Kingshakabooboo

My mother passed and left my brother all she had. A paid off trailer and $100k. She and I were never close.

My mother in law had a net worth of a paid for $300k house and about $250k in investments. As she got older we kept telling her she needed to talk to financial expert about how to best shepherd assets. She never did. As her health failed, she sold her house and put it all in an annuity and moved in with us. Lived with us for almost 5 years and finally got to the point she had to go into assisted living. Been in a year and had already blown thru $100k. Her health issues were mainly mobility issues and I could see her living several more years and I hope she does. The nursing home will likely drain her dry. Doubt we see a penny of inheritance.

My dad remarried about 15 years ago. They have a paid home worth about $250k and $400k in investments. He keeps saying he is going to get a will done but never does. If he goes first then it all goes to his wife, as it should, for her to continue to live on. Problem is she has a junkie daughter who will bleed her dry once my dad isn’t around to stop it. So doubt I see a penny from him either.

I have always lived my life assuming I would not get a penny from anyone and have handled my finances accordingly. Still sucks to think that I potentially been left a few hundred thousand dollars but bottom line,
It’s there money and not mine.

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I wonder if maybe it was a snake bite?

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I mentioned this to my SIL. There is a large creek that runs directly needing their house. It is fenced with a chainlink fence and gate so she couldn’t have gone the creek side but a cottonmouth could have come up into yard. Or maybe a copperhead? He checked her over pretty thoroughly and said he couldn’t see any bite marks but being that she was a long haired he couldn’t have missed it. He said he was going to check every inch of back yard just in case before the kids could go out and play again.

Only other thing would be maybe a neighbor poisoned her. I couldn’t imagine why though. His from fence and side fences are 6ft cedar so she wasn’t really visible to the neighbors.
And the dog never hardly ever barked so she really wasn’t a nuisance. He gets along with his neighbors on either side really well and they both have permanent outside dogs so we couldn’t really imagine either of them doing it.

We just returned from family beach trip to Fort Morgan today. My daughter called after they arrived home to let us know their little Molly had passed while we were gone. She was 8 same age as her son. He and her 3 y/o daughter were both devastated. We have no idea what happened. She is an inside puppy but does stay outside during the day when everyone is at work. It hasn’t been hot. She had a covered back patio for shelter and also my SIL has a doggy door built into his separate shop that she can go in. His sister was stopping by each day to make sure she was fed and had fresh water. She had not previously shown any signs of sickness nor was there any signs of trama where maybe another animal hurt her. She was a great family member and I hate my daughter and two grandchildren are having to deal with her loss.

Dachshunds make great family pets. Very protective of their family and great lapdogs. Here was mine below. She lived to be 13. A red tailed hawk got her one day while playing in the backyard. I had her since birth and she was like my third child. I cried like a baby when the vet put her down. Hawk had just done too much damage and vet didn’t think she would survive the surgery or healing process due to her age. She was suffering so bad that I just wanted it to be over for her.

My FIL worked for Bake Hughes,
Primarily in Indonesia but also occasionally in China, New Guinea etc. Generally did a die months on few months off rotation. He had just rotated back to Indo and had been complaining about stomach issues before he left. Nothing new. Dude either always had a Miller lite in his hand or a bottle of pepto. He had been gone about a week when my MIL got a call that he had not reported for work and when they sent someone to his house to check on him they found him unconscious. They rushed him to local hospital but he was already in a coma. They quickly realized he was fighting some kind of infection and it was shutting his organs down. Before they could get it under control he died. Afterwards they found he had an ulcer that had gotten infected and ruptured. The infection spread quickly and that is what was shutting his organs down. Doctor told my MIL that if he would have come in even one day earlier, that it would have been easily treatable. That was 24 years ago. He was 52. Same age I am now. He was a huge Saints and Tigers fan and died in 2002. He missed 3 football nattys and Saints Super Bowl. Only saw 1of his 5 grandkids born and obviously none of his 9 great grandkids. Very sad.

If we are talking about next year then definitely All Other Sports.

I can live with another year of no football Natty as long as they are at least competitive, beat Ole Miss and it means I get to watch WW drag his nuts over the blue bloods faces on his way to LSU first natty.

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If it were up to him we would have Kelvin Sheppard as our head football coach right now

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I think Sheppard will have a successful coaching career but I didnt think he was ready for this job yet.
However I don’t blame Fehoko for showing some love and support for a fellow Tiger.

I cheer for whoever is wearing that LSU jersey to win games. Why should I give a shite where that player comes from. It’s not like when it was all high school recruits, I actually knew any of them. I don’t care if it’s some 18 y/o freshman from Georgia, a 20 y/o junior transfer from Directional U, or some 22 y/o from Italy. I wouldn’t know any of them. It would just be some dude that chose to come play in “dat purple jersey man”. High School kids were getting paid under the table 30 years ago and now they getting paid in the open. As long as it’s competitive and fun to watch and LSU is winning, I’m good with it!

The entire sports world shite on Wade for doing exactly what every blue blood had been doing for decades. The NCAA screwed up by not coming up with a workable NIL solution before it got so bad that Congress blew it all up. Death rides a pale horse and Will Wade is his name and I’m going to enjoy watching him burn the whole mess to the ground.

I feel the same as I would if someone said
Have a good day.
Have a great day.
Have a splendid day.

Or in a different situation if someone says thanks or thank you or says yes sir or no sir, or if someone holds a door open for me.

It’s called good manners and civil people living in a civil society used to do all these things as a course of habit. I don’t really feel anything when it happens because that should be the norm. However it does saddens me to see it happen less and less often.

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I still have confidence in Jay but he is not the “best damn coach in the country” because this level of sub-par performance does not happen w/ the best in any sport.

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Not sure about you but I want the best coach at LSU. If it’s not Jay, then who would you say it is.

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Jordan? Probably not. He would have to COMPLETEY change his game.

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Jordan was 6’5 and 220lbs and played in an era where there were far more physical and dominant true centers than now. And he still was able to get to the rim at will. He would absolutely feast on the soft arse defenses in today’s NBA.

LeBron playing against the late 80, early 90 Pistons would be interesting. He is big enough and talented enough to still play in that era but too soft mentally. He wouldn’t hold up to the physicality of the game. Just watch how he reacts now when someone barely bumps him. What do think he would do when someone like Mahorn or Ewing catches him with an elbow.

And again, I do not deny Lebrons talent. Personally I would put him in Top 10 all time, but not top 5 and for sure not the Goat.

It is hard to compare different eras. Players today in general are more athletic due to better nutrition and training science advancements. But the game today is so much softer than the past. Heck, they don’t even call travel or double dribble half the time. You can’t hand check now.