74 thoughts on “September 3, 2011: Der Weekend”

      1. I always make the coffee for Mrs. A. Of course, by "make the coffee", I mean "hit the 'on' button".

        1. Mrs. ct doesn't drink coffee, so I only need to make it for myself. Of course, with bS's cold brew method, I toss it together the night before to minimize morning effort.

          1. still, the Mrs. wants me to make it -- the morning before, when we've finished that day's pot.

            Rhu -- hey, lots of positive news about the healthy effects of coffee. True love, man.

            1. For years it was considered anecdotal at best, but I recently read a scientific study that proved coffee reduces the effects of a hangover, which is at odds with "there's nothing that can help but time," which they told us over and over in high school.

      1. I knew it was happening, but first thing in the morning my brain wasn't fully functioning yet. I knew the FSC channel, so at least the important bits of my brain were working.

          1. That would make the UCLA alum in the family happy. Mizzou game followed by the UCLA game, there's going to be a lot of screaming in the TV room this afternoon.

    3. And 93% of them came with fewer than three balls.
      203 walks of which 34 were intentional.
      50 HBP.

      I was going to make a joke about most coming in the first half of the season, but he's hit better in the second half.
      Probably because he was good after a) his first call-up, b) His trade to the Mets, and c) His trade to Texas.

      This season in KC is the first time he's played more than 75 games in one city in a season and had an OPS+ greater than 102.
      (135 games, OPS+ of 119).

  7. So a couple of weeks ago I found out my brother's getting divorced. I'd been sitting here waiting for them to have kids, all the while not knowing there was a situation tearing them apart.

    It's hard to deal with the fact that I won't ever see Mrs. Milkman's Brother again, because she was a fun person, but the killer right now is figuring out how to breach the subject with my kids, who love her. I could throw her under the bus, because that's where she deserves to be in this situation, but I don't want to make my daughters hate her, no matter how rotten a thing she did.

    This is the first time I've felt like I really didn't know the answer when it came to my girls. Everything up to this point has been easy for me to decide.

    1. best wishes, spoons. Life is hard, sometimes.

      My parents have struggled a bit with how to deal properly with my brother's split with his ex, and his subsequent re-marriage. At least his kids are both adults. But most of the pictures they have of those kids are with their mom, which creates something of a display dilemma around my parents' house.

      I think high road is almost always the way to go, particularly when talking with kids about the lives of others. They will forget about the soon-to-be ex-SIL soon enough, so why not leave it as positive as you can?

      1. Yeah, I know I don't want to fill them full of negativity...I'm just dreading the conversation, which will be heartbreaking, and hoping I can deliver it in a way that suggests they don't bring the subject up with my brother.

        1. and, perhaps more importantly, in a way that doesn't freak them out about you and the Milkmaid ever splitting up. That might be the harder part.

          1. Right. They get (well, Skim gets) that married people breaking up can be a thing, since mine did and I've explained that they used to be together when I was born but they...had problems when I was around eight.

            I've always tried to stress, though, that this isn't something that will happen to the Milkmaid and me. I really believe that, too. If we were going to split, it would have been in 06-07 when I was falling apart.

    2. About a year after I tapped him to be my son's godfather, my uncle divorced my dad's sister. So he's still going to be around from time to time. The divorce happened because he fought treatment for bipolar disorder, and it sounds like the divorce was the result of an ultimatum arising from that. (I.e. "Seek treatment or I'll have to leave you.")

      He's been flighty, but he comes around occasionally.

      1. My brother's wife left him with their seven kids. Bi-polar. She moved out to live with some two-time loser and left him the day the divorce was final. She has moved from one guy to the next since the split, but thankfully, she left the town where my brother lives and doesn't see any of the kids anymore (the oldest five refuse to have anything to do with her). Yep, she's my daughter's god mother.

    1. 54. A lot of those I knew the song, but had no idea who performed it, especially the older tracks. The one I got that was the least answered - Flash Light 7.8% correct

    2. amazing how the pressure of coming up with names under a timed test gets hard. Mebbe I have emerging Alzheimers, but I only came up with 55. there were another half-dozen or so stuck on the tip of my tongue.

