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But here's why I don't feel sorry for them. How many times has ND had a chance to join a conference and how many times have the declined the invitation? If they TRULY wanted that 13th game, they've had multiple opportunities to be eligible for it. They decided they didn't want to do that and it bit them in the backside this year.

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Except for 2020 when it was convenient for them to play an ACC schedule. They went 10-0, and Clemson beat them in the ACC Championship game by 24, and they still got to go to the playoffs that year, and lost to Bama by 17.

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I'm not saying Arby's is bad, but it's not a place I ever consider going to eat.

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We get it about once a month. If you have kids, the sliders are a pretty good option. Better than a greasy burger or fried chicken sandwich. I alternate between the French dip, Reuben, and roast beef sandwich.

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The way she answers questions. 100 words too many and it never addresses the question directly.

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It isn't just answering questions, it is having the same conversation several times a week about whatever is bothering her. Lately it has been boy drama with our teenage daughter. Newsflash, nothing has changed since two nights ago when you wanted to think to me out loud about it. If it isn't that it is talking about work. I'm the type that wants to leave work at work and not bring it home with me, but we get into the same conversations about her boss and coworkers at least a few nights a week. Yes her boss is an idiot and barely capable of doing what he's supposed to, but I can't really change that.

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Any time I see a package is supposed to be delivered by USPS (United States Postal Service) I just consider it gone.

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For some reason, it always seems to be an Amazon package lost by USPS too. I order from a bunch of different places, and most smaller items still ship USPS and I can't remember any being lost. But half the items that Amazon (or the seller on Amazon) ships with USPS they are either very late or don't show up at all.

About 5 years ago I ordered some memory foam mattresses from Amazon. Two TwinXL sized mattresses. USPS left the missed delivery note in my mailbox, and the reason they checked that they couldn't deliver it was that it didn't fit in the mailbox. You think? A 4 foot tall box isn't going to fit in any mailbox. I called them to do the reschedule delivery option since I didn't want to drive across town to pick them up, and a couple of days later I get an identical notice in my box.

I contacted Amazon and told them apparently the postal service wasn't going to deliver these, and Amazon shipped replacements. I specifically asked for them to be shipped with Amazon or UPS, not the USPS. Of course they shipped the replacements with USPS as well. I get another notice in the box, same reason, and I had to drive out to the USPS distribution center to pick them up. When I arrived and handed them the ticket, she goes in the back and rolls out a cart with 4 mattress boxes on it. I tried to tell her I only wanted the two, and the original shipment can be returned. She just laughed at me and said they're not sending them back and that I could do that if I wanted to, but she was giving me all 4 boxes. I reached out to Amazon when I got back home and they told me to keep them.

I still see some 10-15mg ones here in Alabama. I sipped on a 10mg watching football on Saturday like I would a beer. Takes a little while to kick in, but it isn't like a beer buzz that you keep drinking to keep going. Had one during the early games of the day, and had a second one starting at halftime of the Iron Bowl. Some of them have horrible weed aftertaste, and some are like drinking a LaCroix with hardly any flavor at all.

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We joke it's where all the creepy Scientologist type people went.

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I'm sure that's true in some places. We took 10 troops down to the USS Alabama, and ours was the largest of the groups. We're more conservative, but most of the others were from our area. I think we had a group from Huntsville and the Auburn/Opelika area as well. We really try to do at least one outing a month. Not all are camping, but my 7 and 12 year old love it. Stuff we probably wouldn't have done if they were not involved.

Someone else mentioned sports, and that is one reason I was looking for something for my boys. The older one played soccer, but has no interest, and the younger one has done soccer a few times as well. They love going camping and taking our dog with us when we're not going on a scout campout. They've been putting together survival kits with firestarters, paracord, knives etc the last few meetings. Stuff that is useful and they're actually learning skills.

Shameless plug here, if you want a scouting experience, without all the woke/DEI crap, and Bible teachings, look for Trail Life or American Heritage Girls in your area. Our church broke off from BSA a while back and the troop is now chartered under Trail Life. Biblical principles, and church leadership, but it is mostly run by the dads and volunteers. The curriculum for earning badges and awards is similar to the Boy Scouts. Some of the dads joke that is is boy scouts with Jesus.

Both of my boys have loved it. They have friends from church and school in the troop, and we don't just do camping trips. We've done overnight trips to the Tennessee Aquarium, the USS Alabama, and at the first of the year we're going to the space and rocket center in Huntsville to spend the night there.

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This journalist should be fired just for using a temu AI to write this for him.

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I second the BIN Shellac primer. Wife used to do paint projects as a side hustle, and taking wood kitchen/bath cabinets from stain to paint, this is what she used. Power sanded them, sprayed on the primer, and then followed with paint a day or two later.

If you're doing a lot of painting, like multiple rooms in your house, go get the HVLP Wagner sprayer from Lowe's. It works well with the primer and paint. I would help on her projects most of the time, and would do most of the spraying. She handled prep work, taping, and the final spray, but I loved laying down a coat of primer and the first coat of paint.

I liked it on Thanksgiving night, because we would travel over to west Alabama to visit with my relatives, and there were a few MSU grads who would always need to leave after lunch to get to the game. I even went a few times as a kid. Our Thanksgiving tradition was the big meal, the men going to the game would leave, and get back late and sleep in while the women that wanted to Black Friday shop would be out of the house early the next morning, leaving the men and boys to enjoy leftovers and the day in peace.

Stretching and mobility work, if not daily, at least 3-4 days a week.

Also most people tend to heal slower as they age. I'll tell on myself. A few weeks ago, I think it was 3.5 weeks back, my boys and I went on a camping trip with their troop. The place had a little creek and some kayaks, and after I had paddled my 7 year old around for a bit, several of us dads were standing at the banks watching the older boys take turns in the kayaks. I was barefoot, and tried to step out to a rock in the water to snap some pics. My left foot hit some slippery mud under the water, that was on a rock that was buried, and I went down hard and fast. Sliced my left foot, landed on my left hip, and banged my right knee against the rocks. It took almost two weeks for the scabs to heal up, and my right knee is still sore. Back in my 20s I would have been fine the next week.