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[Mr. Pickles]

Violent Femmes get a pass?

I never liked them but I thought this was 90s bands under discussion. I consider them an 80s band that unwantedly lingered into the 90s.

That would describe the BoDeans as well.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Violent Femmes get a pass?

I never liked them but I thought this was 90s bands under discussion. I consider them an 80s band that unwantedly lingered into the 90s.

That would describe the BoDeans as well.

One could argue that they really didn't hit it big until Closer to Free and that was '93

 

[cosjobs]

I'm not smart so i can't link it, but someone search YouTube for Mount Vernon New Rochelle basketball game. High school championship with the craziest ending I've ever seen. Just happened today.

One of the best game-winning shots I've ever seen. Let me try to do a link on my tab. Enh, cut and paste sucks, so here:http://m.youtube.com...v%3DlIMFvCYBXCMETA: might have to take the initial m out of the URL if you're not on a mobile. Not sure how YouTube's coding works.

Never seen 2 teams celebrate thinking they both won like that. Sucks for the losing team after the ref waived it off as no good at first and then switch the call after the fact. Talk about a stomach punch.

That winning shot was a gut punch regardless of the refs

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Violent Femmes get a pass?

I never liked them but I thought this was 90s bands under discussion. I consider them an 80s band that unwantedly lingered into the 90s.

That would describe the BoDeans as well.

One could argue that they really didn't hit it big until Closer to Free and that was '93

I guess I liked them before they sold out and went commercial.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Violent Femmes get a pass?

I never liked them but I thought this was 90s bands under discussion. I consider them an 80s band that unwantedly lingered into the 90s.

That would describe the BoDeans as well.

One could argue that they really didn't hit it big until Closer to Free and that was '93

I guess I liked them before they sold out and went commercial.

 

[krista4]

Just got through spending an emotionally draining day at an agency here that helps Marines dealing with PTSD. I am part of an organization that provides equine assisted therapy to people with disabilities. As part of that organization we go to this place that brings in Marines from all over the country that were active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. Pretty raw stuff. Some interesting stories that i am still trying to get through my mind. Thankful though that there are men and women like them that are willing to stand and serve.

Wow, that's very cool. I'm sure it's extremely rewarding for you even though heart-wrenching too.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Alias check on "Maude?"

 

[krista4]

Somebody put coke in pappy?

Wait, what?

A short while later, we were back to hanging out on the patio and drinking when a miracle happened. Krista showed up!! She had texted YSR to let her know that a package would be arriving that afternoon, but didn't say what. We were speculating that it might be the bottle of Pappy Van Winkle she had mentioned buying in the thread. But she did show up, with the Pappy and I won some of Thorn's loot. U-H approved. We couldn't just let it sit idle there, so we poured out a finger or so for any takers. A shot video without shooting. Actually, you should have seen the look on Krista's face when I suggested doing a shot video with it. Thankfully, while we may come across as heathens, everyone knew this was for sipping… thus the worst shot video ever.

I was having issues with the shot vid link this morning, so I uploaded it to Youtube and changed the link.I'd love to see some of the pictures that the other coshole participants took too

I had to do it on the down low to escape chastisement, but I had the best six bourbon and cokes in my life during the SUperbowl.

Well, hell. I only read every fourth post here myself, and my staff that usually summarizes the rest are all on vacation. This is...disturbing.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

BoDeans

WINNER!

The Rembrandts would like a recount.

While a worthy competitor, as a midwestern boy, the BoDeans certainly take the region and are in the final four. After that, it's TBDMy current Final Four, Bo Deans are a mortal lock here.... the others are TBD, but Barenaked Ladies are topping the 'Other' bracket right now. East regionWest Region: Midwest Region: BoDeansOther: BNL (Canada)

West Region: Pearl Jam

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Violent Femmes get a pass?

I never liked them but I thought this was 90s bands under discussion. I consider them an 80s band that unwantedly lingered into the 90s.

That would describe the BoDeans as well.

