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  1. But Emmy tossed her first high school no-hitter last night VS Corydon Central High School. Second pitch of the game she hit Corydon’s lead-off square in the shoulder and put her aboard. Second batter was a 3-2 walk. We know both of those girls well from travel ball. Two kids you DO NOT want to put on base. But Em settled in to get out of the inning. After that first inning she cruised to an 11-0 win by run rule striking out 10.
    22 points
  2. I’ve been down in Dallas area for work this week. Got to meet up with @jsharr for lunch. His choice of Fernando’s was en pointe! While there, I saw Tom Hanks having lunch with some sketchy guy so I had to get a photo. Had a great visit. I look forward to having a more relaxed visit next time, or return the favor if he comes my way!
    20 points
  3. Stopped at a country bar on my way home for lunch. Good food, Cheap beer and racing on tv ALL THE TIME. Order a half dozen wings and a Potosi cow pie. https://www.potosibrewery.com/our-beer/cow-pie/
    15 points
  4. There is a little bar out on the camp road. I finally stopped in after driving past for forty years. Not the warmest welcome. Another guy came in and they are chattin' it up. Bartender/owner finally came over and shared a dog story with me.
    15 points
  5. Was a great day. Early down in TN we played a great team. Easily one of the best HS teams in TN. Had an amazing pitcher. We were sitting at 5-0 in our tourney. We put 2 on them in the first. Emmy held them scoreless. But she gave up a 3 run homer in the 3rd by leaving a curveball a little fat over the plate that got tattooed over the left field fence. We came back and took the lead on a double that scored two. Emmy kept them scoreless until the last inning. We were up by 1. They had one on. Bunted her over that gave us an out. Induced a shallow pop up to bring up the leadoff. So one on, two down, huge leadoff up with game on the line. Fouls one off. Emmy paints a corner for strike 2 looking. Then gets the girl to swing out of her shoes at a rise ball and gets the K for the win! This game had all of the feelings of a sectional game. It was awesome to watch. I’ve seen her pitch a thousand games but every now and then you just know one is special. She finished with a career high 12 strike outs in 6 innings. I left TN early to head home because G got me tickets to see Arron Lewis. He is the former front man for Stained. We saw him in a small venue in French Lick. I ate dinner with him and we saw the show. It was amazing. His voice is still amazing. All acoustic. Just him and a couple of other guys with guitars. My kind of show. Everyone stayed seated. Just enjoying the music. Truly a great time. great day spending time with both my kids.
    14 points
  6. I found a place. I gave them some money. She said I could move in at the end of April. I lived there a few years ago. It's okay. Small, 470 sq. ft. studio. I'll have to keep my bikes inside. They have a garden so I can plant some things.
    14 points
  7. Multi tasking at the moment, but, it was a steady rain (and had been for 3+ hours) Saturday morning at 4:30. I needed to leave the hotel at either 4:30 or 5:00 for a 5:00 or 5:30 start time for the double. Steady rain and 52 degrees didnt equate to an enjoyable ride, so I did not start (DNS). Also, the weather channel was showing that rain would be possible for most of the route during the day. I texted and talked with my younger son (in MSP, who has taken up cycling). I was thinking of just heading back to Phoenix, but the thought occurred to me that I would still be charged for the room for Saturday. My son said can you get in a shorter ride, since you do enjoy cycling in California. Darn it! I thought about bringing my laptop, but didnt. It would have been relatively simple to create a new route. While I was talking with him I got an idea: ride the first part of the double route, then take a detour to where the last sag stop is, in Los Alamos. It was somewhat difficult to judge the distance, but I figured it was at least 50 miles. The "detour road" I was going to turn on is actually on the return for the regular route. There was plenty of elevation gain in what I did, mainly on Foxen Canyon Rd. That road was on the Tour of California race at least once. I did a couple of extra detours, and ended with 62.5 miles and 3632 ft of elevation gain. I left the hotel at 9:45, and was back about 2:20. I did get a few sprinkles about 2 miles from the end. It was a quality ride with all that climbing (the complete route had 8400 ft of elevation gain). I didnt stop for more than a few minutes (taking off arm warmers, taking a couple of pics), so it was like I rode straight thru. An added benefit was, I was back early enough to shower and have an early dinner (with 2 beers) at the Firestone Walker Brewery in Buellton. I drove there, even though it was only about a mile away, and that was a good decision since it did rain. Breakfast this morning was at a local place, Ellens Pancakes. 2 Danish pancakes, 2 over easy eggs, bacon, and coffee. Enough food that I didnt need to stop for lunch on the drive home.
