Good day to stay in & watch college basketball. But given circumstances, I'll work on taxes now that I have our last piece of data.
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Howdy D-League. A spectacular spring day here. We’re talking about driving down to DC to see the cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin anchored by the Jefferson Memorial. Spring busting out.
We may wait a day so we can go out to lunch with our son before he sets off to Lexington later this evening. He was out with his HS basketball buddies last night and is sleeping in.
Hope it is nice wherever u are.
We may wait a day so we can go out to lunch with our son before he sets off to Lexington later this evening. He was out with his HS basketball buddies last night and is sleeping in.
Hope it is nice wherever u are.
Good morning from ATX. Currently 46°F and clear. Today's high expected around 79°F.
Opening round loss still ticks me off. At least Cats not alone. LSU and Bama also went down. We may watch Baylor vs UNC and Wolverines vs Vols later today. Lady Cats face Princeton, 4 pm EST at Assembly Hall. Might check it out.
Plan on working outside a bit later. Must mow front and back yards.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Opening round loss still ticks me off. At least Cats not alone. LSU and Bama also went down. We may watch Baylor vs UNC and Wolverines vs Vols later today. Lady Cats face Princeton, 4 pm EST at Assembly Hall. Might check it out.
Plan on working outside a bit later. Must mow front and back yards.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Cloudy and windy 47.8°F here on our way to a chilly 50° for a high then down to 35 in the morning.
We watched a lot of basketball the last 4 days. The SEC ain't doing well as three half of the NCAA SEC field have now lost to lower seeds.
Enjoyed the company and Ritchie is here till Monday. Then I must finish up my tax work and give it to the CPA. Every year it is harder to get the data from financial places.
You all have a good day.
We watched a lot of basketball the last 4 days. The SEC ain't doing well as three half of the NCAA SEC field have now lost to lower seeds.
Enjoyed the company and Ritchie is here till Monday. Then I must finish up my tax work and give it to the CPA. Every year it is harder to get the data from financial places.
You all have a good day.
That would be great! A D league meet up would be the perfect way to kick off the season. How many here are close enough to go to the game?
Historically, I have always stopped watching the tournament when UK gets put out. Basketball season is over at that point.
I still can't get over the audacity that it takes for Cal to tell me "losing in the SEC tournament was a Godsend". WTF? If the practices going back to last summer weren't enough for you to get your team right, then how in the hell is an extra 75 minutes going to help now? Then to top it off, he tells me that he's told me for 13 years that the SEC tournament doesn't matter!
Yes it does matter! It matters to the people who pay your salary. The people YOU work for! If all the coaches who preceded you had the mistaken idea that the NBA is more important than UK and its fans, then we wouldn't be who we are. You are a weak link Cal. Oh yeah, and your son is ugly and stupid and your wife dresses him funny. Doggone ya!
Good Morning D
Cal's got a billion dollar Kentucky basketball program to run. It appears to me, most of the time, he does fine. Finding a nerdy assistant willing to put a hyperbolic paraboloid into action sounds interesting.
Your dang right the SEC Tournament matters. Why do UK fans out number other schools 10-1. Why do fans take that week off for vacation and spend 1,000's of dollars to make the trip. BECAUSE IT MATTERS. This year the tournament was during Spring Break in the Tampa area. 500,000 visitors were down here. During Spring Break Hotels were going for over $600 a night. Then add on restaurant prices and travel costs. You think fans came down not caring about who wins the tournament.
Dang it Cal you lost to the Peacocks. Who loses to peacocks.
Murray State, top team in Kentucky with Bellarmine running a close second. I guess we can claim #3 because we beat Western. This is not the way it's supposed to be. It sucks to have accept something that is unacceptable.
Hopefully someone is yelling "GO" at him in the background.Your dang right the SEC Tournament matters. Why do UK fans out number other schools 10-1. Why do fans take that week off for vacation and spend 1,000's of dollars to make the trip. BECAUSE IT MATTERS. This year the tournament was during Spring Break in the Tampa area. 500,000 visitors were down here. During Spring Break Hotels were going for over $600 a night. Then add on restaurant prices and travel costs. You think fans came down not caring about who wins the tournament.
