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Pretty sure I was racially profiled tonight by an Asian elementary school music teacher with an arm in a sling.....i will soldier on, of course, but anyhow, in other news.....
in other news, today I was putting my left leg into my pants and I twisted a little funny and flared up and lower back spasm I had six years ago. Had a minor limp but made to lunch an hour later in some pain.

I was telling my title sales rep this and he tells me Nolana, who is pretty hot blew out her knee in the bathroom at the Title office yesterday.  In other news...

 
Henry Ford said:
Thanks, all.  I feel lost. I've had and lost dogs before.  This one was special, and young.  And completely attached to me.

I can't quite believe it yet. Neither can my other dog who keeps running to the other room every time there's a noise looking for her. 

I know it's silly to some people, but I don't get along with human beings well.  She was my best friend. And it wasn't close.
So sorry to hear...you have my sympathies.   :cry:

 
our 2 subway trains came right away today on the commute to school. two guys- white guys at that (the single worst, most self-absorbed commuters out there- pregnant? #### you- I have a briefcase and an oversized book to read) actually got up for my kids to sit... AND there were citibikes aplenty for my continued commute to work. and my beloved marin county/brooklyn mom just got into town. 

THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, PEOPLE

still feeling sad about HF's dog, K4's cat (which now makes me feel sad about my own chip the cat the cancer screwed out of his and our life two years ago), all of sonoma, the ####### us soccer team- ... they are the only team I genuinely care about, the apocalyptic dreams I keep having... my #### career, and always my dad who ####### cancer screwed out of his and our life before he could meet my kids. 

but dammit.... the song that just popped up on my spotify release radar is "life is good"- which is no doubt algorhythmically attached to my kids playlists... AND I'LL TAKE IT. 
 
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Henry Ford said:
Does anyone know how to make Facebook stop those memory posts?
Don't know if this helps you, buddy....
 

Facebook's "On This Day" feature has brought up a lot of happy memories, but it's also dredged up moments some users would rather not re-live. The social network has listened to the feedback and is today rolling out new filters, allowing users to block content from certain dates or friends.

"We know that people share a range of meaningful moments on Facebook -- from celebrating good times like a birthday to getting support in tough times like the passing of a friend or relative," a Facebook representative told ABC News. "As a result, everyone has various kinds of memories that can be surfaced -- good, bad and everything in between. So for the millions of people who use On This Day, we've added these filters to give them more control over the memories they see."

Facebook 'On This Day' Lets You Keep Track of Your History
While the feature was celebrated by some, others were confronted with past tragedies.

The two new filters can be accessed by going to the "On This Day" page via desktop, where users can then select dates or certain people with whom they'd rather not rehash the past. The changes will hopefully make "On This Day" a fun walk down memory lane for more people.

It's also worth noting: there's no need to worry about friends catching any potentially embarrassing status updates, photos or posts from your past unless the user owning the account chooses to share it.

 
I did figure out how to stop audio from automatically loading every time I scrolled my feed and a video started playing.  I f'n LOATHED that.  Settings has an area to click-off automatically play sounds to videos.  

 
In other news...I drove through the police response to a double homicide yesterday on the way to pick up my daughter from school.  #### happened less than a mile from my house. Domestic violence. Son killed his dad and his dad's girlfriend.  two others were shot as well. People are freaking out here in the OC. We were just ranked one of the safest cities in America. :mellow:    I grew up up in the hood, so am not all that bothered by it, other than the senselessness of it.  

 Apparently they just caught the guy about a half and hour ago up in LA,  where I grew up. :unsure:   

my kidney is still kickin ### though!  

 
I'm joining a local country club so that I can use their pool, bar and gym and so I have a good place to take a client from time to time.   They have a $1,500 initiation fee but they'll waive it if I can show proof of a $500 charitable donation to a non-profit in the last 30 days.   I think it's a little odd that I'm now going to do a good thing for entirely selfish reasons, but hey, I'm a lawyer and moral dilemmas don't really worry me.   I was thinking of donating to juvenile diabetes for @General Malaise's family.   Is your preferred charity JDRF?

 
I'm joining a local country club so that I can use their pool, bar and gym and so I have a good place to take a client from time to time.   They have a $1,500 initiation fee but they'll waive it if I can show proof of a $500 charitable donation to a non-profit in the last 30 days.   I think it's a little odd that I'm now going to do a good thing for entirely selfish reasons, but hey, I'm a lawyer and moral dilemmas don't really worry me.   I was thinking of donating to juvenile diabetes for @General Malaise's family.   Is your preferred charity JDRF?
kidney relief fund, IMO.

but better yet- bigbottom's chance for life is where this money should be going. or to any of the places that have taken catastrophic apocalyptic damage from the elements over the last month.

