I have been going back and forth with the architectural control committee for my neighborhood. I submitted for review plans for a shed. I initially wanted a low profile slant roof shed on the side of the house. I carefully followed the rules outlined in the HOA documents, but the request was denied. Reason they gave for the denial was 1. must be a gable roof, and 2. cannot be on the side of the house. So, back to the drawing board and placed the shed in the backyard and gave it a gable roof. This too was denied stating the top of the roof cannot exceed 8'. This does not make any sense as a shed 10' wide with an 8 on 12 pitch would have walls a few feet tall. At this point, it was obvious to me they were pulling rules out of their butts just to be difficult. I fired off an email asking for clarification of these rules and sent them of copy of the HOA documents covering sheds. Their reply back did not address the points of their denial, but they indicated that these shed rules are "silent". My question, can the HOA deny request based on criteria that do not violate rules set forth in the HOA documents? Do I need to just drop it because I'm fighting a loosing battle? This pisses me off because prior to purchasing this house, I reviewed the documents just for this scenario.

Two of them, convicted murderers, were just caught.
IN HUNTSVILLE.

I love this game so much. It’s the biggest bipartisan event of the year here in DC. Played since 1909, it is by all measures bad baseball but it’s a great time in Nationals Park. If you have nothing better to do wednesday night tune in to Fox Sports at 7pm eastern - Chad Pergram the FoxNews Capitol Hill reporter will call the game for the broadcast. This year's game is going to raise over $2.5m for local charities and will probably have upwards of 27,000 folks attending.

For the history buffs here are some old videos of the game. it really hasn’t changed much…
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After two and a half innings, 5 home runs, a double, five singles and two walks, 64 pitches and 9 runs, our coach finally had the guts to pull Pragor. I feel sorry for the kid,but any good pitching coach and head coach should know when a pitcher hasn't got it and should be pulled. It's a shame, but our guys do not deserve this inept coaching staff, I bleed maroon and white and I so 'll continue to watch every game, but it"s painful.

Surely some of you guys can kick in a few spare bucks.

He's sitting out practice waiting on a contract?

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Well it’s here folks. I’ll have a article tomorrow out about next weekends visitors group. The latest with the recruits coming to town and etc, and the odds A&M lands the recruit.

Other thread on coding and AI got me wondering about career paths for younger folks (I have a 14YO son and 11YO daughter).

Spent some time recently with a friends, one of whom is a shipping broker and the other of whom is in energy trading. Discussion pivoted to Kings Point, and both noted they hire kids from there and that it is a very good path out of college.

Curious about thoughts from others.

Our home town Barbers Hill Eagles are headed back to 5A state finals. They will face Melissa, Texas who is crazy good. Still gonna be a fun battle with our girls being almost exclusively Sophomores.

And neighboring Liberty (4A) still getting it done as well. So much talent in this area.

BTHO EVERYONE.

The NY Knicks just had their best season in 25 years and they responded by firing coach Tom Thibodeau. The buyout: $30 million. I don't know diddly about the Knicks but this seems crazy.

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Tuned into the original production of Nathan For You because of Gordo of K-Ticket fame and admire the incredibly over the top level of painful detail he puts into his bits, but this last episode of The Rehearsal is so over the top and incredible that I haven't stopped thinking about it.

If you are unfamiliar with Nathan Fielder, he's a "comedian" (quotes only because it's hilarious even though he never shows any emotion and doesn't really seem to tell any jokes at all) who started with a reality tv show where he would take small business owners and give them the most over the top outlandish and ridiculous business advice possible. This morphed into an HBO production where he creates set designs that mimic actual real environments and has people who are going thru struggles with other people rehearse their situation over and over with a team of actors before they actually confront the person they are having the struggle with.

This last stunt, though, is absolutely insane. Unbeknownst to any of his fans, 2-3 years ago he decided that the wanted to bring attention to the lack of communication on commercial jet flights, so he:

-learned how to fly an airplane FROM SCRATCH
-got his pilot license even though it took him 5x longer than it should have because he had trouble landing
-got his instrument rating
-logged ~300 flight hours

Here's the kicker...he then found a loophole in the laws where instead of having thousands of hours of actual flight time to be a commercial jet pilot, he could just go in and get his commercial certs on a Boeing 737 simulator, which HE DID.

Then, when it was time to submit his commercial pilot license questionnaire, when he got to the part about having to disclose if he'd been diagnosed with Autism, he instead goes and gets a full doctor's examination before answering it.

I don't even want to spoil the ending because of how insane it is, but he actually rented a 737 and flew ~180 people from San Bernadino to Nevada and back. THEN he got a job where he goes to dangerous countries around the world and flies decommissioned 737's back to the US to be reconditioned for future flights.

It's the most over the top thing ever, and I'm still filled with anxiety over the whole thing.