Dang it Cal you lost to the Peacocks. Who loses to peacocks.
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When I was a boy, we had a small house so the sun room (a windowed back porch) was my bedroom. It was surrounded by several stunning cherry trees. several times I was blessed with nesting robins right outside my window amongst the bloosoms.
I am always glad to see the robins nesting.......it is the sign that I look for before I start training my racing pigeons.....when the robins start nesting the Cooper Hawk stops chasing pigeons........robins are much easier to catch while sitting on the nest........When I was a boy, we had a small house so the sun room (a windowed back porch) was my bedroom. It was surrounded by several stunning cherry trees. several times I was blessed with nesting robins right outside my window amongst the bloosoms.
It doesn't look like the last chick will make it.......
DH-16 is history. DH-14 catching lots of grief today from DH-15. Life is rough for male birds of prey from hatching. Think that's why God made men bigger than women, to keep our sisters & wives from killing us?
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This was my concern before the game started. Young/new teams do that unless they have a coach that will "run up" a score.
Now, let me say that I don't believe in that term. A team should have an identity and play to the strongest version of it. If the other team can't stop them, whose fault is that? It's a battle not a negotiation. Cal, like Pitino in '97 not letting DA play, is too worried about how he's perceived.
If he coached the team right, as is expected of a coach making 100k much less 9M, they know and are experienced with how to handle any zone defense, that coach doesn't "forget" who he has on the bench, and he for sure doesn't squander momentum. He lets the team put the pedal down. How many teams let up on their underdog opponents the last few days besides UK?
The last time we played UT, we played like a team that knew they could beat them, rather than a team that wanted to crush them again. I want teams like the latter. I want a team that will dunk on an opponent with a 30 point lead and 1min left on the clock. I can't stand it when our back up come in to "run out the clock" and won't shoot or run the offense like they want to be starters in the NCAA Finals. Any coach that tells the guys that never get to play to go out there and run out the clock rather than trying to score is a poor example of a "coach," imo.
That's the OPPOSITE of coaching. It's simply management. Coaches that don't use the bench as a teaching tool when a player is playing poorly and there are other players on it, is damn near foolish. Competitors wouldn't want to play for him.
"Running out the clock" should be called what it is - "giving your opponent an opportunity to win." (Taking a knee, imo, is not running out the clock, btw. It is more insulting to a true competitor than running another play and trying to score.)
Good probability. It also deadens the shrill sound of whining better.
Me, too. Can't even think about it 2 days later.
Cal is clearly discernable in this to me. Our assist numbers and flow were abysmal at the end of things. He can't get out of his own way and seems to squeeze too tight during games when he should sit down and shut up, let his team play. Perhaps overthinking and micromanaging on his part? I know the guy has to have some form of a.d.d. or something. I've been at a press conference and it reads like that to me
We were at one time. Tracing back through my father our name was Fitzgerald and we lived in Adare, Ireland. Solid Catholic. A King placed a ransom on a powerful land owner in Scotland and said anyone who brings me his head on a platter can have all of his wealth. One of my direct ancestors did and he got the land and moved over to Scotland. The King changed his name. The family converts to Presbyterian. Several generations pass and the King of England wants some protestants in Ireland. One of the ones he picked to go over was another direct line ancestor who had became a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He was relocated from Stranraer, Scotland to Ulster, Ireland and trouble began immediately. Catholic Ireland vs. Ulster Scots. Stranraer to Ulster is about 15 miles across the water.You Presby? I've some ten generations. All bloodlines documented all over 200 most 300 years. These give me deep, crossback and protestant roots. All european predominantly Anglo- Saxon.
The family later left Ulster and migrated to Philadelphia then went Westward to Appalachia Pennsylvania. Once there the Quakers let them know Presbyterians were not welcome and they better find the first Wagon Train out of town. They drifted down to Upper South Carolina and settled in. They lived far out of any town and Presbyterians had a church but would not go out to the people. The Baptist had circuit riders and they did go out among the rural people. The family were Presbyterians but not attending services and they converted to Baptist and worshiped in Brush Arbor style services. Now our family is pretty much Baptist.
