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The wife is doing some commissioned work for autism awareness. It's a hooded towel.

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Gary has never seen a 'hooded towel'. Is a hooded towel just a clever/cute thing or does it has beneficial/usefulness for autistic people? Gary's youngest daughter works as a behavior therapist with autistic kids.

I don't know if the hooded towel is specifically FOR the autistic kids, or just that the proceeds will go towards autism research, but one of the issues many autistic children/people have is a high sensitivity to sensory input and get overloaded quickly. There is research that shows the efficacy of "swaddling" as a way to calm a person when they are hitting overload; I've heard of weighted blankets, or blankets designed to be tied tightly around someone, so perhaps if that towel is FOR autistic children, the hood is there to help facilitate that protective swaddling for younger children.

Gary would look good in a hooded towel

Especially in this one.

Good looking he would be.

 

[smoke665]

@jcdeboever while I love ice cream.,Chocolate is like crack to me, I crave it. I can go without it for awhile but if I ever get even a smell of it, I'll pig out for as long as it's near. Bad thing is the wife is just as bad as I am.

 

[table1349]

@jcdeboever while I love ice cream.,Chocolate is like crack to me, I crave it. I can go without it for awhile but if I ever get even a smell of it, I'll pig out for as long as it's near. Bad thing is the wife is just as bad as I am.

Does that mean we are not going to diAmano when I get there??? I would love me some Georgia Peach and Pecan bark.

 

[smoke665]

@jcdeboever while I love ice cream.,Chocolate is like crack to me, I crave it. I can go without it for awhile but if I ever get even a smell of it, I'll pig out for as long as it's near. Bad thing is the wife is just as bad as I am.

Does that mean we are not going to diAmano when I get there??? I would love me some Georgia Peach and Pecan bark.

Need to get things on the calendar. First we can go to the Alabama Chocolate Festival - Rainbow City - Alabama.travel, then follow up with Smoke on the Falls (2017-04-07) Then head on out your way for Beer and Bacon. What a month April would be!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[table1349]

@jcdeboever while I love ice cream.,Chocolate is like crack to me, I crave it. I can go without it for awhile but if I ever get even a smell of it, I'll pig out for as long as it's near. Bad thing is the wife is just as bad as I am.

Does that mean we are not going to diAmano when I get there??? I would love me some Georgia Peach and Pecan bark.

Need to get things on the calendar. First we can go to the Alabama Chocolate Festival - Rainbow City - Alabama.travel, then follow up with Smoke on the Falls (2017-04-07) Then head on out your way for Beer and Bacon. What a month April would be!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm down with that. We need to stop by the Texas State Chili Cookoff on April 30th for a bite of lunch though.

 

[smoke665]

We need to stop by the Texas State Chili Cookoff on April 30th for a bite of lunch though.

Shame it's the 30th, we'd have to back track to make Central Alabama Crawfish Festival

 

[table1349]

We need to stop by the Texas State Chili Cookoff on April 30th for a bite of lunch though.

Shame it's the 30th, we'd have to back track to make Central Alabama Crawfish Festival

Ain't no thing. We do Beer & Bacon tomorrow, Texas State Chili Cookoff for lunch and the Central Alabam Crawfish Festival for dinner. On Sunday we go to diAmano then to the Alabama Chocolate Festival on Monday. Don't worry youngun, you are going to be tutored by a professional on the hows of eating all kinds of great places in a short amount of time.

To make traveling a bit easier, well at least a bit more fun, hows bout you scrounge us up a couple of mason jars of snake bite medicine. You always got to watch out for snake bites when your traveling ya know.

 

[smoke665]

scrounge us up a couple of mason jars of snake bite medicine

I might know a couple of suppliers of snake bite medicine

 

[table1349]

scrounge us up a couple of mason jars of snake bite medicine

I might know a couple of suppliers of snake bite medicine

Outstanding. I here that Georgia is rife with copper heads this year, and the rattlers stretch from Texas into Kansas. Can't be too careful when traveling, or when over at a friends house, or sitting at home, or any other time for that matter.

 

[table1349]

Good follow up story about the Student Journalist that outed the New Principle who had false credentials. How a teacher prepared her students to take on the adults and win

 

[Gary A.]

@Gary A. my downfall is sweets, ice cream and snacks, usually consumed at night before bed. Using My Fitness Pal, I can calculate the number steps I'm going to have to log in order to have that treat, sometimes I decide it's worth it, sometimes it's not. The point is it helps me make a better choice.

I agree. I've been using MyFitnessPal for awhile. But lately, I haven't been following it to a 'T'. When I was watching it more closely, I often would take The Cook out for a evening walk or hit the threadmill. I have all the tools I need, I just lack the will. I rationalize it all by telling myself, it me years to get overweight ... so it's okay not to lose it all overnight.

 

[Gary A.]

BEER & BACON!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL .... what could go wrong ... (nice photo)

Nothing as far as I am concerned. I have rented a portable defibrillator for the day and bought one of these.

A must for a true beer gourmand.

 

[Gary A.]

The wife is doing some commissioned work for autism awareness. It's a hooded towel.

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Gary has never seen a 'hooded towel'. Is a hooded towel just a clever/cute thing or does it has beneficial/usefulness for autistic people? Gary's youngest daughter works as a behavior therapist with autistic kids.

I don't know if the hooded towel is specifically FOR the autistic kids, or just that the proceeds will go towards autism research, but one of the issues many autistic children/people have is a high sensitivity to sensory input and get overloaded quickly. There is research that shows the efficacy of "swaddling" as a way to calm a person when they are hitting overload; I've heard of weighted blankets, or blankets designed to be tied tightly around someone, so perhaps if that towel is FOR autistic children, the hood is there to help facilitate that protective swaddling for younger children.

Gary would look good in a hooded towel

Especially in this one.

Good looking he would be.

Gary ordered one, he did.

 

[Gary A.]

Listen up you-all coffee hosers. Gary is all jazzed up. Gary and Mary Lou adopted a kid while visiting a new winery in Temecula. He was a pouring and was down on his luck. He was a world class swimmer with a full ride at Penn State. He sorta imploded at Penn and returned home to California. He applied at a few universities and was accepted at none. Gary and Mary Lou adopted him and I wrote his personal statement. He applied at a number of UC and Cal States, with his dream college being Berkeley. During the last month he has been accepted at every university he applied with no rejections. UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, Sonoma, San Luis Obispo ... 100% ... and today UC Berkeley accepted him.

A few years ago, I was at the East Gate for Cal Day (Cal Day is an open house for incoming freashmen). The ASB prez welcomed the freshmen to the "... Greatest university in the world ...". I took it all in, I ran through my memory banks ... and being a Trojan it was hard to admit, but arguably he was right. Cal could be the greatest public university in the whole jammin' world.

Congrats Matt and Godspeed.

 

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