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Wedding: Been married for 6 years now so that's not really an issue. My best friend just got married (again) last week. He was the first in our group of friends to get married and now he's the last... Baby: My youngest turns 4 next week so I get to feel older. She did manage to get DCFS called because she was on the other side of the house next door walking on the sidewalk. Literally 50 feet from her own yard... Home: My house is still a POS that is falling down around my ears and I don't have the money to fix it. 29 more years and it's all mine. :headshake Add in that I have to go to court because somebody let my dog out and it was picked up by animal control (I'm pleading 'not guilty' because I have evidence that the kennel he was in was damaged by someone or something thus leading to him getting out), that I just found out (4 weeks into the sememster) that I'm not eligible for a student loan because I don't have enough credit hours and the Sox going through the biggest collapse in MLB history... I'm doing just dandy.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 09:41 AM) I've never seen a carpeted area in a Wal-Mart. What is a code white, since I will never do any of these. The clothing departments are usually carpeted. I've often seen a 'wet floor' sign on the rugs at the entrances in the winter. Those things get soaked... IIRC... white = customer/employee injury. black = bomb threat? red = fire blue = tornado? There were a few others but I never memorized them. I hated that job...

"If you ever, ever tank a play like the one you did today, I'm gonna rip your nuts off and shove em down your f***ing throat!"

QUOTE(hi8is @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) 4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, 'Code 3' in housewares.... and see what happens. Actually, they use colors. Walk up to somebody and say "Code White" instead... QUOTE(hi8is @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) 5. Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away. They made a new rule that anything put on layaway has to cost more than $5 (I don't remember the exact dollar amount but it's something like that).

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 12:15 PM) Well then they're poorly placed in the bottom middle of the controller. I know people like the ps controller, but I'm not one of them. Like I said, it's a matter of opinion and personal preference. It would've been fun to make fun of the boomerang if not for the remote control. I've always thought the N64 joystick was akward being in the center of the controller. The GC controller basically copied the left-side of the PS controller but switched the d-pad and joystick...

I had turned the game off when the Tribe took the 6-4 lead. My wife wanted to watch a movie and I didn't want to watch the Sox blow another game. So I was in a grumpy mood and the movie was horrible. After the movie I switched the game back on fully expecting to see the post-game show and was quite suprised to see that the score was tied. It helped my mood a little bit but I was still grumpy. I watched the last out of the top of the 10th and heard that Crede, Uribe and Pods would lead off the bottom of the 10th. My wife (who is a complete jinx to Crede because I don't think he has never gotten a hit while she's watching the game) said "well there's an easy out". Then Crede hit the bomb and I said "Joe just won the game!" It was weird to go from being upset that they were losing 6-4 when I turned it off to seeing a walk-off homerun but I managed to crack a smile.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Matter of opinion... I prefer the N64 controller A LOT more than having push an individual button for up, down, left, and right on the s***ty d-pad for the playstations. There's not many games that use the d-pad anymore. Some games allow you to use either/or.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Yep. Now imagine fully controlled 3D movements and tilt sensors. This is the Revolution controller. Nintendo has basically made you the character in the game. I already have fully controlled 3D movements on the PS2. What exactly is a tilt sensor? Did they remake the Power Glove???

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 01:16 PM) Whether it was a good controller or not is irrevlevant. What Nintendo did was successfully master the 3D control scheme with the Joy Stick, something other companies had failed to do up until that point. Would you of liked to be playing 3d games with a D-Pad? Imagine that for second. Then Sony went one better by putting 2 joysticks on the controller. It works beatifully with 1st person shooter games as it allows you to move forward and backwards and rotate around at the same time...

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 02:29 PM) Did you play Mario 64 or Zelda: Ocarina of Time on it by any chance? I played Mario 64 a couple of times on my friends system but realized that I had outgrew Mario, Donkey Kong, StarFox and all the other cartoon characters that Nintendo insists on putting in half their games when I turned 13. I was almost ill when I saw the new Mario Baseball... :headshake

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 02:26 PM) How so? They changed the way games were played forever with the N64 and I don't think I have ever met someone who though the PS1 was better than that. Making the switch to PS1 from SNES was soo much easier than switching to the POS that is N64. I've always hated it's controller and still do. Give me the diamond shaped button pattern with the shoulder buttons on the top and the d-pad on the right side and I'm perfectly happy. I couldn't manuver my thumbs around enouch to get to half the buttons on the N64 controller. The joystick is also quite annoying. I also love the fact that I can still play all my PS1 games on my PS2. How many N64 games can you play on your Gamecube?

Nintendo screwed up when the made the N64. They've just been getting worse ever since...