    13 points
  8. Long time no see. Even just accidentally ran across an old bookmark to land here... I'd half forgotten about this place. So much trauma from the old Bicycling forum days. Glad to see many of you still alive and well. Did we lose anybody?
    12 points
  9. Our Walmart has closed all the self checkouts and has real people working checkout lines.
    12 points
  10. The last couple of weeks have been a love hate relationship
    12 points
  11. We have been camping at Mr. Raney's ranch for 30 years now. The Troop installed the flag poles as a thank you gift for Mr. Raney. Scouts Own Service this morning. Scout Vespers after the campfire last night My rifle range for the weekend was set up very last minute. Fishing Brisket, pork and chicken for dinner on Saturday Ryan learned this from me Group photo after retiring the colors on Saturday night
    12 points
  12. For an old couple. We pulled the carpet from the stairs to see what was underneath. Padding and staples. And smaller older staples under that. The wood is pine with a reddish finish. We are replacing with red oak. The basement floor will be red oak also. Walls and ceiling first. Work begins in two weeks. We need to look at colors.
    11 points
  13. Now that they are warmed up to you, you will probably get a better welcome next time. Probably good that you ordered a beer rather than a white wine spritzer.
    11 points
  14. I took advantage of the lunch special at one corner bars for lunch today. I had a 1/4 pound cheese burger, home made chips and a pint of Mcfleshmans hefeweizen. Total cost $8.07
    10 points
  15. I agree SW. As a Grade A bullshitter, I use to try to convince people of the dumbest things I could conjure up, and had a good success rate. (My wife always said I was a "Tom Sawyer" and could convince others painting the fence was fun) Google has ruined me, because now those that know me well fact check everything I say. I say "Good Morning", they check the time on their phone before replying
    10 points
  16. was interviewed on WNDU channel 16 noon show today. You can see it here
    10 points
  17. The gift of a meaningful pause, from Fred Rogers. “Fred put it like this: ‘I’d like to give you all an invisible gift. A gift of a silent minute to think about those who have helped you become who you are today. Some of them may be here right now. Some may be far away. Some, like my astronomy professor, may even be in heaven. But wherever they are, if they’ve loved you, and encouraged you, and wanted what was best in life for you, they’re right inside your self. And I feel that you deserve quiet time, on this special occasion, to devote some thought to them. So, let’s just take a minute, in honor of those that have cared about us all along the way. One silent minute... Whomever you’ve been thinking about, imagine how grateful they must be, that during your silent times, you remember how important they are to you. It’s not the honors and the prizes, and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It’s the knowing that we can be trusted. That we never have to fear the truth. That the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff.’”
    9 points
  18. Broke. I was running errands this afternoon. I came home about 2:30 and the garage door I use wouldn’t work. The spring broke. I replaced this one about 10 years ago. Off to Menards to buy the replacement. It took 45 minutes to replace. The first tension of the spring was perfect. No torsion adjustment needed.
    9 points
  19. I got a raise. 4%. That’s 4% more fun I can have this year.
    9 points
  20. Out for a walk, and took a few pics.
    9 points
  21. I started doing plank for 1 minute in January. I will be adding 5 seconds each month until the end of the year. I am currently only doing it three times a week, I need to move that up to at least 5 times a week.
    9 points
  22. Sometimes I do such complex calculations, my pen needs a heat sink for when I over clock it
    9 points
  23. We are at the lake. we are ok
    9 points
  24. First beer in maybe ten days or so, this place brings two beers when you order one. I just wanted a place to rest, and it is familiar
    9 points
  25. Soon you will be walking in and you’ll hear Smudge! as a beer slides your way. And some dumb mailman who lost on jeopardy will start driveling at you.
