Hey.

Football is so close. I absolutely cannot wait. I am thinking this is the year. Yeah, I'm tried as ****, but still, it can happen. Go Falcons a ton!

The Braves are winning, just signed Ben Sheets and hopefully his bionic arm. Go Braves.

Those folks I played for last week were snooty to the 5th power, but I love their money. They had a good time and I look for us to return. Fine with me. Go money.

Haven't seen any crazy critters out there so far while posting but the week is early. I gotta tell ya, I am still digging that Groucho Marx cat that came up to me. Go critters.

I guess that's all I have for now, grade me on a curve today. I am exhausted, kinda.

Later.

Twisted Tuesday and its hotter than a mofo and its not even afternoon,,,,got hit with a crazy request- my oldest grandson who will be 10 this weekend told me he wanted a cell phone for his b/day. Now I know kids- they go down the line when they cant get what they want---suggestions- should I should I not?

I say no for two reasons.  One, what the hell does a 10 year old need a celly for?  Two, it sets a bad precedent.  Today's children live in an instant gratification age and it needs to end at some point. 

Just my

Twisted Tuesday and its hotter than a mofo and its not even afternoon,,,,got hit with a crazy request- my oldest grandson who will be 10 this weekend told me he wanted a cell phone for his b/day. Now I know kids- they go down the line when they cant get what they want---suggestions- should I should I not?

Thank you- I figured my son said the same thing, lil bugger trying to get over on me by asking me.He knows my rule is like the rule of GOD, cant nobody stop me when it comes to him!!! Still tryiong to see if there are any pro's to this situation

I can see JD's point but our 10yo has a cell phone. It's just a plain old flip-phone, text is disabled on it, and she can only use it during certain hours. She takes it with her when she goes to play with friends and uses it to check in. Then we have it when she gets home. She also keeps it on her when we go to games or theme parks, for "separation safety" reasons. She knows that I can keep an eye on it and if she's calling out to other numbers that aren't on the "approved list" she will get it taken away. Her father and I have decided that in a few years if she wants to text, she can pay for that portion of the cell bill, and she won't have a smartphone until she can pay for it herself, + any additions to the bill.  All of the cell servers have pretty decent parental controls, if you decide to go that way for your grandson you can always take advantage of them!

Well does he live in the city proper?  I suppose a cell phone could serve a purpose if he was in some sort of danger, but then again, nobody I know that grew up in the city had a cell phone back then.   

I look at it like this....I was in HS when the cell phone craze began.  Most of my friends had them and I begged my parents for one because it was the "cool" thing to do.  I didn't ask them to buy it for me (ok, I did ask them to initially), but to sign the contract.  I'm sure you already know, but you couldn't get a phone back then without a contract.  My folks said no and didn't budge.  I had to wait until I was 18 and I turned out fine.  I mean, yeah, I'm an as*hole, but that would have happened with or w/o a celly. 

My sister and I actually had this discussion awhile back.  She teaches 7/8th grade and is amazed at how seemingly every kid has a cell phone nowadays.  She said her two boys (3 and 4) would not be getting phones until they were at least old enough to drive.  I think that's a good take.  One I'll probably adopt with my own kids. 

Twisted Tuesday and its hotter than a mofo and its not even afternoon,,,,got hit with a crazy request- my oldest grandson who will be 10 this weekend told me he wanted a cell phone for his b/day. Now I know kids- they go down the line when they cant get what they want---suggestions- should I should I not?

interesting!!!! also goood valid points. Can carriers designate only same type carrier calls can be made for free?

If used for safety purposes I can agree but with crime rampant in NYC I wouldnt want to draw that attention to him,,, Living in the city proper? This is Crooklyn not Kansas!

no way in hell man...IMO

and your reasoning?

I think most carriers are that way anyway - but I'm not 100% positive.

Twisted Tuesday and its hotter than a mofo and its not even afternoon,,,,got hit with a crazy request- my oldest grandson who will be 10 this weekend told me he wanted a cell phone for his b/day. Now I know kids- they go down the line when they cant get what they want---suggestions- should I should I not?

interesting!!!! also goood valid points. Can carriers designate only same type carrier calls can be made for free?

hmmmm- most of my family and myself have T-Mobile including his father- - - 1 pro in him having one- he can only call same carrier numbers - - - thanks again

To my knowledge Sprint is the only carrier that has total free mobile to ANY mobile. The others seem to insist it be another on the same carrier.

Just remember that if he gives the number to his friends that have a different carrier he can be charged when they call or text him.. You'd really need to keep tight reigns on the phone. And if all possible. Totally block data and pictures... Kids 12 yrs old now a days are sending nude pics of themselves to their GF or BF... Not a good thing in my mind..

do I have to have a reason for everything.   Too young, but he aint my kid....do whatcha want man.  I do see the safety angle in the discussion though, but he was safe last year no?  

to a degree but I feel where your going with this. My main dilemna is he's a good kid- great grades, respectful ( when he;s around me), behaves as most kids his age do. Lookikng for good enough reasons instead of telling my son- I did it and there's nothing he can do about it!

