I think he was expecting a jump ball and wasn’t prepared for something that was more or less waist-level - it looks bad in slow motion but in the moment who knows.... I do know that he looked absolutely gassed the whole 4th quarter so entirely possible that played it into it as well.

Exactly what my wife and I do (are doing) and I recommend it to my direct reports who have kids. As a manager I’d rather have 3-4 hours of dedicated work and availability then interrupted bits and pieces over the course of nine hours.

I know this isn’t the right venue to say something positive about anything affiliated with barstool, but Pardon My Take having a Blake Bortles Wikipedia club in response to the Andrew Luck Book Club is fucking hysterical in concept and even better in execution.

Sorry your mom blew up Ricky

Tried to come up with some clever puns involving Doug Gabriel and Bam Childress but I collapsed into a pit of sorrow thinking about how easily that team would have beaten the Bears in the superbowl if they had just one reliable receiver outside of Troy Brown.

You’re not wrong - the entire top floor (which is the living room / dining room / kitchen )of our house has 18 windows of non-standard height, so replacing the blinds with cordless versions would require custom orders, and last I checked it would be nearly $2K.

Its just so hard. especially once they start getting into toys that are fun. We’re big into rotation, living in the city makes that a necessity anyway, so that seems to help but as we celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah this time of year i over-whelming.  

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Totally agree, honestly I can’t remember a dirtier play by a Belichick era Patriot aside from, oh I don’t know, pick one of several from Brandon Merriweather. Given that he wasn’t the instigator in the Sergio Brown (if I remember right Brown had been throwing cheap shots all game) or the SB ruckus (Avril?), I can’t…

I imagine there were very few people who had time for root for any football team as they were likely busy hoping to live anywhere other than Connecticut, or barring that, the sweet release of death.

hahahaha, thank you I knew I should have googled that first. Although “Uber” might be over-stating it. Maybe, ‘Slightly Above Replacement,’ or ‘Shawn Jefferson’ receiver.

Agreed, and if no for Favre Desmond Howard’s kick returning and Reggie White abusing Max Lane all day that group would have a SB Ring too.

He had a great career and deserves more credit for New England turning things around with the Kraft era. As much as everyone is quick to say fans in the northeast didn’t care about the Pats until Brady / Belichek, for my generation it was the Bledsoe teams from early-mid nineties that made us buy-in completely with…

Yes - that will be the deciding factor for us. Luckily there are some good public school options close by but its a lottery system and if it doesn’t go our way we’re gone, and short of winning an actual $ lottery, we’re not able to afford even a moderate sized home in any towns that combine good schools + easy…

This article hits home(!). We are fortunate that we own a 3 bedroom in an amazing city neighborhood that we absolutely love. Both my wife and I can walk to work and are home for dinner with our two kids under 4 nearly every single night. There is a really strong sense of community and more and more families seem to…

Yes, on some of the things she takes on she absolutely does find varying levels of enjoyment in the process just as I do. At the same time, like me, we both have tasks that are not our idea of a good time but for whatever reason we are better suited for than the other parent. And, there’s a series of things in a…

I assure you that is not the case at all. My point is a good way to approach household and parenting duties is to align tasks with interests and skillsets where possible.

Clearly I overstated things in my example of the ‘fun’ tasks. Having honest dialogue about how to divide up household and parenting tasks, and lining those up with relative strengths is not the same thing as one parent looking at a tedious task and saying, ‘well you’re better at all this shit work so have fun, i’m…

I’m not sure where my excuse is ‘gendered’, or even that I’m offering any excuses. By mutual agreement my wife and I divide the work along our areas of relative strength as individuals and parents. My wife is a hyper-organized, type A, individual and I’m more of a B type and I have diagnosed ADD.

I appreciate your response, as I stated in reply to another comment I’m probably over-stating the extent to which all the unpleasant stuff ends up with my wife. Mainly we try to divide the unpleasant stuff along our strengths.  We try to check-in regularly and realign as necessary but the word ‘probably’ in my first…