BRUSH ARBOR MEETING
FLAG OF ULSTER, IRELAND
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I'm forever frustrated that, with the shooters Cal has gotten, them being afraid to shoot, and looking over to the bench or acting like they feel like someone is watching them to see if they'll shoot at the wrong time. Then they go to the NBA and light it up... It's really, really aggravating
Please share some pictures if you can!
When I was a boy, we had a small house so the sun room (a windowed back porch) was my bedroom. It was surrounded by several stunning cherry trees. several times I was blessed with nesting robins right outside my window amongst the bloosoms.
Is that one of your photos? Did you take that picture? Beautiful. Makes me want to pic up a paint brush again
Why do they have Michigan on their flag?We were at one time. Tracing back through my father our name was Fitzgerald and we lived in Adare, Ireland. Solid Catholic. A King placed a ransom on a powerful land owner in Scotland and said anyone who brings me his head on a platter can have all of his wealth. One of my direct ancestors did and he got the land and moved over to Scotland. The King changed his name. The family converts to Presbyterian. Several generations pass and the King of England wants some protestants in Ireland. One of the ones he picked to go over was another direct line ancestor who had became a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He was relocated from Stranraer, Scotland to Ulster, Ireland and trouble began immediately. Catholic Ireland vs. Ulster Scots. Stranraer to Ulster is about 15 miles across the water.
The family later left Ulster and migrated to Philadelphia then went Westward to Appalachia Pennsylvania. Once there the Quakers let them know Presbyterians were not welcome and they better find the first Wagon Train out of town. They drifted down to Upper South Carolina and settled in. They lived far out of any town and Presbyterians had a church but would not go out to the people. The Baptist had circuit riders and they did go out among the rural people. The family were Presbyterians but not attending services and they converted to Baptist and worshiped in Brush Arbor style services. Now our family is pretty much Baptist.
BRUSH ARBOR MEETING
FLAG OF ULSTER, IRELAND
I've been saying that for a while now. How are these guys such good shooters in high school. Good shooters preseason, and then go spastic?
Is CJ Frederick gonna go from a 50% shooter to a 30%er?
Ugh, I just saw where UNC beat Baylor. I'm not watching the games, no interest now but PLEASE don't let UNC, Duke, Kansas, UT or UCLA win the title this year.
Well, hell. LadyCats lost to Princeton. Season over for them, too.
Nope, I was maybe 10, about the time Santa left me a set of field guides. I used to paint, absolutly loved it. Enjoyed music as well. At one time I too consided wildlife photography to share the majesty of life but deciders didn't know how to discern. So I got busy. I did take photos . . . bazillions, then calibrate, geo-register, extract targeted infomation on the surface at to mm level and test it's validity. Then about 5 years ago. I was informed that I should negotiate my opinions. I smiled as I could retire anytime.
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We were at one time. Tracing back through my father our name was Fitzgerald and we lived in Adare, Ireland. Solid Catholic. A King placed a ransom on a powerful land owner in Scotland and said anyone who brings me his head on a platter can have all of his wealth. One of my direct ancestors did and he got the land and moved over to Scotland. The King changed his name. The family converts to Presbyterian. Several generations pass and the King of England wants some protestants in Ireland. One of the ones he picked to go over was another direct line ancestor who had became a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He was relocated from Stranraer, Scotland to Ulster, Ireland and trouble began immediately. Catholic Ireland vs. Ulster Scots. Stranraer to Ulster is about 15 miles across the water.
The family later left Ulster and migrated to Philadelphia then went Westward to Appalachia Pennsylvania. Once there the Quakers let them know Presbyterians were not welcome and they better find the first Wagon Train out of town. They drifted down to Upper South Carolina and settled in. They lived far out of any town and Presbyterians had a church but would not go out to the people. The Baptist had circuit riders and they did go out among the rural people. The family were Presbyterians but not attending services and they converted to Baptist and worshiped in Brush Arbor style services. Now our family is pretty much Baptist.
BRUSH ARBOR MEETING
FLAG OF ULSTER, IRELAND
Had just begun reading about Ulster, Ireland, and Ireland's "Potato Famine" of the 1800s at the end of this past week.
