Post by: CigarBanter on July 19, 2023, 12:00:00 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 06:15:57 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 06:16:27 AM
La Herencia Cubana CORE Toro - 10/39.99
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 06:17:39 AM
Door#1 - Ave Maria Immaculata Belicoso - 5/24.99
Door #2 - Punch Variety Sampler II - 10/34.99
2 x Punch Signature Robusto (5.0"x54)
2 x Punch Grand Cru Britania Deluxe (6.2”x50)
2 x Punch Pita (6.1”x50)
2 x Punch Gran Puro Rancho (5.5”x54)
2 x Punch Bareknuckle Belicoso (5.0”x50)
Door #3 - Drew Estate Undercrown Maduro Toro Especial - 10/59.99
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 07:16:10 AM
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 07:24:38 AM
Morning, ya humps.Good morning, HumperDave.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 07:25:47 AM
Joe:Might be time to re-stock.
La Herencia Cubana CORE Toro - 10/39.99
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 07:31:13 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 07:37:20 AM
Actually, Door #3 isn't a bad deal.JR Cigars had a special on UCs yesterday, I think they were 10/49.99.
EDIT: https://www.jrcigars.com/deals/best-cigar-deals/undercrown-boxes-only-49.95/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jrsocial&utm_content=deal30718&fbclid=IwAR2Mmg_1z_J7oQ0yTaELTvJp9rUsSpSqnE_LWPVp8gFgwCfNC0qpbDsaHsY
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 07:41:29 AM
But with them, you have to pay for shipping, so it's probably a wash.Actually, Door #3 isn't a bad deal.JR Cigars had a special on UCs yesterday, I think they were 10/49.99.
EDIT: https://www.jrcigars.com/deals/best-cigar-deals/undercrown-boxes-only-49.95/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jrsocial&utm_content=deal30718&fbclid=IwAR2Mmg_1z_J7oQ0yTaELTvJp9rUsSpSqnE_LWPVp8gFgwCfNC0qpbDsaHsY
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 07:41:48 AM
That's even better. I thought the boxes of 10 were a lot more expensive.Actually, Door #3 isn't a bad deal.JR Cigars had a special on UCs yesterday, I think they were 10/49.99.
EDIT: https://www.jrcigars.com/deals/best-cigar-deals/undercrown-boxes-only-49.95/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jrsocial&utm_content=deal30718&fbclid=IwAR2Mmg_1z_J7oQ0yTaELTvJp9rUsSpSqnE_LWPVp8gFgwCfNC0qpbDsaHsY
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 07:42:50 AM
C'mon, we don't pay shipping. Somebody's gotta have a code...But with them, you have to pay for shipping, so it's probably a wash.Actually, Door #3 isn't a bad deal.JR Cigars had a special on UCs yesterday, I think they were 10/49.99.
EDIT: https://www.jrcigars.com/deals/best-cigar-deals/undercrown-boxes-only-49.95/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jrsocial&utm_content=deal30718&fbclid=IwAR2Mmg_1z_J7oQ0yTaELTvJp9rUsSpSqnE_LWPVp8gFgwCfNC0qpbDsaHsY
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 07:44:25 AM
Or at least we used to have a banter community with such codes.C'mon, we don't pay shipping. Somebody's gotta have a code...But with them, you have to pay for shipping, so it's probably a wash.Actually, Door #3 isn't a bad deal.JR Cigars had a special on UCs yesterday, I think they were 10/49.99.
EDIT: https://www.jrcigars.com/deals/best-cigar-deals/undercrown-boxes-only-49.95/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jrsocial&utm_content=deal30718&fbclid=IwAR2Mmg_1z_J7oQ0yTaELTvJp9rUsSpSqnE_LWPVp8gFgwCfNC0qpbDsaHsY
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 07:52:42 AM
Those were the days.Or at least we used to have a banter community with such codes.C'mon, we don't pay shipping. Somebody's gotta have a code...But with them, you have to pay for shipping, so it's probably a wash.Actually, Door #3 isn't a bad deal.JR Cigars had a special on UCs yesterday, I think they were 10/49.99.
EDIT: https://www.jrcigars.com/deals/best-cigar-deals/undercrown-boxes-only-49.95/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jrsocial&utm_content=deal30718&fbclid=IwAR2Mmg_1z_J7oQ0yTaELTvJp9rUsSpSqnE_LWPVp8gFgwCfNC0qpbDsaHsY
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 08:00:21 AM
Wordle 760 2/6
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Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 08:07:45 AM
Another new starting word and a great guess.Boom!
