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I think you will get varied responses to this. If someone asks me to pray for them I will. Maybe a 100 other people prayed and it went unanswered. Honestly I don’t know and neither does anyone else as to the reason why it was not answered. That’s life I guess. An example here would be a friend’s family member in DeSoto (Former head high school football coach) that has been struck with an incurable disease. I pray for him, but am I just praying for him to be pain-free as he nears the likely end of his life or can he be healed? Again I don’t know how it plays out, but if letting someone know I prayed for their family member brings a measure of comfort I think that might serve its purpose.

I pray, but I don’t really have a well thought-out answer on the specifics of any prayers I have. I stay away from asking for money and usually just ask God to be with my family and friends and to let me do whatever it is I am supposed to do today. Praying for money for myself just feels wrong and not in line with anything I should be doing. It seems selfish to pray like that I guess. The only thing I can consistently say that I ask for is to be able to help brighten someone’s day that needs it. It helps being in a large city, but sometimes just the act of talking to someone that looks like life threw the kitchen sink at them that day helps. I also steadily maintain to people that if you are not religious that you don’t have to be in order to do nice things for others. I would classify my mother as not religious yet she is the most giving and caring human being I have ever known. Always thinking of everyone else and how to make their day better.

Not dickish or terse at all. I enjoy reading your posts on this site. You definitely cut through a lot of lawyerese in some threads that helps explain the judicial process. Same thing here as well. I firmly believe that if you are unwilling to learn from the observations or experiences of others you are not only making poor use of your own time, but theirs as well. It’s okay to say someone else can not only have a different perspective, but can also be more educated and knowledgeable about a subject. I feel like I can safely speak for others here and say your posts are always appreciated. They are well thought out and reasoned and I believe people respond better to how you interact with each of us.

As a coach he was great. As a person, not so much. Doubt he really cared what anyone thought of him.

I don’t mind them. When I go to Barnes and Noble I get a grande coffee with some half and half. Most of the time I make some coffee at home though, but nothing wrong with an espresso or regular coffee from there.

Thank you for sharing that! I had no idea what happened to him after his career was over. I just read he met his wife in Greece when he was playing ball there. That’s really awesome that both his children, his daughter especially, became very good athletes. I can’t imagine staring down a 6’9” player in volleyball. He apparently is really involved and supportive as a parent. What a great story to read about today.

This is a beautiful picture and I am glad you are able to have made it to this point where you can enjoy life like this. I ran across these things you are sitting on at The American Dream Mall on a trip over there one afternoon. My friends were off skiing and I had the misfortune to wander into what seemed like dozens of these things coming at me from every direction. I feel lucky to have survived the encounter! 😂

Sorry if my message came across as disagreeing with anything you said. I find all of that to be true. Man is it a hard day to have to say you cannot control the beast and you either have to reach out for help or just put the stuff down cold turkey. One of the activities I partake in quite a bit is attempting to understand how and why people are the way they are which inevitably leads me down a long line of questions I would have about their life. Sometimes the answers to those questions are right in front of my face and sometimes not.

Mike Smrek.

Yes and that half travels the country giving terrible reviews on pizza. I think Long Islanders are going to murder him for giving a bad review to the pizza out east.

I finished this book last week. This should be required reading for everyone. Ernest Evans should have a statue in every single state in the US for what he did that day as well as being a Native American graduate of the Naval Academy. The balls of these guys to head straight into the teeth of the IJN’s center force while Admiral Halsey left them with no help because he was too busy chasing decoy carriers is incredible. The dummy torpedo runs of up to 20 times just to distract the massive gunships by the aviators above. Hornfischer is right in calling the Battle off of Samar (Part of the bigger battle in Leyte Gulf) the single greatest victory in US Navy history and maybe world naval history. I knew of the basics before this book, but reading the individual stories really drove home the sadness of the survivors.

These are some hard words to read. The man had a heart for other people, but could not take care of himself. I will remember him the way he wished to be thought of. Anyone willing to help an addict in need is someone who has my respect. RIP.

