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Morning, Pops and pen pals. I haven't been to interested in NFL games all year but I decided to watch yesterday. There were some really good games. Have a great mopey Monday.

Good Monday morning Pops and those that greet the week with a smile and cheery attitude and are basically despised by their co-workers.

The CFP is all set and as usual, I was right about being wrong. My Hogs finally hired a HC, Pittman from GA. I don't want to say this guy is a no name but when the reporters ask the players at GA if they would miss Sam Pittman, they all responded "who"? Every since Walton croaked, they've been looked for the next Mr. Sam for Northwest AR and I guess they found him.

Is it just me or do the team that know they've got the mighty Cowboys coming up in a couple of weeks go on a tear? CHI did that and now LAR has risen form the grave and playing decent football. Which is all they have to do since the Cowboys try to beat the other team to beating them by beating themselves first.

I don't know about y'all, I am ready for this to be over. This reality drama that's funny for all the wrong reasons has run it's course for me. I think it's a shame they have to have a winner in the East and they get a home game.

However, I am jazzed about being able to see the all time mouth breathing dumbface in the NFL play just one more time tonight. I am glad we will get to see that "little boy lost" look on his face just one more time.

LeonDixson said:

Morning, Pops and pen pals. I haven't been to interested in NFL games all year but I decided to watch yesterday. There were some really good games. Have a great mopey Monday.

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CouchCoach said:

However, I am jazzed about being able to see the all time mouth breathing dumbface in the NFL play just one more time tonight. I am glad we will get to see that "little boy lost" look on his face just one more time.

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Morning, Pops and the rest of the gang. Cold weather has moved back in here. We are at 35 this morning. I'm going to put up a shelf today for a piece of driftwood art I bought a few years ago. The coffee tastes great this morning.

CouchCoach said:

Good Monday morning Pops and those that greet the week with a smile and cheery attitude and are basically despised by their co-workers.

The CFP is all set and as usual, I was right about being wrong. My Hogs finally hired a HC, Pittman from GA. I don't want to say this guy is a no name but when the reporters ask the players at GA if they would miss Sam Pittman, they all responded "who"? Every since Walton croaked, they've been looked for the next Mr. Sam for Northwest AR and I guess they found him.

Is it just me or do the team that know they've got the mighty Cowboys coming up in a couple of weeks go on a tear? CHI did that and now LAR has risen form the grave and playing decent football. Which is all they have to do since the Cowboys try to beat the other team to beating them by beating themselves first.

I don't know about y'all, I am ready for this to be over. This reality drama that's funny for all the wrong reasons has run it's course for me. I think it's a shame they have to have a winner in the East and they get a home game.

However, I am jazzed about being able to see the all time mouth breathing dumbface in the NFL play just one more time tonight. I am glad we will get to see that "little boy lost" look on his face just one more time.

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I was ready for this season to be over before it ever started. Put my season tickets up for sale last spring. Garrett has sucked the enthusiasm for football right out of me. He is to me what Jerry is to you.

Morning Pops. Morning Fellas and good morning to all who stop in and visit the thread today. Been so busy I barely have time to post anything but figured I'd post early before I got to work.

Hope everybody is doing great today, ready for the Holiday and off to a great start!


Jobs, Leon, dbrp, Xelda, zrin, Trouty, ksk, RGV, Coach, RWB, Ranching, SW, John, Jan, Corso and Colo, you guys stay warm as best you can. Just a few short days now till Xmas. It will be a welcome rest.

Everybody, have a great Tuesday!

Good evening Pops and friends. I couldn't believe the refs didn't put a bow on the Patriots game. I even saw someone get close enough to breathe on Tom and they weren't flagged! If we can't count on them to be handed victories, what is the world coming to? I'm not saying they aren't talented, gifted, savvy and crooked but the refs have jumped the shark.