That would definetely be trouble- he could call anyone anytime while the phone is in his possession. My thinking is for weekends access only when most minutes are free. If  your 13 old created havoc- rampart thoughts running wild for what a 10 year will do



verdict 2-2 -- - -- input input input

But, it's still baseball season. 

But, it's still baseball season. 

I hear ya.....what's u're wife say?....cause in reality, that's whats gonna happen. lol   u don't have to answer that, but I'm sure you know where I'm going with that.

If he's a good kid then it should be fine....but boys will be boys.

13.5 back....they still have a shot Glenda!!!!!

The Cubs have won 12/16 and will be trading Dempster within a few days.  Demps is my guy, but he isn't a part of the future.  I love the direction the team is headed.  Just stop stalking, ok? 

Hola amigos y amigas!

Lainey~ make his parents decide. A grandparent shouldn't override a parents decision. If his parents said no then let them deal with it.

Marcus~ I'm not sure if you are here yet, but did you see Scott Disick in London?  It was fantastic. We must discuss, "Lord Disick".

I don't have much today, I went to bed early last night and I swear I woke up every hour. For no apparent reason. I need a "good nights sleep".

Enjoy the day!!

Hola amigos y amigas!

Lainey~ make his parents decide. A grandparent shouldn't override a parents decision. If his parents said no then let them deal with it.

Marcus~ I'm not sure if you are here yet, but did you see Scott Disick in London?  It was fantastic. We must discuss, "Lord Disick".

I don't have much today, I went to bed early last night and I swear I woke up every hour. For no apparent reason. I need a "good nights sleep".

Enjoy the day!!

Yes we do. World series here we come. 

Me too it's looking good. And who's stalking? I've been busy it's summer time in the Ozarks and the motorcycle has been going strong. 

See my first post in this thread.  Denial apparently isn't just a river in South America. 

Me too it's looking good. And who's stalking? I've been busy it's summer time in the Ozarks and the motorcycle has been going strong. 

you know u leaving ur self wide open for tthis? The Nile is where?????

Most of it runs thru Brazil.  You know, in SOUTH AMERICA? 

ummm really? Is the AC still out in your office?

Some of it runs thru Colombia and Peru too.  The AC is working again, thank God!  I considered suicide yesterday. 

OK, I just have to say it.  Chick-Philly-A is pretty good.  The first time I had it....it must have been a bad day for the cook.  I dig their house sauce.  Om nom nom om nom....

Some of it runs thru Colombia and Peru too.  The AC is working again, thank God!  I considered suicide yesterday. 

OK, I just have to say it.  Chick-Philly-A is pretty good.  The first time I had it....it must have been a bad day for the cook.  I dig their house sauce.  Om nom nom om nom....

Most of it runs thru Brazil.  You know, in SOUTH AMERICA? 

Do you think you mean the Amazon?

Aloha everybody.. I love dealing with people from around the world with work, except on a day like yesterday when I'm exhausted and asking everyone every 15 minutes if its nap time.  First phone call was from the east coast at 4:30am.. Then came the calls from Georgia, then everything smoothed out throughout the day and let me get some work done.  Then had a conference call on a couple projects with a company out of LA on the drive home from work.. Then had another conference call with a couple blokes from London at 1am this morning.  You know when you get so exhausted that you're not even tired anymore? Yep, that was me last night.  I don't feel the Mountain time zone is getting the proper respect it deserves. 

I need to hit the Best Buy bargain bin sometime this week to see if I can score some cheap Tyler Perry joints.  I don't want Netflix judging me


Now for a song that is so good that they'd never be able to play it on terrestrial radio, one of my favorite tunes ever

Emarosa - Heads or Tails? Real or Not?

You loved it when my heart dropped, you paused, stopped, and walked away
Full of content that it went your way

These cuts that I've caused are never too deep to heal
Peel back the bandage, see a scar from countless careless things

And feel yourself drifting, pulled away

Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how i feel
To show you who i am
Cause it's locked away

We all need to find our way
Cut the loss, just walk away

Now head towards the light, the dark has no place here

I don't feel real, and don't feel right
This pain is beating.
You don't feel real, I don't feel real

Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore

Now head towards the light, the dark has no place here.

Well nothing feels real anymore
I'm not taking my time anymore
To show you how i feel
To show you who i am
Cause it's locked away

The things we think about at night never lose taste
Take the close to find something greater
This wall has finally reached its end
Its higher ground, lets make a stand
Did you ever think that we would get this high
Pull back the sheets to find an ending that you prayed for.

