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11/20/08 OTPOTD: Coughing edition

Tiny by Thingray on

Okay, so I'm up at 12:40am because I had another coughing attack, so here's my post:

Bowling kicks ass. Jack In The Box should never be out of any kind of food. I'm trying hot citrus tea as a last resort (I don't care for tea all that much). I'm probably going to the LL bowling on Friday. My cat forgot how to pee in the litter box and I'm pissed. You all don't get no tags because I'm coughing too much and have to be to work tomorrow.

 

Good luck finding me on Facebook, you have until Friday to figure it out, because if I show up for bowling, I'm sure I'll give up my true identity.

Also, I have a sweet south endzone ticket to the Seahawks game this Sunday, anyone interested at face value ($65.00)?

 

Screw it, I'll try some tags.

 

Have at it folks.

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These things have been going up way early lately.

I guess SB just has that much pull around here.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 12:57 AM PST   0 recs

I was asleep,

but then I started coughing like a sealion, so now I’m awake. I figured, “why not post something?”.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:01 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

That works.

I was thinking about doing one, but I can’t do it tonight and tomorrow we’re on the road again. Maybe next week.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 1:05 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Ah...

The life of a professional athlete.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:07 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I won't complain

but it’s not all peachy. I’m just lucky to get to do something I enjoy.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 1:10 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I work so I can afford to do the things I enjoy.

But I guess I can’t really complain either.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:11 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I used to work in a bar.

I loved it, but never had the schedule or money to do the other things I loved. So I switched to a career where I made neogh money to do the other things, even though my job is boring, and I’m pretty happy. Although going to work can be quite a chore most days.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:14 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Man I don't know what I'll do after basketball.

I can’t stand doing the same thing everyday, which is why basketball is so good for me. But I only get one day off per week, and I usually use that day to recover from two difficult games the two days before. And I have only one weekend off from September-April. But I don’t wake up and feel bad about going to basketball practice or lifting or running. And it balances out because I don’t work from May-August.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 1:18 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Do you have any other skills?

I always have other things to fall back on if I decide I’ve had it with accounting. What about coaching or something like that?

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:20 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'm not worried about being able to get a job after,

that won’t be a problem. My coach in college once told me I was focusing too much on school and not enough on basketball, so I have plenty of other interests. The problem is I don’t want to be doing the same thing everyday. But it seems the jobs that aren’t boring are also the jobs that aren’t high on the salary scale haha. I am just hoping I won’t have to worry about it for a few more years.

As for coaching, I definitely want to coach high school basketball. After that basketball becomes less of a sport and more of a business. The unseen sides of college and pro basketball are ridiculously cut-throat. Plus high school is a time when a coach can make the biggest positive impact I believe. Or negative impact I suppose. Haha.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 1:25 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah. Although in the last 10 years even being a high school coach

has become more difficult. Unreasonable expectations from parents, shady dealings with college recruiters, a generation of kids who seem to have a sense of entitlement….

I think I’ll just win the lottery.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 1:32 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I wish you the best of luck.

I’d like to win the lottery myself. I guess I should start buying tickets.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:33 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

They get paid jack squat.

My Dad coached HS football for a few years (he was a LB coach) and made ~$400 for the season. He worked at least 25 hours a week. He’s a head coach in middle school as well as his school’s AD and he makes maybe an extra $5k a year for doing that.

He does it because he loves it. It’s definitely a side job.

by acblue on Nov 20, 2008 1:43 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah.

It may be different in high school basketball though, there is a LOT of money floating under the table in regards to certain recruits. So making a career out of being a high school basketball coach is possible, but you kinda have to sell your soul to do so. Not something I really want to do.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 2:00 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

See - Garfield HS, circa 1997-2005 =(

also known as “why I’m still waiting to win my first championship”

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 8:24 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I find it ironic that I went to Garfield, which is the UCLA of Washington HS basketball

and then I went to UCLA, which is the UCLA of men’s college basketball and I’ve still never won a championship. Each successively more hilarious failure makes me more of a sad panda too…

Here’s to some joy on April 6, 2009!

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 8:27 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I must say, as much as I'm not a fan of tea,

it seems to be helping tremendously with my coughing. I may have found a cure.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:10 AM PST   0 recs

I can only stomach Camomile.

And even then I have to put in a lot of sugar or honey.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 1:11 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

This is "citrus herb green tea".

I ate a satsuma orange and threw the rind in the tea. It seems to be helping, although I still don’t enjoy the “tea” taste much.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:12 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yes.

Yes they do!

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:30 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

If you're not into tea, try just drinking hot water.

And it might sound like I’m being a smartass but I’m not.

by acblue on Nov 20, 2008 1:44 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I have the same thoughts about tea

But when I was at my worst my office manager demanded that I start drinking tea if I was going to be sick and still at work. I put down about 4 cups in a day, and it definitely helped. The heat cleared my chest, and everything else about it just made me feel better in general

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 10:04 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'm going to sleep soon - I just work late shifts so I'm up!

Good luck with the coughing attack – I have had a cold for, give or take, 2 months.. Just can’t quite kick it – so I know alllllll about coughing attacks

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 1:28 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Same here.

I’m in week three, and I can’t quite shake it. I feel fine (okay) during the day, but every night about 1:00, coughing fit!

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:31 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

More the merrier I say.

Although I’m about to try to head back to bed myself.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:32 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

You probably should.

It’s dark over here, that means people shouldn’t be awake over there.

by brayden04 on Nov 20, 2008 1:33 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, it'll be light here in a few hours.

