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Damor

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  1. Sooners will slink home All roads to Oklahoma Are a Trail of Tears
  2. Now fourth quarter wanes Yon orange half is enchubbened The other, empty
  3. Just carbonated my first kviek as well, AHS Norsk Gardshus Ale. Kviek is indeed nuts, fermented it at 95 and it ripped through it, starting within an hour or so of pitching. Wish I'd tried kviek back before I had temperature control. ESB, grapefruit IPA, and pumpkin cream ale are presently in various stages of fermentation/conditioning.
  4. Thanks, I'll save ABGB for Sunday. I've been wanting to try it for a long time. Like the St. Elmo idea, any other good spots (not necessarily breweries) for game watching around downtown? Dumb OT question, I know, but I'm rarely around those parts these days.
  5. I'm in Austin for a conference this weekend and haven't been to ABGB -- will they have the game on Saturday night, or should I save ABGB for Sunday and find another place to watch the game (like, maybe, the game)?
  6. Thanks, just got here, wish I had seen that earlier about the coffee. I'll be the guy here with a kid. And your mom.
  7. Taking my 11yo to see Lord Huron tonight (his favorite band) for an early birthday present. Haven't ever been to ACL Live, so looking forward to it -- any tips? Looks like we'll end up with a couple extra tickets, let me know if anyone is interested.
  8. My pastor counters this kind of eye-rolling silliness with, "Nowhere in the Bible does it say 'Be ye stupid.'" Be ye not fucking stupid, you shithead obtuse troll.
  9. Thank you! That's not something I was aware of. I'll look at some other areas or maybe just reverse the trip.
  10. Thanks. I did do that, but from plugging in some multi-city searches it looks that if your airports are in the same region, you can save substantially on one open-jaw itinerary. Hopefully rtracking one-way fares will at least give me an idea of when to check prices.
  11. Damor

    Whatcha reading?

    Just recently reread Catch 22 (I love it). It's OK if it's not your cup of tea, but maybe try looking at the structure (repetitive, approaches the same events over and over from different angles, jumps around chronologically) as purposeful in portraying the absurdity of war and modern 'humanity.' If you don't know the story, it does draw to something of a conclusion, but it's more about the jarring ride to get there.
  12. LSU Admissions: The Only Bribe-Free Process in Louisiana Coach O has Webbed Teauxs via Imgflip Meme Generator
  13. Reminds me of my grandparents.
  14. Please pardon the relatively basic/noob question, but anyone have a good site to track flight prices for open-jaw flights with flexible dates? It looks like Kayak and Google Flights only allow flexible date tracking for round trip or one way fares. In more detail, I'm looking to put together a trip from AUSish -> DUB then LHRish -> AUSish for 4 travelers over an approx 3wk block for next July. I haven't been overseas in years and while I don't usually cheap out, being smart about a family of 4 can make a big difference in the rest of the trip. Not going to worry about the miles game on this trip (will save that for simpler travel in the future with just the wife), but as a family trip with kids, don't want to get crazy with a cheap complex multi-carrier itinerary which leaves everyone hating Dad. Thanks in advance, travel wizards.
  15. I absolutely love Long Ride Home. I found this EP on the back wall at Waterloo years ago, and it's sadly likely relegated to the dustbin of history (no youtube), but Median States by Quinimine is one of the most haunting tunes I've ever heard. Likewise, it's hard to find, but Milton Mapes put out an album with two great farewell songs, Bowie AZ and Craters of the Moon, if you can find them out there. Kinda strange to find one album with two songs I want played at my funeral. And there's this.
  16. I would say thats doable if your using the most of your 3 weeks off...lets say 19 days total with day 20/21 as rest days when you return....that leaves you with 2 full weeks for ireland/scotland with you only doing 3 days in london. Which leaves you with 2 "travel days" as wiggle room. If you fly in between then you could possibly squeeze in another location or rent car and ferry across for slower/more scenery trip Thanks. As far as getting from Ireland to Scotland, I'm guessing flying is the better bet rather than going out of the way to do a train to Belfast, then the ferry? I've always heard the nightmare stories about Ryanair, is it really that awful? On the one hand, it's only an hour flight, but on the other hand, it sounds like the flight is the least painful part of the process. But for 1/3 the cost...
  17. FIFElevator
  18. Awesome thread. I have a chunk of about 3 weeks off next July, and I'm trying to get started on planning a family trip with our boys (will be 15 and 12). I'm really tempted by the Germany/Alps stuff above (been there and loved it), but I think I'm going to save that for when they're a little older and can appreciate the finer points of Bavarian/Czech brewing. The other idea I'm throwing around is the British Isles. This would be our first overseas trip as a family, and neither my wife nor I have been there. I'm sure I'll pester the board in detail when I get to serious planning, but at this point I'm just trying to get a general framework. I have a Griswoldian tendency to overdo/overplan, but at the same time, I'd like to get the most out of the trip since it's an investment getting over there, and we don't have a lot of summers left with them under our roof. Here are the nebulous ideas I have floating around in my head, without a lot of specific research (beyond what I've read on Shaggy/Surly) yet: Ireland: -- Probably fly into Dublin and spend a couple days to adjust, but planning to spend more time out of the city. -- A few days in Galway (sounds like our speed) -- Doolin/Cliffs of Insanity Moher -- Ring of Kerry/Gap of Dunloe area Scotland: --Edinburgh -- Glasgow -- Isle of Skye (hiking and Talisker) -- Islay vs. Inverness/Highlands/Spey? London: -- 3 or so days to hit some high points, eat good food, let my wife see royal shit, fly back Is this too ambitious to try to cover in one trip?
  19. Yep, been that way for at least an hour. Sydney, you still home with the sick kid? I don't know what your copay is, but it might have been cheaper for you turn off the AC and take him to the ER.
  20. You make a good point, and I salute you for it. But I have to admit I am much more amused by goofing off at work playing with my smart home shit than I am by opening 19 tabs of inscrutable electric plans, setting up accounts, and other stuff that's not as fun as turning the AC off on my lazy teenager. And this is the first week I've had to pay much attention to it, otherwise I've just set it and forget it.
  21. Yeah, I'm new to it, but I can deal with the volatility if it overall balances out. I've had good fixed rate plans that ran out, and because I was distracted with other shit at the time, probably gave back any savings in the next month on whatever shit plan they defaulted me to (Or like when Breeze went under, and TXU tried to annex me like the Sudetenland for over 20c/kwh). Like Vegas, the guys who put those plans together aren't in the business of giving away money, and I simply don't have the time or desire to try to beat the house.
  22. Thanks to you assholes I pre-cooled the casa this morning and turned everything off when it started to spike. I'll still get slammed, but hopefully that will help. This will be an expensive, shitty month, but June and July were cheap enough for me that I'm OK riding it out. Thanks to my camera, I can see that my 14yo is too distracted playing Fortnite to notice that it's 78 degrees.
  23. Damor

    Kayaking

    Absolutely. HUGE gash. A torrent just gushing through it (and smelled fishy, too). Learn from my mistake, fellas. Flip it over before you put it in.
  24. Whoa, would never have thought of that. Is it like that at all levels? Do you think that in situations like that you could pull the game up on an app (ESPN, FOX, whatever) and cast it to the TV? This had not occurred to us, dude. I don't have an HD antenna, and honestly have no idea how I'd integrate one into the system.
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