 
I'm joining a local country club so that I can use their pool, bar and gym and so I have a good place to take a client from time to time.   They have a $1,500 initiation fee but they'll waive it if I can show proof of a $500 charitable donation to a non-profit in the last 30 days.   I think it's a little odd that I'm now going to do a good thing for entirely selfish reasons, but hey, I'm a lawyer and moral dilemmas don't really worry me.   I was thinking of donating to juvenile diabetes for @General Malaise's family.   Is your preferred charity JDRF?
St. John USVI  or big bottom's. Or Vegas. Houston  PR. Napa/Sonoma  there are too many. :(  

 
why do you hate bigbottom and sick kids?
'Cause I'm a heartless *******?   Maybe I need one of those cow hearts they're offering lawyers now?

I've donated to Bigbottom before.   I'm still amazed about the class and dignity he showed through losing a child.  I would have just thrown myself out a window.  

 
Why do you people hate diabeetus?

JDRF is taking donations for hurricane relief, so I'll do that.  
You had already mentioned that option. Diabbbbeeeeeeettuus. Is the suck. Especially for kids.  Did lots of kids have diabeeeetteeuus when we were kids?  I don't remember it being as prevalent as it is now. 

 
'Cause I'm a heartless *******?   Maybe I need one of those cow hearts they're offering lawyers now?

I've donated to Bigbottom before.   I'm still amazed about the class and dignity he showed through losing a child.  I would have just thrown myself out a window.  
I shoulda been a lawyer. 

 
In other news...I drove through the police response to a double homicide yesterday on the way to pick up my daughter from school.  #### happened less than a mile from my house. Domestic violence. Son killed his dad and his dad's girlfriend.  two others were shot as well. People are freaking out here in the OC. We were just ranked one of the safest cities in America. :mellow:    I grew up up in the hood, so am not all that bothered by it, other than the senselessness of it.  

 Apparently they just caught the guy about a half and hour ago up in LA,  where I grew up. :unsure:   

my kidney is still kickin ### though!  
What's all this kidney talk? You okay?

 
There should be a service that breaks into your house and lets a dog loose who will greet you at the front door when you get home. 

 
I was out with my family this evening. On our way home, I got stuck behind a semi-truck driving r-e-a-l-l-y slow. As we putted along at 25mph on the on ramp, I started to get impatient. We hit the merge lane and he was still only up to 45mph. 

There wasn't a lot of traffic, but enough that I couldn't easily just get over a couple of lanes and get around him, especially starting from our slow speed. I saw a small opening and was just getting ready to floor it and veer over because I was getting frustrated when a black Mercedes came flying all the way from the far left lane (I'm guessing) into the right lane to pass everyone on the right. He had to be going 100+mph. It was so fast that I never even saw him until he was alongside me.

At first it just ticked me off.  But as I started to realize that if I had been just a split second more impatient, I would have started merging over as he was flying into the lane and he absolutely would have hit us. We were so incredibly close to being in a horrible accident that likely would have ended in fatality. I managed to gather myself together and make it home, but as soon as we got home my hands stared shaking and my adrenaline/fear levels are shooting through the roof imagining what kind of damage that would have done to the rear of the car with my 8 year old sitting back there.

There's a piece of me that is unbelievably mad that someone would be that selfish and stupid to risk everyone else's lives, but right now that part is mostly being overwhelmed by the abject terror my body is experiencing.

 
I had a similar experience 30 years ago, GD. A semi jack-knifed in front of me, pinning a pickup into the median. The occupants were bloodied, but not seriously injured. My ancient Cutlass with lousy brakes almost went under the truck and could have decapitated me. I was on my way to a party, which I attended, but spent most of the time demolishing a bottle of whisky.

 
I was out with my family this evening. On our way home, I got stuck behind a semi-truck driving r-e-a-l-l-y slow. As we putted along at 25mph on the on ramp, I started to get impatient. We hit the merge lane and he was still only up to 45mph. 

There wasn't a lot of traffic, but enough that I couldn't easily just get over a couple of lanes and get around him, especially starting from our slow speed. I saw a small opening and was just getting ready to floor it and veer over because I was getting frustrated when a black Mercedes came flying all the way from the far left lane (I'm guessing) into the right lane to pass everyone on the right. He had to be going 100+mph. It was so fast that I never even saw him until he was alongside me.

