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I am dead inside

Post by ineptimusprime » March 19th, 2020, 9:45 am

We should be watching first round tourney action today, and I am still in mourning.

But I guess me being dead inside is worth a lot of other people not being dead on the outside.
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by Real Life Aggie » March 19th, 2020, 10:32 am

I had set aside PTO and was planning on flying out to the first weekend. Now I'm working from my house on a collapsible Lifetime table.

Definitely not the change in plans I would have expected.
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by GUS » March 19th, 2020, 10:32 am

I'm with you. Watching D Brito do the winning team/losing team chant in the empty Spectrum almost brought tears to my eyes.
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Post by hipsterdoofus21 » March 19th, 2020, 11:02 am

City league, alumni tournament, church ball, and March Madness. This month is a perfect storm every year for a basketball junkie like myself, and it just so happens to be my birthday month too. My favorite time of year and every one of them has been ripped from me within a week's time. Now I'm told the church's key card is getting turned off so there goes pick up ball.
Like the OP said, I am officially dead inside.
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by FL350Aggie » March 19th, 2020, 11:29 am

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 11:02 am
City league, alumni tournament, church ball, and March Madness. This month is a perfect storm every year for a basketball junkie like myself, and it just so happens to be my birthday month too. My favorite time of year and every one of them has been ripped from me within a week's time. Now I'm told the church's key card is getting turned off so there goes pick up ball.
Like the OP said, I am officially dead inside.
Other than the birthday, I’m right there with ya hipster. I should be smoking wings right now for the best weekend of the year. I had worked out to have the whole weekend free...canceled.
My rec was team was in the semifinals....canceled. I’ve lived in my stake for 5 years and they finally were going to start church-ball for the first time last Saturday....canceled. So far pick up ball is surviving, it’s all we got.
I guess I’ll smoke some wings and re watch the mountain west tournament to fend off depression. At least I know the ending!



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Re: I am dead inside

Post by hipsterdoofus21 » March 19th, 2020, 11:51 am

FL350Aggie wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 11:29 am
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 11:02 am
City league, alumni tournament, church ball, and March Madness. This month is a perfect storm every year for a basketball junkie like myself, and it just so happens to be my birthday month too. My favorite time of year and every one of them has been ripped from me within a week's time. Now I'm told the church's key card is getting turned off so there goes pick up ball.
Like the OP said, I am officially dead inside.
Other than the birthday, I’m right there with ya hipster. I should be smoking wings right now for the best weekend of the year. I had worked out to have the whole weekend free...canceled.
My rec was team was in the semifinals....canceled. I’ve lived in my stake for 5 years and they finally were going to start church-ball for the first time last Saturday....canceled. So far pick up ball is surviving, it’s all we got.
I guess I’ll smoke some wings and re watch the mountain west tournament to fend off depression. At least I know the ending!
Well I’ve cancelled my birthday so we’re practically twins!



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Re: I am dead inside

Post by Aglicious » March 19th, 2020, 12:57 pm

Sucks so bad. I woke up to my calendar alert first thing this morning...it read "March Madness Begins!" (forgot to erase it).

Funny story: my second calendar event alert of the day was for a video conference meeting that I was hosting with 9 other companies (all engineers and architects). We closed our office at noon yesterday for the next 30 days per the NV governor's request so I'm working from home the best I can.

Anyway, I decide the only places at home to escape the kids on a video conference are either the back yard or the garage. I choose the garage and set up at one of my workbenches. The kids were still asleep and they aren't likely to go to the garage anyway since they are used to the house alarm being on.

Ten minutes into my video call my 4 year old comes strolling into the garage right in the frame of my camera wearing a the tube top from a swim suit, no bottoms, her Elsa wig, and teal colored earmuff headphones over the top of the wig with the headphones plugged into some fake phone that she has tucked into her underwear. She can't hear me whisper for her to go back in the house because of the headphones and she's belting out some song from Frozen II at the top of her lungs.

Working from home is going to be awesome.....
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by Yossarian » March 19th, 2020, 2:05 pm

Aglicious wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 12:57 pm
Sucks so bad. I woke up to my calendar alert first thing this morning...it read "March Madness Begins!" (forgot to erase it).

Funny story: my second calendar event alert of the day was for a video conference meeting that I was hosting with 9 other companies (all engineers and architects). We closed our office at noon yesterday for the next 30 days per the NV governor's request so I'm working from home the best I can.

