Angry Bruce Pearl

I had a hot streak between 2010 and 2016.

Between fall 2010 and spring 2014 I lived in a 2BR and then a 4BR at University Heights/Tiger Lodge in Auburn. This was the place where football players were murdered on two different occasions. It wasn't so bad when me and my buddies first moved in but all the nice people left after the first year or two and all the hoodlums moved in. We couldn't get a pizza delivered there after a while which was a big red flag in hindsight. There was plenty of goofy stuff that happened there though. We had a guy with a super loud bass who would drive his arse through the complex at ungodly hours a few nights every week. We called him Mr Awesome. The nets at the basketball court disappeared after the final four every year. A week before my lease was up we nearly had a gang fight in my building. Cops came for that one. Checked the place out again last summer and it's chinatown now. I guess they stopped renting to section 8. Rent was $400/month.

After that I lived in a 1BR for six months, was only like 480 square feet, everything was paper thin, the internet never worked, and we all shared the same ducts and AC. Girl living on one side had to be Indian because everything smelled like curry three nights a week. Guy on the other side loved hot dogs and pumping iron. Girl under me had an incredible sex drive and she was easily 9/10. Too bad I was already dating my wife. Rent was like $370/month.

Then I graduated and moved to Atlanta for work. Found a gated complex literally across the street from the office. Apartment was nice, management was a bunch of crooks. Tires got stolen off my car in the first three months. To this day I am 100% sure the "security" was in on it. Should have retained a lawyer and seen what he could turn up but I was young and trying to save as much money as I could. Plus I hated the job and had little time or energy for anything else. Had to gut it out for another ten months but at least I knew I didn't want to live in Atlanta after that.

I have a few unpaid parking tickets in my town. There's three or four garages where I can't take my car.

I have not quiet quit my job, not even close, but I understand why it's happening. It has a lot to do with lack of wage growth and lack of advancement in their careers. My wife is in this situation, she's been at her job for seven years and is by far the most competent person in her office. Managers from other markets call her to get her expertise on several issues but she can't get into a management role because of reluctance by the bean counters to create a position for her or promote/reassign current managers. If you're in your 30s and you have nothing to show for years of busting your arse then what's the point of continuing like that? The company needs to value their employees too. These workers need to be identified and encouraged to move up to bigger and better roles and not languish in career purgatory.

The people who dump on DeSantis don't know how wildly successful he's been at advancing the conservative agenda in Florida. I don't know where this "DeSantis is a GOPe plant" idea came from but it's complete nonsense. Other GOP governors are seeking out his leadership and trying to implement his ideas, not the other way around. I say this as someone who's lived his whole life in Florida.

If Trump is going to run he has to be 2016 Trump again with a real message for voters. He can't run on rehashing 2020 over again. There's too many problems in America right now even though we all know there was funny business going on in places like PA and WI and beyond. Personally I want DeSantis to run because he has no fear of anyone and the team that surrounds him is incredible. He also doesn't get distracted by nonsense like Trump tends to do.

This is like when they used to dig up the bones of the dead and put them on trial.

This happened to my wife a few years ago except it was one cat and she was doing errands around town. She was about their size and we had to bottle feed her for a while. She's still distrustful of others but loves the two of us and our son who was born after we rescued her. Sleeps in our bed every night like a guard dog. Best cat I've ever had.

Honestly I feel really bad for the guy. Seeing some of the testimony at the trial... he looks like he needs a couple normal people to hang out with.

Drinker is one of the best channels out there right now. Him and Nick Rekeita are mega based and Melonie is too.

At least some of the softball players are cute.