Weather is starting to cool down and that’s about the time Instart craving an old fashioned. Not necessarily looking for an na bourbon, but any recipes you’ve found or created that scratch the itch for a warm, spicy, lightly sweet drink.
Ofcourse if you’ve managed to find an actually good na bourbon, I’m all ears!
Under $30.00 and available in the states?
I don’t mean to make this a whole “my generation had it so much better” but I was just talking to a friend about how his kid is digging his heels in about playing a team sport, on an established team. Our kids are young, middle elementary school aged. When I was that age in the early 90’s, my friends would either call my house or just come over and ask if I could come out and play, and we had pickup games of baseball, basketball, soccer, whatever. It seems like now if kids want to play a sport with other kids, you have to sign them up for something…. am I off the mark on this? Do I just live in the wrong neighborhood? There are a LOT of kids around, their school is walking distance from the house and there are hoops, a small baseball diamond, a field big enough to play soccer, football, etc whenever they want, but I never see kids actually using them…. What happened???
So Ive started playing and learning the game, only playing with money I can afford to lose. The question I run into is when to quit. If I’m up it’s easy. I have more than I started with, I can walk away feeling good about it. but how do you rationalize stopping when you’re down? The impulse to stay and try to at least break even is pretty overwhelming. Is it about having a long game mentality? Like I’m down today but the goal is the end of the week, month, year, whatever? Just curious how experienced players handle that feeling.
Follow-up: thanks everybody for the advice. General consensus appears to be to set a hard limit on buy in’s ahead of time and stick to it. Excellent advice that I can do.
Also appreciate that a few people pointed out the importance of playing well, not focusing on money in and out. Especially at this point in the learning process, I have to remind myself that a may make a reasonable call and still lose and that’s just part of the game.
Appreciate everything!
Just had to post about it because I'm honestly bursting a little. My 7 year old has been watching me fence for the last two years and is finally old enough to give it a try. Had his first class this week and LOVED it. Came down this morning with his fencing glove on lol.
I have to remind myself to tell him that he doesn't have to love the things that I love, and it's ok for him to stop if he really hates it, but holy crap am I excited that he's trying it out and enjoying it!
Just gotta stay cool and not install a piste in our basement... Or maybe I do install the piste... We'll see how lesson 2 goes.
A while back I bought an ultralight lame from Allstar that was the same size on the tag as my regular lame from them. The ultralight turned out to be much larger to the point that I had to have it adjusted to fit correctly. I’m curious if anybody else has had this issue, and if so are there other manufacturers whose sizing is more consistent?
What would your perfect fencing bag have? Size, compartments, etc…
I have an ultralight lame that I bought a few months ago, same size and manufacturer on the tag as my regular lame. Problem is I'm swimming in it. I assume that a lame can be altered like anything else, but does anybody have a decent resource for either how to do it, or who to bring it to?