I made bread afterwards and really screwed the messipe up. Everything made it to the bowl... eventually, so I don't see a problem. It's actually pretty good, but dense. I was craving garlic bread, so I added too little garlic for the 6 1/2 cups of flour. You can smell it though. I deemed it a successful attempt. I'm not sure what's next, but it will come to me.

I took my dogs to the vet. They were treated to the full spa treatment complete with gland cleaning. One came out singing Glory, Glory, Hallelujah and the other unfriended me. The happy one continued to celebrate while the other one pouted.

When I got to work, I was handed the government end of the business and got nothing accomplished. I have to renew licenses every year and the program got snippy with me. I gave up after 20 minutes of the same old thing and called Baton Rouge. The state's automated system read the constitution to me for each number option. At the end of it, I was delighted to hear all about the constitution again, and again, and again. It hung up on me when I started punching 0 like an irate chimp. I will send it everything by carrier pigeon and forget to sign the check. I guess I could fight with the printer some more. UGH!

It's been a busy week so far and I barely survived Monday. I hope everyone has a good hump day.

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I saw that guy! He was amazing and mowed without an attitude.

Morning, Pops and pen pals. I love checking in and seeing what's happening with you, my friends. It's like savoring my first cup of coffee while reading letters from friends.

Good morning Pops and friends. I spent a good deal of time cleaning up the kitchen Saturday. I was mindlessly working on my 6' tall metal shelving unit as the TV did it's thing in the living room. I wasn't paying particularly close attention until a cute little ditty came on. (I did say that my mind was on a break, right?) "Here comes panty hose, here comes panty hose, right down panty hose lane." I start singing along until my brain kicks in and tells me I'd been mislead. You know some singers put emphasis on Santee instead of Santa, this was one of those. I can't say it won't happen again, but it's a cute little incoherent episode.

It was 33 degrees when I last checked the weather, so time to put on my Canadian coat and sweat to this day's battles. I am not King in the North, this sort of cold must abate! That Canadian coat is for people farther north, like in Missouri.

Have a good day everyone and try not to freeze out there.

Morning Pops and my little Humpers, I celebrate your reaching the halfway point of this week but the bell does not really ring until this day is half over. Maybe Wednesday mornings should be considered Hump Day Eve instead of Tuesday? This would make that lunch taste oh so much more deliciouser and put a festive spin on the afternoon. When I was employed, and I prefer that to when I worked because they are not the same, I was always looking for ways to make the afternoon move quickly other than several naps.

When I look back on my career, I find that I was inspired by the thought of retirement. I didn't think I would be doing that solo and I find that retirement is only the absence of a job. As we near the end of this year, and this one's another I will gladly wave goodbye to, I feel the need for change in 2020. No excuse to remain blind in 2020.

For decades I taught salespeople how to sell and that evolved over time just as the understanding of that service, and that's what it is when it's done the right way, changed for me. I began to change and simplify the meaning of sales in my own mind and was better equipped to teach others exactly how simple selling is. The definition of sales is helping to persuade someone to make a change that is in their best interest. The operative word in there is the one we all fear, change. Change takes effort, change takes persistence, change takes reliance but most of all it takes belief. I am selling myself on change.

I have a confession to make, I have failed because I did not believe...……..in myself. Others have been telling me for years that I am not doing what I should be doing including my wife who believed that was the root of my frustration and the reason why I struggled so hard to live in the now, I always had to be looking ahead to the next best thing.

I have successfully sold myself that no one is a failure if they don't try. I am just not a success because I haven't tried so I hold my own hole card in this poker game of life. My fear is what if I fail at the very thing that all of these people think I should be doing? Then, I have no excuse. And I do not buy into that "better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all". I can change loved to tried and lost to failed but to apply that to the very thing these people, including myself, think I should be doing, if I do fail, what then?

Damn, CC, what are you talking about and why here? I do not think this thread is here by accident or it's purpose for me. I truly care for the People of Pop's Thread, acronym PoPT, pretty cool, huh? But I wonder why I've felt so free to divulge my innermost thoughts and put them to "paper" here. You see, the minute I joined the old DC.com and began to write, I began to move toward something and when I left because my Dad was dying, my wife pushed me to return and I remembered that when she was dying and then my Mom. This isn't something I was just meant to do, it is something I have to do and face my greatest fear, the one I have had all of my life, ultimate failure.