Now head towards the light the dark has no place here.

Do you think you mean the Amazon?

Troll so hard.


:heart:


p.s. chick-fil-a is great, esp the chicken noodle soup. 

Way too hot to even think about soup, but I'll try it this winter fo sho. 

All tlak about rivers has a honky wanting to hit the beach.  Beach or softball....that is the question. 

I love that website.  So much so that I bought Prime. 

It was 187 degrees last week and I got soup because it's fantastic. I didn't eat it outside and I have air conditioning. I hear the chicken chili is good too, but that's a bit adventurous and I'm quite vanilla about my food minus certain southern things.

I hope that they know that tickets to the World Series can be expensive.

You mean they still aren't 75 cents like they were 103 years ago? 

don't you mean 104 years?

You cray!  No way I'm eating soup unless it's at least hoodie weather.  I'm even staying sober at softball tonight, which for me is more rare than Nick going a day without acting like a misogynist.

You cray!  No way I'm eating soup unless it's at least hoodie weather.  I'm even staying sober at softball tonight, which for me is more rare than Nick going a day without acting like a misogynist.

Awww, I miss my hoodies now.


oh, i'm only supposed to use two crystal light packets a day, but this wild strawberry energy whatever is the sh**.... and this is the first day since i've started that I've drank 5 bottles. Mmm

Where's u're boy Nick been.....did he get a g/f or a case of Mad Dog 20/20?

Well does he live in the city proper?  I suppose a cell phone could serve a purpose if he was in some sort of danger, but then again, nobody I know that grew up in the city had a cell phone back then.   

I look at it like this....I was in HS when the cell phone craze began.  Most of my friends had them and I begged my parents for one because it was the "cool" thing to do.  I didn't ask them to buy it for me (ok, I did ask them to initially), but to sign the contract.  I'm sure you already know, but you couldn't get a phone back then without a contract.  My folks said no and didn't budge.  I had to wait until I was 18 and I turned out fine.  I mean, yeah, I'm an as*hole, but that would have happened with or w/o a celly. 

My sister and I actually had this discussion awhile back.  She teaches 7/8th grade and is amazed at how seemingly every kid has a cell phone nowadays.  She said her two boys (3 and 4) would not be getting phones until they were at least old enough to drive.  I think that's a good take.  One I'll probably adopt with my own kids. 

I've decide to start scoring my Newsroom-Hate-Watch boxing style with a 10 point must. It's perfect since these series usually have 10 or 12 episodes per season. Boom! Just like rounds with a final score, etc. Hell 3 of us should do it for a better decision. (J-Bot gimme a show to do in the fall and I'll have a running column, it's so fun to watch a show with a pad and takes notes, lol I'm a hateful geek, I know, I know...)

Newsroom recap episode-rounds that I've already over analysed:
Pilot: 10-9 hate watchers. preachy.
2nd epi-round: 10-8 haters, btw there were 2 knockdowns and I almost stopped the fight/show.
3rd: 10-9 haters (fax machines!?!?!, almost another 10-8)
4th: 10-9 SORKIN!... Fast, smart, fun, interesting. This is what i'm talking about. I really enjoyed the office romance-roomate-hook-up dynamic. Happens ALL THE TIME. And the cheapshots at sh!tty 'commentary journalism' was on point...but wait. I'm stopping this for the effing moronic Sasquatch subplot. I buy the drunken office party talk about it, but some bottom of the totem poll guy calling the entire staff in on a weekend to give a TV-CIA Powerpoint presentation (looked like CSI info on his monitor, eff off)?!?! GTFOOH!!!!! I'm warning Sorkin's corner and deducting a point. 9-9.

[Larry Merchant voice] After 4 episodes-rounds, I've got it Hate-watchers 39, Newsroom 35. Sorkin really came back and took it to them, but that deduction is going to come back to haunt him if it goes to a decision. He may have to knock out the hate-watchers to win this.

We gave our daughter a cell phone when she was 10 and in a separate school from her brother and riding the bus to and from school.  He often wasn't on the bus with her, and after the 15 feet of snow we received in a 24 hour period the winter before, we decided it was a necessary item.  She had a plain jane one for years, but now at almost 14 has demonstrated responsibility with it.  She has a smart phone with internet, but is most months well below her plan limit (by half) and uses it mostly for texting her friends and me.  It's handy when we are out and get separated, but I do get a sense of false security sometimes.  

I think it all depends on the child.  We were much the same as Jess is when my daughter was 10 - as I said, a necessary evil.  

Good Afternoon, Everybodee!

