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proninja said:
All in all things went really well. I'm far more alert than the last time (maybe I'm getting better at this?)

I'm in the ICU for a couple days, get a followup CT scan tomorrow and probably learn some more about what we're doing next. Options range from sending me home Monday to doing more surgery. We'll see how it goes. 
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Kick its ###, PN (whatever IT is)

 
Proabaly won't ever do this justice, but....

 Mrs Limp and myself went out to Abraham Lincoln Cemetery today to lay wreaths. We have three family members out there (two vets and a spouse) as well as one friend. 

Cant even explain the emotions that come with walking the grounds of a military cemetery. 

While it pained us visiting loved ones that are no longer with us, and each of these 3 men served our country during times of war....

My wife's grandfather served in II and lived into his 80s

Her uncle served in Nam, received a Purple Heart, and lived until his 60s. 

Our friend served in Desert Storm and died much too early,  a father of 5, at 42.

..:They were each fortunate enough to not die while we were at war. Each of these men served their country during time of conflict and survived. They still lived a good portion of their lives after their service time.

Never did I appreciate that more than today. 

With this cemetery being only 15ish years old, you don't get the full sense of what war does to our young, our future.

Most graves you pass are II, Korea and Nam vets. Men, like our loved ones, that survived a hell I couldn't even imagine and met their maker at a later date. 

But that's not all of them. When you're passing the graves of those that were in their teens or early twenties, and they perished in Iraq of Afghanistan, you can't help but take a moment to realize that the last thing they knew on this earth was war. It's just gut-wrenching. 

 
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Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
tempting fate here...and running out of aliai...but the latest ban was because I posted that I supported the idea of long term bans for posters who cross the line




I totally agree! Little House on the Prairie is a great show!  Wholesome and great for kids!
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you can have my furley alias if you need it

####, wrong login

 
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krista4 said:
:cry: :lmao: :cry:

I don't know why "he doesn't have enough bread to get an ill rug" is one of the funniest things I've ever read, but it is.

ETA:  He does have a damn squirrel on his lid, too.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one.  I laughed for an hour at that when I read it and every time I see Marv since then I think HE SHOULD HAVE AN ILL RUG

 
Limp Ditka said:
Proabaly won't ever do this justice, but....

 Mrs Limp and myself went out to Abraham Lincoln Cemetery today to lay wreaths. We have three family members out there (two vets and a spouse) as well as one friend. 

Cant even explain the emotions that come with walking the grounds of a military cemetery. 

While it pained us visiting loved ones that are no longer with us, and each of these 3 men served our country during times of war....

My wife's grandfather served in II and lived into his 80s

Her uncle served in Nam, received a Purple Heart, and lived until his 60s. 

Our friend served in Desert Storm and died much too early,  a father of 5, at 42.

..:They were each fortunate enough to not die while we were at war. Each of these men served their country during time of conflict and survived. They still lived a good portion of their lives after their service time.

Never did I appreciate that more than today. 

With this cemetery being only 15ish years old, you don't get the full sense of what war does to our young, our future.

Most graves you pass are II, Korea and Nam vets. Men, like our loved ones, that survived a hell I couldn't even imagine and met their maker at a later date. 

But that's not all of them. When you're passing the graves of those that were in their teens or early twenties, and they perished in Iraq of Afghanistan, you can't help but take a moment to realize that the last thing they knew on this earth was war. It's just gut-wrenching. 
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good stuff.

my grandpa is buried at Arlington.  he was a captain in the navy all the way through II.  he was buried with full honors.  it was ridiculous.  full platoon, color guard, band, horse drawn caisson, with an admiral leading the proceedings.  as they folded the flag above his casket, this GIANT of a man, a navy seal, wept openly.  it was truly incredible.  he is buried down the hill from president taft.  so humbling.

 
DA RAIDERS said:
good stuff.

my grandpa is buried at Arlington.  he was a captain in the navy all the way through II.  he was buried with full honors.  it was ridiculous.  full platoon, color guard, band, horse drawn caisson, with an admiral leading the proceedings.  as they folded the flag above his casket, this GIANT of a man, a navy seal, wept openly.  it was truly incredible.  he is buried down the hill from president taft.  so humbling.
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My composure at funerals is always a mess, throw in the pomp and circumstance of a military one and I'm a blubbering fool.

