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If you're making a documentary about the history of the Boston Celtics, you have to talk about race, and this comes from someone who's whole family is from there and loves the Celtics.
1. First NBA team to draft a black player, Chuck Cooper.

2. First NBA team to start 5 black players.

3. Best player in franchise history was a huge civil rights advocate while he was playing and bore the brunt of racism during his career. Heck someone crapped in Russell's bed.

4. The Celtics and Lakers rivalry of the 80's was viewed through race. Boston the white team and the Lakers the black team. Even though Boston had a much higher African American population at the time.

All of this played in a city that has had race problems and even today has the reputation of a city that is not welcoming to black players even though it is regarded as the Athens of America. I don't think you can tell the story of the Celts without the race angle. It is what it is.

Tornado warnings in our area of western PA, not so fun.

I was just going to say Delaware. I grew up there and it has all four seasons, winters don't have a lot of snow and if you get any it melts quickly. Never had a direct hit from a hurricane, tornados if they occur are infrequent and small. No earthquake risk. The worst storm to hit the state was nor'easter back in the 60's which did significant damage but that's about it.

I have two, but only one really counts because my first one I was by myself. In high school I went out to play one day after school by myself and I aced a 115 yard hole. I didn't hit the ball well ,it was a bit thin and I thought it went over the green. You can see the flag, but not the green itself due to a pond and some reeds. I walked up and looked all around the backside of the green and no dice. Walked back across and saw it in the hole. I just started laughing like an idiot because I couldn't believe what happened and nobody was there. I didn't tell anybody about it for years because, who would believe it? I did finally let it slip one night to my one golfing buddies, loose tongue from a few bourbons.

My other one was actually a legit good shot and in front of other players. A 145 yarder, landed it about 7 feet in front of the hole and it released right in.

At my best I was a 9 handicap. My routine playing partner is at best scratch and hovers around a 1-3 handicap, and plays about 150 rounds a year. He never had one until last year. We used to joke about it and even did the math. You figure there are usually four par threes on a typical course, that means 600 cracks a year at his rate for about the past 15 year he was 0 for 9000 and even more than that since he has been playing since he was he was 12 or so. Ironically the closest he came to acing a hole before last year was a drivable par 4 that he rolled one inside a foot.

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Start putting some of that money aside for the next vehicle? It doesn't have to be the full $1000, maybe $500 a month in an account or money market for the one you need. Two years from now you'll have $12,000 saved up and you can use that and a trade in, if it's even longer then even better!

Wanted to get some perspectives on taking a break for a week or two. I do a lot of indoor biking, dumbbell, and bodyweight exercises at home. Recently I've been very sore in the evenings, lot of shoulder and neck pain. I've always been a bit injury prone, but now I'm 41 and I'm really feeling it more.

I usually workout in some fashion 6 days a week, I usually take Friday off. I feel lazy on days I don't work out and get a bit antsy, so I usually don't take many days off. Should incorporate more rest days, or even shut it down for a week or two and recoup?

How much do you already have invested? If you have a nice nest egg already you may be able to throttle back a bit until you replenish your cash reserves. Also as was said in another post, enjoy some money now, who knows what you'll have to deal with when you're old and can't do the things you want. I need to tell myself that sometime!

Get a pack or two of ground chicken/turkey and make different types of meatballs out of them. It's easy and you can make a big variety (buffalo, bbq, taco, Italian, etc). They take 5 minutes to mix up and 30 minutes in the oven. Lots of protein and can they can keep for a few days in the fridge.

Do you spend a lot of time on a smart phone? I started to notice almost the same things, especially when I was off of work and I caught myself on my phone way too much. I was losing a ton of time a day staring at a screen and with terrible posture. My head, neck, and shoulders would just hurt like crazy and sleep was awful. I noticed days I was not on it as much I felt much better. Just a thought.