Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

[Cybirdy]

Our Homecoming week is a bit messed up because of the ISU game. Usually the parade and coronation is Thursday night. Now the parade is Monday and coronation will be done at halftime.

All the schools do dress up days (different depending on the school). The 6th grader is on student council and one of their choices they were voting on was "black tie day" essentially dressing very fancy. Except the 6th graders have an outdoor field trip (half On Wednesday and half on Thursday) of that week. Brilliant planning, I just told her she won't be dressing up for whatever day Thursday is.

My oldest looked at me like I had two heads when I asked if she wanted to get her hair done for the dance. She has two styles--a ponytail (99.3% of the time) or straight/down for the .7% of occasions like Easter or school pictures.

Boys, she is pretty low maintenance. Stays away from drama, can talk sports, and likes cool music.

 

[GTO]

@GTO. You still with us or did you get a timeout? I know you can't answer if you were TOd so it is kind of a dumb question.

Still here. Hate to say this, but the mods used to be better about wiping out these Hawk trolls. I don't mind if they stick to the threads initiated by us and don't mind the back and forth banter, but when they purposely open troll threads (i.e. "official gameday threads", "prediction threads", etc for IOWA games), that just makes me mad. It's almost like they're trying to make this their site and the mods are just allowing them to do it. This is not Hawkeye Fanatic. Open those type of threads on your own websites. They are GUESTS among our fanbase here, and the mods should treat them that way.

Rant over.

 

[wxman1]

Speaking of homecoming...that was when my girl friend at the time decided I was too awesome for her (that is the story I am going with) and a week later I met MrsWx!

Thinking about this more... I knew her for a month or two before this but she suddenly started hanging around me more after the other girl broke up with me. Starting to think this may have started as a stalker situation.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Still here. Hate to say this, but the mods used to be better about wiping out these Hawk trolls. I don't mind if they stick to the threads initiated by us and don't mind the back and forth banter, but when they purposely open troll threads (i.e. "official gameday threads", "prediction threads", etc for IOWA games), that just makes me mad. It's almost like they're trying to make this their site and the mods are just allowing them to do it. This is not Hawkeye Fanatic. Open those type of threads on your own websites. They are GUESTS among our fanbase here, and the mods should treat them that way.

Rant over.

I assume this **** pile is in the rivals forum? Why would anyone opt into that? The standard fair CF is pretty clean other then a handful of goofs the "establishment" * tolerates.



* Told you, I am back in 1963.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Stuff leaned while browsing through WWII letters my dad wrote. Apparently the term for "establishment" or "big business" back in the 1940's was "Capital."

 

[CycloneErik]

Our big growth moment last night: Z has a bike now, and she already rolls along (when she bothers).

Our ride this morning stopped for a few minutes when she saw a worm. We paused to watch the worm dig a hole, crawl around, and eat. Then off to school.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Still here. Hate to say this, but the mods used to be better about wiping out these Hawk trolls. I don't mind if they stick to the threads initiated by us and don't mind the back and forth banter, but when they purposely open troll threads (i.e. "official gameday threads", "prediction threads", etc for IOWA games), that just makes me mad. It's almost like they're trying to make this their site and the mods are just allowing them to do it. This is not Hawkeye Fanatic. Open those type of threads on your own websites. They are GUESTS among our fanbase here, and the mods should treat them that way.

Rant over.

Then they get all uppity when ISU fans turn their thread into a Spiderman / Hickory Park thread.

 

[jcyclonee]

Still here. Hate to say this, but the mods used to be better about wiping out these Hawk trolls. I don't mind if they stick to the threads initiated by us and don't mind the back and forth banter, but when they purposely open troll threads (i.e. "official gameday threads", "prediction threads", etc for IOWA games), that just makes me mad. It's almost like they're trying to make this their site and the mods are just allowing them to do it. This is not Hawkeye Fanatic. Open those type of threads on your own websites. They are GUESTS among our fanbase here, and the mods should treat them that way.

Rant over.

Then they get all uppity when ISU fans turn their thread into a Spiderman / Hickory Park thread.

I'm proud of the response. It was the proper one. I don't think anything can bother a troll more than taking over their thread and talking about subjects other than the title of their thread while ignoring their posts.

 

[SCyclone]

I just ate a piece of moldy bread, need to look next time.

I probably should google if I will now die.

No problem, we'll take care of divvying up your stuff. BoxsterCy is very experienced at this.

