OT: An OT thread unlike any other.

[Chainshot]

So a little followup from yesterday:

About 7:00 p.m., we hear a frantic, blood-curdling scream from upstairs. I bolt out onto the landing to assess what's going on as my upstairs neighbor comes running down the stairs with a towel over her face and her blouse torn. She's clearly been struck. She manages to gasp out that someone is in her apartment with a knife and her kids are in the apartment. So... I grab my baseball bat and start up the stairs while my wife, a pizza delivery guy and one of the neighbors call 911. I get to the next landing and the neighbor is telling us it's her husband, and he tried to stab her. He's on the landing above us, waiting for her. I figure, hey, I'm here and in the way, he will have to go through me to get down the stairs but he's not coming my way. GPD show up (6 cars in total, again, love most of the local constabulary) and I move back into our apartment. They take the husband into custody and his wife again comes down stairs, seeking safety. We bring her into our place while officers escort him to one of the patrol cars. She gives her statement to an officer and then she has a good cry while talking with my wife (her counseling background had kicked in immediately) while waiting for the other social services folks to arrive so she could go to a shelter with her kids.

The neighbor is still in holding from what I understand of it.

 

[valet]

Are we allowed to advertise charity events in this thread? The nonprofit that I work for (in Buffalo) is holding a fundraiser this Saturday and I'd love to spread the word.

 

[Chainshot]

Are we allowed to advertise charity events in this thread? The nonprofit that I work for (in Buffalo) is holding a fundraiser this Saturday and I'd love to spread the word.

PM me the details and I'll run it up the chain of command.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

So a little followup from yesterday:

About 7:00 p.m., we hear a frantic, blood-curdling scream from upstairs. I bolt out onto the landing to assess what's going on as my upstairs neighbor comes running down the stairs with a towel over her face and her blouse torn. She's clearly been struck. She manages to gasp out that someone is in her apartment with a knife and her kids are in the apartment. So... I grab my baseball bat and start up the stairs while my wife, a pizza delivery guy and one of the neighbors call 911. I get to the next landing and the neighbor is telling us it's her husband, and he tried to stab her. He's on the landing above us, waiting for her. I figure, hey, I'm here and in the way, he will have to go through me to get down the stairs but he's not coming my way. GPD show up (6 cars in total, again, love most of the local constabulary) and I move back into our apartment. They take the husband into custody and his wife again comes down stairs, seeking safety. We bring her into our place while officers escort him to one of the patrol cars. She gives her statement to an officer and then she has a good cry while talking with my wife (her counseling background had kicked in immediately) while waiting for the other social services folks to arrive so she could go to a shelter with her kids.

The neighbor is still in holding from what I understand of it.

Where is this at Chain? Costa Rica?

 

[Kyndig]

So a little followup from yesterday:

About 7:00 p.m., we hear a frantic, blood-curdling scream from upstairs. I bolt out onto the landing to assess what's going on as my upstairs neighbor comes running down the stairs with a towel over her face and her blouse torn. She's clearly been struck. She manages to gasp out that someone is in her apartment with a knife and her kids are in the apartment. So... I grab my baseball bat and start up the stairs while my wife, a pizza delivery guy and one of the neighbors call 911. I get to the next landing and the neighbor is telling us it's her husband, and he tried to stab her. He's on the landing above us, waiting for her. I figure, hey, I'm here and in the way, he will have to go through me to get down the stairs but he's not coming my way. GPD show up (6 cars in total, again, love most of the local constabulary) and I move back into our apartment. They take the husband into custody and his wife again comes down stairs, seeking safety. We bring her into our place while officers escort him to one of the patrol cars. She gives her statement to an officer and then she has a good cry while talking with my wife (her counseling background had kicked in immediately) while waiting for the other social services folks to arrive so she could go to a shelter with her kids.

The neighbor is still in holding from what I understand of it.

Good of you to do that, most people are bystanders. Hope she doesn't take him back.

 

[Chainshot]

Where is this at Chain? Costa Rica?

South side of Gainesville Florida. I'm at UF at the moment working on a degree.

Good of you to do that, most people are bystanders. Hope she doesn't take him back.

We hope. Haven't seen her since, so we figure she and the kids went to the local shelter.

 

[old kummelweck]

RIP Gord Downie.

 

[Myllz]

So a little followup from yesterday:

About 7:00 p.m., we hear a frantic, blood-curdling scream from upstairs. I bolt out onto the landing to assess what's going on as my upstairs neighbor comes running down the stairs with a towel over her face and her blouse torn. She's clearly been struck. She manages to gasp out that someone is in her apartment with a knife and her kids are in the apartment. So... I grab my baseball bat and start up the stairs while my wife, a pizza delivery guy and one of the neighbors call 911. I get to the next landing and the neighbor is telling us it's her husband, and he tried to stab her. He's on the landing above us, waiting for her. I figure, hey, I'm here and in the way, he will have to go through me to get down the stairs but he's not coming my way. GPD show up (6 cars in total, again, love most of the local constabulary) and I move back into our apartment. They take the husband into custody and his wife again comes down stairs, seeking safety. We bring her into our place while officers escort him to one of the patrol cars. She gives her statement to an officer and then she has a good cry while talking with my wife (her counseling background had kicked in immediately) while waiting for the other social services folks to arrive so she could go to a shelter with her kids.

