The Coffee House

[smoke665]

@limr Any comments on the firing of McElwaine????

Not too surprising, given their record and current problems with the team. Poor recruitment trickles all the way up to the coach. I am surprised and horrified at the death threats.

Southern football fans take it pretty serious!! He's not the first that I remember.

@SquarePeg You have to wonder at the luck some people have. Wonder what the odds would be that the poor woman would have a tree fall on her while driving down the street!!

You could look at it as bad luck that the tree fell on her while she drove by. You could also look at it as extremely lucky that it didn't fall a second earlier or later and land in a different way and kill someone in the car. Or someone walking by - that intersection is on one of the main paths that the Middle and HS kids take when walking to school and this happened during prime time this morning. I drive that route when I'm driving them. Frequently kids will stand around at that intersection waiting to meet up with friends before walking the rest of the way together. It's amazingly, incredibly, lucky that no one was seriously hurt. I think there were enough trees down and power outages in the area that they should have had a delayed start for school today but they didn't.

No, I'm not discounting how lucky the family was in this. It's just after being on the scene of so many accidents over the years, it always nagged me that had the people been 1 second faster or 1 second slower in a lot of cases the outcome would have been significantly different.

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

No, I'm not discounting how lucky the family was in this. It's just after being on the scene of so many accidents over the years, it always nagged me that had the people been 1 second faster or 1 second slower in a lot of cases the outcome would have been significantly different.

Yup. So much is decided by literally seconds! Make you wonder if all of life is just random chance.

 

[davidharmier60]

Dave took Dad and a drum of soap a few miles inside of beltway 8 in Houston.
Dave got $15 worth of pennies in an actual penny box. 50 rolls $25. Dave can see ordering a box a week. Dave sees how lucky the people in the car were. Dave has no idea who got fired or why.
Daves Sister DVRd the game.
She and Dad watched it.
She deleted it before Dave got to see it.
This is kind of a bummer.
Carry on peeps.

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[smoke665]

Make you wonder if all of life is just random chance.

I know, in a meeting with my banker this week, and she told how she had stayed at the hotel in Las Vegas not long ago for a meeting, and had walked in the same area as the shootings. Years ago don't know if you remember there was a massive fire in the MGM Grand hotel casino, my wife and I had been in that casino, just the day before. Makes you wonder about why chance chooses some and not others. Like the comment earlier I made on the mother driving, how many cars do you think might have gone by that tree in the hour before, and how many might have been in route to pass, yet it fell on her?? Seriously makes you wander if chance is actually random or if there's some madness in the universe.

 

[limr30 3]

Make you wonder if all of life is just random chance.

I know, in a meeting with my banker this week, and she told how she had stayed at the hotel in Las Vegas not long ago for a meeting, and had walked in the same area as the shootings. Years ago don't know if you remember there was a massive fire in the MGM Grand hotel casino, my wife and I had been in that casino, just the day before. Makes you wonder about why chance chooses some and not others. Like the comment earlier I made on the mother driving, how many cars do you think might have gone by that tree in the hour before, and how many might have been in route to pass, yet it fell on her?? Seriously makes you wander if chance is actually random or if there's some madness in the universe.

Random chance is the madness of the universe

 

[jcdeboever]

I like bread

 

[limr30 3]

I like bread

This cat does not.

 

[smoke665]

Random chance is the madness of the universe

Really??? I'm beginning to believe we're in a remake of "Final Destination" and death is looking!!! Talking about it on the news today - http://nypost.com/2017/10/30/couple-who-survived-vegas-shooting-perish-in-car-crash/

 

[davidharmier60]

Dave is going through copper rolls he did.
If not a darn near perfect penny it goes into the back to circulation pile. And by putting three stacks of 10 he gets two rolls for every one. He does not have to awaken at 4am tomorrow but did this morning.
Probably not awake but about an hour from now.

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[tirediron]

Wade wrote something Dr. Seuss-like about bread. Add some green eggs & ham to that!

Wade drives to get bread by car,
Sometimes he eats bread as a pretzel in a bar.
Bread is baked, warm and hot,
Wade will give any bread a fair shot.
After he eats all the bread,
He finds that his scale plays dead.
If you find this leaves you wanting more,
Go bake some bread, it is no chore.

Bread is simply a device to keep mayonaise off of your fingers.

 

[waday]

Wade wrote something Dr. Seuss-like about bread. Add some green eggs & ham to that!

Wade drives to get bread by car,
Sometimes he eats bread as a pretzel in a bar.
Bread is baked, warm and hot,
Wade will give any bread a fair shot.
After he eats all the bread,
He finds that his scale plays dead.
If you find this leaves you wanting more,
Go bake some bread, it is no chore.

Bread is simply a device to keep mayonaise off of your fingers.

John likes bread with mayonnaise,
He could eat it for days and days.

 

[snowbear116 47]

Enjoying a glass of antifreeze (rum and Mountain Dew)

 

[davidharmier60]

Dave obviously needed sleep. And the Dogs found nothing to go off on.
8:32 when Dave rolled out of bed.
Need to investigate the truck.
Fan works but after 20 miles or so the air stops coming out of the vents.
No problem going to work but the longer runs aren't fun.

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[Gary A.]

Make you wonder if all of life is just random chance.

I know, in a meeting with my banker this week, and she told how she had stayed at the hotel in Las Vegas not long ago for a meeting, and had walked in the same area as the shootings. Years ago don't know if you remember there was a massive fire in the MGM Grand hotel casino, my wife and I had been in that casino, just the day before. Makes you wonder about why chance chooses some and not others. Like the comment earlier I made on the mother driving, how many cars do you think might have gone by that tree in the hour before, and how many might have been in route to pass, yet it fell on her?? Seriously makes you wander if chance is actually random or if there's some madness in the universe.

Gary's neighbor attended the Route 91 concert. The concert extended across the entire weekend. By Sunday, the day of the shooting, she was tired and stayed in the hotel. Most likely she starts everyday and ends every night with a "Why me?".

 

[Gary A.]

Before Cooking

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. There was a bit of rain this morning. Just enough to barely discolor the pavement, but not enough to turn off the sprinklers. Gary is on his second cup of coffee enjoying the 64F morning. It may reach 70F today, but not higher. So Fall/Winter has finally hit SoCal. Yesterday, Gary started the day with stuffing a pot roast into the crock pot. I was delicious. Gary tossed in the usual stuff, carrots, onion, celery, tomato, but also added fistfuls of herbs and some peppers. What a difference the herbs and peppers made.