QUOTE(POTUSChris @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 07:30 PM) Yeah the room is supposedly for two people, but they give you tickets for four people. It's stupid. They charged us for an extra person last year, so this year will just sneak in the extra person. That's what I planned on doing. There's so many people running around that they'll never notice. I'm just going to have the extra people wait for me on the main floor and after I go up, check in and get to the room I'll come back down for them.

I just hope they don't try to charge me more money if I get the 2-night package and have a group of 4 like they did last year. Supposedly the price is based on 2 people in the room even though they give you 4 passes...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 11:14 AM) Next year we are going to make sure to get a softball game together during the summer too. We had a lot of people interested, but most were away at school. The other option is to see if WSI wants to play against us, that way we only need half the people. Does that mean I'll have to pick one side or the other?

Is it really that difficult to understand? The Sox attendance is low because the season ticket base is low. We are talking about a team that hasn't won jack s*** in years. A couple of division titles is the best they could do in the past 20+ years. That's not going to build up the season ticket base. Meanwhile the Cubs "sell out every game" because their season ticket base is over 30,000. The Sox have to rely on 15,000+ in walkups just to match those numbers. Combine school starting, playing the worst team in baseball and the Tribe continuing to spread the rumor of how bad the neighborhood is around the park and it's just not enough to consistantly draw that many walk-ups. From the Trib: If the Sox can manage to win a playoff round or two for 2-3 years in a row and still have a problem drawing crowds, then we need to start worrying.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:18 PM) Pfftt.... you too...??? Somehow a former Sox pitcher wearing a bad shirt that night has a few copies also... "I love you man!" QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:18 PM) Oh, also, I'll triple Krush's offer for you NOT to send them to him.. Sweet.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:15 PM) Damn, i just can't win today... ...or can I??? Something something on Steff's head something something I've still got the pictures.

QUOTE(wsox08 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:49 PM) I'm almost there... I'm right behind you! I've just been here a little longer...

QUOTE(daa84 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 09:23 AM) carl supposedly along with timo are big parts to this clubhouse, despite the medias perception of carl and some dumb comments he made, he actually is a good guy. Met him in the bar at Soxfest. I was actually kinda suprised that he was so easy-going. Seems like a pretty cool guy to hang around with. He was eating nachos and joking around with everyone the next day at the private autograph session. He was really having a good time.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 12:40 PM) i've been banned....twice I got kicked out of Toys R Us once. Does that count? They don't like it when you go in there and "test" their basketball hoops and little plastic playhouses. Oh and Denny's too. Just because there was a group of about 12 of us and we all ordered water. One guy ordered coffee just to be different. Then paid with a $20.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 11:26 AM) It seems you did in the current case, if LV's "History...." amounts to nothing more than the sort of sentiments in the example post. It cartainly can get tiresome to see the same negativity at times (often from the same solks), but the "other site's" decision to ban based on some doomsaying at the end of a month we all wanted to forget is treating dandruff by decapitation. Give the rest of the board community enough credit that they can decide for themselves to ignore the psosts from specific posters they disagree with. The mods have been making it pretty obvious for quite a while that they won't tolertate people coming in and crapping all over the board because the Sox lost a game. I've seen more than one complaint about the board not being a place for people to rant and rave and proclaim the season over because the Sox lost 2 in a row. Some people weren't taking the hints I guess...

I looked back at some of your posts and a couple of times it sounded like you were ready to jump off the nearest tall building because of the way the team was playing. It looks like one of the mods noticed your constant "dark cloud" behavior and got annoyed by it. IMHO of course...

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 10:28 AM) Does it matter that I'm using leftover prescription Claritin dated 2004? I've heard it's not safe to use out-dated medicine. The ingredients can actually change and end up not being safe. Just FYI.

QUOTE(the southside tiger @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 06:08 PM) I hate MTV too. So much worthless crap on that channel, its unbelievable. Its not that I dont enjoy a good party or that Im old, its just that its so dumb. Laguna Beach, for instance. A bunch of diva drama queens going about their pointless little lives and they get a TV show for that? Wheres my damn show? These people are just stupid, rich and spoiled. But Pimp My Ride is a good show. I remember one episode where this guy, a tutor for inner city kids, drove a piece of s*** and he lamented about how the dealers drove around in pimped out Escalades and stuff, which kind of influenced all the young ones the wrong way. The show has a good heart and a purpose, unlike a lot of the other crap. I always teased my friend that I was going to get him on that show. He was driving around a Pontiac 6000 with 250,000 miles on it. I was amazed that it still ran. The only major problem he had with it was a leaky brake line. There were plenty of other things wrong with it but it got him back and forth to work. I think he finally sold it to the junk yard for a couple hundred bucks...