The Argonaut wrote:I happened to learn that someone with whom I went to high school (that I was never really friends nor non-friends with) is now the vice president of a bank or something. Now, I have never wanted to be the vice president of a bank, but I can't help but feel troubled by this. Some days I am OK and even happy about being a layabout and a fuck-up. Most days, even. But maybe I would have been even happier as the vice president of a bank
mid life crisis?
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Sun August 07, 2022 2:44 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:I happened to learn that someone with whom I went to high school (that I was never really friends nor non-friends with) is now the vice president of a bank or something. Now, I have never wanted to be the vice president of a bank, but I can't help but feel troubled by this. Some days I am OK and even happy about being a layabout and a fuck-up. Most days, even. But maybe I would have been even happier as the vice president of a bank
I ran into someone I knew years ago, didn't go to school with him, but I think he's VP of a bank also. We were having lunch at the same place so I guess that makes us equally as important.
Sometimes the affluent will go to McD’s just to feel the rush of poverty
Uhh it was Alabama Trag's Ice Cream Emporium.
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Sun August 07, 2022 4:01 am
by Bammer
tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:I happened to learn that someone with whom I went to high school (that I was never really friends nor non-friends with) is now the vice president of a bank or something. Now, I have never wanted to be the vice president of a bank, but I can't help but feel troubled by this. Some days I am OK and even happy about being a layabout and a fuck-up. Most days, even. But maybe I would have been even happier as the vice president of a bank
I ran into someone I knew years ago, didn't go to school with him, but I think he's VP of a bank also. We were having lunch at the same place so I guess that makes us equally as important.
Sometimes the affluent will go to McD’s just to feel the rush of poverty
Like my dad at BK
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Sun August 07, 2022 9:48 pm
by Bi_3
Was in Maryland most of the day, right by where this was filmed:
And also this where I got to meet FF (still have a dollar bill they all signed somewhere...):
Here's the place in it's heyday:
It's a fucking Orange Theory Fitness now.
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Sun August 07, 2022 9:49 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 1:08 am
by Bammer
It’s Seafair Sunday which used to be the highlight of my year but lately it’s just meh. Too much fratboy energy out on the lake.
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 1:10 am
by wease
Bammer wrote:It’s Seafair Sunday which used to be the highlight of my year but lately it’s just meh. Too much fratboy energy out on the lake.
* fraternity man
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 3:27 pm
by doug rr
dr. appointment at 9:45..might hit balls after
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 3:46 pm
by Chris_H_2
doug rr wrote:dr. appointment at 9:45..might hit balls after
when was your last colonoscopy?
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 3:54 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:dr. appointment at 9:45..might hit balls after
when was your last colonoscopy?
3-4 years ago
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 4:04 pm
by Chris_H_2
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:dr. appointment at 9:45..might hit balls after
when was your last colonoscopy?
3-4 years ago
I think I have to have my first this fall. I’m being a baby over it.
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 4:14 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:dr. appointment at 9:45..might hit balls after
when was your last colonoscopy?
3-4 years ago
I think I have to have my first this fall. I’m being a baby over it.
its a cake walk..the worst part is the day before when they make you drink that crap..mine was on a thurday morning and and watched the bronco game that night..good times
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 4:22 pm
by Chris_H_2
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:dr. appointment at 9:45..might hit balls after
when was your last colonoscopy?
3-4 years ago
I think I have to have my first this fall. I’m being a baby over it.
its a cake walk..the worst part is the day before when they make you drink that crap..mine was on a thurday morning and and watched the bronco game that night..good times
so they gave you the option of drinking that stuff or watching the Broncos game?
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 4:24 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
doug rr wrote:dr. appointment at 9:45..might hit balls after
when was your last colonoscopy?
3-4 years ago
I think I have to have my first this fall. I’m being a baby over it.
its a cake walk..the worst part is the day before when they make you drink that crap..mine was on a thurday morning and and watched the bronco game that night..good times
so they gave you the option of drinking that stuff or watching the Broncos game?
thursday night games..pick your poison
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 4:38 pm
by spike
haha, solid posts
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 6:20 pm
by doug rr
clean bill of heath before we leave..blood pressure was 116/75..celebrated by hitting up mcdonalds and had a quarter pounder and an unsweetened tea
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 8:15 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
AT&T upgraded my modem and now theskyiscrape.com is blocked when I sign in as a suspicious phishing site.
Had to drop my security restrictions just to log on to mark Olivia Newton John’s passing.
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Mon August 08, 2022 8:16 pm
by tree_
Thankfully you were able to solve this problem.
Re: Talk about your day thread
Posted: Tue August 09, 2022 3:45 am
by dad
drove back home today after spending the weekend in Kansas. some things that transpired...
- Friday night, we went to KCMO for one of my BiL's first-ever solo art show. it was at some distillery. the gin was very strong. my BiL sold some paintings. really thrilled for him.
- Saturday morning, i got a second-degree burn on my left hand, the upper part of my palm, and between the webbing of my middle and ring fingers. i tried to do too much at once, transporting a scalding, nearly full bowl of oatmeal, spilling it on my left hand in the process. i'm honestly surprised i didn't drop the bowl. the blisters are just now popping.
- Saturday night, we went to the Royals/Red Sox game, which ended in a walk-off HR for KC. the royals also homered to start the game, and i guess it's the first time since the 70s they bookended a game with home runs. pretty neat to be a part of.
- yesterday we hung out at my FiL's neighborhood pool, and in the evening met my wife's older brother for dinner.
it was our last dash effort at a fun weekend before the kids start school this week. good times had, even with the oatmeal debacle.
