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2023.04.01 07:39 emichelleb13 I (34f) am having a lot of anxiety about my husband’s (43m) work trip
My husband is traveling for work this week, which he doesn’t do often. He was traveling with one other colleague, a young, married female. This kind of made me nervous since it was just the two of them.
Leading up to the trip, he seemed very concerned about his appearance. He whitened his teeth, applied sunless tan and tried on everything in his closet.
On the trip, I would not hear from him at night and when I would mention it, he would apologize and say that he thought I went to bed.
Here’s where I’m really concerned. Coming home they missed their connecting flight because “they were getting food and lost track of time” and are having to spend the night in another city. I was about to book a hotel room for him close to the airport when he told me that his female colleague has a family friend that they could stay with. I told him it made me uncomfortable but he said then didn’t have many other options.
I’m very stressed about this. Did my husband cheat on me during this trip?
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Leading up to the trip, he seemed very concerned about his appearance. He whitened his teeth, applied sunless tan and tried on everything in his closet.
On the trip, I would not hear from him at night and when I would mention it, he would apologize and say that he thought I went to bed.
Here’s where I’m really concerned. Coming home they missed their connecting flight because “they were getting food and lost track of time” and are having to spend the night in another city. I was about to book a hotel room for him close to the airport when he told me that his female colleague has a family friend that they could stay with. I told him it made me uncomfortable but he said then didn’t have many other options.
I’m very stressed about this. Did my husband cheat on me during this trip?
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𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 :
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fires of Vashundol (doom) | 1 | 0 | 1 | $74 |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| Garb of the Cunning Augur (rubick) | 2 | 0 | 2 | $36 |
| Apostle of Decay (necro) | 2 | 1 | 1 | $24 |
| Beacon of Cerulean Light (skywrath) | 1 | 0 | 1 | $24 |
𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 :
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oni Knight the Dark Conqueror (CK) | 2 | 0 | 2 | $17 |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| Stormwrought Arbiter (sven) | 2 | 0 | 2 | $65 |
| Iceburnt Elegy (winter wyvern) | 3 | 0 | 3 | $9 |
| Wartorn Heavens (zeus) | 3 | 2 | 1 | $20 |
| 0 | ||||
| Dirgeful Overlord (undying) | 4 | 2 | 2 | $13 |
| Nightsilver's Resolve (luna) | 3 | 0 | 3 | $9 |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| The Family Values Bundle (meepo) | 2 | 0 | 2 | $7 |
| VERY RARE Doomsday Ripper (PUDGE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | $145 |
⠀𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 :
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jolly Reaver (pudge) | 3 | 1 | 2 | $25 |
| Eternal Testament (death prophet) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $10 |
| Secrets of the Katekhein (winter wyvern) | 4 | 1 | 3 | $9 |
| Rumrunner's Carronade (brewmaster) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $9 |
| Abyssal Vortex (enigma) | 4 | 1 | 3 | $9 |
| Samareen Sacrifice (huskar) | 4 | 1 | 3 | $10 |
| Seablight Procession (undying) | 4 | 3 | 1 | $12 |
| Corruption of the Virulent Krait (venomancer) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $10 |
| Seaborne Reprisal (kunkka) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $45 |
| Pressure Regulator (clockwerk) | 4 | 1 | 3 | $9 |
| Meranth Dragoon (sven) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $28 |
| Spoils of the Vodou Rover (wd) | 4 | 1 | 3 | $10 |
| Shadowforce Gale (luna) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $7 |
| Mechalodon Interdictor (gyro) | 4 | 1 | 3 | $10 |
| Riptide Raider (Monkey) | 3 | 0 | 3 | $11 |
| The Dread Prophet (NP) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $9 |
| 0 | ||||
| Sovereign of the Kray Legions (SK) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $13 |
| Cunning Corsair (riki) | 4 | 2 | 2 | $9 |
| Chitinous Stalker (nyx) | 4 | 1 | 3 | $10 |
| 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 Submerged Hazard (tinker) | 5 | 2 | 3 | $105 |
| 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 Manta Marauder (batrider) | 3 | 0 | 3 | $60 |
⠀𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 part 1
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trail of the Sanguine Spectrum (BS) | 11 | 0 | 11 | $4 |
| Pitfall Crusader (pango) | 11 | 0 | 11 | $8 |
| Insights of the Sapphire Shroud (Darkseer) | 11 | 0 | 11 | $5 |
| Pillar of the Fractured Citadel (SB) | 11 | 3 | 8 | $4 |
| Forlorn Descent (undying) | 11 | 2 | 9 | $6 |
| Stonemarch Sovereign (WK) | 10 | 2 | 8 | $13 |
| The Murid Divine (necro) | 11 | 0 | 11 | $9 |
| Primer of the Sapper's Guile (techies) | 11 | 1 | 10 | $4 |
| Molokau Stalker (veno) | 11 | 0 | 11 | $4 |
| Raptures of the Abyssal Kin | 11 | 2 | 9 | $5 |
| Fate Meridian (invoker) | 11 | 0 | 11 | $12 |
| Grasp of the Riven Exile (weaver) | 11 | 1 | 10 | $6 |
| Visions of the Lifted Veil | 10 | 2 | 8 | $12 |
| 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 Dread Compact (warlock) | 9 | 3 | 6 | $55 |
| 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 Endowments of the Lucent Canopy (shaman) | 6 | 0 | 6 | $65 |
𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 part 2:
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitmouse Fraternity (meepo) | 16 | 1 | 15 | $5 |
| Fires of the Volcanic Guard (ember) | 17 | 7 | 10 | $4 |
| Third Awakening (DK) | 16 | 12 | 4 | $9 |
| Shackles of the Enduring Conscript (Axe) | 17 | 4 | 13 | $5 |
| Shimmer of the Anointed (nyx) | 17 | 0 | 17 | $5 |
| Cruelties of the Spiral Bore (magnus) | 17 | 17 | 0 | $13 |
| Loaded Prospects (brewmaster) | 17 | 2 | 15 | $5 |
| Ire of Molten Rebirth (phoenix) | 17 | 0 | 17 | $7 |
| Dread Ascendance (doom) | 17 | 11 | 6 | $8 |
| 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 Raiments of the Obsidian Forge (underlord) | 10 | 2 | 8 | $9 |
| 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 ̶L̶e̶g̶e̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶D̶a̶r̶k̶h̶e̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶P̶u̶r̶s̶u̶i̶t̶ ̶N̶S̶)̶ | 0 |
𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 part 1:
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Echoes of the Everblack (abaddon) | 9 | 0 | 9 | $7 |
| Allure of the Faeshade Flower (dark willow) | 10 | 1 | 9 | $10 |
| Paean of the Ink Dragon (grimstroke) | 9 | 0 | 9 | $8 |
| 0 | $7 | |||
| The Arts of Mortal Deception (enigma) | 9 | 1 | 8 | $5 |
| Poacher's Bane (tidehunter) | 9 | 0 | 9 | $7 |
| Soul of the Brightshroud (DP) | 9 | 1 | 8 | $10 |
| Curse of the Creeping Vine (undying) | 10 | 2 | 8 | $8 |
| Pursuit of the Ember Demons (huskar) | 10 | 0 | 10 | $8 |
| Appetites of the Lizard King (slark) | 9 | 3 | 6 | $8 |
| Forbidden Medicine (dazzle) | 9 | 3 | 6 | $8 |
| Riddle of the Hierophant (oracle) | 10 | 0 | 10 | $6 |
| Glimmer of the Sacred Hunt (drow) | 10 | 9 | 1 | $12 |
| Adornments of the Jade Emissary (earth spirit) | 10 | 0 | 10 | $9 |
| RARE Defender of Ruin (disruptor) | 11 | 5 | 6 | $8 |
| VERY RARE Gothic Whisper (PA) | 9 | 1 | $40 |
𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 part 2:
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sight of the Kha-Ren Faithful (drow) | 7 | 1 | 6 | $8 |
| Souls Tyrant (SF) | 7 | 2 | 5 | $20 |
| Endless Night (abaddon) | 7 | 1 | 6 | $7 |
| Dapper Disguise (pudge) | 7 | 3 | 4 | $7 |
| Fury of the Bloodforge (BS) | 7 | 3 | 4 | $6 |
| Grim Destiny (WK) | 7 | 4 | 3 | $6 |
| D | 11 | 0 | $5 | |
| 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 Fowl Omen (necro) | 6 | 2 | 4 | $9 |
| 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐄 Cinder Sensei (ember) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $55 |
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝟭𝟬 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 part 1
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin of the Dark Oath (NS) | 12 | 9 | 0 | $7 |
| 0 | ||||
| Apocalypse Unbound (AA) | 6 | 1 | 5 | $5 |
| 0 | ||||
| Fury of the Righteous Storm (disruptor) | 4 | 2 | 2 | $4 |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| Heartless Hunt (bounty hunter) | 8 | 1 | 7 | $8 |
| Herald of the Ember Eye | 0 | |||
| Fissured Flight (jakiro) | 2 | 1 | 1 | $6 |
| Flashpoint Proselyte (huskar) | 7 | 3 | 4 | $7 |
| Signs of Allfather (natures prophet) | 0 | $9 | ||
| Glory of the Elderflame (lina) | 10 | 1 | $15 | |
| Songs of Starfall Glen (enchantress) | 2 | 0 | 2 | $5 |
| RARE Ancient Inheritance (TINY) | 0 | $10 | ||
| VERY RARE Forsworn Legacy (MARS) | 7 | 2 | 5 | $15 |
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝟭𝟬 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲 part 2
| name of set | no. of pcs | sold | final inventory | price ($) USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evolution of the Infinite (enigma) | 0 | $6 | ||
| Beast of the Crimson Ring (bristleback) | 5 | 0 | 5 | $7 |
| Clearcut Cavalier (timbersaw) | 5 | 2 | 3 | $5 |
| The King Of Thieves (KOTL) | 5 | 1 | 4 | $5 |
| Horror from the Deep (tidehunter) | 6 | 0 | $5 | |
| Ire of the Ancient Gaoler (arc warden) | 9 | 4 | ||
| Talons of the Endless Storm (chaos knight) | 7 | 2 | $7 | |
| Carousal of the Mystic Masquerade (rubick) | 4 | 0 | 4 | $7 |
| Crown of Calaphas (shadow demon) | 4 | 2 | ||
| Wrath of the Fallen (doom) | 7 | 2 | $6 | |
| Blacksail Cannoneer (sniper) | 5 | 1 | 4 | $7 |
| Secrets of the Celestial (skywrath) | 5 | 1 | 4 | $5 |
| Blaze of Oblivion (phoenix) | 5 | 0 | 5 | $5 |
| Master of the Searing Path (ember spirit) | 7 | 5 | 2 | $13 |
| RARE Steward of the Forbidden Chamber (TA) | 5 | 1 | 4 | $13 |
| VERY RARE Claszureme Incursion (Facelessvoid) | 3 | 1 | 2 | $45 |
2023.04.01 07:15 illinoishealth Exploring Career Opportunities in the Health Industry: Focus on Dental Courses
Are you considering a career in healthcare but don't know where to start? Have you considered a career in dentistry? Dental courses offer a diverse range of opportunities for students who are interested in health careers.