Wordle 760 2/6
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 08:28:28 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 08:50:48 AM
Looks like we're in for more rain today. Wonder if we'll get the baseball game in.Meanwhile, another beautiful day in store here. Going to my parents house later for some dinner and games with the nephew still in town. They'll take him back tomorrow and then they're spending the weekend in NYC.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 08:57:15 AM
Look at the grandies making the most of it.Looks like we're in for more rain today. Wonder if we'll get the baseball game in.Meanwhile, another beautiful day in store here. Going to my parents house later for some dinner and games with the nephew still in town. They'll take him back tomorrow and then they're spending the weekend in NYC.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 09:17:01 AM
Indeed. Apparently, there's a bus line that runs from Philly to NYC that my sis and her fam took in a month or two ago. Makes it really convenient to get there and not have to worry about driving around or parking, so they're taking that same line. Coming in Friday morning, leaving Sunday morning, then driving home from Philly.Look at the grandies making the most of it.Looks like we're in for more rain today. Wonder if we'll get the baseball game in.Meanwhile, another beautiful day in store here. Going to my parents house later for some dinner and games with the nephew still in town. They'll take him back tomorrow and then they're spending the weekend in NYC.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 09:22:06 AM
Trains do that as well....just sayin'Indeed. Apparently, there's a bus line that runs from Philly to NYC that my sis and her fam took in a month or two ago. Makes it really convenient to get there and not have to worry about driving around or parking, so they're taking that same line. Coming in Friday morning, leaving Sunday morning, then driving home from Philly.Look at the grandies making the most of it.Looks like we're in for more rain today. Wonder if we'll get the baseball game in.Meanwhile, another beautiful day in store here. Going to my parents house later for some dinner and games with the nephew still in town. They'll take him back tomorrow and then they're spending the weekend in NYC.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 09:26:27 AM
There are 165 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 19, 2005, President George W. Bush announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. (Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in Sept. 2005; Samuel Alito followed O’Connor.)
On this date:
In 1812, during the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.
In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
In 1975, the Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated.
In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1989, 111 people were killed when United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which sustained the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
In 1990, baseball’s all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton announced a policy allowing gays to serve in the military under a compromise dubbed “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue.”
In 2006, prosecutors reported that Chicago police beat, kicked, shocked or otherwise tortured scores of Black suspects from the 1970s to the early 1990s to try to extract confessions from them.
In 2014, New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo, involved in the arrest of Eric Garner, who died in custody two days earlier after being placed in an apparent chokehold, was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty. (Pantaleo was fired in August 2019.)
In 2016, Republicans meeting in Cleveland nominated Donald Trump as their presidential standard-bearer; in brief videotaped remarks, Trump thanked the delegates, saying: “This is a movement, but we have to go all the way.”
In 2020, President Donald Trump refused to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming election, telling Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that it was too early to make any such guarantee.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 09:28:13 AM
Five years ago: The White House said President Donald Trump had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House in the fall for a second get-together, just days after a Helsinki summit that brought Trump criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Putin said his summit with Trump had been a success, and he accused Trump’s opponents in the U.S. of hampering any progress on the issues they discussed. A duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds on a lake in the tourist town of Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people.
One year ago: Britain shattered its record for the highest temperature ever registered amid a heat wave that seared swaths of Europe. The unusually hot, dry weather triggered wildfires from Portugal to the Balkans and led to hundreds of heat-related deaths. Russian missiles struck cities and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine, hitting homes, a school and a community center. The American League beat the National League 3-2 in Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game.
Post by: bluecollar on July 19, 2023, 09:29:15 AM
I have taken Amtrak from Buffalo toTrains do that as well....just sayin'Indeed. Apparently, there's a bus line that runs from Philly to NYC that my sis and her fam took in a month or two ago. Makes it really convenient to get there and not have to worry about driving around or parking, so they're taking that same line. Coming in Friday morning, leaving Sunday morning, then driving home from Philly.Look at the grandies making the most of it.Looks like we're in for more rain today. Wonder if we'll get the baseball game in.Meanwhile, another beautiful day in store here. Going to my parents house later for some dinner and games with the nephew still in town. They'll take him back tomorrow and then they're spending the weekend in NYC.
