.
They are picky though, nothing to big, old, etc.
Next trip is to the church with Boyds Bear Cottage Collection for their annual ‘Summer BBQ’ White Elephant Sale.
Then some more sorting in the storage unit, another dump trip and then we can concentrate on the house when school is done next week.
School runs a little longer in Cali…been done here for over a week.
Yeah, Goodwill was checking out the stuff we were dropping off with the first load. After that, each time we came back the loading dudes just put stuff in the carts, probably organizing stuff for the “take home” pile haha.
‘School runs a little longer in Cali’
We blame it on all the ‘snow days’ here in So Cal.
Hard to tell what Goodwill will ‘turn away’.
The Teachers Bowling Ball and Bag, Curtain Rods, Snow Sleds, Coat Hangers.
Seems pretty random some times.
My kids’ last day is tomorrow. Not sure about SD2.
My granddaughter’s last day of school is tomorrow.
Not sure why they’re even going tomorrow. It’s a half day. What’s the point of making parents get them there for a couple hours? They’re just going to have recess for 3 hours and call it a year.
Pretty much.
I’m sure it’s simply to meet some stupid federal mandate for minimum days or some such stupidity. Let the schools, especially the private ones do whatever they want, especially if the kids are meeting and exceeding testing unlike the one of the public schools I read about recently. The entire public school scored worse in the standardized testing than an all special needs school.
They were going to have an extra day on Monday, just to ‘check the box’.
The Teacher reminded them that the School Board approved her retirement for Friday so she could not teach on Monday even if she wanted to.
They decided to not have school on Monday.
Keep in mind “minimum aggregate hours” is in part mandated by federal requirements and is paramount to the whole process of converting your tax dollars into schools, upkeep of schools, utilities, and last but not least compensation of teachers.
You may be willing to let teachers skate by with less than 1080 hours of teaching a year (minus the pupil instruction related days ie teaching resource days) but I am not.
Since Glendive is on a 4 day school week cycle they are up against it with minimum aggregate hours. Every time there is a snow storm there is this lament from parents about how there should be a snow day; it’s interesting to see how very few snow days are taken when that would mean there would be additional days of instruction in the spring.
School district can request ‘a waiver’ for a Snow Day if the district is will to submit the paperwork.
They don’t like doing it but it can be done, at least in Calif.
Any comic books?
I have some old Quibbley Comics,
There were sold in the Stars and Stripes Bookstores on European bases in the 80s.
Military humor, doubt anyone else is interested.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=36271991
Are they worth anything? I remember when I was in the army they published a monthly preventative maintenance comic, it was terrible.
Hmmm
Just checked eBay and they are going for $75 to $90 each.
I have a half dozen or so, might be worth seeing what i can get.
Sometimes those oddball comics are worth a lot because of collectors. Others are not however.
I have kept them in a ziplock bag all this time so they are in decent shape.
Just surprised that there is a niche for them still.
Probably old vets that feel nostalgic
Didn’t think that the ‘Old vet comic collectors’ was a very large group.
How is the back holding up?
Could be worse.
After wrestling with the boat last weekend I felt in my thighs and forearms mostly.
Not MT level of physical activity so I can complain too much.
I can complain whatever the circumstances. It’s a gift I have.
I try to keep up the facade that I am still a big, tough, ex army, ex prison guard so I try to keep my complaining on the ‘down low’.
Man, I have a sore back from hauling 50 boxes from the storage room in the basement, to the garage.
Now we get to sort through each box deciding what can be trashed and what can be donated and what gets boxed up and brought back downstairs to never see the light of day until after I am dead.
‘Now we get to sort through each box deciding what can be trashed and what can be donated and what gets boxed up and brought back downstairs to never see the light of day until after I am dead.’
That is what we are going thru with this move, only we have to pay take what we want to keep to Idaho.
Nice part is that since it is a ‘As Is’ sale I can just leave whatever I want (or don’t want) behind.
Old furniture, to heavy for me to move? Leave it.
Old Paint, chemicals, etc, Just Leave it.
