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True. All true. Still, something is different here this year. Maybe other teams have regressed and the Bills are just playing solidly and hanging in (it's a distinct possibility). I'm not predicting a SB win, and I think that we all know better. While I was more in the camp of "the Bills have no depth" heading into this season, I think that they actually... have depth. And that's why they're in it.

If he couldn't crack the Patriots roster... There were days where we all hoped that players like Da'Rick Rogers would become something special. Or Thad Lewis. The good news is that those days are no longer. It's not the NHL or MLB where farm systems might dictate future success for the organization. Draft well, be smart with FA signings, manage the cap (2024, oops!), and don't worry so much about PS. Outstanding players will practically never reside on a NFL PS.

Maybe the Bills got kinda lucky (in terms of injuries) thus far this year. While I get the karmic aspect of former players being done for the season, last year at this time I was wondering who was doing to play D for this team.

Just last 5-10? When I used to tour with bands, every time that I stayed at a RRI, I thought that they'd end up filming an episode of COPS.

I moved from a tech role (devops) to a "vendor" (i.e. technical sales) role in 2015. I actually work *more*, either from home or from a hotel when I am traveling. Having said that, I don't want to see colleagues slacking in real time, like I did when I was at a home office. I've also observed that sharper leadership is more than capable to manage a 100% remote workforce, which is what the company I'm with today is doing.

"That's nuts!"

So true. He also talked about the "supercharger" in his Chevy Impala (it was like one of the really crappy mid 1980s ones). One of my classmates finally asked to see the supercharger one day, and Doc said, "uh, sure, after school." Doc ducked out early, go figure. No supercharger for you!

Doc Breem would've just killed a bear because it was interfering with his work on the Alaskan pipeline.

This thread is pooping me out.

Yeah, bummed about the Towne. It used to be my go-to after playing a gig at The Continental (long gone).

I've gotten into lentils recently. Lentils, rice, a lot of spice? A 💩 machine!

But, but... I thought that he was coming back to the Bills. I read it here. It must be true. HAHA

Totally depends. For me, it's always a balance between food quality, level of service, and price point overall. If that balance is off, whether the restaurant is fancy or not, I get bent out of shape. However, on the subject of fine dining, it's a mixed bag for me. Typically my wife and I will go to a really nice restaurant on our anniversary, and sometimes this is when we're overseas in one place or another. We had a Michelin-star meal in London in 2018, for our 10th, and it was beyond amazing. But then there was Portugal. Work took me to Lisbon a couple of weeks ago. Lots of spouses/partners/etc came along, including my wife. Enjoyed Lisbon and Porto immensely. On the last night we went to this Michelin-starred place in Lisbon with a colleague and her partner, and it was... underwhelming... and expensive. Sure, every dish looked like a smoke show, but none of the food was really (temperature) hot when they served it. The sirloin was particularly bad, lukewarm, and sinewy. (It's a Michelin-starred restaurant, you say?) The service was great, the Portuguese wines were quite good, and they offered to fire another course for me, but it wasn't just the sirloin that bugged me. Of an 8-course meal, only a couple of the courses were great. The rest were just a smoke show -- lots of pizazz, without a comparable level of taste -- and for the price point, the food quality was abhorrent. Even my wife was like, "yeah, for that price it should've been lights out food-wise. And it wasn't." Then they gave us this cookbook that was signed by the chef. My wife and I have been cooking for 20 years now, and we have loads of cookbooks. We literally just culled the herd. This cookbook was precious, and in thumbing through it we'd not make a single recipe out of it. So now it's at Goodwill. No issues with fine dining, and I certainly don't need fine dining to make me happy when I eat out, but definitely have issues with poor execution and pretense.

It's that people watch "it" -- which IIRC was the theme of this thread.

What the heck is up with Bass? Crazy short range performance (xps) but, yeah, let's just drop a 61-yarder in there for good measure. haha, this fella is killing me!