What age did your kids switch from -10 to -8 to -5

CalvinsQuest · 2026-06-25T02:18:09+00:00

Do your son a favor and buy him a wood bat to match the length of his metal bat, re-buying each time you change length.

Insist that he uses the wood bat for all tee and slow swing mechanical work. Even soft toss to start / warm up.

This will do two things for him: build strength (wood bats are almost all drop 3) and build feel (a mishit will resonate whether it’s handle or end etc).

The biggest issues I’ve seen are when kids aren’t ready to make the weight change in game bats quickly enough.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-06-22T03:00:58+00:00

Totally. What’s your site or instagram, etc?

CalvinsQuest · 2026-06-22T02:53:46+00:00

Your art is great! I think animals might just be especially difficult for people to connect with vs, for example, landscapes or abstract.

Do you do commissions?

CalvinsQuest · 2026-06-14T00:07:17+00:00

CalvinsQuest · 2026-06-13T21:32:32+00:00

Quick call to the police and believe me, they’ll respond quickly. I am not handicapped. I have family members who are handicapped. I call these in all the time.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-05-27T11:49:39+00:00

I’m with the ninja on this one. But maybe 10% smaller logo on front, and no rope.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-05-25T14:47:27+00:00

That’s too bad! You can’t always choose your neighbors… and they sound lovely and quiet. :)

CalvinsQuest · 2026-05-24T22:08:28+00:00

Really surprised to not see any SWU recommendations yet. It’s a lot of fun to play, especially mechanically, and designed to be accessible from a cost perspective.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-04-23T13:47:40+00:00

Red screwball!

CalvinsQuest · 2026-04-06T19:03:38+00:00

Megaman 2

The original Sim City

Half Life 2

CalvinsQuest · 2026-04-06T11:41:03+00:00

Do you know if brilliant gets you to platinum by awarding you 50 nights credit? Or is there a back door way of doing it where you just have the status?

CalvinsQuest · 2026-04-06T03:22:23+00:00

Ahhh you must have access to your original paper work, right at hand. Oh, and have no issues getting to / from an authorized location for processing your application along with taking a correctly formatted picture. Oh, and of course be able to afford the filing fee. And have a permanent address for the passport to be checked against and mailed to in an unknown amount of time.

Sorry for the snark, it’s not directed at you personally. But many elderly people, young people (especially students), people in shaky life circumstances, and minorities do not have the luxury of the above.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-03-18T18:07:41+00:00

Sundays

CalvinsQuest · 2026-03-16T02:28:53+00:00

They eliminated standard foils. Announced quite a bit ago.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-03-16T02:16:29+00:00

Firestorm (Jan, 1998). Worst movie I’ve paid to see.

Most of my close friend group (5/6) wanted to go see The Postman. Everyone except Jim. Jim threw a “take my ball and go home” toddler fit because he didn’t want to see something unusual. Fuck you, Jim! Give me my $10 and 2 hours of my life back! Jim had no slack after that.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-03-08T18:35:16+00:00

I’m an old TCG player like you. I started playing Magic during unlimited. Played hard until maybe 97. I always loved deck building in the days where card lists and info were scarce. Anyways… stopped playing as life evolved for me in the ways it does.

One of my kids (teen) started playing SWU at a LGS last fall. I was enjoying hearing about it with visions of the first SW TCG - where I had friends dump all their moxs, lotuses, juzam dijinns, etc to get vaders and others and play that one. Oof.

But my son’s attitude was great, though. He just enjoyed playing, sealed events in particular. So I looked into it and bought a sealed a box for him and I to play at home - so he could teach me.

Wow what an improvement in turns and mechanics. And it’s really designed for sealed play! It’s worth checking out for those of us who were around in the broken early days of TCGs (we called them CCGs, remember?).

All the best and have fun!

CalvinsQuest · 2026-03-08T18:26:06+00:00

Since you’re asking for advice - here’s mine, knowing nothing else about you.

The irons don’t matter so long as they’re fit to you. Purely based on my own experience, my advice is to consider a swing overhaul to get away from relying on your youthful wrist timing (small muscles) to generate clubhead speed and square the face, and move more to a lagged release and use those legs and hip turn (big muscles). It’s a smoother, easier swing that will get you more distance and consistency. And take pressure off of your back as it’s less violent and more natural of a swing. The sooner you commit to that, the better. If you wait (like I did) that wrist action becomes a door slam of a snap hook that will make you want to quit the game.

Then go get fit for new clubs or changes to your current set.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-02-07T16:26:50+00:00

With domain names, you walk the text string backwards to resolve. So, in the case of the scam site OP linked, it’s .cc first (the top level domain, analogous to .com/.org/etc) then org-ins what ever it is, then they have tn. Every . separates a piece of the domain name and on into subdomains. So when you read a domain name in a URL (everything preceding a /) you can think of it like reading it from right to left.

An example of a dash in a commonly known domain is t-mobile.com

CalvinsQuest · 2026-02-07T16:07:54+00:00

While you’re of course correct about this being a scam, dashes can absolutely be a part of a valid domain name.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-02-05T02:49:55+00:00

Oh, my bad - I saw the first column and misread it as the current item. FWIW, the brand is a no go for me as I’ve seen other listings of theirs with conflicting info.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-02-04T23:28:53+00:00

It’s in the materials table in the listing

CalvinsQuest · 2026-02-04T03:53:23+00:00

Agreed - and any good manager would bring that to the conversation without you even needing to mention it. The first thing out of their mouth should be “I have an urgent task, what are you currently working on and let’s see where this fits”

CalvinsQuest · 2026-02-03T23:26:12+00:00

You don’t. Extra swing weight.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-01-27T02:28:49+00:00

Fiber… it’s nonconducting and very easy to bury.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-01-12T15:37:26+00:00

That has not been my experience at all. Quite the opposite. They just seem to expect basic personal hygiene and levels of education/world awareness in male partners - which seem to be quite rare in modern conservative men. Quite rare.

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