As is a nice option given todays housing market. Just say take it or leave it to buyers. You should be settled in in time for our 17-0 season.
JJ will be ready to take us to the ‘promised land’ by 2025.
I hope to be all settled in by the 2024 season.
My parents’ house had a (you can’t make this stuff up) flat panel TV on top of a huge 1980 era console TV in the basement. Both worked but the console TV didn’t have a remote. The movers that hauled that beast out of the basement up those not to code steep ladder like stairs deserved a big tip.
I have one of those ‘huge 1980 (ish) TVs in the garage.
It can’t be hooked up to all the modern tech, wifi and such so it was replaced by a smaller tech friendly model.
Hope to find it a decent home before we move out.
PFF ranks the Vikes as having the 21st best roster…uhhgg.
Biggest Strength – Oline
Biggest weakness – pass rush.
2024 NFL roster rankings: Strengths, weaknesses and X factors for every starting lineup (pff.com)
LOL, PFF is complete crap, no way biggest strength is oline
Oline – what team have they been watching.
This may be a case of “can’t see the forest for the trees”. PFF measures all sorts of stuff, and maybe by some combination of metrics, the Vikings O-line grades well. Like, our tackles are really good, and they score high, so when combined with the other linemen scores, the “overall” looks good. I personally think they should be rated more as a group, based on missed blocks, pressures, hits, knockdowns, and sacks of the QB, etc. But PFF has this “win-loss rate” metric that is exacerbated by combination blocks. If two guys are blocking one guy, and they fail, neither of the linemen take a ding, because it’s too hard to discern culpability, I guess. These kinds of metrics “miscues”, skew the data.
Agreed. Anyone watching our interior OLine the last several years can discern that it’s been a weakness.
We have a great tackle combo in #75 & #71 – but the interior OLine has been hot garbage.
Did seem to me after our change in QB’s our tackles didn’t fair as well
Our IOL is what it is
Agree about as a unit. Four great blocks will be negated by just one crap one.
I’m not normally a fan of new music, but there’s something catchy about this song. I just can’t put a finger on it.
This sounds like one of those A.I. generated songs…there is a website/app where you just type in a few pieces of information and ask AI to build a song around it….you can even choose the genre. It actually does a pretty decent job.
I am glad we are using AI to make humanity better.
It’s also stupid.
Get used to to praise. It will only increase as the legend of JJ grows.
Laughing… you have it bad Bow….
I’m a dum dum….
Onboarded with UNL 3 weeks ago and gave them the wrong account information for my direct deposit…..
No harm, no foul – I have a savings to rely on. But getting the correct information in has been arduous. Apparently UNL HR requires that you leave a message and they’ll get back to you – an odd way of handling roughly 16,000 employees but it ain’t up to me.
After reading about NDR’s loss it occurs to me there are bigger tragedies in the world.
On to bigger and better….
Happy Thorsday!
Skol
Frustrating for sure! But you are correct, we would call that a “1st world problem”.
mjodumdum
I can’t remember the specifics, but when we sold our home in Rochester and moved to Billings back in summer of 2010, I had checked with Wells Fargo to ensure our autopay mortgage payment would not continue after the home was sold and mortgage paid off. “It should stop automatically” I was told. Of course middle of the next month out came the payment and we were right up against a zero balance in chequing thanks to the delay in receiving my first cheque at the new employer, paying for the move and waiting for the moving reimbursement to drop on that first cheque, etc. Called WF and they couldn’t care less, said it would take a couple of months to refund the money they had withdrawn. About six months later had some ticky tacky thing where they charged us a fee accidentally for transferring from chequing to savings account and ballistic MT Viking came out, had them transfer everything over to a local bank, manager was asking again and again if she could make it right and I was all nope nope nope, every time I call the customer service line I get a nincompoop and I’m not taking time out of my work day to traipse down here every time you f up.
I despise WF to this day.
I do too after reading that….
I switched from WF to USAA years back because of issues like that. Only drawback is there isn’t actually a USAA bank site outside of San Antonio so everything is completed electronically.
