dek81572

re: Need Grandparent advice

Posted by dek81572 on 7/4/26 at 6:42 pm to Prodigal Son

No, we're both Baptist, her cousin works on staff there so that's where they go. They have a large young married group, ours doesn't.

re: Need Grandparent advice

Posted by dek81572 on 7/4/26 at 1:40 pm to GeauxGutsy

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How did our forefathers ever survive

They probably asked those around them for advise, we're lucky enough to live at a time where we can ask countless amounts of people with experience and advice. You don't want to give and advice, fine with me but you don't have to chime in with what you think is a smart arse burn.

re: Need Grandparent advice

Posted by dek81572 on 7/4/26 at 1:24 pm to Prodigal Son

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The best advice I can give you is to all go to church together

We did before they got married. They go to the church her family goes to. Our Uncle is the pastor at my church and I'm in the band so I cant leave and dont want to.

re: Need Grandparent advice

Posted by dek81572 on 7/4/26 at 11:46 am to castorinho

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Who are the figs downvoting the OP

Probably the lonely crazy cat lady??

re: Need Grandparent advice

Posted by dek81572 on 7/4/26 at 11:42 am to SuperSaint

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(a) faith, 1(b) wife, and 1(c) child.

I whole heartedly agree, I guess I didn't really think that thought out before I typed it. I know a man is to leave his parents and cleave to his wife, that's the way God intended it, amd it doesn't say say she will leave hers. I guess what I should have said is that I wish he would think of us a little more every now and then, thats it, not that we should be on thr forefront of his thoughts, I don't want that, just maybe just more than twice a month.

Need Grandparent advice

Posted by dek81572 on 7/4/26 at 8:16 am

I'm fairly new to being a grandpa, my grandson is 9 months old. For six of those months my son was in the State Police training academy so he lived in Baton Rouge m-f and we live in Bossier, he did a lot of traveling, also during those 6 months, they lived with his in-laws, they were married about 10 months then had a kid, they did have their own place before he went to the academy, she didn't want to be by herself for 6 months with a new born, I can understand that, they have since bought a house and live on their own now. I felt weird and uncomfortable going to her parents house and hanging out to see him, I felt like I was intruding, maybe that was a me problem. They would come over maybe once a month and have dinner and she came over maybe a couple times during the week over the six months period. With all that being said, how often should we expect to be able to see him, they live about 5 miles away. I don't want to feel like I'm intruding or pushy but I'd like to see him a little more than I/we do, my wife feels the same way.
It was already hard enough for her letting go after they got married. To go from see him every day for 22 years to once or twice a month was/is hard. I get it, it hurts, but I get it, she, not so much. What made it worse is the my son's in-laws got to see the grand baby every day.

So, how often is enough? Should we just call and ask, I don't want them to feel we're being pushy and then they don't come or let us see him at only birthdays and holidays.

For reference, I was a firefighter and my wife is a nurse, we had to have mine and my wife's parents help us a lot because of our crazy work schedules so they got to see the grandkids a lot, because if that, I really dont have a good frame of reference here.

Sorry for the long thread but I felt I had to explain. Being the parents of a son whose married is tough, feels like were not as important, once again that maybe just a me thing.

re: Argentina vs Cape Verde- Best soccer game I've ever watched

Posted by dek81572 on 7/3/26 at 7:55 pm to BigPerm30

That's fair, I can't speak to that as I didn't watch that match. But this was like a heavyweight bout where both guys are just whaling on each other at the end with the overwhelming favorite barley winning on points.

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Argentina vs Cape Verde- Best soccer game I've ever watched

Posted by dek81572 on 7/3/26 at 7:47 pm

I must say, that was actually pretty darn exciting, both teams giving their all.

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re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever seen at Tiger Stadium?

Posted by dek81572 on 7/3/26 at 6:43 pm to papasmurf1269

I have 2:
1. LSU vs Troy- took my 63 year old mom to her 1st LSU game and had to sit through that atrocity.
2.LSU vs McNeese- drove from Bossier City with my 2 boys 11 and 7, got in the stadium and watched about 8 minutes or so and lightning in the area, it started raining and didn't stop lightning, sat there in the stadium till 11:30 and they canceled the game. We were soaked, what a let down.

