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Mediocre teams do mediocre things.  This feels like one of those mediocre things.   Reports are Flores had difficulty with relationships in the organization.  There's some smoke there, but how much was that he had a winner's mentality in a group that's mostly been excited to be mediocre for...

I would agree. I removed myself from the political sphere a while ago, but people I would've considered moderate 10-15 years ago think the other side is literally trying to destroy America as we know it.   It's not a small inconsequential number of people and it's not people I would have...

Tua didn't show a heck of a lot today, but getting a win while getting the first start jitters out of his system and gaining some confidence in his hip, I'd consider this a success.

Amazing performance by the Miami D, but they've got to be tired and this game isn't out of reach yet.  We've got to sustain a drive and chew some time off the clock.

I was in the 34-36 range for most of my adult life.  Like someone else hinted at, I always told myself that if I got down to 225, I'd be rock solid and BMI was a joke but my estimation was way off.  I'm now between 200-205 (25.9 BMI today) and I still have some flab.  I can definitely see how...

I've got a pension, and the current plan is between 58 and 63, depending on how much I'm enjoying my job at the time.  At 58, I'll get ~75%, at 63, I'll get 100% of my final salary and you can't go above 100%, so that'd be the max.   I consider myself lucky to be in the situation.    For my...

2004 is the earliest I can find in my email about being a subscriber,  I let my sub lapse when I took a break from Fantasy Football for a while.   When I came back I was in the beta testing program for the mobile app, got a couple free years for that (I stopped testing and being a subscriber one...

One strategy we have is to make 2 meals on Sunday.  Usually, I'll BBQ up some extra protein like Chicken and also cook something that reheats really well (or somethings, like stew, that taste better the second day).  And then it goes: Sunday:  Fresh BBQ Chicken Monday:  Stew Tuesday:  Meal...

10 sick days/yr and they roll over, been with the company a few months over 15 years and have 799.50 sick hours.   This made me curious, so I average ~27 hours of sick time per year and that average is skewed by a ~3 week recovery from ankle surgery one year, otherwise it'd be ~2 days per year.

Registered republican in CA (who feels like the republican party has moved so far in the wrong direction that they're not really my party anymore), voted Johnson.  If I was forced to choose between Clinton and Trump, I would've chose Clinton (but wouldn't have felt good about it).   My vote was...

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I used to drink a lot (100oz or more on a typical day) of Coke Zero. I quit in September. I now only drink water or unsweetened iced tea (or beer, as an infrequent treat). Even though Coke Zero is calorie free, I've lost about 10lbs without much other lifestyle change. It took some effort at...

I had stretches of both, though I wouldn't classify it as rich. I imagine we were middle class when I was first born (but obviously don't remember), my dad had decent jobs in the car industry. He left my Mom, and we immediately became pretty poor even with child support. Living in rented...

No. The regret from giving up a 1.4 billion dollar lotto ticket (if my number were drawn) would be devastating, your life would turn into a constant "what if" as you realize the order of magnitude of what you gave up. Much more so than the much-more-likely-but-much-less-severe disappointment...

What you describe sounds sort of like the 9 year old dog I adopted when I bought my first house. I lived alone (but did have a girlfriend who visited often) so it was just Bailey and I a lot of the time. She was the first dog I had that was an indoor dog (all our family dogs growing up slept...