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  1. My wife just sent me a text asking if we had any chicken in the freezer. She's at home. I'm not.
    16 points
  2. 2017 he’s diagnosed with lung cancer. Has part of his lung removed and gets through chemo. Is feeling better and 2 years later he goes in for double bypass heart surgery and they end up doing 5 of them. So he has that and gets through it and is feeling better finally and then they find another spot has come back on his lung. so at the beginning of the year he started chemo again and then that started giving him side affects. Especially in his gut. Couldn’t keep anything down and they thought it was colitis. A month or two goes by and he’s still having issues eating. At this point he’s lost a shit ton of weight and is laying down so much he’s losing use of his legs. anyway, they end up removing 2 liters of fluid off his stomach and of course that came back cancerous. He didn’t even make it a week after that diagnoses. Came home for home hospice and was only home a day and a half. We all thought we had longer with him but I’m glad he didn’t suffer long. That was 2 weeks ago. Just wanted to get that out there and in writing. Still doesn’t feel real and I still haven’t really broke down about it yet. He was only 65. Nobody ever had anything bad to say about him. love you, dad nobody has to say anything on here. I’ve only met a handful of y’all.
    13 points
  3. We got Bob back in October. Bob's favorite hobbies at the moment are humping the ever-loving dignity out of his blanket, sneaking random rocks into the house, and watching birds in the back yard. He's not the dumbest dog and he's not the smartest dog, but either way, he's turning into a pretty damn good one.
    13 points
  4. :: contracts smallpox :: ”ha gotya bitch!” and that’s how the native Americans settled the score
    11 points
  5. One of my parents’ two Jack Russell’s passed away somewhat suddenly today. She had had some odd health issues but seemed good a couple days ago. Today her lungs filled with fluid and nothing could be done. My mom is really broken up, she has a huge heart for animals. RIP Roo, you were a funny little dog who brought my mom immense joy and irritated the shit out of my dad. Well done.
    10 points
  6. In all seriousness, the country is full of under-recruited kids from Texas who had to settle for a school like NMSU but have shown they are D1 caliber and would love the opportunity to come home and play for UT. In the portal era, a well-oiled Texas program should snag a couple of these every year.
    10 points
  7. They are not. I didn’t read all this but the first sentence gave me a good chuckle. Never change, satya.
    10 points
  8. It feels like Card did a better job overall, especially if you factor in drops. But I feel like Thompson might have a little James Brown fuck you Nebraska gamer in there and will show up when the lights come on in the regular season.
    9 points
  9. Figured out a small tree in the backyard died from the winter bullshit so I cut that down and figured that warranted a nice steak dinner. Got a 27 day aged ribeye from central market, broiled some shishito peppers, made up a few wedge salads and a couple baked taters. Was good.
    8 points
  10. What he was saying, sarcastically, was that those people are rock-headed fucking morons. This is one of those “that’s the joke” gif scenarios for you. I’m not sure who your are, but (most of the) guys who frequent this board understand the nuances of recruiting and that a commit of any kind isn’t final until they hit campus. But thanks for showing up and condescendingly lecturing two guys who have posted regularly here for years. Clearly you, whoever you are, have it all figured out and those two regular contributors are just stupid rubes. Perhaps we can point you towards the football board where you can go and enlighten actual retarded peasants. Just follow the posts of MarkStanco and you should find it without issue.
    8 points
  11. Apologies, photo by Apple, not Nikon. Rest easy; from my observations it would appear the SEZ was built correctly and the new construction is symmetrical for those of you having trouble sleeping at night. The straight red line on the photo is drawn from the north goal post to the top centerline of the new SEZ My observations & opinion (BSME '79😞 0. It looks $%^& assume. Can't help but wonder what it looks like from the $10 Million seats! 1. The structural portion of the stadium, new & old, is aligned and positioned correctly. Everything is square and plumb as it should be. We're Texas!!! 2. The "football field" itself is not properly "centered" within the structure. The south goal post is too far west by ~ 1-3 ft. Either its just the goal post, or the whole field is not centered withing the 4 walls of DKR. From my vantage point, and with nothing to measure with other than a Coors Light can, it is hard to pinpoint the center of the north endzone. I used the north end zone goal post and assumed the goal post itself was correctly positioned in relation to DKR, the structure, and the recognize the goal post itself may or may not be correctly positioned on Campbell-Williams Field. Given that the current field was "laid and/or painted" 10+ years ago and the amount of constructions since then, that's a possibility. 3. My money says move the goal post. 4. Dammit. I just realized the "X" and "A" of the "TEXAS" in the north end zone are touching!
