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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. @Brisketexan started a thread about the passing of his father and it has started a lot of us that have also lost our fathers to look back fondly on lessons learned and experiences with them. @dcbc suggested that we start a thread for those memories, so here it is. Let's hear them. I'll start. My Dad was a farm kid that joined the Navy in 1944, served on the USS Wisconsin at Okinawa, saw the world and didn't want to go back to the farm. He eventually went to work for the USPS, working his way up to an office job in Schemes and Routing. It was his job to figure out how to get mail trucks to and from the sectional centers around Wichita and keep it all flowing. He also had to determine which carriers were given airmail routes that originated in Wichita. Enough background for now. 1973, I was a newlywed and my wife and I decided to fly to St Louis to visit my brother. We bought tickets from TWA and excitedly arrived at the airport, She had never flown before. We went to the counter and the ticket agent noticed the last name and asked if Old Man Shoxthemonkey was any relation to me. I said he was my father and we were promptly upgraded to first class. We took the trip, first class going and coming home, and thought, wow, what a trip! We stopped at the folks on the way home from the airport and recounted the story. My Dad flipped out, he was horrified. The next day he reported the incident to his superior and received a reprimand for it. I'm not sure it would have ever been known otherwise but it was a valuable lesson for me to do the right thing, even if it might have been possible to ignore it. I have a lot of funny memories too.
  2. I'm sorry for your loss, Brisket. It is painful to go through for sure but at some point the pain subsides a bit. The best part is that every damned day you will have a random thought that reminds you of your Dad and you will smile broadly. My Dad has been gone for 15 years and there hasn't been a day that I haven't thought of him and smiled.
  3. I was hoping that he would land on a moving walkway.
  4. Not too cold for the critters.
  5. Ouch. At least we don't have any wind with this. It could be so much worse.
  6. You win! It's only -9 down here.
  7. And I've never needed one and could have used it 3 times already.
  8. It's been on my list
  9. The wife and I are looking into the alerting watches for ourselves. Just another door I haven't wanted to go through but it seems like it might be helpful. We moved both of our parents to our town when they reached the point that they couldn't drive on their own. The wife is a retired nurse so it fell to her to check on them several times a week. Eventually that became daily and then it became too much for her and we moved them into assisted living. Every one of those changes was met with resistance because they knew that things would never go back to what it was. Now, we find ourselves facing a lot of the same things and it saddens the fuck out of me.
  10. The Calexico original is one of my favorites but Allison's voice and these harmonies make this better IMHO.
  11. Better players would make more of a difference.
  12. The handle you see in the foreground is my generator. I can unplug my furnace from the wall and plug it into the generator in less than a few minutes.
  13. 75778953562__53980A55-1867-4B33-9357-5A046989388F.MOV
  14. We’ve had Thundersnow for the last 30 minutes. 4-6” of snow so far but 35 mph sustained winds are drifting us in. How’s things up north @Al_4_ISU?
  15. I’m adding some drawers to replace doors and shelves under my garage workbench. I’m using the half- half-half method from YouTube and it’s my first time to ever use a dado head. I used the panel saw and miter saw from work to break down 1 sheet of 1/2” and 1 sheet of 1/4”. I have the first drawer dry fit to prove my engineering and will build the rest tomorrow. I don’t care if all y’all woodworkers laugh, I’m a toolmaker/gunsmith, not a cabinetmaker.
  16. @hornbri You will get through this and you can still live a full life. Not cancer, but my wife and I went through the same realization that life would never be the same back in 1988. She was in a bad car wreck, weeks in ICU and months in rehab from a traumatic brain injury. She was 34 then, she turned 70 yesterday. Nothing has been the same since but we hardly notice the concessions we have made to the past events. We lead a very nice life. Chin up, be her rock and carry on. You can do this together.
  17. He is the coach that I wanted for the WSU job when they stupidly gave it to the interim guy and set the program back 5 years. My best friend played for NWMS in the 90's and has remained close to their teams and staffs since graduating. He has nothing but praise for McCollum. I don't imagine it would take much to convince him to leave Drake when the time comes. That is, if the Drake job doesn't kill him first.
  18. Damn, Son.
  19. Closer to even than I figured.
  20. Worse than MJ Melendez? I’ll give him a chance. Isbel can’t hit lefties, maybeWeimar can?
  21. Ragans with 2 TJS made me nervous all season long. Pretty sure he set a PR for innings pitched and Q let him go deep several times when I would have pulled him to save wear and tear. That speaks to the shitty bullpen mid season, I suppose.
  22. Bubic, Lynch and Marsh are on the clock. Somebody has to step up and fill the role. Singer had 10ish WAR over the last 3 years. India 3 in the same time. Just shows how bad the FO sees the need for offense. Kyle Wright should be healthy next spring. Maybe he can return to his former self and join the rotation. Seems like a bit of an overpay but I know zip about the OF guy that was included.
  23. I’m surprised it actually happened. Royals rotation was pretty healthy last year and Singer stayed as a 3-4 all year long. Wacha and Lugo aren’t likely to stay as healthy this year. Big gamble trading Singer but the lead off spot was a black hole of suck. I’m not used to a GM that will do shit like this. Or an owner. Cool.
  24. He's a known thread whore.
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