OffTheRails

Like the old guy who joined the band last year, maybe I should let Kiffen know that I still have 4 full years of eligibility. QB and safety, kicked for my high school team. Went to the field with my BIL on my 45th birthday and easily kicked a 45-yard field goal on first attempt. Walked away but wish I had tested to see the limit of range then. Willing to start at the bottom of the depth chart and the NIL scale and work my way up with guaranteed increases each year. College girls.... hmmm, maybe even forego the NIL.

I was also in the eye of CAT5 Camille in Mississippi, about 20 miles inland in a high school gymnasium. A section of the roof blew off when the school was hit by a tornado, and rain was pouring in like firehoses were up there. I was a teenager and that was the night I learned to pray under the bleachers. In days afterwards I helped people salvage belongings from homes in Louisiana paddling a flatboat. There were dead horses and cows on top of roofs, and the worst was having to hold your breath and paddle fast away from floating dog carcasses still on their chains in backyards. Didn't see human bodies as I think the Coast Guard had collected those. Saw a 200 ton barge in the middle of a highway and a destroyed bank's safe on the levee.

And when I see the sign that
Points one way
The lot we used to pass by
Every day
Just walk away, Renée
You won't see me follow you back home
(Because I'm sneaky that way)

Read to them every night. Seriously.



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Could you date a woman who claims to be bisexual?

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I would insist that she prove it.

Couple months ago on my birthday I drove past a beautiful Porsche for sale in front of a local business. Thought I'm just going to turn around and go admire it...

This weekend I ordered an MLB jersey of my cousin's son with his number and our family name on the back. Monday he gets traded to another team.

Before being cast in Lost In Space, Marta was a mermaid in Beach Blanket Bingo, sharing the screen with Annette Funicello, Linda Evans, Tina Louise and Bobbi Shaw.

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I’m pretty sure Katrina’s surge reached a height of 26’ or something like that, so if the wind didn’t destroy the house, the surge and 20’ waves on top would have.

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A scientific survey determined that Katrina's highest storm surge occurred in Biloxi at 10.40 meters, which converts to 34.12 feet. Camille was by comparison a small, compact storm, but made landfall as a CAT-5 wind speed with a lower pressure than Katrina. A single cubic foot of seawater weighs about 64 pounds, so imagine the momentum power of that much water moving. Just about everything in the bullseye of those two storms was just swept clean as though by a bulldozer.

The Sixsters is a band of girls who evacuated from Ukraine to Germany due to the war. This song was dedicated to the founder of their music school in Kyiv, Voldymr Bulba, who was killed defending their country. "Run With The Wolves" - translated lyrics are in the description.

The original incarnation of the band (with Victoria Vizhanska on vocals) may have inadvertently contributed to the election of Zelenskyy and resultant invasion by performing "Golosuyu" (I'm Voting) on a national television broadcast. They recently tried to enter a song in the competition for the Eurovision contest but Germany's rules required all of the members to be 18. I suppose Ukraine did not host a contest for an entry due to circumstances.

Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen

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I Get No Kick From Champagne