66 thoughts on “August 18, 2012: Dead”

  1. To build on the Best Buy lead-in: our DVD player has difficulty tracking many of the library DVDs (which admittedly aren't cared for the best), so we took it as an opportunity to look for a nice inexpensive wifi-enables Blu Ray player. Well, there are a lot to be found in the $80-$120 range (no, we don't need 3D), but the stickler comes when we get to the back panel. We have a nice rear projection TV, and need component connectors (no HDMI). Turns out not only do the players not have component connection, but makers were forced to phase them out after 2010 as a protection against pirating. (?) No way I'm buying a Blu Ray and using a degraded composite connection instead.

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          1. I'll give you a quick note: Jose Berrios struck out eleven in five shutout innings for Elizabethton last night, with no walks and two hits. In nine innings there, he's struck out sixteen, walked one, and given up three hits. 0.00 ERA, 0.44 WHIP. Maybe they should give him a start in Beloit before the season ends.

  3. Oy. The master printer just dropped the name of the artist for the next project, presumably my first project, and I nearly crapped my pants. This is a really surreal experience.

        1. Ooh, I wish. Behind Chelsea (Champions of Europe, btw) and Arsenal, Liverpool are one of my fave squads.

      1. I read "Fever Pitch" in sports history in college. I wasn't really a fan of it, so I'll probably give another Hornsby offering the skip. If you come back with great reviews, I might reconsider.

      2. Sunderland has a pretty good defensive corps and not much attacking ability (this has been true for quite a while now - not much has been done to correct it that I can see). So I'm looking forward to a lot of these types of matches this season.

        Not for nothing, but a draw on the road at Arsenal is a pretty good point for the Black Cats to start the campaign with.

        Bold prediction: Sunderland triples their goal total for the season next weekend against Reading.

        1. Yeah, I've been trying to decide if Arsenal is that bad or if Sunderland is that good. Could be a little of both. I really did like Sunderland's defense.

  5. So Magoo appears to be retiring, at least temporarily, from the Foot and Ball Guys league. If anyone wants in, let me know (and soon...the draft is scheduled for tomorrow, which I'd forgotten).

    Socal and Zack, you're the only two others not to join. Can you let me know ASAP if you're not going to?

    2. I'm thinking we should move the draft back a few weeks to both wait for preseason injuries to all happen and to try to better fill out the league.

    3. Oops. Sorry about that. I'm in three leagues this year and forgot that I hadn't signed up for this one yet. Thanks for the draft reminder. I am signed up now.

      1. I think that makes ten now, whichisn't so bad. So, I'd be more ok with tomorrow as a draft day now.

          1. if the trend is going that way, i've got no qualms with moving it as i'm going to be plenty busy tomorrow.

            1. I think it is too early considering how easily football players get debilitating injuries in the preseason.

                1. I am in favor of keeping it today as I have drafts the next couple of weeks.

  6. I put one of our dogs down today. It migh have been the most difficult thing I've ever had to do. He wasn't sick and has only lived about half his expected life span, but he had an anxious dominance issue that led to him biting me/trying to bite me many times over the past 5 years or so. I eventually learned how to not get bitten during an episode, and we hired a behaviorist to try to help, but in the end he just wasn't getting better. Trinket started crawling yesterday in earnest so the risk of him going after her increased big time, we had no other choice. No shelter would take him. I didn't want it to come to this, but it's done and I believe we will be better as a family for it, and despite all that me and him have been through, I still wept when they took him away. The bond between humans and dogs is one of the more incredible things on this crazy planet.

    We still have one other dog who is amazing with the Trinket. She lays by her and let's her pet her and grab her hair. That will help us move on, I think. So, R.I.P. Hopps, I'm sorry we couldn't get you the help you needed.

    The other dog and cat had better live forever.

    1. My sympathies to you and yours, cheaps. I've had to do similarly with my first cat, who had a behavioral breakdown after the Boy was born. It never gets easier to put down a pet.

      1. Fortunately, our cat and cocker absolutely love our daughter. The hardest part, I think, is that the two pets left have bonded most with me, while my wife had the other dog since he was a puppy.'it'll be toughest at night when the dog lays y me and not her. Plus, a lot of his issues were because of his bond with my wife. I got bit many times because he was "protecting" her when she was in the bedroom, and her anxieties translated onto him and prevented us from having much hope of rehabilitating him.