Poughkeepsie to visit family more than a handful of times.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 09:30:52 AM
Actor Helen Gallagher is 97.
Singer Vikki Carr is 83.
Blues singer-musician Little Freddie King is 83.
Actor George Dzundza is 78.
Rock singer-musician Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) is 77.
International Tennis Hall of Famer Ilie Nastase is 77.
Rock musician Brian May is 76.
Rock musician Bernie Leadon is 76.
Actor Beverly Archer is 75.
Movie director Abel Ferrara is 72.
Actor Peter Barton is 67.
Rock musician Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets; Bauhaus) is 63.
Movie director Atom Egoyan is 63.
Actor Campbell Scott is 62.
Actor Anthony Edwards is 61.
Actor Clea Lewis is 58.
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie is 58.
Classical singer Urs Buhler (Il Divo) is 52.
Actor Andrew Kavovit is 52.
Rock musician Jason McGerr (Death Cab for Cutie) is 49.
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is 47.
Actor Erin Cummings is 46.
TV chef Marcela Valladolid is 45.
Actor Chris Sullivan (“This is Us”) is 43.
Actor Jared Padalecki is 41.
Actor Trai Byers is 40.
Actor Kaitlin Doubleday (“Nashville”) is 39.
Actor/comedian Dustin Ybarra is 37.
Actor Steven Anthony Lawrence is 33.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 09:31:23 AM
Raz Over/Under is 5
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 09:33:44 AM
I'm sure that's true, but no reason to mess with something else when you've already got a solid, proven method.Trains do that as well....just sayin'Indeed. Apparently, there's a bus line that runs from Philly to NYC that my sis and her fam took in a month or two ago. Makes it really convenient to get there and not have to worry about driving around or parking, so they're taking that same line. Coming in Friday morning, leaving Sunday morning, then driving home from Philly.Look at the grandies making the most of it.Looks like we're in for more rain today. Wonder if we'll get the baseball game in.Meanwhile, another beautiful day in store here. Going to my parents house later for some dinner and games with the nephew still in town. They'll take him back tomorrow and then they're spending the weekend in NYC.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 09:34:24 AM
Today's Over/Under is 35
Raz Over/Under is 5
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 09:38:44 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 09:40:20 AM
Today's Over/Under is 3Me too. 5.
Raz Over/Under is 5
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 11:16:01 AM
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 11:37:59 AM
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 11:38:11 AM
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Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 11:44:30 AM
Morning, muchachos.Morning, Page3Raz.
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 11:58:30 AM
Today's Over/Under is 3Eight.
Raz Over/Under is 5
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 11:58:49 AM
Morning, David.Morning, muchachos.Morning, Page3Raz.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 12:04:56 PM
Birthday lull.I'm still waiting for the Page 3 ladies.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 12:05:45 PM
Morning, muchachos.How goes it, Bret? Things still messy at work?
Post by: bluecollar on July 19, 2023, 12:43:23 PM
Post by: bluecollar on July 19, 2023, 12:43:48 PM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 01:03:37 PM
I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 01:05:08 PM
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 01:10:24 PM
Here ya go Mr. Impatient.Birthday lull.I'm still waiting for the Page 3 ladies.
Not as big a list today.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 01:10:52 PM
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 01:11:35 PM
Transferring?I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 01:13:13 PM
So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 01:21:20 PM
No, my other daughter who is going into her senior year of high school.Transferring?I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 01:23:16 PM
Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 01:36:36 PM
It's always messy, but we have completed our side of the work needed to load the Chart of Accounts for this biennial. That's the work that has buried us for the past 10 days.Morning, muchachos.How goes it, Bret? Things still messy at work?
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 01:41:44 PM
And for Raz...I wasn't familiar with Evelyn Glennie until you posted this and piqued my interest. She's amazing.
All jokes about drummers aside, Glennie has been profoundly deaf since adolescence, but she's an amazing percussionist. I'm exceedingly impressed.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 01:44:22 PM
Love learning new things. Now if only I could retain some of this knowledge.And for Raz...I wasn't familiar with Evelyn Glennie until you posted this and piqued my interest. She's amazing.
All jokes about drummers aside, Glennie has been profoundly deaf since adolescence, but she's an amazing percussionist. I'm exceedingly impressed.
