Leathernecks

All Illinois public schools are closed from Tuesday thru March 30th. I kind of want to take a cheap flight to Hawaii and hope I get stranded out there for the next month. If I'm going to be stuck somewhere, might as well make it Maui!

What area do you teach at? I teach about 100 miles south of Chicago in a rural district in Illinois, and we're really up in the air on what is going to happen here. Wouldn't be at all surprised if Illinois shuts everybody down like a few states have already done.

I'm all stocked up on Chlorox wipes. Wipe is in the product name, so I figure I should be good.

I feel like this is something that never happens at IU. A lot of teams have top prospects that they have a connection to that can help lead them to that school, but it seems like IU never has that. I'm sure being a historically bad program has been part of that issue, but maybe someday we'll have that. Like for you guys, Karlaftis played right next to the stadium, and Moore played at the high school that Brohm went to. Not that it is anything against you guys, you still have to do a great job recruiting them, but for once I want IU to have the inside edge on a high 4 or 5 star guy. You jerks!

I was able to find a way to get a lot of my tools for "free." I have a Discover card and get cash back with it, and then with the cash back you can buy a $100 Lowes gift card for $90. Then go on Ebay and buy a 10% off at Lowes for a buck or two. I was able to get a Dewalt table saw, and a Dewalt drill set only using the cash back. I completely gutted an old house, and added a full basement underneath it, so I've needed all the tools I can get. As far as my DIY projects, gutted it myself, put up walls, ran all the electrical (64 can lights was a bad choice!), painted, and laid luxury vinyl tile throughout the kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry room, and 2 bathrooms. Did a lot of other smaller jobs along the way too. The previous lady who owned it was old and had been in a nursing home for the last few years, and we literally couldn't walk through the back yard because it was so overgrown. I don't really have any grass, so my next big project is to rent a trencher and run irrigation lines in the yard. Never done it before, but all the videos I've seen look like it would be pretty easy to do. Completely unnecessary to do, but it was such a piece of crap house and yard that I just want it to be over the top. The advantages of being a bachelor lol.

Paste the link, hit enter, and it should pop up after a few seconds. That dog was crazy! Barely even hesitated! I would have peed myself haha.

My dad has a handful of old cast iron pots and pans that he said he'd let me have once I finish renovating my house. Can't wait to get those cleaned up and seasoned to have a set of the good old ones.

Sounds delicious! I always want to throw some rosemary on, but I never have any on hand. Sometimes I'll use a little garlic with it too. Never thought about the jalapenos. Might have to give that a shot!

I don't have any tips on seasoning them, but I do have a tip for cooking the best steak you'll ever have on them. Crank the stove as hot as you can get it, dry the steak, and season it with a little vegetable oil and steak seasoning. I like the finer ground seasonings for cooking this way because the courser ground Canadian seasonings can burn. With a little oil smoking in the pan, pop the steak in. Flip after a couple minutes. When the temp is about 120, cut up some butter and toss it around the steak. When the butter is starting to pop, lift the steak, swirl the butter and set the steak back in the sizzling butter. Then tilt the skillet and spoon the butter over the steak for about 20-30 seconds. If the steak has a strip of fat on it, pick up the steak and sit it on the strip of fat for about 30 seconds to really crisp that up too. Unbelievable steak. Way better than anything you can cook on a grill.

Thanks! In case people haven't seen the movie I linked, Almost Heroes is one of Chris Farley's best. Highly recommend watching it.

What day does he get the salute of the day? He posted it June 4th, but you just saw it today. Is the salute of the day today or is it a retroactive salute for June 4th? And if it is June 4th, are you sure you didn't give somebody else the salute of the day for that day? Then it would be the salutes of the day. But if it is today, maybe his doctor has told him something difference since then, and the joke no longer applies? Plus, Rico is leading in the weight loss thread, so maybe his doctor would say something different now. I can't keep it all straight!

I'll start another thread about people trying to losing weight. I'll see who wants to participate and go from there.

I'm 6' and weigh 250 on a good day. The heck with all you little guys lol. I've always had a bigger build, and even when I played baseball in college where we ran probably 10 miles a week, did sprints, worked out, and ate decent, I was still 210. If I can get back down to 215 I'll be real happy. I think I'd have to starve myself to go back under 200. Would anybody be up for doing a separate thread just to motivate people to eat healthy and lose weight? I know my biggest thing is accountability, so I could get people's weight and put them in a spread sheet to show how much they are losing and what percentage they are losing. Anybody up for it?

Maybe we should do an HSN weight loss competition. Winner gets a free months membership 💲💲💲💲💲💲

I gave up all sugary drinks and mostly only drink water and homemade loose leaf tea. Drink about a gallon of tea a day plus some water. Definitely feel better and stopped gaining weight, but that might just be because I burn a lot of calories doing the pee pee dance during class.

I joked the last couple weeks at work that I was trying to bulk up before summer to make my weight loss look more impressive. The first part was a success.

I need to go to that doctor. Starting my diet today 😭

"If you're not wasted, the day is." - The state of Kentucky

"I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that don't work" Thomas Edison "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted Aesop "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful" Eric Thomas - The Hip Hop Preacher "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" Johnny Cochran "Don't you think if I were wrong I'd know it?" Sheldon Cooper

Some of my favorites are by Dan Brown and Steve Berry. Similar mystery thriller genre.

Iroquois West in east central Illinois. 2005 grad, and now I teach there.