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The articles are great. I’m hopeful the forum will eventually take off. I was most active on General Chat on the other forum. A lot of good online friends have left in the last 11 months.
I coached high school football and track in Middle Tennessee for 36 years. When I told my AD I was hanging up my whistle, he talked me into taking an assistant golf coach opening, so I’ve been doing that for the last 7 years. That’s been a great fit in my older years.
I’m retiring from teaching at the end of May, so after that, I should have time to be on the forum more.
In the meantime, I’ll do a lot of lurking.
Go Rebels!
Nashville had significant ice, but nothing like North Mississippi. We lost power this morning. There are a lot of downed trees and power lines. I’ve got a big branch over my shed and 2 more over my neighbors new fence. We’re luckier than many in our area.
My daughter lives 25 miles southeast and has power so we drove to her house this afternoon. Once we got to I-24, we were okay, but there were about a dozen times before getting there that I was second guessing making that drive.
I did order a good 4000 watt power station from Costco and a dual fuel generator that I can use to keep it charged. So in the future, I’ll be able to keep a room warm and the fridge going.
Y’all stay warm and be careful. I hope Oxford recovers from this as quickly as possible.
Shoutout to all of the linemen across the south who are doing hard stuff. They are heroes.I have a very good friend from SC who is a Clemson season ticket holder. He’s been texting me about how Dabo is going to fight back on this. Today, he sent me a text about “Poaching Pete”. I am ignoring the text. No reason to tell him what I think and lose a friend over something I have zero control.
I’m thrilled to have Pete and hope he is here a long time.In 94, we had a wood stove insert in our fireplace and a back yard full of wood. My son was diagnosed with asthma a few years later and his doctor told us we shouldn’t burn wood in the house. So I haven’t used it in 25+ years. There is no way I am going to fire it up. I’d rather be cold than have a fire in my flue.
I could kick myself for not following through with my plan to do something last winter.Everyone stay safe. I’m in Nashville. For most of the week, they have been predicting a big snow event. Now, things are trending for more ice than snow, though not as much as y’all are getting south of us. I have “meant” to get a small generator for years. There are now none in town when I started checking this morning. So if power goes out, we’ll wrap up and try to stay warm. I guess I’ll walk around the house dressed like I’m going to a cold November football game.
As soon as this is over, I’ve got to get a backup plan in place. I’m thinking about a solar panel/generator combo. I just want to be able to keep one room in the house warm. I can cook outside on the grill (I always keep a spare 20lb LP tank ready for the grill) and this time of year, I can put items from the freezer outside in a cooler or in a car. I would love to hear the plans those of you without a fire place have for getting through this.
All of our power banks and devices are charged.
Good luck everyone and God bless!I hope the membership will become large enough to warrant a General Chat forum. I realize this site is in it’s infancy and taking baby steps, but someday, I hope there is a lot of growth as word gets out and there is a need for it in the future.
I’m looking forward to baseball coverage. Spring is just around the corner.I haven’t read everything, but it seems that someone ticked him off on twitter while he was watching the OKC Thunder lose a close basketball game. In his reaction to the tweet, he made the comment that he was sorry their team (Ole Miss?) didn’t make it to Monday night and that they would never make it that far again. He also said a few disparaging things about Ole Miss fans and the school. It also seems like alcohol was involved in the late night tweeting. (I know, it is now X). It was bad enough that my son, who is on Ben and Chuck’s page, asked me after church “What in the world was Neal thinking?”
He issued an apology this morning and then additional comments about his apology a few hours later. Some are defending him, some are willing to forgive and forget and others are demanding he either step down or be fired immediately.
The irony hit me with a lot of those demanding that he be fired for his derisive comments about Ole Miss fans is they are some of the very same people who took over 247 last spring and verbally abused many of the old posters and blasted David and those who were part of the “Beacon gang” as they took a forum that was largely decent and made it a place were it is okay to throw trash and vulgarity at anyone who doesn’t see things the way you do.
I started to point out the irony on Rebel Grove, but then deleted it before I posted. At this point in time, I didn’t want to deal with all of the vitriol that I’m sure would have come my way if I had tried to make the point. It’s just not worth the effort of getting into a mud slinging contest with a punch of pigs.
