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Afternoon D, it's been a emotional day for me today, went to visition for one of my best friends from our running around days. We were good friends with him and his wife for many years. JJ as he was called was a 7th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, he was also a big influence on our son when he was in Tae Kwon Do. JJ will be missed!!!! HONOR. DISCIPLINE. RESPECT!!!! WC, I know you understand what I mean H.D.R.!!!
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Hope ole Sawnee Cat is dealing with this storm OK. From what I know bout his location, he's dang near the bullseye.
Good morning from ATX. Currently 75°F and clear. We may hit 100°F again today.
Football returns to the Bluegrass. Wildcats play this coming Saturday. Look forward to the game. Daughter flying in Friday evening.
Happy Hump Day.
Football returns to the Bluegrass. Wildcats play this coming Saturday. Look forward to the game. Daughter flying in Friday evening.
Happy Hump Day.
Yes, I do. Went to a funeral a little over a year ago for a friend who was also ranked in the master belts (7th and up) in Kyokushin (Shotokan, Go Ju Ryu, Kempo) who was also a student of my instructor. Even though I knew he was respected; I was surprised at how many people showed up at the funeral site. Well over a hundred at least. Cars, vans, and trucks lined up throughout the grave site. Since he was a vet, he was buried at the Ft. Sill National Cemetary which is big so, there was plenty of space to park. He also was an associate paster at the church where his last martial arts school was. The picture below was taken not long before his passing. His name was
Robert (ZIP) Taylor.
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Morning Legionnaires!
I figured I would start the morning with a warmup for the weekend. GO CATS!
Good morning all,
Heading inside. May you have the inclination to love this day....
Heading inside. May you have the inclination to love this day....
Good morning folks.
Sorry for your loss Cord. My two best friends after I left home both passed in the last several months. Tough. So I know how you are feeling and I hope the sharper part of the pain passes.
Was raining when I woke up but it is clearing off now. Hope Sawnee is hunkered down ahead of the Florida storm. If it isn’t violating his confidence, can anyone say how he is? If he posted that he was taking a break I never saw it.
Hope everyone stays dry.
Sorry for your loss Cord. My two best friends after I left home both passed in the last several months. Tough. So I know how you are feeling and I hope the sharper part of the pain passes.
Was raining when I woke up but it is clearing off now. Hope Sawnee is hunkered down ahead of the Florida storm. If it isn’t violating his confidence, can anyone say how he is? If he posted that he was taking a break I never saw it.
Hope everyone stays dry.
A great sunny 62°F on our way to 82°.
Sorry for you loss. As I get older that is a constant reminder of our mortality. Sherry and I have lost all of our aunts and uncle and now the cousins are going down also.
You all have a good day and pray for our friends down in Florida, Georgia and the Carolina's.
Sorry for you loss. As I get older that is a constant reminder of our mortality. Sherry and I have lost all of our aunts and uncle and now the cousins are going down also.
You all have a good day and pray for our friends down in Florida, Georgia and the Carolina's.
As some of you may recall, I'm phasing out of business as I try to sell my building, but still kept a few customers to pay property taxes and etc. till the property sells. Today I am shipping a pallet of lamp shades to a Marriot in Times Square in New York. I've done several orders for them over time.
I've stayed there and probably will again. My wife likes to be near the theaters when we go to NYC to visit her family. I'll pay attention to the lamp shades next time.
Hello all,
Had a "serious" scare today. My work laptop needed an update that I already had and had it verified but it hit the hot-list anyway. I got a loaner computer. When I logged onto this site and actually used my username and password it stated it was my FIRST post. Just crazy. Almost shed a tear. (Showed the day I joined correctly and everything.) My saving grace was when I sat down in my car and checked my phone all was Hunky Dory. Sure had me concerned.... A lot of years here. Now I can laugh about it..HA HA.....
Had a "serious" scare today. My work laptop needed an update that I already had and had it verified but it hit the hot-list anyway. I got a loaner computer. When I logged onto this site and actually used my username and password it stated it was my FIRST post. Just crazy. Almost shed a tear. (Showed the day I joined correctly and everything.) My saving grace was when I sat down in my car and checked my phone all was Hunky Dory. Sure had me concerned.... A lot of years here. Now I can laugh about it..HA HA.....
Pics when you go or you weren't there...
(Got to give brother Sir bc some props...)
See... I'm not crazy. I just tried to recreate it and I did.... (Went to Rivals home board and saw this...) Also you now know where my alligence "lies"...
Dis brudder took a shock for sure...
The ones we make for them are an oval in an 8-11 top, 8-11 bottom and 9 side height and a drum in a 10-10-7.5. Both are bleached white in color. I am guessing by the type of top ring in the shades that they are Chinese lamps, but I've never seen the lamps. I don't understand why places want shades with the same top and bottom. They will not nest, so they cost more to ship.
Btw, I had never thought about it before, but I asked the truck driver how they get a big truck down Times Square. He said that they dont. They contract with some delivery service to actually deliver them.
Working from home tomorrow and Friday. (I need the time away from the office.) Of course though, I will be posting more. (And sometimes with words and sentences.) I need a beer. Drank my first one in a long time a couple days ago but I did buy a case....
Have a fine evening. (Had Mackerel for supper.)
Have a fine evening. (Had Mackerel for supper.)
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Has Rooster been around? Seems it's been a good while.
Good morning from ATX. Currently 76°F and clear. 53% humidity. Today's high expected around 102°F. Last day of the month. 29/31 days peaked in triple-digits.
