D-League

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Raining like a tall cow pissing on a flat rock in suburban Maryland.

Austin, thanks for that update on the central Texas flooding. My son is TDY as you folks used to say to a F&W facility in Arizona, near the Hoover Dam. As long as the floods subside by two weeks from yesterday he’ll be able to get back to Burnet from Austin.

Heading into work on the subway. Running a bit late. Hope you all have a great day.

 

[storm1507]

Good morning everyone

Well, the age difference with most of you all is showing up now. It wasn't short skirts when I was in HS....it was short shorts. Mmmm, Mmmmm. I ran track and pole vaulted and triple jumped. So I hung out at the high jump and long jump pits........goodness.

 

[berniecarbo]

There are several John Wayne fans here. It is not a great movie (The Quiet Man), but Victor Mclaglen co-starred in that movie. Victor was quite a character. He joined the British army at 14 to fight in the Boer War, but was kicked out when they found out his true age. He joined again to fight in WW1. He was the heavyweight boxing champ of the British army, toured with a circus doing the last 3 rounds with me and win money thing, became a pro wrestler and pro boxer. He once fought Jack Johnson in a 6 round exhibition match. Pretty tough guy.

 

[BBUK]

Hello all,

Well, I wanted to find out exactly where my capabilities extend to see what I can do. I may have found the joint that will allow me to test my desire....

We shall see.... Have a fine day....

 

[warrior-cat]

Good morning everyone

Well, the age difference with most of you all is showing up now. It wasn't short skirts when I was in HS....it was short shorts. Mmmm, Mmmmm. I ran track and pole vaulted and triple jumped. So I hung out at the high jump and long jump pits........goodness.

I used to pole vault out of bed every morning, but now I low crawl.

 

[awf]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 74°F and cloudy. May reach 90°F today. Spring nearly over.

@MdWIldcat55 : Y'all left here with ample time to spare. Some roads closed due to flooding going into Marble Falls.

Wishing y'all another great day.

Good morning from ATX. Currently 74°F and cloudy. May reach 90°F today. Spring nearly over.

@MdWIldcat55 : Y'all left here with ample time to spare. Some roads closed due to flooding going into Marble Falls.

Wishing y'all another great day.

We were in England for our 25th anniversary....our daughter and SIL took us to Tuddenham Mill. Almost everything they serve comes from the farm.....they write the menu in chalk every day.......the only constant is the offerings in the pub section.....I ordered Roast Leg of Lamb with vegetables....when it cam out it was a whole leg of lamb.....we all four could have eaten our fill with what was on the platter they brought me......it was absolutely divine......I took what was left home with me......the SIL and myself saw to it that nothing was wasted.....

 

[AustinTXCat]

We were in England for our 25th anniversary....our daughter and SIL took us to Tuddenham Mill. Almost everything they serve comes from the farm.....they write the menu in chalk every day.......the only constant is the offerings in the pub section.....I ordered Roast Leg of Lamb with vegetables....when it cam out it was a whole leg of lamb.....we all four could have eaten our fill with what was on the platter they brought me......it was absolutely divine......I took what was left home with me......the SIL and myself saw to it that nothing was wasted.....

Sounds like a great time. Not a huge fan of British fare, except their breakfasts and fish and chips.

I'm heading over to Scotland Aug 23 - Sep 2. Looking forward to some lamb.

Traveling to Iceland July 6 - 13. They produce their hotdogs (pylsa) primarily with lamb and some pork. Must try. One restaurant in Reykjavik fed a certain individual back in the day.

 

[BBUK]

Sounds like a great time. Not a huge fan of British fare, except their breakfasts and fish and chips.

I'm heading over to Scotland Aug 23 - Sep 2. Looking forward to some lamb.

Traveling to Iceland July 6 - 13. They produce their hotdogs (pylsa) primarily with lamb and some pork. Must try. One restaurant in Reykjavik fed a certain individual back in the day.

He did not have hotdog relish with that woman.

 

[vhcat70]

Tornado warnings now about 40-50 miles NW in Indiana. Headed SE such that it looks like it will skirt mostly still north in Cincy with us getting a glance - I hope. Looks like it will last to 3-4a. 75 degrees & I THINK DP might be the same. Time for a Makers.