Dentistry is a rewarding career that allows you to help people achieve better oral health and improve their overall quality of life. Dental courses are available at both undergraduate and graduate levels, with a variety of specializations to choose from, including orthodontics, periodontics, endodontics, and oral surgery.
If you're interested in pursuing a career in dentistry, there are several factors to consider. Firstly, you will need to obtain the necessary qualifications, which typically include a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as biology, chemistry or health science, followed by a dental degree from an accredited institution.
Once you have completed your education, you will need to obtain licensure from your state's dental board. This process typically involves passing both written and practical exams to demonstrate your competence in providing dental care.
top 3 dental schools in USA:
Illinois health careers
Chicago dental
American dental school
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Dentistry is a rewarding career that allows you to help people achieve better oral health and improve their overall quality of life. Dental courses are available at both undergraduate and graduate levels, with a variety of specializations to choose from, including orthodontics, periodontics, endodontics, and oral surgery.
If you're interested in pursuing a career in dentistry, there are several factors to consider. Firstly, you will need to obtain the necessary qualifications, which typically include a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as biology, chemistry or health science, followed by a dental degree from an accredited institution.
Once you have completed your education, you will need to obtain licensure from your state's dental board. This process typically involves passing both written and practical exams to demonstrate your competence in providing dental care.
top 3 dental schools in USA:
Illinois health careers
Chicago dental
American dental school
2023.04.01 07:13 rearon6 My 32M wife 32F took something too far. I don’t know what’s next
Long story short. I’ve been wanting to move back home to Phx from Chicago for numerous reasons. I’ve voiced this numerous times to my wife in the past few years. A few weeks ago I found a house in the Phx area and showed it to her (it was an assumable VA loan w/ 2.75% Interest rate btw. Also included big yard, Pool, and paid off Solar panels). She got upset and said no. We went to bed that night angry w/ eachother.
The next day, she gets out of work early and gets an OOP against me. Her reasoning was “two protect our kids and their ‘life routine’ from your obsession with moving.” The OOP was granted even though she “allegedly” told the judge she had no fears for her or our two kids’ safety. She said “she still intended to communicate with me about the kids until I determined that I didn’t want to move anymore.” That night her brother took me to our house to get my stuff since I wouldn’t be able to after getting served.
I got served the order on Saturday at her brothers house (thankfully he took me in because he did not agree with what she was doing). Upon reviewing the order it had the box marked for history of past physical violence, there hasn’t been any in 7 years together. It also listed the school and daycare as protected addresses along with our house. Additionally the school/DC would get copies of the order(embarrassing to even think about). The court date was scheduled for 3 weeks out. I immediately bought a plane ticket and flew home to Phx. While flying home my wife was confronted about the order and it’s contents by her brother. She told her brother that she did not state any violence had occurred and that what was marked in the order is “not what she intended.” She immediately text me a long explanation and apology, to which I did not respond. On Sunday she requested an emergency hearing and had the order terminated.
After making a bunch of excuses and blaming me for wanting to move after 4 years of issues involving her family, amongst other things she asked me to come home and work things out after 2 weeks apart. Our kids are both really young. I was hesitant to come home and my emotions alternated between both being done, and feeling bad for leaving the kids.
Since coming back, I’ve grown to resent and have even felt instances of hate towards my wife. Our house doesn’t feel like home anymore and everything in the house triggers the pain I felt having to pack my stuff and leave. It honestly feels like a war zone and not a home.
We have had some problems even before this ordeal. But I feel like this issue changed everything. My wife is currently upset because “I can’t get over it and just move forward.”
I don’t really know that I want to be together anymore. What do I do? Are my feelings off base?
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The next day, she gets out of work early and gets an OOP against me. Her reasoning was “two protect our kids and their ‘life routine’ from your obsession with moving.” The OOP was granted even though she “allegedly” told the judge she had no fears for her or our two kids’ safety. She said “she still intended to communicate with me about the kids until I determined that I didn’t want to move anymore.” That night her brother took me to our house to get my stuff since I wouldn’t be able to after getting served.
I got served the order on Saturday at her brothers house (thankfully he took me in because he did not agree with what she was doing). Upon reviewing the order it had the box marked for history of past physical violence, there hasn’t been any in 7 years together. It also listed the school and daycare as protected addresses along with our house. Additionally the school/DC would get copies of the order(embarrassing to even think about). The court date was scheduled for 3 weeks out. I immediately bought a plane ticket and flew home to Phx. While flying home my wife was confronted about the order and it’s contents by her brother. She told her brother that she did not state any violence had occurred and that what was marked in the order is “not what she intended.” She immediately text me a long explanation and apology, to which I did not respond. On Sunday she requested an emergency hearing and had the order terminated.
After making a bunch of excuses and blaming me for wanting to move after 4 years of issues involving her family, amongst other things she asked me to come home and work things out after 2 weeks apart. Our kids are both really young. I was hesitant to come home and my emotions alternated between both being done, and feeling bad for leaving the kids.
Since coming back, I’ve grown to resent and have even felt instances of hate towards my wife. Our house doesn’t feel like home anymore and everything in the house triggers the pain I felt having to pack my stuff and leave. It honestly feels like a war zone and not a home.
We have had some problems even before this ordeal. But I feel like this issue changed everything. My wife is currently upset because “I can’t get over it and just move forward.”
I don’t really know that I want to be together anymore. What do I do? Are my feelings off base?
2023.04.01 07:12 yungkalez Need a last minute miracle
I’m currently experimenting with some supplements provided by my naturopath for my PMDD symptoms — I’m going on vacation the DAY I enter my luteal phase and desperately just want to have a good time without extreme mood swings, flight anxiety, awful bloating, and I know I’m going to be drinking 🙃 which always seems to send my PMDD symptoms from 0 to 100
I’m currently taking vitamin D daily along with a maca supplement and holy basil for my mood. I think it balances me throughout the month, but definitely doesn’t save me from the sudden spikes of anxiety and panic and impending doom as if something horrifically awful is about to happen to me (the paranoia and anxiety actually get so bad that I will get too scared to take a supplement as if it will poison me — PMDD drives my ocd symptoms up the wall)
Does anybody have any super reliable go to’s on the days where you NEED to be normal? Lol. I’m trying black cohosh for the first time tomorrow, please wish me luck that it keeps me at bay. I want to try progesterone cream but it would be a high risk game to play just days before my trip because I wouldn’t know my dosage as I haven’t gotten a hormone test yet and this is time sensitive (I’m leaving in a little over a week)
I’m also looking at DIM-plus which I’ve seen a lot of people in this thread have success with, but also struggle with the dosage — is it worth trying out prior to my trip?
Sorry for all of the questions, I’m literally just desperate as I’m also struggle with some heavy stuff right now and we know PMDD loves to make what’s already challenging feel nearly insufferable. Also, any holy grail preventative - hangover tips are welcome lol especially for the post alcohol anxiety
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I’m currently taking vitamin D daily along with a maca supplement and holy basil for my mood. I think it balances me throughout the month, but definitely doesn’t save me from the sudden spikes of anxiety and panic and impending doom as if something horrifically awful is about to happen to me (the paranoia and anxiety actually get so bad that I will get too scared to take a supplement as if it will poison me — PMDD drives my ocd symptoms up the wall)
Does anybody have any super reliable go to’s on the days where you NEED to be normal? Lol. I’m trying black cohosh for the first time tomorrow, please wish me luck that it keeps me at bay. I want to try progesterone cream but it would be a high risk game to play just days before my trip because I wouldn’t know my dosage as I haven’t gotten a hormone test yet and this is time sensitive (I’m leaving in a little over a week)
I’m also looking at DIM-plus which I’ve seen a lot of people in this thread have success with, but also struggle with the dosage — is it worth trying out prior to my trip?
Sorry for all of the questions, I’m literally just desperate as I’m also struggle with some heavy stuff right now and we know PMDD loves to make what’s already challenging feel nearly insufferable. Also, any holy grail preventative - hangover tips are welcome lol especially for the post alcohol anxiety
2023.04.01 07:08 rearon6 My (32F) wife took things too far, and I (32M) dont know what’s next
Long story short. I’ve been wanting to move back home to Phx from Chicago for numerous reasons. I’ve voiced this numerous times to my wife in the past few years. A few weeks ago I found a house in the Phx area and showed it to her (it was an assumable VA loan w/ 2.75% Interest rate btw. Also included big yard, Pool, and paid off Solar panels). She got upset and said no. We went to bed that night angry w/ eachother.
The next day, she gets out of work early and gets an OOP against me. Her reasoning was “two protect our kids and their ‘life routine’ from your obsession with moving.” The OOP was granted even though she “allegedly” told the judge she had no fears for her or our two kids’ safety. She said “she still intended to communicate with me about the kids until I determined that I didn’t want to move anymore.” That night her brother took me to our house to get my stuff since I wouldn’t be able to after getting served.
I got served the order on Saturday at her brothers house (thankfully he took me in because he did not agree with what she was doing). Upon reviewing the order it had the box marked for history of past physical violence, there hasn’t been any in 7 years together. It also listed the school and daycare as protected addresses along with our house. Additionally the school/DC would get copies of the order(embarrassing to even think about). The court date was scheduled for 3 weeks out. I immediately bought a plane ticket and flew home to Phx. While flying home my wife was confronted about the order and it’s contents by her brother. She told her brother that she did not state any violence had occurred and that what was marked in the order is “not what she intended.” She immediately text me a long explanation and apology, to which I did not respond. On Sunday she requested an emergency hearing and had the order terminated.
After making a bunch of excuses and blaming me for wanting to move after 4 years of issues involving her family, amongst other things she asked me to come home and work things out after 2 weeks apart. Our kids are both really young. I was hesitant to come home and my emotions alternated between both being done, and feeling bad for leaving the kids.
Since coming back, I’ve grown to resent and have even felt instances of hate towards my wife. Our house doesn’t feel like home anymore and everything in the house triggers the pain I felt having to pack my stuff and leave. It honestly feels like a war zone and not a home.
We have had some problems even before this ordeal. But I feel like this issue changed everything. My wife is currently upset because “I can’t get over it and just move forward.”
I don’t really know that I want to be together anymore. What do I do? Are my feelings off base?
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The next day, she gets out of work early and gets an OOP against me. Her reasoning was “two protect our kids and their ‘life routine’ from your obsession with moving.” The OOP was granted even though she “allegedly” told the judge she had no fears for her or our two kids’ safety. She said “she still intended to communicate with me about the kids until I determined that I didn’t want to move anymore.” That night her brother took me to our house to get my stuff since I wouldn’t be able to after getting served.