One could argue that they really didn't hit it big until Closer to Free and that was '93

Pretty sure that was the Indigo Girls

 

[T Bell]

Just got through spending an emotionally draining day at an agency here that helps Marines dealing with PTSD. I am part of an organization that provides equine assisted therapy to people with disabilities. As part of that organization we go to this place that brings in Marines from all over the country that were active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. Pretty raw stuff. Some interesting stories that i am still trying to get through my mind. Thankful though that there are men and women like them that are willing to stand and serve.

Bless you, sir/ma'am, for helping those folks. Equine therapy, for whatever reason, works wonders.

I'm aware generally of therapy for military PTSD patients, but I've never heard of equine therapy, just of dogs and such. How does equine therapy work so well (and differently from other forms)?And BTW, kudos for your work, walnutz.

Thanks guys and gals. Uruk - it is sir. I am more of a reader than active participant in this thread but it's kind of the only decent place in the FFA. T Bell -- There are different types of therapy that can be provided with equine. With these guys we do mostly ground work and it is an introduction to Equine Facilitated Therapy. Folks suffering from PTSD generally feel very alone have a loss of control etc. Some of these guys are in pretty dark places. Horses are herd mentality beasts. We start the soldiers out with simple tasks like grooming the horse(brushing and petting). This helps with the bonding part. Then we have them lead the horse. They take the lead rope and guide the horse around the arena. The soldier is in control. They have to be the leader. Horses like to assert their dominance in different ways. It can be as simple as taking your space. You have to let the horse know that you are in control not them. That is a lot of the basics. Some of the guys were afraid to take control of the horse. It is amazing to see when they finally let go of the fears and they take control back. Seeing them go from being so reserved and barely speaking to being outgoing and laughing. I asked one of the guys after the session today what he thought. He had been around horses a long time ago. He told me that it was incredibly relaxing. It bought back good memories form a long time ago and that he had not had many good memories in a long time. We also provide speech, physical and occupational therapies with the horse tbell. There is a lot of core strength that is worked and lots of different positions that you work into the therapy to work and strengthen different muscles. It is amazing. I saw a little girl who had never spoken before say her first words in our arena. I looked over to her mom and she was sobbing. On the physical therapy side, depending on what research you look at, the horse can replace anywhere from 26 to 34 pieces of physical therapy machinery. SLB -- I will have to take you up on the beer man.

Very, very cool. Thanks for taking the time to describe what you do with that therapy.

 

[guru_007]

Doing a baseball draft tonight as a warmup for the esteemed AOD draft scheduled to begin, well?Have Tanner on speed dial for some last minute decisions. Should be a good time Oh, and gonna watch the Rangers destroy Rudnicki's Sabres tonight. Slap it...?

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Today we had a 70th birthday party for my dad. Absolutely nothing interesting happened.Then End

 

[T Bell]

Is Blues Traveler worth discussing? They sold out big time.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Chris Gaines

 

[Abraham]

Violent Femmes get a pass?

I never liked them but I thought this was 90s bands under discussion. I consider them an 80s band that unwantedly lingered into the 90s.

That would describe the BoDeans as well.

One could argue that they really didn't hit it big until Closer to Free and that was '93

This is why they aren't eligible. The song that made them big was (1) their only hit and (2) not a new song when they got famous. They sold the right to a song to a new show that needed music - who knew the show would take off? It was on their fifth record, a record that largely sounds like everything else they have ever recorded. Goo goo dolls in 1994 were a fringe alt / punk band that played shows with the dead milkmen and collaborated with Paul westerburg. And they had been on Metal Blade records for 7 years. In so much as I can piece together through my recollection and interviews, Reznik has all but said they looked around and realized they were a small shift away from being popular rock stars instead of struggling punk alt band. They release a boy named goo and made no attempt to hide their new pop sound.

To make matters worse - and solidify the award here - they wrote the most Gina song of the 90's for the most Gina movie of the 90's (city of angels), a love story featuring meg Ryan and Nicolas fixking cage!

Seriously, it isn't a close contest at all.

 

[krista4]

By the way, pretty nice arena there in White Plains.

Whoa. I just read this post while I'm on a flight to...White Plains.

