vastateofmind

Beautiful captures, @bowtie`

Good luck, sincerely. The line was nearly 50 people deep, 45 minutes BEFORE the doors opened a few days ago.

Ten years ago today.

I'm with you; had those same convos early on with my own two. My last obs was focused on NFL marketing and not the manufactured SB halftime brouhaha, which apparently required some soft moderation. So...I"ve "moved along."

Yeah, no. "We’ve been laser-focused for the last five years trying to connect kids to the NFL.” - Peter O'Relly, Former NFL VP of Fan Strategy & Marketing https://commercialfreechildhood.org/wp-content/uploads/archive/outofbounds.pdf https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/nfl-football-moms-kids/ https://playfootball.nfl.com/ http://www.nfl.com/play60 I don't give a crap about whether someone was offended by the halftime show; if you want to protect your younger kids from that, just turn it off until the game comes back on. But @jaydreb's point stands.

When my two 6'+ sons in their early and mid 20s start to "feeling their oats," poking at my dad-bod, or mocking my dad-jokes, I casually remind them (usually in front of their friends/girlfriends) that they both had Teletubbie dolls when they were toddlers.

Hopefully you're trotting that tale out when he brings his girlfriend/SO/spouse around...

Shakira can go right on doing that until the end of time... #NoComplaintsHere

Until you mentioned it, I was struggling to remember who played last year's halftime show...and I vaguely recall some dust-up about Adam Levine disrobing at the time? I do remember Maroon 5 being mostly underwhelming last year. Music was good last night...I expected the costumes and dance moves that we got, because, well...Shakira & JLo. I've always preferred the former to the latter over the years...but both did well last night (charges of apparent S&M regalia notwithstanding). Honestly, I don't always pay much attention to halftime, because the quality of the shows is so variable...or I just don't give a crap about some of the artists. Some of the standouts over the past 15-20 years (IMHO) include Prince, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and The Who. Not a huge fan of every one of those artists...but they put on awesome shows. On a related note, this year's crop of SB commercials was mostly forgettable...however, the Rocket Mortgage commercial w/ Jason Momoa "stripping" off his biceps and chest gave me the heebs, kinda like the "PuppyMonkeyBaby" Mountain Dew commercial from a few years back did.

Wondered if the whole Carvana thing was legit. Now -- did they A. give you several giant coins, and are you B. taking your giant coins to go to the Carvana mothership to put into the giant vending machine and choose your new car?

Totally agree on the Jebwalks, especially during snowfall after sundown. There is something really special, too, about how much quieter it is when the snow is falling.

Yep, it's a heretical worldview WRT snow. But I do still enjoy the chase.

Curious -- has anyone's love of MECS/HECS/BECS waned as they get older? I've lived in the area for 30+ years, and as many have documented , we've had some great snowstorms (ice storms, too) in the metro area in that timeframe. When snowstorms of any magnitude have NOT materialized after a week or two of tracking, I've had my own (non-public) meltdowns. I've always enjoyed the tracking and LOVE when the snow's coming down...but I'm definitely tiring of the aftermath (shoveling, melting, refreezing, etc.) The last "huge" snowstorms that we had in 2016 (coincidentally, the year I turned 50) were awesome. But as one of the first times that the usual cleanup crew (the kids) were gone from the nest, cleaning up after those storms took it out of my wife and I, and I found myself thinking for the first time, "This is too much snow." Heresy. Anyway. half of me loves to read all of the tracking and model discussion here each year...but if a real threat materializes, the other half of me now is like, "Ugh, can we please keep it to a manageable 2-4"?" Weird...and a little sad.

Well played, good sir -- perhaps literally.

Shocked to wake up and find .5" everywhere. Currently 29.

34, w/ ~.5" on grassy areas/mulch. Had -SN for past 45 minutes but picking back up.

Down to 34...this transpired by 3:05, around 15 minutes after the switchover, and it's whitened considerably even since then...and still coming down as hard.

You must be nearly ready to switch...I just went to all snow within the past five minutes and am just a couple miles to your SW.

Moderate rain just starting to mix with visible flakes. 37.

Leaves started dropping from trees surrounding my house about 3-4 weeks ago and the rate steadily increases. I initially thought it was due to the July heatwave and stress introduced by drier weather, but have noticed a bit more color in the leaves within the last week, both those still on trees and which continue to fall. Don't remember any color starting quite this early in recent years. Early start on autumn?

If only you were 5-posted....

Honestly...we're close enough now that I'm starting to look forward to severe season. Also -- currently 37/33, w/ light rain.

Didn't know TJ's had/made a beer, but have added to the "list." Myself, am working a Three Notch'd S'mores porter right now...pretty dang good.