I would say sorry for the length of this but here, I do not feel the need to do that. Posters have commented or joked about my loquaciousness for years and my comeback was always "hey, I'm old and I've got a lot of words I can't take with me" but the truth is that is the truth. All of this craziness that's rolled around in my noggin all of my life may have a purpose. This stream of consciousness has been trying to become a river and it's time I let it flow to see where it takes me. So what if I fail, I will be the only one that knows that but then that's always been my greatest fear, finding my own hiding place. And, my friends, I am tired of hiding from myself. Time to seek the truth.

Xelda said:

Good morning Pops and friends. I spent a good deal of time cleaning up the kitchen Saturday. I was mindlessly working on my 6' tall metal shelving unit as the TV did it's thing in the living room. I wasn't paying particularly close attention until a cute little ditty came on. (I did say that my mind was on a break, right?) "Here comes panty hose, here comes panty hose, right down panty hose lane." I start singing along until my brain kicks in and tells me I'd been mislead. You know some singers put emphasis on Santee instead of Santa, this was one of those. I can't say it won't happen again, but it's a cute little incoherent episode.

It was 33 degrees when I last checked the weather, so time to put on my Canadian coat and sweat to this day's battles. I am not King in the North, this sort of cold must abate! That Canadian coat is for people farther north, like in Missouri.

Have a good day everyone and try not to freeze out there.

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The coldest I ever was in my life was Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1985. It was 19 and that humidity was that "cold to the bone" saying I used to hear. I've been in lower temps but never felt like that anywhere, including Winnipeg in January of 1980. The wind chill was -25. Giving me pause to think at what team does the wind freeze?

X girl, this is what they call a "cold snap" meaning it's going to snap back to the temp of the south and the reason we do not live in the north. I think about all of my complaining about the heat this summer and am not one bit sorry for that and plan on doing that again. The reason weather exists is to give us something to complain about.

Morning, Pops and all Y'all. I have an appointment to have a basal cell removed from my nose today. Had the "D" cells removed yesterday and put in them in my flashlight. Bad joke. Anyway, I hope everyone has a nice day.

LeonDixson said:

Morning, Pops and all Y'all. I have an appointment to have a basal cell removed from my nose today. Had the "D" cells removed yesterday and put in them in my flashlight. Bad joke. Anyway, I hope everyone has a nice day.

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Actually, for a man having shots in his eyes and invaders removed from his body, it's a good joke. I would have used vibrator instead of flashlight, but that's just me.

LeonDixson said:

Morning, Pops and all Y'all. I have an appointment to have a basal cell removed from my nose today. Had the "D" cells removed yesterday and put in them in my flashlight. Bad joke. Anyway, I hope everyone has a nice day.

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I'll wait until after Leon has his procedure to talk about all the nerve endings in the nose. I got a shot in my nose once and involuntarily shot tears across the room.

daboyzruleperiod said:

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Everybody has one of those neighbors except Coach. He IS that neighbor.

I'm convinced that every time a sock goes missing from the dryer, it comes back as an extra tupperware lid.

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I'm convinced that every time a sock goes missing from the dryer, it comes back as an extra tupperware lid.

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That makes perfect sense!

Morning, Pops. Good morning everyone. The nose surgery was a nightmare starting with the shots to numb the area, then wait, then the surgeon comes in to tell me what he's going to do, then wait, then cut the cancer out, then wait an hour and a half for lab evaluation to see if they got it all. They didn't. More shots, more wait, more cutting, another hour and 1/2 for lab. Okay all gone. More shots, more wait, then cutting a "flap" out of my skin to cover the wound, then sutures. I left my house at 9 a.m. and walking back in the door and 4:17 p.m. This could seriously interrupt my nose picking.