HPN airport, eh? I litigate there a few times a year, always fly to JFK, and usually regret it at some point during the eight-hour cab/shuttle ride to the WP hotel.

You would not regret it today. I booked a 10 a.m. flight, changing in ATL, so that I could get here at 4ish and have a nice relaxing evening learning about the company with which I'm interviewing tonight and call it an early night.Then, my flight from ATL was delayed by three hours. I was put on standby for one that would only leave 1-1/2 hours later, so not SUCH a big deal. I was first on standby list with five open seats. Right as that flight started to board, I noticed that all seats were now unavailable but I didn't have one. Delta Sky Club lady was completely unhelpful with this for 25 minutes, including telling me that I should just go the gate, three terminals over, and ask the gate agent why. Then she noticed I was Diamond and her attitude changed completely. I should really use the "don't you know who I am????" but couldn't possibly.

Anyway I high-tailed it through ATL to get on that flight, crushed in cattle class by a fat guy, but made it here.

Oh, but my bag didn't. It's purportedly on the original flight, now at least four hours behind schedule. No problem, they could just bring it to my hotel, right?

Well, no one in HPN knows how to do this, and the one person they claim can do this is not available. They gave me a helpful phone number to call instead. After 20 minutes with the people at the helpful phone number, they told me I had to do this with the people at the airport. The ones who don't know how. But they do tell me that I can have the bag delivered to the hotel! Yay!

Oh, they guarantee delivery within 24 hours. My interview starts at 8:30 a.m.

I'm at the hotel bar having dinner and a lot of wine. In 40 minutes I'm going back to the airport to (I hope) pick up the damn bag myself.

Why did I check a ####### bag, you ask, when I've not done this on a trip for 10 years? Because I thought it would be easier.

Cross Rye Brook off the list of places I might be working. I'm a mess now.

 

[cosjobs]

Just got through spending an emotionally draining day at an agency here that helps Marines dealing with PTSD. I am part of an organization that provides equine assisted therapy to people with disabilities. As part of that organization we go to this place that brings in Marines from all over the country that were active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. Pretty raw stuff. Some interesting stories that i am still trying to get through my mind. Thankful though that there are men and women like them that are willing to stand and serve.

Bless you, sir/ma'am, for helping those folks. Equine therapy, for whatever reason, works wonders.

I'm aware generally of therapy for military PTSD patients, but I've never heard of equine therapy, just of dogs and such. How does equine therapy work so well (and differently from other forms)?And BTW, kudos for your work, walnutz.

Thanks guys and gals. Uruk - it is sir. I am more of a reader than active participant in this thread but it's kind of the only decent place in the FFA. T Bell -- There are different types of therapy that can be provided with equine. With these guys we do mostly ground work and it is an introduction to Equine Facilitated Therapy. Folks suffering from PTSD generally feel very alone have a loss of control etc. Some of these guys are in pretty dark places. Horses are herd mentality beasts. We start the soldiers out with simple tasks like grooming the horse(brushing and petting). This helps with the bonding part. Then we have them lead the horse. They take the lead rope and guide the horse around the arena. The soldier is in control. They have to be the leader. Horses like to assert their dominance in different ways. It can be as simple as taking your space. You have to let the horse know that you are in control not them. That is a lot of the basics. Some of the guys were afraid to take control of the horse. It is amazing to see when they finally let go of the fears and they take control back. Seeing them go from being so reserved and barely speaking to being outgoing and laughing. I asked one of the guys after the session today what he thought. He had been around horses a long time ago. He told me that it was incredibly relaxing. It bought back good memories form a long time ago and that he had not had many good memories in a long time. We also provide speech, physical and occupational therapies with the horse tbell. There is a lot of core strength that is worked and lots of different positions that you work into the therapy to work and strengthen different muscles. It is amazing. I saw a little girl who had never spoken before say her first words in our arena. I looked over to her mom and she was sobbing. On the physical therapy side, depending on what research you look at, the horse can replace anywhere from 26 to 34 pieces of physical therapy machinery. SLB -- I will have to take you up on the beer man.