    9 points
  26. Old fart babbling stories of yesteryear... Me an Lucky were going to fish a section of whitewater, Lucky grew up by the river and had fished it hundreds of times, caught trout by the bushelful. Fishing out of an inflatable raft. I had whitewaterish canoe. We're standing at the launch point and Lucky is expounding on how the put in and take out points are only a hundred yards apart even though we covering a half a mile of river. I'm looking at the river and thinking that looks rough. So I ask Lucky how long it should take to get around the loop ? About half an hour, maybe a bit more. "How bout we leave the gear in truck and make a circle round, a scouting trip, then we grab the gear and go fishing" It took 3 hours, the canoe had a hole in it, and a broken thwart, we were both exhausted and close enough to drowned to have made some new promises to the almighty. Lucky knew all about inflatables, nothin about canoes, I had never been on whitewater before. I read up on it after the fact, white water is a lot different from a lake and we did everything wrong. Only thing we did right was leave the fishing gear in the truck.
    9 points
  27. Only heathens break spaghetti. If you want short pasta buy rigatoni or some other pasta.
    9 points
  28. Not sure, but you really need to go see your eye doctor.
    9 points
  29. Yesterday evening we stopped by the kids for a visit. My daughter & CJ were walking, but she left Smokey at the house as she didn’t want to deal with both of them. So she saw us on the Ring, said the doors unlocked can you bring Smokey & meet us. Sure… So I leash up Smokey and we go to meet them. Except he goes about 20 yards does his business & then starts to pull for home. Ah no, we’re going this way…. So he just sits and won’t move. I tell him, we’re going whether you like it or not, you decide your way or my way? He looks at me but doesn’t budge. OK my way it is. I hoist him up and carry him to his mom & brother. So we meet up, say our hellos and start to walk back. Except someone ain’t moving, in fact he’s looking at me with longing eyes. My daughter, you realize he wants you to carry him home now. Shit, I created a monster… OK c’mon you lazy dog and up he goes! 😂
    9 points
  30. Not my photos but a friend I rode with.
    9 points
  31. Got to watch my friend David Aldana race on Tv
    8 points
  32. It’s okay to be single. 😉 I found this poster in a gift shop while getting my kicks on old Route 66. Maybe there’s some wisdom here (buried beneath the misogyny).
    8 points
  33. 8 points
  34. I am using my lunch hour to drive to the Scout offices to turn in a completed Eagle Scout application today. I have another Eagle Scout board of review to chair tomorrow. So two new Eagles this week. The world can always use more Eagle Scouts. This is the young man who earned his Eagle last week.
    8 points
  35. $60 is a lot to install a chain. We have one local shop that charges $150/hour for labor. Yikes. I know the owner and manager, but I can't afford those rates. Two other shops have lower rates and do work for free for me. Yesterday, I needed a compressor. I had set up two sets of wheels tubeless. One tire would not seat. I went into the shop where I had purchased the Stan's earlier that day. The owner hit it with the compressor. I was in and out in under a minute. No charge. We discussed tire direction. I had the tire mounted backward. He noticed and I explained it was intentional. He liked my thinking.
    8 points
  36. Ba ba ba bad to the bone.
    8 points
  37. Nope. It would be fine if you were interested, but also fine if you're not. Some shared DNA doesn't create any obligation.
    8 points
  38. I use the last 7 digits of Pi as my password . You have to be pretty dedicated to hack me.
    8 points
  39. I agree. It works like a 1 bedroom. It's decent. 470 is pretty good. It forces you to be tight with your stuff and organization helps. I just read an interior design book on small spaces. Maybe I'll be inspired. The mgr seems nice. She said I could have a garden plot and a key to the hose. I'm closer to the mt bikes trails, just a couple blocks to the NF boundary.
    8 points
  40. The running joke in my condo complex is that an eligible bachelor is one who can drive at night.
    7 points
  41. Another southern dish I was introduced to when down there & love. I have always had it with some spicy sausage cooked with the beans.
    7 points
  42. Sounds great. We are making tacos for a guys birthday. At first he wanted hamburgers but then he switched it up to tacos and he demanded a carrot cake for his birthday. Haha. So I obliged. He also made sure I wasn’t making many vegetables and he made sure to say NO VEGETARIAN! He also said make plenty of food cause he will be hungry. So two packs of beef. 🙂 we are gonna watch his Eagle Scout celebration on VHS. It will be interesting
    7 points
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