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One of my former co-workers went to the Old Soldiers Home in DC for the last 6 years or so of his life. RIP Paul.

Everybody needs to have a plan and most peoples will be different.

So I spent a few minutes of my lunch looking through the pictures from the Cal game. You'll be shocked to learn that there aren't a ton of good shots of the people behind the bench in perfect focus. There is someone wearing an orange vest and a green hat with a logo on it that you can see in two pictures. Neither is high enough quality to see the logo well.

One of them is of Caleb Woodson on the sideline, the other is Kyron taking a selfie after the game. Same dude in both photos. If anyone wants to sleuth harder, have at it.

Point is, confirmed it was Miami, no doubt. You heard it here first. Or someone just happened to grab a green hat that day. One or the other.

Orange vest, basically dead center. First row.

I feel like I see bursts of the team we want, but we just haven't truly come together yet, late in the season as it is. Having Johnson back will help, and if Neo can ever shake it off and not try to hero shoot, and if Toby keeps up with his comeback we could be a more dependable team. But as we know, if wishes and buts were candy and nuts...

We are a childless couple so that option isn't there for us. Glad to hear your mom's doing well, memory notwithstanding. We just figured that we had no kids to leave our money to, and employing home health care can be a dodgy thing in an industry depending on lower paid and immigrant workers when it all goes to hell. Kids can be such a blessing, but I recall how several of my mom's friends moved all over the country, some several times, to be near their kids and grandkids. Mom said none of them were happy with their worlds shrunk down to just family. My mom always said she hated to be around sick people and wouldn't inflict her elder care on we kids, so she got into the Old Soldiers Home in DC for her last years and we never worried about her care.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I have a ton of respect for dabo for outing ole miss/pete Golding. No one else - not even The Salty Nard has been willing to name drop or share receipts.

No one wants it to be this way, but like all things in college sports, it's a race to the bottom. I think in the short term we'll see tweaks to contracts that attempt to prevent stuff like this, but I doubt it holds up in court. Until there's a CBA/antitrust exemption, this is the way it will go.

Sled dog racing would make for a sweet Winter Olympics event you could follow along with for the whole duration of the games.

Yes, but I believe it wasn't an issue at all until we kind of cooled on our offer and decided to get 2-3 transfers for the price of what Taylor was going to demand. Then he took an offer from UVA and an opportunity to crap on VT (and probably encouraged by UVA's staff) to make us look bad and nothing else.

Guess my thing is if the head coach really had such strong opinions about other teams coaches being present, then why would anyone that worked for him even consider giving a field pass to another coach? Always felt more inflated after the fact and made me wonder if the coach had a vested interest ($$) in where the RB ended up.

I mean, I don't think anyone is disputing we had a coach there, right? I'm sure he was talking to people. Was it "Come to Tech and we'll pay you 250k. Just to be clear, I'm tampering right now."? Probably not. Was he building relationships with folks that he might want to recruit? Probably. Does that count as made up?

I'm excited to follow along again.

Actually had the chance to do some dog sledding when we were in Big Sky last week. Gave me a new appreciation for the dogs and the mushers.

Sad to say, but I really enjoy the coverage of that every year.

That is part of the reason why I built mom a house next door and arranged her lower floor that could serve as a apartment for live in help if/when that time comes. She is 85 and still doing pretty good physically though her memory is just starting to slip.

Like I've said before, it feels good to be out of the rain.

Yeah, I understand. I have restrictions coming up in my next move that are far more restrictive than yours, but we'll not own the property per se and the move is about age and future needs. While there will be less freedom, there will be a lot of benefits, no maintenance or homeowners insurance, etc. Luckily we're still in decent shape and we will have family and friends nearby, and frankly, we look forward to not owning and taking care of a home and appliances, etc. Not giving up, just moving on and facing the realities of aging. Independent living in a retirement community that will offer progressive care if needed, and keep you if you run out of money and revert to Medicaid. Should it come to that, though, I'd prefer a bottle of whiskey and a snowbank.

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