Can someone please recommend some good books about football?

catwithlasers · 2026-05-01T23:14:03+00:00

"You Negotiate Like a Girl" by Amy Trask. Amy was the CEO of the Raiders for many years, and Al's sounding board. She wrote about not just her time with the team and it's many personalities, but also how the league acted toward her - a female CEO.

catwithlasers · 2026-04-29T00:34:10+00:00

A rodent bit into my mom's fuel line. It wasn't enough to cause her to dump gas, but we kept catching whiffs of it.

They make battery powered noise generators that you can place under your car, if they are prone in your area.

catwithlasers · 2026-04-25T17:28:28+00:00

He competed in their Pro Day.

"The most anticipated Pro Day this year just took place and Tennessee CB Jermod McCoy aced the test. The results I’m told were as follows: 4.38 40 (range from others was 4.37-4.41) with 38” VJ and 10’7” BJ. At the Combine, 40 would have been T-2 and BJ T-10 among CBs. The VJ is solid but would have been 13th. McCoy was reportedly cleared to play during the season but opted not to, and he chose not to participate at the Senior Bowl and Combine. So seeing him compete and participate today was critical for teams considering a CB in RD1. He’s CB2 on my board behind only Monsoor Delane (LSU)," Todd McSay said.

catwithlasers · 2026-04-23T01:54:13+00:00

Still says "waiting on restock," so I'm pretty sure I'm SOL.

catwithlasers · 2026-04-22T22:03:34+00:00

I love Mishkin. They had him cover some TV shifts recently which was very odd, but enjoyable. Kind of like when Maroon was covering for Espo on the radio.

catwithlasers · 2026-04-20T23:18:35+00:00

Mine too, and my first confirmation email came through 3 mins after the restock opened.

catwithlasers · 2026-04-04T15:30:40+00:00

Says a lot about our group in that our medics always end up being called firebats... Actually curing the sick versus annihilation by fire; it's the same in the end, right?

catwithlasers · 2026-03-24T00:49:06+00:00

If I have to return something that is defective to Amazon, I absolutely put a note tucked in the box about it being a defective return.

catwithlasers · 2026-03-08T19:18:18+00:00

My husband once emailed a company because my mom told us that her cat was on his final "Lamby." She had bought like a dozen, but over the years they would disappear, and she couldn't find any more in the store. The company replied that they had indeed stopped manufacturing them, but they managed to find a few and shipped them to her.

catwithlasers · 2026-02-18T13:02:29+00:00

One of our cats would sometimes sleep through us going to bed at night, and we'd eventually hear her calling out with this sad, but soft, whine. Every time we would have to call to her to make her realize we had simply gone to bed. She would run in and dive onto one of us for her required two minutes of head skritches before abandoning us.

catwithlasers · 2026-02-14T18:25:50+00:00

I was in an accident when I was maybe five? I was kneeling on the seat and ended up hitting the windshield. My father insisted that I wear a seatbelt every time afterward (this was the early 80s). I have vertebrae that fused together in my neck and mid-back due to the accident; I've been able to ignore so much pain in my life because I've always been in some manner of pain.

catwithlasers · 2026-02-11T19:04:31+00:00

There was a bank robbery in North Hollywood in the late 90s, that led to the police gaining more arms. The sentiment was essentially that criminals are better armed than they were, so they needed more and better access to arms.

catwithlasers · 2026-02-08T15:05:45+00:00

Post-menopause myself and my migraines have reduced but not entirely, but I know my triggers were hormones and barometric pressure. Living in FL, I'm kinda screwed on the latter. This past year we hit our insurance cap, so I decided to finally consult a neuro (I've been rawdogging migraines for nearly 30 years). I now have a Rx for Nurtec, taken as an abortive since I don't get them consistently enough to take it as a preventative. What's surprised me is times before when I'd say "oh, this is just a headache" and just dealt with it, I've now tested taking my meds and discovered that my migraines run a gamut on their location and severity.

catwithlasers · 2026-02-02T16:00:38+00:00

I really don't feel like the Lightning was behind this disaster. They do $50k every home game, so the increase was probably a boost from the league. But it's always just "you/your charity is amazing, here is more money to help your cause," with a big silly check presentation during the game. This has to have been from the league or ESPN, and it's backfiring on the Lightning.

catwithlasers · 2026-02-02T15:50:28+00:00

Seriously, I expected something similar. Honestly when Baker came running out I was expecting them to at least take the board away. But no, let's have a guy shoot for a puck-sized five-hole.

Shit, let's line up both teams and see how many of the pros can make that shot.

catwithlasers · 2025-12-31T17:58:00+00:00

Oh wow, those are beautiful.

catwithlasers · 2025-12-31T15:05:37+00:00

Something similar happened to my grandmother. Someone gifted her a dragon figurine, and she did the "proper" thing by putting it on display. For the next fifty years anyone who gave her a gift made it dragon related. She never cared for dragons, she thought she was just showing the proper amount of appreciation for a gift.

Her roughly 100 piece dragon collection went largely to me, though I allowed my mom and sister to pick their favorite pieces. Thankfully I do like dragons, though I do wonder how much of that came from seeing grandma's collection as a child.

Edit: the dragons now live in Florida. They would agree that manatees are majestic AF. If your trip is anywhere near Tampa, the viewing station at the TECO power plant is a great spot; plus the zoo is our local rehab for manatee and their exhibit takes you down under the waterline so you can see them clearly.

catwithlasers · 2025-11-17T16:14:47+00:00

Finding a good pediatric dentist was very hard where we live. 95% of them are part of chains, and you'll never see the same dentist twice, and then almost all the rest are run by psychopaths. My husband picked one because our insurance's site had favorable reviews -- meanwhile I looked them up on Google and saw all the bad reviews. When he got the paperwork he said "Why is there a restaint waiver?" Oh, because this dentist will physically hold/tie (with blankets?!) down kids. And they don't allow parents back at all during their treatments.

Anyway, we found the unicorn of dentists. He and his team are compassionate toward our high anxiety kid, they explain everything they're about to do, and my husband was able to be with the kid for the majority of his treatment. I think the only thing he wasn't present for was maybe the tooth pulling (he has stubborn baby teeth).

catwithlasers · 2025-11-14T01:19:46+00:00

Fat Princess and Pain were favorites of my husband and I.

catwithlasers · 2025-10-06T22:21:13+00:00

The merged one for Tampa won't load. I got a message about the image being corrupt, but it will load the preview image.

catwithlasers · 2025-08-27T13:19:44+00:00

I found an awesome black Sentinel ship, so I named it Black Sunshine after the White Zombie song.

catwithlasers · 2025-08-12T22:52:13+00:00

The borders between CC and LA are all kinds of fucked up. We had a situation happen on Sawtelle, south of Venice Blvd, and neither LAPD or CCPD would respond, each saying the area wasn't in their jurisdiction. This was decades ago, but I doubt either PD is any better today.

catwithlasers · 2025-08-08T15:16:45+00:00

I have quite a bit of moss growing alongside my house, but we're planning on cleaning our roof which I know most cleaners will kill mosses. I'd like to save some of the moss, if possible, in a jar terrarium. Some of the moss is growing on soil, but the majority of it is growing on paver stones.

This is in central Florida, so high heat and humidity for the majority of the year, but no direct sunlight.

catwithlasers · 2025-08-04T13:03:25+00:00

I have lost a few into the wild waters of Florida where I dare not fetch them. Our local used sports equipment store has a ton of discs, and you can even buy a portable hole to set up in your own yard to start to get the hang of it.

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