Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

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Nobody can be on a phone here without getting a ticket. They still do of course, but every once in awhile police will crack down on it. I wish they would go after those people harder than those that speed. Far greater threats, IMO.

Probably two years ago, I had a guy on his phone swerve into my lane coming into work and nearly hit me. I honked my horn and threw my hands up (did not flip him off). He pulled out a gun and showed it to me (didn't point it at me). I was slapped with the harsh realization that there are people out there that just don't care about anything and they unfortunately are allowed to drive cars.

I'll still honk if I need to get someone's attention to avoid getting hit, but I've completely given up hand gestures unless it's a friendly wave. There are just too many unpredictable people in this world and I don't wanna go out just because some asshat is having a bad day.
If this ever happens again, pull over and call 911 immediately and give them the license number.
 
I'm polite. Not a name caller really. Do not think it does anything but make me look bad. Besides, I avoid the cave due to the craziness in there.
Anymore, I go to the cave for the entertainment. I don't post but might hit the like or agree button, if someone actually makes some sense. Do people really think they are going to change someone's mind in there??
 
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I take the daughter to the bus right about peak eclipse but unfortunately it will likely be cloudy since we are forecasted to be right on the cloudy/clear line.
Yes it has been cloudy here and I'm afraid it will be tomorrow as well. We'll see. I'll put my camera in the car and if it is clear try to get some photos
 
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Anymore, I go to the cave for the entertainment. I don't post but might hit the like or agree button, if someone actually makes some sense. Do people really think they are going to change someone's mind in there??


I think they do. Funny thing is, anybody who might be open minded or willing to consider other views is ran off immediately in the cave and made fun of. So what is left is hard liners who have lost it. Basically its the ISR board but much nastier.
 
Kids cereal box said gluten free, so I looked up gluten again.

I still don't fully know where gluten comes from. I understand where in the seed, but not the general idea of it.
 
Are you local? Sounds like a great weekend, congrats!

It is funny how the teams end up sometimes. One of the clubs our oldest tried out for (actually the club she had played for for 4 years) "said" they would only put girls who play softball on regional teams since nationals runs into softball season. It was an issue for us last year in 8th grade because we knew she would be playing varsity ball. We only wanted a regional team. This year for the 15/16s they said the same thing--softball girls should be on regional teams (of course there always seems to be exceptions with no reasoning). Ran into that with another club where they said their regional teams were on par with their national teams because of good multi-sport athletes. Technically we are on a national team this year (different club) but I don't know if we would go to nationals if we qualify.

We made it to the championship in our tournament, then were killed by bad line judging/reffing. Always hard when the losing semi-final team has to stick around to ref the championship--they are tired, don't want to be there. We lost the lead in the first set and lost (again, at least 4pts off bad line judging) then the girls totally fell apart in the final set.
We're a team out of the Des Moines metro. I hear you on the line judging and reffing thing. We were in the second semi-final game so the team we beat was the reffing team for the championship. It didn't matter much because the girls were drained and the other team was flat out better than us, plus this tournament hired R1s for all of the matches, which was nice so I didn't have to do it.

I thought that the initial groups for pool play were in our favor but it turned out that the first, second, and consolation champs all came out of our pool of 4, so we did well against good competition, too.
 
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I have always somewhat enjoyed wrestling despite not knowing pretty much anything about it.

I generally go to the cave to learn/get opinions on stuff. I have debated going off and edging up on the ban hammer but then I remember how much you all would miss me and I keep my cool. ;)
 
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