 

[SCyclone]

Got a FB friend request this morning from some gal in the Philippines.

Not the usual pornish spam FB requests but a mom with three young kids. Very odd and she is friends with another friend that I think is dating a Filipino gal. Wonder if friend said "Hey, girl, got a live one for you and he'll probably die soon and you can get his stuff!" Friend is not on CF or RTT so he doesn't realize she won't be in line for my stuff.

She'll have to wait in line.

 

[BoxsterCy]

His boy Elroy.

Damn you 1963, going for a bike ride to see if I can time warp back into the present. Not overly optimistic.

 

[SCyclone]

His boy Elroy.

Damn you 1963, going for a bike ride to see if I can time warp back into the present. Not overly optimistic.

Take the DeLorean instead.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Volleyball update -

so we get there and other team only had 4 people. Ok, maybe that's why there were a 12 seed in a 13 team field??? Still not sure how they beat the 5 last week but oh well.

Start playing. They do bump set spike. Ruh roh. And they could serve well. We did well on our side and getting the ball down, but they'd go on serving runs and keep it close. We took the first 22-20 and then were down 7-14 in the second. DH had an excellent serving run and we got it to 17-18. Then they went on another serving run and won 21-18.

Fifth set. We were keeping it close and at 11-11 I was up to serve. I'd been serving pretty ****** and felt bad about it. I turned it on at the right time. I got an ace followed by them pushing it back too far to me and I called it out - and it was by like 1 inch. Teammate is like "CG, you just want us to leave the court for you??" lol. Got to 14-11 and we lost my serve. I was much sad.

So then they started targeting our weakest person and she shanked two serves. We lost the next as well and suddenly it's 14-14. Ref is like oh yeah it's a hard cap at 15. Well ****, thanks for mentioning that sooner. So we go back and forth and DH was a beast covering pretty much the whole left side. Just back and forth with him, probably three times. They pushed it back to him again and I thought he had time to back up for it and at the last second I realized he didn't and was expecting me to cut over and we lost it

I felt so, so bad because I hadn't wanted to step in and risk running into him. He was mad for a second but then at home was like no, it was a bad shot for him and they had been targeting that other teammate and so it wasn't really my fault, just a bad spot.

But we are super duper curious how they went 1-5 in the first six games - only winning the last game of the season and getting swept more often than not. There are sets in there where they didn't crack double digits. Then in the playoffs they beat us and #5 2-1. DH said if they had 6 people they should have been intermediate. So we suspect either they had six to start and the other two sucked so they got rid of them or they have changed out some people over the season.

Maybe having the sub this week would have been enough but hard to say. We had a decent run and I'm glad I ended with serving well.

Dude, you lost to a 4 man team?

 

[cowgirl836]

Dude, you lost to a 4 man team?

hey we were at five They did bump set spike like a real team though, that was some ********.

 

[jcyclonee]

Take the DeLorean instead.

Not sure the flux capacitor is working and he can't use the Mr. Fusion until he travels to the future which he can't until the flux capacitor is working. Maybe he can get Doc Brown to rig up something for after the dance.

 

[jcyclonee]

Dude, you lost to a 4 man team?

Did you see Teen Wolf? He beat a bunch of 5 man teams pretty much by himself.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

hey we were at five They did bump set spike like a real team though, that was some ********.

I don't think you should coach anymore. Losing to a four man team is like having Greg McDermott as your coach.

 

[CycloneErik]

hey we were at five They did bump set spike like a real team though, that was some ********.

You should have done that like real team, then.

 

[BCClone]

Our Homecoming week is a bit messed up because of the ISU game. Usually the parade and coronation is Thursday night. Now the parade is Monday and coronation will be done at halftime.

All the schools do dress up days (different depending on the school). The 6th grader is on student council and one of their choices they were voting on was "black tie day" essentially dressing very fancy. Except the 6th graders have an outdoor field trip (half On Wednesday and half on Thursday) of that week. Brilliant planning, I just told her she won't be dressing up for whatever day Thursday is.

My oldest looked at me like I had two heads when I asked if she wanted to get her hair done for the dance. She has two styles--a ponytail (99.3% of the time) or straight/down for the .7% of occasions like Easter or school pictures.

Boys, she is pretty low maintenance. Stays away from drama, can talk sports, and likes cool music.

Too bad you weren't an hour north, have a junior that could use a different gf.

 

[jcyclonee]

You should have done that like real team, then.

CG observing the championship game to prepare a volleyball improvement spreadsheet: