Native Texan who's moved around, Catholic, Father. Grad of @TCU, @IUBloomington, & @Dartmouth. #Astros. Bad golfer. Guide to students on the journey to college.
@MikeMitchNH After maybe a year living in Vermont, I remember waiting to be seated at a restaurant and this obvious flatlander walks outside muttering “how do you get cell service around here.” I told him, “By going back to Boston, buddy.” And I was proud.
@FightLike36 Coming up on 25 years old, and yet so little of consequence has ever happened there (at least in terms of the primary tennant, the Houston Texans)
The most underrated drought/curse going right now is the Minnesota Vikings. Not high on many folks’ radar, but the fan passion/historical heartbreak quotient is in Cubs/Red Sox territory. There will be visits to grandfathers’ graves, etc if the Vikings ever do it.
@MikeMitchNH@thashark316 Set the stage for the famous “Clutch City” moniker when the Rockets came back from 0-2 (facing G3 and G4 in Phoenix) to win the series anyway.
@MikeMitchNH@thashark316 The “choke city” game in the 1994 NBA playoffs, where the Rockets lost to Barkley’s Suns in G2 in Houston to fall behind 2-0 in that series. Houston was up 20 early in the 4th quarter. Made worse by the fact that the team had called out the fans for not selling out G1.
@MikeMitchNH I don't think Astros fans appreciate how fortunate we were that Springer, Correa, & Bregman (& Javier+Framber for a time) were THOSE DUDES. They came along together and also had that spark. Look at the Twins, who made the same bet on Buxton, Wallner, Royce Lewis. Never worked.
@MikeMitchNH I see the point, but there's a good chance that even those premium prospects don't turn out to be the guys. Look at the Royals and Orioles, who built pariently, should be in their window, but are buried in the standings. Both could turn it around, but...
@GenXGMO@aaron_renn 100% - "too computerized" is keeping me out of the market almost as much as the prices. I drive reliable 2011 and 2016 models and I will drive them into the ground. Buttons, not screens.
San Antonio gets dunked on for not being an elite city. But it’s a pretty awesome place to raise a family.
Great food, affordable housing, 2.5 hours from the beach, 1 hour from the Hill Country, tons of history.
I have no option for either home delivery or purchasing the print Wall Street Journal in northeast Indiana (Fort Wayne), but it was available at every 7-11 in Fort Myers, FL when I took a trip there in March.
Update: No place has it. Called several H-E-Bs, Whole Foods, bookstores and a few gas stations.
Most stopped carrying it all together or don’t get certain days because of the distributor.
Drove to a Barnes & Noble 30 min away because they said they had a couple. Nope. They were Friday copies!
Matti Schmid gonna win a weird major and then get kept off the Euro Ryder Cup team that's trying to do a Last Dance scenario with the same lineup, sign me up for that drama.
Getting through even one day when any of the kids is on low sleep and is not functional is a big deterrent. I had many sleepovers too. When we host them now, we have way more limits on things like screens and food than my friends and I had. Lights out is later, but not insane.
I was a kid in the 90s, and by the time I was 12 I had stayed at my friends houses hundreds of nights for sleepovers.
My friends stayed with me hundreds of nights for sleepovers.
Video games. Making home movies. Snacks. Bewshittin'.
My sons are 8 and 12 and neither of them have ever been to a sleepover. Neither of them have ever tried to get one cooking at my house.
And don't get me wrong - I do NOT want other kids at my house. But I wouldn't deny my kids the opportunity to make those memories.
Are sleepovers just not a thing anymore? What is going on?
Joe Biden was the most worker-friendly president of the postwar era. His economic policies quickly got the economy back to full employment. He appointed Lina Khan to run antitrust policy. He saved the NLRB from what Trump had done to it. And he was incredibly unpopular.
@cecsquared@timothypomalley It is a slow burn, but I did *not* like much of what was assigned in HS English, but I did like that one.
Jane Eyre, on the other hand…
@mattstedjan@shagbark_hick@colinblute_ That wasn't the case for us, but it was 15 years ago and we were near higher tax NH towns (i.e. Hanover, Lebanon, etc)