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thought you were into clemson?

Eh. I lived in SC and my brother was adopted into Clemson fandom, but I never got into college football, so I "claimed" them but I think the only Clemson games I watched were those NCs; and I think I only watched one of them in full. Anyways, I've been out here in WA for, jesus, 7 years now and I can't name any UW players let alone any Clemson players, so I suppose I'm just a free agent at this point 

about a 1/4 of the way through. I am pretty happy with Bama. Uga was the one game i thought we would lose this year, Tennessee is another i am worried about.

Loving the auburn season.

I don't have a favorite team so it's not exactly fair for me to chime in here, but - this did not age well Tider, like, immediately

https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-college-football/college-football-25/news/college-football-25-gameplay-deep-dive


Looking real good so far. May have to pick PS Plus back up when this drops.

Just checking in with everyone.
No major changes here...well, IK did have to put my dog down two weeks ago. Absolutely still wrecked.
I'm completely re writing the manuscript I wrote last year because I've learned so much more, now I know how bad it was lol
Still trying to get a short film in the can, hopefully by this summer.
Tax time 

did not want KC to win, primarily because of Kelce.

I've heard the last Spidermman and Star Wars games were top notch but haven't tried them.

that's all I've got thus far....hope everyone is well

Ugh, the dog thing sucks Crewe. We lost our eldest cat in April of last year, and it still hurts to this day. Meanwhile the current eldest cat was diagnosed with lymphoma last June and it's just a matter of time. Chemo's already given her a lot more time, but based on last week's appointment we're coming to the end as it's been getting less and less effective.

Sorry, not trying to trauma dump, just I understand that the pain of losing a friend that was literally there for you every day never goes away, but I'm sure you also gave that dog plenty of sunshine and happiness in his/her life too, and in time their memory will at least inspire a smile in addition to tears, as opposed to just tears right now. That's about the best that it gets.

Shame the Sea Dragons didn't make the cut.

its been a hectic few months.

Sold 2 houses and bought a new one, and started a new job.

Had to sell my wifes house then had to house hunt and sell my condo and look for a new one for the new family.

Anyways hoping to settle some roots down and start living life again. its been a hectic few years.

Glad things are settling down for you at least, that all sounds like one big headache.

The XFL and USFL merger is about to be complete. Rumored to be renamed the UFL.

4 teams from each league is rumored to be in the new league. Supposed to have the stallions so I am excited.

Interesting, didn't know this was a thing that was happening. So it'll be an 8-team league? Wonder if the SeaDragons will still be around.

I will always take opportunities like this to vouch for The Collector and The Collection. Both are fairly gory, but the first one I've seen a few times and is just an edge of your seat thrill ride with a fantastic ending. I saw the second in theaters and remember liking it a lot although I can't remember specifics anymore.

Sopranos, Deadwood and The Wire, my top three, interchangeable

Watched The Wire for the first time ever this year and yeah, what a show

I have not watched Deadwood, no.

I actually did what turned out to be a rewatch of Sopranos last year, because I thought I had stopped watching as it was around the time I had kiddo, back in 2005, but I guess I made time to watch it back then because I remembered pretty much every episode as I was watching them.

When work's slow, I'll pop on an episode of something too. Right now I'm 2 seasons into Halt and Catch Fire which I've been enjoying. Great cast headlined by Lee Pace, although everyone's great, especially Toby Huss.

It's the most Jets thing that's ever happened. Couldn't have gone any other way. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

So, get to the movies, or at least watch at home while hermitting lol

Yeah, the issue is my wife isn't the biggest fan of movies, she prefers prestige TV, your Mad Men, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad type of shows. Which is great, and we're watching a lot of great TV that I probably wouldn't watch otherwise, I wasn't the biggest TV person before I met her (never watched BB or MM until we started dating, she was the one who told me I needed to).

Kiddo's carrying the torch though. I see on his Letterboxd he's been working his way through the canon, he went all the way back and watched the original Nosferatu, and it's fun because I see him go on director binges. He's gotten really into Michael Mann lately, and he's gotten into directors like Kurosawa and Wong Kar Wai, so I've kinda been living vicariously through him 

That's what I'd do though, if I wanted to get back into movies. I'd try to run through directors, a movie a night, then move on to the next one once I'm done with their filmography. Go back to directors like Bergman and Wilder who I've never watched before.

Heck of a game last night. I imagine Lions fans are donating money to whatever charity Kadarius Toney supports as a thank you.

Yea it's been fun and nice to have something to look forward to as well. How's your world moving along?

I guess the last big update I made here was when I got married which is two years ago now.   

We bought a house last year, so that was good. Earlier this year though we lost our senior cat to a stroke, and our next oldest got diagnosed about a month or so ago with lymphoma, so we've been dealing with taking her for chemo treatments. Fortunately she's doing much better, although we're still going through it, although today's appointment had some bad news, as the fluid in her chest cavity returned in a small amount, so she may be resisting the chemo now and they're going to start her on a stronger regimen.

So, those parts suck. But kiddo's 18 in one month and he already graduated from high school, he's flying here at the end of this month so that'll be a good time. Our new house has about three stray cats that come by regularly, and another two that seem to be house cats that are allowed outside time (one has a collar, one just isn't seen very regularly so we think she either escapes or has limited outdoor time). One of the strays got pregnant, and is currently in our guest room with her six kittens happy and healthy. They're only about two or three weeks old now, so eventually we'll need to get some of them adopted as nine cats is just too many to handle.

Other than that, works good for me and the wife, life has been pretty good minus the chemo bits.

Don't watch many movies these days though, I've become a bit of a hermit who hates leaving the house, although we did manage to make it out to see Barbie.

BTW guys I got married again this year. been hectic last few weeks.

Congrats dude! Good things.

Thought I'd pop in and see how everyone was getting along.
Going ok here as far as I know.
Not sure what was going on with me the last time I was here, but in short, I've been working on me quite a bit and making progress.
Spending a lot of time on new hobbies and veered into a somewhat new arena of video projects.
I've been so focused on work video the last twenty years (with no real film industry to speak of, at least back then) which is no creativity, no input at all, for so long, I forgot what it was I originally wanted to do.
During the pandemic, my nephew left the restaurant biz, not by choice obviously, so I got him into my arena.
Short version is, we've progressed into other arenas, making music videos, corporate vids, promos and even wrote a screenplay for a 5 minute short Ill be shooting later this year.
The plan is to turn it into something one day, but until then, I'm really having a blast. Even took some online writing courses and wrote a 20 chapter manuscript.

I didnt take any time to poke around to see what everyone is up to, so chime in, lemme know how things are with everyone.

That's awesome! That sounds like a lot of fun in and of itself, but even more cool you got to enjoy it with your nephew.