I got served the order on Saturday at her brothers house (thankfully he took me in because he did not agree with what she was doing). Upon reviewing the order it had the box marked for history of past physical violence, there hasn’t been any in 7 years together. It also listed the school and daycare as protected addresses along with our house. Additionally the school/DC would get copies of the order(embarrassing to even think about). The court date was scheduled for 3 weeks out. I immediately bought a plane ticket and flew home to Phx. While flying home my wife was confronted about the order and it’s contents by her brother. She told her brother that she did not state any violence had occurred and that what was marked in the order is “not what she intended.” She immediately text me a long explanation and apology, to which I did not respond. On Sunday she requested an emergency hearing and had the order terminated.
After making a bunch of excuses and blaming me for wanting to move after 4 years of issues involving her family, amongst other things she asked me to come home and work things out after 2 weeks apart. Our kids are both really young. I was hesitant to come home and my emotions alternated between both being done, and feeling bad for leaving the kids.
Since coming back, I’ve grown to resent and have even felt instances of hate towards my wife. Our house doesn’t feel like home anymore and everything in the house triggers the pain I felt having to pack my stuff and leave. It honestly feels like a war zone and not a home.
We have had some problems even before this ordeal. But I feel like this issue changed everything. My wife is currently upset because “I can’t get over it and just move forward.”
I don’t really know that I want to be together anymore. What do I do? Are my feelings off base?
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2023.04.01 07:04 krans24 Chi to Minn
Just finished the Chicago show, great time!
Was supposed to catch one more show tomorrow in Minnesota but they just cancelled my flight.
Anyone from Minnesota? The weather must be pretty crazy right now I see no other flight options during the day
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Was supposed to catch one more show tomorrow in Minnesota but they just cancelled my flight.
Anyone from Minnesota? The weather must be pretty crazy right now I see no other flight options during the day
2023.04.01 07:02 AutoModerator Monthly Buy/Sell/Trade Thread - April 2023
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• If you are buying from someone on here please check out their post history. If they are a brand new account and they haven’t posted anything aside from a ticket sales comment chances are they are trying to scam someone. Obviously this isn’t always the case. But if I were buying a ticket I’d feel more comfortable buying from someone who has been active on here for a while.
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2023.04.01 07:01 avboden marine notices for Starship’s first orbital flight: The daily windows run from April 6th to April 12th and are open from 7:55AM CDT until 12:10PM CDT. Pending launch license, of course.
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2023.04.01 06:56 flanine Visiting NYC in one week with children
Hi community, we’re a family of 4 from the EU. We’ll be traveling to NYC in July, we bought a flight + hotel combo for a bargain and we’re trying to figure out how to get the best out of this time without spending a fortune. Our hotel has free breakfast and we have a fridge and a microwave in our room, so we expect to eat out once a day and order take out in the evening or cook simple meals. Our kids are 12 and 4.
Flood us with your best tips and ideas for cheap tours and activities that we can enjoy as a family!!
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Flood us with your best tips and ideas for cheap tours and activities that we can enjoy as a family!!
2023.04.01 06:55 Zealousideal_Loss131 Need advice/ Help troubleshoot
My aunt (based in Manila, Philippines) just received her Canadian temporary resident visa and we’re planning on bringing her here (Toronto, Canada) this May/June 2023. We’re looking for a ONE way flight ticket from Manila to Toronto that is within $900 CAD - $1500 CAD, with airline protected transfers, and doesn’t stop at visa required countries (eg., US). I’ve been looking around all airline websites, skyscanner, google flights and have seen a couple that meets the above criteria but the one way ticket costs more than $2200 CAD. My aunt is a senior and will be using wheelchair assistance so we can’t make her do self transfers at every stopover. It would be very helpful if you can give us advice or ways we could troubleshoot this. Thank you so much.
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2023.04.01 06:54 Southern_Pepper_7816 Trying to use my e voucher but BA says it’s already been used
My husband and I had two e vouchers from a flight we had to cancel in 2020 due to Covid shutdowns. They expire in September 2023, so I tried using them for a trip in early June. Only one of them would work. After waiting over an hour with customer service I was informed that one of my vouchers had already been used. I assured the CS rep I had not used my voucher and wanted to know when it was used and where it was used. She told me she could not divulge that information due to privacy laws! She advised me to fill out an on line complaint form. That is going nowhere at this point. Time is running out for me, does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get my voucher reinstated?
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2023.04.01 06:54 chancemthrow California kid gets into (mostly) California schools
Demographics
Academics
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
Letter #1 was a history teacher I had junior year who is known for being an oddball but writing great letters. I loved his APUSH class and he thought I was smart; we got along great, especially working with him to write the term paper, which he seemed to enjoy. Probably 8/10
Letter #2 was a physics teacher I had junior year also. He remarked in his report card comments very strongly on my intellectual curiosity and deep passion for learning even in subjects that weren't my primary interest (I'm not a science person). I would guess the letter was really good, maybe 8/10 or even 9/10 also
Additional letter was from the candidate I interned for. She said I really strongly contributed to the campaign and hit all the points you're supposed to in a letter like that despite not writing them regularly. Probably 8/10 also, maybe a little lower
Interviews
Virtual Stanford REA interview was fine, virtual Georgetown interview was fine. In person Harvard interview was amazing; I really clicked with the guy and he had done the same YMCA program I do in another state, so we got along great. Yale interview was ok, probably the worst of them all; the interviewer was a too-cool Hollywood producer who pontificated a lot and didn't ask many questions.
Essays
Personal statement was a narrative about my whole life and why I want to do public service, touching on important events and tied together by references to a videogame. I thought it was solid, represented me well, and was pretty interesting, probably also an 8/10. Other essays I definitely agonized over and made sure they were in great shape after long editing sessions; I particularly enjoyed the UChicago supplemental.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:
Overall, I am overjoyed at what happened! I am now choosing between Cal, Stanford, and Georgetown, which are incredible options.
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- Gender: male
- Race/Ethnicity: white
- Residence: Los Angeles
- Income Bracket: upper middle class
- Type of School: medium to large universities, public and private, in California, the midwest, and the east coast
- Hooks: Mom went to Stanford
Academics
- GPA (UW/W): 3.88UW (school doesn't weight)
- # of Honors/AP: 8 APs, 12 honors classes
- Senior Year Course Load: Acting 1, AP Lang, Intro Greek Seminar, Post-AP Spanish Seminar, AP Calc BC, Honors Computer Science, AP Comp Gov, Honors World History
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.
- SAT I: 1580 (790RW, 790M)
- APs: APCSA 5, APEuro 5, AP Spanish Lang 5, AP Calc AB 5, APUSH 5
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.
- Involved with a YMCA civic engagement program (if you know, you know) which I devoted a lot of time to. Gained a leadership role in my local group and received some recognition statewide and attended an equivalent national conference. Most writing was about this
- Model UN through the school, various awards at various conferences
- Junior year, interned for local city council candidate who lost the primary
- Linguistics project with a teacher doing research about Indo-Europeans. Nothing published
- Running various small school clubs
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
- National Latin Exam Summa Cum Laude 2 years in a row
- National Spanish Honors Society
- Honor Roll all of high school
- Various MUN awards
Letter #1 was a history teacher I had junior year who is known for being an oddball but writing great letters. I loved his APUSH class and he thought I was smart; we got along great, especially working with him to write the term paper, which he seemed to enjoy. Probably 8/10
Letter #2 was a physics teacher I had junior year also. He remarked in his report card comments very strongly on my intellectual curiosity and deep passion for learning even in subjects that weren't my primary interest (I'm not a science person). I would guess the letter was really good, maybe 8/10 or even 9/10 also
Additional letter was from the candidate I interned for. She said I really strongly contributed to the campaign and hit all the points you're supposed to in a letter like that despite not writing them regularly. Probably 8/10 also, maybe a little lower
Interviews
Virtual Stanford REA interview was fine, virtual Georgetown interview was fine. In person Harvard interview was amazing; I really clicked with the guy and he had done the same YMCA program I do in another state, so we got along great. Yale interview was ok, probably the worst of them all; the interviewer was a too-cool Hollywood producer who pontificated a lot and didn't ask many questions.
Essays
Personal statement was a narrative about my whole life and why I want to do public service, touching on important events and tied together by references to a videogame. I thought it was solid, represented me well, and was pretty interesting, probably also an 8/10. Other essays I definitely agonized over and made sure they were in great shape after long editing sessions; I particularly enjoyed the UChicago supplemental.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:
- Stanford (REA -> Deferred -> Accepted)
- UC
- Berkeley
- Los Angeles
- San Diego
- Davis
- Georgetown - School of Foreign Service
- New York University
- Wesleyan
- University of Chicago
- Northwestern
- American University
- Tufts
- Harvard
- Yale
- Columbia
- Brown
- Pomona College
Overall, I am overjoyed at what happened! I am now choosing between Cal, Stanford, and Georgetown, which are incredible options.
2023.04.01 06:53 CollectandRun Outlook for AAA, AA, A+, A
These are my notes on the farm system for the casual fan.
AAA - bats
Loftin, Gentry, Garcia are the three batters to watch out for. KC has a nice stable of Short Stops that have flexibility to play a few other positions. Big year for all three to find a way to get up to the majors for anything longer than to replace a player on the 10 day IR. Pratto and Fermin have already seen significant time in the majors. Pratto has to get his K% down and it feels like it's his last year to prove it before we figure out a way to move on for him. And I might be generous at that.Samad Taylor is another piece and would probably see the Majors faster if he wasn't behind Loftin / Garcia. Logan Porter, CJ Alexander, and Tucker Bradley both have talent but not a real pathway to the majors like the others.
AAA - pitchingThere's names that you'll recognize Max Castillo, Josh Staumont, Jackson Kowar, Andres Nunez, Jonathan Heasley. All not making the 26 man lineup for a variety of reasons.Josh Taylor is coming back from Tommy John and might be slowly put back into the Royals 26 man lineup around June/July. Ryan Weiss had a ton of momentum in his final few Spring Training games. Finally there's Evan Sisk who we got from the MAT trade who is older but only 30 innings into playing in AAA.
AAA Overall - I don't expect a ton of players to be promoted to AAA like last year and I don't expect that many players to be sent up (barring injury). Not that it's vital to anyone reading but the team itself will win games based on the fact that you have pitching that is veterans to AAA by now.
Similar to last year Dayton & JJ simply didn't put the Royals in position to have a young arm that is going to crack the rotation from AAA this year.
KC needs to figure out what the long term plan for Jackson Kowar and Jonathan Heasley is. To be frank, there's not one player on this roster that I feel like will be a starting 5 rotation guy. Even with Castillo, I think he's best if he comes back as a Long Relief guy. But could see him starting a couple of games if we need it next year.