    2. Ugh, sorry to hear that. When Sheenie and I had to put down our first dog, that was probably the saddest night we have spent in this house.

      1. My wife had to leave town this morning to the Dells to hang out with her sister and avoid the immediate impact of this. I have a feeling it's going to be a rough night when she gets back.

    3. My first dog came down with an illness (we think it was cancer) and within a week we had to put him down to keep him from suffering. Our boys were old enough to know what was going on and having to tell them that he wasn't coming back from the vet was one of the hardest things we had to do. We still keep his picture and his dog chain with it.

      1. I'm glad the trinket isn,t old enough to remember any of this. I have no idea what I'd say to her or how I'd deal with it. Now, at least, I have some time before the other two pets have to go to figure all that out.

      2. Same thing here, socal. Our dog hid it so well (she had lung cancer) until she suddenly kept tipping over and could not even stand upright. An hour later she was coughing up blood and an hour later she had been put down. Her chain and picture (and a pawprint the vet made before putting her down) are on the mantle in the living room.

        1. I got lucky as a kid, in a sense. Our family dog was kind of like a neighborhood embassador -- she would roam, visiting various houses and conning treats from some old ladies. Anyway, I was home alone, watching Super Bowl XII (Dallas over Denver) when someone came to the door and said "your dog is laying on the sidewalk". She apparently had a heart attack and died just a block away from the house (on the way home from her rounds). I was devastated, but in retrospect, she got to go out the way she would have wanted.

    4. I know it's a tough decision to make, but you did the right thing. I've seen too many little kids that have been hurt by a beloved family pet that the parents just couldn't stand to get rid of. As much as I love my dogs and other animals, my kids come first.

      1. Yeah, that's what I've been telling myself. (that , and drinking beer.) He was only about twenty pounds, which is why it was allowed to go on as long as it did, and he would probably not have been able to kill her. But, significant physical and emotional injury was likely and I was not going to let that happen.

      2. This. Dr. Chop was bitten in thr face by her family dog when she was young. Thankfully, the scar was where a natural dimple would have been so the damage was mitigated. Sorry to hear of the loss, tough stuff indeed.

    5. We have a beagle and a golden that are at about half of their respective expected life spans. Kernel should be about 7 or 8 when their times come...not at all looking forward to that. I'll pour out some extra kibble for Hopps.

  7. Holy balls. They offered me the job, but we haven't come to any conclusion on salary. No printer ever gets rich off this business, in fact unless you open your own place you don't ever make any money but you do get to have one of every edition you print. This shop routinely produces works that sell for tens of thousands of dollars. The idea that this is happening is nuts, but more nuts is that I don't want to live in LA, but I do want to play in the big leagues.

    2. I think you really need to consider how this will affect your werewolf career. (I kid.) Congrats!

    7. Just holdin' on here to make sure it comes through, man.

      Our struggles and triumphs have almost been eerily linked. It's kind of been a comforting ride, to have someone else there.

      Congratulations.

    8. I'm with everyone - congrats printer. Can't wait to say "I knew you when" and show off purchase insurance for an Ireland original!

  8. remember when Span and Revere were playing with the Twins? memories....

    Minnesota Twins ‏@Twins
    Lineup vs SEA: Carroll 2B, Mastroianni CF, Mauer C, Willingham DH, Morneau 1B, Doumit LF, Plouffe 3B, Carson RF, Florimon SS, Diamond P

    1. It's going to be amazing to me when the Twins manage to have a position player require tommy John surgery from a bum shoulder.

      1. If any training staff could mess up and prescribe Tommy John surgery for a shoulder injury, it would be the Twins' training staff.

  9. for those of you on the Book of Face, Rhu and I had a li'l interaction with Carl Skanberg today. He recently produced a set of (hand-drawn, of course) "King of Clubs" cards, suitable for framing. I opined that he should do some of Twins players. He sounded interested, particularly when I responded to his "J is for Joe" jibe that he do a "Joekster" card.

    also, I invited him to wander by. Maybe some artistic type or authorly type could consider doing a Q&A post with him? I remember that we used to have the occasional Q&A with authorish folks.

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