I have the same issue, Ft Hood Credit Union was taken over by Pentagon Credit Union after I retired. Nearest branch to Calif is Ft Hood Tx.
Still better service than Chase.
USAA and Pentagon Federal are two of the best financial institutions in the country WRT customer service.
If you have a need for more ‘brick and motor’ Navy Federal is equally as good and has hundreds of branches.
USAA is dead to me.
Tried to get auto insurance from them right after I got out and they told me I had to have started before I retired so they had nothing for me.
10 years later they are calling me to offer me all these ‘great services’, I told them to ‘kick rocks’.
That’s weird, I was out for like 15 years and I didn’t even retire from the military.
They told me ‘the rules changed’ and they could offer Insurance/etc to me now.
I figured that they had their chance at my Money.
Makes sense they changed to rules
Can’t speak to insurance. did know for al while USAA had restrictions as to who could use their products. Later restrictions got lifted.
Yeah, I’ve found the service with USAA very good and its a minor inconvenience not to have a physical bank near me, they reimburse for all atm fees, the only thing I can’t do is physically cash a check at their bank, but the bank we use at work will cash any checks for me if needed.
The Teacher has a local Credit Union, Edwards AFB, and now Chase due to the mortgage.
If we pay it off the Idahome with the profits from here maybe we can find a better back local to Boise and Edwards Credit Union has nothing close to there.
I feel that way about Chase, and it is not just their woke policies.
Mortgage on the Idahome was bought, transferred to Chase so The Teacher deals with them.
Went into our local bank (with appointment) saw two suits sitting in a office BS-ing, Receptionist told them we were there, One handled some other customer while we waited and the 2nd sat there 15m then took a lunch break and then come up to get us since our appointment was with him.
The level of contempt they have for their customers is mind boggling.
I dislike most large banks. It doesn’t matter how much the CEO says that they care about their customers, it doesn’t translate down to the lower levels of the company. First of all they are more concerned about their stockholders. And when you have that many employees, the odds are that you are going to run into someone that that doesn’t give a crap.
Pretty much true, but there are larger financial institutions that are well run and concerned with customer satisfaction.
As a CFO and a tax preparer, this stuff makes me chuckle.
Mjolnir on his first day.
Likely.
Which is why he is so easy going about it.
Not until I’m off the clock – I have some scruples…..
Rec for prolific ganja smoke rolling from the nose….
Just over $28 mill per year. No idea on the structure or guarantees.
https://x.com/PFF/status/1796181358970097720
If they can pay Waddle and Tyreek, Kwesi can pay JJettas.
Since I know little of the GM stuff I’m curious how much Kwesi should pay JJ?
Jets wants to be the highest paid non QB of all time.
That’s around $35 million per year, currently.
Thanks. So Waddle is getting about 28 per year and JJ wants 35. JJ is clearly better (at least to me) but is he 7 mil a year better, Have no clue how to evaluate that.
A friend of mine sent me this story this morning. It basically says that Jets is worth it with various data points. I’ve said he is worth one big contact with flexibility in the final year.
https://www.purpleinsider.football/p/justin-jefferson-is-affordable-not?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=43357&post_id=145067654&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=398zqw&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Thanks again. No doubt good stuff and JJ is clearly the best.
Game 5 tonight wolves fans! Hopefully they give the home crowd a good show. I read that KG is going to be in the building tonight. Lets keep this series alive!
Can KG suit up? He looks to be in pretty good shape. And if Towns keeps making stupid fouls to get in foul trouble we might need him.
But GO WOLVES…would love it if they can extend this another game.
Edmonton knotted up the WCF last night. Now it is a best of three series, with Dallas having home ice advantage. It sounds simple, but Edmonton has to come out and push offensively with all their abilities. If Chris Tanev can’t play for the Stars that will be huge, he is a beast d-man. Game 5 is the key to the series! (I sound like a broken record, of course Edmonton lost game 5 in Vancouver in the semi final).
