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I was drunk that night so, give me a break.
 
My wife and daughters are going to New York in a couple of weeks, and I told them they had to get pics of the 9/11 Memorial for me.

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My wife, stepdaughter and mother in-law visited NYC back in 2007. They drove from ATX. Wife's childhood friend lives nearby in PA. Sobering, to say the least.
 
Good morning! Austin, I could have beat you here this morning but I didn't want you to start your day in second place. [cheers]

My 9/11 story goes back to 3/11. I was working a job in PA and me and another guy ran over to NYC to go to the top of the WTC. First thing I noticed when I got there was they weren't as tall as I imagined they would look. We went in to one of them that had a Marriott Inn on the lower floor and had a drink at the huge bar. Then we went to the elevator.

There were a lot of people standing around, probably a :100points: or so and I saw the sign that said it cost $15 to ride up and down. I told dude he could go on and go if he wanted but I would just have 3 more drinks with that cash.

Sure wish I had taken that ride. I wonder if there's a moral to that story. Or 14
 
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Good Thursday morning D League

We should have a nice day today weather wise. Current temperature is 73°F. with a high of 88°F. We may have a misty rain mixed in with our sunshine and possibly some light rain this afternoon. This "swimmers ear" is hard to shake. I am on my third day of 4 drops 4x a day for 14 days.

Are any of you old enough to remember the "Atom Bomb" drills we had in school back in the 1950's. We would get a noise over the loud speaker and everybody would dive under their little desk. They showed us movies of atom bomb blasts and I always thought if one of those things did hit what good would it do to be under a desk? Oh well
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My wife and daughters are going to New York in a couple of weeks, and I told them they had to get pics of the 9/11 Memorial for me.

9-11-memorial-03-marley-white_08304459-fd51-e9bc-1df612407cbe64fb.jpg

My wife, stepdaughter and mother in-law visited NYC back in 2007. They drove from ATX. Wife's childhood friend lives nearby in PA. Sobering, to say the least.

For years I had to go to New York 10 or 11 times a year. I hate NY. I got so tired of the nasty people who would not even speak to you on the street. I hated hailing a cab as it was a very uncivil process on a monday morning. I hated the prices of food and hotels. I hated the smells in the summer time.

I vowed when I retired that I would not be in New York or LA again in my life unless someone held a gun to my head. So far I have kept my word. My best friend lived on Cape Cod and to get there I went through Cleveland, OH and Buffalo, NY and came down the Mass Parkway to avoid New York. Sherry and I once sat on the George Washington Bridge for two damned hours. Gosh I hate New York.

It is 75.2°F and sunshine here in lovely, rural Smiths Grove. Smiths Grove does not have a bridge, nor a red light. Our only smells in summer is of corn, beans, cow shit and other healthy things. Life is good in the country. :grimace:

On the picture above at the 9/11 memorial the stainless steel was manufactured by my cousin in Glasgow, KY. He worked months on it. He went to New York to see his handwork.
 
Good Thursday morning D League

We should have a nice day today weather wise. Current temperature is 73°F. with a high of 88°F. We may have a misty rain mixed in with our sunshine and possibly some light rain this afternoon. This "swimmers ear" is hard to shake. I am on my third day of 4 drops 4x a day for 14 days.

Are any of you old enough to remember the "Atom Bomb" drills we had in school back in the 1950's. We would get a noise over the loud speaker and everybody would dive under their little desk. They showed us movies of atom bomb blasts and I always thought if one of those things did hit what good would it do to be under a desk? Oh well
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Our principal must have known this was BS. I can't recall ever doing this.
 
Our principal must have known this was BS. I can't recall ever doing this.
We sure did. They were called disaster drills and like fire drills, we had 4 per year all through elementary school. Students in ground floor rooms would shelter in place beneath the desks. The upper floors would shelter in the ground floor hallways with head covered. We were thinking tornado not nuclear war. Although our disaster drills were preparations to respond to either event.
 
Good Thursday morning D League

We should have a nice day today weather wise. Current temperature is 73°F. with a high of 88°F. We may have a misty rain mixed in with our sunshine and possibly some light rain this afternoon. This "swimmers ear" is hard to shake. I am on my third day of 4 drops 4x a day for 14 days.

