So I've been letting old pairs of shoes add up since college, and am trying to figure out the best way to get rid of them. Mainly worn out running shoes/sneakers and old work shoes.

Are there any good places in the metro that will accept old shoes? I was thinking of taking the old running/sport shoes to Play it Again Sports, but wasn't sure if a place like Goodwill or Hope would be good places to take the rest.

TIA.

Might as well get this started.

Hopefully a Cyclone or two gets drafted. Most likely won't happen until the second round but stranger things have happened in the NBA.

I see Zion Williamson is being sued for $100 million already. Apparently he signed a contract with a marketing agency right after he declared and then decided to go with another agency a month later. He says the first contract was unlawful in North Carolina.. I guess we'll need the court to determine that.

https://sports.yahoo.com/zion-willi...ny-that-says-he-broke-contract-155903259.html

Hey all, welcome to another edition of On That Note. OTN is a music-themed regular weekly post, Wednesdays here on CF. Your hosts vary from week to week. This week is my turn in the barrel. The other guys are @cyclones500 and @CycloneRulzzz.

This week we're thinking about the past. The theme is Songs that are Nostalgic, containing lyrical content that looks back at the past in a positive memory. Thus the title "Troubles Seemed So Far Away" which is a snippet of the lyrics from Yesterday, by the Beatles, of course. I will take that one as one of my first 5 to kick off the thread. Actually, all 5 initial links from me will be Yesterday - plus one each from the Fabs during their solo years.

ONE HUGE CLARIFICATION - PLEASE! This is only songs that in and of themselves have nostalgic content in the lyrics. It is NOT supposed to be some generic song that you just happen to remember fondly from your youth. In other words, a post like, "I remember Jump by Van Halen from back in the day hanging out at the mall with my friends."

Last week's OTN is about Horns/Brass in songs. https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-around-the-horn.248474/

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My tailgating partner and I found a new bus we want to buy, but in order to do so we would need to sell the current bus first. Anyone here interested? Bus image is attached.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-grow...-too-many-too-big-houses-11553181782?mod=e2tw

get your jollys on a monday.

Not bad.

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Pretty cool.

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https://cyclonefanatic.com/podcasts...raft-player-mobility-old-school-story-vs-byu/

So, due to what I think is a clerical error on the part of several people at an airline, Janny and I got free round trip for two and a bit of an additional credit for the future (when I think the credits should maybe have been much smaller). I normally would be horrified at keeping it, but I've been rationalizing it to myself that we got credits at all due me having just horrific service on three different trips, and that the tickets we got were on planes that were currently 95% empty, so it isn't like we're stealing from someone else.

Is there anything that you have received for free that you felt slightly icky about? Could you rationalize it to yourself? How so?

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June 24th will mark 10 years since Aplington-Parkersburg coach Ed Thomas' death.

The Des Moines register has a pretty good article about his life and the impact he had.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...10-years-after-murder-mark-becker/1499693001/

They grow them big in Australia ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...-are-stuff-nightmares/?utm_term=.9c0ade2ee2ff

https://whotv.com/2019/06/20/alabam...el-posts-facebook-video-featuring-a-squirrel/

"When authorities executed a search warrant at an apartment, they say they found meth, drug paraphernalia, body armor, and a caged squirrel. Ronnie Reynolds, 37, was arrested during the search.

Sources told the sheriff's office that Paulk fed the squirrel meth to help keep it aggressive and trained it to attack people.

Animal control officials were called to retrieve the squirrel but since there wasn't a safe way to test it for meth they released the squirrel into the wild, according to WHNT."

I have a job interview today for the first time in like 12 years. It's a vertical move to a better role and I am pretty excited about it. But, it is my first interview in like 12 years. I have had other moves during that time, but they were always within the same group and the interviews were nothing more than a formality.

I talk in front of people all the time, give large presentations and can BS with the best of them. But, for some reason I have some nerves today.

I like to face my fears, so...what is the biggest interview FUBAR you have ever been witness to?

I was interviewing someone for a position via the phone a couple of years ago. The lady was at home and warned me I might hear her kids in the background. About 10 or 15mins in I hear one of her kids screaming and carrying on. She politely says "Sorry about that, can I step away for a moment?" Of course I told her.

At this point the mild-mannered, soft spoken professional I had been interviewing goes into a screeching fit "SHUT UP! I AM ON THE DAMN PHONE! MOMMY TOLD YOU THAT YOU HAD TO BE QUIET!!!!"

I am assuming she thought she had put her phone on mute or something, but it was directly into my ear. She then came back with her normal tone like nothing happened and continued.

I was holding back laughter on mute on my end. She didn't end up getting the job, but it wasn't because of the chaos during the interview.

More signs of the apocalypse.

Parents brawl over a 13-year-old umpire's call at Little League game. BTW, kids playing were like 7 year olds. JFC.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/us/parents-brawl-little-league-baseball-trnd/index.html

Good article from Randy (wut) about Prentiss's relationship with Eustachy and how LE helped steer him to Prohm and ISU.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...-learned-toughness-larry-eustachy/1488310001/

Have the MBB & WBB game dates been set for this year? Trying to do some planning but can't find anything released.

Dusted off my longform skills with Father's Day this weekend. Hope you guys enjoy this.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/06/...-bouman-prepare-for-one-last-season-together/

Kind of late as of today, according to USDA, with the least amount of corn planted since 1982, is 95% complete https://whotv.com/2019/06/04/usda-iowa-farmers-have-planted-least-amount-of-corn-since-1982/.

Iowa is ahead of other corn belt states but still behind. Weather has affected Ag to the point of breaking: https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...n-farmers-throw-towel/?utm_term=.1ed0effa1015

But good news for Soybeans https://www.accuweather.com/en/weat...s-some-good-news-for-soybean-farmers/70008577

Good time for looking at futures.

Surprised.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...ospects-according-to-our-carmelo-projections/

I've got a little gettin' even to do:
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https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/06/...king-some-baseball-and-iowa-state-in-the-b1g/

Welcome back to "On That Note," a CF music series hosted by @MeanDean, @CycloneRulzzz and me, cyclones500. I’ll serve as your host for this segment.

Returning to our occasional mini-series about specific instrument groups … See Part 1 (Give Us Your Keys) here. This week, we explore songs that feature horns as a prominent ingredient. Focus mainly on brass and sax.

In addition to performers whose signature approach involves those instruments, we encourage tracks from artists who typically don’t anchor their work that way.

I’ll post my first selections shortly in a separate post, to get us going.

• Last week’s OTN: The Animals (part 1) For the Birds

https://www.foodandwine.com/beer/homebrewers-association-best-beers-list-2019

A couple of my favs on here. Several I've never heard of.