Recent content by AM64

There's a reason besides age and feeling it that I quit working on my cars. Although, I did install a hard folding bed cover on the truck Tuesday. There's also a reason that no engineer without field experience should ever be turned loose to design anything. I spent many years working with...

Oh, cheap shot! I'll be 79 in a couple of months and feeling it today. I hope cattle with four legs to stand on are easier to deal with than an addled wife; but you are right, your dad needs to have time for himself and relax. BTW when Slice was talking about taking you fishing a few days...

Is the long view like 5 minutes with Trump pulling the strings?

Yeah, because I asked and didn't give an ultimatum; and because I would uphold my end and pay my obligation even if I didn't live there. I've been through a similar experience. A few months into a job, the company (in Nashville) decided they didn't want to continue on the path (repairing...

Yep, that's what I remember, too. Seems like some things got morphed.

I guess I wasn't clear enough that the lease is not the part in question. The part in question was could I change jobs knowing I had an obligation to your lease. If it's not worth paying for two places or you don't want to amend the lease, I stay put and consider what might have been. Those...

The part that makes no sense is that Nico's deal is with Spyre and according to Spyre If UT isn't paying Nico and Nico is free to choose any school, how exactly does UT get involved in how much Nico gets paid or in negotiations over pay and benefits. Further, as I recall, schools are still...

I'd tell you what my deal is and ask if we could amend the lease. If you say "No", then my decision is whether the move (and what I perceive the future to be) balances out what I have to pay for the existing and a new lease - and possibly can I sub-lease. That's the way of things; we don't...

Apparently no new tariffs are being collected right now because of a glitch or delay in the software updated. Sometimes you have to plan things instead of imperially thinking that a click of the fingers makes it all happen instantly. Apparently autocrats think their wish demands instant...

I'm pretty sure the contract is with Spyre and not UT. Seems like schools have to work through collectives for the time being. I still think even if it is an agreement rather than a written contract that you honor it. Nothing wrong with asking about renegotiation in some circumstances, but...

Articles I read today mostly said TN did the right thing. One said that several coaches or GMs backed us on the matter. Another had a ton of comments - most thought we did the right thing. In one major outlet (maybe NBC or CBS) article the writer even owned up to being a Gator fan and praised...

I still remember a post I made some time ago maybe even during Nico's recruitment; I meant it as a joke, but it was about his name looking a lot like "I am a leava (leaver)". Funny but concerning even before the portal went into overdrive.

There is the other side. You make a contract; you honor it; end of story. Nico got a very generous contract, and TN took a real gamble in the courts to back it up. You have to honor that - period. Maybe that view is part of the generational thing I mentioned in the reply to Marcus, but I...

Thanks. Sometimes I think I fall in an undefinable category. Politically and on other things I generally agree with most people here, but sometimes I find myself siding with the other side. That is probably a difference in "values" for lack of a better word for generational beliefs that we...

Nope but Weigel's has discovered Chattanooga. I've only filled up at a Weigel's once - in Knoxville a few years ago. What I remember and really miss is the little drive up building just around the corner from the Southerland Ave married student apartments. You drove up on the way home and...