backwardsk
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My little girl is three, and she's behind in the fine motor skills development. But today, we played catch with a nerf basketball. It was the first time that she got the concept of "pitch and catch." Once she got the hang of it, and got her confidence up, she was great. I'm over the moon. Best snow day ever.
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Fantastic work by Jair to give the pen some rest.
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Going to see Band Of Horses next weekend!
Where? These guys are awesome!
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I am watching the game and it is like 2012 never happened. No starting pitching, no defense, no fundamentals.
But there is the extra inning Grand Slam by Wieters. I want to say he did that against CWS last year.
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I think I bought a house this week. We ratified a contract and should close in two months. We bought back at the peak in 2006. We didn't think we could pull off a move.
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What a great night for everyone who could make it to the game. I'm jealous!
One of the best games of the year!!!
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So who is coming back in the next month who may make a difference?
Orioles - Hammel, Patton
Yankees - ARod, Teixeira, Pettitte
Rays - nobody
White Sox - De Aza, Hudson
Tigers - Raburn, Schlereth
Angels - Bourjos
A's - Griffin, Inge, Devine, Norberto, Sogard
Inge is going to shut it down, iirc.
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Anti-Rants
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Got my house under contract in just over a month after putting it on the market. Let's hope it all works out.Cool! Good luck. I'm finally signing off on my re-finance tomorrow. Thanks HARP.
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The Miller lite commercials that are getting a lot of run during the tournament--the one about the 3 guys who are looking for a sober ride home. The one guy fakes an Australian accent to get the woman to take him home. Then it cuts to them in her car with the two buddies in the back seat. What exactly was she expecting to happen?
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Turn signals...USE THEM people! Its really not that much work to reach your little finger down there and pull on the lever. Rather easy actually. Jerks!
I feel bad when I see people who are surely paying a lot to lease their BMW get ripped off because it didn't come with a turn signal.
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Has anyone read The Last Great Game? It's about the duke/Kentucky game in 92. I heard an interview with the writer, sounds awesome.
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The Cut by George Pelacanos. I can't get enough of his books but his characters are all pretty similar. It's like reading a different variation of the same story over and over again.
Got it for Christmas, finished it in a few days. Could have read it in a day if I had the time. What other books by him do you recommend? He's very similar to dennis lehane.
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The Big Short was excellent. Liar's Poker 2.0.
What killed me in that book is how these few people shorting housing should have been a much larger group. If enough investors knew what they were doing, then rampant shorting should have stopped the bubble before the meltdown occurred. At least, that's how these markets are supposed to operate.
Obviously, things were more complicated then this which made it hard to see the bubble forming.
I'm also starting Boomerang.
I recommend that both you and Frobby read House of Cards. It's about the Bear Stearns collapse. A lot of mini-biographies in there. I'm about ready to start Too Big to Fail.
Currently reading Snowball. Buffett's biography. I also read Dinosaur, Dinasaur to my daughter. It was epic.
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In honor of 11/11/11 we dialed it up to 11.
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my voicemail message is "hey. leave a message." it's misleading because I never check my voicemail.
Regarding voicemail etiquette, I have this project manager who leaves a message, "this is blank, call me.". No reference to what she wants. Or, if I'm on the phone, she'll call me three times within 5 minutes, but leave no message. Or when we do touch base, her questions are so vague and nonproductive. It's like asking me, "How are we with the orioles issue?". Me: what are you referring to exactly? Her: you know, the orioles issue. What's the status?
Making me mad...
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I really don't watch much wrestling these days, but I watched a documentary the other night called "Beyond the Mat." Has anyone seen that? I think it's pretty dated, but it had a focus on Jake Roberts at the end of his career. Also, there is a Koko B Ware sighting.
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My anti-rant goes out the good people of INOVA Health Center-Springfield. One night after my daughter's first birthday, she was up all night struggling to breathe. We took her in to the emergency room and they took the best care of her. They calmed one frikkin scared papa, and got my girl's breathing back to normal. The doctor took the time to explained the situation and treatment approach and patiently listened to me rattle it off back to him to make sure I understood. They even gave our home a call today to check in with her. I'm quite impressed.
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Uh yeah, you can mark Boston as 0-2 now. :thumbsup1:
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Screw you, Rex Ryan. I thought you were a defensive mastermind. How do you let Tom Brady, Wes Welker, and Aaron Hernandez walk all over you? Now my Fantasy Football season looks like it's over. :cussing:
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How am I supposed to get my Fudruckers Friday on tomorrow when they closed the one by my office? :cussing:
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The young, slender blonde who cut my hair smelled kinda like a stripper. I find nothing wrong with that.Aaahh, the smell of broken dreams and strained daddy relationships.
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The Killer Angels. Yes, it was on my 11th grade reading list. Sixteen years later, and I'm finally getting around to it. :laughlol:
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I could not be happier that the VT - JMU game is not televised. I could not handle watching this.I think they'll be a replay tonight and tomorrow night on Comcast.
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I'm in the middle of an utterly surreal e-mail exchange trying to set up a phone interview. You know, like this:
A: Please contact me to set up an appointment.
My reply: Would 4:00 on 9/2 work?
A: Yes, 4:30 is fine.
Me:
OK, 4:30 is also good.A: Great, I will talk to you at 4:00.
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:cussing:Just call at 4:15.
OK, 4:30 is also good.
Snyder's attempt to defuse the "Redskins" name controversy
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I haven't greeted a group of Native Americans as Redskins. But I did have a great, but short, conversation with a group of 8-10 Native Americans while wearing my Sean Taylor t-shirt at Red Rocks when we played Denver last season. It ended with a "Let's go Redskins" chant. I had a longer conversation with another Native American while tailgating. He's from New Mexico and seeing them in Denver and Arizona were his best opportunities to see them. He was much more emphatic about the generated controversy. Anecdotal? Sure, but these experiences shape my viewpoint.