At first it just ticked me off.  But as I started to realize that if I had been just a split second more impatient, I would have started merging over as he was flying into the lane and he absolutely would have hit us. We were so incredibly close to being in a horrible accident that likely would have ended in fatality. I managed to gather myself together and make it home, but as soon as we got home my hands stared shaking and my adrenaline/fear levels are shooting through the roof imagining what kind of damage that would have done to the rear of the car with my 8 year old sitting back there.

There's a piece of me that is unbelievably mad that someone would be that selfish and stupid to risk everyone else's lives, but right now that part is mostly being overwhelmed by the abject terror my body is experiencing.
people never seem to realize they're driving a cruise missile

 
I had a similar experience 30 years ago, GD. A semi jack-knifed in front of me, pinning a pickup into the median. The occupants were bloodied, but not seriously injured. My ancient Cutlass with lousy brakes almost went under the truck and could have decapitated me. I was on my way to a party, which I attended, but spent most of the time demolishing a bottle of whisky.
so. no real effect?

 
It wasn't a sock.  It was cancer. 

They recommended not waking her up from surgery.  I fought and then acquiesced.

I'm going to go buy some booze now. 


Step away for a couple of days and that's the first thing queued up for me here? :cry:   Gaddamit.  So sorry, Hank. 

Henry Ford said:
I know it's silly to some people, but I don't get along with human beings well.  She was my best friend. And it wasn't close.
Perhaps it's just the scotch, but I don't think that's silly and I can totally understand it, even though my dog absolutely prefers my wife to me.  He started out very sick and moved from that into being a handful pretty much immediately thereafter(and has remained so)...but in spite of that I became pretty attached to him very quickly, and I have dreaded having to eventually "make that last drive" with him since very, very early on.  He's been my "accomplice" in all kinds of stupid pranks I've played on my wife, is my football watching buddy, hiking pace car, navigator on road trips, burglar alarm and wrestling nemesis.  He's also the twitch in my eye from how skittish/barky he is with non-family members(even people he knows and likes), he's the gray hair on my temples from his stubbornness and is responsible for at least half a dozen ulcers I'm sure I've developed the last 5 years since he's been around.   Regardless of all of that, I already know I will be a mess the first time I come home and he isn't flipping out from joy like a spazz at the front door(he was so excited when I got home earlier today that he nearly ripped a furrow in my cheek/lip with his front paw.  Good thing I grew out the beard a couple weeks back).

He is currently asleep on my foot, apparently dreaming of chasing rabbits, yodeling in his sleep, and I was getting annoyed because I needed to go into the other room.  Not anymore.  I'mma let him give the rabbits hell for a few more minutes.

 
Don't know if this helps you, buddy....
I had a friend post a memory of another former dear friend who had passed from ALS in a picture. It was the three of us together, arms around shoulders, smiling. Her husband was one of my best friends in college. She became our friend and confidant. We went through the proverbial #### together. I had lost touch but remembered fondly.

So I cried. I couldn't help it. I openly wept. A year later, Facebook made it a memory that I might want to remember. 

I cried again. I hate Facebook at times.

I'm sort of crying again.  

 
What's all this kidney talk? You okay?
yep, thanks buddy.  had an ultra sound a few months ago and discovered that i was probably born without a left kidney.  confirmed it this week with a ct scan.  gonna chat with a nephrologist soon, to get the lay of the one kidney land.

 
yep, thanks buddy.  had an ultra sound a few months ago and discovered that i was probably born without a left kidney.  confirmed it this week with a ct scan.  gonna chat with a nephrologist soon, to get the lay of the one kidney land.
There’s always room for another.  You just need booze, basic cutlery, and access to a lot of ice and a bathtub.

 
We might be taking the kids to adopt a kitten today.  Was browsing the website and a few that they have listed are Catrick Swayze and Chairman Meow :lmao:

 
Lazy Saturday in Chez Uruk.

Pedicure in a couple of hours, and already have a pot roast going (neither of these are euphemisms). 

I really should be working on a resume because I don't much like the tremors coming out of corporate these days, but I just can't care enough to do so. 

 
Lazy Saturday in Chez Uruk.

Pedicure in a couple of hours, and already have a pot roast going (neither of these are euphemisms). 

I really should be working on a resume because I don't much like the tremors coming out of corporate these days, but I just can't care enough to do so. 
Damn.  That pot roast sounds really good - may have to make one soon.

 
Well we now own a 5 month old female kitten

We were looking for younger and a boy and fluffy and orange and she's none of those things but my son said he liked that one so she's got a new home now.  Still getting used to the dog

Oh and he wants to name her sapphire :mellow:

 

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