I've been helping a friend get her non-profit off the ground (and Uruk also helped). She does equine therapy for Austistic kids. Its pretty amazing the results they achieve. She's having a tough time because so many kids with autism are from very poor families and those are the ones she really tries hardest to help (and cannot afford it).

 

[krista4]

About the GGDs, I liked "Slide" and "Black Balloon" and still listen to them both on occasion today. But "Name" and "Iris" were awful, repetitive garbage, and as a bonus, I swear they were the same song.

I swear that until reading this post I didn't realize Slide, Name, and Iris were different songs.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Watching this Betty White's Off Their Rocker show....I think I'm being entertained

 

[Gadzooks]

Who sang that song "hey now you're an all star"? Because, hey now, they really sucked.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Who sang that song "hey now you're an all star"? Because, hey now, they really sucked.

I'd like to smash those guys right in the mouth

 

[Abraham]

By the way, pretty nice arena there in White Plains.

Whoa. I just read this post while I'm on a flight to...White Plains.

HPN airport, eh? I litigate there a few times a year, always fly to JFK, and usually regret it at some point during the eight-hour cab/shuttle ride to the WP hotel.

You would not regret it today. I booked a 10 a.m. flight, changing in ATL, so that I could get here at 4ish and have a nice relaxing evening learning about the company with which I'm interviewing tonight and call it an early night.Then, my flight from ATL was delayed by three hours. I was put on standby for one that would only leave 1-1/2 hours later, so not SUCH a big deal. I was first on standby list with five open seats. Right as that flight started to board, I noticed that all seats were now unavailable but I didn't have one. Delta Sky Club lady was completely unhelpful with this for 25 minutes, including telling me that I should just go the gate, three terminals over, and ask the gate agent why. Then she noticed I was Diamond and her attitude changed completely. I should really use the "don't you know who I am????" but couldn't possibly.

Anyway I high-tailed it through ATL to get on that flight, crushed in cattle class by a fat guy, but made it here.

Oh, but my bag didn't. It's purportedly on the original flight, now at least four hours behind schedule. No problem, they could just bring it to my hotel, right?

Well, no one in HPN knows how to do this, and the one person they claim can do this is not available. They gave me a helpful phone number to call instead. After 20 minutes with the people at the helpful phone number, they told me I had to do this with the people at the airport. The ones who don't know how. But they do tell me that I can have the bag delivered to the hotel! Yay!

Oh, they guarantee delivery within 24 hours. My interview starts at 8:30 a.m.

I'm at the hotel bar having dinner and a lot of wine. In 40 minutes I'm going back to the airport to (I hope) pick up the damn bag myself.

Why did I check a ####### bag, you ask, when I've not done this on a trip for 10 years? Because I thought it would be easier.

Cross Rye Brook off the list of places I might be working. I'm a mess now.

Just stay up all night drinking and go in your travel clothes. When they ask why you are in said stay, reply, "because I'm so good at what I do I can show up like this and you will still want me":zuckerburg in pajamas:

 

[cosjobs]

Who sang that song "hey now you're an all star"? Because, hey now, they really sucked.

I always felt that song spoke to me.

 

[Abraham]

Who sang that song "hey now you're an all star"? Because, hey now, they really sucked.

I always felt that song spoke to me.

Only shooting stars break the mold, fella.

 

[cosjobs]

Who sang that song "hey now you're an all star"? Because, hey now, they really sucked.

I always felt that song spoke to me.

Only shooting stars break the mold, fella.

When I heard that the other day I finally understood for the first time that they weren't saying "super stars"

 

[krista4]

By the way, pretty nice arena there in White Plains.

Whoa. I just read this post while I'm on a flight to...White Plains.

HPN airport, eh? I litigate there a few times a year, always fly to JFK, and usually regret it at some point during the eight-hour cab/shuttle ride to the WP hotel.

You would not regret it today. I booked a 10 a.m. flight, changing in ATL, so that I could get here at 4ish and have a nice relaxing evening learning about the company with which I'm interviewing tonight and call it an early night.Then, my flight from ATL was delayed by three hours. I was put on standby for one that would only leave 1-1/2 hours later, so not SUCH a big deal. I was first on standby list with five open seats. Right as that flight started to board, I noticed that all seats were now unavailable but I didn't have one. Delta Sky Club lady was completely unhelpful with this for 25 minutes, including telling me that I should just go the gate, three terminals over, and ask the gate agent why. Then she noticed I was Diamond and her attitude changed completely. I should really use the "don't you know who I am????" but couldn't possibly.