I should try to get some sleep since I have to work tomorrow.

Man do I love midgets.

by Thingray on Nov 20, 2008 1:34 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah he is.

I think the three of us should match up at some point. He could carry our team while we try not to die

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 10:05 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I haven't put enough time in to be able to say that about myself.

Hell, while playing on Tuesday night I came across 2 maps I’d never even played before

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 10:10 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

But I would say that a large chunk of my deaths are stupidity on my part

So I’m poised to make a big run. I’ll start a bunch of matches something like 2-8, but finish +2 or so. The talent is there, I just don’t do anything with it

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 10:11 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

So you're the Loafie of COD5

bullshit, I wanted to be Jose Lopez =(

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 10:17 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

*Raspberry

I’m still a season or two from breaking out completely though. Took me some time on 4, and 5 seems just the same

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 10:18 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Hahah woo!

Not sure if that is something to be proud of or not.. I started off with like a 1.9 K/D ratio but went steadily downhill from there. It’s a careful mix of running around like a psycho and taking out two of them before they get me and sniping.

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:15 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Tell me about your sniping spots =)

So far I love the belltower on Outskirts, and I found a nice spot on Seelow that looks down two long paths that I can shoot down while in prone.

I hate the part how you need 75 kills for aperture sight though… that part is just murdering me

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:16 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Seelow is my favorite - I got my 18 kill streak on that one.

I sit in top story of the building at the very top of the map, put a BB at the top of the stairs and go to town. You can see prolly around 60% of the map between the two windows. The best part is the stairs are the only place you have to guard, so you hardly ever get knifed.

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:20 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Hmmm I'll have to try that

the other place I liked there is the deck where the stairs are the only place you have to guard. I just go prone and shoot towards the trains. Though I’m starting to think I’m thinking of the wrong map here

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:21 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

That sounds like Seelow, I can see the stairs that go up to that deck from the window in the building

So I can see a guy going up there, then I just shoot randomly through a tree that blocks my sight of the rest of the deck until I kill the guy..

Have you played Nazi Zombies? It’s my newest addiction. Played it last night for a couple games – it gets seriously intense.

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:23 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Not yet, I actually haven't played in a few days, thanks to being out and being really damn tired

Probably won’t get a chance to play tonight either, since I doubt I’ll eat before 8 PM thanks to one of the teams that I like actually being good and playing at 6. I’ll have to try it out though.

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:25 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'm home all night tonight, so if you can make some time then I'm down

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:27 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'm not sure what time I will be home tonight..

Technically, I was supposed to be at work about 3 hours ago.. whoops! Trying to decide if I should go in, or just tell them that I am out “doing interviews” – God bless working at a newspaper!

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:29 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'll keep an eye out for ya

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:32 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I need people to play that with

It’s way too hard to do on solo. I can see the fun in it though, for sure

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:25 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, I played with random people last night

But as long as everyone talks, it is entertaining.. Started with four of us, then one guy quit halfway through. Tons easier with four people than it is 3

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:27 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

You ok with me trying to crash in on some of your games when I see you on there?

I play CoD much better when in a party, even if just two people. Talking keeps me from focusing too much on the games and I then play better

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:29 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I want one of the wireless ones

because I spike my hair, so I can’t wear the regular ones like you’re supposed to, but I don’t want to drop $50 on a mic when I don’t talk all that much anyway.

I piss everyone off when I have my mic though because then they hear me yelling at myself over every missed snipe shot for ten minutes… =(

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:32 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Ha

Fuck!
Shit!
Dammit!
WTF I pointed it right at his face!

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:33 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

That's EXACTLY how I am..

Lots of “ugh” “aww cmon!” “Jesus fuckin Christ” and it gets progressively worse from there

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:35 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Don't forget racial slurs

and rampant homophobic slurs.

by BrianL on Nov 20, 2008 11:36 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

If you ever see me standing over a guy I just killed emptying a clip into his dead body

it probably means he no-aimed me with an SMG from twenty yards at some earlier point in the game and I was not happy about it

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:37 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Vindictive much?

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:38 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Just a touch

a smidgeon. A tiny bit. Slightly. Or some such.

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:38 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Love it!

I hate getting no scoped (that is a well-known phrase with my buddy and me)

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:39 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I usually use no-scoped as well

but I always thought that was just a me thing. Guess not!

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:39 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

No Scope to the dome!

Pretty common phrase, actually

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:43 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I bought one that came with a thing to go over my head

But the earpiece / mic comes off, so I disconnected them and it looks like one of the hands free devices for a cell phone from before bluetooth.. works out well

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:35 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I shall have to try this as well

you’re like the resident Xbox expert around here…

Now we just need to get Teej in on this and we’ve got us a killin’ party!

by seattlebruin on Nov 20, 2008 11:36 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Sounds good

Have you guys tried the demo for Left 4 Dead yet? It is so great, and I could see how having a group of 4 to play it would be a total blast. Coach has played the hell out of it the last couple days

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:38 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Download the demo

It’s wonderful. I know Phildopip has been waiting for the game to drop so we could get a few of us together

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:39 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

I might just have to give that a shot..

Alright, I gotta head out. If I am much later in to work, people are gonna start to question me

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 11:40 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

They'll start to "interview" you?

HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)

by tootthekazoo on Nov 20, 2008 11:43 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Hey ohhhh!

I just ducked in the back audio lab – I am the only one that ever comes back here so I can just say I have been in here doing editing all morning.. Success!

by seattlesundevil on Nov 20, 2008 12:26 PM PST to parent up   0 recs