Might be fun seeing him at Louisville with Flory.

@RockChalkinTexas-0 gorgeous!

@bskeet man thats a lot. Glad you shared, and Im sorry about your dad. I had no idea about any of that. It makes me marvel at the people i already admire online when I then realize all the other stuff they are dealing with.

@rockchalkjayhawk downsize downsize downsize! In the end i want the sum of my material belongings to be lighter than air, at least the ones no one else wants.

My brother is a physical therapist at this hospital. He has helped me take a practical view of mortality. Life is about quality not quantity for me. Every moment has its own potential for greatness.

My mom fell again and fractured humerus x2, dislocated shoulder, fractured spine, broke 2 ribs and pelvis. Trying to coordinate hospice care for her to return home but this is near the end. Its ok. 84 mostly good years. Shes lost a lot of weight and her mind has left the station. My advice, hug your loved ones while youre healthy and enumerate the little ways in which you love them to them. It gets hard to do this later on.

@RockChalkinTexas-0 nice! That looks like a fun one.

@RockChalkinTexas-0 My wife does puzzles with the kids and i hover for a bit. Theyre currently doing the 1000 piece pokemon puzzle again. Its slightly sadistic. Deceptively hard because the pokemon art has large single color areas. I think most of our puzzles are 1000 pieces. We have a few “magic puzzles” we still have to open.

Maybe we should start a 2020s parenting hacks for children of the 90s thread @kjayhawks2.0

@wissox grats on the crosstown series win in exciting fashion!
Time to get hopes up?

@ROCKCHALK2025 sorry to hear man. Hope it stabilizes for you. Been thinking about you as well.

@benshawks08 this is a fantastic underexplored point: all season long many of assumed that the reason the team had no chemistry with DP was because they deferred to him and that time would solve this problem (if we were optimistic) or that DP was a prima donna, or everyone else on the team was a midmajor wuss and thats why the chemistry wasnt there (if we were not).

But maybe in actuality they were all worried for the kid or weirded out by the situation. Maybe no amount of extra time on the court was going to fix it because the lack of an explanation hung over every play.

This makes way more sense than assuming there was something wrong with individual personalities regarding the lack of a cohesive team identity.

@rockchalkjayhawk Im sorry about your mom. She raised a fine young man and I’m glad you are with us. We still have a World Cup ahead. Lets get this American fiasco started already haha. Speaking of which I havent looked at what Roger Bennett is doing this World Cup.

@BShark yeah i really soured on the bullshit cycling subscription games.

If you want to play an indy mobile game that is extremely well balanced, no DLC and obviously a labor of love, try Slay the Spire, or Balatro. Those two cured me of Arena.

What i really love about Spire is that everything is configurable so after you beat it you can find ways to challenge yourself. Its clear the developer just wanted to give something really good to people.

@benshawks08 im really sorry to hear about your partner. I have had that thought about just holding on for the ride many times since 2020 as well. i think we are all in various states of disarray and disconnect these days, but i remain deeply hopeful that there are moments of beauty and connection ahead.

As for MTG i have basically retired from it after playing a shit ton of arena. Many many decks with the one ring and sheoldred the apocalypse. That was around the height of my interest. Id reinstall arena and play a few games with you if you have arena cards from then. Dm me.

@BShark may your new carpet offgasing be brief and your mtg mechanics be synergistic in unforeseen delightful ways. Fairly recently we got a few boxes of mtg avatar set. Artwork was true to the show and pretty.

Been a while since we did this…. Who’s still with us? Hope you are all well. Our community is special. Ive loved kicking through the offseason so far with you guys. The nature updates and the joy of KU baseball success have been fun, besides speculation on the bball roster.

To the old timers, won’t you log in and say hi if you’re lurking? Tell us how you’re doing. I’m sure people on here besides myself would like to hear from you. Thanks.

I don't see it with Boozer, he's neither freakishly athletic, nor ridiculously skilled, nor incredibly clutch. The other 3 guys all can lay claim in one of those areas I think? But maybe I just hate Duke.

Maybe DP goes #1?

You know what 26-27 roster is missing? DP.