Anyway I high-tailed it through ATL to get on that flight, crushed in cattle class by a fat guy, but made it here.

Oh, but my bag didn't. It's purportedly on the original flight, now at least four hours behind schedule. No problem, they could just bring it to my hotel, right?

Well, no one in HPN knows how to do this, and the one person they claim can do this is not available. They gave me a helpful phone number to call instead. After 20 minutes with the people at the helpful phone number, they told me I had to do this with the people at the airport. The ones who don't know how. But they do tell me that I can have the bag delivered to the hotel! Yay!

Oh, they guarantee delivery within 24 hours. My interview starts at 8:30 a.m.

I'm at the hotel bar having dinner and a lot of wine. In 40 minutes I'm going back to the airport to (I hope) pick up the damn bag myself.

Why did I check a ####### bag, you ask, when I've not done this on a trip for 10 years? Because I thought it would be easier.

Cross Rye Brook off the list of places I might be working. I'm a mess now.

Just stay up all night drinking and go in your travel clothes. When they ask why you are in said stay, reply, "because I'm so good at what I do I can show up like this and you will still want me":zuckerburg in pajamas:

Thought maybe of going just in underwear to show how "edgy" I am. Also, fat.

 

[Limp Ditka]

By the way, pretty nice arena there in White Plains.

Whoa. I just read this post while I'm on a flight to...White Plains.

HPN airport, eh? I litigate there a few times a year, always fly to JFK, and usually regret it at some point during the eight-hour cab/shuttle ride to the WP hotel.

You would not regret it today. I booked a 10 a.m. flight, changing in ATL, so that I could get here at 4ish and have a nice relaxing evening learning about the company with which I'm interviewing tonight and call it an early night.Then, my flight from ATL was delayed by three hours. I was put on standby for one that would only leave 1-1/2 hours later, so not SUCH a big deal. I was first on standby list with five open seats. Right as that flight started to board, I noticed that all seats were now unavailable but I didn't have one. Delta Sky Club lady was completely unhelpful with this for 25 minutes, including telling me that I should just go the gate, three terminals over, and ask the gate agent why. Then she noticed I was Diamond and her attitude changed completely. I should really use the "don't you know who I am????" but couldn't possibly.

Anyway I high-tailed it through ATL to get on that flight, crushed in cattle class by a fat guy, but made it here.

Oh, but my bag didn't. It's purportedly on the original flight, now at least four hours behind schedule. No problem, they could just bring it to my hotel, right?

Well, no one in HPN knows how to do this, and the one person they claim can do this is not available. They gave me a helpful phone number to call instead. After 20 minutes with the people at the helpful phone number, they told me I had to do this with the people at the airport. The ones who don't know how. But they do tell me that I can have the bag delivered to the hotel! Yay!

Oh, they guarantee delivery within 24 hours. My interview starts at 8:30 a.m.

I'm at the hotel bar having dinner and a lot of wine. In 40 minutes I'm going back to the airport to (I hope) pick up the damn bag myself.

Why did I check a ####### bag, you ask, when I've not done this on a trip for 10 years? Because I thought it would be easier.

Cross Rye Brook off the list of places I might be working. I'm a mess now.

Just stay up all night drinking and go in your travel clothes. When they ask why you are in said stay, reply, "because I'm so good at what I do I can show up like this and you will still want me":zuckerburg in pajamas:

Thought maybe of going just in underwear to show how "edgy" I am. Also, fat.

 

[T Bell]

Called my mom. Asked if she wanted company, go out to lunch of something. She said it was already a sad enough day

I know this wasn't meant to be funny, but...

 

[guru_007]

Alias check on "Maude?"

MoP has a son about that age right?Gonna go Patrick Bateman on this one though.