I very rarely read it. That’s partly because my once heavy interest in the sport has waned away almost entirely. If I didn’t watch my old high school on YouTube I’d probably never watch the sport anymore. The football forum is flat-out unreadable though and filled with twice the vitriol and hatred you could ever hope to find in a thread in the CR. That alcohol gets flowing and the hatred comes rolling right along behind it.

So Windthorst is the hometown of a high school algebra teacher I had. She was married to the boys basketball coach. They met during a college basketball game he was officiating when she was PLAYING in the game. I wanted to see if any of her family was on their roster and sure enough there are two players with the last name Anderle (Last name before she got married). I think most of her family still lives there. Mrs. Antilley and her husband moved to Fort Mill, SC when he left coaching in the late 90’s. Much better job in computer security for Bank of America. He is from Graford and had a chance to go the college basketball coaching route, but chose not to join Billy Gillispie (Also Graford) because he wanted a family. His assistant from my high school days, Morris Davis, settled eventually in Seymour where he became the principal for awhile. I believe both his boys graduated from Seymour. His wife still works for the school district I believe. All I got on Stamford is I have been through there AND on Thursday I was in Stamford, CT where I lived for a year. I have a doctor up there still. While I was there I typed in Google Walmart near Stamford and it showed Stamford, TX instead as the result!

Really big upset. Burnet 41-Davenport 34 Burnet’s QB iced things with a long TD run late in the game and then got the last gasp onside recovery with 10 seconds left. That was a home game for Davenport. The Lampasas broadcasters were trying to figure out the tiebreakers if all three win next week as Lampasas earlier in district beat Burnet 35-14. All three are 3-1 and Burnet could finish anywhere from 1st-4th depending upon how they do against Taylor next week.

So incredibly cute! Jack is going to bring y’all so much happiness!

Thanks for sharing your personal insights into this situation. I agree with what you said on dysfunction not being a prerequisite to being an alcoholic. When I try to quantify alcoholism I attempt to not put people in groups or a box. My reasoning is that there are a series of events in someone’s life that lead them to searching for safety at the bottom of a bottle. Being that we are all different and unique I attempt to look at each alcoholic as having had their own unique and sad journey to where they got to. This man is in dire need of people to help pick him up emotionally and get him to a place where he can find some happiness in life. We all just want to enjoy life. I hope for that for him.

Five Nights at Freddy’s was actually pretty good and funny. There was a lot of laughing during the movie at the showing I went to. It was definitely an 80’s throwback type of movie. The ghost kids manning the giant robot animals was all kinds of humorous. It was probably meant to have more horror, but I didn’t care. A good one-off movie to watch in your spare time if you come across it once it streams.

The one thing that IPhones have as a strike against them is the auto-correct never seeming to learn anything. Pay cut was what I thought I typed until I saw your message. Also sarcasm or joking sometimes goes right over my head. I mean just flies right over it until someone explains the joke to me.

Oh man it would have been a horrific decision for me as I NEVER want to manage. As a server I have found that I can work 10 months out of the year and take two months to travel to places I want to go to by remaining a server. The pay is fantastic, I love making a person’s day better through a meal and my only responsibility is to show up and do something I love. The idea of ever managing is not something I would ever contemplate. I would rather enjoy the one life I get. I cannot understand why anyone wants to be a paper pusher which is, even in a restaurant, something managers spend hours doing each day.

I went and read some of this and my gosh that is a severely depressed human being right there. Reading that his law firm represents people in DWI cases is, well, interesting considering what has transpired with him personally. I hope he finds his way before it is too late.

Once again the wacko version of Christianity is what gets presented. Every single one of those Trumpkins that spouts anything about Jesus is a complete fraud and grifter. It sucks that Biden is a good example of being a Christian, but these GQP rubes think he’s the anti-Christ. He’s everything I would want in a leader in that he doesn’t force his religion on Americans and he treats everyone the same no matter what your faith is or if you have none at all. What a bizarre world we live in that that is hated by millions of these absolutely horrific people.

Can’t wait to hear from Susan Collins as well.

Preemptive thoughts and prayers sentiment before we get bombarded by those words from the people who refuse to do a thing about this because guns are more important than human beings.