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Damor

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  1. I was pleasantly surprised in Belton. Only got to be there about an hour, but I'd guess 700-1000 people were there in the fiefdom of John Carter the Feckless. Kudos to the olds who showed up, saw lots of older vets. Everyone was cordial, welcoming, and upbeat. Almost zero presence of counter protesters, and LEO must have been staying out of sight. Organizers did a great job. Best sign:
  2. I've got a headache.
  3. Welp. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  4. I'm a bit torn, it's my first protest. I'm thinking that since I'll be sneaking away from work to attend for a short time, it's valid to go in my scrubs (with the name of the hospital covered to appease the C-suite snowflakes). A middle aged fat cis white guy with a good job is the last thing they'll be expecting. On the other hand, this is one of my favorite t-shirts:
  5. A passage from Blood Meridian has always stuck with me when I wonder this: “A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.” Part of the epigraph from the beginning of the novel: Clark, who led last year’s expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped. –The Yuma Daily Sun
  6. The best part is you then have ChatGPT just change all the zeroes to ones, and "wallah," I present to the C-suite the "UnitedHealth Never-Authorize-O-Min (-)5000."
  7. At first I was puzzled by why you would crack peoples' skulls open looking for rice inside. Then all of a sudden the world made a lot more sense that way.
  8. Oh, hello there. We've been waiting for you.
  9. So that, plus this from some other aggy thread: I realize it's a pointless exercise to think about this, but to me it's one of the sadder manifestations of the culture of insecurity and inadequacy at that place, and for some reason has always irked me. I've heard A&M grads brag about how opportunities were given to them which they really weren't qualified for, or how they were selected for things over competitors with a secret "Aggie Ring Wink." I really just shouldn't at all be surprised by the cognitive dissonance that displays with regard to the general political zeitgeist of that place, but whatever. When I interview a Texas grad, you'd better bring your A game. My expectations of you are now higher than your peers, not lower. When I'm working with a trainee who's a Texas grad, I'm more disappointed with you if you're not up to expectations, not more forgiving. I don't know why I find this so discouraging, although maybe it's because (unpopular opinion) I do have some very good Aggie friends who are very competent and accomplished, or because on the whole the state would be better off if that system wasn't so culturally bound to fuck up anything good it could ever accomplish outside of athletics. Just part of the cruel and tragic aggy shenanigans, I guess. And the problem is mine for thinking I could rationally understand that place. Thanks for listening to my TURD Talk.
  10. IMO a lot depends on what you want to do with it. I fish (poorly) mostly creeks here at home and a lot of smaller streams when in Colorado, and inasmuch as I've found a style, it's what I'd call "contemplative" and my boys would call "slow and boring." Even my carbon fiber rod is a Scott G. I'm not usually hucking a bunch of big streamers, and if I'm fishing from a boat I'm with a guide and probably using their gear. I love the feel of how fiberglass rods load slowly and how they cast, but it fits my personality disorder. It seems largely a special use case for dry flies on small water these days, and I love having it as a different "flavor." That said, if that's not what you want it to do and try to fish it in the ways that carbon fiber excels, you're probably going to get frustrated and hate it. And as far as the demo thing, if the shop has guides they might be able to check and see if any of them own what you're looking for and could let you demo it? And yes, y'all got me all hot and bothered so I had to go out and scratch the itch with this monster: (ironically on the 5wt carbon fiber rod and a Brushy Creek streamer).
  11. Damor

    Denver

    Derm, eh?
  12. Agreed as above. Although I love my Ross Colorado 3wt as well, it does nothing but hold line. I overspent on it because it has sentimental and aesthetic value to me. And it sounds really, really nifty. If you're staying on a budget*, get a cheap reel and spend that money on good fly line, a lesson this board taught me. * you're buying fly fishing gear, we all know we're just pretending to be on a budget and are going to buy cool shit because cool shit is cool and we love it.
  13. Yeah, I think the Echo would leave you enough in the budget for that. How could you not? Think I posted upthread that I have the Animas version of that put aside for my older one's 21st, probably going to pair it with a 4wt Scott fiberglass rod. As a beer snob, I don't even like Coors, but those are just amazing looking reels, and I do respect that they have their own malting floor in Golden.
  14. Love, pediatric radiologist
  15. @Chewbacca I'll defer to the experts, but at that size I think fiberglass is a lot of fun, and also I worry a little less about getting it caught and breaking it tromping through branches. I have a nice burnt orangeish 3wt Echo Riverglass paired with a Ross Colorado that I love, and my boys try to steal it all the time. Getting summer trips to Colorado organized, can't wait.
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