I expect the season to end tonight….
I think they win at home tonight and lose game 6 in Dallas
Looking at the Nashville game, I was looking at pricing and flights/ tickets…I could be there that Saturday – Tuesday and can do the whole trip for under $1500. I want to book plane tickets and my place to stay sooner than later, will get game tickets closer to the game.
You like music and alcohol so should have a great time. Good food too.
I know! Im excited. I would take Monday off to just do some exploring by myself I think, my other buddy thats going is still a party animal and has more money to throw away than I do so Ill probably avoid him that day lol and just hang out Sat and Sunday.
My best buddy lives in Nashville. Huge Titans fan. You’ll have a blast dude.
When we’ve stayed there we have stayed near Vanderbilt and either caught a bus or uber’d downtown. Pretty easy walk across the bridge to the stadium. Traffic across the river is bananas on game day.
Thanks for the pointers! Im sure Ubers are going to be mega $$ to get on the main drag or the stadium. Walking distance would be nice. Even if its a 30-45 min walk
Yeah, it’s only 2 miles from Vandy to downtown so that’s definitely doable, same distance we walk the dogs in the morning. Only problem is my wife is usually wearing something that isn’t “two mile walk” friendly.
A coworker was just there and said an Uber from the Air BnB for an 8 minute trip was like 45 bucks or something ridiculous.
Holy crap. A couple of trips like that and you could just swing a rental.
Something we do a lot in big cities is do the local hop on hop off tour bus, see the places we want to spend more time and ask the drivers the easiest way to get here from there, etc…a lot of times we just extend the hop on hop off tickets and use that system. We’ve even had bus drivers offer to pick us up in their personal vehicle at the corner of x and y when they are heading home from another job. We’re what you call friendly folks with innocent dispositions.
$46 gets you a 3 day hop on hop off on the Nashville scene with a coupon in the city tourist guide.
Yeah, I don’t remember the exact price he said but I do remember I about threw up when he said it. And like I said, they weren’t far from downtown.
Sad day in NoDakRube land today.
Lost a family friend in car accident yesterday.
Vietnam Vet, patriot, and all around good dude.
Cherish each day you have with those who share your life – so easy to forget.
Oh man, that is rough.
Sorry for your loss
Sorry to hear, RIP
Definitely a shock to the system when that happens.
Take care of yourself and their family.
Sorry NDR.
And sorry to hear another Patriot has been lost.
My condolences NDR….
What happened?
Apparently dozed off, woke up, over corrected, lost control, left the highway, hit a fence. They were 6 hours into a long road trip. Middle of the day, he just got sleepy apparently.
Just gives one chills. Think about all the times I’ve been getting heavy eyelids on a long road trip, keep pushing through it slapping my face, etc. Back in the day I rolled on several ambulance calls with that same scenario or the ol’ swerved to miss a deer trick. Got to transport loved ones in shock, wanted to know why we didn’t transport their spouse, child, etc…
Hopefully the death was quick. Small mercies. I’d hate to be crushed under a car feeling my life slip away.
Been involved in many cases, dude or dudette gets up in the morning thinking just an average day, didn’t realize they’d be dead by dinner time.
I have gotten smarter about that as I have aged. No longer to I play hero when the eyelids are heavy…now I find a spot to pull off and take a 20 minute power nap. It does wonders.
Did that when I went to my Daughters wedding in Houston. Drove back 24 hrs straight with two power naps.
The Teachers mom had passed the day after the wedding so I wanted to get back to offer her support. She didn’t go to the wedding since she knew her mom was fading.
If you are driving through the night, stop just before the sun comes up, power nap for an hour and when you wake up you feel like you got an entire night’s sleep since you went to sleep in the dark and woke up in the light.
Good advice,
In that case I left middle of the night Texas time and got here late night Calif time.
Now The Teacher and I trade off driving on long trips. And we have not do the ‘overnight drive’ together yet, more like 12-16 hrs so far.
It doesn’t obviously work 100%, but it will definitely make a difference for a few hours usually.
