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krista4 said:
I was thinking about your trip to SD.  What are your dates?  I really need to get away.
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SD 3/16 -3/18

3/18 night catch Tommy Keene with "industry folks"

3/19 Santa Anita Horseracing

3/20-22 Open days WBC nights

3/23 - drive back to SD and fly home

 
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Sorry about the estate stuff krista. That stuff sucks. It's amazing how many people believe that money will bring them happiness so much to the point that they're willing to be total underhanded scumbags to get it.

My family was not thrilled to find out that it's likely that my uncle's ex-wife is likely to get his entire estate thanks to his state's goofy laws. Nobody would care, except that his daughter from his first marriage could use some of the money and, for so many reasons, deserves it more than anyone else. 

On the plus side for your situation, it's still possible to get it changed to something that makes sense. I would assume that that's going to create all out war though. Sucks.

 
krista4 said:
While we're on family time in the GMTAN today, could I rant for a minute?

My wonderful grandfather will turn 97 on Wednesday.  He's as kind and good a man as you could meet.  Hasn't had a super-easy life, lost two wives under tragic circumstances in each case, didn't go to college but worked hard and has amassed a decent amount of money, considering.  I hope he lives to be 120 and spends every dime of it somehow, but it's likely that he'll leave behind maybe half a million assuming he lives a few more years.

We have a small family - my mom is an only child, and I only have one brother, who has one son who is 17 years old and could probably take Sweet J, though he wouldn't because he's a sweetheart (my nephew, not Sweet J).  My brother, sister-in-law and nephew live in the same town as my Grandpa, and until 18 months ago my mom and stepfather did as well.  Despite living in the same town, my brother and his family almost never see my grandpa - at most a couple of times a year when they begrudgingly invite him to a holiday celebration.  When grandpa's second wife died a little over a year ago, my mom and I both made numerous trips there to take care of everything, including the joy of going through a 90-something-year-old lady's underwear drawer, and to get my grandpa's house sold and get him into assisted living, which we toured with him, made all arrangements, etc.  During all this time, my brother and family were not seen at all.

My mom and I would be perfectly happy if my grandpa left some money for my adored nephew's college fund (though he is well funded already by my mom and my stepmother) and left the rest to his church or another charity.  But we found out a couple of weeks ago that, within days of our last visit, my sister-in-law (second wife, who's been married to my brother 7-8 years), who volunteered to "help" my grandpa by taking him to the lawyers' office to work through some paperwork relating to his wife's accident, also managed while there to have him change his will so that (1) she is now the executor of his estate (despite knowing him for about eight years and being generally useless), and (2) half his estate is going to my nephew, with my sister-in-law as trustee until he turns 21, and another 1/4 to my brother.  

Sigh.  

My mom is down there now for grandpa's birthday, and talked to him today about this.  Apparently he doesn't remember any of it and is not sure how it got set up that way.  He's ninety-#######-seven and will sign whatever you tell him.  Un-#######-believable.  Or perfectly believable, I guess.  I've just never dealt with this kind of greed in my own family before, despite seeing other people talk about it.  What is it about a little money that makes people so, so awful?
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It could be worse.  I had a fairly wealthy uncle with 2 kids (daughter who took care of him and her mom with dementia,  POS son)

I forget the specifics but I believe son was finally taken out of the will or had inheritance greatly reduced.  He ended up challenging it, saying daughter starved the old man and forced him to sign, something like that 

So after years and tons of money in court fees she agreed to a settlement of a couple hundred K but on the condition she got the family farmhouse back (which by the way now closely resembled carcosa in True Detective Season 1 ).  Anyway the day after it was settled the house mysteriously burnt down 

 
All the posts about sons challenging their fathers made me realize my day is coming.

I'm going to start withholding calcium from my kid... Good luck coming at me with brittle-### bones, boy.

 
krista4 said:
While we're on family time in the GMTAN today, could I rant for a minute?

My wonderful grandfather will turn 97 on Wednesday.  He's as kind and good a man as you could meet.  Hasn't had a super-easy life, lost two wives under tragic circumstances in each case, didn't go to college but worked hard and has amassed a decent amount of money, considering.  I hope he lives to be 120 and spends every dime of it somehow, but it's likely that he'll leave behind maybe half a million assuming he lives a few more years.

