Homercles

I don’t know if we’ve got a double header in us either, but we baked that cake by inexplicably losing to OU and having to battle back. It’s why you play the game…and know I can be negative Nelly, but Go Pokes even made me blush last night, damn. Up 4-0 according to score tracker on five hits.

Man I was looking for this thread the other day. I’ve been meaning to post this guy Avoure, absolutely love his deep house/trance style. I’m hoping this is called Floyd due to the tonality of the guitar solo being very Gilmour-esque, but damn that drop about 3:28 gives me chills every damn time: The fact he’s Ukrainian is just a bonus.

Uhh that was a rollercoaster of comments lol. Wife and I getting a quick weekend away, tried out Birdies tonight and just got into hotel…so haven’t been following the game. Knew it was T9 up 5 = likely win, so hopped over here. Your comments are a suitable replacement for actually watching lol

Didn’t you hear that all 16 hosts are now SEC teams?

If you can’t tell we were all resigned to them getting it done. Especially after plunking two batters and a lucky double.

Didn’t you once say I was overly negative? Damn…I said it feels like we are about to blow it. JWB actually got the K, was amazed we left him in.

Feeling like we are about to blow it. 2nd/3rd, 2 outs. All after an 0-2 count when he beaned him. Edit: Another HBP. Another JWB mess. Bases loaded.

Ok didn’t GIDP but two Ks

Well Roc drove one home. 3-2 good guys…which means it’s time to GIDP?

Yeah I know he was a touted transfer but every time I’ve started tracking a game with him in it, it’s gone to shit.

I like how WVU actually got a hit with RISP. We seem to squander opportunities today.

I’m going to play devils advocate here, given we don’t know the full circumstances. Sadly there’s precedent for considering what the cop sees when approaching an urgent situation…have y’all forgotten about the incident in the park a few years ago, the one where five actors were shot performing Julius Caesar?

Somebody needs to be there to reboot the system when it crashes

I don’t think early is gonna matter with this one.

Well naturally I turn on the osu game to see a single score two runs by the Sooners. 2-0 and haven’t even batted yet. Obviously as early as it gets but damn, I’ve been a curse every time I’ve tried to watch osu baseball this season.

Perusing the Reddit college baseball thread while on a conf call…reading the Aggy/Piggy thread, quick sample of some A&M comments: How it started (1 hour ago): “Everyone here can celebrate: Kansas just hit a grand slam and went up 6-2 on Texas” How it’s going (after Piggy GS to go up 5-4): “End my suffering” And that’s why I don’t talk shit as a Poke.

Man I wish I had known more about Steve Earle back when I was introduced to him…as Walon on The Wire. He’s one of my favorite characters on my favorite show of all time that’s absolutely jammed full of them (Omar, Bunk, Lester, Slim Charles, Senator Davis, Bubs, Snoop, Chris, Ziggy, The Greek and his #2…it just goes on). Once I heard about his actual day job here, was in awe of what that man has gone through and who else he has helped. It’s a damn shame that MAC had first ballot HoF’er trying to help and still wasn’t able to just say ‘ok’ in handing the wheel over. “You want to kick this shit, you got to forgive your own self. Love yourself some, brother…then drag your sorry ass to some meetings”

Any thread I can catch Sydney beat down a motherfucker like Mullet is a place I want to be.

So it’s the ROT rally (or what it used to be), except on the beach with Jeeps. Still laugh about taking my girlfriend (now wife) out to the rally once and I asked if she wanted to earn some beads once we got there. She didn’t believe me when I told her that she’d be awful popular out there as 90% of the titties were pretty clapped out. Once we got out there, she racked up a huge stash (pun intended).

(Regular disclaimer that I still drink occasionally and my experiences may not translate) TLDR: It SHOULD get easier with time, start your break and find a motivation to stick with it. Taking a break was when I started to feel comfortable that I wasn’t necessarily an alcoholic, because up to that point ‘will I / won’t I’ was taking up a lot of mental cycles…it was a ‘mental obsession’ as noted many times in this thread. Not just managing level of intoxication but also judging hangover impact to the next day. It’s exhausting, a whole job on top of work and being a dad/husband. At the time I was on the “alcoholism layaway plan” with one day on and one day off. My brain was set on a cadence of “get a good buzz on, wake up feeling like ass, go to bed early, wake up the next day feeling fine, rinse and repeat”. After I broke that chain, things rapidly improved and the devotion of brainpower to making decisions surrounding alcohol faded quickly. Sounds silly but I recalled a book where a SEAL talks about hell week in BUD/S, and used meals as motivation…don’t think about the endless torture that waits, just make it to the next meal. For me, my ‘meal’ was bedtime. I was fortunate that it only took a week or two to get where I didn’t really think about it much. Sure, normal life shit would get tense and the thought would cross my mind to pour a drink, but I’d tell myself to wait until the next morning before actually considering it…by which time I’d wake up feeling great and be grateful I didn’t touch the bottle. An added bonus, for someone like me, was a totally reset of tolerance. Mine had become so developed that the window of ‘buzzed but not stupid’ was so small that I’d overshoot it into the darkness. Once I reintroduced alcohol, I was able to enjoy it slowly again and not rush…thus my tolerance has stayed low. Again I don’t consider myself cured or special or normie or anything…I remain well aware that I’m at a higher risk for abuse based on my history. Just when I see someone like me post here, figure it can’t hurt to be a voice for problem drinkers and what’s worked for me.

Our old office chair was the perfect example of ‘looks nice but doesn’t work for shit’…it was a thin, white one that matched the white desk nicely. Once Covid kicked in and I was using it daily for hours, I fell over backwards once when hosting a conf call…said fuck this noise and bought that V2. See also: doesn’t like blue dish soap (that works exemplary) as it clashes in kitchen but rarely does dishes or fancy holiday dish towels that don’t work for shit or…

Wild that fully 1/3rd of the league finished first…let’s all go wreck shit in the NCAA’s after the conf tourney. I mean, two of the champs have guns and the third has this

Nowadays he’d have been shot instead of just having tires slashed