Condolences NoDak. Good point to remember to cherish every day. We can take things for granted, way too easily.
Sorry for your loss.
Saw the collectibles discussion a few days ago. Spring cleaning project is cleaning out our storage room.
I have 4 large boxes of collectibles to go through. Found the Paul Krause autographed football, and the Randy Moss / Daunte Culpepper cub foods bobbleheads(kinda worthless, but still in package).
Best find was a few complete sets of the upper deck initial football sets, and the Upper Deck Randy Moss card.
Also a “Last Game at the Met ” Pennant – my parents were at that game.
I now have a project from my project. I have to go through 4 boxes of collectibles and decide what to keep.
The football and Moss bobblehead are going on my Vikings Shrine for sure.
Keep all of it
Exactly. Let your kids deal with it when you die.
So, this is what started the project. Dad is still alive, but is in memory care and as clueless as Sleepy Joe. But we had to go through all his useless crap. Mom passed 11 years ago, and same issue. We started this to make things easier on my kids. First step was having a will and medical directives in place.
Next is throwing away shit that they will not care about.
But collectibles are at least sometimes worth money.
My stepkids made it clear when we moved to GDV from Billings that they didn’t want any of our crap. So, as I mentioned above, we hauled everything we hadn’t used in the last couple of years to the local charitable organizations. Purging is good.
Oh, my “collectible” comic books? Tossed them in the burn bin at the dump. Hundreds of comic books. VP loves that story.
I feel the same way VP when I hear that. I go to quite a few auctions, and comics can bring in some money. I’ve got a nice little collection myself but nothing worth a fortune. It’s like trading cards though, condition means everything.
My collection is pretty small and I need to get it organized. Right now, it has more value to me than any real monetary value.
And you are correct, condition means everything.
That’s your consolation, VP, my comics had all been read, they were all intact but they smelled and looked like what you would expect 40 year old comic books to look like after sitting in a box in the basement for years.
It’s making more sense now. They were Hugh “comics” and the smell was probably pretty bad.
We were fortunate with my parents as they had downsized so there wasn’t much to go through. However, when my in-laws pass, that is going to be a nightmare. My mother-in-law has sheds and sheds of crap on the old farm. To her credit, she has started some clean-up, but there is no way she will get through it all. Her son suggested we just light a match.
That works, unless you are told there is some old antique worth $25,000 buried beneath it all.
My mother-in-law thinks that all of her stuff is valuable. It is not.
I think that’s mostly an old person thing.
My mom also thinks that. She saves and protects everything.
She stopped wearing jewelry because she doesn’t want the hospital to take it. She lives in an over 55 condo, and is not in a hospital.
As a ‘horder’ I understand. Something may not be worth 2 cents, but if it has sentimental value to me, it’s valuable.
I get that. I have stuff like that. My MIL, however, thinks that she has stuff that is monetarily valuable. However, even if it did have some value in the past, when you leave it in an unsealed shed that is leaky and has easy access to wild animals, it gets ruined and the value is decreased significantly.
Plus we are a little afraid to go into some of the sheds because they might fall down on us.
Yep….seen that before…my father in law had lots of stuff that “may” have been valuable. But leave it out in a leaky back shed for 30 years and its crap…but he still thinks its valuabe.
Speaking of matches, many locals here in town said the same thing about the “historic” Jordan Inn downtown. Sat abandoned for years, the owner refused to do anything about the deteriorating condition of the place, filled with asbestos, rodents, drug paraphernalia, etc…he died about three years ago.
The city even had a study done on what could be done – it was going to be $8 million to demolish it given the asbestos, $20 million to restore to former glory.
Then the daughter of some so and so famous artist started a grass roots campaign to get his largest painting removed – it was painted directly on the plaster wall, some 40 feet long, behind the bar…myself I thought it was a garish nightmare but then I’m no pinkie finger wine sipping art critic. That was going to cost 100’s of thousands.