AA Pitching - I rank what happens in AA pitching at the top of priorities for the Royals this year. MLB + Minor League. This is almost like a film that the studio decides to be split in two movies, because the truth is that 2023 will likely end with a Cliffhanger for all of these characters at best.
The aftermath of JJ/Dayton blowing up the core of Royals from last offseason involved a swift change to focus on Minor League Bullpen prospects that would mix in with prospects that we already had.
Andrew Hoffman, Steven Cruz (a closer we got from the MAT trade), Beck Way (technically still in A+ getting more SP chances but will likely be a RP once he gets to AA) , TJ Sikkema, Jacob Wallace, Christian Chamberlain, Will Klein, Chandler Champlain are names that you'll hear in AA this year. All of them have the same mission. Increase K% and lower BB%.
KC has Brian Sweeney who did amazing stuff with bullpen pitchers but this should definitely be seen as the first hour of cooking a brisket as many of these players haven't seen much time in AA AND with Q coming from Tampa , they really like to keep pitchers in the Minors until everything is there to come up. There's no speed rushing anyone up to the majors.
From a starting perspective we have Jonathan Bowlan coming back from injury for the first few months. And Alec Marsh, a fan favorite, but had inconsistent stats at times. Bowlan and Marsh are really the two guys I could see called up to AAA at the very least.
The bullpen arms I don't expect any movement up until mid 2024.
AA Bats - Luca Tresh is AAA ready but the Royals probably want him taking reps in AA + work with the pitchers. I could also see Hayden Dunhurst coming up quickly to be here as well. Robbie Glendinning performed really well last year and had a great show of RBIs.
I think there's going to be a ton of call ups to AA.
AA Overall - Andy LaRoche and Larry Carter are in AAA this year. LaRoche was the Quad Cities Hitting Coach and was pretty effective. Larry Carter was actually the bullpen coach in Kansas City last year under Cal Eldred. He's been with the organization for decades and the organization retaining to ship him down to AA shows how much he'll be working on converting prospects into Bullpen pitchers. My guess is that unless a player is somehow magical , everyone will start in Mid-Relief and slowly become a start in this system.
It might not be what he'd want to hear but Robbie Glendinning is a coach's son and a future coach - either in the US or in Australia. He'll be great when some of our 2022 draft picks rise up.
A+ Pitching - Beck Way starts in Quad Cities but I think he'll be moving to AA fairly soon.
Noah Cameron was by far the best stat performer in the Royals Minor League system last year. But we only saw him in A+. Big year incoming for him.Like Noah Cameron, William Fleming (who was the key part of the Carlos Santana trade) was also a player that we traded for that looks surprisingly nice. Low BB rate but could increase his K%. Anthony Simonelli had a solid K/BB rate and could be a sleeper as well.
A+ Batting - Peyton Wilson is a 2nd rounder from Alabama that performed well last year and is in that scrum. There's also River Town who had a great summer last year. Tyler Tolbert is a basestealing machine who can also play defense. I'm mostly curious if we try him out at center field a bit more despite being on the fringe of 6'0.
A+ Overall - I think the biggest part of A+ will some of the college arms we drafted being MOVED UP after 30 or so innings in A ball. Brooks Conrad is returning this season after an impressive season last year.
LOW A Pitching -I think Ben Kudrna, Frank Mozzicato, Shane Panzini stay in A for the year unless we see something wild happen. Jonatan Bernal is a name that should sort of be used in any LOW A conversation with those names. The 20 year old came in the Whit trade and had a very respectable K/BB rate. Should definitely be in that Top 30 MLB prospect conversation. Lucinder Avila is another International Prospect that most people have ahead of Bernal because of arm talent but will also need another year in A.
With the 2022 Draft picks...
Mason Barnett should have a short time in A before going to A+ and maybe even AA. Ben Sears, David Sandlin (strike machine), Chazz Martinez, Brandon Johnson, and Mack Anglin (also looked great) shouldn't spend that much time in A ball. No more than 30 innings each if not fewer.
A Batting - I expect Gavin Cross, Cayden Wallace, and Javier Vaz to be in AA within a very small amount of innings.
That being said it'll be interesting what happens with Top 30 prospects Lizandro Rodriguez and Daniel Vazquez. They'll stay in A for the year, but they are both getting.My guess is that Carter Jensen will stay in A, for no other reason than to improve his catching and worth with the pitchers.
Hayden Dunhurst will likely fly up to AA to stay with the developing bullpen there.
A Overall - I probably haven't done enough homework to tell you who we can bring up from Rookie Ball to fill in the voids for our 2022 draft college arms moving up. The main thing to watch is seeing how well the pitching does and if
OTHER NOTES :
Diego Hernandez , a top 20 Organizational Prospect, is likely to miss the entire season.
Asa Lacy isn't really mentioned in this because I have no idea where Asa Lacy is at. He played in AA last year but also seemed to be dealing with multiple injuries on top of the pitching issues. If anyone has an update on Brennon McNair , I'd love to see how close he is to Columbia. My guess is that he's next up as he just turned 20.
OVERALL MILB:
The big headscratcher is that we have some depth at infield that is sort of "figure out what to do with it ASAP" . Loftin/Garcia/TayloCJ Alexander are all fighting for 1 spot. 3 of them are Top 30 players. 2 are Top 5 players in the Organization. And that spot might disappear in early 2024 if Cayden Wallace has numbers in AA (like I expect him to). My guess is KC might do the opposite of their usual trading strategy and try to package some of those players with our pitchers/veterans to try to get a high ranked prospect. But who knows. It'll suck if Loftin is Brewer Hicklen 2.0.
You never know, but I don't see bats that will breakout that aren't aren't fringe MLB players (Loftin , Garcia , Gentry). What you really want is to say "in 2024 we'll have two starting pitchers to fill in for Grienke / Lyles / Keller / Yarborough." But the truth is that there's no real flight path to getting anything above their current talent level. Even if Bowlan and Marsh look good, they'll be year 1 next year.
This overview is sort of healthy issue to fans wondering what happens if we aren't close to 500 at the deadline.
Obviously it'd be great if KC could somehow get young starting pitching from players that we trade away.
You should always take BPA, but if this is somewhat strategized.
AAA/AA/A+/A - Starting Pitching - This is every franchise in the MLB, but especially us. Our realistic clock on getting a starting rotation arm of high caliber is 2025+.
AAA - Bullpen. We have time before any of the prospects in AA develop into MLB caliber bullpen arms and the odds of all of them developing are still pretty small. We can get by for a year with what we have, but we'll probably need to figure out a way to fill in spots.
AAA/AA Outfield - We'll have Gavin Cross there. I think we probably need to find ourselves a defensive centerfielder in the vein of Kyle Isbel.
AA Catcher - Fermin will probably see some time in the Majors. You'd love to find a Logan Porter type of Catcher that can also play 1st base just so the pitchers have practice.
A/A+ - First Base / DH / Catcher. I think Catchers are valuable in the minors because they help the development of pitchers and can cover up for a ton of their mistakes in terms of winning games.
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AAA - bats
Loftin, Gentry, Garcia are the three batters to watch out for. KC has a nice stable of Short Stops that have flexibility to play a few other positions. Big year for all three to find a way to get up to the majors for anything longer than to replace a player on the 10 day IR. Pratto and Fermin have already seen significant time in the majors. Pratto has to get his K% down and it feels like it's his last year to prove it before we figure out a way to move on for him. And I might be generous at that.Samad Taylor is another piece and would probably see the Majors faster if he wasn't behind Loftin / Garcia. Logan Porter, CJ Alexander, and Tucker Bradley both have talent but not a real pathway to the majors like the others.
AAA - pitchingThere's names that you'll recognize Max Castillo, Josh Staumont, Jackson Kowar, Andres Nunez, Jonathan Heasley. All not making the 26 man lineup for a variety of reasons.Josh Taylor is coming back from Tommy John and might be slowly put back into the Royals 26 man lineup around June/July. Ryan Weiss had a ton of momentum in his final few Spring Training games. Finally there's Evan Sisk who we got from the MAT trade who is older but only 30 innings into playing in AAA.
AAA Overall - I don't expect a ton of players to be promoted to AAA like last year and I don't expect that many players to be sent up (barring injury). Not that it's vital to anyone reading but the team itself will win games based on the fact that you have pitching that is veterans to AAA by now.
Similar to last year Dayton & JJ simply didn't put the Royals in position to have a young arm that is going to crack the rotation from AAA this year.
KC needs to figure out what the long term plan for Jackson Kowar and Jonathan Heasley is. To be frank, there's not one player on this roster that I feel like will be a starting 5 rotation guy. Even with Castillo, I think he's best if he comes back as a Long Relief guy. But could see him starting a couple of games if we need it next year.
AA Pitching - I rank what happens in AA pitching at the top of priorities for the Royals this year. MLB + Minor League. This is almost like a film that the studio decides to be split in two movies, because the truth is that 2023 will likely end with a Cliffhanger for all of these characters at best.
The aftermath of JJ/Dayton blowing up the core of Royals from last offseason involved a swift change to focus on Minor League Bullpen prospects that would mix in with prospects that we already had.
Andrew Hoffman, Steven Cruz (a closer we got from the MAT trade), Beck Way (technically still in A+ getting more SP chances but will likely be a RP once he gets to AA) , TJ Sikkema, Jacob Wallace, Christian Chamberlain, Will Klein, Chandler Champlain are names that you'll hear in AA this year. All of them have the same mission. Increase K% and lower BB%.
KC has Brian Sweeney who did amazing stuff with bullpen pitchers but this should definitely be seen as the first hour of cooking a brisket as many of these players haven't seen much time in AA AND with Q coming from Tampa , they really like to keep pitchers in the Minors until everything is there to come up. There's no speed rushing anyone up to the majors.
From a starting perspective we have Jonathan Bowlan coming back from injury for the first few months. And Alec Marsh, a fan favorite, but had inconsistent stats at times. Bowlan and Marsh are really the two guys I could see called up to AAA at the very least.
The bullpen arms I don't expect any movement up until mid 2024.
AA Bats - Luca Tresh is AAA ready but the Royals probably want him taking reps in AA + work with the pitchers. I could also see Hayden Dunhurst coming up quickly to be here as well. Robbie Glendinning performed really well last year and had a great show of RBIs.
I think there's going to be a ton of call ups to AA.
AA Overall - Andy LaRoche and Larry Carter are in AAA this year. LaRoche was the Quad Cities Hitting Coach and was pretty effective. Larry Carter was actually the bullpen coach in Kansas City last year under Cal Eldred. He's been with the organization for decades and the organization retaining to ship him down to AA shows how much he'll be working on converting prospects into Bullpen pitchers. My guess is that unless a player is somehow magical , everyone will start in Mid-Relief and slowly become a start in this system.
