@nessisonett Yeah, that was the biggest surprise. Although actually, when Jamal Murray went down with an ACL then it was curtains for them on any chance of winning it all. Tough to lose your second best player just before the playoffs.
The injuries are really the story of this post season and why there is so much fresh blood in the final four — the older player like Lebron and Kyrie Irving and James Harden are just so banged up and coming off injuries, probably largely due to the abbreviated off season and compressed schedule due to the weird pandemic alteration of the seasons last year and this year. These guys are accustomed to 4-5 months off between seasons and they got like… 2? And then had to play more games in fewer days to get to the playoffs. It’s just a record setting year for major injuries.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@colonelkilgore Are you moving far from where you're currently based? What does your missus do for a living, if you don't mind me asking? Sorry to hear about the illness, wish your relative all the best with that, glad your dad enjoyed the cigars. My weekend was fine thanks, I think I have perfected John 'Sco' Scofield's technique on the electric guitar, but put my own unique twist on it, so hopefully will be doing some gigging around London post-pandemic time. You mentioned playing music yourself in the past? Ever play any festivals? I once played the Bognor Regis festival as an honorary guitarist with a band I knew at the time, great experience.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Th3solution Tbh, outside of stints in basketball as a child, where I showed some promise - this is about all I know about basketball:
"Remember kids, it's about the playoffs, not the PAYoffs" - Niles Crane, later in the episode.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman not too far bud, maybe 15 - 20 miles away. Out of the city into a bit of countryside basically. The missus manages maintenance in various sectors and its just crazy at the moment but she'll be fine no doubt.
Thanks for your thoughts in regards to my relative, it is appreciated... and well done on your recently mastered guitar technique. I never played anywhere apart from mine and my friends houses really. Never really had any illusions that I'd be a rock star or anything but I did enjoy playing. I might end up getting Rocksmith if it releases on PS5, just to get back into it a bit.
@TheBrandedSwordsman Haha! Oh yeah that’s an awesome clip.
I like basketball, and a little American Football. Everything else I’m pretty ignorant about. I watch hockey and baseball sometimes, and even less of soccer, cycling, motor sports, etc.
So, sorry for carrying on there with the detailed description of team building for setting up a championship dynasty. 😅
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman We’re done with the instruments now and we’ll be going back in for vocals in August (a little break just due to scheduling). It’s the new Leash Eye album, so I’m mostly playing the organ
Dared to go into the NLife forums for a hot minute and general gist of the current conversation was ‘I have nothing against homosexuality, I just don’t like it when it’s shoved in my face’
@Voltan I said "heterosexuality" :') not that I particularly want any kind of sexuality shoving in my face, truth be told. I'm a man of the world but I also appreciate my personal space.
@Voltan How are you sticking to Covid restrictions in the studio? Social distancing? Face masks? Must be quite difficult in a recording studio.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@TheBrandedSwordsman I'm all for Covid safety but it wouldn't make much sense to do all that in the studio. We treated it as a workplace, so masks off once inside. There was nobody there who wasn't currently needed though.
The Covid situation here in Poland is pretty good lately (down to ~100 daily new cases from as high as 30k back in March and April) so I'd say it was a low risk. Also I'm currently fully vaccinated myself.
@Thrillho Have you been following England's Twenty20 and ODI's against Sri Lanka? What do you reckon of the result? I'd say it was a bit of a walk in the park for the victors but the losers' side hasn't exactly been strong in recent years.
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Kidfried We're not past it, sadly. It's just the old "do whatever you want behind closed doors but behave yourself in public" mentality given a lick of paint. "I just don't want it shoved in my face" is rarely used in relation to actually having anything you're not comfortable with forced upon you, and rather just homosexuality - or whatever it is - existing. I think, in part, this way of thinking is aided and abetted by use of the word "tolerance" when talking about people of other orientations, races, etc. as though it's something to aspire to.
Tolerance. What a terrible word. I tolerate people's screaming kids in a restaurant. I tolerate new shoes feeling a bit stiff for the first week or two. Seeing a couple holding hands isn't something you should be tolerating.
Online discourse will always be a bit of a cesspit thanks to the dubious gift of anonymity, and if you throw that in with people from all different backgrounds and cultures and upbringings mixing together then it's a recipe for disaster. I frequently have my finger hovering over the "post reply" button - mainly on Twitter, honestly - and then think better of it because the drama probably won't help anyone. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't frequently aghast at some of the things I see people say on forums or Twitter or whatever.
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