Subsequent GTD reflections – [DOOR FLIES OPEN]

Game Time Decision - November 30, 2021November 30, 2021

Hello there fellow DFO’er. Hope you’re well today. And thanks for coming back to see last weeks comments of the week as decided by my brain. There’s no reason as to why some comments make it and others don’t.

So, thanks to ballsy, the link to comment on how you are doing in the LDB challenge is now on the sidebar on the main page. Please update us on your progress if you get a chance. And as I predicted in the post, I heard the stoopid song when coming in for decorating outside on Saturday. Thanks family for playing shitty Christmas music. But my timing on finishing the decorating outside was good as it snowed all day Sunday here, so it’s all purdy with the new snow and the lights and stuff. In about 4 weeks from now, i’ll be sick of the snow, so going to enjoy the first snowfall and feel all festive and such.

And now that lessor Thanksgiving is done, the countdown until Christmas is on. 25 shopping day left. Or for most of us, order online and hope it arrives in time with standard shipping. Good luck out there

As a reminder, this post will cover comments made up to and through the Saturday Night Open Thread. Sunday comments stand alone and Monday comments will go on the next week’s post. Note that during the offseason, I’ll probably look at the Sunday posts.

Without further ado, here are the comments of the week.

“IT’S A LOT OF FOREHEAD, A LOT OF POWDER”
ballsofsteelandfury

WCS

“Why aren’t you bringing me into this?”

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“Jason Pierre-Paul got a hand on it”

You’d think he’d have learned to stop doing that by now.
Horatio Cornblower

Thinking I might quit my job in April instead of Feb then try to do an around the world trip with minimal air legs
Doktor Zymm

@zymm

I love and respect the travel itch to scratch, but, yinz want to do it on the cheap, why not use an old tin can to contact our old friend:

If he can get “Slimmy Jimmy” Jones to Xi’an for less than forty Euros, he’ll get your Doktor butt to Antarctica for a couple of heads of lettuce. He’s done A LOT more for FAR LESS.
WCS

“So, OK, if you want a slow train it’s gonna cost extra, but if you think you can run fast enough to climb onta one’a the quicker ones, we can shave another coupla bucks off.”
Horatio Cornblower

Hey sexy people and DFO regulars!

Have nothing to say, other than good evening and hope y’all are getting drunk and/or laid.
SonOfSpam

“Fat Guy TD’s are the best!”

-Zymm

“Fat Guy STD’s? No. Just no.”

-Harvey Weinstein accusers
scotchnaut

Parcells calling the Manning brothers “celebrity country club retired qbs” is everything I could have asked for.

Christmas came early this year.
ballsofsteelandfury

The NY teams should swap team colors. Then the Giants would at least be green, if not actually jolly about their performance.
Doktor Zymm

Odds on Parcells saying something overtly racist during the Manningcast?|
Sharkbait

“-3/5”

-Vegas
scotchnaut

I was worried ya’ll changed the clubhouse locks to keep me out.

Then I remembered that I’m a gelatinous creature without bones and NO LOCK CAN STOP ME!

LemonJello

I am quite excited that the Liouns will end with the thrilling record of 1-15-1
I am also quite excited about going on vacation and doing lots of snowshoeing
Sharks are pretty neat too
Doktor Zymm

I disagree. I think 0-16-1 is hilarious
Sharkbait

People please–0-15-2 is the best possible outcome.
BrettFavresColonoscopy

The long-awaited sequel to The Last Starfighter better be a prequel called The Second-Last Starfighter.
scotchnaut

WCS

Redshirt

Found a funny;

quit complaining about stores playing christmas music in november and start writing some thanksgiving songs. we wouldn’t be in this situation if thanksgiving had bangers
rockingdog

[from the back channel, but tooo good nawt to share]
So is the site dead for the night?
horatiocornblower

It’s live for me but SLOW
ballsofsteel

-Terri Schiavo’s last sex partner
sonofspam

You ever pause or rewind something on live tv and then start watching and forget you could fast forward through the commercials? Just me? Ok.
BrettFavresColonoscopy

“Can’t say that it’s ever happened to me.” – Trent Green, unloading some laundry from his dishwasher
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