Haven't witnessed the full honors, but the atmosphere of the cemetery alone, with a 21 gun salute, flag folded and handed off to the spouse... that alone is something to see.

 
cosjobs said:
RECIPE?
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1 lb braunschweiger 

1 8oz pkg cream cheese, softened

1 pkg green onion dip/soup mix

1 1/2 tsp garlic powder

1 1/2 tsp horseradish mustard

Combine everything and mix with a hand mixer.  Allow dogs to lick the beaters afterward.

Serve on crackers or cocktail rye bread.

ETA - if you can get Neuske's braunschweiger, do. It's insanely good.

 
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Bob Sacamano said:
For GM:

BELLEVILLE, Ill. • It hurt, watching this.

Yet I wish more were here to see it.

If only attendance could have been mandatory for every talented kid who will ever make a dime playing sports. What a lesson this could be for those gifted enough to enter a profession where the money comes so fast it seems like it will never stop, then disappears more rapidly than it arrived.


 


 
The assignment would be simple. Show up at Belle-Clair Fairgrounds on Wednesday night. Then put yourself in Darius Miles’ size-18 shoes.

Watch complete strangers try on your hats. See them bid on your high-powered guns while others wonder aloud why a basketball player would need such firepower. Hear them question the authenticity of the autographed jerseys and sneakers given to you by your friends. Listen to them laugh at your expense.

“I could ski in most of these shoes.”

“Why would someone need so many movies?”

“That’s from Darius Miles? Give it here. He owes me money.”

And to think some here hoped Miles would make an appearance.

Miles, 35, is hard to track down these days. Attempts to contact him turn into dead ends. If he was to make a public appearance, this would not be the place, not with his personal belongings spread across an expo center in flea-market fashion.

“If you see a yellow tag with the number one on it, those came from the Darius Miles bankruptcy case,” auctioneer Virgil Straeter told the crowd at 5:30 p.m.

Most of the attention centered on Miles’ sports memorabilia, specifically the autographed LeBron James jersey that went for $1,500. But that yellow No. 1 was plastered everywhere, from the four-wheeler that looked brand new, to a dining room set still wrapped in plastic, to a stunning supply of karaoke equipment, to the table stacked with 10,000-plus DVDs and video games, to the Ruger AR-556, one of four firearms that arrived in a gun safe without a combination.

“I grew up watching him,” Quentin Baker, 27, said. “He was one of my big heroes. I saw him play at East St. Louis. When he got drafted, I became a huge Clippers fan. I had a Clippers bedspread.”

Sixteen years later, he could have bid on Miles’ bed.

The Clippers made Miles the third overall draft pick in 2000. A team had never selected a high school player so early. The wiry, high-flying small forward out of East St. Louis went from McDonald’s All-American to national celebrity. He had a $9 million contract before his 19th birthday. More money was on the way.

Paired with fellow youngsters in Lamar Odom, Quentin Richardson and Corey Maggette, the Clippers produced head-turning highlights and 16 more wins in 2000-01 than the previous season’s team. Michael Jordan endorsed him. Movie directors cast him.

“They were dunking the ball all over the place,” Kelvin Stovall, 31, said of those Clippers. “Alley-oops, all that stuff. That’s what caught my eye. He was one of my top-10 favorite players. He was young, around my age. He was doing movies and stuff like that, blowing my mind.”

Miles’ fans followed him from Los Angeles, to Cleveland, to Portland, where he averaged career-highs in points (14) and minutes (32.2) during the 2005-06 season. But a devastating knee injury 40 games into that season forever altered his career.

An attempted return with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008 lasted just one season, and included 10 missed games for a violation of the league’s substance-abuse policy. Miles was arrested in 2009 for marijuana possession. He was arrested again in St. Louis in 2011, when he attempted to bring a loaded gun through airport security.

The young man had some problems, obviously. Money should not have been one of them. When Miles pretty much disappeared from the headlines, most presumed he was living off the $62 million he made during his playing career.

That stunning amount of money failed to outlast the memories of Miles in his prime.

The Belleville News-Democrat reported in September that Miles had filed for bankruptcy, the byproduct of unpaid child support, tax debt, a failed real estate deal and flat-out overspending. The profit from Wednesday’s auction will go to his creditors.

Stovall, who is stationed at Scott Air Force Base, was shocked to find out Miles lives in the Belleville area. He came to check out an autographed Michael Vick jersey. He left with a pang of guilt.

“People walking around, picking at his stuff, I kind of feel something about it,” he said. “It’s a little disheartening. It kind of rubs me the wrong way.”

