VolenteHawk

I interviewed mid Covid over Zoom. Dress shirt, athletic shorts, and barefoot. Got the job.

You can USUALLY get around this by playing with HDMI control on/off settings on the devices. Usually any flakiness is both device on a link thinking they're in charge of control (which should work but different version etc), and one of them gets confused.

Looks like each lot is .4 acres. Not 1% And no trees. New build in LeanderPark Hill.

I don’t have an actual opinion on the games yet, but I’ll handicap today...the above would just be a numerical play iffin 3 is about the right number in either/both games.

Both conference championship games are currently dancing around close to free roll levels if you want to bet on them landing on exactly 3, GB on the 3-3.5 edge and KC on 2.5-3. If your outs are such that you can pay -115 or better betting both sides, either game is a play.

There is value on the Browns at +10...there’s no justification for it to be that high. I think it’s inflated as a teaser blocker.

Is the Seattle team hiring? I don’t live there, but it doesn’t sound like that’s terribly important.

Sorry I didn’t see this thread sooner. I’m a run drills guy and have been for years. I now coach what is probably the best 12U team in Austin, and we drill so much that when we ran early last week and scrimmaged for 10 minutes...my long time kids were legitimately confused. Skeleton offense, I say when a cutter is open, so they have to watch the cut instead of going through the motions. 2 on 2 block to elbow rebounding. Stationary passing around the perimeter for defense rotation drills, man and ball at all times...make the passing as slow as you need to for kids to get in position and add speed and skip passes as they’re ready (they don’t be this year). You can do this for a long time b/c the offense is resting and it’s not zone. We start every practice and game warmup with layup lines then 3 man weave and in this drill there is always an outlet and we always rebound misses and take makes OOB...build good habits. If you’re hoping to score a coaching related half court bucket at the age you’re at now, a clever baseline inbounds is your best chance. I ran really specific set pass stuff at 9 and 10 years old, then went 5 out motion last year which we still run. At your age, just drill the hell out of fundamentals while making it as fun as possible. Broadly speaking, we work on improving skills and making good habits in practice and we only really play live basketball in games.

Yep, he was plainly uninformed at the time, he’s hilariously wrong as time goes on, and ironically...the stuff he hated cleanly explained how much better he was than previously thought. A perfect triple crown of stupidity...and he was emphatic enough about it that it will stick to his legacy forever.

Thankfully I did too. As a long suffering Chiefs fan, I decided Romeo couldn’t be my ride or die. We’re down to 2 now, and the other guy doesn’t have Ravens for next week.

Now that the Browns entire receiver room is out, I’m likely switching to the Texans.

The only two favorites next week that will for sure be more than a touchdown are Ravens and Colts (and they’ll both be upwards of two touchdowns), so there is huge value to having one of them left. So, I don’t think it’s too cute to save the Ravens unless you also have the Colts. I’ve been saving the Ravens for a month now since it started to look like they’d be the only big favorite with something to play for week 17, but I also haven’t used the Browns...so they’re my pick today. If your pool is likely to go the distance, then game theory wise you need to hit the two team parlay regardless...I’d rather Bears/Texans - Ravens than using the Ravens this week and being in a coinflippy situation next week.

Agreed on Covert for GMC...I'd go with Riata in Manor for the Ford but I've never dealt with Bluebonnet.

Point of order, it was a really shitty car.

If you’re in Dallas and have an ultra strict no beverage policy, it was me a few weeks ago. Now, I’m cool with the policy if they feel like they need it. If I’m swilling a to go beer at 2:15 and you’re dropping me at Waffle House, stand firm. Rules are rules. If you’re picking me up outside a hotel at 8am for a morning of meetings, dressed in office attire, and wearing a watch that’s worth more than the car I’m about to get in...take a context clue and be flexible. Ultimately it’s up to the driver, but if I’m ditching this coffee and he’s a dick about it...that’s 1 star and part of his tip is replacing the coffee 11 minutes from now. Driver’s choice.

I had the reverse yesterday at HEB. Big truck unloading those jugs for the water machine causing a blind spot along the front. I see a big Lexus SUV driving towards it just a little bit faster than I’d be driving, so I was cautious as I popped around...had I not noticed it first and rounded the water truck like I pretty much normally would have, I’d have been hit hard enough to care. The lady gave me an embarrassed smile and wave. I was carry shit and in a mask so could only muster a squint and head nod.

Last night between 7:20 and 9:40, I was charged and payment "reversed" for $80. 244 times.

Atlanta ML +106 Houston -1 1/2 If Pittsburgh get to the full +3 I’ll take that but I don’t think it will. Will probably be on Ravens tomorrow night but I expect the number to move in my favor. Edit: BOL had a -1 -115 for the Texans so that’s what I officially took.

That wasn’t it for me...they just straight changed my account number. I figured out a workaround (if anybody cares). I went back to my latest statement email, clicked to view online, and it hit a landing page to “upgrade” that finally took my email address and let me set up a new account. So I got in. Now the bad news... Back is a car I sold this year, except it’s listed with its first set of plates instead of the ones that were on it. Back is an Explorer that I sold 12 years ago. Gone is my wife’s current car. My truck is correct and the weekend sportster I just bought (the reason I’ve been trying to log in for a month) it let me add but not including a make or model. I have two different days in November with dozens of charges on my truck...like I just drove it in circles for 10 hours and there is a couple hundred dollars of replenishment against card they have on file. It’s a clusterfuck. They must have gotten hacked and are scrambling to reassemble data, and given how well TxTag works in general...it’s going about how you’d expect.

The website is back up. Sorta. My login credentials don't work, my email address isn't associated with an account, and since all of that is broken if I want to use my account number instead it must be 10 digits (mine isn't, leading zeros doesn't work). They somehow made the worst customer experience in my entire online life worse.

Texas game canceled. This suuuuuuuuucks.

Also, if you're going new in Austin and don't mind driving out to Bastrop, I can refer you to a guy that won't feel like a car salesman. Good dude, our kids play sports together.