 

[Gadzooks]

According to my yellow sticky notes, if someone were to lump Greenday in with these 90's gina bands, it would elicit an angry response from someone here. Pickles or Truck i think? Didn't Greenday bashing start some I-drama before? I'm not saying they should be lumped in with the others, I just like the I-drama.

 

[Abraham]

According to my yellow sticky notes, if someone were to lump Greenday in with these 90's gina bands, it would elicit an angry response from someone here. Pickles or Truck i think? Didn't Greenday bashing start some I-drama before? I'm not saying they should be lumped in with the others, I just like the I-drama.

Your post is something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.

 

[Limp Ditka]

Called my mom. Asked if she wanted company, go out to lunch of something. She said it was already a sad enough day

I know this wasn't meant to be funny, but...

 

[BobbyLayne]

By the way, pretty nice arena there in White Plains.

Whoa. I just read this post while I'm on a flight to...White Plains.

HPN airport, eh? I litigate there a few times a year, always fly to JFK, and usually regret it at some point during the eight-hour cab/shuttle ride to the WP hotel.

You would not regret it today. I booked a 10 a.m. flight, changing in ATL, so that I could get here at 4ish and have a nice relaxing evening learning about the company with which I'm interviewing tonight and call it an early night.Then, my flight from ATL was delayed by three hours. I was put on standby for one that would only leave 1-1/2 hours later, so not SUCH a big deal. I was first on standby list with five open seats. Right as that flight started to board, I noticed that all seats were now unavailable but I didn't have one. Delta Sky Club lady was completely unhelpful with this for 25 minutes, including telling me that I should just go the gate, three terminals over, and ask the gate agent why. Then she noticed I was Diamond and her attitude changed completely. I should really use the "don't you know who I am????" but couldn't possibly.

Anyway I high-tailed it through ATL to get on that flight, crushed in cattle class by a fat guy, but made it here.

Oh, but my bag didn't. It's purportedly on the original flight, now at least four hours behind schedule. No problem, they could just bring it to my hotel, right?

Well, no one in HPN knows how to do this, and the one person they claim can do this is not available. They gave me a helpful phone number to call instead. After 20 minutes with the people at the helpful phone number, they told me I had to do this with the people at the airport. The ones who don't know how. But they do tell me that I can have the bag delivered to the hotel! Yay!

Oh, they guarantee delivery within 24 hours. My interview starts at 8:30 a.m.

I'm at the hotel bar having dinner and a lot of wine. In 40 minutes I'm going back to the airport to (I hope) pick up the damn bag myself.

Why did I check a ####### bag, you ask, when I've not done this on a trip for 10 years? Because I thought it would be easier.

Cross Rye Brook off the list of places I might be working. I'm a mess now.

Just stay up all night drinking and go in your travel clothes. When they ask why you are in said stay, reply, "because I'm so good at what I do I can show up like this and you will still want me":zuckerburg in pajamas:

Thought maybe of going just in underwear to show how "edgy" I am. Also, fat.

Weird, the first time I ever lost my luggage was White Plains. I wasn't flying to HPN originally, but ended up there after missing two flights in the same day (it's an art form). They were pretty clueless and inept 15 years ago if it makes you feel any better

Good luck, tomorrow. Sometimes life has a way of surprising us, so I wouldn't read too much into a bad travel day.

 

[krista4]

Called my mom. Asked if she wanted company, go out to lunch of something. She said it was already a sad enough day

I know this wasn't meant to be funny, but...

 

[walnutz]

Just got through spending an emotionally draining day at an agency here that helps Marines dealing with PTSD. I am part of an organization that provides equine assisted therapy to people with disabilities. As part of that organization we go to this place that brings in Marines from all over the country that were active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. Pretty raw stuff. Some interesting stories that i am still trying to get through my mind. Thankful though that there are men and women like them that are willing to stand and serve.

Bless you, sir/ma'am, for helping those folks. Equine therapy, for whatever reason, works wonders.

I'm aware generally of therapy for military PTSD patients, but I've never heard of equine therapy, just of dogs and such. How does equine therapy work so well (and differently from other forms)?And BTW, kudos for your work, walnutz.

