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Feb 5, 2019, 10:22 pm
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For those who know MSP: Tonight in the snow, I noticed that flights arriving at MSP were landing by flying very low over Lake Nokomis, which would be from the northwest and then a bit later apparently from the west, flying very low from west to east along a path between and parallel to I-494 and Highway 62. I assume that this way a method to close a runway and use another one while the first one was being plowed, but it still surprised me to see what I thought were somewhat unusual flight paths that also looked very low. Does this make sense?
Feb 5, 2019, 10:38 pm
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Let's start with fingers... Broke an index finger playing catcher in a pick-up game of softball. I took a bat to the hand. Broke a pinky playing football with Penn State football players one summer. Not on the play where I broke my finger, but before that, I was the one that turned the flag football game into a game of tackle football. I tackled one of the PSU football players, and once they figured out I was fine with it, we then moved to tackle football. 
That was the same game that another friend got a broken nose. His healed faster than my injury, as the campus med center didn't set mine correctly, so the ortho needed to re-set it.
Other broken bones:
That was the same game that another friend got a broken nose. His healed faster than my injury, as the campus med center didn't set mine correctly, so the ortho needed to re-set it.Other broken bones:
- Right foot, falling down two steps (had surgery to fix it)
- Other index finger, slammed it in a car door
- Kneecap, fell on a wet concrete floor
- Nose: Empress Cobaka head-butted me
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Feb 5, 2019, 11:04 pm
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You seem to have a very dangerous dog. However, the big question in my mind is *why* you would apparently voluntarily play (tackle) football with the PSU football team. Did you expect to win or at least lose without damage? I can't recall a period when PSU had a sufficiently bad team that playing with them would have been a good idea. Was this some crazy drunken bet or a sorority initiation stunt?
Feb 5, 2019, 11:16 pm
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You seem to have a very dangerous dog. However, the big question in my mind is *why* you would apparently voluntarily play (tackle) football with the PSU football team. Did you expect to win or at least lose without damage? I can't recall a period when PSU had a sufficiently bad team that playing with them would have been a good idea. Was this some crazy drunken bet or a sorority initiation stunt?
I was young and stupid when I played tackle football with PSU football players?
It wasn't a drunken bet or sorority initiation stunt. The friend who suffered the broken nose invited me, saying it was flag football. I decided they were being too gentle in playing because I was playing.
Feb 6, 2019, 6:06 am
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Feb 6, 2019, 3:03 pm
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Feb 6, 2019, 3:32 pm
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Feb 6, 2019, 8:15 pm
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Let's start with fingers... Broke an index finger playing catcher in a pick-up game of softball. I took a bat to the hand. Broke a pinky playing football with Penn State football players one summer. Not on the play where I broke my finger, but before that, I was the one that turned the flag football game into a game of tackle football. I tackled one of the PSU football players, and once they figured out I was fine with it, we then moved to tackle football. That was the same game that another friend got a broken nose. His healed faster than my injury, as the campus med center didn't set mine correctly, so the ortho needed to re-set it.
Other broken bones:
That was the same game that another friend got a broken nose. His healed faster than my injury, as the campus med center didn't set mine correctly, so the ortho needed to re-set it.Other broken bones:
- Right foot, falling down two steps (had surgery to fix it)
- Other index finger, slammed it in a car door
- Kneecap, fell on a wet concrete floor
- Nose: Empress Cobaka head-butted me
Feb 7, 2019, 6:09 am
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I had been. Although, in fairness, the softball injury was when I was elementary school, the car door incident was in middle school, and the right foot and pinky injuries were in college. Only the kneecap was after turning 21.
Although, in fairness, the softball injury was when I was elementary school, the car door incident was in middle school, and the right foot and pinky injuries were in college. Only the kneecap was after turning 21.
Feb 7, 2019, 6:10 am
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Feb 7, 2019, 6:37 am
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Feb 7, 2019, 8:15 am
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Feb 7, 2019, 8:30 am
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Feb 7, 2019, 9:16 am
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Feb 7, 2019, 10:42 am
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