 

[UK82]

Tornado warnings now about 40-50 miles NW in Indiana. Headed SE such that it looks like it will skirt mostly still north in Cincy with us getting a glance - I hope. Looks like it will last to 3-4a. 75 degrees & I like DP might be the same. Time for a Makers.

Only a tornado watch here until 3 AM. Tomorrow night is when things get really hairy. Possible tornadoes, large hail, flooding, high winds, etc..

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 76°F and partly cloudy. We may see another 90°F day again.

Got a Venmo account. Must verify. Provides another income stream when validating pack codes I find on the ground. Amount of trash in my area borders on unbelievable. "There's treasure everywhere".

Now ERCOT hinting at an elevated risk for power outages. If it ain't one thing, it's another.

Happy Hump, y'all.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Cloudy and cool in the east.

Days of just grinding it out at work right now.

Austin, keep that Venmo account locked. My poor son in college had a housemate from a very good, wealthy Lexington family who my son had come to trust. But it turned out the kids erratic behavior was caused by a bad -and expensive -drug habit. He asked to borrow my son’s phone to check something, and managed to Venmo himself $4,000 which my son didn’t catch til the kid disappeared on a drug bender. The wealthy family stalled my son from pressing charges by promising to reimburse but never did. We ended up just dropping it and chalking it up to a life lesson.

Heading in to work. Have a great day.

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning Legionnaires!

73° this morning with light winds. Today's high to be in the mid 80's. Normal workout, monster walk, martial arts student training and then, honey do list shopping so...let's get busy.

Played 2 games last night which turned out to be my best effort of the year so far. 5-7 and a walk at the plate and made some defensive plays like I used to in the past. Felt good. Caught the first game and pitched the second. About mid-way through the second game, I had already snagged about 4 hits up the middle when one player from the other team hit one sharply to my left, I went for it, and it took a bad hop and went over my glove. When the player got to first, he started trash talking to me saying; "get that one old man, when hit hard at you, you can't handle it." I simply told him he got the old man part right, but the bad hop is the only thing that helped him out. After that, he went 0-3 as his next at bats were weak. Karma? We beat them 18-16. Some of his teammates apologized for him durning the post game hand shakes.

Hump day folks so, take the hill and put up the flag.

God Bless.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning folks.

Cloudy and cool in the east.

Days of just grinding it out at work right now.

Austin, keep that Venmo account locked. My poor son in college had a housemate from a very good, wealthy Lexington family who my son had come to trust. But it turned out the kids erratic behavior was caused by a bad -and expensive -drug habit. He asked to borrow my son’s phone to check something, and managed to Venmo himself $4,000 which my son didn’t catch til the kid disappeared on a drug bender. The wealthy family stalled my son from pressing charges by promising to reimburse but never did. We ended up just dropping it and chalking it up to a life lesson.

Heading in to work. Have a great day.

Wow! Sorry to hear. Thanks for the valuable advice. I never install financial apps on my phone; always laptop.

If more than $25 ever hits the account, watch out. I'm filthy rich! Usually use PayPal for most transactions between friends and family.

 

[vhcat70]

We were spared as expected outside some heavy downpours. No big winds - except me.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Joe Bryant, kicker from 1977 Wildcats football team, posts over in HOB. Too cool.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning folks.

Cloudy and cool in the east.

Days of just grinding it out at work right now.

Austin, keep that Venmo account locked. My poor son in college had a housemate from a very good, wealthy Lexington family who my son had come to trust. But it turned out the kids erratic behavior was caused by a bad -and expensive -drug habit. He asked to borrow my son’s phone to check something, and managed to Venmo himself $4,000 which my son didn’t catch til the kid disappeared on a drug bender. The wealthy family stalled my son from pressing charges by promising to reimburse but never did. We ended up just dropping it and chalking it up to a life lesson.

Heading in to work. Have a great day.

My son's "friend" did that too back at UK. Forgot the particulars but took my son for about $1800.00 (Back then..) I think it was a debit card but he "lost" it.