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 01:52:08 PM
Truth. My oldest son's academic achievement got him interest from Columbia and Harvard early in high school. The brutal amount of extracurricular, non-academic effort that would have been needed to translate into acceptance from either university didn't suit his personality or interest. But if it had, it would have been far less expensive for me to send him to Harvard or Columbia than to the state schools he ended up attending.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: bluecollar on July 19, 2023, 02:05:37 PM
That is cool. I remember going to Rhinecliff and Saugerties as wellI know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: bluecollar on July 19, 2023, 02:07:24 PM
I'm going to get reamed on the dorming and meal plans.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 02:09:36 PM
He sounds a lot like my oldest.Truth. My oldest son's academic achievement got him interest from Columbia and Harvard early in high school. The brutal amount of extracurricular, non-academic effort that would have been needed to translate into acceptance from either university didn't suit his personality or interest. But if it had, it would have been far less expensive for me to send him to Harvard or Columbia than to the state schools he ended up attending.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 02:11:22 PM
That's how they get ya.I'm going to get reamed on the dorming and meal plans.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: bluecollar on July 19, 2023, 02:16:46 PM
I know but the experience is going to be worth it. All I ever want to do is make sure I can support my family and that they are better off because of it.That's how they get ya.I'm going to get reamed on the dorming and meal plans.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
The empty nest is a bonus
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 02:18:28 PM
Amen to that.I know but the experience is going to be worth it. All I ever want to do is make sure I can support my family and that they are better off because of it.That's how they get ya.I'm going to get reamed on the dorming and meal plans.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
The empty nest is a bonus
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 02:18:40 PM
Post by: razgueado on July 19, 2023, 02:47:56 PM
My wife says Christian is on the Autism spectrum, and she's in the business of making such assessments, so I take her word for it. Most people wouldn't see that in him, but the symptoms are there for those of us closest to him to see. He values structure, and disruption aggravates him. He hates change. He is very introverted, and despite the fact everyone who knows him considers him charming, social interaction quickly tires him to the point of shutting down. He tends to be averse to public display of affection, in fact he shocked me a couple of nights ago when he gave me a hug after I helped him retrieve his motorcycle when it broke down. He's a self-educator, and his teachers were often dumbfounded at the quality of his academic work because they were constantly battling him to get his nose out of unrelated books and "pay attention" in class. Carol and I had similar misperceptions, because we so infrequently saw him doing homework. It was only when he got an award for being in the top 10% in the nation academically his senior year that we figured out he was getting all his homework done at school, even in his heavy load of AP classes. He started college in the Engineering program at University of Idaho, a prestigious program, but that all ground to a screeching halt when he figured out that what Engineers do is mostly project management and oversight of other people who actually do the things. He wanted nothing to do with that. He wanted to do the things. So he came home and switched to computer science.He sounds a lot like my oldest.Truth. My oldest son's academic achievement got him interest from Columbia and Harvard early in high school. The brutal amount of extracurricular, non-academic effort that would have been needed to translate into acceptance from either university didn't suit his personality or interest. But if it had, it would have been far less expensive for me to send him to Harvard or Columbia than to the state schools he ended up attending.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
He manages the condition well, and has gotten far better at it since high school. But when he was in high school, the thought of all the extracurricular activities and public-service efforts that are required to even hope for consideration by Ivy-league schools frankly horrified him, and he told me so in no uncertain terms. I was mostly smart enough not to press it, and let him make his own choices.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 03:19:26 PM
Didn't realize they were that old...how time flies!No, my other daughter who is going into her senior year of high school.Transferring?I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 03:22:35 PM