Thanks guys and gals. Uruk - it is sir. I am more of a reader than active participant in this thread but it's kind of the only decent place in the FFA. T Bell -- There are different types of therapy that can be provided with equine. With these guys we do mostly ground work and it is an introduction to Equine Facilitated Therapy. Folks suffering from PTSD generally feel very alone have a loss of control etc. Some of these guys are in pretty dark places. Horses are herd mentality beasts. We start the soldiers out with simple tasks like grooming the horse(brushing and petting). This helps with the bonding part. Then we have them lead the horse. They take the lead rope and guide the horse around the arena. The soldier is in control. They have to be the leader. Horses like to assert their dominance in different ways. It can be as simple as taking your space. You have to let the horse know that you are in control not them. That is a lot of the basics. Some of the guys were afraid to take control of the horse. It is amazing to see when they finally let go of the fears and they take control back. Seeing them go from being so reserved and barely speaking to being outgoing and laughing. I asked one of the guys after the session today what he thought. He had been around horses a long time ago. He told me that it was incredibly relaxing. It bought back good memories form a long time ago and that he had not had many good memories in a long time. We also provide speech, physical and occupational therapies with the horse tbell. There is a lot of core strength that is worked and lots of different positions that you work into the therapy to work and strengthen different muscles. It is amazing. I saw a little girl who had never spoken before say her first words in our arena. I looked over to her mom and she was sobbing. On the physical therapy side, depending on what research you look at, the horse can replace anywhere from 26 to 34 pieces of physical therapy machinery. SLB -- I will have to take you up on the beer man.

I've been helping a friend get her non-profit off the ground (and Uruk also helped). She does equine therapy for Austistic kids. Its pretty amazing the results they achieve. She's having a tough time because so many kids with autism are from very poor families and those are the ones she really tries hardest to help (and cannot afford it).

Cos - It is pretty tough. We are a non profit. We are the biggest one in MO. I am on the board so i see the finances. We serve over 200 clients a year. Of those 70% are children. 65% of them are somewhere on the autism spectrum. We have 8 full time employees, 28 horses and use over 200 volunteers along with 24 part time therapists. We get reimbursed from city agencies for people that we serve in there area. We also bill insurance which is an utter boondoggle. Then there is private pay. We underwrite the private pay side of things as, like you said, most of those people can not afford the therapy. We have a full time development person that writes grants and puts on our special events. I have a lot of respect for your friend but i don't envy them in start up mode on this. Great work and incredibly rewarding but it is difficult to get the funding to do it.

 

[Gadzooks]

No matter how many times i see that Dikembe Mutombo commercial, I laugh every time. You could punch me in the nuts and make me listen Goo Goo Dolls greatest hits while shaving Kathy Bates' legs and if that commercial came on I'd start cracking up.

 

[Tiger Fan]

I'm not smart so i can't link it, but someone search YouTube for Mount Vernon New Rochelle basketball game. High school championship with the craziest ending I've ever seen. Just happened today.

One of the best game-winning shots I've ever seen. Let me try to do a link on my tab. Enh, cut and paste sucks, so here:http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=lIMFvCYBXCM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlIMFvCYBXCMETA: might have to take the initial m out of the URL if you're not on a mobile. Not sure how YouTube's coding works.

Never seen 2 teams celebrate thinking they both won like that. Sucks for the losing team after the ref waived it off as no good at first and then switch the call after the fact. Talk about a stomach punch.

Yeah. All kinds of crazy stuff there at the end. One referee waves it off, and then there was this great moment, right in the center of the shot, of another ref running from center court to the sideline covering his head with his arms like he was under fire in combat. A big guy then comes up and says something to that ref, which could have been anything but I like to think was "Dude, that was good." Then there's a conference, and despite the TV guys claiming they were flipping the monitors around to show the zebras, they never look at it, and then Ref Under Fire signals it good and the three of them skedaddle. Just awesome. Have no idea what the higher-seeded (white jerseys) team's player was thinking making a pass there at the end instead of just throwing the ball in the air. Or holding it. Thanks again as I would have missed this for sure otherwise.