    3. 62 here. I missed some I'm slapping myself for, but for whatever reason I'm terrible at matching songs to artists when you get back to the '50s or so.

      1. My least-gotten one that I got was Public Enemy, 19.8%. After that it was Orbison. That's a tough one? Really?

        My easiest one missed was Little Richard. I don't know how that happened.

            1. Well, if you see a song title and immediately think of one song, it might be hard to imagine another song of the same title. Like I couldn't think of another "Dream On" because whenever I tried to think of what song it was, this kept coming up:
              httpv://youtu.be/7dgrMSTalZ0
              And nothing could move that tune out of my head when I read the title.

          1. I found it tough as well, since I don't think of bands based on where their from and their active years. And I only knew at most half.

          1. I guess it's possible I've heard it before, but I'm not going to look it up because that violates one of my core principles:

            Never intentionally listen to any James Taylor or Carole King. Phooey.

              1. 2 from the quiz list. She and Gerry Goffin wrote "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (The Shirelles) and "Up on the Roof" (The Drifters.) She also wrote "Goin' Back", a tune beautifully covered by both Dusty Springfield and The Byrds.

                AMR's core principles may be flawed.

                1. Perchance it's her recordings that grate. I've never troubled to find out more. Nor am I going to.
                  If someone slips a James Taylor cover in front of me, I probably wouldn't know, and would judge it upon its own merits.

                  1. I never owned one of her albums, either, but I can appreciate her songwriting craft. Whenever my oldest sister played Tapestry, I never found it necessary to leave the room.

    7. 64.

      I gave up after trying eight different spellings of "Chris Christopherson" before giving up on that one. But they meant that popular cover! [I did use google to help me spell Zep and Skynrd correctly.]

      I also know two songs I like called "Dream On": one by Robyn and one by Depeche Mode. I couldn't picture any other songs with the same names. (That was also my worst miss.)

      Those are the only two I think I could have gotten that I missed. Very little Motown is connected to the artists' names in my head.

      My best ones were "Both Sides Now" (Not Neil!) and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (although I first tried the lead singer's name).

      1. [I did use google to help me spell Zep and Skynrd correctly.]
        "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (although I first tried the lead singer's name).

        yeah, same on both of these.

    8. results:

      E-6 88
      FT"hm"LT 82
      jobu 77
      AMR 64
      spoons 62
      bS 55
      MagU 54
      Beau 46

      (dunno how to make tables)

      (Edit [sean]: I got your back.)

      Dude Score
      E-6 88
      FT"hm"LT 82
      Algonad 79
      jobu 77
      freealonzo 70
      AMR 64
      spoons 62
      bS 55
      MagU 54
      Beau 46

  10. New Wilco streaming right now at Wilcoworld.net until Noon Sunday. First song definitely has a YHF feel to it. Nice jam at the end.

  11. Greetings from Navarre Beach, Florida. About an hour ago, I was standing with my toes at the edge of the tide (there is a "two red flag" no water warning because of the rip tides from Lee) when a torrential downpour popped up in a matter of seconds. Good times.

    1. Wow. I know some guys like Captain Karl, except they aren't intelligent enough to keep a train of thought together through more than two Tweets.

  13. Well, the Gophers gave USC way more trouble than I thought they would. I feel a lot better about having Kill as a coach than I would about having Lane Kiffen.

    1. the second half of the game was pretty good. Too bad that one USC dude had 3 TDs before half

      1. The best part was the team getting better throughout the game. That shows good in-game coaching. USC out-executed Minnesota in the first half. I think the Gophers were going to force USC to be patient and methodical, and USC did that to perfection in the first half. Gophers made some nice adjustments and could have won if they didn't miss two field goals (one was over 50 yards) and allow the Trojans to get a first down in the fourth quarter when they were content to just run some draw plays to kill the clock when they had second and very long. Still, to shutout USC in the second half in L.A., that is very impressive.

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