Not much going on today.   Enjoying the antics of our school board with our mountain of (toxic?) dirt on our HS field.  The district started trucking the dirt away after news reports came out saying the dirt had increased levels of lead, pesticides, and fuel hydrocarbons shtuff.      The dirt had been 'donated' last year for use to resurface our football field.  But it allegedly carried more than rocks, which had made it unusable.    Now the district is saying that recent tests show it is not toxic, so they don't have to haul it to a site that handles hazardous materials.    So much fun, it's like watching the Stooges, or Keystone Cops.

Regarding the phone for 10year old, I agree on the safety issue, but it really depends on what activities they are involved with.  Definitely in favor when going to sport events or theme parks and the like, in case you get separated.  We didn't get my daughter her phone until she was involved with band at the high school level, while she was attending the middle school.  With all the back & forth she was going from school to school, along with other band activities, the phone helped keep tabs on her whereabouts.  Although, with how involved I am with the band, that need was reduced some, but I'm not always there.   (Although it seems like it.)

I do a killer Harold Lederman..
ALRIGHT JIM!! i'VE GOT THIS ONE SCORED 19-19 2 ROUNDS APIECE.  HATERS GONNA HATE, BUT SORKIN'S GONNA HAVE TO WATCH IT WITH THE PRETENTIOUSNESS, HE'S WALKING RIGHT INTO THEIR WHEELHOUSE.

As part of my Birthday celebration, I treated myself to some new nailpolish and a pedi.  So here's a new question.  Ladies, do you go bare toes or polished if you are wearing open toed shoes? Men, which do you prefer?

The reason I ask is because my boss and I are almost fanatical about having out pedis done, and at least clean feet, but around the golf course, the number of women who have bare toenails, and even unclipped or uneven toenails astounds me!!! I hadn't really noticed it until the boss and I were talking yesterday and I was showing her my purchases, but she said she has noticed it, so I looked and WOW!

I have my own preference, but I understand the bare toenails thing, too.  I just don't understand the unclipped or uneven toenails.  Opinions??

BTW, sometimes gay men can be soooooooooo dramatic!!! A (former?) friend of mine got all bent out of shape last night because my son and I went golfing and when he wasn't at his trailer, we didn't bother to text him - he was 50 miles away we found out later, but he was still pissed at us for not inviting us.  I think he may have unfriended me on facebook.  Oh dear, my world is tilted!!! 

Open toed shoes and all the time my toes need to be neat and polished!! I am not a fan of the bare toes look! (btw my boss has unpolished toes and it is icky).

What about a clear coat combo or the French mani-pedi? Those are always my votes.

This is the same old SMH-WTF-fork-in-the-road for Dez Bryant right? Geezy peezy. In 18 months we're either all talking about his pro bowl playmaking abilities (The Chris Carter, Michael Irvin Road) or we read reports about him getting a try out with the Rein Fire or Hamilton TigerCats (The Lawrence Phillips Expressway). No in between at the crossroads. Idiot.

What about a clear coat combo or the French mani-pedi? Those are always my votes.

I'm leaning towards a Pac Man Jones incident in T-minus 5 months


*** Olympic theme side bet*** what happens first? Dez Bryant goes 24 months without getting arrested or Tim Tebow is caught sucking Lolo Jones' d*ck?

to a degree but I feel where your going with this. My main dilemna is he's a good kid- great grades, respectful ( when he;s around me), behaves as most kids his age do. Lookikng for good enough reasons instead of telling my son- I did it and there's nothing he can do about it!

Thanks for the opinions guys! I have the French Manicure on the fingers, and copper polish - full coat, on the toes.  AND I LOVE IT!!

Internet access is sketchy while I am at home, so chat at you all tomorrow....................

I'm leaning towards a Pac Man Jones incident in T-minus 5 months


*** Olympic theme side bet*** what happens first? Dez Bryant goes 24 months without getting arrested or Tim Tebow is caught sucking Lolo Jones' d*ck?

I'm leaning towards a Pac Man Jones incident in T-minus 5 months


*** Olympic theme side bet*** what happens first? Dez Bryant goes 24 months without getting arrested or Tim Tebow is caught sucking Lolo Jones' d*ck?

Just remember that if he gives the number to his friends that have a different carrier he can be charged when they call or text him.. You'd really need to keep tight reigns on the phone. And if all possible. Totally block data and pictures... Kids 12 yrs old now a days are sending nude pics of themselves to their GF or BF... Not a good thing in my mind..

When my son was about 12, he downloaded the "Guitar Hero"  Ap trial game from his phone and it wound up being a 5-hour trial worth all these bytes!!!   That's when I had to block all games and picture messaging on both  of our phones.  We had unlimited texting but now that he has his IPOD, he just does all his Facebook stuff on that and I'm down to 300 minutes each.    

My toes are midnight purple right now  (with one cracked all the way down to the bed...boo! )