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On 12/19/2022 at 1:30 PM, southsider2k5 said:
2nd kid or teenage years, which ever comes first.
The problem is that when they hit the teenage years you get a whole new list of things to worry about...
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On 12/20/2022 at 8:33 AM, Texsox said:
I will choose good parents,
You get to choose?
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13 hours ago, Big Hurtin said:
Since this thread is still active, something I often wonder about. Say you win a huge jackpot like this, where do you keep / put the money? You wouldn't just deposit it at Bank of America, or something. (talking about the money you receive, not investments done with it)
I think there are special bank accounts for the ultra-wealthy that you can put it in.
First step would be to hire some lawyers/accountants/financial advisors/etc that know how to deal with that kind of stuff.
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I've always figured that for me, $10 million free and clear would do me just fine for the rest of my life. Even if I live another 50 years that's $200,000/year. Once all my debt is gone, that would be more than enough every year.
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3 minutes ago, chw42 said:
That is painfully low unless they're asking for entry level people. Even then, that's like half of what people can make out of college these days in the software industry.
I wasn't making much more than that just a few years ago when I was working in Chicago.
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2 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:
I have noticed that the neighborhood stuff is way down in numbers, and am wondering if that is why.
It's definitely why. The past few years that we did pass out candy I don't know that we had more than a dozen kids stop.
I keep seeing a lot of posts on FB that say something like "I so glad I grew up like this and not like this" and shows pictures of kids trick or treating in a neighborhood vs. doing the trunk or treat thing.
I get the appeal of the trunk or treat. Our kids did both. It's safer and faster. But it's still not the same as going door to door throughout the neighborhood on Halloween night vs. doing it in a parking lot at noon on some Saturday before Halloween.
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I've been so damn busy lately that I haven't even touched my Halloween decorations at all this year. I've got a million and one things going on with my life and barely seem to have an hour to myself much less an entire day or a weekend. Which would be the amount of time it would take to put it all up.
I'm doubting that we'll even give out candy this year because we have 2 dogs that bark anytime someone comes to the door.
The only way it would happen is if we sit outside in the driveway or something. And I'm not sure it'll be worth sitting in the 50 degree weather for the dozen or so kids that might show up.
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Saw a Youtube video discussing this and was curious what the consensus was.
For me Halloween as a kid was better and it’s not even close.
Not even just Halloween night where we were allowed to go out with our friends at night, dressed up in a costume we had spent weeks if not months thinking about and preparing, knocking on random strangers doors and obtaining copious amounts of candy.
If it fell on a school day it was fun because we used to be able to wear our costumes to school. When I was in grade school they even had a parade where we all got to go outside in our costumes and see what everyone else was wearing. I’m pretty sure the schools in our district stopped having any kind of holiday parties/celebrations when my youngest was in grade school.
I loved going to the stores and browsing through all the decorations and costumes. I loved going to our local Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard and picking out the perfect pumpkin to take home and carve out. The Pumpkin Patch always had an amazing array of Halloween masks and other costumes. Spencer’s did as well. The Apple Orchard always had a corn maze and a playground and the best apple cider donuts I’ve ever eaten.
I loved getting all the decorations out of storage and putting them up all over the house.
My birthday is 10 days before Halloween so we would always get a group of my friends and family and visit all the haunted houses in town before coming home for cake and presents.
Then TV specials like Charlie Brown or Garfield. Even the TV sitcoms that did Halloween episodes like Rosanne or Home Improvement. Plus all the general horror movies that were out. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St., etc…
As an adult Halloween is still fun but not nearly what it used to be. It’s more work now. Getting the decorations out seems more like a chore now. My kids are too old to go out trick-or-treating now so I can’t even relive my memories through them anymore.
The Pumpkin Patch is a shell of what it used to be and there are barely any haunted houses in my town any more. I think there may be 2 near me. When I was a kid there was a minimum of 5 every single year.
I haven’t actually bought and carved a pumpkin in years.
I’m not really a bar-goer so dressing up in a costume and going out for a night of drinking isn’t really my thing either.
I still look forward to the TV shows/movies when I can catch them but I’ve usually got so much other stuff going on that I usually miss them.
So for me, it was 1000X better as a kid vs. what it is today.
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Call me old-fashioned but I liked it better when you would just simply ask the guy/girl "Hey, do you want to go to homecoming/prom with me?" and they answered and that was that. We didn't need all these theatrics and signs and props or whatever. Save that kind of stuff for like a marriage proposal. Because if you keep having to top whatever it was you did the year prior, you're going to run out of ideas...
Same thing with kids "graduating" every single grade. By the time they actually graduate HS, it's not a big deal anymore because they've already done it 12 times. 🙄
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On 9/23/2022 at 3:31 PM, Balta1701 said:
Disney+ has it also.
I did not know that. I'll have to check it out as my daughter has a subscription.
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On 9/20/2022 at 5:18 PM, Brian said:
I finally started “The Orville” a few weeks ago and got addicted. Only 36 eps so far so I breezed through it. Hope there’s an s4.
I thought it was going to be sci-fi satire but it’s a serious sci-fi show with some comedy and good characters.
I watched it when it was on Fox. It wasn't quite what I expected but I still enjoyed it. I'm sad that it's only on Hulu now.
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And as a follow-up to that last post...