Tiger Rant

re: Trails End - Arcadia, LA

Posted by dek81572 on 7/1/26 at 9:17 am to ChuckUFarley

Played it last Saturday, the front nine greens were not terrible but were playable, the back nine greens I thought were pretty good for a small town country course. The place did need a lot of mowing as they weren't able to get to everything due to all the rain and wet conditions but they should have been able to get to it since it's been dry. Overall it was a fun course, I thought a little expensive at $61 but I guess thats the signs of the times.

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re: NBA cup final will be played at Hinkle Fieldhouse

Posted by dek81572 on 7/1/26 at 9:07 am to S

It's where the HS Finals was filmed in the movie Hoosiers.

re: First LSU game I attended

Posted by dek81572 on 7/1/26 at 9:02 am to Tigerfan1953

1st game was Georgia in 2003, what a game to be my 1st one, kind of hard to top it, I've been to a few more but nothing compared to that one.

Tiger Rant

re: Phil has pulled out of The Open

Posted by dek81572 on 6/27/26 at 9:02 pm to tigerinthebueche

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Didn’t he just get handsy with some gal at his home club and get kicked out of that club?

Now he's being accused of showing full body nudes of himself to Pat Perez's, not Fat Perez, wife while he was in the bathroom. This happened in 2015 but the story just broke yesterday.

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re: Name the North Carolina MLB team

Posted by dek81572 on 6/21/26 at 6:45 am to jb4

Carolina Pilots

re: Have any of y’all played Harbour Town?

Posted by dek81572 on 6/16/26 at 8:12 pm to grizzlylongcut

Played it 24 years ago, it was a tight course with small greens and trees in the way if you're on the wrong side of the fairway. To be quite honest, the first 15 holes are pretty much like another tree lined course with houses on either side, nothing special to write home about, the last 3 where it opens up and you can see the Calibogue Sound is where the ohhhs and ahhhs are, pretty cool, the lighthouse is iconic. Is it worth it, if you've got several hundred laying around, sure, if not, you could find better courses for less. We went to Myrtle Beach last year and played Calidonia Golf and Fish Club and Barefoot Resort Dye Club and I found them more interesting and memorable. You could play both if those for less than the price of one round at Harbour Town.

re: Knicks have become the top-selling Championship team ever on Fanatics.

Posted by dek81572 on 6/15/26 at 7:17 pm to theCAW

Just wait till the Cowboys win another Super Bowl

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re: Driver upgrade

Posted by dek81572 on 6/12/26 at 8:43 pm to BRsundog

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But with my swing speed

What is it?
>105 x stiff
95-104 stiff
<95 R

You're local golf shop or Edwin Watts, Golf Galaxy can fit you for shaft length, lie angle, shaft flex and can put you in a good off the rack club with a stock shaft. If you're wanting something more where you hit 100 balls and try every head and custom shaft combo, you need to go to a local golf club pro, a fitting pro PGA Tour Superstore has good fitters with the custom shafts to try. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT go to Club Champion or Golftec, they will try and upsale you on shaft puring and spine alignment, and the club will cost you $50 -$100 more than if you order it from the factory. They will convince you and pressure you to do it, they do good fittings but the pressure sales pitch turns me off. A custom fitting will cost around $100-$150 for a true custom fitting and the club could cost you anywhere from $200-$500 extra depending on what shaft they fit you in. The custom shaft won't necessarily help you hit it farther but it will help with dispersion ( how close you hit it to your target). If you want to save some money look for a used G425 in good condition, one if the best drivers Ping ever made.

re: Who is the best QB to NEVER win a SB?

Posted by dek81572 on 6/10/26 at 10:11 pm to SaintlyTiger88

Danny White

re: Returning the pencil after a round.

Posted by dek81572 on 6/10/26 at 8:16 am to T1gerNate

I'm going to be quite honest, the thought never occured to me to take the pencil. I don't even use the scorecard, I enter my score directly into the GHIN app.