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Summerpalooza V -- Playoffs Over -- Eephus Is Now Two-Time Summerpalooza Champion (1 Viewer)

Eephus said:
My week began with Nyheim Hines getting knocked out on the first series of the Thursday night game and somehow ended with 169 points.

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Yes my *** still hurts from this kicking.
 
plinko said:
My philosophy is miss on every bid
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Mine too. Lol. Also as this is the first time I’ve played in a 16 teamer and I’m having a hard time bidding up the 4wr on a team who just got picked up from the practice squad that week. But sadly said player is still likely better the DJ Moore or Allen Robinson for my team. :mad:
 
dkp993 said:
plinko said:
My philosophy is miss on every bid
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Mine too. Lol. Also as this is the first time I’ve played in a 16 teamer and I’m having a hard time bidding up the 4wr on a team who just got picked up from the practice squad that week. But sadly said player is still likely better the DJ Moore or Allen Robinson for my team. :mad:
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When you’re picking up guys named David Sills V that’s a bridge too far.
 
dkp993 said:
Mine too. Lol. Also as this is the first time I’ve played in a 16 teamer and I’m having a hard time bidding up the 4wr on a team who just got picked up from the practice squad that week. But sadly said player is still likely better the DJ Moore or Allen Robinson for my team. :mad:
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I am not sure my bids have really amounted to much but I tried to get guys who showed early promise. My though process was go big since in a league this deep, there won't ever be much lingering around on the WW.
 
Eephus said:
I booked flights today to go to New Mexico in November to see my son graduate from the police academy. It'll also be our first face-to-face meeting with his new wife. She seems like a lovely girl over zoom, phone and text and we're very excited to meet her. Even through the ether, it's evident how love has opened up a young man who's always been very reserved since he was a child.

We're splitting our time between Albuquerque and Santa Fe this trip. We have longtime friends in both cities so it'll be a nice change to see them on their home turf. A visit to my son's home in Alamogordo will have to wait for our next visit. If wikkid was around, I could ask him for the poop on Albuquerque.

It'll be Mrs. E's and my first trip together since July 2019.
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I love New Mexico. My uncle that passed earlier this year lived there. He was a vagabond but Cerillos was his homebase. He gave me a heck of a tour of Sante Fe and Taos about 20 years ago, Gorgeous doesn't even begin to describe it. It's nice to hear that you and the wife will get a long overdue trip and get to meet a new member of the family. Sounds like it will be a special trip.
 
Ilov80s said:
I am not sure my bids have really amounted to much but I tried to get guys who showed early promise. My though process was go big since in a league this deep, there won't ever be much lingering around on the WW.
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@neal cassady and I messaged a couple of weeks ago about our motto for that week being "go big or go home" as we made some risky moves. As it turned out, we went home. :bag:
 
Ilov80s said:
I love New Mexico. My uncle that passed earlier this year lived there. He was a vagabond but Cerillos was his homebase. He gave me a heck of a tour of Sante Fe and Taos about 20 years ago, Gorgeous doesn't even begin to describe it. It's nice to hear that you and the wife will get a long overdue trip and get to meet a new member of the family. Sounds like it will be a special trip.
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I love NM, too. There's something inexplicably special about it. Wish wikkid were here to explain the inexplicable.
 
I've been fortunate to not have a lot of injuries so far. My best waiver claim was Greg Dortch who was my starting Flex for weeks 1-3 until Rondale returned. I grabbed Tyler Algeier on the rebound after week 1; he's provided some volume but not a lot of production. I caught lightning in a bottle with pickups of Devante Parker and Dyami Brown right before their 2 TD weeks but I had them on the bench. Other than that it's been the usual RB5 and DST churn, most of whom I'd forget if there wasn't a playlist.
 
Pip's Invitation said:
Gibson: 😲
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That last drive he got 6 touches, picked up 45 yards, got them down the field, then they took him out and instantly stalled again.

The only game he got 20 touches is the only game they won and he picked up 130 yards.

I honestly do not understand what is going on there, I'd love to see him on a competent NFL team.
 
Update on our cat Cassidy. We met with the vet oncologist on Wednesday.

He has large-cell lymphoma, which is harder to treat and has worse outcomes than small-cell lymphoma.

It cannot be treated with surgery or radiation, only chemotherapy. The regimens are an IV course known as CHOP or COP, or a pill called lomustine. If we went with chemo, it would be lomustine because it’s less invasive, less frequent and much less expensive. Response rate for chemo is 60% to 70% (lomustine may be a little less than CHOP/COP). Median survival time for both is 4 months to 9 months depending on the study.

There is also an injection that can provide a more temporary improvement that is typically used if chemo response isn’t great, but which the doctor offers as first line (off-label) when the family doesn’t want to do chemo but does want to do more than palliative care. The vet said it is not expensive.

Then there is the option to do palliative care only.

In all cases they suggest a steroid on top of the chosen treatment. In Cassidy’s case, because he has high blood pressure, he would get dexamethasone.

There are no data on survival time for cats that are not treated with chemo. It would have been nice to be able to compare expected survival time with chemo with expected survival time with no treatment.

The next steps are to start him on dexamethasone and to get an estimate of the total costs (pills, visits, bloodwork, etc) if we went the lomustine route.

