D-League

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks —it should I say GREAT morning, after that win in Knoxville. To top it off, I was too excited to sleep so I watched Pitt slap around UNC-Cheats in what announcers were calling a January “Bubble Game.”

This team looks so pretty when shots are falling.

Heading into work. Have a great day.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 54°F and cloudy. Little more rain expected today and tomorrow. Dense fog advisory in effect. Non-stop drizzle. Today's high could top 66°F.

Memorable W last night. Awesome team ball. Can't say enough positives.

MRI/CT scan today. Must arrive at 1:30 pm.

Happy Hump Day, y'all.

 

[warrior-cat]

UK LAST NIGHT.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Anybody know if Tennessee won last night? haha

This roller coaster season is one for the ages and meant to enjoy. We can lose to almost anyone...we CAN beat anyone.

Great night from a lot of players. All the starters in double figures.

Brea 18
Robinson 17
Oweh 14
Almonor 12
Williams 10...15 rebounds

Noah with a couple big baskets

UK 12-24 from 3.
Tenn 11-45 from 3 haha

 

[warrior-cat]

Up and down is pretty much it so far. More up than down though and all we need is to get on a role in March.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Great road game without our starting point guard.

 

[storm1507]

Good morning everyone.

Amazing win last night. This teams ups and downs are related to effort and shooting IMO. I know the two are related but which one drives the other I'm not sure about. Man if we can get healthy and not overlook our first game or two in the big tourney we may have a chance. Who knows?

I've got plenty to do around here today, but I have all day to do it. Retirement is great. I can't believe some don't like it.

Have a great day.

 

[BBUK]

Hello all,

I hope this day brought you joy. I am thankful. A whole lot of changes coming for many including me but I have broad shoulders.

The BB sitting next to Papa now. My time is his for an hour or so. (He just came back from Children's choir practice. His "Ama" is at choir practice now.)

We are thankful...

My youngest daughter was worried about losing her job. I laughed out loud a little. (You'd have to understand where she works and what she does.) (She is a nurse.)

I told her "Baby", Dad would lose his job way before you would... (I think it made her feel good. It should have...)

She is very good at her job.

An MJ play for the ages.. (Just a pass...)

 

[BBUK]

HAHA,

I have to share... A Buddy I was in the Army with sent me this and another picture a couple hours ago. This was during my time at Fort Bragg...

NONE of us remember the occasion or why we were wearing the suits. (We used to partake a little...)

The guy on the left sent me the picture. Dave, Greg, and Dave (Yeah, I am the weirdo...) I was 20 or 21 at the time. (Yeah we were due for a hair cut but we were Army through and through... (We traveled a lot.) (SP4's the lot of us...)

Thought I'd at least bring a laugh to you if you see this before going to bed, if not, in the morning you can spew out your coffee... Take care D-League Brethren...

 

[cordmaker]

Refs are not going to let Alabama lose!!

 

[warrior-cat]

The guy on the left sent me the picture. Dave, Greg, and Dave (Yeah, I am the weirdo...) I was 20 or 21 at the time. (Yeah we were due for a hair cut but we were Army through and through... (We traveled a lot.) (SP4's the lot of us...)

No doubt.

That reminds of a picture of a few guys I worked with (now I have to find it) in the late 70's, who were part of a team of UP's (Unit Police, glorified gate guards), that were basically deputized by the local division commander General Lesinski (spelling) to work with the MP's in reference to the drug problems of that area. We had our own drug dogs, shotguns and other various weapons to use to help the MP's capture some of the bad boys on post who were working with locals off post pushing the drugs. The program was later scrapped after one of the guys we were chasing ran into oncoming traffic and was killed. Then not long after, the general's car with wife and daughter in it was fired upon while returning to post one evening.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 69°F, cloudy with a few showers. Just heard thunder. We sure need this rain. Temperatures dropping as another front moves in.

Keeping it short this morning. Wish y'all another fine day.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Refs are not going to let Alabama lose!!