I am working from home today. Much to do... Have a goodun!

 

[BBUK]

 

[vhcat70]

Joe Bryant, kicker from 1977 Wildcats football team, posts over in HOB. Too cool.

My favorite team.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Joe Bryant, kicker from 1977 Wildcats football team, posts over in HOB. Too cool.

I was at Gainesville when they whupped Florida.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

A facebook funny:

 

[vhcat70]

I was at Gainesville when they whupped Florida.

I was on the radio when Cawood called Still's return after picking up an LSU fumble: "And he's heading down the field with LSU players chasing him! But I don't know what they think they are going to do if they catch him."

 

[berniecarbo]

Time to brag a little. My daughter manages a boys Baseball travel team in Florida. I helped manage her softball teams as she grew up and she was a very good player and learned the techniques well. Two grandsons play on her team. They just finished the season undefeated. In the last game, the other team intentionally walked Vincent to load the bases because he had homered in the previous at bat. His younger brother Ramon was the next batter and he hit a 3 run double. The high school coach has taken an interest in Vincent and has been working with him, planning on him to be the starting catcher next year when he enters high school.

 

[BBUK]

Wish Brother Sir SC was around...

https://fb.watch/rXHfykJLEs/

 

[*CatinIL*]

Tornado emergency in the Nashville area right now. Hopefully no one here on the board is around there. If so, prayers for your safety.

 

[*CatinIL*]

South of Murfreesboro. Down to a warning now. Maybe the storm is letting up a little bit.

 

[BBUK]

Yes you can!

 

[awf]

Sounds like a great time. Not a huge fan of British fare, except their breakfasts and fish and chips.

I'm heading over to Scotland Aug 23 - Sep 2. Looking forward to some lamb.

Traveling to Iceland July 6 - 13. They produce their hotdogs (pylsa) primarily with lamb and some pork. Must try. One restaurant in Reykjavik fed a certain individual back in the day.

we took a spur of the moment trip to Edenburg..........Holyrood hill.........was a task but the view at the top made it worth effort......As with the rest of my life.......I got lucky and we was there during Military Tattoo......I had never heard about it till we were there......got a very nice suite when we arrived without reservations.......timing is everything.....

 

[AustinTXCat]

we took a spur of the moment trip to Edenburg..........Holyrood hill.........was a task but the view at the top made it worth effort......As with the rest of my life.......I got lucky and we was there during Military Tattoo......I had never heard about it till we were there......got a very nice suite when we arrived without reservations.......timing is everything.....

Flying into Heathrow then on to Inverness. Train to Thuro. Ferry to Stromness. Stay in Kirkwall couple days. Overnight ferry to Lerwick in the Shetlands. Stay couple days. Overnight ferry to Aberdeen. Train to Inverness. Check out Nessie. Plane down to London. Fly to Dallas. Back to ATX,

Military Tattoo is a big deal. Also held in Germany. I've never attended. Agreed. All about timing.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Cloudy and cool in the east.

Saw my wife off on the train to NYC this morning. She’s spending a few days with her favorite aunt who is having significant health issues in her early 80s. The woman only had one child, a son who is to be honest a bit useless at caregiving so my wife is doing what she can from a distance. And she loves the city —way more than I do, though I enjoy it a couple times a year.

I’ll use my time alone to catch up on some of the stuff in DC I’m more in to than she is, the Archeology and Paleontology at the Smithsonian, maybe a trip out to a Civil War battlefield. I haven’t been to the Chancellorsville-Wilderness-Spotsylvania-Fredericksburg complex in a while.

For now, one more commute downtown then a work from home day this week. Hope all is well for everyone.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Getting a "little" set into a routine but not much. At least I am stationary. Have a great day.

 

[berniecarbo]

I was talking to my daughter this morning about the baseball game I mentioned earlier. They played the same team the final 2 games of the tournament. They had a player who had a habit of kicking the dirt if things didn't please him. He did this several times and was also mouthy. My daughter's team is not allowed to speak to the other team even if confronted. In the second game, this guy reached first base after kicking the dirt twice while batting. He tried to steal second and Vincent threw him out. As the guy left the field, the whole infield started kicking the dirt. The guy was so enraged, he charged the second baseman. The base umpire caught him from behind, picked him up and carried him off the field.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

My son got married last week end. He decided to wear his Army dress.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Congratulations Bert.

