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What social media do you use?

What social media platforms do you have?

  • Facebook

  • Twitter

  • Instagram

  • Tiktok

  • Other(Snapchat, youtube, WhatsApp)


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Over the last year I’ve cut way back on what social media apps I have. No longer have Facebook as it’s nothing but memes and advertising nowadays. I use two different social media platforms, but see myself barely using them much.

UNI Open

Question for the more "tuned in" wrestling fans. 157 at the UNI open. I love seeing Cam at 157. Do you think they are treating this tournament as a wrestle off? Excited about this and wish they would have done this for the Iowa meet. I have been impressed with him so far this year, granted I only watched him at the Nichols Open

RECRUITING: Three portal targets in Ames this weekend

Iowa State is hosting three transfer portal targets on visits this weekend:

T.J. Tampa returns for senior year

ChatGPT ai

Anyone tried it yet? Haven’t had time myself, but it’s really exploded in the past week.



Seeing the predictions of English classes being doomed to advanced jobs being replaced.

***UNI Open (Saturday, 9 a.m.)***

IOWA STATE PREVIEW

What: UNI Open
Where: UNI-Dome – Cedar Falls, Iowa
When: Saturday, Dec. 10 – 9 a.m.
Watch: FloWrestling
Live Stats: TrackWrestling

Iowa State Entries:
125:
Caleb Fuessley*
133: Evan Frost
141: Jacob Frost, Carter Fousek, Damon Huston*, Drew Woodley*
157: Andrew Huddleston*, Isaac Judge*, Jason Kraisser*, Ben Monroe*, Cam Robinson*
165: Cade Schmidt*, Carter Schmidt*
174: Joel Devine*, Manny Rojas
184: Nando Villaescusa
197: Rowan Udell
*Competing unattached

Missouri and UNI each show 20+ entries at the moment, with a handful each from Iowa and SDSU.
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Friday OT - A Gift and a Curse

What are the most thoughtful gifts you have given (for the holidays or otherwise)? How did they go?

I like handmade stuff that took a lot of thought. A HS friend made his poetry (masculine stuff) into books for me for my birthday when I turned 16, and I always loved that, so I have tried to do the same at times.

A few years ago, My dad and his brother sold their family farm (not quite a century farm, but close). I know it tore my dad up, so for that Christmas, I found a website that shows embroidered photos of Iowa farms over the decades, so I took one from the year he married my mom, traced it onto cloth, and then embroidered it to exactly represent their lands and buildings. (It was my first foray back into sewing after decades, so it was not by any means perfect.). He isn’t a sentimental guy, so his reaction wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but I hope it brings him joy.

This past fall, my best friend and I went to Omaha for a girls’ trip. We had a ton of fun doing things, but one of the best and most special parts was just finding a Roku channel that played nothing but old 90s episodes of Supermarket Sweep, and sitting on the couch watching it while coloring in adult coloring books while chatting. I tried looking for a Supermarket Sweep coloring book but couldn’t find any, so I downloaded screen grabs from the series (and took a few of my own of particular things), loaded them into Procreate, traced them to get the coloring book pages, put them into coloring book pages in Microsoft Illustrator, printed that to PDF, and then got Alpha Copies here in town to make them into coloring books. They did a great job, so I hope she likes it.

What are yours? I love hearing about special gifts and reactions.

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