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TRP: Free of political butthurt since 1999.

MissThundercat said:
Hooray for a couple new tattoos this month!

After the 27th, I'll have 17 of them.
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I am wildly overdue for another. Technically, I only have 3 - but one is a sleeve, one is an enormous part of my arm, and the third is tiny.

The issue is that I've no idea what I want. I want to fill out my right arm and turn that large piece into another sleeve, but...
 
Random question for you all - I have a portable phone charger that is apparently dead. Looks like it’s fully charged when charging and then I unplug from the charger and it loses all power. It’s a nice one, too. My question is - can I just throw that out or do I need to bring it somewhere or recycle it?
 
Scarlet said:
Random question for you all - I have a portable phone charger that is apparently dead. Looks like it’s fully charged when charging and then I unplug from the charger and it loses all power. It’s a nice one, too. My question is - can I just throw that out or do I need to bring it somewhere or recycle it?
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If you have Verizon or other big name carrier, they probably have recycling in their store. Best Buy takes recyclable electronics as well. Or at least they used to - I haven't used them to recycle since 2020.
 
Most Home Depots have rechargeable battery recycling. Not sure if they accept the power banks but you could call them.
 
My daughter is playing her first tee-ball game right now. It’s is both amazingly bad and equally hilarious. Half of the kids are making sand piles with the infield gravel, and the others are diving pellmell for the 6-ft hit.

the coaches are amazing, all men of great patience.
 
St. Clown said:
My daughter is playing her first tee-ball game right now. It’s is both amazingly bad and equally hilarious. Half of the kids are making sand piles with the infield gravel, and the others are diving pellmell for the 6-ft hit.

the coaches are amazing, all men of great patience.
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I hear you. I umped for a year when I was in middle school, but because I was by far the youngest and least experienced I got the tee-ball games. Which is a way to see they didn't want me to make any decision that mattered because a) they did not keep score, b) everyone got to bat each inning, and c) there was a two-base maximum advancement. And of course it's not like any hit actually ever resulted in an out or anything to actually ump. Actually, that's not true, there would maybe be one or two runners actually out during the whole game. So if there was a score, it would be less "who scored the most runs" and more "who actually got someone out and temporarily halted the continual onslaught of runs". I would track that score in my head to give myself some actual reason to pay attention to the game I was presumably umping.
 
This league is 3-5yo kids, and no outs were recorded. Kids were either building gravel mounds, throwing gravel into the wind, or pouncing en masse on a ball hit 6’ to 7’ if they were lucky. One kid carried the bat to chase down the ball he hit only to turn and run to first after about three coaches convinced him that it was really the thing to do.
 
The videos of T-ball Chaos are downright hilarious!

Enjoy the memories (and take some video for blackmail in those pesky teen years!)
 
RaceBoarder said:
The videos of T-ball Chaos are downright hilarious!

Enjoy the memories (and take some video for blackmail in those pesky teen years!)
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Searching that term (T-ball Chaos) on Youtube brings up one of the funniest videos ever (maybe that was the particular video you meant?). You can watch it 20 times and each time pick a different kid to track or different section of the screen to watch and see something new and hilarious every time.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
Searching that term (T-ball Chaos) on Youtube brings up one of the funniest videos ever (maybe that was the particular video you meant?). You can watch it 20 times and each time pick a different kid to track or different section of the screen to watch and see something new and hilarious every time.
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That's probably the one with the kid getting hit with the thrown ball and doing the spin move as a result? If so, that's the one, ha ha...
 
RaceBoarder said:
That's probably the one with the kid getting hit with the thrown ball and doing the spin move as a result? If so, that's the one, ha ha...
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Probably is. The kid bats, does a little spin, drops his bat right into a dad's ankle. Batter runs straight to 2nd base. Pile of kids go to ball. Ball comes on an arc out of somewhere and nails another kid in the face. Runner continues toward 3 on a huge arc off the baseline and continues to home, while fielders continue to mill around). As runner nears plate, another kid standing there just sprints top speed towards something off screen. So much going on
 
My wife, daughter and I are dinner out in front of the house. My wife sitting on the steps, looks over at my daughter’s fairy garden and starts clearing it out. While my daughter is not happy at first, my wife explains that she’s clearing it out so that my daughter can do it all over again. She then says, “[Daughter], can you go get the muffin pan on the bench and bring it out here?” Our daughter starts walking into the house.

I then reply, “[Daughter], do you know what a muffin pan is?” My daughter starts slowly closing the door from the inside and giving me the longest stink eye to date. :-D She’s looking at me like Are you stupid, Old Man? I have a hard time keeping a straight face when these moments arise.
 
I’m just now seeing this article from Bring Me the News

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesot...=email&utm_term=0_-365015a705-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]

I posted about this a bit when it originally happened, and this is a follow-up to a double-murder-suicide in Bloomington, MN. The head guy in the scam was my BIL’s cousin. I used to know that guy when we were all kids. (My BIL was my best friend when we were kids, and introduced me to his wife’s sister, who later became my wife).
 
Next month is going to be weird:

Autism testing starts August 1.

Corrective surgery on my right foot August 15. This time, they're taking a piece from the calcaneus and grafting it into the talonavicular joint, along with a plate and screws.

I can do it, but I am terrified.
 
Six wasp sting, four between my ankle and the back of my knee on my right leg, another on my left ankle, and one on my right forearm. It was all it the span of a few seconds. Death to all yellow jackets!
 
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