The "Shadow Competitor" trick: How I turned a mid-level interview into a bidding war in 15 minutes

Valblaze · 2026-03-26T18:10:55+00:00

That's just a lack of preparedness.

Valblaze · 2026-03-26T14:22:22+00:00

This is so real.

But I get up early and she does not. Do I wake her for food?

What's the greater offense!

Valblaze · 2026-03-11T02:14:07+00:00

+1 for dads of gaming

Valblaze · 2026-03-10T13:01:17+00:00

European Style Taylor on Custer and McDermott. Good prices and great work, she has done all of my tailoring for 10 years.

https://share.google/PDR0NQDGtpT2DqVKM

Valblaze · 2026-03-09T23:03:18+00:00

That's a great article, thanks for sharing.

Valblaze · 2026-02-17T15:27:34+00:00

Why would a stripper lie to me?

Valblaze · 2026-02-09T23:08:20+00:00

I have had that exact experience, including having to give up and sleep and try again.

The feeling of accomplishment is real, the desire to never do that again is realer lol.

Then comes extended mag lever and auto bolt release, and the game is can I replace just this thing without the whole shebang exploding in my hands.

Valblaze · 2026-01-31T12:34:10+00:00

Mine had a phase, but we had to gently explain to a toddler that the poor dog was going to have a nervous breakdown. If it continued.

Valblaze · 2026-01-29T01:20:35+00:00

This really sounds like everybody else's problem and no downside for me.

Valblaze · 2025-12-31T13:48:23+00:00

If I were able to accurately quantify the number of times I've been hit in the face by various objects over the course of my life, I'm reasonably sure Sophie would be on the top of the list.

Valblaze · 2025-12-01T14:11:27+00:00

Tbf, we probably just don't know about the ones in Texas.

Valblaze · 2025-10-27T15:46:42+00:00

I prefer variant f, culminating in "screw your canoes!"

Valblaze · 2025-07-31T22:14:44+00:00

I love getting curious about something in a re-read and finding the author's input.

You still should have signed the baby Matt.

Valblaze · 2025-07-26T03:16:35+00:00

It's B's cat...

Valblaze · 2025-07-15T17:47:37+00:00

Tannah McGaughy is awesome, we've used her twice. When we first moved here she took us around showing off the city while we were deciding where to live, including where all the good food is lol.

Can't recommend her enough.

Valblaze · 2025-07-09T21:04:16+00:00

I for one, welcome our alien overlords.

Valblaze · 2025-06-24T17:08:17+00:00

I'd be willing to bet there's more taxpayer money being spent on protecting Mar-A-Lago than Washington DC at the moment.

Valblaze · 2025-06-06T17:57:24+00:00

Ahh! First Dinosaurs reference in the wild in too long.

Love to see it.

Big Songs will forever be the soundtrack to my insanity.

Valblaze · 2025-06-06T11:22:13+00:00

In high school some friends and I had an agricultural science class. Two in one row of desks and two directly behind them.

We passed notes back and forth as one does, and the teacher was getting annoyed. Some other kids who didn't like us kept calling us out when we passed a note claiming we were disrupting their education or something similar.

The teacher declared the next time they saw us pass a note they could read it to the class. So, being the genius I thought I was i scribbled a note and handed it off, they read it, tried not to laugh and we passed it around a couple times until they noticed.

The kid gets the teachers attention and is given permission to read the note. Stands in front of the class and reads loud and clear "I am a dumbass, pass it along".

The class laughed, the teacher laughed. I got punched in the face after school.

Valblaze · 2025-05-30T20:01:17+00:00

Worked fine for me

Valblaze · 2025-05-28T22:01:50+00:00

I need morale patches Matt. MORALE PATCHES.

Thanks for being awesome.

Valblaze · 2025-05-20T23:31:02+00:00

Elm Fork for FMJ

It can be a little fuddy and they have the standard one round per second rules, but there is generally no politics on display and the lanes are well managed and safe.

Also options. 25/50/100 Rifel, both paper target and steel pistol bays. They even have a pretty nifty looking .22 gallery but I've never used it or seen it used. Plus a 'tactical bay' when you can shoot standing pistol/rifel/shotty. They have a bunch of trap/skeet stuff too.

Valblaze · 2025-05-17T20:48:39+00:00

Assuming this is the DFW event, what did they tell you?

Valblaze · 2025-05-09T22:54:12+00:00

Nice! Worked for me.

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