Anyway, I decide the only places at home to escape the kids on a video conference are either the back yard or the garage. I choose the garage and set up at one of my workbenches. The kids were still asleep and they aren't likely to go to the garage anyway since they are used to the house alarm being on.

Ten minutes into my video call my 4 year old comes strolling into the garage right in the frame of my camera wearing a the tube top from a swim suit, no bottoms, her Elsa wig, and teal colored earmuff headphones over the top of the wig with the headphones plugged into some fake phone that she has tucked into her underwear. She can't hear me whisper for her to go back in the house because of the headphones and she's belting out some song from Frozen II at the top of her lungs.

Working from home is going to be awesome.....
Awesome. I've had to do the same thing.

You're going to have some people with badges and guns knocking on your door.

This reminded me of a funny story of mine.

I was having some problems with the family computer (the blue screen type of problem about 12 years ago). So I took it in to get looked at and there were several people behind me. They fire up the computer and get it past the blue screen and to my home screen. They have a large monitor behind the counter with the screen facing out for all to see.

I had forgotten that I had recently gone on a backpacking trip with my son in the Sierras. We camped by a small lake. He had waded out into the water and was bathing himself in his underpants. I snapped a photo because I wanted to embarrass him by using that picture as the background on the home screen when he turned on the computer.

Well, the tech guy fires up the computer and there on the screen for all to see is the picture of a wet 12 year-old boy knee deep in a lake in his underpants. The tech guys shoots me a glance. I wish I had a picture of the faces of horror on the two women in line behind me looking at that screen and then looking at me. I didn't even try to defend myself. I just sat there acted like it wasn't there.

As the tech guy finished, I apologized with a laugh for the background picture and he said that was mild compared to some he had seen.

My wife got a good laugh at the story and the women behind me got to go home and tell their friends and family about the pedophile they ran into at the computer store.


Anyway - yeah, it sucks there is no tournament to watch.
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by SwaggieAggie » March 19th, 2020, 2:13 pm

Best time of the year. Bracket challenges and office pools, games from 10AM - 10PM, and to make it even sweeter we would get to see the Aggies play at least one more time.
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Post by Mr. Sneelock » March 19th, 2020, 2:26 pm

Yeah. I'm just sad. The NCAA tournament is by far my favorite sporting event.
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by ThunderAggie » March 19th, 2020, 2:27 pm

Yossarian wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 2:05 pm
Aglicious wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 12:57 pm
Sucks so bad. I woke up to my calendar alert first thing this morning...it read "March Madness Begins!" (forgot to erase it).

Funny story: my second calendar event alert of the day was for a video conference meeting that I was hosting with 9 other companies (all engineers and architects). We closed our office at noon yesterday for the next 30 days per the NV governor's request so I'm working from home the best I can.

Anyway, I decide the only places at home to escape the kids on a video conference are either the back yard or the garage. I choose the garage and set up at one of my workbenches. The kids were still asleep and they aren't likely to go to the garage anyway since they are used to the house alarm being on.

Ten minutes into my video call my 4 year old comes strolling into the garage right in the frame of my camera wearing a the tube top from a swim suit, no bottoms, her Elsa wig, and teal colored earmuff headphones over the top of the wig with the headphones plugged into some fake phone that she has tucked into her underwear. She can't hear me whisper for her to go back in the house because of the headphones and she's belting out some song from Frozen II at the top of her lungs.

Working from home is going to be awesome.....
Awesome. I've had to do the same thing.

You're going to have some people with badges and guns knocking on your door.

This reminded me of a funny story of mine.

I was having some problems with the family computer (the blue screen type of problem about 12 years ago). So I took it in to get looked at and there were several people behind me. They fire up the computer and get it past the blue screen and to my home screen. They have a large monitor behind the counter with the screen facing out for all to see.

I had forgotten that I had recently gone on a backpacking trip with my son in the Sierras. We camped by a small lake. He had waded out into the water and was bathing himself in his underpants. I snapped a photo because I wanted to embarrass him by using that picture as the background on the home screen when he turned on the computer.

Well, the tech guy fires up the computer and there on the screen for all to see is the picture of a wet 12 year-old boy knee deep in a lake in his underpants. The tech guys shoots me a glance. I wish I had a picture of the faces of horror on the two women in line behind me looking at that screen and then looking at me. I didn't even try to defend myself. I just sat there acted like it wasn't there.