    8 points
  12. Satya on the evening of January 4, 2006. "We're not going to amount to shit next season if our defense keeps giving up 38 points like they did tonight."
    8 points
  13. OU hasn't had a 2022 commit since March 2. A&M - March 9. There's a lull right now that's not limited to Texas.
    8 points
  14. https://247sports.com/Player/Devin-Richardson-46042086/high-school-194212/ Apparently was a Freshman All-American Was at NMSU
    7 points
  15. Hell yeah! In honor of New Mexico...
    7 points
  16. Yeah that’s one advantage of being over 50. You are so used to having sore joints, body aches and lethargy that you really don’t notice the vaccine side effects much.
    7 points
  17. That post was satya's version of breaking no-nut November.
    7 points
  18. Smoked Tomahawks with a Kamado Joe sear to finish them off.
    6 points
  19. 6 points
  20. Just another lovely Sunday. Honey burst. Olive burst. Bourbon burst.
    6 points
  21. What should I mod or upgrade on my telecaster? I have been reading this thread and realized that I don't think I've really changed anything about my tele since I bought it like 17 years ago. I was starting a band and got a used thinline at Heart of Texas. I didn't have much money and never got into tinkering with upgrades or anything. Now I have some time to do stuff like that, but don't know jackshit about modding these things. I play acoustic most of the time as I have been working on a more folk-centric recording project for a while, and I use the tele mostly to add interesting textures and soft lead lines with the occasional twangy western lead line. I also work on ambient and drone music from time to time, but the tone is just fine for that. I will say that there is a fair amount of noise when it isn't grounded by touching the strings, so I suspect something in the electronics should be rewired or shielded in some way. I've never even taken the pickguard off to look at the wiring. Around the tone knob, there is a crack that I believe was there when I got it but it has grown over time. I did buy a new pickguard a couple of years ago, but they sent the wrong one. After refunding me, I just forgot about it and never re-ordered it because I got busy or lazy or something. Here is a track that shows some of what I do with it right now, just some chillaxed noodling with the neck pickup to give it a low-fi tapey sound that blends into a spacey folk vibe. Obligatory fam portrait:
    6 points
  22. So you're saying there is a god who makes things all work out right ?
    6 points
  23. No because tcu didn’t have a gimmick laden, penny pinching idiot running their AD when they put their surface down
    6 points
  24. For all the hooplah surrounding the spring game QB competition this year, it was probably the worst one we've had in a while. Thompson didn't look comfortable going past his first read against pretty vanilla defensive setups - if the first guy wasn't open it was mostly a) flee from the pocket b) throw it to him anyway. Card was a lot better about checking it down and was playing with a much worse OL in front of him, but Thompson would mostly just stare at his one read until things broke down and he's going to throw a lot of picks this season playing like that. In fact, that pick he threw was a similar mistake he made against Colorado (late throw to the wrong shoulder) - he got away with it because the Buffalo DB dropped a sitter. On that deep ball to Alexis he made no attempt to look off Schooler, which is another pretty big negative (he did once do it with Omeire though, so maybe there's hope). If his first read is open, he'll hit him but beyond that it's a total crapshoot. Sometimes he'll find a guy open on the run like he did with Whittington at the end of the second quarter, but most of the time the play is dead. Card bails early but that's fixable with a 1st-string OL in front of him and more reps. He's very promising but A) probably not really ready to be starter yet and B) clearly better than Casey Thompson which leaves us in a bad position. Stupid two-point trick play aside (still not 100% sure that wasn't a hallucination brought on by my day-drinking), that first TD drive with Bijan at RB was awesome. Didn't see much outside zone but I haven't really been following spring practices so I don't know if that'll be a thing with Flood/Sark. The WR group is