Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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Orangeredblooded said:
Jack, you’re a pretty good one on here and I know your post doesn’t apply to my situation. As much of you know, I run a kitchen at an Assisted Living, I worked all week as usual, but as usual this time of year, I’m expected to stay when bad weather happens. That’s okay, I’ve seen it all in almost 12 years there…….until this year. After a full week, I spent two nights and three days there in the worst time I’ve spent there. Not because of having to stay and doing my job this time of year. Hell, two years ago, I came back from Covid to relieve my staff and spent Christmas Eve by myself and pushing to get Christmas dinner out and had to stop every few minutes to take a breather. This year was worse. I filled in for a cook that called in the first morning and got some of breakfast prepared for them before the power went off. It stayed off for almost two hours. Lord help me I had to serve them what I had before it did. The emergency generator kicked, but it doesn’t power the kitchen except lights. It was cold before it got to them and I’m having a hard time with that. Apparently the problem why it stayed off so long was not anything to do with our building, but the local power company. They got the power back up after two hours. That was just the first day. After just a couple hours of sleep, here I go again. My evening shift cook (it was just her and I, besides what work server kids that I had), let me know the walk in temp was going up. Maintenace looked at it and told me it needed Freon and told me he’d take care of it after the holidays and Merry Christmas to us all 😒. As most knows, I’d fight back, but I had hundreds of dollars worth of walk-in cooler that needed to be salvaged in a quick amount of time. My sick cook (I say that because I know, but she did it for me) helped to salvage what we can. Some will be lost and I knew that begin with and I’ll answer for it Tuesday when my boss is in. Just when I thought I could relax at? (Hell, I don’t remember what time I went to my room). One of my servers texted me at 130? in the morning calling out for this morning. I got up at 3:00 a.m. to go to the kitchen to……….couldn’t sleep 😒. I made sure the morning shift cook was there, helped get the lone server on shift get ready. Something didn’t feel right. The Director Of Nursing was the nurse on duty. I found her and she took one look at me and asked immediately what was wrong and what I needed. I told her plus other stuff that the RA’s needed from me earlier in the night (different tl;dr moment for another time). She ordered her staff to fill in so I could leave. I knew I needed to and needed it needed to be taken out of my hands. I absolutely know this is a td;lr moment and most should skip over it. I’m sorry and exhausted but this is my journal.


@Jackcrevol, as I said at the beginning of my long winded rant, it certainly wasn’t directed toward you. Okay, I’ll go back to just reading posts and not post them. Don’t y’all think I’ve posted enough, unless……😒.

TL;DR, hell, just skip over it.
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Holy crap. Get some sleep. Thank you for your dedication to those seniors who depend on you.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his niece was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.
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Very touched by this. Something I’ve always loved about you is how you are who you are. No apologies. You’re a good man and we’re lucky to have you on here. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas to you and everyone else on here.
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
US government pushed companies to switch from cane sugar to corn syrup way back. It was an effort to support all the middle American farmers.

Bad news is that high fructose corn syrup is preferentially deposited into adipose tissue.

So basically if you check the timeline, that correlates when America began to become obese. Now 70% of America is overweight.

So the US government is responsible for two of the biggest health crises in the US. The US government convinced tobacco growers to mass produce premade cigarettes. This was to put packs of cigarettes in C rations for soldiers. And subsequently killed generations of Americans with tobacco related diseases.

If you add up the number of deaths attributed to either tobacco or obesity, the US government has killed more Americans than any other country in the world. 😐
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And some people don't understand why most people ask for less government "assistance" today, lol.
 
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Merry Christmas everyone.

Went out yesterday morning to grab some food for the get together at my mother-in-laws. Cardinal flies right by immediately and Bob Seger (dad's favorite musician) played for nearly the entire trip on the radio, small moment but it meant the world to me.
 
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RiseToTheTop said:
To be fair we have said similiar things before both of heups seasons. Go back and read. It was all of us too. Remember when the OL was completely awful? Remember when Mays was too small and not the best returning Center in the league next yr? Remember when Darnell wasn’t a top 3 round pick? how about when Cedric had 8 career catches in 3 yrs then caught 60+ for over 1000 in Heups first yr? or when Hyatt caught like 20 balls in 2021 and probably dropped 10+ ? Or when Hooker signed under Pruitt and the world thought he was trash. Or when Fant was here for half a decade before Heup utilized his skillset? I can keep going.


This group can flat coach and develop so relax.
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I have been reading this forum for years but I rarely post. This is one the greatest post I ever read. It can’t be refuted and should make any Vol fan feel so good about the future.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Merry Christmas everyone.

Went out yesterday morning to grab some food for the get together at my mother-in-laws. Cardinal flies right by immediately and Bob Seger (dad's favorite musician) played for nearly the entire trip on the radio, small moment but it meant the world to me.
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This post made me think of my mom who recently picked up painting. She painted this for her best friend for Christmas. Merry Christmas @MoCo_Vol IMG_4820.jpg
 
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