It's a great day to be alive.
Wishing y'all a good one.
It's a great day to be alive.
Wishing y'all a good one.
Morning Legionnaires!
66° this morning with light winds. The high to be in the mid 90's with sunny skies.
Typed an earlier post and hit post reply and got a message that said post reply was not allowed at this time. Had that happen the last few days on my first post of the day. Has this happened to anyone else?
It's Friday Eve folks so start the fun early in prep for the football weekend. Party on Wayne.
Have a good day and God Bless.
I think I will just type a word or two, hit post reply, and then post the real message afterwards. I think "Bite me" will do nicely for the first attempt of the day.
Oops.... (I typed too much, thought you'd know I was joking...)
I was not replying about your post, I was posting about how the site has been rejecting my first post every day for the last few days. "Bite Me" was to whomever is running the site.
Edited: Was getting tired of typing a whole post only to have it disappear with that message I was receiving. There was never anything derogatory in my posting to be rejected.
Good morning folks. Cool and partly cloudy in the east. I have a feeling our 3-day weekend will be rain soaked with the remnants of that storm that hit the southeast.
Bernie, my son who is working as an interstate moving man had a job recently taking a small business in three large trucks (he had a crew) into Manhattan. I held my breath but all went smoothly.
With all the tall buildings GPS doesn’t work well in the city —or at all. About five years ago we went up there for a funeral of my wife’s uncle. There was plenty of parking in the cemetery so we drove rather than pay four train tickets for wife and kids. And we got hopelessly lost in midtown Manhattan with traffic moving about a yard a minute.
I’ll take DC, and the subway which I bitch about but can get you pretty close to wherever you are going.
Heading into the office. Hope it’s a good day.
Bernie, my son who is working as an interstate moving man had a job recently taking a small business in three large trucks (he had a crew) into Manhattan. I held my breath but all went smoothly.
With all the tall buildings GPS doesn’t work well in the city —or at all. About five years ago we went up there for a funeral of my wife’s uncle. There was plenty of parking in the cemetery so we drove rather than pay four train tickets for wife and kids. And we got hopelessly lost in midtown Manhattan with traffic moving about a yard a minute.
I’ll take DC, and the subway which I bitch about but can get you pretty close to wherever you are going.
Heading into the office. Hope it’s a good day.
I think I'd shoot myself in the head before taking either.
A lot of people feel that way. I understand why.
But I wanted to live around DC since I was six years old and an uncle gave me two books -- one on the Smithsonian Natural History museum and one on the Civil War battles fought mostly within a hundred miles of Washington.
And after 40-plus years, I'm still not bored. I still take lunch breaks at the Smithsonian museums or walk the path Lincoln's carriage took to Ford's theater, and I drive out on the weekends to Antietam, South Mountain, Manassas, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and so on.
Being raised as a Country boy (Barren County) I could never get used to New York or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Boston or Phily. For some reason I had no problems with Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami or Atlanta.
When I retired I vowed that I would never again set foot in LA or NYC. So far I have kept that promise. My best friend lived in Cape Cod, MA, so I would go to Cincinnati, then 71 to Akron and work my way north to I-90 and come into Springfield, MA and then down to the Cape and on to Falmouth.
I moved to Smiths Grove. We do not have a traffic light.
They are building a Buccees on the other side of town. Hopefully they will not put in a light.
I thought our resident St. Looey Card and baseball expert Bernie -- and others -- might weigh in on this online discussion I saw: Does Dave Concepcion belong in the HOF?
Here's his comparison to Ozzie Smith. The one glaring difference is "Wins above Replacement" which I don't totally understand or trust as a measurement. I mean, did Concepcion NOT win games "above replacement" by another shortstop because those games were won by Rose, Morgan, Perez, Bench, Foster and Griffey? It's not like the Reds didn't win a lot of games in Davey's prime -- more between 1970 and 1976 than any National League franchise in history over a six year span. How much more WAR does a shortstop need to provide? This comparison with Ozzie -- who was a first ballot HOFer with 92 percent of the vote is one thing. Compare Concepcion with someone like Phil Rizzuto. That's a glaring win in DC's favor.
Here's his comparison to Ozzie Smith. The one glaring difference is "Wins above Replacement" which I don't totally understand or trust as a measurement. I mean, did Concepcion NOT win games "above replacement" by another shortstop because those games were won by Rose, Morgan, Perez, Bench, Foster and Griffey? It's not like the Reds didn't win a lot of games in Davey's prime -- more between 1970 and 1976 than any National League franchise in history over a six year span. How much more WAR does a shortstop need to provide? This comparison with Ozzie -- who was a first ballot HOFer with 92 percent of the vote is one thing. Compare Concepcion with someone like Phil Rizzuto. That's a glaring win in DC's favor.
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I lived in Baltimore for 6 years and I wore the battle fields out, especially Antietam and Gettysburg. I love the Smithsonian and the National Archives. But I usually took the subway to avoid traffic.
Of course. The money government spends around DC totally disgusts me. It's like the rest of the country doesn't exist. Government is the complete reason the counties around DC are the wealthiest in the country.
WAR/sabermetrics hits a sore spot with me. I'll try and post more on that later when I have more time, but if you check out hall of fame monitor on baseball reference, you will see the average hall of famer scores 100. Ozzie is 143, Davy is 107, Phil is 87. That kind of agrees with you. BTW, once when Davy missed a game with a pulled muscle, Rose said that couldn't be right. Maybe a pulled bone.
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