awful. Drops, drops, drops. Woodard and Epps were big culprits but even Washington, when he makes catches, makes doing so look like a herculean task. So much dead roster weight and no game-breakers of the calibre Sark was slaughtering secondaries at Alabama with. Reminds me of the late-era Mack Brown days when we had Greg Timmons, Brock Fitzhenry, DJ Grant, etc. cluttering up the roster. And evidently neither Jared Wiley (who was beaten a lot in pass pro) nor Gunnar Helm can block, so that's fantastic. DL looked really good. But a lot of that was Majors + Angilau getting dominated by Ojomo + Coburn. We've been waiting for Angilau forever to take that next step and it doesn't look like it's happened. Majors just looks too small to effectively deal with Coburn, that'll change with time but this season will be rough going. Saric got beaten by Jones multiple times on money downs, when Jones could just pin his ears back and go. And my God, Jett Bush getting three sacks as an edge rusher is not a good look for Tyler Johnson, who he was facing at RT. Giving how poorly recruiting is going at the edge rusher spot, we need some real production from them this year. At least the OL can run-block 🤷‍♂️ for now. Card got saddled with a pretty bad OL group, one red-zone play the walk-on at guard got beaten hilariously quickly by SGW and Card was running nearly as soon as the snap came to him. Schooler was channeling his inner Dylan Haines all day at safety. Someone should check on that. I guess he's better off there then warming the bench five-deep at WR. Lowell Galindo suuuuuuuuuuuuucks. So does Andre Ware. Whose bright idea was it to put them within five miles of each other, much less in the same booth? And yes, I'm aware of all the usual caveats. Nth-team players, zero-sum game, "why are you saying [insert OL] looked bad when clearly it was because [insert DL] across from him is the next Reggie White??!?" The same excuses from the past decade. TL;DR is we've got promising players + coaches, but we're probably too weak at QB and OL to make a run to the Big 12 title this year.
    6 points
  25. Sorry brother. I feel your hurt, I lost my mom yesterday unexpectedly from an abdominal aortic aneurysm...numb, sick, mad, heartbroken. She was out families rock and I can't believe she's gone. I tried so hard to get back home to East Texas before she went but couldn't and it kills me I couldn't be there with my dad and sister when she passed away. That was the longest 4 hour drive of my life. Thank you for sharing...I'm sorry for your loss but reading that someone is going through something similar as me helps a little. Fuck this sucks.
    6 points
  26. Mine just said that the folks on the Indonesian submarine should have jumped out so they didn’t die.
    5 points
  27. Ah yes, the proven consistent productivity of Jake Smith. That's the missing piece.
    5 points
  28. Someone posted that Wiltfong comment on IT and Gerry immediately responded that Alabama and Texas were the two programs at the top for Harris.
    5 points
  29. We’re a month or two away from Covid being a disease that mainly affects Republicans. At that point may we call it the “Republican Virus”?
    5 points
  30. You definitely should tell the police that you’re the DA.
    5 points
  31. Three years of eligibility remaining.
    5 points
  32. Hey! You can bad mouth Chaska, Le Sueur, or even White Bear Lake, but leave Bemidji out of it.
    5 points
  33. An update on Jimmy Flannigan, the city council member that lost to Kelly... https://theaustinbulldog.org/flannigan-loses-election-lands-plum-job/ The day after he lost, he was offered a job as president of Austin Convention Enterprises. This is a non-profit that runs the city of Austin owned downtown Hilton hotel. The president is the only employee of the non-profit. Flannigan does not actual run the hotel -- the non-profit hires Hilton to do that, he just maintains the non-profit. This involves working on the website, preparing for once monthly board meetings, working with vendors associated with the non-profit. The job is limited to 20 hours per week and his compensation was set at $140,000 per year, plus $6000 for health insurance. As a council member, Flannigan voted to appoint the three directors that then hired him and to create the position that he now holds. Two of the directors donated to his reelection campaign.