U gotta feel for the kid who intercepted the inbounds pass. Shoulda just held it. He'll live in YouTube infamy now

 

[Limp Ditka]

No matter how many times i see that Dikembe Mutombo commercial, I laugh every time. You could punch me in the nuts and make me listen Goo Goo Dolls greatest hits while shaving Kathy Bates' legs and if that commercial came on I'd start cracking up.

Best commercial going right now. Floors me every time

 

[Tiger Fan]

In the FFA smack off (RIP) I had the topic of worst rock band. I chose GGD and won.

 

[krista4]

In the FFA smack off (RIP) I had the topic of worst rock band. I chose GGD and won.

No one took Creed? Weird.

 

[Britney Spears]

Just YouTubed Lido Shuffle. Never heard that song before in my life.I guess I prefer this Boz guy's work with Steve Miller.

How is it possible to have avoided this song?

Just listened to it also, never heard until today.

 

[Britney Spears]

Six drinks so far today

IMPRESSIVE

This is the thread with homer. Pretty sure I wasn't trying to impress people with my tolerance.

I know. I'm just really bored right now. Looking for anything to reply to.

You ever make it to Seattle in your wanderings?

A couple times, but it's been a while. Met Brit and Jax (so hot) at some weird Kenny Rogers bar near the airport once.

HifiveIt was Sharps Roasters, not Kemny Rogers, FYI.

 

[Britney Spears]

A couple times, but it's been a while. Met Brit and Jax (so hot) at some weird Kenny Rogers bar near the airport once.

I would have a difficult time calling a female "Jax."

Why?

 

[Britney Spears]

If Tat were around in person and a discussion of Lido Shuffle popped up, he'd sing it for you.

My link

Jesus. It's really awkward to laugh this much while pooping.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

No matter how many times i see that Dikembe Mutombo commercial, I laugh every time. You could punch me in the nuts and make me listen Goo Goo Dolls greatest hits while shaving Kathy Bates' legs and if that commercial came on I'd start cracking up.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

According to my yellow sticky notes, if someone were to lump Greenday in with these 90's gina bands, it would elicit an angry response from someone here. Pickles or Truck i think? Didn't Greenday bashing start some I-drama before?

I'm not saying they should be lumped in with the others, I just like the I-drama.

I like American Idiot, but I'm not about to go down swinging for Green Day. I thought Dookie was pretty awful overall.

 

[kevzilla]

No matter how many times i see that Dikembe Mutombo commercial, I laugh every time. You could punch me in the nuts and make me listen Goo Goo Dolls greatest hits while shaving Kathy Bates' legs and if that commercial came on I'd start cracking up.

You know far too much about our methods at Gitmo. Homeland Security is going to have a little talk with you.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Oh yeah. This completely threw me off last night. Mrs. SLB and my cousin's wife were talking about girl rock band for some reason. Heart gets brought up and Mrs. SLB looks at me stone cold solid and says "that's Bob, he's a magic man". That wouldn't be so crazy except I've thought of that same song many times as I've had catshirt pics. I think she's on to me....

PAINT THE JEWELRY!

One of the reasons I love Mrs. SLB (and pisses me off, I got a connection!!!) is she really doesn't care for that crap. Bringing her to meet all of you meant more than anything I could buy her. Now if I could only teach her to drive correctly.

She probably wanted to meet the people influencing your bad behavior. "So these are the idiots who have made you like this..."

Brother, you wouldn't have recognized me 25-30 years ago. #chickslikebadboys

Called my mom. Asked if she wanted company, go out to lunch of something. She said it was already a sad enough day

I know this wasn't meant to be funny, but...

 

[Britney Spears]

Mrs. SLB finally busted me on the Eviltron. I'm so immature. I stuck it to the back of her computer monitor, Cal has been running Malwarebytes and other anti-virus programs. We were just in the kitchen when "hey, can you hear me?" went off again. She asked me if I heard it and I said no and she comes back with "### ####IT DON'T TELL ME THAT, CALVIN HEARS IT TOO!!"

I might need to get one of these for my office. Wonder if they have remote control ones. I want to set it off when I'm watching.