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Things that make you Happy (5 Viewers)

MrBoosh said:
I was in an accident driving home from the lake Sunday evening and am greatful that things didn't end up worse than they did. I am just a little sore in my shoulder and neck. Could have been alot worse. I am thankful that my family wasn't in the vehicle with me! A drunk driver turned into me as I was headed through a green light. I layed on my horn but was unable to avoid him hitting me. I am just thankful for being able to walk away with no major injuries.

The worst thing is I only had one payment left on my truck. :(

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Glad you are ok.

Sometimes I wish they would remove the horn from cars. When the other driver is inattentive, the horn simply does very little to make them aware. There's reaction time, which is 2 whole seconds for someone that is not paying attention. On a dry flat road at 30 MPH it takes an average of 131' 1" to come to a stop. Your horn may get you witnesses, but little else. In the meantime, you can't make an effective defensive maneuver with one hand on the wheel and one hand on the horn.

It's for this reason that there is a horn on the passenger side of firetrucks.

Sorry for your truck, it looks pretty new.
 
Poker Zombie said:
Glad you are ok.

Sometimes I wish they would remove the horn from cars. When the other driver is inattentive, the horn simply does very little to make them aware. There's reaction time, which is 2 whole seconds for someone that is not paying attention. On a dry flat road at 30 MPH it takes an average of 131' 1" to come to a stop. Your horn may get you witnesses, but little else. In the meantime, you can't make an effective defensive maneuver with one hand on the wheel and one hand on the horn.

It's for this reason that there is a horn on the passenger side of firetrucks.

Sorry for your truck, it looks pretty new.
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I kept playing the situation through my head, thinking of ways that I could have avoided it. But then I think of poker and how sometimes you can play a hand perfectly and still lose. In the end, the sun is still shining and I personally don't like to dwell on the if's and but's of life.

I feel like I have derailed this happy thread. I am well and all is still good in my life! And I get to pick out a new (to me) truck in the near future!

Here is something that always makes me laugh. A pic of my first little league baseball team. That's me in the center. They don't name teams like they used to! :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

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Poker Zombie said:
Glad you are ok.

Sometimes I wish they would remove the horn from cars. When the other driver is inattentive, the horn simply does very little to make them aware. There's reaction time, which is 2 whole seconds for someone that is not paying attention. On a dry flat road at 30 MPH it takes an average of 131' 1" to come to a stop. Your horn may get you witnesses, but little else. In the meantime, you can't make an effective defensive maneuver with one hand on the wheel and one hand on the horn.

It's for this reason that there is a horn on the passenger side of firetrucks.

Sorry for your truck, it looks pretty new.
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Wow, this is an eye opening thought. Thanks for posing it that way, this changes how I think.
 
MrBoosh said:
I was in an accident driving home from the lake Sunday evening and am greatful that things didn't end up worse than they did. I am just a little sore in my shoulder and neck. Could have been alot worse. I am thankful that my family wasn't in the vehicle with me! A drunk driver turned into me as I was headed through a green light. I layed on my horn but was unable to avoid him hitting me. I am just thankful for being able to walk away with no major injuries.

The worst thing is I only had one payment left on my truck. :(

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Make sure you fight insurance. You need REPLACEMENT value. Full retail $$$ for your truck.

In addition, most states allow you to get a refund on the sales tax if your purchase another vehicle within 14-30 days. You submit the tax $ spent to insurance and they reimburse you.
 
doublebooyah85 said:
Make sure you fight insurance. You need REPLACEMENT value. Full retail $$$ for your truck.

In addition, most states allow you to get a refund on the sales tax if your purchase another vehicle within 14-30 days. You submit the tax $ spent to insurance and they reimburse you.
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This is good info to know. Thank you!
 
krafticus said:
Thanks. I mainly do travel baseball from 8u - 14u, with some 16u-18u sprinkled in. I love umpiring the younger kids more, as they listen, learn, and want to get better. It's sometimes harder work, as 8u-12u is always a 1-umpire game. 13u and up is played on the 90/60.6 fields, and requires a 2-man crew. I move all over the place and do my best to get in the best position to make the call.

I get a ton of compliments for my game and my zone (bigger zone for the younger they are), and I try to explain everything I can (balks, positioning on the field, where feet should be on plays at the base/plate, etc). I used to be a coach. Coaches really appreciate that when you help the kids out. I'm always complimenting them, even when they have rough games. One team this weekend took a game into extra innings and lost in the bottom of the 8th. They looked upset, but I went up to everyone and congratulated them on a fantastic ball game in which they should all be proud how hard they played. Same with the coaches, and they really appreciate hearing that from someone not on the team.

As a matter of fact, that game ended on a very tough call I made. they were up 1, and the bases were loaded with 2 outs. The home team hit a shot down the left field line, and I was on the line tracking the ball. At the last second, the 3rd baseman ran into my line of sight, and I could not see the ball land. I had it tracking fair the entire time, so that's how I called it. I pointed to the ground in fair territory, which is proper mechanics. The home team won. Naturally, the parents of that team let it fly on me, but either way I made the call, someone was going to be upset. The coach or parent said you never said a call, and he's right. you never say anything on a fair ball, you just point. After the game, I explained that entire situation to the coach, and he was not upset or angry, and thanked me for explaining what I saw. He said most umpires never explain their calls. I always do. I also admit when I make a mistake. I did that Saturday when a kid hit a slow roller down the 3rd base line, and threw his bat. I watched the bat to make sure it didn't hit anyone. When I looked back at the ball, it had been fielded, and thrown to 1st, but late. I called him safe. The coach tells me that the ball was clearly picked up in foul territory. I explained I was focused on the thrown bat (he had done this in the previous game), and I missed the play, so I had to keep the call. He thanked me for my honesty. (again, "most umpires never admit their mistakes" he says).