We guide them but hope that eventually they will make the decisions and be happy with them.My wife says Christian is on the Autism spectrum, and she's in the business of making such assessments, so I take her word for it. Most people wouldn't see that in him, but the symptoms are there for those of us closest to him to see. He values structure, and disruption aggravates him. He hates change. He is very introverted, and despite the fact everyone who knows him considers him charming, social interaction quickly tires him to the point of shutting down. He tends to be averse to public display of affection, in fact he shocked me a couple of nights ago when he gave me a hug after I helped him retrieve his motorcycle when it broke down. He's a self-educator, and his teachers were often dumbfounded at the quality of his academic work because they were constantly battling him to get his nose out of unrelated books and "pay attention" in class. Carol and I had similar misperceptions, because we so infrequently saw him doing homework. It was only when he got an award for being in the top 10% in the nation academically his senior year that we figured out he was getting all his homework done at school, even in his heavy load of AP classes. He started college in the Engineering program at University of Idaho, a prestigious program, but that all ground to a screeching halt when he figured out that what Engineers do is mostly project management and oversight of other people who actually do the things. He wanted nothing to do with that. He wanted to do the things. So he came home and switched to computer science.He sounds a lot like my oldest.Truth. My oldest son's academic achievement got him interest from Columbia and Harvard early in high school. The brutal amount of extracurricular, non-academic effort that would have been needed to translate into acceptance from either university didn't suit his personality or interest. But if it had, it would have been far less expensive for me to send him to Harvard or Columbia than to the state schools he ended up attending.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
He manages the condition well, and has gotten far better at it since high school. But when he was in high school, the thought of all the extracurricular activities and public-service efforts that are required to even hope for consideration by Ivy-league schools frankly horrified him, and he told me so in no uncertain terms. I was mostly smart enough not to press it, and let him make his own choices.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 03:23:29 PM
The twin boys are the youngest and will be starting 8th grade in the fall. Time flies, indeed.Didn't realize they were that old...how time flies!No, my other daughter who is going into her senior year of high school.Transferring?I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 03:24:19 PM
Big sigh of relief!It's always messy, but we have completed our side of the work needed to load the Chart of Accounts for this biennial. That's the work that has buried us for the past 10 days.Morning, muchachos.How goes it, Bret? Things still messy at work?
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 03:54:44 PM
Grab yourself a wiener!
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 04:20:45 PM
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 04:25:33 PM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 04:46:17 PM
Today is National Hot Dog Day!Hmmm. Maybe after the baseball game.
Grab yourself a wiener!
Wish us luck!
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 08:35:43 PM
Definitely sounds like someone on the spectrum.My wife says Christian is on the Autism spectrum, and she's in the business of making such assessments, so I take her word for it. Most people wouldn't see that in him, but the symptoms are there for those of us closest to him to see. He values structure, and disruption aggravates him. He hates change. He is very introverted, and despite the fact everyone who knows him considers him charming, social interaction quickly tires him to the point of shutting down. He tends to be averse to public display of affection, in fact he shocked me a couple of nights ago when he gave me a hug after I helped him retrieve his motorcycle when it broke down. He's a self-educator, and his teachers were often dumbfounded at the quality of his academic work because they were constantly battling him to get his nose out of unrelated books and "pay attention" in class. Carol and I had similar misperceptions, because we so infrequently saw him doing homework. It was only when he got an award for being in the top 10% in the nation academically his senior year that we figured out he was getting all his homework done at school, even in his heavy load of AP classes. He started college in the Engineering program at University of Idaho, a prestigious program, but that all ground to a screeching halt when he figured out that what Engineers do is mostly project management and oversight of other people who actually do the things. He wanted nothing to do with that. He wanted to do the things. So he came home and switched to computer science.He sounds a lot like my oldest.Truth. My oldest son's academic achievement got him interest from Columbia and Harvard early in high school. The brutal amount of extracurricular, non-academic effort that would have been needed to translate into acceptance from either university didn't suit his personality or interest. But if it had, it would have been far less expensive for me to send him to Harvard or Columbia than to the state schools he ended up attending.Truth is the private schools usually offer more money anyway.So nice of the kids looking at all these pricy private schools.I know Tony's been through poughkeepsie?Just recently. My daughter is considering Marist College.
He manages the condition well, and has gotten far better at it since high school. But when he was in high school, the thought of all the extracurricular activities and public-service efforts that are required to even hope for consideration by Ivy-league schools frankly horrified him, and he told me so in no uncertain terms. I was mostly smart enough not to press it, and let him make his own choices.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 09:15:24 PM
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on July 19, 2023, 09:21:26 PM
We lost 3-11. Playoffs start next Monday.Today is National Hot Dog Day!Hmmm. Maybe after the baseball game.
Grab yourself a wiener!
Wish us luck!
Post by: LuvTooGolf on July 19, 2023, 09:33:13 PM
OofWe lost 3-11. Playoffs start next Monday.Today is National Hot Dog Day!Hmmm. Maybe after the baseball game.
Grab yourself a wiener!
Wish us luck!
Post by: Travellin Dave on July 19, 2023, 11:50:06 PM