Are any of you old enough to remember the "Atom Bomb" drills we had in school back in the 1950's. We would get a noise over the loud speaker and everybody would dive under their little desk. They showed us movies of atom bomb blasts and I always thought if one of those things did hit what good would it do to be under a desk? Oh well
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Yep. My small school in Kentucky did these for what seemed like a couple weeks during the Cuban Missile Crisis when I was a First Grader. I remember specifically being instructed "don't look at the flash! You'll go blind!" That seemed worse to me than being incinerated, somehow. The insanity of it all. If the Commies had enough nukes to burn one hitting the rural end of Campbell County, it was going to be all over anyway.

I remember during that time I'd have dreams in which Soviet aircraft would swoop down on our school yard. Somehow, I'd get behind a AAA gun mounted on the window ledge of our classroom and try to shoot them down (age 6, lol.) I had that dream several times. Today they'd probably diagnose me as having mild PTSD. When the movie Red Dawn came out the opening scenes felt like my dreams of 1962...
 
Yep. My small school in Kentucky did these for what seemed like a couple weeks during the Cuban Missile Crisis when I was a First Grader. I remember specifically being instructed "don't look at the flash! You'll go blind!" That seemed worse to me than being incinerated, somehow. The insanity of it all. If the Commies had enough nukes to burn one hitting the rural end of Campbell County, it was going to be all over anyway.

I remember during that time I'd have dreams in which Soviet aircraft would swoop down on our school yard. Somehow, I'd get behind a AAA gun mounted on the window ledge of our classroom and try to shoot them down (age 6, lol.) I had that dream several times. Today they'd probably diagnose me as having mild PTSD. When the movie Red Dawn came out the opening scenes felt like my dreams of 1962...
During the Cuban missile days my uncle built a concrete "bomb shelter" in his back yard. He lived in a rural area of Hillsborough Co, Fl. McDill Air Force base was close by and he was convinced the first missile would be aimed at McDill. I remember it wasn't much bigger than a grave. My thoughts were at least they will not have to bury me if I was in that thing when the bombs started falling. .
 
During the Cuban missile days my uncle built a concrete "bomb shelter" in his back yard. He lived in a rural area of Hillsborough Co, Fl. McDill Air Force base was close by and he was convinced the first missile would be aimed at McDill. I remember it wasn't much bigger than a grave. My thoughts were at least they will not have to bury me if I was in that thing when the bombs started falling. .
That's where I was born.
 
Some Cat fans are underplaying this commitment because the kid is "only" a high 4-star recruit, ranked 31 in a pretty loaded class. But I've watched everything I can find on him, and I think he'll be a real surprise, the way Herro and Gilgeous-Alexander were. He can handle the ball, hit a mid-range shot consistently, pass, and seems to have that indefinable quality of being able to anticipate and be ahead of the action.
 
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Some Cat fans are underplaying this commitment because the kid is "only" a high 4-star recruit, ranked 31 in a pretty loaded class. But I've watched everything I can find on him, and I think he'll be a real surprise, the way Herro and Gilgeous-Alexander were. He can handle the ball, hit a mid-range shot consistently, pass, and seems to have that indefinable quality of being able to anticipate and be ahead of the action.
Exactly. People forget that the aforementioned players along with Booker and WCS were all 4-stars. They should remember that the rankings will change by the end of the season, and that the difference between the lower 5-stars and high 4-stars is miniscule. Btw, I feel like Cal has the makings of another special class, and he should add to it Saturday.
 
[pfftt].....I knew that.

I did too. When in doubt about nature, always remember that everything except liberals takes the path of least resistance.

Good Thursday morning D League

We should have a nice day today weather wise. Current temperature is 73°F. with a high of 88°F. We may have a misty rain mixed in with our sunshine and possibly some light rain this afternoon. This "swimmers ear" is hard to shake. I am on my third day of 4 drops 4x a day for 14 days.

Are any of you old enough to remember the "Atom Bomb" drills we had in school back in the 1950's. We would get a noise over the loud speaker and everybody would dive under their little desk. They showed us movies of atom bomb blasts and I always thought if one of those things did hit what good would it do to be under a desk? Oh well
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I was born in 60 and I definitely remember those drills. Normally I would make my way to the bathroom just before the horn went off.
 
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