It might not be what he'd want to hear but Robbie Glendinning is a coach's son and a future coach - either in the US or in Australia. He'll be great when some of our 2022 draft picks rise up.
A+ Pitching - Beck Way starts in Quad Cities but I think he'll be moving to AA fairly soon.
Noah Cameron was by far the best stat performer in the Royals Minor League system last year. But we only saw him in A+. Big year incoming for him.Like Noah Cameron, William Fleming (who was the key part of the Carlos Santana trade) was also a player that we traded for that looks surprisingly nice. Low BB rate but could increase his K%. Anthony Simonelli had a solid K/BB rate and could be a sleeper as well.
A+ Batting - Peyton Wilson is a 2nd rounder from Alabama that performed well last year and is in that scrum. There's also River Town who had a great summer last year. Tyler Tolbert is a basestealing machine who can also play defense. I'm mostly curious if we try him out at center field a bit more despite being on the fringe of 6'0.
A+ Overall - I think the biggest part of A+ will some of the college arms we drafted being MOVED UP after 30 or so innings in A ball. Brooks Conrad is returning this season after an impressive season last year.
LOW A Pitching -I think Ben Kudrna, Frank Mozzicato, Shane Panzini stay in A for the year unless we see something wild happen. Jonatan Bernal is a name that should sort of be used in any LOW A conversation with those names. The 20 year old came in the Whit trade and had a very respectable K/BB rate. Should definitely be in that Top 30 MLB prospect conversation. Lucinder Avila is another International Prospect that most people have ahead of Bernal because of arm talent but will also need another year in A.
With the 2022 Draft picks...
Mason Barnett should have a short time in A before going to A+ and maybe even AA. Ben Sears, David Sandlin (strike machine), Chazz Martinez, Brandon Johnson, and Mack Anglin (also looked great) shouldn't spend that much time in A ball. No more than 30 innings each if not fewer.
A Batting - I expect Gavin Cross, Cayden Wallace, and Javier Vaz to be in AA within a very small amount of innings.
That being said it'll be interesting what happens with Top 30 prospects Lizandro Rodriguez and Daniel Vazquez. They'll stay in A for the year, but they are both getting.My guess is that Carter Jensen will stay in A, for no other reason than to improve his catching and worth with the pitchers.
Hayden Dunhurst will likely fly up to AA to stay with the developing bullpen there.
A Overall - I probably haven't done enough homework to tell you who we can bring up from Rookie Ball to fill in the voids for our 2022 draft college arms moving up. The main thing to watch is seeing how well the pitching does and if
OTHER NOTES :
Diego Hernandez , a top 20 Organizational Prospect, is likely to miss the entire season.
Asa Lacy isn't really mentioned in this because I have no idea where Asa Lacy is at. He played in AA last year but also seemed to be dealing with multiple injuries on top of the pitching issues. If anyone has an update on Brennon McNair , I'd love to see how close he is to Columbia. My guess is that he's next up as he just turned 20.
OVERALL MILB:
The big headscratcher is that we have some depth at infield that is sort of "figure out what to do with it ASAP" . Loftin/Garcia/TayloCJ Alexander are all fighting for 1 spot. 3 of them are Top 30 players. 2 are Top 5 players in the Organization. And that spot might disappear in early 2024 if Cayden Wallace has numbers in AA (like I expect him to). My guess is KC might do the opposite of their usual trading strategy and try to package some of those players with our pitchers/veterans to try to get a high ranked prospect. But who knows. It'll suck if Loftin is Brewer Hicklen 2.0.
You never know, but I don't see bats that will breakout that aren't aren't fringe MLB players (Loftin , Garcia , Gentry). What you really want is to say "in 2024 we'll have two starting pitchers to fill in for Grienke / Lyles / Keller / Yarborough." But the truth is that there's no real flight path to getting anything above their current talent level. Even if Bowlan and Marsh look good, they'll be year 1 next year.
This overview is sort of healthy issue to fans wondering what happens if we aren't close to 500 at the deadline.
Obviously it'd be great if KC could somehow get young starting pitching from players that we trade away.
You should always take BPA, but if this is somewhat strategized.
AAA/AA/A+/A - Starting Pitching - This is every franchise in the MLB, but especially us. Our realistic clock on getting a starting rotation arm of high caliber is 2025+.
AAA - Bullpen. We have time before any of the prospects in AA develop into MLB caliber bullpen arms and the odds of all of them developing are still pretty small. We can get by for a year with what we have, but we'll probably need to figure out a way to fill in spots.
AAA/AA Outfield - We'll have Gavin Cross there. I think we probably need to find ourselves a defensive centerfielder in the vein of Kyle Isbel.
AA Catcher - Fermin will probably see some time in the Majors. You'd love to find a Logan Porter type of Catcher that can also play 1st base just so the pitchers have practice.
A/A+ - First Base / DH / Catcher. I think Catchers are valuable in the minors because they help the development of pitchers and can cover up for a ton of their mistakes in terms of winning games.
2023.04.01 06:52 ScarcityBroad3892 Grief and confusion and not knowing my place
My ex died in October one month after we split. He died of an accidental overdose. We had been together five months not long but after my daughters father and I split and I took six months I felt ready and I fell head over heels for td (I’ll call him td for privacy) when we met he told me his struggles I myself struggled with alcohol at a point in my life and had to seek help. To my knowledge he’d been clean from heroin and the really hard drugs he’d been doing for over a decade. I question now if he was spiraling the whole time we were together and I somehow missed it. I have never really been around hard drugs, and with him having a small baby and full custody, a new job and so much more. I just missed it somehow. I never thought I could love again and I loved him and he loved me I think. Or I like to hope he did and it wasn’t fake. He had been hurt bad in his relationship just as I had. We both were healing and we both were so there for each other. In august or September I noticed changes again I summed this up to him being tired and the excuses he’d say. On the night before he left town fora trip, we hadn’t talked in over a week he broke my heart. His behavior had been off very up, low, almost not there then just angry so angry that it wasn’t the person I met and I didn’t understand. I left his home that day heart broken as we’d looked at a house and hours later I was dumped. Two weeks later he invited me over to talk, he apologized for ghosting me, and said he knew he’d done things wrong in that way.
We had sex, an argument ended up arising as he was trying to get me to sublet his apartment. He lived over an hour from me and if we were not together I just didn’t see it as something I should do. He got mad, but really mad, he got extremely paranoid over smells and things and just he scared me. He got in my face and said if you’re going to come at me as a man I’m gonna buck up to you. He had a flight at 4am that whole night was awful. The sex was really rough, and he was so not him. I knew something was up. He left for his flight and I fought a meth pipe. In a box I’d given him in June for Father’s Day. I at the time didn’t know what it was and I had to google it. A week passes while he’s gone and we hadn’t spoken, I spent that week trying to figure out how to talk to him. I tried really hard but he got really mad. I told him I just wanted to tell his mom or someone anyone and he started to threaten me, made me feel crazy and pushed me completely away. I tried to reach out up until the 5th. He died on the 25th. From meth and fentanyl. He wouldn’t have chose to do fentanyl. He died in front of his sons mother who he had a dvpo against and who I’m sure played a role in what killed him.
I feel so much guilt and blame and hatred that I didn’t do more. I can’t seem to move on from him, he was so much more than what killed him. I hate that we didn’t have a good bye, that we didn’t make amends that we never got the six months to see where we were. Because now it’s almost six months and I’m still here while he’s not on this earth. I just I don’t know my place I feel I’m not allowed to grieve because I didn’t get as much time with him. Because I at that point was his ex. I feel like his family blames me but I tried to call his mom she didn’t pick up. He threatened my family, my custody case and everything he could think to use to scare me. And it worked and now he’s gone. I think I blame me. I hope he didn’t hate me I hope he doesn’t hate me. I miss him so much and would give so much to hug him or hear him make a joke or tell one of his amazing stories. I’ve just been at a stand still for six months and idk how to move on.
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We had sex, an argument ended up arising as he was trying to get me to sublet his apartment. He lived over an hour from me and if we were not together I just didn’t see it as something I should do. He got mad, but really mad, he got extremely paranoid over smells and things and just he scared me. He got in my face and said if you’re going to come at me as a man I’m gonna buck up to you. He had a flight at 4am that whole night was awful. The sex was really rough, and he was so not him. I knew something was up. He left for his flight and I fought a meth pipe. In a box I’d given him in June for Father’s Day. I at the time didn’t know what it was and I had to google it. A week passes while he’s gone and we hadn’t spoken, I spent that week trying to figure out how to talk to him. I tried really hard but he got really mad. I told him I just wanted to tell his mom or someone anyone and he started to threaten me, made me feel crazy and pushed me completely away. I tried to reach out up until the 5th. He died on the 25th. From meth and fentanyl. He wouldn’t have chose to do fentanyl. He died in front of his sons mother who he had a dvpo against and who I’m sure played a role in what killed him.
I feel so much guilt and blame and hatred that I didn’t do more. I can’t seem to move on from him, he was so much more than what killed him. I hate that we didn’t have a good bye, that we didn’t make amends that we never got the six months to see where we were. Because now it’s almost six months and I’m still here while he’s not on this earth. I just I don’t know my place I feel I’m not allowed to grieve because I didn’t get as much time with him. Because I at that point was his ex. I feel like his family blames me but I tried to call his mom she didn’t pick up. He threatened my family, my custody case and everything he could think to use to scare me. And it worked and now he’s gone. I think I blame me. I hope he didn’t hate me I hope he doesn’t hate me. I miss him so much and would give so much to hug him or hear him make a joke or tell one of his amazing stories. I’ve just been at a stand still for six months and idk how to move on.
2023.04.01 06:49 denjia2 If involuntarily rebooked on a different alliance, do you still get lps?
My BA flight from OSL to LHR was delayed so I missed my connection on AA. I was rebooked on virgin Atlantic by BA. The BA Osl to LHR flight has posted lp, but the rest of my expected journey did not post. Will it?
Then entire booking was made on AA.
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Then entire booking was made on AA.
2023.04.01 06:46 dppthrowaway2077 45 [M4F] #Chicago - I’m delightful: depraved, deviant dom type for like minded submissive type
As it says in the bit you clicked on: I’m delightful. Read further for a small sample of the many ways in which I am wonderful, and find out how you, yes YOU, can take advantage to the amazing limited time offer. Also, we're social distancing, so I suppose this is a good time for torrid correspondence.