 

[warrior-cat]

I was talking to my daughter this morning about the baseball game I mentioned earlier. They played the same team the final 2 games of the tournament. They had a player who had a habit of kicking the dirt if things didn't please him. He did this several times and was also mouthy. My daughter's team is not allowed to speak to the other team even if confronted. In the second game, this guy reached first base after kicking the dirt twice while batting. He tried to steal second and Vincent threw him out. As the guy left the field, the whole infield started kicking the dirt. The guy was so enraged, he charged the second baseman. The base umpire caught him from behind, picked him up and carried him off the field.

Sounds like Tanner of the Bad News Bears.

 

[warrior-cat]

My son got married last week end. He decided to wear his Army dress.

In July of 2006 one of my sons got married and wore his Marine Dress Blues and ask me if I still had mine from the Army, and if I did, would wear it. Of course, I said yes as long as it still fit (it did). I had to cut my hair and shave my beard to do it so...

 

[BBUK]

U.S.S New Jersey

https://fb.watch/rZ9MEtwold/

 

[awf]

Well, I got some bad new today about my 51/2yr old F2 Goldendoodle. I got her when she was 13 weeks old......she has had a skin problem since we got her........today they diagnosed her with"Uveodermatologic syndrome" is the canine counterpart to this human disease complex characterized by eye, skin and nervous system symptoms. Affected dogs usually suffer eye problems (including uveitis and retinal separation), a premature whitening of the hair (poliosis) and vitiligo (skin depigmentation).

Six weeks ago her eyes swelled shut....I took her to the emergency room......at first they said she had a allergic reaction to flea bites......her eyes were glazed over with what looked to be a blueish/white haze.......she recovered from that but now they prescribed medications for the side affects of the medications......she hasn't been able to keep anything on her stomach for a couple of days now.......she has lost 10 lbs and is listless.....

I have decided to take her completely off of the antibiotics.........good life quality doesn't include abdominal pain, vomiting and what ever she is feeling.....her eye pressure was off the charts when I first took her to the ophthalmology vet........I am going to give her the steroids on hand.....the medications are burning her stomach up......If'n she was going to get well I could see putting her through the trauma.............but to put her through this so she can go through this for a few more months isn't in me.......it is bad enough to see her in the shape she is.......I had never had a puppy that I raised, trained and lived with.......I got two.......they are seven weeks apart in age........to say that I got attached to them is an understatement......the sick one took three years before she wold go all night without going out........cold, rain......every night once or twice......she taught me to pay attention when she asked out.......she was house broke......but she would not hold herself all night......now I could leave them for 12-16 hrs and they can run the house....you bond with an animal after walking around your yard twice a night for 30 months.....

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 72°F and cloudy. Major thunderstorms missed us last night. Today's high expected around 83°F.

Cuz sent photos and video from Nolin Lake. His place got hammered hard by hail and rain and perhaps even a small tornado. Crazy.

Another nearby shooting last night. Two folks shot. Plan on ordering more ammo here soon.

Leaving for Knoxville in two weeks. Daughter and I meeting up with baby brother and his wife on Saturday, May 25th, in Bardstown. Should make for a good little get-together. Daughter hasn't seen her uncle in 25 years.

Been really busy scripting past week. Good old Micro$oft.

Happy Friday, y'all.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Cloudy and cool in the east.

Bert, congrats on your son’s wedding. That’s a handsome couple. Awf, sorry about your dog. I know how that can hurt a person, to see an animal that counts on them suffer and not be able to make it stop.

Talk about being alone: My wife is in New York, my son is in Arizona, my older daughter is in Wyoming and my younger daughter is in Curaçao. Even my kids who live away from home aren’t in their homes. I’m the only fixed object. But everyone is having fun and, or doing something that they love so I’m pleased.

Settling in to work from home after my morning walk. Have a good day.