His last blood test also indicated anemia and he has been nibbling on kitty litter, which is a sign of iron deficiency, so we also need to see if he should be treated for that.

We are scheduled to be gone for 10 days in December (Cape Canaveral/Disney cruise/Disney World) and we are wondering if we should cancel or scale back our December trip.
 
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krista4 said:
He's part of Ringo's All-Starr Band, and until last night I hadn't realized how insanely talented he is. I had only a vague recollection of him from his hits in the 70s. JFC. That dude must be 150 years old and was the most impressive person on stage. What a showman, too!

I'm going to write a review of the show, but I keep vacillating whether to post it in this thread, the Beatles one, or the concerts thread.
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This is not my review of the concert, which I'll put in a Beatles thread per rock's suggestion. But since this was the location of my Ticketmaster story, I wanted to circle back here to say that sometimes, things just work out.

As those of you who read the saga know, after Ticketmaster unilaterally and without notice or reason canceled my account, I bought tix for Ringo's 10/12 Portland show since my Seattle tix had disappeared. I wasn't going to deal with TM again, and for Portland everything could go directly through the venue instead.

Then a few days before that show, the thought of driving 3+ hours each way for the show was exhausting to me, especially in the midst of my impending move. I looked at StubHub to see what ticket prices for Seattle looked like, and they'd come down a lot. I suspected it was because Ringo had contracted COVID and canceled shows from 9/30 onward, and it wasn't clear if the show would happen. Looking at pricing for the next day in Portland, I saw I could at least get my money back, if not a little profit, by selling those tix. So I bought tix for Seattle again and sold my Portland ones. The Seattle ones came to me through a TM transfer, so I had to use a different account to accept them and then immediately save them to my Apple wallet!

The day before the Seattle show, Ringo tested negative and said that shows would recommence beginning in Seattle! W00t! The tix I'd bought were in the Founder's Circle, and when I got to the venue I found out that these were the best seats in the house. Seriously could not have had better seats anywhere in the hall - one level up, just to the right of the center section in big comfy chairs! Not regular seating, but separate chairs, and the row was entirely ours. Perfect sight-line, perfect seats, amazing show.

Ringo played Seattle, then Portland the next day, and then...tested positive for COVID again and canceled the remainder of his tour.

I can't believe how everything worked out.
 
I know this is not something everyone cares about, but it is still a feel good story.

There has been this older black and white cat hanging around my house for the last week. I have never seen it before this time. The neighborhood Romeo has been on its trail following it everywhere. I tried to trap the neighborhood Romeo a year 1/2 ago, and the trap malfunctioned and he got out. I have not been able to re-trap him since. He just laughs at me when he sees me. This new cat in town this week would come up to the door and cry and want in, and when I would go outside it would run back and keep its distance from me. It did the same thing to the neighbor. It did this all week long. I caught a glimpse of its rear, and I didn't see any balls, but it is mainly black with a touch of white, and so it is hard to see back there. I felt it might be an older lady cat in heat, especially with the way the male cat was following it around. It's meow sounded old, and it was underweight with a tattered ear, but I could tell it had a home in the past. Anyway, I trapped it last night to take it to the vet early this morning that fixes the cats for me.

She sent me a text this afternoon saying the cat was an older male that was already neutered. I asked her if he was chipped, and she said yes. She gave me the number of the chip and # to call of the chip, and I picked him up a couple hours ago. I called the chip place, and they gave me the # of another chip place that the chip # belongs to, and they said the cat was reported missing by the owners in early September. They said the cat is named Alladin, he is 12.5 years old, and his owners had adopted him from the shelter back in 2010. They called the owners with me on the line, but the owners didn't answer, and so they left a message. The chip place gave me their number, name, and address. I called them and the male owner answered, and he had heard the message and he was so excited Allidan had been found. He said he and his wife have been searching for him for over a month. Alladin was an indoor only cat, and he snuck out one night. They think it must have been when they let their dog out. Anyway, they had bought traps and set them up around the house, and got infrared light equipment to search at night, and they felt after all of this time that he was probably dead, but they didn't want to give up. They had just bought two more traps yesterday, and the traps were sitting on their front porch today still in their cardboard wrappings, and the other traps could be seen in different sides of the yard. They said they had filed a missing cat report with the shelter and chip place. I told them I had checked nextdoor, PawBoost, NC lost and found, and Craigslist for lost cats, but I had not gone to the shelter to check their lost file. The shelter moved to a new place a few months ago. I told them he would not let me get close enough to touch him, but it was obvious he had a home before even though he looked haggard. Alladin's parents said that he could be skittish around strangers, and he surely would being lost.

Anyway, the cat had traveled 3.5 miles over the last month. He traveled through neighborhoods, a lot of woods filled with coyotes, experienced a tropical storm, and crossed some busy roads. His parents were waiting at the end of their driveway when I pulled up. When his "dad" pulled back the towel to look at him in the trap, Alladin was so happy to see him. He and his wife took the trap inside their house to let him out. They said he had lost a bunch of weight and was sporting a new tattered ear. I told them the vet gave him a new rabies shot in the event he would still be homeless, and I gave them the paper work of the shot. They had no worries about that and said they would pass it on to his vet. I told them Alladin had some stories to tell. All of them were so full of joy.
 
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