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Baboontyme

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  1. I'll be that guy. I like Ellie and fuck Joel. You expect her to kiss his ass for 'saving' her? She knows.
  2. One thing that I can testify to is that you should hang out with them now instead of your me time. In a few years they won't want to hang out with you all the time anymore, even if you're not an asshole. We still hang out sometimes, sure, but there's nothing like those early years. When they hit middle school childhood might as well be over. The pre/teen years hit a little different.
  3. First you must procure Scentsy. Then you can barter the Scentsy for reactions.
  4. The tracker says there are 100 votes and they have about 1/3 of them in the house. SGA is at 19 first place votes vs 11 for Joker. The cumulative points are closer but it still appears that this one is going to go to SGA. Other early observations with fewer votes counted - looks like DPOY is going to be Mobley. COTY and 6th man are runaways for Atkinson and Pritchard. ROY landslide Castle. MIP is Dyson Daniels with Zubac close behind. Cade Cunningham distant 3rd. All NBA is damn near unanimous with the top 4 (not even going to bother to list) and looks like Mitchell will probably take the 5th spot. 2nd team still fluid but looks like it will have Bron and Ant for sure and probably some combo of Steph, Cade, Mobley, Brunson or KAT.
  5. Just get a pet hyena.
  6. Counterpoint: this current challenge
  7. Thank you. That is at least somewhat reassuring. I guess I should not plan on any 3 margarita lunches and letting the wife DD. The policia would actually be indebted to me for getting behind the wheel smashed rather than unleashing her to wreak havoc on their roads.
  8. Thanks again to all. Really excited for this trip. We are doing the first 4 nights on IM at Ixchel which looks perfect for us, and the last 3 nights I booked at an Airbnb in Puerto Aventuras. The plan is to check out the cenotes and the ruins. I've re-read the entire thread and it seems like many here have rented cars and had no issues. But given Rod's warning and knowing my luck and not having any Spanish speakers in my party etc I'm pretty leery. I am pretty cautious on a family vacation and don't like putting myself in a position where I may not be in control of the outcome. Should I be second guessing this, this much? What even would be my alternative outside of taxis which also don't always seem to be on the up and up, either. Is it an option to arrange a private transportation service from the ferry to Puerto Aventuras, and another each day to deliver us to a tour departure checkpoint and back, and then again another on the last day to take us back from PA to the airport in Cancun? Seems kind of ridiculous and costly. Or just get the max insurance on a rental and pray I don't get pulled over or into any kind of situation? I will happily pay off a cop if it comes to it but just would prefer to avoid as many unknowns as possible.
  9. Awards tracking spreadsheet is live: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1KMzwRcilLDej0BWl7eYE_OYC9Tx9olI_Ptn-nHjKfpQ/htmlview#
  10. My family could not love this sweet little asshole any more. She's really not an asshole. She just chooses to ignore my commands when she knows I don't have a treat.
  11. Mark Fidrych. I watched a chunk of her interview with Letterman last night. I'm not sure how old it was, I think pretty new. You would have to have something wrong with you or some sort of irrational anger to dislike this person. She just gets it. She goes with the flow, is self depreciating while also confident, is respectful of everyone, and is really smart. Pretty amazing for someone that young. Nothing super compelling other than the thing about the scrimmage against the stand ins but she came across really well, to me at least.
  12. Great info @wood thanks again so much! I just talked to Rod, seemed like a good dude. He said we're going to love it so much that we're going to be bummed we didn't stay the whole week on IM but that staying elsewhere for a few nights is a better plan if we want to see ruins and cenotes. He also strongly cautioned against renting a car. He said if anything happens, it's always going to be the gringos fault. And stuff always happens to me. Just hoping my jinx of a presence doesn't bring the entire peninsula down with some kind of biblical flood or something.
  13. Booked our flights. Waiting for a call from Rod tomorrow to confirm bookings for a 2 bedroom at Ixchel for the first 4 nights. Looks perfect for us. I will look up and down Riviera Maya for the last 3 nights. Is PDC that big of a shithole? Never having seen it I feel like it might be fun to stay in a busier place for a few nights. Also appreciate any specific recs on cenotes or ruins. In general I prefer to do stuff on our own vs a tour, unless that is the way to go. Excited! Thanks everyone.