I love the game of baseball. Umpiring is awesome, until you get a really Ass of a coach, or incredibly over the top parents. Around here, that doesn't happen that much. (100+ games, only 3 issues to date .. and 2 weren't because of calls I made; rather they were my terrible partners calls).
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I'm glad you're loving it. As soon as the boys get to where I can't coach them anymore, I am going to start reffing hockey games. Its the last part of the game I have not done yet.
 
Got a great phone call today that made us happy in regards to my 6th grade daughter and softball. I type this post knowing that in April or so I went on a rant in the things that are bullsh*t thread about my kid not making the MS team. Got a lot of great support in that thread and for that I'm grateful.

Kid had an awesome last few weeks. She's on two teams, her Little League (6th/7th grade) and Travel Softball Team, and in a week's timespan she earned 3 game balls from both teams! Both coaches never give out game balls which made her grin from ear to ear when she walked off the field.

Today we got a call from her league's all-star coach saying that she was nominated and made the all-star team. What's interesting is that the coach told me she made the team over kids who are on the MS team (they all play MS and Little League) so that made her day.

There goes our summer but oh well....it's worth it.
 
Yesterday was my first mammogram since surgery. I was unaware they'd do the process differently - after the images were taken, they had me wait and the radiologist read them immediately, so that if I needed either more images or an ultrasound, I could do it then. Good forward thinking! The good part, though, is that everything looked good and I'm to repeat in a year (which is normal)! Woot! #CuckFancer

As a secondary thing, there was an older woman there, clearly distressed. She was waiting to be called back for a biopsy. While I waited on the aforementioned read, I chatted with her. I think she felt better, so I was at the right place at the right time.
 
Mrs Poker Zombie said:
Yesterday was my first mammogram since surgery. I was unaware they'd do the process differently - after the images were taken, they had me wait and the radiologist read them immediately, so that if I needed either more images or an ultrasound, I could do it then. Good forward thinking! The good part, though, is that everything looked good and I'm to repeat in a year (which is normal)! Woot! #CuckFancer

As a secondary thing, there was an older woman there, clearly distressed. She was waiting to be called back for a biopsy. While I waited on the aforementioned read, I chatted with her. I think she felt better, so I was at the right place at the right time.
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That human connection must have been so valuable for her; nice job passing on the comfort, well done!
 
Technology is cool.

I've worn contact lenses for the last 25 years, and honestly, I love them. with age, my reading vision has gotten progressively bad to the point where I need to keep a pair of reading glasses EVERYWHERE. It's a pain really.

Yesterday, I was fitted for multi-focal contact lenses that have built in distance and reading Rx in the same lens. I can read screens, phones, (my speedometer), as well as distance at the same time ... no more glasses at all. It's cool. It's a tad weird, but it's SO nice to not need glasses to read a menu, a receipt, a phone screen. I am a happy man.

The ONLY issue ... with my old lenses, my distance vision was 20/10 (my Orioles tickets are 23 rows back from home plate, and I could clearly see the numbers of the pitchers warming up in the bullpen past centerfield), and now I am closer to 20/20 or 20/25. Not as good as before, but still good enough where I'm not having issues. Maybe it will take a few more days for my eyes to adjust to the new lenses, but as of right now, I'm over the moon happy that I can read my screens without the assistance of reading glasses !!!

My eye dr. is also amazed at how awesome my eyes are. When she does the weird tests, I always get everything exactly right .. says I in the 5% of patients that can do that.
 
A cousin asked about playing online so I set up a Poker*s game and it was a big hit! Here I am paying for Poker Mavens Pro.

@BearMetal is incredibly helpful. His custom artwork inspired me to buy it and then he stepped up to help me troubleshoot connectivity and refused a tip. He's a standup guy, very glad he exists.
 
Visiting my 44th MLB bark, with only one more current park until I've seen them all (looking at you, Seattle, and Vegas in 2028).

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The list (in no particular order):
  1. Tiger Stadium (closed 1999)
  2. Comerica Park
  3. Yankee Stadium (closed 2008)
  4. Yankee Stadium III
  5. Shea Stadium (closed 2008)
  6. Citifield
  7. Skydome (now Rogers Centre)
  8. County Stadium (closed 2000)
  9. Miller Park (now American Family Field)
  10. Olympic Stadium
  11. Three Rivers Stadium (closed 2000)
  12. PNC Park
  13. Riverfront Stadium (closed 2002)
  14. Great American Ballpark
  15. Veterans Stadium (closed 2003)
  16. Citizens Bank Ballpark
  17. Fenway Park
  18. Oriole Park at Camden Yards
  19. Cleveland Stadium (closed 1994)
  20. Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field)
  21. Turner Field (closed 2016)
  22. SunTrust Park (now Truist Park)
  23. Tropicana Field
  24. Pro Player Stadium (Marlins home until 2011)
  25. Marlins Park (now Loan Depot Park)
  26. The Ballpark in Arlington (closed 2019)
  27. Globe Life Field
  28. Busch Memorial Stadium (closed 2005)
  29. Busch Stadium II
  30. Kauffman Stadium
  31. Comiskey Park II (now Guaranteed Rate Field)
  32. Wrigley Field
  33. Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (Twins home until 2009)
  34. Target Field
  35. Coors Field
  36. AT&T Park (now Oracle Park)
  37. Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
  38. RFK Memorial Stadium (Nationals home until 2007)
  39. Nationals Park
  40. Anaheim Stadium (now Angel Stadium)
  41. Dodger Stadium
  42. Petco Park
  43. Chase Field
  44. Minute Maid Park
 
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