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The idea of storytelling has been growing in appeal to me over the last few years, and now that I have watched my mother steadily lose her memories over the last year or so, I've decided it's time to stop worrying about trying to match previous epic stories that have appeared on this board and...

Amazon Prime is now carrying a movie I haven't seen in over 40 years, American Pop. I clicked 'Watch Now' almost immediately. For me, the years 1978-81 still have a certain feel to them as a specific era, and I miss them terribly. Video arcades, midnight movies, becoming old enough to be left...

Quantum Leap. NBC. September 19. :jawdrop::clap::clap::clap::popcorn:

It's not really my place to start this thread, but then again, whose place is it really.  All I have to offer now is that we need a place to do what we're doing in the other thread but collectively not necessarily sober. In here we will work out a time as well as any other conditions we see fit...

More precisely, this recent kerfuffle in the Vail Unified School District? One of my old friends who lives in Oregon and leans pretty strong to the right shared a post from one Steven Tyler Daniels, in which he narrates/participates in/guides a protest at a school board meeting. Not sure if...

President Biden ordered his first airstrike yesterday. I'm not interested in comparing numbers from any previous administration and will concede that this is more or less a variation of Theodore Roosevelt's 'Speak softly and carry a big stick'; my 'concern' is that even though the stories are...

Arguably, the first words that come to mind when someone mentions Martin Luther King Jr is "I have a dream...", and it probably always should be.  While I'm far from an expert on the man's history or sermons, I was fortunate enough a couple of years ago to stumble upon another of his sermons...

In case anyone out there is bored, you can tune in to watch my son play baseball out in Witchita in the National Baseball Congress World Series. The game starts at 2 today and can be seen either via FB--just search for the National Baseball Congress, or go to youtube and search for it there...

For years, one of the main things I tried to reinforce to my son over the years is how much everything has to go exactly right for one to be able to go as far as they can in sports, and avoiding drugs and alcohol was one of the few things he would be able to control.  Well, after his team...

For those here who don't remember, my middle son is now a freshman at a small DIII school in PA that recruited him to play ball there.  As a freshman, he was warned that playing time would be hard to come by, but given that his baseball history is replete with such warnings, he has once again...

If you're looking for something to do at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, why don't you wing on by the Delmarva Shorebirds stadium in Salisbury and catch game 1 of the Maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches' MSABC Classic, featuring all-star teams made up of HS juniors and seniors from the...

Have fun tonight. Keep it in your pants. :doh:

Since it says tl;dr in the title, you have no one to blame but yourself for being here. Anyway, for those unfamiliar with my work here, one topic that I feel experienced enough to comment on somewhat authoritatively is youth sports, baseball more specifically, as one of my sons has been at the...

***DISCLAIMER: THIS MAY BE "TL:DR"*** I'm taking the occasion of the 4-year 'anniversary' of my son's trip to Cooperstown Dreams Park, the event that his travel team at the time had been building towards for the previous 4 years, to reflect back on that time and share a few points I believe...

My wife's oldest sister passed away last week and they had the memorial service yesterday.  She was only 58, but had health issues, and given their family history, was actually one of the longer-lived women in the history of their family. Their own mother had died at 46, when my wife was just...

In a bit of a bind here.  Cliff's Notes version: I need to replace one of our vehicles, have no budget for a car payment and very little pocket money (~$1500) to spend. I'm intrigued by some of the 'local' auctions and even though my hopes aren't high for finding a 'good' car, my luck buying...

If you were heading to Blacksburg from the DC beltway between 5-6 PM tomorrow, would you make better time going out rte 66 to 81, or go down 95 south and cutting over to 81 around Fredericksburg, or am I equally screwed going either way, since I've chosen to hit the area during Friday afternoon...

For those unfamiliar with my son's baseball exploits, he went to Cooperstown Dreams Park 2 years ago, and last year filled in as a guest player on a team that went to Disney World. If Offdee had a baseball scale, however, my son would probably only be in the 7-8 range; pretty good locally but...

If your baseball playing/loving son/daughter hasn't reached age 12 yet and you haven't heard about it yet, please try to arrange getting on a team going to the Cooperstown Dreams Park for their 12U season. For those unfamiliar, the Cooperstown Dreams Park has run weekly tournaments from June...

So my 8 year-old son won a contest to be an honorary bat boy for the game yesterday, and we had to be there2 hours early. Wanting to avoid city driving, we drove to the closest light rail station to go in by train. Even then, there was a sea of fans in full Red Sox gear--shirts, hats, jerseys...