  14. Good stuff wood thank you! Sounds pretty much up our alley. Kids definitely want to see some cenotes and some ruins. Question, why do you do the mainland stuff on the front end of the trip? I was planning on starting on the island, thinking being I don't want to have to mess with a ferry trying to get to the airport on the day we're leaving.
  15. Don't know if anyone else saw that Jaylen Wells fall in the Grizzlies game but that didn't look good. Got undercut on a dunk attempt and literally fell on his face and was taken off on a stretcher. Hope dude is ok.
  16. They should do the sensible thing and throw a bag at Monty Williams.
  17. Thanks. This is coming together, I think I'm going to book the first 2-3 nights on Mujeres and the next 4-6 in playa. I'm looking at private condo rentals in complexes that are "steps from the beach" and there are some really good options. Quick question imma, when you said I was totally wrong about hotel types, could you explain yourself? I think you're right that we're better off in most cases at a rental vs an all inclusive. But then again I do have a 15 yo who has a daily calorie goal of 4k so it might be worth looking into. I spent some time looking at stuff today and I'm not seeing any AI resorts that offer 2 bed/2 bath rooms in that price range. Most seem to be 1k+ nightly. An AI might be hilarious to witness the damage he could do.
  18. Thank you both, looking pretty closely at these options. I found a great looking 5* reviewed Airbnb that has everything we would want and is walkable from Playa Norte for very reasonable. @immamac I think you are saying though that we should not stay on Mujeres, correct, just day trip over to check it out? I really like the sounds of the island but I do worry that we may be a little limited if we had to take a ferry to get off the island. I'm thinking this might be a better route, or possibly even a split stay. What area(s) on the mainland should I be looking at for rentals? What's the go to for car rentals? Turo?
  19. You could shit in a box and package it up and Amazon will take it back. And don't feel bad about it, either. Fuck Amazon. Figure out a way to box it up and slap a label on it and take it to the UPS store.
  20. I read low 90s and humid. It might not break 40 here until next weekend so that would be very welcome. We usually do our family vacations in summer and are pretty used to Florida, so I am assuming similar? We like a pool, we like a beach, we like to eat out and go on adventures. I like to go on a walk or to go workout first thing in the morning. Wife likes to sit in the sun, I like to bounce around a little bit. Probably minimal day drinking, maybe a marg here or there and a nightcap back home before bed. The biggest thing for us like I said is we are used to 2 bed/2 bath condos/villas/ house rentals. I've never looked at Mexico in part before because it always seems like all of the resorts are either hotel rooms or $1500/night presidential suites. I'm looking at like $3-400/night.
  21. I'm starting to look at Mexico for our summer trip. I have never been. This would be late July. Flying into Cancun, does anyone have any recommendations on where would be a good spot to set up for a week? 4 of us, kids are 15 and 12. I've heard everything from Playa del Carmen to Mujeres and I have no frame of reference. We could be flexible in terms of resort vs Airbnb but I definitely will be looking for a 2 bed/2 bath setup vs standard hotel rooms. Ideally we would be somewhere walkable or a short golf cart ride to both the beach and a town with some fun restaurants and shops. Appreciate any thoughts.
  22. Thought this was funny. The other night my 15 yo was hanging out with me while I was watching hoops. He doesn't have much interest in it anymore. When he was like 7-8 he was very into it, knew players and teams, watched games with me, etc. Now he doesn't care at all but will humor me when I tell him Jimmy Butler got traded to the Warriors kind of stuff. So anyway the Laker game was on, and I had told him about the trade so he wasn't surprised to see Luka on the Lakers but after watching for a minute he goes: "Dad! Is Luka Doncic FAT now??"
  23. Seems like a good kid but I'm not sure how much he loves basketball. He doesn't get on the floor much because he has all kinds of mental defensive lapses. He can stroke it, though his career 3 pt % might not show you that. I hate this era, it's completely stupid. I am very emotionally divested in college sports.
  24. Baboontyme

    Getting old sucks

    Posted a screen grab of the MRI results. It does not sound good. Lots going on in there. Thanks all for the feedback. I'm sure I will push the recovery envelope like the idiot that I am.
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