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Not too much happening. Addison pled guilty to a minor offense, so now the NFL gets to decide how many games he will miss for the Vikings this year. Rookies report to camp on Sunday, and the rest of the team reports on Kirko Tuesday.
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Since we now know where Green Bay is, where in the heck is Couer D’Alene. Heard it is beautiful there, but have no idea where it is?
Coeur D’Alene is in the upper tip of Idaho.
Across the border from Spokane and only about a dozen miles south of Canada.
Beautiful country, mountains, lakes, forest. Very snowy in the winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeur_d%27Alene,_Idaho
You live close? Looks beautiful but am past my ‘snow stage’ of life.
It is a couple 100 miles north of here.
Son In Law and his wife live near Spokane so we have visited.
I read a statement in an article about McCarthy, that he is “the first quarterback drafted in the first round to miss their entire rookie season due to an injury.”
Surely that cannot be the case…
Heard that last season.
Not sure why anyone cares if it is true or not.
Vikings drafted him and he got hurt and missed the whole season.
Would he have played much if he hadn’t been injured given our record with Sam? Who knows.
Hey SoCal, good morning… yeah, that seems very odd that McCarthy is the only first round QB to miss their rookie season due to injury. After all these decades of the NFL. Just surprised me.
Scottie Scheffler has the lead at 10 under par at the British Open. Rory is at 3 under, and Rickie Fowler made the cut at 1 under. Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth squeaked in too, so there’s a few guys I’ll be watching to morrow on moving day. Not real keen on Scottie. If he wins, OK. But kind of like to see someone emerge who hasn’t won in a while.
I love Scheffler.
I admire dominance in the sport.
I want records to be broken.
Between Scottie and Fitz i take Scottie. Think they tee at 10:35 Eastern.
It could have been worse for the field, Scottie missed a couple of shorter putts coming in. And I think Scottie has the most solid game of these guys.
I agree JR. Scheffler’s game has been getting stronger and stronger as the season has progressed. Fitzpatrick missed some tiny putts as he closed out his round, then made a long one for par at the 18th, to avoid dropping another shot.
Moving day tomorrow, and I do hope Rickie makes some sort of move. We’ll see who has what in their bag!
My power was out for 2 hours. It doesn’t look like I missed much.
It has been a nice, quiet, lazy day so far.
I spent the last 2 hours reading a Dean Koontz novel.
Which one??
I have read “The Watchers” and one other one I can’t remember which one….
The Watchers made me a Koontz fan back in the day.
There is a part of the book that takes place in a park in Santa Barbara right near my elementary school.
Plus it had an intelligent golden retriever in it. I read all of the Koontz novels until the ‘formula’ got too old and repetitive.
The ‘Odd Thomas’ series was the last of his that I read.
I loved The Watchers. They made it into a movie which was ok. I think I have only read the first Odd Thomas. That was good.
The 1st one was the best as it is with any series, but the rest are pretty good also.
No backup generator??!!
Is it worth it to have a backup generator for when you need it once a year?
How much do they cost?
If it prevents missing one of my brilliant posts…YES!
You could just use your phone.
Its called wireless transmission.
Funnily enough when we moved here getting a backup generator was a priority for me…as we are out on the distal end of a power line run and would be low priority for restoration in event of a widespread outage.
Fully installed in 2022.
Has only run in an actual power outage one time (for an hour) since then.
I’m going to say it was about 16 all in for a 22 kW generator, gas and power hookup, the metal base thing that it sits on (we ordered and installed the latter ourself, great for keeping it out of the water and snow and makes it easy to do maintenance since it is at standing height). More to installation than you might think. For example, the transfer switch (make sure you order one with the transfer switch or they will gouge you to order separate) cannot be mounted on the electric co-op pole and has it’s own pole that it sits on.
We got one 3 years ago. I figured we had the money, are retired, i dont want the inconvenience, plus we are on well water….no power no toilet flush.
Cost about 12000. Longest it was on was 2 days
If money is no object, by all means.
$12,000 is too much for me to spend today.
But as I age, I might splurge.
We are rarely without power and I’m not sure what happened today. It is a pleasant 74 degree, mostly sunny day. I know that there is a lot (I mean a lot alot) of road construction around here so I’m wondering if someone didn’t cut a line or knock over a pole or something. We maybe lose power once or twice a year and it is rare that it is out for 2 hours. Usually it is less than an hour.