I wish I still had my field guides I received as a gift in middle school (along with a cheap film camera). Used to go out into the acreage or sit out on the porch in winter and watch the birds come within inches of me. Snap a photo or two to see if I could get something good.
Here's an idea about used car prices. A 2015 Honda Civic LX with 75,000 miles (low milage) is considered a good price at $18,000.
What's a 2017 CR-V top of line with 20K on it worth? Just asking for a friend.
Well at least TN is still in it.
My last trip to Murray State happened on April 27, 1982 for a Joan Jett and the Blackhearts concert at Racer Arena.
Go Racers!
Go Racers!
This story seems peculiarly familiar. (A Kentucky effect?) Here's a link to a journal article concerning my 8th great-grandfather from Dublin, Ireland. For me, a very interesting factoid concerning the beheading in your post.. I'm descendant of several other families subject to beheading events.We were at one time.
Tracing back through my father our name was Fitzgerald and we lived in Adare, Ireland. Solid Catholic. A King placed a ransom on a powerful land owner in Scotland and said anyone who brings me his head on a platter can have all of his wealth. One of my direct ancestors did and he got the land and moved over to Scotland. The King changed his name. The family converts to Presbyterian. Several generations pass and the King of England wants some protestants in Ireland. One of the ones he picked to go over was another direct line ancestor who had became a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He was relocated from Stranraer, Scotland to Ulster, Ireland and trouble began immediately. Catholic Ireland vs. Ulster Scots. Stranraer to Ulster is about 15 miles across the water.
The family later left Ulster and migrated to Philadelphia then went Westward to Appalachia Pennsylvania. Once there the Quakers let them know Presbyterians were not welcome and they better find the first Wagon Train out of town. They drifted down to Upper South Carolina and settled in. They lived far out of any town and Presbyterians had a church but would not go out to the people. The Baptist had circuit riders and they did go out among the rural people. The family were Presbyterians but not attending services and they converted to Baptist and worshiped in Brush Arbor style services. Now our family is pretty much Baptist.
FLAG OF ULSTER, IRELAND
You're going to get some beheadings here and there if you stick around long enough. I'll tell you that much.
Hello all,
I am around but as Clint stated as Dirty Harry. "Man's GOT to know his limitations." I will refrain as I am a self-evaluator to the max and I know what I can and cannot do and when I can do it. Too much disgust and actual anger now. (Over several things going on, not just UK. The country too is still not right and that is more sickening to see it in this shape.) God Bless you all and your families. If the Lord doesn't take me home I will return. (I know a decent warning when I post one.)
Dave
I am around but as Clint stated as Dirty Harry. "Man's GOT to know his limitations." I will refrain as I am a self-evaluator to the max and I know what I can and cannot do and when I can do it. Too much disgust and actual anger now. (Over several things going on, not just UK. The country too is still not right and that is more sickening to see it in this shape.) God Bless you all and your families. If the Lord doesn't take me home I will return. (I know a decent warning when I post one.)
Dave
Hang in there Dave, we will get through this. The D is here and we are able to put those negative things in our lives aside and focus on life.
Shoot I get the best weather report on the internet here and don't even have to download an ap. I also get the best food tips and recipes and don't have to watch the Food Channel. You and Bertfan31 are the food channel. So let's count our blessings and name them one by one. It worked for grandma in WWII
34°F here and on our way to 66°.
Well, Michigan whipped Tennessee. The SEC is down to Arkansas and Auburn. Sick.
I have more games to watch today. It has been an unpredictable Tournament.
Well, Michigan whipped Tennessee. The SEC is down to Arkansas and Auburn. Sick.
I have more games to watch today. It has been an unpredictable Tournament.
Good morning! I'm getting out today in the fresh air and sunshine. Might go to the course and attempt to hook up my new stereo to the cart. If I take a notion, I might even play a few holes.
I noticed that the zags only beat memphis by 4 points. Swell.
SEC. You're not who we thought you were.
I noticed that the zags only beat memphis by 4 points. Swell.
SEC. You're not who we thought you were.
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