Others weren’t so sympathetic.

“I wanted to come out to be part of history,” said Andy Smith, who walked out with a signed pair of Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki’s shoes.

“A guy made $65-plus million and went belly up. How do you do that?”

You buy your own barber chair. You own a small army of vacuums. Somewhere along the way, you decide you need a paper towel holder made out of marble.

An estimated 60 percent of former NBA players are broke within five years of retirement, Sports Illustrated reported in 2009. That same report noted that 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress by the time they have been retired for two years. Leagues attempt to educate rookies about managing wealth. Teenagers don’t always listen.

When Miles’ barber chair sold for $2, I wondered what he paid for it. It was late, and the crowd had thinned after the jerseys and shoes were gone. Some of the items weren’t receiving any bids.

“It’s just money!” the auctioneer encouraged.

Until it runs out.
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We made it rain together. Hard to believe he's broke. Did not see that coming.

 
kevzilla said:
TPW for floppinha. They get sick fast, but they get well fast too.
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thanks, gb.

and on cue, 9yo floppinho with a 102 fever complaining his tummy hurts.

*cue rant....

the NYC DOE makes it so that for middle school admissions- yes, the public school kids have to apply to middle schools, and it's basically like applying to college- one of the top criteria for admission (or failure, really) is absences; 4th grade is the grade that matters. and they don't give a #### if it's sick or otherwise.

so people in the gifted and talented program who will be competing for the top middle schools (yes- top ####### middle schools, fml) send their kids to school when they're dead on their feet... because it's better for middle school admission to show up and then get sent home than to stay home. floppinho said a bunch of kids in his class last week were feverish, one of them threw up (a girl at his table).

thanks ####### NYC type A, but not uber-rich type A #######, just pretty rich type A #######s... thanks to you, we've been running vomit soaked laundry all weekend, haven't slept and looks like the hits will keep on coming with kid #2. just keep your sick kid home for #### sake- we do. but maybe we shouldn't... maybe tomorrow, #### them- they'll get a feverish vomiting floppinho to send them home a little extra floppo holiday cheer.

 
the NYC DOE makes it so that for middle school admissions- yes, the public school kids have to apply to middle schools, and it's basically like applying to college-
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so people in the gifted and talented program who will be competing for the top middle schools (yes- top ####### middle schools, fml) send their kids to school when they're dead on their feet
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are exhibits #1,903 and #1,904 of why I'm so glad I don't have kids.

FFS.....applying to fekking PUBLIC middle schools?  "No pressure, all you 9 year olds, but you best get your #### together cuz in 3 years it is ON!"

 
proninja is inundated with family and friends visiting him, so he authorized me to give an official GMTAN update, though I'm sure he'll be in with more details and better descriptions of the medical stuff when he can.

Everything is going very well!  You might recall that, in conjunction with his first surgery, he had a shunt put in to take fluid from his brain to his abdomen, as kind of a fail-safe in the event the remaining portion of the cyst in his brain continued to block the fluid from draining naturally.

As it turns out, the shunt can not only take fluid from the brain to the abdomen but can take gut bacteria and yucky things from the abdomen up to the brain, which is what happened and caused an infection.  The second surgery was to remove the shunt, and the doctors have been monitoring to see if the fluid is draining without the shunt such that they won't have to put one back in.  It appears that this is occurring and that he won't have to get a new shunt.  

With this great news, he could be released from the hospital as early as tomorrow. :excited:

 
krista4 said:
proninja is inundated with family and friends visiting him, so he authorized me to give an official GMTAN update, though I'm sure he'll be in with more details and better descriptions of the medical stuff when he can.

Everything is going very well!  You might recall that, in conjunction with his first surgery, he had a shunt put in to take fluid from his brain to his abdomen, as kind of a fail-safe in the event the remaining portion of the cyst in his brain continued to block the fluid from draining naturally.

As it turns out, the shunt can not only take fluid from the brain to the abdomen but can take gut bacteria and yucky things from the abdomen up to the brain, which is what happened and caused an infection.  The second surgery was to remove the shunt, and the doctors have been monitoring to see if the fluid is draining without the shunt such that they won't have to put one back in.  It appears that this is occurring and that he won't have to get a new shunt.  

With this great news, he could be released from the hospital as early as tomorrow. :excited:
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:excited: Great news!!

 
El Floppo said:
thanks, gb.

and on cue, 9yo floppinho with a 102 fever complaining his tummy hurts.

