Random Thoughts Thread

[gotbeer]

2 hours ago, arch stanton said:

So I finished work early today and the older daughter was out with her friends and the little one was at a preschool Christmas party with the nanny and wife at work. I went to one of the local establishments and had a half-order of fish and chips and 3 pints for lunch. My question is whether the 3 hours I then spent sleeping in my recliner is considered a power nap or just a waste of a good afternoon buzz

Just consider it a perfect workday afternoon.

[Lou]

@Tank has never seen the best baseball movie ever, The Sandlot. 

[Roy Hobbs]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

@Tank has never seen the best baseball movie ever, The Sandlot. 

The Sandlot is a great movie, but I can think of at least one that is better.

[Lou]

16 minutes ago, Roy Hobbs said:

The Sandlot is a great movie, but I can think of at least one that is better.

you would be wrong, Mark 

[Roy Hobbs]

30 minutes ago, Lou said:

you would be wrong, Mark 

Oh yeah, I like it when you call me Mark.

[Lou]

2 minutes ago, Roy Hobbs said:

Oh yeah, I like it when you call me Mark.

[Tank]

5 hours ago, Lou said:

@Tank has never seen the best baseball movie ever, The Sandlot. 

i don't remember this line from Pride of the Yankees.

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Tank said:

i don't remember this line from Pride of the Yankees.

Yankee lover 

[Tank]

1 minute ago, Lou said:

Yankee lover 

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Tank said:

[Redondo]

6 hours ago, Lou said:

@Tank has never seen the best baseball movie ever, The Sandlot. 

[Lou]

i really can't get over this. Tank hasn't watched the best baseball movie ever. It's entertaining and family-friendly. 

I won't rest until he watches it. 

[Blarg]

You two should have a watch party. Just don't trust his bean dip, seriously, don't.

[Tank]

2 hours ago, Lou said:

i really can't get over this. Tank hasn't watched the best baseball movie ever. It's entertaining and family-friendly. 

I won't rest until he watches it. 

I’ve seen it once, many years ago. 

I’d  watch it again but @st1ckboy  can hear my tv from the basement and then he invites himself into the main house and bogarts all of the popcorn. “I just want a little bowl full. Honest.” And then it’s gone and I’m left with a bunch of old maids. Up yours, stick. 

Wait, what were we talking about?

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Tank said:

I’ve seen it once, many years ago. 

I’d  watch it again but @st1ckboy  can hear my tv from the basement and then he invites himself into the main house and bogarts all of the popcorn. “I just want a little bowl full. Honest.” And then it’s gone and I’m left with a bunch of old maids. Up yours, stick. 

Wait, what were we talking about?

the troops.

it's time to bring them home. 

 

[Tank]

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

You two should have a watch party. Just don't trust his bean dip, seriously, don't.

Why not? One bowl of my famous bean dip and you’ll be reliving those wonderful memories for the next 6-8 hours. 

And yes, I mean Joni Mitchell kind of wonderful.

[Lou]

6 minutes ago, Tank said:

Why not? One bowl of my famous bean dip and you’ll be reliving those wonderful memories for the next 6-8 hours. 

And yes, I mean Joni Mitchell kind of wonderful.

I find that hard to believe.

you want to know what we call bean dip? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

beans 

[Tank]

Not frijoles del dippo? Huh.

[Lou]

1 minute ago, Tank said:

Not frijoles del dippo? Huh.

no.

that means no in English.

[T.G.]

Anyone who doesn't love The Sandlot is stealing oxygen from the rest of us.

[Redondo]

9 hours ago, Lou said:

the troops.

it's time to bring them home. 

 

[Blarg]

It just hit me that tonight my Mom spends her first Christmas Eve without her husband of 65 years and wakes without a need to make him breakfast Christmas morning. 

I remember back on Christmas day, the 6 of us kids waiting outside their door for 6am, the hour they said we could get them up to start opening packages. They were always already awake and my Dad would put on a show about how it was too early. 

We would all march downstairs together and nothing could start before Dad got his first cup of coffee and we would stare at that chrome coffee pot and wait to see the water bubble up through the glass topper. Knowing in minutes it would be ready and we could start pulling boxes out from under the tree. 

After the unwrapping there was cleanup while Mom made breakfast. Sweet rolls, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes and toast. So much food, so much laughter and talking and now... 

Her first Christmas all alone.

I talked to her tonight and tomorrow when all of the boys are here we will talk again. We will be having the Christmas party she no longer enjoys and it makes me sad that they had moved so far away and that part of our lives is only a phone call. One day that may be us, seperated from our sons and only a phone call on Christmas. 

Sigh. 

[cysomeawfulpitcher]

Remember the 00s when Franz Ferdinand was trending and it was the band instead of the person?  That was nice.  
 

[PattyD22]

On 12/24/2019 at 6:50 PM, Blarg said:

It just hit me that tonight my Mom spends her first Christmas Eve without her husband of 65 years and wakes without a need to make him breakfast Christmas morning. 

I remember back on Christmas day, the 6 of us kids waiting outside their door for 6am, the hour they said we could get them up to start opening packages. They were always already awake and my Dad would put on a show about how it was too early. 

We would all march downstairs together and nothing could start before Dad got his first cup of coffee and we would stare at that chrome coffee pot and wait to see the water bubble up through the glass topper. Knowing in minutes it would be ready and we could start pulling boxes out from under the tree. 

After the unwrapping there was cleanup while Mom made breakfast. Sweet rolls, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes and toast. So much food, so much laughter and talking and now... 

Her first Christmas all alone.

I talked to her tonight and tomorrow when all of the boys are here we will talk again. We will be having the Christmas party she no longer enjoys and it makes me sad that they had moved so far away and that part of our lives is only a phone call. One day that may be us, seperated from our sons and only a phone call on Christmas. 

Sigh. 

The holidays can be so great, yet so depressing Blarg.  This is my first Christmas without my father, who passed away in October from liver cancer.  My father was my best friend, my mentor, my baseball and wrestling coach, my biggest cheerleader at my sporting events growing up, and my Angels season ticket partner for the last 18 years.  He was an amazing father, and an amazing man. 

Like us, he was highly critical of his beloved Angels and very critical of management.  We renewed our tickets again this year and we plan to continue in his memory until we decide we're done.

You're story struck a chord with me brother and I hope your family was able to get through this with the awesome memories you described.  It really brought me back to my childhood.  Thanks, Blarg

[cez]

cameron diaz is nicole ritchie's sister in law, and just had a son she named Radish.