Offer includes:
Wit: I’m funny. Sometimes dry and biting, as when hanging out over drinks and I’m making acerbic sotto-voce comments about the dipshits at the other end of the bar, declaiming upon how Democrats are just as bad as Republicans and anyway Hillary is super corrupt. Sometimes absurdly silly, as when we are in bed, and especially in those awful moments during kink when pushing our emotional boundaries has inadvertently shattered the shared intimacy whereby situations that might otherwise be horrifying turn unbearably hot and sexy and intimate; (because you are firmly bound, suspended from a hook in this door-frame, with a ball gag distending your mouth and a large man is selecting amongst his toys for what to hit you with, now that you’ve been worked over with the crop that he’s still using to caress your clit. For example). Talking about the kink is supposed to be further down, but I’m proud of my ability to notice those moments and pull the gag and start improvising a progressively more absurd re-telling of the constitutional convention as a poorly organized swingers convention, using the contents of my pockets to represent the various founding fathers and their outhouse assignations with Jefferson.
Frightening intellect: I’m really, really bright. I read, constantly and voraciously and indiscriminately, at least as far as subject. I pay attention to news and politics and policy and everything else and I’m always glad to spend time with someone else who is as interested in the world as I am. I adore — really, deeply adore— doing kink with terrifically intelligent women; having the kind conversations where I feel like I must be a genius just because I can kind of keep up with you. Kinky sex is by nature pretty intimate, at least when it is something two people are doing together as opposed to some dude who figures kinky girls are easy and thinks being a dom means not caring if she comes and yelling bitch a lot. But I am not that guy. I fucking hate that guy. I spent years being miserable and basically at war with my sexuality because I thought being male and dom meant I had to be that guy and oh my God I think I’d rather just remove the entire apparatus using a rusty spoon from my Swiss Army knife rather than be like that walking indictment of humanity. So I need to like the person I’m performing misogyny at. She needs to be someone I can talk to before and after and not feel like I’m robbing an intellectual cradle. My capacity to be the most amazing dom you’ve ever invited to cross you boundaries — which I can totally be — is tied directly to how much I respect you as an equal making a choice and my assessment of your respect for me in the same way.
Sexy: There is no one true standard of hotness, and I don’t hold myself forth as the platonic ideal of the male form (for one thing? The Greeks were super into tiny penis. I’m serious. Had to do with their ideals of balance, apparently). I’m a big guy, 5’11, white, with a broad-shouldered sort of frame that leads people to think I’m taller than I am. I have a bit of a gut, but not so much that you’d call me fat, walking down the street; I suspect that the gut is something I notice but mostly no one else does. I get more compliments on my ass than I know what to do with.
I’m fit and active, I have nice eyes, a good smile and a better laugh. I’m currently clean shaven, although I’ve been known to grow a beard from time to time. (It is a small, neat Van Dyke sort of thing - I couldn’t grow a hipster lumberjack beard if I wanted to. Something else the Greeks would have had opinions on). Brown eyes, brown hair, and bespectacled. Nerd, but sexy nerd. And admit it: when a dude is tying you up and saying demeaning, degrading, frantically arousing things to you, wouldn’t you rather, when drops the crop and your world collapses to the feeling of his fingers (HOW many fingers? God, can you even tell any more, you are so wet...) moving inside your pussy and his thumb on your clit, when you suddenly feel his free hand up under your hair, right along the scalp, in that good, firm grab that makes you feel small and helpless and sexy and dirty and nasty and so, so good (and HEY! Did I tell you you could do that? If I wanted you to fuck your filthy hole on my fingers I’d have told you to, wouldn’t I? So stop, or I’ll have to take them away) ... in that moment, I have to believe you’d rather have the person whispering sweet, dirty nothings in your ear be one who can use words like “wanton” and “harlot” as well as “skank” and “hoe” or strangely popular “bitch”. Who can capture your imagination even more thoroughly than he’s bound your hands and ankles. I don’t know. I’m not even just a little bit submissive, and even if I was I’d still be a dude. But I have to believe -and user feedback surveys seem to support - that it is better when the violence of action is matched by wickedness of mind and quickness of wit.
Liberal: I’m not imposing a political litmus test. But because I only screw people I like and who I at least believe like me, and because the politics of the moment are centered around such a toxic person leading an even more toxic movement it matters: If you are on board with the current conservative movement in America, just... no. Because while I might get past the stupid policy, maybe. I mean probably not, but I can forgive well-meaning and ignorant, at least in principle. But I could never accept the cruelty.
Feminist: As much as I enjoy deploying the tropes and language of misogyny in bed with a likeminded partner, my enjoyment of that for that performative misogyny hinges on you being in on the joke (if you’ll allow). It isn’t just about “being good”; virtue has nothing to do with it, at least in this context. It is because as a dominant I get off, in large part, on your desire: controlling it, restraining it, heightening it, sustaining it and ultimately satisfying it (or not, as circumstances dictate). If we don’t start from a place where we both see ourselves as peers, I can never be really sure that desire is authentic or authentically mine. And I am egotistical enough, or maybe just have enough self-respect, to demand that I be certain that your desire is for me, specifically, at least in the time we are in “bed”. (although the bed is only the actually relevant piece of furniture at most half the time. Really, beds are actually terribly designed for good sex. Post coital cuddle and bullshit sessions, while we discussed what worked, what really worked, and what needs work? That is a fine use for the bed. For fucking and fucking related program activities? At best a poor second to a good couch or any of a wide variety of chairs.
Stoned-sex: I love the way it affects my physiology, keeping me aroused and in the moment for hours and hours and the way it drops my refractory period down to only a few minutes or a half an hour before I’m in the mood again. And I love the way it slows down my otherwise sometimes too quickly racing mind, so that I can slide effortlessly into the dominant analog of subspace; that mental space where calling a pretty girl who I like and respect and admire a lazy no good whore, where yanking her up by her hair, slapping her face and telling her to get her greedy little mouth all the way down my cock or I’ll show her what rough really means... Weed helps me be in that space without quite so much second guessing or worry that I’m going to hurt you. It lets me trust my instincts and you and your ability to safeword out, and that is good for both of us.
Kinky: Obviously. And obviously, this is shot through with examples. But: I like power and control. I like, more than anything getting to know you and your mind and being able to figure out how to wrap you around my fingers so thoroughly that I hardly have to lift them to have you dancing my tune. I can be rough, and cruel, and I love causing pain, even to the point of tears and balancing that against urgency and a desire to please and an orgasm that I can hold just out of reach until the moment I don’t and just as your are falling off from that peak ratcheting the sexual energy back up so that even though you just came call over my hands or cock or mouth you’d do anything-Anything-ANYTHING for one more caress, one more thrust, one more slide of my tongue (inside: that specific, delightful acid tang of the inside of a cunt that you only taste when you push your tongue deep inside - it never lasts on a finger, for some reason - then out and up and you can feel her tremble, strong and subtle and if it were a song this bit would be almost subsonic and then under the clit and around and there she goes, she’s starting to beg again and now I kinda have a crush on her because she is learning me back, harlot instead of whore, and an under-undercurrent of mirth beneath it all: the power is real and the desire is real but we also both know it is a joke, a shared secret: we can do this and still be friends and isn’t that fucking awesome?).
I have a few specific fetishes: I like to decide what you wear, when we are together: I love being able to look at you and know, not just that you’ve made yourself into an expression of my ideal of high femme sexuality, but that as you did so, with every little bit, anticipation was building. That I’ve been teasing you, maybe for hours, without doing a thing or saying a thing. (And of course, it plays back into desire and its close cousin, consent. If every stitch you are -and every stitch you are.- wearing was chosen with an eye to my desires, that is an implicit declaration of enthusiastic consent). I have a bit of a twist for deviance. Sitting next to a woman who I know has got nothing on under her panties but the butt plug I told her to wear is hot; hotter still if I handed it too her at the bar and she returns from the bathroom and hands me her panties. Hotter still if I hand it too her and she doesn’t go to the bathroom, but just looks around and then slides it up her ass with a smirk and a “Thank you SiDaddy”. I like being called Daddy, sometimes. There is something inherently provocative when the kind of woman -scary smart, self-confident, and self-aware - that I am drawn to lets a breathy, anxious “Daddy” slip her lips. There is something inherently filthy about hearing that word, with all its baggage, demeaning, infantilizing implications fall from the lips of someone who is alive to those implications and is calling to me in that way not despite them, but on account of them. (It isn’t my revolution if I can’t dance to it. And it isn’t my feminism if we can’t repurpose our cultural baggage in order to have a spectacular sex life in a magnificent relationship).
I have more than a bit of the daddy in me. A bit physically — I’m solid like that. And still more in attitude. As much as I demand of a partner, I cherish knowing I can be a very particular kind of safe place to stand for her. I enjoy, even need, to be protective and caring, supportive and nurturing. Not only in that quiet place after we have hit the climax (or between the first, easy release and starting the next assent — which is very much part of why I like being able to combine weed with my kink. As much as I love giving reign to some of the darker parts of my personality during the rush of kink, I also exulting that aftermath; when your head is on my chest and my arm wraps around you, and my hands explore your body without any urgency or any hesitation. I love that feeling of being a place of safety and feeling you relax into my size and my strength. It is the only feeling that I have that I identify as definitely masculine (in and for myself: I’m not trying to claim that experience as uniquely belonging to those issued a penis and number of testicles at birth).
It extends beyond sex; really, that is only the tip of the iceberg. Vital, and you sure as shit are going to sink if you miss it in the dark. But it runs all through my relationships. Arguable without the sexually charged overtones, it is just a over complicated way of saying “I like being a good boyfriend”. But where would we be without our sexually charged overtones? And it cuts both ways: if you are pulling from that part of me without returning the counterpoint of submission I need (or I feel I’m constantly reminding you that I need it and your compliance thus feels grudging) we are going to crash and burn. If you fail to make certain it is clear to me that you are as happy to give me what I need as I am eager to give you what you need, I’m going to feel really ill-used.
Having said all that, I’m not remotely a good fit for anyone who defines themselves as a little. A Daddy/daughter dynamic without the explicit embrace of childishness has an intense pull because it combines taboo violation with a power exchange dynamic that comports well with my personality — being both protective and demanding, authority and comfort works well for me. But I find that the idea of trying to be sexual with someone locked in to portraying a prepubescent very uncomfortable and suspect that I would still feel that way with someone who’s “little” age was more mature. That is a squick, rather than a value judgment. With me, that sort of age play (or even worse pet play) works strongly against the kind of intimacy that I value in kink. Role play can be a blast, and I love it, but I need it to clearly be play, something that can be stepped into and out of without stepping completely out of the kink dynamic. I bring the entirety of myself to everything I do, and I have enough self-regard to demand the same from my partner. If I like you enough to take you to bed, that necessarily means that I value your mind enough to lust after it — no matter how lovely you may be in repose, if you can’t or won’t turn me on with your intellect you will lose my interest so quickly as to acquire a visible redshift as you exit my life. Accordingly, when I reach for your mind, be it too discuss housing policy or my difficulty with a binding, to check on your well being or learn how your dissertation is progressing, (and I’ve done all of these during a scene) I deserve to be able to find it, and you, there reaching back.
