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the place we are staying at had YouTube TV somehow, either a former guest or the owners provide it. Either way it worked. So I recorded it and fast forwarded it. the place we went to was some Polish fusion place that was Vegan. No TVs. My first vegan meal ever. I didn’t think polish and vegan went together. the Jays gave this away. I blame it on karma. Two douchebags behind the plate kept drawing attention to themselves and blocking Geddys views. They probably blew their kids college money for those tickets.

I’m hanging with friends in Pittsburgh and someone made dinner reservations for 8. Ugh.

Thanks. We are staying with friends. Their son plays soccer for Carnegie Mellon so they’ve been coming here for 3 years. They just rent a place for 3 months and come out every weekend. It’s such a cool city. I had no idea. It also nice to just be along for the ride. A jazz club last night featuring a drummer who had a display at the museum yesterday. l

I’m in Pittsburgh this weekend. Today it’s the Clemente museum. Yesterday was the Heinz museum which blew me away. I expected ketchup bottles. I got the Smithsonian and more. Here’s some baseball related photos.

I’m in Pittsburgh this weekend with friends. The condo we are staying in…

Jays all the way. For a variety of reasons.

TP USA’s boy Kid Rock said he was going out for Halloween as a “Retard” on Fox News today. In case you want to know what that organization, that one of our members here promotes in his avatar, is all about.

Yesterday at work I asked if I would use a particular “tool” to do a task. Very bluntly it said “no, you definitely would not use that. You want to use…”. Ok then. I appreciated it though. That makes me think it’s British. Have to look out for a “brilliant” which does not mean that when they say it.

Going back to Cancun Cruz, whose college roommate said he used to whack off in his dorm, thinks it’s a “get” that someone referred to their father’s cousin as an aunt? That is very common, especially in close families where you see each other a lot. Our cousins kids call us aunt and uncle. We were all together at a reunion for a week and it just came out that way since the kids were all little and we had to figure it out.

That game being in LA was at least somewhat normal for the locals, time wise Imagine leaving a WS game at 3 am. Getting home at 4. Then you might have tickets again tonight.

Yep. “Let’s impeach him”. ****. We now had 3 speakers of the house in 90 minutes and the one who “survived” ended up in prison for molesting little boys. There’s hope yet for Jim Jordan, eh?

I am not glossing over it. I lived it in real time and that’s a major reason why I was a right winger for 25 years. You don’t need to preach to me about Bill Clinton. But compared to what’s happening now that’s peanuts. He was rightfully scandalized. That’s what is supposed to happen. All of that would be in the “afterthought” section in a book about Donald Trumps transgressions. You look at the grifting today and read up on whitewater and see amounts in 4 and 5 figures. My point is our media and perception on what is scandalous has been warped beyond repair.

When you look at Whitewater... it's such small potatoes. Seriously. The scandal responsible for much of the drama in the 1990's.... go research it. It wouldn't even get noticed today. Every person who ever criticized Bill Clinton but supports the current guy is a hypocrite. Trump is Clinton on steroids, super soldier serum, and everything else. He's all of Clinton's flaws multiplied exponentially.

Scott Jennings... LOL

Cruz is not a good source for that kind of crap. and why is the right wing so obsessed with this race? I wish I could put my finger on it... actually I can

I get up at 5 so I feel like a bad fan for turning off the game.... I even hated leaving it when it was tied in the 8th...

probably a response to the clickbait rumors and that generated chatter.

The throw to the plate to get the runner excited me in ways I might be embarrassed to admit.

My algorithm is triggered by Melissa hitting Jamaica. Started last week when the resort I follow started posting stuff. We went for our honeymoon in 1998 and have always said we’d go back for our 10th then our 20th then our 25th… but we always want to go someplace new. Tbese poor peoole.

Working here means you are on the books as working. There's a threshold that you have to be under to still qualify. It's actually less likely because it shows they are going through the proper channels. The fraud examples people like to cite are under disability... because they know a guy who knows a guy who said his cousin is "disabled" but just smokes pot all day. Because of that anecdote then nobody else should qualify either.

69% of people getting SNAP are either children, elderly, or the disabled (my son among the latter). Of the remaining 31%, 70% of those are working. Keep that in mind when you hear the usual chest thumping about "fraud" and "lazy people".

yeah but "both sides are the same"

All you need to know about Leyland is the way he got emotional when the team won the division in 2011, after the city went through the recession and bankruptcy and all that... he grew up in a very blue collar world so he understood the city. He just started talking and realizing what he said and he started to choke up... that's character. Then he danced with the fellas in the celebration. I remember the first time I saw him with the Pirates... "hey, it's Harry Dean Stanton!"

About 6 weeks ago this guy started getting sick and throwing up. Then he stopped eating. A bunch of tests and few thousand dollars later we still don’t know what it was. Doctor thought it was addisons disease which would have meant forever treatment. It wasn’t. She knew of a parasite with similar symptoms so we treated it as if it were that. I swear at one point I figured we were going to lose him. I had already told myself that. He was on prednisone and going out every hour. One night he’d just go out there and lay down. I had to put his leash on to simulate a walk and that got him back in. He would only eat chicken if we made it and barely any at that. Then one day he finally ate a half serving of his food. A few days later he was back to his normal diet and routine and now he’s better than ever. I was feeling guilty over not taking him for enough walks. Sunday is our long run day but with the freep half marathon last week and our post race massages, which is worse for us physically than the race itself, we decided to walk our route today and take him with us. He loved it. Out in the woods and taking in all the smells. He’s been sleeping since. Dogs rule!