Back in the late '70's and early 80's when I was really working with Joe B.; he often told me that the SEC was misnamed. It should be the ACC: Alabama Collegiate Conference.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Airliner crash into the Potomac. Tragic. My prayers for the families.

Seems impossible that close to the White House that air traffic control was so incompetent, but i guess people are still figuring out what happened.

Of course for people who have been in this area long enough it brings back memories of the 1982 crash into the 14th Street bridge. That was literally along my commute that day. I was heading for the bridge after our offices closed early because of the fierce storm. Like many thousands of others, I can say that I would have been on the bridge if I’d left work a half hour earlier or later.

I was driving a CJ-7 jeep in those days with no radio. Got stuck in traffic after the bridge was closed and hundreds of emergency vehicles headed that way until almost 10pm. I still didn’t know what had happened when I walked into my Virginia apartment, but my phone was ringing —it was my mother who had convinced herself I’d gotten flattened on the bridge.

43 years ago.

 

[BBUK]

Hello all,

At the DC VA getting my regular treatment. Tragic event for sure. God's comfort to the families.... Hope the responders are safe as well.

 

[storm1507]

Good morning everyone.

Woke up this morning to the news of the plane crash and immediately thought of the earlier crash. I was a senior in HS
and remember vividly the news stories about the crash and the live video of the rescues. I will do my best to avoid watching
any footage. I don't know why, but those images have really stuck with me. Awful!

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Early reports are that the airliner collided with a military helicopter on a “training mission.” I hope that turns out to be wrong. Why would you do training missions close to the landing paths of one of the busiest airports in America, within sight of the White House? There are large military facilities, from Quantico to Ft. AP HIll, to Andrew AF Base, to Dover and so on close enough that crews stationed in the region can train there.

 

[vhcat70]

^ How does one learn to fly a helicopter up/down the Potomac - for security I presume - without training missions?

 

[MdWIldcat55]

^ How does one learn to fly a helicopter up/down the Potomac - for security I presume - without training missions?

What they were training for, based on what I've read, is proficiency in flying at night with night vision goggles. Night arrives in other places in this region besides along the landing path of commercial airliners, including the 60,000-acre base at Quantico, 40 miles away. Even if part of the training is low-level flying along the Potomac river, you could do it well away from Reagan National Airport. The Potomac runs all the way up to Harper's Ferry, 80 miles away. The air traffic around National Airport is very dense. I used to live fairly close, and it was a constant political football about closing it earlier and earlier each day, and shifting more flights to Dulles or BWI. It just seems nuts to me to mix in military training flights in that airspace when there are other options.

 

[cordmaker]

Bernie Sanders, lol, no no no no no, I didn't take any money from big pharma! Only donors!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

[BBUK]

Blond joke...

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning and Happy Friday from ATX. Currently 42°F and clear. Could touch low 70s later today.

Tragic plane crash. Heads should roll over this incident.

Wishing y'all another awesome day.

 

[warrior-cat]

Brussel sprouts are great
Could eat them every day
Are healthy as well

 

[BBUK]

Yeah, I flat out enjoy Brussel sprouts. Do not eat enough of them and for some reason don't think about them until I see them. Not sure why they are not a normal staple...

Good morning all...

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Austin, Warrior and BBUK in posts above remind me of the first published writing error of my career: I was about 22 and couldn't find any job other than editing a weekly bulletin for the National Food Processors Association in DC: And I misspelled Brussels Sprouts in a report about botulism in a Green Giant cannery. Yes, it is Brussels like the city, not Brussel...Everyone gets it wrong...I was almost fired for that, and still feel the embarrassment.

One thing I learned on that job: Do NOT eat canned mushrooms. During the time I was working for the food processing industry about three different canneries had botulism incidents that killed people. What happens is that to maintain the texture of the mushrooms they have to be slow heated on conveyor belts with gas jets. When a few of the jets get clogged with mushroom parts, they don't quite get heated enough to killed the bacteria and it produces botulinum toxin.

Warming up a bit in the east. Still snow on the ground but it is starting to melt.

Have a good day folks.