We have a small family - my mom is an only child, and I only have one brother, who has one son who is 17 years old and could probably take Sweet J, though he wouldn't because he's a sweetheart (my nephew, not Sweet J).  My brother, sister-in-law and nephew live in the same town as my Grandpa, and until 18 months ago my mom and stepfather did as well.  Despite living in the same town, my brother and his family almost never see my grandpa - at most a couple of times a year when they begrudgingly invite him to a holiday celebration.  When grandpa's second wife died a little over a year ago, my mom and I both made numerous trips there to take care of everything, including the joy of going through a 90-something-year-old lady's underwear drawer, and to get my grandpa's house sold and get him into assisted living, which we toured with him, made all arrangements, etc.  During all this time, my brother and family were not seen at all.

My mom and I would be perfectly happy if my grandpa left some money for my adored nephew's college fund (though he is well funded already by my mom and my stepmother) and left the rest to his church or another charity.  But we found out a couple of weeks ago that, within days of our last visit, my sister-in-law (second wife, who's been married to my brother 7-8 years), who volunteered to "help" my grandpa by taking him to the lawyers' office to work through some paperwork relating to his wife's accident, also managed while there to have him change his will so that (1) she is now the executor of his estate (despite knowing him for about eight years and being generally useless), and (2) half his estate is going to my nephew, with my sister-in-law as trustee until he turns 21, and another 1/4 to my brother.  

Sigh.  

My mom is down there now for grandpa's birthday, and talked to him today about this.  Apparently he doesn't remember any of it and is not sure how it got set up that way.  He's ninety-#######-seven and will sign whatever you tell him.  Un-#######-believable.  Or perfectly believable, I guess.  I've just never dealt with this kind of greed in my own family before, despite seeing other people talk about it.  What is it about a little money that makes people so, so awful?
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That sucks K4, agree with Roverfish. Something similar happened with my wife's grandma. It sucked for everyone.

 
Dan Lambskin said:
It could be worse.  I had a fairly wealthy uncle with 2 kids (daughter who took care of him and her mom with dementia,  POS son)

I forget the specifics but I believe son was finally taken out of the will or had inheritance greatly reduced.  He ended up challenging it, saying daughter starved the old man and forced him to sign, something like that 

So after years and tons of money in court fees she agreed to a settlement of a couple hundred K but on the condition she got the family farmhouse back (which by the way now closely resembled carcosa in True Detective Season 1 ).  Anyway the day after it was settled the house mysteriously burnt down 
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Good lord.

Osaurus said:
That and how awesome cantaloupe is  :scared:
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Hate you.

 
 ,, A friend on FB posted some article whose headline said that the White House is without a dog food the first time in 120 years. That got me to thinking: who cleans up the poop for the President's dog? Surely it's not the President, right? Is it a groundskeeper? Is there a specific person that that's their job? Is that person out of a job now? What kind of rates can you then charge in the private sector once you've been the Presidential Pup's Pooper Scooper?

 
GroveDiesel said:
 ,, A friend on FB posted some article whose headline said that the White House is without a dog food the first time in 120 years. That got me to thinking: who cleans up the poop for the President's dog? Surely it's not the President, right? Is it a groundskeeper? Is there a specific person that that's their job? Is that person out of a job now? What kind of rates can you then charge in the private sector once you've been the Presidential Pup's Pooper Scooper?
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Assistant Sec of Interior

 
GroveDiesel said:
 ,, A friend on FB posted some article whose headline said that the White House is without a dog food the first time in 120 years. That got me to thinking: who cleans up the poop for the President's dog? Surely it's not the President, right? Is it a groundskeeper? Is there a specific person that that's their job? Is that person out of a job now? What kind of rates can you then charge in the private sector once you've been the Presidential Pup's Pooper Scooper?
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You think a married man isn't going to shovel dog crap?Linkopoop

 
I had a dream last night that I was on some Alaskan wilderness safari thing with GM.  We rode around in a bus with a cute girl as our guide and we saw baby bears.  The only real detail I remember is GM asking me to look up what 34 plus 1,000 was which had me pretty shuked.

 
My 2.5 year old already beats me up. Then he points to a scratch on my face from him and he asks what happened. I tell him that he knows and his reply is "you hit it on your jeep door."  I am in an abusive relationship. 

 
bought a handful of books off Amazon recently.. $0.01 + shipping :excited:

got 3 of them in the mail last week.  one of them is stamped "Little Free Library" and the city/state it was apparently stolen from. what a racket. 

 
mr. furley said:
bought a handful of books off Amazon recently.. $0.01 + shipping :excited:

got 3 of them in the mail last week.  one of them is stamped "Little Free Library" and the city/state it was apparently stolen from. what a racket. 
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Some lady brought in 3 of our textbooks (science, algebra, and one of my history texts) into the office last week.  She said she found them at a yard sale.  I tried to check my records to see who I had checked that book out to but I only keep the lists from the last 2 years.  Nice.

