GSU&UT

My wife and I moved from Texas back to my home state of Georgia in 2015 and then had our daughter a year and a half later, all with the plan to try and get closer with my family. We made the decision last year to move somewhere pretty far away. Most of the reasons are because of interpersonal issues like my wife made her aging mother move in with us at the start of COVID and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's with Lewy Body features and passing away last year (my wife was so close with her mother but refused to leave Fresno until she had fairly advanced dementia), as well as my parents really not doing much to help us out at all raising our daughter (she's almost six now and my wife and I haven't ever had a night alone together, one of us has always been with our daughter). Georgia is doing 80-90% of the shit that Texas's and Florida's GOP controlled legislature are enacting but without the media fanfare. Even with our Presidential and Senate elections flipping the GOP still easily controls our state legislature because of intense gerrymandering. If this weren't happening I'd probably not be so keen to leave, but that's not the case and it only looks like White Christion Nationalism is going to keep being enshrined legally. So around summer of last year, after my wife's mother passed, we very strongly considered Canada (liked talked to two separate immigration consultants and took separate trips to Toronto and Hamilton to evaluate housing) as my company has a huge Canadian employee base mostly in Ontario. They were going to be able to sponsor us through CUSMA and my wife would get a work-permit after we moved. Because of my wife's work permit being completely tied to me first and the fact that British Columbia and Ontario (you know, the provinces you'd probably move to) make anyone who isn't a permanent resident pay an extra 20% on a home purchase to combat foreign investors from snatching crap up, we decided to stay in the US but move to a much more progressive state, one where hopefully reproductive rights wouldn't be basically abolished and one where being gay or trans would basically become criminalized. We debated between Washington and Oregon and landed on Oregon after my wife's LCSW license was accepted there (WA wasn't going to be as easy). We're really going to miss our neighbors, the younger ones of which have kids closer to our daughter's age and are more progressive than the white boomers who mostly eat up Tucker Carlson's talking points. We'll be in the Portland area, in a pretty nice area, but I realize we're trading the culture war problems of the South with a lot of the homeless and petty crime that's plaguing much of the PNW, but I'd still much rather deal with that than living in a state where you can't get an abortion after six weeks, can't teach about the history of racism in schools, and have to deal with unhinged RWNJs who are allowed to conceal carry without a permit.

About to lose it, I need to get the fuck off social media and just work. The parents and three year old are dead, the five year old is alive.

I haven't posted on here much in the past couple of years, but yes Shaggy and early Surly a ton of these posters, who are still posting, made it very clear that their right to own guns trumped all, including dead kids.

It's fucking insane, most people and tons and tons of gun owners and enthusiasts want these things banned, yet it feels like we will never be able to achieve this.

Patterson carried so much of the workload in 2021 and the beginning of 2022, but I think this pick signals they won't use him nearly as much unless Bijan really struggles somehow adapting to the game. Allgeier started getting tons of carries and started eating into Patterson's workload it felt like.

You've no idea how many UGA fans hate the Falcons because they almost never select Dawg players in the first two rounds. This was basically the reverse of the Falcons passing on Todd Gurley several years ago when he was available.

I fucking love Bijan, but I'm not sure my Falcons needed another RB when we really are shit on defense and had a decent run after the mid-point of last season.

Didn't help that they hit god damn near every single free-throw in the last ten minutes too.

Tighten the fuck up guys

Bone stimulator you say?

god dammit

Team is ready to play some 80s and 90s NBA defense

Fuck and shit, 9:59 Eastern for tipoff, fuck you Kansas City

Hope our game starts on time. Going to be moving to the West Coast this summer with my family so won't have to deal with staying up late and getting up with the kid early anymore strictly for sports.

God I love March

I had a classmate at Georgia Southern who transferred from there, that's the only reason I know it. Ironically it's only about 30 minutes from St. Peter's University.

I need to get a fucking tattoo to never EVER pick a Big 10 or Pac 12 team to win the championship, holy shit.

Alright PSU v. Aggy, time to get slizzered

You ain't ever had an urge to take a vacation to this utopia?

Your cat better have a positive damn attitude if we're going to win this game.

That is one white bread-ass looking team.

Glad I had two brackets in the Surly bracket pool, because one of them I had Arizona winning it all as well. We all really need to stay away from Pac 12 and Big Ten teams and the hype that come into the tournament with.

Fucking have some god damn self respect Zona, you pathetic limp dicks.

HAHAHAHAH, Fuck Furman (Georgia Southern's main rival when we were in the SoCon) but god damn go you Furman University Christian Knights