As the tech guy finished, I apologized with a laugh for the background picture and he said that was mild compared to some he had seen.

My wife got a good laugh at the story and the women behind me got to go home and tell their friends and family about the pedophile they ran into at the computer store.


Anyway - yeah, it sucks there is no tournament to watch.
LMAO!!!! :lol: :lol:

Those are some funny stories.



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Re: I am dead inside

Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » March 19th, 2020, 3:10 pm

Mr. Sneelock wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 2:26 pm
Yeah. I'm just sad. The NCAA tournament is by far my favorite sporting event.
More than the nba Finals? Stockton and Malone vs Jordan and pippen didn't do it for you huh?



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Post by BLUERUFiO » March 19th, 2020, 5:08 pm

Ten minutes into my video call my 4 year old comes strolling into the garage right in the frame of my camera wearing a the tube top from a swim suit, no bottoms, her Elsa wig, and teal colored earmuff headphones over the top of the wig with the headphones plugged into some fake phone that she has tucked into her underwear. She can't hear me whisper for her to go back in the house because of the headphones and she's belting out some song from Frozen II at the top of her lungs.
I'm dead inside reading this :lol: :lol: :golfclap:

Did anyone comment on Elsa?


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Re: I am dead inside

Post by aggies22 » March 19th, 2020, 5:13 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 11:02 am
City league, alumni tournament, church ball, and March Madness. This month is a perfect storm every year for a basketball junkie like myself, and it just so happens to be my birthday month too. My favorite time of year and every one of them has been ripped from me within a week's time. Now I'm told the church's key card is getting turned off so there goes pick up ball.
Like the OP said, I am officially dead inside.
They deactivated your key card to keep you from emptying all the toilet paper in the place. Haha!
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by Aglicious » March 19th, 2020, 6:48 pm

BLUERUFiO wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 5:08 pm
Ten minutes into my video call my 4 year old comes strolling into the garage right in the frame of my camera wearing a the tube top from a swim suit, no bottoms, her Elsa wig, and teal colored earmuff headphones over the top of the wig with the headphones plugged into some fake phone that she has tucked into her underwear. She can't hear me whisper for her to go back in the house because of the headphones and she's belting out some song from Frozen II at the top of her lungs.
I'm dead inside reading this :lol: :lol: :golfclap:

Did anyone comment on Elsa?
No, I heard a couple of snickers though. I think their laughs were more a result of seeing the terror in my eyes when I saw the door open and watching me scramble around trying find the mute button and having serious thoughts of throwing my thumb over the camera or maybe even hitting "end meeting"...LOL. I'm sure my face told the whole story...
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Re: I am dead inside

Post by sneed » March 19th, 2020, 7:11 pm

I rewatched Florida and LSU but it’s not the same. I’ll probably work from home for a month or so. How awesome would it be to just watch all the NCAAT games right now for everyone at home?
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Post by Aggiealum13 » March 19th, 2020, 11:06 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 11:02 am
City league, alumni tournament, church ball, and March Madness. This month is a perfect storm every year for a basketball junkie like myself, and it just so happens to be my birthday month too. My favorite time of year and every one of them has been ripped from me within a week's time. Now I'm told the church's key card is getting turned off so there goes pick up ball.
Like the OP said, I am officially dead inside.
The best sporting event of the year has come to this. However, we did have one of the brightest moments before it all ended by beating the #5 team in the country to win our tournament in dramatic fashion. A lot of teams out there never even had the chance to finish their conference tournament before it was all over. At least we are one of few that could hang a banner. Doesn't make the pain go away any less, but I got to imagine others are feeling worse having zero closure. At we have some of that with "the shot."



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Post by hipsterdoofus21 » March 20th, 2020, 9:15 am

Aggiealum13 wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 11:06 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 11:02 am
City league, alumni tournament, church ball, and March Madness. This month is a perfect storm every year for a basketball junkie like myself, and it just so happens to be my birthday month too. My favorite time of year and every one of them has been ripped from me within a week's time. Now I'm told the church's key card is getting turned off so there goes pick up ball.
Like the OP said, I am officially dead inside.
The best sporting event of the year has come to this. However, we did have one of the brightest moments before it all ended by beating the #5 team in the country to win our tournament in dramatic fashion. A lot of teams out there never even had the chance to finish their conference tournament before it was all over. At least we are one of few that could hang a banner. Doesn't make the pain go away any less, but I got to imagine others are feeling worse having zero closure. At we have some of that with "the shot."
Very true.