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/07/20/carvana-illinois-license-suspended/
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It's actually incredibly difficult to find news stories about which teams have the best run minor league systems as all the articles are just about ranking the talent rather than how they are taken care of. But here's one about the Dodger's system which seems to be one of the best in all of baseball.
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31 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
Here's what I don't get.
These are supposed to be world class athlete's. For the Olympics we put them up at multi-million dollar facilities where every single piece of their lives are managed to maximize their performances on the world stage in order so that when the few that survive go to the Olympics, they are taking every single advantage they can find to beat the rest of the world.
For MLB we do this thing where if they can survive cool, but then we wonder why they have to relearn everything once they get to the majors.
Why aren't any MLB owners seeing this as a competitive advantage to attract, maintain, train, and perfect every little advantage they can at the lowest levels, so that by the time they are major leaguers, they are miles ahead of their competition
Diet, workouts, sleep, sleep patterns, education, etc are all small pieces that can generate potential gains.
But no one seems to see this as a way to take advantage. Its so weird.
The article is only about how the White Sox do things though. It hints that other organizations do things much differently/better.
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28 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:
I don't see how this is even related? I'm going to play bad baseball because of IKEA furniture? Minor league players use to be housed with people willing to take them.
I can't read the article but the Reinsdorf is cheap bias never ends. What is slowly happening in sports is the desire to pamper athletes who are yet making it to the big time. Check other professions in the entertainment industry. I guess it would be called paying their dues. Oh like an extended stay is going to use high end furniture?
It is amazing the overhead of owning a MLB club and for a sport that is 3rd in popularity.
I'm just saying it seems indicative of how the system is run and it's a bad look for an organization that has been historically known to be run by an owner that's doesn't like to spend money.
From the article:
Quote“Roughly half of major league teams are providing players at all levels, all minor league affiliates, with their own bedrooms in an apartment,” said Harry Marino of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a non-profit that pushes for improved conditions for minor league players. “Most of the teams that are not doing that at all levels are at least doing it at Double-A and above. The White Sox are at the bottom of the league when it comes to that issue. Obviously, there are significant issues that come with forcing players to share bedrooms. One of them is that players with significant others and spouses who want to live with them during the season cannot comfortably do so when they’re asked to share a bedroom with a teammate.”
QuoteThe construction delays refer to Class-A Kannapolis, where players are expected to move into apartments this month that are within walking distance of their home stadium. In the meantime, they spent the first half of the season at an extended stay hotel that players complained had dirty rooms and lacked food preparation supplies, which led to reliance on fast food.
“I’ve never seen more athletes eating McDonald’s,” one player said.
QuoteSome of these situations can be expected to improve, and the White Sox expressed an interest in responding when contacted by The Athletic. The players who spoke to The Athletic made the point that they speak with friends in other organizations, with teams like the Dodgers and Yankees, with better accommodations and more comfortable environment, and these conversations could prove meaningful when minor league free agents and undrafted free agents are making decisions. They argue that this shouldn’t be a fight to stay in line with minimum requirements, but a new plane on which to compete with 29 other teams.
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And we wonder why 1) The Sox always seem to have trouble developing player through their minor league system and 2) why no big name free agents will ever sign here.
I'm not saying this is the sole reason or even a big reason but this is just a small part of how the organization is run.
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8 hours ago, KrankinSox said:
Just watched "Upgrade" (2018).
Thought it was great. If you're a fan of Ex Machina, or similar movies, I'd suggest this. I rented on Amazon Prime for $3.99.
I just watched that on Netflix last week. Wasn't quite what I expected based on the description it had but still pretty good.
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Interesting watch.
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On 7/4/2022 at 1:48 PM, greg775 said:
Nationwide problem. Not about me.
We've gone from my childhood when summers consisted of being released from our house by parents in the morning with kids and parents having no cell phones -- being out on the streets and parks unsupervised with buddies all day, only returning home on our bikes for meals (thanks mom!) and then heading out again til dark -- in beautiful south side chitown. No kidnappings, no shootings, no stabbings. Just nirvana childhood fun to now where you can't go to a parade without being concerned.
Peace to all affected by the two incidents I linked today and Happy holiday to all! It is a great holiday, one of the most fun if u like hotdogs, burgers and fireworks.
The only difference between when you grew up and now is that we didn't have the internet showing us every single story happening 24/7. Kidnappings, shootings and stabbings happened plenty back then. You just didn't hear about them as much.
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19 hours ago, pettie4sox said:
I wasn't sure if there was a thread like this already, but I'm expecting my first child next month. Any advice from soxtalk parents?
Thanks in advance!
Say goodbye to sleep for about 6 months or so.
First kid it took 3-4 months for her to sleep through the night.
Second one took a year.
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13 hours ago, greg775 said:
Interesting. Tex ... your take? Are Texans talkin' bout seceding?
I think there's a breaking point and yes some states might go this route.
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-secede-us-2023-gop-pushes-referendum-1717254
It literally says in the article you posted:
"The U.S. Constitution makes no provision for states to secede and in 1869, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White that states cannot unilaterally secede from the Union."
So don't plan on it anytime soon.
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I found a clip of Greg wandering through modern Chicago.
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Just in case anyone is planning a visit to Yellowstone anytime soon.
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21 hours ago, greg775 said:
If I said that about a certain government official I'd probably be banned.
If I had a dollar for every time Greg was worried about being banned I could probably retire.
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It's from the trailer. It's not really a secret.