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Said goodbye to my 2006 Kia Sedona (minivan) yesterday. A head gasket gave way the other night and before I realized it I'd cooked the engine pretty good. A heavy-duty sealant would probably have fixed the gasket, but nothing poured out of a bottle was going to fix that camshaft flailing around...

Been dieting since mid-July. I’ve lost 30+pounds and 4 inches off my waist (and coat size). forked up my golf game something fierce, but I don’t care. Looking forward to next Thursday more than I ever thought possible. I’m adding a twist to the routine in that I’m actually going to haul my old...

I’m having a hard time keeping track of my perspicacity on multiple “College Football Week X” threads, so I thought I’d create this one for all CFB playoff-related discussions. Hope you enjoy ... and you better have Clemson in your final four.

So, your humble correspondent finds himself bewitched, bothered and bewildered by a cadre of School of Education (my university doesn't have a "College" of Education) types who have insinuated themselves into certain aspects of online instruction. Apparently, to pass muster with the...

Right about this time in July, 30 years ago, is when I started to wonder just how much longer I could stomach the sportswriter gig. I was in Birmingham, at the SEC media days, and absolutely miserable. There was some sort of cocktail party/reception that night and I blew it off to go float...

The discussion re: the Buffoon in Chief's speech to the Boy Scouts veered toward kids' activities, so to continue with that meander outside of politics I thought I'd create this thread. What activities have your kids been involved that were especially awful? I'd have to say that SonOfQuant's...

Slightly different spin on the camping thread. Monday morning next week the Texas 200 sailboat "race" will begin in Port Mansfield, TX. They'll go 5 days up the ICW, finishing with a waterside shrimp boil on Magnolia Beach on Friday. Right now, a little over 100 participants (in 63 boats) are...

Or office, if you're an Ellie award-winner ... Online Dating Tries to Flirt With the Workplace

So asks Slate ... Why Is Pop Culture Suddenly Obsessed With Nuns?

Packing up the old mini-van for DaughterQuant's first club volleyball road trip this year. As I mentioned on @Starman's youth coaching thread, she's moved up to a "national" team, which means we're going to be hitting such garden spots as Fort Smith, Arkansas. (We're going to Minneapolis in late...

What's this board coming to?

Sort of a companion piece to our battles re: retirement: Sears, which draws nearer to its final, fatal spiral, is raising cash by selling its Craftsman brand to Stanley Black & Decker. Sears sells Craftsman brand to Stanley in deal that could top $1 billion I own Craftsman tools that my...

Checking out for the holidays, so see y'all in 2017. Have a merry/happy/peaceful whatever-the-frig you celebrate!

In starting this thread I'm prompted by this econ blog post dealing with the NYT's feature on GMO crops. The upshot of the Times' piece is that GMOs are leading to neither increased yields nor reduced pesticide use and therefore are not living up to their promise...

Bit of an update on how the fall season has (so far) unfolded: DaughterQuant is a middle on the freshman A-team, which consists of 14 girls (only four of whom came in from DaughterQuant's 8th-grade team; the rest came from that team her 8th-grade team beat in the city finals last fall). She...

I know there are plenty of over-the-top dog lovers in the sj.com ranks. God bless you, we love our dog, too, etc., etc. But these past couple of weeks, I've begun to wonder just what in the fork is up with people and their dogs. In the last couple of weeks, this is what I've observed: 1) At an...

.... but I'm not. DaughterQuant made the freshman A-team at her high school today, and like last year, I found myself agonizing over it. It's not that it means so much to me that she makes the team (even though I'm thrilled). It's that I just dread the idea of her having to deal with the "I...

Final drop day for the summer session is tomorrow. Got this one in the email inbox today ... "Hi professor, can you tell me what my average is? I need to decide whether to drop tomorrow." They've had two tests. And it's a statistics class.

So as I've mentioned in places, elder DaughterQuant (EDQ) graduated college last weekend. She majored in English at UT-Austin and just missed graduating cum laude. So, of course, she at present has no immediate job prospects. I thought I might put her/my/our situation out there for consideration...

In service to the board I kick off the regular season!