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Colorado Vacation Destinations - Not Quite So Crowded, But Still Cool
Damor replied to Dbeasy's topic in Food and Travel
@Wiler77 please feel free to share some hiking highlights. I grew up spending summers closer to Gunnison/Pitkin but we weren't big into hiking when I was a kid. Did make it to the top of Fairview Peak a couple times, where my grandfather affixed a "Beat the Hell Outta OU" bumper sticker to the Forest Service firewatch station. If anyone hangs out in that area in the summer, be sure to go get burgers and a slice of Fruit of the Forest pie at Frenchy's in Tin Cup. I'm also a big fan of Salida, but don't tell anyone else. @mdmost I think I said it in the college thread, but did the same with Mines/CU/CSU with my younger one. Headed back to revisit in October. Hard to argue against spending your college years up there. Or to argue with following your kids up there... Speaking of which, @MrX, you're not the boss of me! -
I hear y'all. The other flood threads weren't the place to put this, but my son and his buddies went on their first "independent" camping trip together a little over a week ago at this gravel bar on the Llano: I did have him check the forecast before they went, but needless to say since then we've had a much more in depth discussion about vigilance and leaving the camping equipment, leaving the fly rods, leaving the car if need be... just get out. And a NOAA emergency radio is now on the way from Amazon. It's a hell of a lot easier for me to face the fact that tomorrow is not promised to me than to accept that it's not promised to them either.
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@Chewbacca what did you end up going with? Rod/reel porn pics aren't loading for some reason...
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Much love to those early 80s classics, but eventually the Yesterday's in the Temple Mall closed the doors on its dim, smoky hive of scum and villainy. We held on for a while at Mazzio's Pizza where we were treated to some of the last great gasps of 2D sprite gaming, much of it via the venerable Sega System 16 and variant boards: Alas, all things fade and turn to myth, and the best games forbade continues on the final level.
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So do y'all think we achieve Monday Night Rehabilitation by his third term, or does Beef Supreme have to wait patiently until his fourth?
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Just got back from doing the same with my younger son. He loves it up there, I'm pretty sure we've lost him to the mountains just like his older brother.. Weird times, despite my parenting they have grown into the most amazing people.
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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:
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I've got a headache.
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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:
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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
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Damor replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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." -
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.
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