If you’ve gotten this far and if you are at all the target audience: (cis-female, like weed and kink together, comfortable in yourself and your kinks, think you’re sexy) send me a PM. Don’t think yourself out of it or wait and see or anything. For fucks sake don't read the following Just put together a couple of paragraphs of message and fire it off. I don’t know what will happen, but I know for sure you won’t regret having done so. After all, like I said right up top: I’m delightful. I bet you are too.
I used to try and assert that I don’t have a type. That isn’t true, though: I have several even beyond the implicit, willful intellectual type suggested above. And the list keeps growing: I’m forever delighted by the variety of women who've made my hindbrain start barking and trying to do tricks, at one time or another. Granting that, my abiding lust objects resemble 40’s pin ups far more than 00’s porn stars, at least insofar as body type goes; tattoos and piercings can be wonderfully sexy. Likewise, though a wonderful rack can be a wonder to behold a girl in an A-cup who has that warm flare of hip and legs that go all the way down can lead to me walking into traffic. Finally, my experience of myself is sufficient for me to say confidently that race isn’t a factor in my libido, either for or against.
I live in Chicago, love my city, and for all I value the intellectual aspect of all this, I want ultimately to meet one (or more, I suppose;) women with whom I can spend time with both doing sexy things and the kind of things that make us both so terribly sexy. If that means an intense but memorable two days while you are visiting your great aunt Wilma, that is worth doing. If that means ongoing encounters frequent enough to keep us both sated, great. And if those are intermixed with enough non-sexual shared activities that the phrase “friends-with-benefits” is a fact and not just a more polite way of saying fuckbuddies? Even more great. Super, even. And if that last develops into a passion that carries us through the next three or four decades, both of us slightly bemused that we got along so well during the benighted days before first we fell upon one another, carried away on a passion so intense it is visible from orbit? Well. Wouldn’t that be delightful.
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Offer includes:
Wit: I’m funny. Sometimes dry and biting, as when hanging out over drinks and I’m making acerbic sotto-voce comments about the dipshits at the other end of the bar, declaiming upon how Democrats are just as bad as Republicans and anyway Hillary is super corrupt. Sometimes absurdly silly, as when we are in bed, and especially in those awful moments during kink when pushing our emotional boundaries has inadvertently shattered the shared intimacy whereby situations that might otherwise be horrifying turn unbearably hot and sexy and intimate; (because you are firmly bound, suspended from a hook in this door-frame, with a ball gag distending your mouth and a large man is selecting amongst his toys for what to hit you with, now that you’ve been worked over with the crop that he’s still using to caress your clit. For example). Talking about the kink is supposed to be further down, but I’m proud of my ability to notice those moments and pull the gag and start improvising a progressively more absurd re-telling of the constitutional convention as a poorly organized swingers convention, using the contents of my pockets to represent the various founding fathers and their outhouse assignations with Jefferson.
Frightening intellect: I’m really, really bright. I read, constantly and voraciously and indiscriminately, at least as far as subject. I pay attention to news and politics and policy and everything else and I’m always glad to spend time with someone else who is as interested in the world as I am. I adore — really, deeply adore— doing kink with terrifically intelligent women; having the kind conversations where I feel like I must be a genius just because I can kind of keep up with you. Kinky sex is by nature pretty intimate, at least when it is something two people are doing together as opposed to some dude who figures kinky girls are easy and thinks being a dom means not caring if she comes and yelling bitch a lot. But I am not that guy. I fucking hate that guy. I spent years being miserable and basically at war with my sexuality because I thought being male and dom meant I had to be that guy and oh my God I think I’d rather just remove the entire apparatus using a rusty spoon from my Swiss Army knife rather than be like that walking indictment of humanity. So I need to like the person I’m performing misogyny at. She needs to be someone I can talk to before and after and not feel like I’m robbing an intellectual cradle. My capacity to be the most amazing dom you’ve ever invited to cross you boundaries — which I can totally be — is tied directly to how much I respect you as an equal making a choice and my assessment of your respect for me in the same way.
Sexy: There is no one true standard of hotness, and I don’t hold myself forth as the platonic ideal of the male form (for one thing? The Greeks were super into tiny penis. I’m serious. Had to do with their ideals of balance, apparently). I’m a big guy, 5’11, white, with a broad-shouldered sort of frame that leads people to think I’m taller than I am. I have a bit of a gut, but not so much that you’d call me fat, walking down the street; I suspect that the gut is something I notice but mostly no one else does. I get more compliments on my ass than I know what to do with.
I’m fit and active, I have nice eyes, a good smile and a better laugh. I’m currently clean shaven, although I’ve been known to grow a beard from time to time. (It is a small, neat Van Dyke sort of thing - I couldn’t grow a hipster lumberjack beard if I wanted to. Something else the Greeks would have had opinions on). Brown eyes, brown hair, and bespectacled. Nerd, but sexy nerd. And admit it: when a dude is tying you up and saying demeaning, degrading, frantically arousing things to you, wouldn’t you rather, when drops the crop and your world collapses to the feeling of his fingers (HOW many fingers? God, can you even tell any more, you are so wet...) moving inside your pussy and his thumb on your clit, when you suddenly feel his free hand up under your hair, right along the scalp, in that good, firm grab that makes you feel small and helpless and sexy and dirty and nasty and so, so good (and HEY! Did I tell you you could do that? If I wanted you to fuck your filthy hole on my fingers I’d have told you to, wouldn’t I? So stop, or I’ll have to take them away) ... in that moment, I have to believe you’d rather have the person whispering sweet, dirty nothings in your ear be one who can use words like “wanton” and “harlot” as well as “skank” and “hoe” or strangely popular “bitch”. Who can capture your imagination even more thoroughly than he’s bound your hands and ankles. I don’t know. I’m not even just a little bit submissive, and even if I was I’d still be a dude. But I have to believe -and user feedback surveys seem to support - that it is better when the violence of action is matched by wickedness of mind and quickness of wit.
Liberal: I’m not imposing a political litmus test. But because I only screw people I like and who I at least believe like me, and because the politics of the moment are centered around such a toxic person leading an even more toxic movement it matters: If you are on board with the current conservative movement in America, just... no. Because while I might get past the stupid policy, maybe. I mean probably not, but I can forgive well-meaning and ignorant, at least in principle. But I could never accept the cruelty.
Feminist: As much as I enjoy deploying the tropes and language of misogyny in bed with a likeminded partner, my enjoyment of that for that performative misogyny hinges on you being in on the joke (if you’ll allow). It isn’t just about “being good”; virtue has nothing to do with it, at least in this context. It is because as a dominant I get off, in large part, on your desire: controlling it, restraining it, heightening it, sustaining it and ultimately satisfying it (or not, as circumstances dictate). If we don’t start from a place where we both see ourselves as peers, I can never be really sure that desire is authentic or authentically mine. And I am egotistical enough, or maybe just have enough self-respect, to demand that I be certain that your desire is for me, specifically, at least in the time we are in “bed”. (although the bed is only the actually relevant piece of furniture at most half the time. Really, beds are actually terribly designed for good sex. Post coital cuddle and bullshit sessions, while we discussed what worked, what really worked, and what needs work? That is a fine use for the bed. For fucking and fucking related program activities? At best a poor second to a good couch or any of a wide variety of chairs.
Stoned-sex: I love the way it affects my physiology, keeping me aroused and in the moment for hours and hours and the way it drops my refractory period down to only a few minutes or a half an hour before I’m in the mood again. And I love the way it slows down my otherwise sometimes too quickly racing mind, so that I can slide effortlessly into the dominant analog of subspace; that mental space where calling a pretty girl who I like and respect and admire a lazy no good whore, where yanking her up by her hair, slapping her face and telling her to get her greedy little mouth all the way down my cock or I’ll show her what rough really means... Weed helps me be in that space without quite so much second guessing or worry that I’m going to hurt you. It lets me trust my instincts and you and your ability to safeword out, and that is good for both of us.
Kinky: Obviously. And obviously, this is shot through with examples. But: I like power and control. I like, more than anything getting to know you and your mind and being able to figure out how to wrap you around my fingers so thoroughly that I hardly have to lift them to have you dancing my tune. I can be rough, and cruel, and I love causing pain, even to the point of tears and balancing that against urgency and a desire to please and an orgasm that I can hold just out of reach until the moment I don’t and just as your are falling off from that peak ratcheting the sexual energy back up so that even though you just came call over my hands or cock or mouth you’d do anything-Anything-ANYTHING for one more caress, one more thrust, one more slide of my tongue (inside: that specific, delightful acid tang of the inside of a cunt that you only taste when you push your tongue deep inside - it never lasts on a finger, for some reason - then out and up and you can feel her tremble, strong and subtle and if it were a song this bit would be almost subsonic and then under the clit and around and there she goes, she’s starting to beg again and now I kinda have a crush on her because she is learning me back, harlot instead of whore, and an under-undercurrent of mirth beneath it all: the power is real and the desire is real but we also both know it is a joke, a shared secret: we can do this and still be friends and isn’t that fucking awesome?).
I have a few specific fetishes: I like to decide what you wear, when we are together: I love being able to look at you and know, not just that you’ve made yourself into an expression of my ideal of high femme sexuality, but that as you did so, with every little bit, anticipation was building. That I’ve been teasing you, maybe for hours, without doing a thing or saying a thing. (And of course, it plays back into desire and its close cousin, consent. If every stitch you are -and every stitch you are.- wearing was chosen with an eye to my desires, that is an implicit declaration of enthusiastic consent). I have a bit of a twist for deviance. Sitting next to a woman who I know has got nothing on under her panties but the butt plug I told her to wear is hot; hotter still if I handed it too her at the bar and she returns from the bathroom and hands me her panties. Hotter still if I hand it too her and she doesn’t go to the bathroom, but just looks around and then slides it up her ass with a smirk and a “Thank you SiDaddy”. I like being called Daddy, sometimes. There is something inherently provocative when the kind of woman -scary smart, self-confident, and self-aware - that I am drawn to lets a breathy, anxious “Daddy” slip her lips. There is something inherently filthy about hearing that word, with all its baggage, demeaning, infantilizing implications fall from the lips of someone who is alive to those implications and is calling to me in that way not despite them, but on account of them. (It isn’t my revolution if I can’t dance to it. And it isn’t my feminism if we can’t repurpose our cultural baggage in order to have a spectacular sex life in a magnificent relationship).
I have more than a bit of the daddy in me. A bit physically — I’m solid like that. And still more in attitude. As much as I demand of a partner, I cherish knowing I can be a very particular kind of safe place to stand for her. I enjoy, even need, to be protective and caring, supportive and nurturing. Not only in that quiet place after we have hit the climax (or between the first, easy release and starting the next assent — which is very much part of why I like being able to combine weed with my kink. As much as I love giving reign to some of the darker parts of my personality during the rush of kink, I also exulting that aftermath; when your head is on my chest and my arm wraps around you, and my hands explore your body without any urgency or any hesitation. I love that feeling of being a place of safety and feeling you relax into my size and my strength. It is the only feeling that I have that I identify as definitely masculine (in and for myself: I’m not trying to claim that experience as uniquely belonging to those issued a penis and number of testicles at birth).