The neighbor is still in holding from what I understand of it.

Wow, that's nuts. I kinda like how you randomly had a baseball bat available, though.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

South side of Gainesville Florida. I'm at UF at the moment working on a degree.



We hope. Haven't seen her since, so we figure she and the kids went to the local shelter.

Driven through there many times. Careful with the baseball bat though, you don't want to get it nicked up if it's a good piece of ash wood, or one of those -5 aluminum bats from Easton.

 

[SECRET SQUIRREL]

RIP Gord Downie.

I'm super bummed about this today, we lost one of the best....RIP Gord

 

[Chainshot]

Wow, that's nuts. I kinda like how you randomly had a baseball bat available, though.

Random? Oh no, not random.

And the news on Gord Downie, so very sad now. It is like part of my youth died.

 

[Jim Bob]

Counting down until quitting time.

I have some running around to do tonight, a 10pm game, and tomorrow off as we head to Pittsburgh for the little guy's hockey tournament.

 

[Myllz]

If you have a wireless network at your house and use WPA2 as your encryption method...update your gear and keep it updated over the next few days.

 

[Crazy Tasty]

If you have a wireless network at your house and use WPA2 as your encryption method...update your gear and keep it updated over the next few days.

Nevermind, I can google.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

If you have a wireless network at your house and use WPA2 as your encryption method...update your gear and keep it updated over the next few days.

It would help if updated firmware was available for my router...

 

[Myllz]

It would help if updated firmware was available for my router...

Yeah, might have to keep checking over the next few days. UniFi released it today so we updated all the ones at work.

 

[Jim Bob]

And so my younger son might be the dumbest smart kid that I know.

One night before we leave for his tournament in Pittsburgh, he slices his top hand pointer finger trying to mod a nerf gun.

His mom had to take him to Urgent Care. My guess is that he cried to get the doctor to go along with him playing this weekend. But, the doctor wants him to miss his football game on Tuesday.

And the mod didn't work.

As a friend tells his kids, there is a stupid tax and some times it comes due.

 

[cybresabre]

And the mod didn't work.

That's the most disappointing part. Get the kid a 3d printer and some better hand tools.

 

[Der Jaeger]

My boy played in net for the first time today in mites. He lost 2-1. The other team was a lot better, and he made about 15 saves. The other goalie made about 5.

He did ok. A couple good butterfly and pad saves. No training prior aside from watching every Hasek video on YouTube. He belly flopped a lot.

 

[Jim Bob]

So, my son lived up to the old saying that if you are going to be dumb, you have to be tough.

His finger hurt, but he played all four games over the course of the weekend. He had a goal and 2 assists as they finished in third place.

He also tried to fight the entire other team after they lost the second game of the tournament and a kid sucker punched him in the head on the way to the locker room. I arrived in time to grab him and throw him back into the locker room.

I took him to his doctor and a hand surgeon today. His doctor wanted no sports for a week. The hand surgeon gave him the all clear for sports as long as the finger is well protected with tape and padding.

So, while I would rather that my son waits to play in his football game tomorrow, I am expecting him to choose to play tomorrow and Saturday.

I know that is what I would have done at 13yo.

 

[valet]

Man, 13 year olds are savage these days.

Or maybe I'm just forgetting what it's like to be 13.

 

[Chainshot]

So this collegiate experience has been... odd. We had lecture last week on the day Spencer was speaking on campus and one of my classmates had a raging hissycow in a "reply all" to one of our professors. The prof did not cancel lecture and had made arrangements for it to be available both via live feed and media replay for those who decided to forgo attending campus due to concerns about safety. The student actually signed the email as "the students of..." our class. I think I need to send something to my prof explaining that no, this individual does not speak for me and that it was especially nice of her to make allowances for those who decided to not attend.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

All college students should be given a huge bouncy ball to crawl in and feel safe, while being able to attend classes by video stream, with a 30 second delay just in case someone says something aggressive and needs to be filtered out by an official safe space monitor. Exams should be assessed by collective review with the focus on all perspectives being equal and valued, even if they are "wrong" according to archaic grading standards. Everyone gets an "acceptable because you matter" and a hug, but only if the hug is not an intrusion on the air valves of the safe-space bouncy ball.

 

[Chainshot]

All college students should be given a huge bouncy ball to crawl in and feel safe, while being able to attend classes by video stream, with a 30 second delay just in case someone says something aggressive and needs to be filtered out by an official safe space monitor. Exams should be assessed by collective review with the focus on all perspectives being equal and valued, even if they are "wrong" according to archaic grading standards. Everyone gets an "acceptable because you matter" and a hug, but only if the hug is not an intrusion on the air valves of the safe-space bouncy ball.

I find a lot of the things said about the young to be massive f***ing fabrications by older generations in much the same way Boomers shit upon Xers in my youth and Silents crapped on Boomers in theirs.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

I find a lot of the things said about the young to be massive ****ing fabrications by older generations in much the same way Boomers **** upon Xers in my youth and Silents crapped on Boomers in theirs.

Well...my experiences are skewed by manic/professional protesters that I must prepare for on a weekly/monthly basis for any significant or controversial event in my area, so take that FWIW.

Edit - and those people cross several generations as well.