Whole shitting thing burned to the ground over a year ago, city had to topple what was left of the exterior walls, whole thing sits as a massive pile of debris in the middle of downtown to this day because of the environmental concerns, and the wife of the owner refuses to take ownership and there is no insurance on the place. At least that took care of the whole “save the painting” movement.
Fuckers. I blame Ponder.
‘I’m no pinkie finger wine sipping art critic’
Rec for that line alone.
I just meant keep all the Vikings stuff, get rid of everything else
Surly, that is exactly where we are too. Hopefully a long way from death, but we are in the “It’s time to start getting rid of stuff phase”.
Trying to get more stuff out of the house then we bring into it.
I have been watching some collectible shows on YouTube lately. Kind of fun.
Man, why did I open any of my toys as a kid and play with them?
Biggest regret is the Tonka Trucks and the corvette’s with the car hauler. All metal from the mid 60s and I took care of my toys. Mom tossed those, and my Atari 2600. And yes, I had the ET game. Fucking hated that game, but I had it.
Keep it all – does the Moss card feature him in his college Uni?
Sadly, no. It is the one with him in vikings gear without pads.
I was busy with work yesterday and missed this, it obviously makes the team better, but I wonder what it means for Brandel, maybe he will legitimately have a competition with Ingram?
https://x.com/alec_lewis/status/1795827369800036573
Not sure if he will even start(Risner). We will see I guess.
Maybe they saw enough of Brandel that they want more depth?
Or, maybe Brandel still sucks.
Its only May, Risner sat out into the season last year because he didn’t get a deal he liked. He will be starting at LG. Brandel has played everywhere on the line outside of center, question is who starts at RG.
Thursday, huh. I came across my old Vikings Thursday poem the other day…
Turpid Thursday (sung to the tune of Manic Monday)
Six o’clock already,
I was just in the middle of a dream,
The Vikings won a Super Bowl,
And named the planet’s most awesome team,
But we can’t be great,
No matter how much our QB’s paid,
These are the days,
We wish Teddy didn’t have skinny legs,
It’s just another Turpid Thursday,
(Skol-Skol)
I wish it was Sunday,
(Skol-Skol)
That’s Zimmer’s fun day,
(Skol-Skol)
His we-need-to-have-more-runs day,
It’s just another Turpid Thursday…
Have to catch an early train,
To get to US Bank by noon,
Ziggy goes by aeroplane,
Paid for by stadium boons,
Well, it takes me so long
Just to dry my Vikings tears,
Blame it on the lack of rings,
Packers have four of those things…
It’s just another Turpid Thursday,
(Skol-Skol)
I wish it was Sunday,
(Skol-Skol)
That’s Vikings fun day,
(Skol-Skol)
Their we-almost-just-about-won day,
It’s just another Turpid Thursday…
Blame it on bad luck,
But its been more than 40 years,
All of the drafts,
Why’d the Vikes pick so many busts?
To blow it,
Doesn’t it matter?
That our hopes exist to be dashed?
Morale is down,
Spielman tells us in his boardroom voice,
“Don’t worry, next year we’ll make some noise,”
Time it goes so fast,
When your team’s a losing one…
It’s just another Turpid Thursday,
(Skol-Skol)
I wish it was Sunday,
(Skol-Skol)
That’s my numb day,
(Skol-Skol)
My Vikings-Super-Bowl-wins: none day,
It’s just another Turpid Thursday…
GM
FTP!
SKOL!
Happy Thorsday!
PWHL Minnesota wins first-ever Walter Cup championship: ‘We knew we had to have it’ – The Athletic (nytimes.com)
Minnesota wins the first PWHL Championship!
What is pwhl and what is a walter cup?
Lol I had that same thought yesterday when I saw it in the news. “There’s a women’s hockey league?”
Women play hockey?
That’s sexist.
Minnesota has had female hockey for 20 years? at the UofM.
‘sexist’ – I hear that once in a while.
This is the inaugural year of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). Just saw it on the news and had to post it. Minny finally gets another Championship. Too bad it is another Women’s sport…
First! SKOL!
FTP!
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