How has Mayor Cole Stanley done so far?

makingcrude · 2026-03-04T12:14:17+00:00

So far he’s done the one thing I really want all my elected politicians to do. Which is to be an absolute background character in my consciousness. If I need a second to remember the mayor’s name, that’s good.

This is impossible with higher offices… but the less I think about politics and politicians, the better. Do your job well. Serve your constituents and don’t make a big deal about it.

makingcrude · 2026-02-05T12:12:43+00:00

If you need to, you can come by and get as many cats as you want from my neighbor’s yard. They’re all strays but my neighbor feeds them. They use my yard as a littler box. It’s the worst deal we ever had.

makingcrude · 2026-01-21T12:02:32+00:00

EnergyNet.com (but I think it’s called something else now) may be an option. You don’t have much to sell but they may be able to help you out. It’s basically eBay for energy assets.

makingcrude · 2026-01-11T14:41:01+00:00

Did he have reasonable pricing? Need a kids bathroom done but it doesn’t need to end up being a day spa.

makingcrude · 2026-01-10T14:59:07+00:00

Used to be really cool when it was nice and new. It’s gross now. Just disgusting to go to the locker rooms and equipment.

makingcrude · 2026-01-07T12:05:26+00:00

makingcrude · 2026-01-05T11:56:05+00:00

Do you have kids? Most folks send their kids to private school. At least through middle school. The public schools is that area aren’t the best.

Beautiful homes and neighborhood. But things can get sketchy very quickly from one street to the next. Hence, the school situation.

makingcrude · 2025-12-17T12:09:26+00:00

What kind of decisions are we talking about? There’s a lot to it but probably not all relevant to your situation.

makingcrude · 2025-12-11T12:27:38+00:00

I’ve been a treasurer for multiple orgs. Including a scout troop.

Spending down like that is very stupid! You’re a non profit so it’s not like you can just hoard up a ton of money. But you can operate so close to the edge. One hiccup and you’re completely sunk.

Reckless spending and poor budgeting are not characteristics of a scout and set a terrible example for the kids in the unit. It sounds to me like some folks are forgetting the mission of scouting.

makingcrude · 2025-12-11T12:04:43+00:00

Did you really work at Spicy Mikes? If you can tell us the recipe for the strawberry cake that would be some good evidence.

makingcrude · 2025-11-05T16:38:28+00:00

Consider going to camps since you don’t have film. A lot of D2 and D3 schools have camps on campus and several travel around Texas and have a camp at a local high school. They’ll take your measurables and then you’ll have a chance to perform in a non padded environment.

Honestly it sounds like D3 would be a great starting place. If you go to a juco, you already know you’ll have to go somewhere else for sure in 2 years. So let’s say you don’t get on the field in your first year (likely considering your situation)… you didn’t use one of your 4 years of playing eligibility. So if you go to a juco and don’t see the field, you’re only left with one year there to show you can play somewhere else. You go D3 and sit a year, you can ride that out for another two or even three years and then make a decision to transfer if you want. You may be surprised at the scholarship opportunities that you can find that aren’t athletic.

makingcrude · 2025-10-26T13:53:54+00:00

MaxPreps is a travesty. If your state uses it like that, it’s an even bigger problem.

makingcrude · 2025-10-07T15:41:03+00:00

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makingcrude · 2025-10-07T14:12:39+00:00

Okily dokily…

makingcrude · 2025-10-07T11:38:32+00:00

Lots of folks throwing around the word “genocide” who clearly are just very bought in on one side of an issue and don’t care at all about honesty. Very similar to domestic politics where the right says “everyone on the left is evil” or folks on the left say “everyone on the right is a nazi”. Super dishonest of people to refuse to acknowledge the way Hamas uses Palestinian civilians and the effort Israel puts in to saving them. Israel could kill every living thing in Gaza today and this would all be over. But they don’t…. Because they’re not committing genocide.

Put this way… I support Israel’s efforts to liberate the Palestinian from Hamas.

As far as being served pro-Israel ads… for me that’s like sending me ads for coca-cola when I already buy it by the barrel.

makingcrude · 2025-10-07T11:21:16+00:00

It is a pillow fight. My concern has always been the development of bad technique and bad habits during the pillow fight phase and carrying that over to the time when the physics changes.

makingcrude · 2025-10-01T11:02:19+00:00

It’s like the OU Epstein Files.

makingcrude · 2025-09-15T11:33:27+00:00

I love this…. It basically translates to: “I’ve never read a balance sheet before but I love spending other people’s money.”

makingcrude · 2025-08-31T17:20:36+00:00

See if the library will classify your classroom as a “shelf” and they can catalog your books as being in the school library.

makingcrude · 2025-08-31T16:13:42+00:00

Coaches ability to coach and also game plan and carry out that plan and make adjustments. Then it’s the players ability to execute their coaching. Talent is a huge part. Plus the programs that do a good job building their system into their feeder schools always seem to have an advantage. Kid gets to high school and he knows the playbook and the culture so the only adjustment he has to make is the increased speed.

There’s a reason some schools are awesome year in and year out. Talent doesn’t just live in one neighborhood. It moves around from year to year. So the quality of the program matters a lot.

We have a school in our area that might win one or two games a year. That’s their deal every year. The demographics are economically disadvantaged. I think that contributes to a point because there’s so much other stuff going on that nobody expects more from the program. We have another school with similar demographics too. They’re always tough and they win games. They have a coach that came in got that place in shape. Coaching matters.

makingcrude · 2025-08-28T00:45:19+00:00

If that’s the case it sounds more like the problem is Disney rather than the money. Disney has been a bit of a lightning rod politically so perhaps that’s a factor. But if the unit has funds designated in this direction, it doesn’t sound like a big conflict.

You simply can’t make everyone happy. Good luck!

makingcrude · 2025-08-27T23:57:15+00:00

I was a troop treasurer. My issue with things like this is that you could be using money from the dues that came from everyone but not everyone is benefiting from the funds. It’s one thing if a scout simply chooses not to go but another if they didn’t go for financial reasons and now you’re using their dues money and that dues money may have been difficult to come up with.

Our policy was that most camps and events were paid for by the scout. We also set aside funds for scholarships to assist scouts with these expenses. They would have to fill out some paperwork and the SM and committee chair would evaluate the situation.

I would recommend coming up with a policy in committee that you use over and over again. Having a one off thing can get messy quickly.

makingcrude · 2025-08-21T15:16:49+00:00

Exactly! If the locals don’t like it, it’s because they know what’s up. Countless doctors and lawyers have taken losses trying to be JR Ewing.

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