We got a generator in Calif when they started shutting off the power anytime that they had high winds in the area.
When I moved I gave it away to The Teachers BFFs husband. We have had one power outage her for about an hour but we had battery powered lanterns and flash lights in every room of the house already.
We did get a gas grill last fall since we have an electric stove. So we needed some way to heat up food/water if needed. We have a Ex-Commifornians preppier mentally expecting things to fail us. Not needed as much here but it will take is awhile to lose it.
I had announced a couple of weeks ago that I was going to be a Grandpa for the first time. I found out this last weekend, that I am going to be having a granddaughter in January.
Crongrats.
Start thinking of all the really cool gifts that you can give her that will really annoy her parents. Glitter Bombs, drum sets, etc, etc.
Congrats!
Congratulations!!! Let the spoiling begin…..
My birthday is the 21st of January, in case you were wondering…
Congrats, and enjoy her!
They aren’t called “Grand…” for nothing.
Congrats!
So at the Rec Center where The Teacher and I work out has Summer Programs with dozens of kids broken down by age. Yesterday a group of younger kids (6-8) were on the Basketball Courts playing Hockey with some cheap plastic sticks/puck/goals. It was quite the scrum with 12-15 uncoordinated kids trying to hit the puck toward one goal or another.
Finally the puck got loose and found it’s way into a goal. One little girl was so into it that she threw up her arms, hockey stick included, leaned back her head and screamed at the top of her lungs “Touchdown!!”
It made me laugh out loud and put a smile on my face for the rest of my power walk.
She has good parents. 😂
It is fun to watch the groups as the walking/jogging/running track circles the 3 BB courts. But lots of kids playing sure can be loud.
Saw one adult staffer giving a group of youngsters a ‘talking to’ about ‘just because someone doesn’t do what you want doesn’t mean you can throw a fit about it’.
That is something you will never see in Commifornia.
That’s just a great moment in time SoCal. Something makes you laugh, and brings some joy to your heart. So cool.
Well put.
Still makes me grin just thinking about it.
Nicely summarizes the hockey knowledge of Americans not from the land of lakes and loonies.
True,
But then it is just hockey.
Amen
British Open thoughts…
Who is the commie in 2nd?It’d be hilarious if an American named “English” won.Too many Hojgaards.I know the Brits call it The Open…f*ck off you pretentious pricks. You’re not the only ”Open” championship. Hell there are Open championships in other sports,
Its only golf.
Golf nap.
Good points.
I concur !!
As the home of golf with the first “Open” championship in 1860, it does carry a little more prestige than the Bangledash Open.
THE Ohio State
I’m going to post this again just to annoy people.
Whiskeyonsin being south of Minnesortanice explains all the confederate flags I see for sale in Cheeseland gas stations.
One of my former bosses is married to an FBI agent. He is retired now. Way back in the day they lived over on that side of the state. She said at that time there were many people that didn’t look it and that were way up in the social and political circles that belonged to a skinhead/kkk type of organization. It may have changed by now, but who knows.
It is really for SoCal and JR because they were having a discussion about the Packer rookie that didn’t know where Green Bay was located in Wisconsin.
Actually NLNVF asked ‘who doesn’t know where Wisconsin is or where GB is in Wisconsin?’ I replied that I knew where Wisconsin was but didn’t know or care where GB was in Wisconsin and that I was good with that since I never plan to visit the place.
And I said hell I grew up in Illinois and didn’t know where GB was either.
I’m being honest in saying that as an immigrant to Montana in the early 90’s I could no more have pointed out where Green Bay was within Wisconsin than someone from New Delhi. It was only after we moved to North Dakota in 2000 for grad school that I knew where it was as we camped in Door County.
For that matter, as a lab tech sending samples to Mayo Clinic for testing I thought Mayo was in Los Angeles…until we moved to Grand Forks and I started school. Minnesota was unofficially known to me as the land of lakes and loonies and source of the scourge of hunters on opening day that don’t know the butt of a rifle from the barrel.
Why anyone would want to know where GB is other than football or gravy buffets is beyond me.
As the old saying goes, “Knowledge is power.”
I tell my family all the time, usually when we play trivia games, that my head is full of worthless information.
I don’t have room for any more of it.
Well, the Epstein saga keeps taking turns.
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