 
Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
Some lady brought in 3 of our textbooks (science, algebra, and one of my history texts) into the office last week.  She said she found them at a yard sale.  I tried to check my records to see who I had checked that book out to but I only keep the lists from the last 2 years.  Nice.
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who the hell steals textbooks?

i stopped carrying mine around about October or so of my senior year

 
mr. furley said:
who the hell steals textbooks?

i stopped carrying mine around about October or so of my senior year
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I think a better question is "who the hell buys 8th grade textbooks at a yard sale"?

Although a few years ago we got an email from someone who lives in another part of the state that said they bought a teacher's edition of Lit textbook on Ebay to use in their homeschooling consortium or cabal or whatever with our school stamp on the inside cover.  Nobody knew who did it.  And we had stopped using that text about 4 years before.

 
Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
I think a better question is "who the hell buys 8th grade textbooks at a yard sale"?

Although a few years ago we got an email from someone who lives in another part of the state that said they bought a teacher's edition of Lit textbook on Ebay to use in their homeschooling consortium or cabal or whatever with our school stamp on the inside cover.  Nobody knew who did it.  And we had stopped using that text about 4 years before.
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That's what they all say, that's what the all say :gang2:

 
Leeroy Jenkins said:
My 2.5 year old already beats me up. Then he points to a scratch on my face from him and he asks what happened. I tell him that he knows and his reply is "you hit it on your jeep door."  I am in an abusive relationship. 
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Laughing loudly at this just drew concerned glares from homeland security guys stationed outside the empire state building as I walked by

 
I like to picture cranky Tanner taking textbooks from school and serendipitously planting them in various locations around town to see if any get returned.  Sort of a modern day Willy Wonka minus the fun. 

 
Sammy3469 said:
I like to picture cranky Tanner taking textbooks from school and serendipitously planting them in various locations around town to see if any get returned.  Sort of a modern day Willy Wonka minus the fun. 
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"You get nothing!  You lose!!  GOOD DAY, sir!"

(I actually imagine that's the same reaction when he is told that they're out of dipping sauce at Rasing Cane's.)

 
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krista4 said:
While we're on family time in the GMTAN today, could I rant for a minute?

My wonderful grandfather will turn 97 on Wednesday.  He's as kind and good a man as you could meet.  Hasn't had a super-easy life, lost two wives under tragic circumstances in each case, didn't go to college but worked hard and has amassed a decent amount of money, considering.  I hope he lives to be 120 and spends every dime of it somehow, but it's likely that he'll leave behind maybe half a million assuming he lives a few more years.

We have a small family - my mom is an only child, and I only have one brother, who has one son who is 17 years old and could probably take Sweet J, though he wouldn't because he's a sweetheart (my nephew, not Sweet J).  My brother, sister-in-law and nephew live in the same town as my Grandpa, and until 18 months ago my mom and stepfather did as well.  Despite living in the same town, my brother and his family almost never see my grandpa - at most a couple of times a year when they begrudgingly invite him to a holiday celebration.  When grandpa's second wife died a little over a year ago, my mom and I both made numerous trips there to take care of everything, including the joy of going through a 90-something-year-old lady's underwear drawer, and to get my grandpa's house sold and get him into assisted living, which we toured with him, made all arrangements, etc.  During all this time, my brother and family were not seen at all.

My mom and I would be perfectly happy if my grandpa left some money for my adored nephew's college fund (though he is well funded already by my mom and my stepmother) and left the rest to his church or another charity.  But we found out a couple of weeks ago that, within days of our last visit, my sister-in-law (second wife, who's been married to my brother 7-8 years), who volunteered to "help" my grandpa by taking him to the lawyers' office to work through some paperwork relating to his wife's accident, also managed while there to have him change his will so that (1) she is now the executor of his estate (despite knowing him for about eight years and being generally useless), and (2) half his estate is going to my nephew, with my sister-in-law as trustee until he turns 21, and another 1/4 to my brother.  

Sigh.  

My mom is down there now for grandpa's birthday, and talked to him today about this.  Apparently he doesn't remember any of it and is not sure how it got set up that way.  He's ninety-#######-seven and will sign whatever you tell him.  Un-#######-believable.  Or perfectly believable, I guess.  I've just never dealt with this kind of greed in my own family before, despite seeing other people talk about it.  What is it about a little money that makes people so, so awful?
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I would lose my everloving mind.  How in god's name did this get past a lawyer.  I know, I know, the SIL sounds awful, but you almost expect it.  The lawyer, though, shouldn't he get an angry phone call? 

 
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