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They’re still -650 to make the playoffs of Fanduel, still pretty good odds.

re: NFL Various Games - Week 9

Posted by grsharky on 11/2/25 at 5:35 pm to
Well it is Buffalo...

re: Rewatching The Wire

Posted by grsharky on 10/31/25 at 9:49 am to
I do a rewatch every few years and it still holds up. I got to meet one of the actors from the show right after in went off the air. I was in a Starbucks and I saw a guy who looked familiar and I realized it was the actor who played Detective Vernon Holley on the show. I went over and he was very appreciative of someone recognizing him and we talked about the show. He said he had to run out to his car, he had an autographed cast picture, and walked out. A few minutes went by and I figured he just split, he comes hustling back in and said he didn't have it, but asked for my address and three days later in showed up at my house. I still have it 17 years later.
Thomas Jefferson could pay that from the grave
I went back to last year and did some math, our investments earned about 35% what our gross income was. So that’s a nice chunk, but no where close to earning more than our annual household income. We still have a long ways to go though too.
2021, my friend and I are on the golf course during March Madness and he causally drops that he bet $50,000 on Baylor over Wisconsin. I almost fell over. We watched the second half of that game at the bar in the clubhouse. I'm pretty sure he has put even larger bets on games since then, but I don't know the specifics.

At this point he is pretty much a professional gambler and he is the one person I know who does really well at betting on sports.
I was at the 13-9 game, worst night ever, when we were walking back to the car after the game, I borrowed my friend's lighter and burned the ticket stub. To this day I have never watched one second of that game. Rich Rod bolted the next week to add insult to injury. That team was loaded and with RR would've been in the mix in 2008, but we hired the overmatched Bill Stewart (great guy, but mediocre coach) and lost to East Carolina, Colorado, and Pitt again.

Ironically we play Pitt on 9/13 this year and Rich Rod is back, can't make it up.

re: Teacher friends are cranky....

Posted by grsharky on 7/27/25 at 8:35 am to
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Been around the kid a few times, no one is out to get him. It's obvious to everyone who is not directly related. BTW, mom is 5 feet, 250lbs and just blew a gasket because her husband called her fat.


Teacher here, that’s one of my favorite lines from parents, “you’re targeting my child!”. I have to explain to them, no I’m not, in fact I look the other way on a lot of things your kid does because I don’t want to deal with you. If I speed by a cop everyday they will start to look out for me, they’re not targeting me, I’m putting myself in that situation, but that logic is lost on many people.
We don’t celebrate the milestones, they’re just numbers as said above. With that being said, we’re closing in on a million dollars net worth, it’s not the end or the goal, but I will savor that for a minute when it happens.
Just walked out of the store, NY Strips were $22.99 a pound.
And I didn’t get selected either. Oh well!
I heard someone say he is the Tim Duncan of golf. Not flashy but dominant, I think it’s fitting.
I think he’ll do it, but you never know, it’s pretty rare. Only 6 guys have done it in the history of the game. It took Rory 11 years to finish it off, Spieth is still looking to complete it after winning the Open in 2017, and Arnold and Watson had three of the four legs but couldn’t get the PGA, and throw in Phil coming up short without a US Open.

I’d like him to wait until 2033 when they’re back at Oakmont so I can say I saw it. You figure he’ll have 20+ chances to do it though, so we’ll see.

re: How Much House Can We Afford?

Posted by grsharky on 7/19/25 at 9:26 am to
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In hindsight I wish I was less conservative because I kinda hate my house and want a new one more every day, yet I probably have a 10 year prison sentence given interest rates.


Same here, I hate our house and would love to move on. It's extremely affordable, only 5% of our gross monthly pay, but it's older and I never wanted to buy it in the first place. We've been in it for 10 years, and have 10 years left on the mortgage, and it's allowed us to save and invest a ton of money, but it's also older and is constantly needing some type of upgrade.
Good point about the abundance of alerts. We live in PA, so we don’t get as much severe weather that the South gets, but we do get clobbered with snow in the winter. It used to take 8-12 inches to get a winter storm warning. Now we get them with much less snow and will get advisories with as little as 2 inches.
She had pneumonia really bad about a year ago, almost killed her. I’d imagine that’s why she’s on oxygen today.
I agree, go back and look at the games from the 80’s, doesn’t matter the sport. The diehard fans are all close to the court or field. Now those seats are all corporate people who come late and leave early.
I don’t drink soda too often, but every summer I buy a case of RC. It just reminds me of being a kid for some reason, they even have the retro cans from the 80’s back.

re: Aftermath at Gettysburg

Posted by grsharky on 7/5/25 at 12:44 pm to
You should read,”This Republic of Suffering” it’s about how North and South dealt with the overwhelming death toll of the Civil War and it also discusses the aftermath of the battles and citizens of those areas handled burials and cleanup.