*cue rant....

the NYC DOE makes it so that for middle school admissions- yes, the public school kids have to apply to middle schools, and it's basically like applying to college- one of the top criteria for admission (or failure, really) is absences; 4th grade is the grade that matters. and they don't give a #### if it's sick or otherwise.

so people in the gifted and talented program who will be competing for the top middle schools (yes- top ####### middle schools, fml) send their kids to school when they're dead on their feet... because it's better for middle school admission to show up and then get sent home than to stay home. floppinho said a bunch of kids in his class last week were feverish, one of them threw up (a girl at his table).

thanks ####### NYC type A, but not uber-rich type A #######, just pretty rich type A #######s... thanks to you, we've been running vomit soaked laundry all weekend, haven't slept and looks like the hits will keep on coming with kid #2. just keep your sick kid home for #### sake- we do. but maybe we shouldn't... maybe tomorrow, #### them- they'll get a feverish vomiting floppinho to send them home a little extra floppo holiday cheer.
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Ug.  This just sounds stupid as hell.

I hate Perfect Attendance awards for the same reason.  They encourage kids to come to school even when they're sick and/or contagious.  A few years ago I had this girl show up to school the day before Xmas break.  She looked and sounded like death warmed over.  I spent the first week of the break on the couch, sick as hell.

 
Thanks for the update K4.

On the East side of the Cascades here in Oregon, we cancelled school since Wednesday due to huge snowfall...15-18 inches in my town (I am hanging my head in shame as I've given people West of the Cascades crap for shutting down life due to a trace of snow...we should not have cancelled school on Thurs/Fri IMO but the wussification has crept East).  My son and the woman I have pledged to love and cherish till one of us blissfully dies did not leave the house from Tuesday-Saturday. I have been with them about 4 hours yesterday and 10 today... The plan is for me to work about 16 hours this week and then no more till January 3rd.  I am either going to kill one of them or spend the next three weeks in a vodka/Diet Pepsi haze.  Yay vodka!!  MERRRRRRRYYY Christmas!  I'm sure that our lord and savior Jesus the Christo totes envisioned me celebrating his blessed birth in this manner.

 
krista4 said:
proninja is inundated with family and friends visiting him, so he authorized me to give an official GMTAN update, though I'm sure he'll be in with more details and better descriptions of the medical stuff when he can.

Everything is going very well!  You might recall that, in conjunction with his first surgery, he had a shunt put in to take fluid from his brain to his abdomen, as kind of a fail-safe in the event the remaining portion of the cyst in his brain continued to block the fluid from draining naturally.

As it turns out, the shunt can not only take fluid from the brain to the abdomen but can take gut bacteria and yucky things from the abdomen up to the brain, which is what happened and caused an infection.  The second surgery was to remove the shunt, and the doctors have been monitoring to see if the fluid is draining without the shunt such that they won't have to put one back in.  It appears that this is occurring and that he won't have to get a new shunt.  

With this great news, he could be released from the hospital as early as tomorrow. :excited:
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So he really does have a dirty mind?

 
Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
Ug.  This just sounds stupid as hell.

I hate Perfect Attendance awards for the same reason.  They encourage kids to come to school even when they're sick and/or contagious.  A few years ago I had this girl show up to school the day before Xmas break.  She looked and sounded like death warmed over.  I spent the first week of the break on the couch, sick as hell.
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TBH, you spend summers there as well.

 
5-ish Finkle said:
and

are exhibits #1,903 and #1,904 of why I'm so glad I don't have kids.

FFS.....applying to fekking PUBLIC middle schools?  "No pressure, all you 9 year olds, but you best get your #### together cuz in 3 years it is ON!"
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To be fair, it's basically controlled choice with 10% of the criteria being attendance with you getting the right score as long as you don't miss 10 days.  The bigger issue is the state tests which are the end all, be all.  Schools are more upset with absences since it sets back their test prep.  

oh and little sammyinho is playing bookie on Friday, so take that NYC DOE.

(and yes I noticed the typo...Steve jobs had a dirty dirty mind apparently)

 
El Floppo said:
5yo floppinha has been throwing up since about this time yesterday. 

good times at chez floppo.
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my daughter did this midweek.  mix in some explosive ####s.  causing the first serious butthole pain she's ever had.  freaking her out to no end.  absolute panic on her end(pun intended).  36 hours later, fine.

 
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