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don’t think D3 can give athletic scholarships.

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You are correct, they don't. What they do is find "financial aid / scholarships" for kids they want there. They found 60K a year.

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Male only liberal arts college? That couldn’t sound more gay. Be glad he isn’t going there.

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Not the vibe when I was there. Talking to coaches, players, former players. It was pointed out that Longwood College is 5 mins away, where 5,000 young fillies await.


Also, Hampden Sydney founders included Patrick Henry and James Madison. I don't think "gay" was in fashion. They were men.

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Did AI write this post? Because it’s organized and reads like AI wrote it.

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I'll take that as a compliment. I wrote that in 10 mins while drinking my coffee this AM.

I guess it's one thing I do miss in retirement. Creating clear, concise communications for the teams / orgs I worked for, to drive work.

TLDR:
Stepson who played an extra year of HS football to get a full ride somewhere just misses, and chooses to work/play for the Apprentice School in Newport New Va.

Background:
Stepson lived/breathed football for the last 10 years. Good student, A’/B’s without seemingly any effort. And good SAT. But school was a means to an end. His goal was always to be good enough to play college football. He’s a tweener, however. He’s 6’1 and plays at 240, defensive end. He wasn’t happy w the local HS, so he and his mother pestered me for months to let him reclass and do his senior year again at a private school. He had great success, they won another state title, he was All Conf / All State for the private school league they are in.

His Life Goal
My stepson, after going to private school and hanging out with wealthy kids for a while, had decided his path is to open his own business. I’d been telling him for years that owning your own business is the real opportunity to wealth here in the US if you are willing to bust your arse.

He also refused to consider a STEM degree. He doesn’t want to sit at a desk like I did.

Football offers:
Got offers for a bunch of Div 3 and a couple of Div 2 teams. The most compelling was one close to us, Hampden Sydney in Farmville Va. Male only, liberal arts / business, created in 1775, every building on the Natl Historic sites registry. Bunch of rich families, lots of alumni, tradition. I did the parents tour. They have beaucoup money. The football facilities for a div3 team were amazing.

But, in his final offer, they would not pay everything. We’d have to come up with 10K / year. Kid knew it would come out of his college fund. So he was undecided. Most of the football offers were looking like this - I think they want you to have a little skin in the game.

Another interesting offer was from the Apprentice School in Newport News. Run by Huntington Ingalls shipyards, they offer 19 different shipbuilder trades, in 4/8 year apprentice programs. They actually have Div 3 sports, including football. And they pay $25/hour to go there to work and learn.

Other college:
His grades / SAT were good enough to get accepted in th Va Tech biz school (and JMU, LSU, etc), but just as a normal student - no football. But at 30K / year, he said hell no.

AI Influence:
I started the corp Robotics practice at a Fortune 100 company about 7-8 years ago. We’d automated 100’s of processes that freed up temps saving lots of money. Next I was getting into Claude and Copilot AI when I retired. I was concerned that if my stepson went for just a Business degree (instead of STEM) that’d he might not have all the job opps he would have 10 years ago because of AI / Robotics.

Decision:
He interviewed at the shipyard and requested to join the Electrical apprenticeship. Apparently most kids ask for this but get assigned something else. Since stepson is gonna play football for them, they quickly agreed and he’s getting what he wants. He starts July 13.

Parents are happy
We’re finally gonna kick off our late life travel plan. Younger nurse wife (no pics) is gonna work and we’re gonna live different places for the next 5 years. First up, given our news above, is Virginia Beach. We’ve already got a condo on the water through fall so we can be on hand to watch the stepson play his games.

My wife is in the kitchen cooking and said, "I thought you had work to do outside?".

I'm having too much fun giving my fellow Virginian's (that are Dems) holy hell on all the socials.

Just got banned from /rVirginia. Bunch of pussies.

I'd recommend this book and taking it seriously. It can help ward off the natural depression, drop in fitness, etc., that automatically shows up for most people when they retire.

The gist is it tells you to consider your fitness level as a new part time job. They want you spending an hour or more 6 days a week for aerobic level exercise and strength training. It's all about your circulation.

Anything "Apple" has a price tag. Known this since the 80's being in computer sales.

Never paid for iTunes, God what a rip-off.

Never paid for their phones or apps.

Never paid for their proprietary development tools.

Learned what open source was using Unix in the LSU computer labs in the 80's. Never looked back.

Frick Apple.

TLDR: Older single blonde stewardesses are to be avoided.

Yes, a friend of my wife’s (that I unfortunately introduced her to).

Attractive blonde, former stewardess, older, I think 60. Started out 10 years ago as a fun, talkative, positive person to be around.

But over the last couple of years, not so much.

First she got blotto wasted a couple of times on our boat at the lake, in front of some people she didn’t even know.

She’s made multiple comments about my football playing teenaged son like “OMG, he’s so handsome and hot!”.

She’s become anti-male and bitter as she gets older and no-one wants to date her and makes comments about it. Ironically she was still married because of finances, but has her own condo in town and her hubby lives at the lake.

Her former meth-head daughter got involved with a wealthy dude my age last year and she just gloats on and on about his money and assets (even though he’s about 350 and looks like he’ll keel over any time). Doesn’t help that he bought her a $30,000 ring while they were all on vacation.

Late last year she gets into a shouting match on the phone with her estranged hubby. Tells him to frick off. What does he do? Goes out into the garage and shoots himself dead.

The latest is that she saw one of my friends last week at a concert. She was lit up and talked to him about his upcoming marriage. Exclaimed in front of a bunch of people “you mean you’re gonna get married to this woman and you haven’t fricked her?”. My friend was aghast (he’s has strong faith).

I think I’ve convinced my wife this lady is a bad person and to steer clear.

Already happened here in Virgina with the lying Spanberger from NJ.

And it's why I'll change my primary residence to FLA this year. Phuck em.

But, but Iran will have nukes in the next 10 mins....

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push anything remotely portraying trump negatively

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You should create your own custom feed that eliminates this. I don't see any of that crap. Mainly on there for cars and travel info.