BLEERGH might be delayed, but BLEERGH was not denied!
King Hippo

Well, I got out of the rehab hospital last Wednesday. Appt last Friday with my primary care physician, appt with my endocrinologist yesterday, home health will be here on Tuesday to do a safety recon to see if my house is safe to live in by myself in my reduced state. After that, 4 weeks of additional therapy in home, three sessions a week in both physical and occupational therapy. Plus more visits to my podiatrist and gastric surgeon. It’s going to be a hell of a holiday season.
Still weak as a kitten, extended standing (like 10 or 15 minutes) leaves me exhausted). I lost 100 lbs after my bypass, regained 40 of it during Covid, and lost 30 of the 40 during the month in the hospital. I reckon that rapid of a weight loss might be partially responsible for my weakness.
Currently have around 10 prescription bottles sitting on the end table of which I take up to 6 pills per day. Nothing to interest Hippo unless he’s into super loose bowels. Fortunately, only a 15 day cycle on this and most of those won’t be renewed.
Only my parents are in my area (75 miles each way); everyone else is up in Mass or Rhode Island. I ain’t recovered any near enough even to make the relatively short drive to see my folks, who are in their 80s. My old man is currently awaiting cataract surgery and is practically blind until that happens next month. So, my Thanksgiving meal will consist of a bowl of tomato basil soup, half a real grilled cheese sandwich, and maybe a 4 oz cup of vanilla Blue Bell for dessert.
I wonder if the quitting booze has anything to do with my weakness/dizziness and loss of balance. After 40+ years of drinking regularly (and often heavily). Also, my diabeteez has almost disappeared. I’ve stopped taking insulin.
All this typing has me wore out. More to come. I’ll be following along with the bouncing ball here as much as possible today.
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all, and thanks for letting me hang out here.
Viva La Tabula Raza

Don T

I hope everyone had a very good holiday. I drove out to East Tenn to visit my sister and her husband. Out of the blue, I found out that mom in law was showing up. My sister is pregnant with her first kid at the age of 45 so it ended up with me and the husband doing most of the cooking (my sister is due any time now).

Frustratingly, the sis doesn’t have a TV. So me and the brother in law were cooking listening to the games on my phone. I never really got to spend any time with him before. By the end of the second hour, we were moving around stuff on four burners, cutting up veggies, and using a single oven like it was a professional outfit. The dude is a seriously bad ass cook. He tried to explain the whole double brining method he was using on the turkey. I will just say this…I don’t like turkey. I think its always dry and bland. That fucking turkey was god damn amazing. Best turkey I ever had. I told him and he replied “I got to smoke you some brisket the next time you visit”.

The mom in law showed up. Lovely dinner. I had her laughing at all my jokes and stories. Towards the end of the night, she pulled me aside and said “Don’t tell my son, but I always found sailors to be funny and charming” (their family are all former marines, including my new brother in law).

Apparently this was the first gathering she has been to since the start of covid. Mainly she has been so afraid of hanging out with friends and family because so many people won’t get vaccinated. She opened up about how difficult it was to deal with her mom’s death as it was basically a closed funeral. Real sad.

I drove her home in her car (she had some wine) and walked back to my sisters. It took like 40 minutes to get her to let me leave. Afterward, me and the brother in law were in the backyard, drinking each a beer. The dude thanked me. I asked for what.

“First time I heard my mom laughing in about two years”

“Well I am pretty good at being a jackass”

Honestly, I think the best Thanksgiving I have ever had.
JustStopDude

Don T

Not scrolling, but assuming the theme is “butt sex songs” which is a rich and amazing topic.

Also, hey. Nice to see you folks.
SonOfSpam

Gumbygirl

Grandpa Weaselo, around my birthday two weeks ago: Senor, what do you want for your birthday?
Senor: I don’t know, I’m okay. I am going to get myself a new gig suit though, this one has gone through its paces.
GW: How much will it cost, I’ll write you a check, go buy a suit.
SW: I don’t know, I need a new black tie too, so $400?

Sales associate: Your amount is $401.
Senor, in the car after buying said suit and ties: I think this means I get to play Plinko. Thanks, Bob Barker.
Senor Weaselo

Found a funny;

prisoner 1: what are you in for?

prisoner 2: murder

prisoner 3: arson

hamburglar: alright well it feels stupid now
rockingdog

To get your Avitar back… yes… sadly… you do need to go through that Gravatar account set up bull shit. Good news is… even a knucklehead like me swerving down the info autostrada… could muddle his way through it.
2Pack

I want 👇🏼

Don T