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  1. Worked at K State for a short while and went to KU a few times. Always liked it and the town. Close enough to KC to have easy access to big-city stuff, but typical college town in a nice enough region right on the edge of the Flint Hills, which I always found beautiful. Kansas politics aren't as goofy as they could be so I think the university system there hasn't been as messed up as other states. As a faculty member elsewhere who's got a senior daughter in the process of choosing, I'd say that if your daughter loves it, the program is among the best (so many rankings out there -- how legit are those you've seen for the speech pathology program?), and the aid makes it affordable, give it your blessing. There's too much that can change in a semester, a year, a couple of years, both with young people and the educational environment at large right now. If they start out happy with their choice, the odds are at least in their favor. Last visited last summer and had a great Hungarian goulash with local ingredients at Free State Brewing on Massachusetts Street. Noticed lots of new upscale stuff in the area of the state streets that's the center of off-campus student life, but it also felt a little seedier in spots than I remember. Another faculty friend's daughter (who's a good friend of my daughter) went to KU but transferred to Minnesota after a semester and I don't know why. My daughter never reveals much so I'll ask the mom what her daughter didn't like about it. Will report back if I hear anything of use. But KU is a pretty darn good school and I'd be more than OK with my own daughter going there if that's how it worked out. That's the good thing about finishing up a school, whether it's after a semester or a couple of degrees. They can always move on, and that's what I tell my daughter. If you don't like it, transfer. Get the best offers you can; pick where you think you'll thrive and be happy and not go into debt. I'm looking out the window at some of the worst kind of gray, freezing, icy, bitter weather a guy could hate, but am not ready to trade everything off. Too many factors like weather and politics shape things in ways we may not expect. If your head, heart and gut are all telling you a place should work out, or is a good one to finally leave, then you're probably right. Flip side is you can play ultimate Frisbee late into the night without lights in the summer. My son, born in Texas, loves it at Minnesota and graduates in May. My take is that if we get fewer Floridians crowding the cross-country ski trails in our few hours of daylight, I'm happy for them to be happy elsewhere.
  2. Amazing what just facing an issue will do, @Jameslaw121. Whether accidentally or not ... bet your FIL is eternally grateful.
  3. Probably not something any teenager needs to be told -- they tend to be naturals. But a church is as good, or bad, a place to do that as a youngster can probably find anyway. I suspect there's plenty of feel-good and fervor at that church, and it probably seemed benign when they were still dating. It's always part of the appeal. The big questions are how it affects her down the road and what she learns from it. I'd have to say that right now, it seems to be keeping her unsettled, but separating faith from lovesickness is the hard part. College should probably help her find some equilibrium, and frankly, I'd rather have a breakup ruin her senior year than her first year away.
  4. Hadn't heard of that one, but I'll check it out -- looks like they released a 25th anniversary edition three years ago. The friendship stuff looks especially interesting. Our daughter has turned her back on a couple of longtime friendships this year as well, and I'm wondering if that's because her friends tried to talk sense to her about the young man (who's really a great kid, but I suspect a lot of what makes him so is extreme politeness, cheerfulness, optimism and whatnot that strike me as being a major part of his Christian upbringing). Bottom line is they're still just kids and neither one likely has lived enough yet to figure out what their beliefs mean, especially in a period of national turmoil when religion is central to the struggles. I've encouraged my daughter to hash things out with her friends, but she's stubborn. In fact, I told her just yesterday, during one of her stints of calmness, that the New Year is always a great time to reconsider and reconcile. She did at least listen and respond with a tiny bit of thoughtfulness, so it was a good enough holiday moment.
  5. Too late to edit my post, but to bring this back to the topic, I suspect religion has dampened our holidays quite a bit this year. Daughter didn't really even take part (not even doing gifts for anyone), and I'm wondering whether it's because she's got a newfound and I suspect not fully committed faith based primarily on getting her former boyfriend back. His family goes to our local evangelical and apparently fundamentalist super-church, and she's still attending despite the breakup and despite honoring my wife's wishes to continue attending Catholic services at the same time. Daughter is a senior in high school and of course on the cusp of leaving for college, so she's already been in that morose, rebellious teenaged stage that I keep wanting to point out includes way more disrespect than the commandments allow. Hard to talk to her most of the time, and her disappointing lack of enthusiasm on Christmas seemed based on judgmental and conservative disdain for merrymaking. She made it pretty easy for us to continue deemphasizing all the consumptive ritual and stressful preparations for tradition's sake. Because we stretch the holidays out with a flexible schedule, we may still do a few gifts and I'm close to getting her a book about faith written by Jim Palmer, a former megachurch pastor himself who writes to help people deprogram themselves from fundamentalism.
  6. When my best man got married and I toasted the couple, I told of how I got to know a good portion of his family through his stories while we played poker and drank bottles of wine in Europe, where we were roommates for a while. I wondered what was up when he buried his face in his hands during the toast. Seems his in-laws did not know he drank (not a lot -- was a minister for the first half of his career). Afterwards he explained to me that he even had to hide his cooking sherry when his future in-laws came to visit before the marriage. But it turns out Berry, the FIL, thought the toast was hilarious, and Berry came up and pumped my hand afterward telling me so. Seems that after 30 years, ol' Berry still asks about me and I am welcome at their farm any time. And my buddy and his wife didn't have to hide their alcohol any more.
  7. From the frozen north woods, where we're not skeered of 45 mph gusts or icy roads, and certainly not A&M ... FIGHT!
  8. @MrRogue, can I use the discount in the store? What do I have to do to verify voting there, or do I just mention the code?
  9. I'm not seeing a launch there. Just a full-speed hit and a pretty good wrap-up with Smith's head clearly up. Left foot is firmly planted until he goes down with the tackle. Seems like it would be pretty tough not to leave your feet when you've obliterated the guy at speed and have him wrapped up. If there is any launch, it's one-footed and after contact. Does that fit the definition?
  10. Waiving your dick will do that pretty much every time.
  11. I can see why he might have made it a "just in case it did cross" call, but the videos provided more than enough evidence to overturn it. Yeah, maybe some really, really thick laces that we couldn't see well on camera might have just nicked the plane of the goal line, but at that point, the replay officials should have just said, "Too many gambling arrests and referee suspensions to risk this letting this slide." The end of that game was not a good look and now goes onto the same shelf as the Okie State and Grant Teaff productions. Edit: except this one had the proper happy ending.
  12. The link I gave shows pretty much all the plays, including the personal foul against Filsaime on the sideline, which occurs at the 16:00 mark and has multiple replays. Gotta give credit to Pavia on that one. Shrewd MF who manipulated the play into a penalty.
  13. Been waiting for this all morning but no one has posted, so here it is. I'm one of those who was cut off from coverage yesterday so I just listened to the game on Sirius XM while working, and these YouTube highlights are the first time I've seen the plays. On the video highlights, it's obvious that the pylon never moves.
  14. Logged in just in time to encourage Führich's game-tying shot to bend in right before halftime. You're welcome, @Mittens.
  15. All I've seen is this from Alt National Parks saying 22 MAGA types were arrested. I've looked at a few sites but am not gonna spend much time on it this morning. It's pretty clear yesterday went about as peacefully as it could and just about the most horrifying thing coming out of it was Trump's video, which apparently highlighted Harry Sisson as the main recipient of the dumping. But even the Trump video appears to be downplayed by U.S. mainstream media right now -- it was a publication in India where I found an article about Sisson being the target of the Trump dump. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CS8aUCfy5/
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