It extends beyond sex; really, that is only the tip of the iceberg. Vital, and you sure as shit are going to sink if you miss it in the dark. But it runs all through my relationships. Arguable without the sexually charged overtones, it is just a over complicated way of saying “I like being a good boyfriend”. But where would we be without our sexually charged overtones? And it cuts both ways: if you are pulling from that part of me without returning the counterpoint of submission I need (or I feel I’m constantly reminding you that I need it and your compliance thus feels grudging) we are going to crash and burn. If you fail to make certain it is clear to me that you are as happy to give me what I need as I am eager to give you what you need, I’m going to feel really ill-used.
Having said all that, I’m not remotely a good fit for anyone who defines themselves as a little. A Daddy/daughter dynamic without the explicit embrace of childishness has an intense pull because it combines taboo violation with a power exchange dynamic that comports well with my personality — being both protective and demanding, authority and comfort works well for me. But I find that the idea of trying to be sexual with someone locked in to portraying a prepubescent very uncomfortable and suspect that I would still feel that way with someone who’s “little” age was more mature. That is a squick, rather than a value judgment. With me, that sort of age play (or even worse pet play) works strongly against the kind of intimacy that I value in kink. Role play can be a blast, and I love it, but I need it to clearly be play, something that can be stepped into and out of without stepping completely out of the kink dynamic. I bring the entirety of myself to everything I do, and I have enough self-regard to demand the same from my partner. If I like you enough to take you to bed, that necessarily means that I value your mind enough to lust after it — no matter how lovely you may be in repose, if you can’t or won’t turn me on with your intellect you will lose my interest so quickly as to acquire a visible redshift as you exit my life. Accordingly, when I reach for your mind, be it too discuss housing policy or my difficulty with a binding, to check on your well being or learn how your dissertation is progressing, (and I’ve done all of these during a scene) I deserve to be able to find it, and you, there reaching back.
If you’ve gotten this far and if you are at all the target audience: (cis-female, like weed and kink together, comfortable in yourself and your kinks, think you’re sexy) send me a PM. Don’t think yourself out of it or wait and see or anything. For fucks sake don't read the following Just put together a couple of paragraphs of message and fire it off. I don’t know what will happen, but I know for sure you won’t regret having done so. After all, like I said right up top: I’m delightful. I bet you are too.
I used to try and assert that I don’t have a type. That isn’t true, though: I have several even beyond the implicit, willful intellectual type suggested above. And the list keeps growing: I’m forever delighted by the variety of women who've made my hindbrain start barking and trying to do tricks, at one time or another. Granting that, my abiding lust objects resemble 40’s pin ups far more than 00’s porn stars, at least insofar as body type goes; tattoos and piercings can be wonderfully sexy. Likewise, though a wonderful rack can be a wonder to behold a girl in an A-cup who has that warm flare of hip and legs that go all the way down can lead to me walking into traffic. Finally, my experience of myself is sufficient for me to say confidently that race isn’t a factor in my libido, either for or against.
I live in Chicago, love my city, and for all I value the intellectual aspect of all this, I want ultimately to meet one (or more, I suppose;) women with whom I can spend time with both doing sexy things and the kind of things that make us both so terribly sexy. If that means an intense but memorable two days while you are visiting your great aunt Wilma, that is worth doing. If that means ongoing encounters frequent enough to keep us both sated, great. And if those are intermixed with enough non-sexual shared activities that the phrase “friends-with-benefits” is a fact and not just a more polite way of saying fuckbuddies? Even more great. Super, even. And if that last develops into a passion that carries us through the next three or four decades, both of us slightly bemused that we got along so well during the benighted days before first we fell upon one another, carried away on a passion so intense it is visible from orbit? Well. Wouldn’t that be delightful.
2023.04.01 06:46 BrianHoweBattle Some odd DC United Advanced Keeper Stats
https://fbref.com/en/comps/22/Major-League-Soccer-Stats
Check out the "Squad Advanced Goalkeeping" stats for DCU (keeper Tyler Miller)
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Check out the "Squad Advanced Goalkeeping" stats for DCU (keeper Tyler Miller)
- DC United has completed and "launched" the most keeper passes longer than 40 yards in the MLS.
- Despite the volume, they have the third-best completion % of "launched passes"
- DCU's has attempted the most GK passes in the league by a long-shot — 257 (second-most is 178.)
- Miller has taken the most keeper defensive actions outside the box — 27 (second-most is Chicago Fire at 11.)
- The average distance from goal for these defensive actions was 27.5 feet — #1 in the MLS (#2 was Chicago Fire at 20.9 feet).
- DCU keeper has faced the second-fewest crosses in the MLS so far (46) and has the third-best Cross-stopping rate 10.9%
2023.04.01 06:45 lavendermoon27 Pano naman kaming hindi confrontational kapag nasa immigration na?
Just saw the news about those passengers na na-offload or na late sa flight nila because of their encounter sa immigration. I mean grabe na ata ngayon yung interrogation nga mga officers to the point they will point finger at you na tipong igagaslight ka pa. As what I've also read from other's experience sobrang nakakabaliw yung ginawa ng mga officers sa kanila. While yung iba lumaban na lang or riniceprocate yung katarayan sa kanila. While ako, i really can't do that kasi hindi ako confrontational na tao. I feel kinda discouraged kasi my dream is to travel din abroad. And to think yung mga tao na nacancel yung flight showed all the proofs and documents na they are qualified to travel pero wala pa din. sobrang sakit naman ata na bibili ka ulit ng ticket just because natagal ka sa interview eventho early kapa pumila. And just like that parang kasalan mo pa na di natagalan ka sa immigration kasi ang daming tanong ng officer sa'yo? Parang rant na ata to and di con
[Also, i think it's a good thing na din na nagsalita yung passenger to address this issue... sobrang abuso na din and mali yung ginagawa ng mga officers satin eventho we have a complete documents, enough money , proofs , answers and reasons na umalis]]
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[Also, i think it's a good thing na din na nagsalita yung passenger to address this issue... sobrang abuso na din and mali yung ginagawa ng mga officers satin eventho we have a complete documents, enough money , proofs , answers and reasons na umalis]]
2023.04.01 06:42 ForgottenAsian Underperforming gpu
Underperforming rx6800 non xt
hello, so I just bought a used rx6800 non xt from eBay for $413 from a reputable seller and tested it out on warzone 2 on 1080p ( gonna be a massive cpu bottleneck) and I ran into horrible performance (maxed settings) only 50-65 fps, would this be because of the cpu? After, I tested out Microsoft flight sim on max settings and only averaged about 40-50 fps. I even did a user benchmark score [https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/60441921] and it says my gpu is underperforming. After I did a 3d mark test and only got 13,303 and 11,000 in total (cpu and gpu)
I tried to overclock the gpu to 2367 mhz but it never went pass its default clock (1980 mhz) I’m really new to all this and I’m kinda blank I also enabled xmp in bios already, should I return the gpu and instead buy a new 6700xt? And spend the extra money on a new monitor perhaps? (Maybe even a new cpu)
Essentially I have
32gb DDR4 ram
Corsair rm650x PSU
Asrock Rx 6800 non xt
Ryzen 5 3600
1080p 75hz monitor
(looking to upgrade into a 1440p 165hz montior in the future)
Thanks! :)
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hello, so I just bought a used rx6800 non xt from eBay for $413 from a reputable seller and tested it out on warzone 2 on 1080p ( gonna be a massive cpu bottleneck) and I ran into horrible performance (maxed settings) only 50-65 fps, would this be because of the cpu? After, I tested out Microsoft flight sim on max settings and only averaged about 40-50 fps. I even did a user benchmark score [https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/60441921] and it says my gpu is underperforming. After I did a 3d mark test and only got 13,303 and 11,000 in total (cpu and gpu)
I tried to overclock the gpu to 2367 mhz but it never went pass its default clock (1980 mhz) I’m really new to all this and I’m kinda blank I also enabled xmp in bios already, should I return the gpu and instead buy a new 6700xt? And spend the extra money on a new monitor perhaps? (Maybe even a new cpu)
Essentially I have
32gb DDR4 ram
Corsair rm650x PSU
Asrock Rx 6800 non xt
Ryzen 5 3600
1080p 75hz monitor
(looking to upgrade into a 1440p 165hz montior in the future)
Thanks! :)
2023.04.01 06:42 FAJStracker JNB Airport Improvement
 | Press release submitted by FAJStracker to aviation [link] [comments] The Airport Corporation of South Africa (ACSA), alongside Boksburg Ward 17 (S. LAPPING) & Ward 23 (A. DU PLESSIS), is proud to announce the planning and development of an exciting new Airbourne Place Ridge In Line & Flight Observation outlook #1, next to the Boksburg suburb of Impala Park (Witkoppie Ridge). The existing "JNB Trails Mountain Biking Trails" track will be retained, improved, and expand where needed for all ages and fitness levels. The suburbs surrounding the perimeter of Johannesburg International Airport have accepted a lot of noise burdens over the decades. This new site will focus on earth embankments for noise reductions over the problematic bird-infested trees, aka FOD (Foreign Object Damage) magnet. The parking for the MB track and the new open-air viewing earth embankment will be included, with an east entrance near the existing public park space and along Ridge/Yaldwyn Rd to the south. This area will be a free parking zone. The planned opening date is 2024/02/29 is likely if the current ward leadership supports the efforts of ACSA. This will be a social media boon for the ACSA, SA tourism, plane spotters, and YouTube creators. #jnbplanespotting The site's security will be patrolled/monitored by the current and future security contractor companies used by ACSA; This will also encourage the security staff to understand the need to take viral photos/videos, in the right light/wind conditions, along all perimeter walls of all the airports country-wide. This will be a security advantage to ensure wall security is linked to the public presence, less the vandalism, to the existing security measures. Operating hours will copy the SANS park guidelines, with opening hours related to the seasons, a grace period of the nearest 30 minutes after the Astronomical Twilight for closure & Night, and the same for Early Opening. Trimming of the existing locations to reduce the FOD will be ensured, starting with the view from Bonaero 74 Soccer found in Bonaero Park, Kempton Park, on the northeast boundary fence. The future of a western sunset location next to the Fire Protection Association of Southern Africa will be based on the success of the eastern sunrise location. Attached is the proposed layout mapping for inclusion. Google Maps view of proposed future areas. https://www.google.com/maps/d0/edit?mid=1HOxTZZ3rV6u-7I-7EZMAf7jXeO2CSwfX&usp=sharing Ends// |