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Re: I am dead inside

Post by Mr. Sneelock » March 20th, 2020, 7:43 pm

Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 3:10 pm
Mr. Sneelock wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 2:26 pm
Yeah. I'm just sad. The NCAA tournament is by far my favorite sporting event.
More than the nba Finals? Stockton and Malone vs Jordan and pippen didn't do it for you huh?
If the Jazz were in the finals, it would supersede the tournament for me for that one year only. The finals with two other teams? Meh.
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Post by bluegrouse » March 20th, 2020, 7:50 pm

Reading about Sam being in tears kinda killed me today...

https://www.deseret.com/sports/2020/3/2 ... -20-season
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Post by Real Life Aggie » March 20th, 2020, 8:02 pm

bluegrouse wrote:
March 20th, 2020, 7:50 pm
Reading about Sam being in tears kinda killed me today...

https://www.deseret.com/sports/2020/3/2 ... -20-season
A great article.



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Post by SwaggieAggie » March 20th, 2020, 10:57 pm

Mr. Sneelock wrote:
March 20th, 2020, 7:43 pm
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March 19th, 2020, 3:10 pm
Mr. Sneelock wrote:
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Yeah. I'm just sad. The NCAA tournament is by far my favorite sporting event.
More than the nba Finals? Stockton and Malone vs Jordan and pippen didn't do it for you huh?
If the Jazz were in the finals, it would supersede the tournament for me for that one year only. The finals with two other teams? Meh.
NBA playoffs is only really fun when your team is in it. March Madness is still great even as a neutral fan.
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Post by slcagg » March 21st, 2020, 7:33 am

SwaggieAggie wrote:
March 20th, 2020, 10:57 pm
Mr. Sneelock wrote:
March 20th, 2020, 7:43 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 3:10 pm
Mr. Sneelock wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 2:26 pm
Yeah. I'm just sad. The NCAA tournament is by far my favorite sporting event.
More than the nba Finals? Stockton and Malone vs Jordan and pippen didn't do it for you huh?
If the Jazz were in the finals, it would supersede the tournament for me for that one year only. The finals with two other teams? Meh.
NBA playoffs is only really fun when your team is in it. March Madness is still great even as a neutral fan.
If I had to choose the jazz making the nba finals and the Aggies making the final 4, it wouldn’t even be close. I like both but easily the final 4.
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Post by hipsterdoofus21 » March 21st, 2020, 12:19 pm

slcagg wrote:
March 21st, 2020, 7:33 am
SwaggieAggie wrote:
March 20th, 2020, 10:57 pm
Mr. Sneelock wrote:
March 20th, 2020, 7:43 pm
Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 3:10 pm
Mr. Sneelock wrote:
March 19th, 2020, 2:26 pm
Yeah. I'm just sad. The NCAA tournament is by far my favorite sporting event.
More than the nba Finals? Stockton and Malone vs Jordan and pippen didn't do it for you huh?
If the Jazz were in the finals, it would supersede the tournament for me for that one year only. The finals with two other teams? Meh.
NBA playoffs is only really fun when your team is in it. March Madness is still great even as a neutral fan.
If I had to choose the jazz making the nba finals and the Aggies making the final 4, it wouldn’t even be close. I like both but easily the final 4.
Well said.



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Post by hipsterdoofus21 » March 21st, 2020, 12:25 pm

I would also trade still having March Madness over sacrificing all other sports until September.
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Post by Aggie formerly in Hawaii » March 21st, 2020, 2:28 pm

hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
March 21st, 2020, 12:25 pm
I would also trade still having March Madness over sacrificing all other sports until September.
So d
Mitchell and gobert beating the rockets, lakers and clippers back to back to back wouldnt do it for you?



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Post by hipsterdoofus21 » March 24th, 2020, 4:34 pm

Aggie formerly in Hawaii wrote:
March 21st, 2020, 2:28 pm
hipsterdoofus21 wrote:
March 21st, 2020, 12:25 pm
I would also trade still having March Madness over sacrificing all other sports until September.
So d
Mitchell and gobert beating the rockets, lakers and clippers back to back to back wouldnt do it for you?
It's better than baseball season, but no, nothing is better than March Madness.



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