    5 points
  34. Well, fewer vaccinated people mean more chances for the virus to mutate and generally stick around as a nuisance, rather than getting stamped out
    5 points
  35. I'm quoting BrickHorn from two threads because these are related and IMO, important. The first quote is from the dipshit Okie thread relating to their legislators and bills proposed and passed. Certainly something that bears a resemblance. Y'all may disagree with the following, but I'm not going to call them Nazis because that specific designation distracts from the discussion per se. I don't particularly wish to go back and forth with defenders (of the GOP) on an item by item basis of the ticky tacky details of how they differ. What they ARE becoming is increasingly radicalized, increasingly on the same page (gathering of disparate groups out of chaos to form one) increasingly embracing small scale politics to expand power and finally increasingly proposing and passing legislation that enables the judiciary to enforce their ideology. It ties together from top to bottom and from the bottom to the top so I'd like to make a case without benefit of a legal degree that what they are doing should serve as a warning for the future. And the future is now. It should keep you up and night. It begins with this: the policies and appointments of the Trump administration with the judges that will rule on the various cases that will be placed before them. Those that say, "well, some Trump judges haven't necessarily done so!" True, very true, but with over 245 appointments, 234 who are/were Article III judges, some of this intricate planning takes awhile to come to fruition. the posts and articles placed in front of us concerning groups waging war on a local level. From school boards to PACs to election commissions, to registration drives. It's small ball politics and it is gaining steam. The more steam it gains, the easier it is to suppress, disenfranchise, and stamp out hope for progress. Want to complain about a school policy that concerns your non Christian child, your transgender child, your minority child? Deaf ears will be the result. Want to obtain a permit for your protest? 'Oh so sorry, that's a no.' Or, if it is granted, and then declared a riot, well, see above in Oklahoma for what the outcome could feasibly be. the meetings nationwide, with guest hosts and speakers (Michael Flynn, et al) are chosen with purpose. These are rallies to bring together groups with various agendas and place them in company with each other socially to form bonds of agreement and to solidify support. It better aligns the circles on the Venn to become one. the groups then coalesce in their bubbles to inform those contained within on who the 'out' groups are and keep them 'out.' Lastly, you have groups like Stephen Miller's legal group to harass and highlight issues of importance to the ideology to keep the energy maintained, wholly supported by entities such as Fox, OANN, and Newsmax who over and over and over again feature guests who trumpet lies as facts, reinforce the grievances and ideology, and are never or rarely, questioned regarding the validity of their statements. This is what the majority of the GOP mainstream is. From the Senate to the House, from Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to Marjorie Taylor Greene to Louis Gohmert, from Republican governors to legislatures with Republican majorities, any reasonableness has been subsumed or replaced with this ideology and mindset. Sure, it's all about power and money, and they don't want to lose either, but they have no qualms about it because they have been and continue to prepare to employ their short and long range plans to keep them both. Greg Sargent wrote an op-ed about the phenomenon and this quote sums it up pretty well. Yes, that is the whole point. Bringing officer Chauvin into court and holding him accountable for his actions was a step counter to this, and now justice for brutality and death--justice which has gone missing for decades--is labeled as the 'mob' coming for 'us' and a rallying cry to fight back with a mob of their own. It's going to get worse. On all levels. Midterms are coming. Stay safe, stay vigilant.
    5 points
  36. That's a great (and funny) story Bob. Nothing better than fucking with, or pissing off those above you. Didn't know the Navy did this for the Panama Canal. That's cool. My Dad is a Shellback from doing two WestPac tours on a tin can in the late 50's. According to him, crossing the line was not fun for a new Lieutenant during the ceremony from pollywog to Shellback. But upon arriving in Australia, it made up for it as Dad said that the Aussies wouldn't let them buy anything as they were then still greatful to the US for stopping the Japanese from invading the country and continent. When I served in the Air Force in the early 80s, I twice went to Greenland, crossing the Artic Circle and doing some airdrops up on the ice cap. The second year, this combined Civilian/Navy "research" team we were supporting, had a much larger footprint of Navy personnel. Specifically, ALL sub guys (and this has all been declassified so no one needs get their panties in a bunch). The commander, Captain Carl A. "Josey" Wales made sure myself and my teammate both got Bluenose certificates. Being that it is from Boreas Rex, Ruler of the North Wind, it is one of the few items that I have on display from my time in the military.
    5 points
  37. So when the Trumpkins have a rally in the street we can run their dumb asses over? Awesome!
    5 points
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