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capnamerca

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  1. All three Chris Stapleton albums ... dude is really amazing.
  2. @texased, some other thoughts. You've got one design element that I have, and it's the one thing I'd change. With the hot tub between the patio and the main pool body, you've introduced a blind spot into the pool. It's not a huge thing, and our kids have learned to not linger there, but I don't love it. Think through where you'll likely be sitting most of the time, and where the kids will want to jump from (hint - it's from the elevated hot tub ledge). I'd HIGHLY suggest sinking the hot tub a few feet so you can see all of the pool surface area. You can do some cool things with a small retaining wall, or maybe a circular set of steps down to the hot tub coping. The second item that our pool builder completely missed is fucking accent lighting on the decking areas. I get it, they're pool builders and not backyard designers, but still. I notice the same in your renderings - you'll want low voltage lights in the face of those steps down, probably some LV lights in the retaining wall (down-firing), and some accent lighting in the plants. Think about being able to get around at night without having to turn on the floodlights from the house, for example, or having enough lights to have guests out back but still maintain the night-time look. Plus you don't want people eating shit going down (or up) the stairs. It cost me a pretty penny to add direct-bury LV wire and have them put in the boxes before they poured the concrete, but I'm so glad they did. I had them run two sets of wire to each box, in case I ever got a short that melted one of them. I had the step lights and the retaining wall lights put on separate switches, so I can turn on one or both, and they're wired to extra "slots" on my pool pump controller (and thus, to the app). Also, run 110v power outlets while the electrician is there - decking framers will need to run conduit for that, too, but it's never going to be any easier to do than now. Put a few outlets out of the back side in the yard while you're at it - future power tool use, xmas lights, projector for movie night, etc. When the electrician is out to hook up the eletrical for the pool, you can pay him in cash on the side to hook up those outlets (mine are all on the same circuit), but you gotta have the conduit there first. It's not possible to have too many power outlets. Lastly, we did the oval spa shape on the advice of a neighbor, and love it. Our spa is in that 7' range, but we can sit 6 adults very comfortably, and even cram a few kids in there too. Making the spa an oval actually gives you more "butt space" vs a circle. Fuck I love my pool, so glad I made that decision early last year. We've been in almost nightly, esp the hot tub.
  3. I'm so glad other people share memories of this place like i have. I stumbled into the Usual Suspects havingn NO IDEA what it was, and it BLEW MY MIND. Also saw Napoleon Dynamite with my then-girlfriend (now wife) there when something else was sold out. Fun times.
  4. Ive always liked LD, and this is taking it to the next level. Dude is leading his squad, and doing whats right.
  5. He's come so far!
  6. They sort of took care of that with Vitalogy; lord what a weird album. Still a difficult one for me to get into, and I wore the FUCK out of Ten and Vs. (Ten is what inspired this thread).
  7. As I think back, I might have been in that room WITH you - I think you might have been our sponsors that day. The regular SE from my company who would have covered it was out, so I flew out to handle the meeting with our rep.
  8. I played a qualifer on Monday at River Crossing - what an exceptional track. If you get the chance, definitely go. Easy drive from Austin. Incredible shape. Smooth, fast greens. No goofy golf, but some fun architectural choices - a couple of split fairways, some fairway bunkering, an island green par 3. Good mix of short and long holes. I was just really, really impressed. Didn't play for shit, but that's neither here nor there.
  9. I suspect I was in the same conference room after you, for another vendor presentation. The technical leadership in that particular state was pretty forward-thinking, but couldn't get anything done.
  10. Wheeeee motherfucker wheeeee! (name that reference for one internet point)
  11. How's your back, Arnold?
  12. I was unclear ... if the workout is "do a bunch of pushups," that's not going to help. Upper body strength, in a balanced approach that prioritizes length, and especially elasticity, will absolutely help. But if you only had a few minutes and wanted to do something to improve your golf swing, "do a bunch of air squats and crunches" would be FAR more beneficial.
  13. All fair points, yep. Just wanted to point out that "moving your arms really fast" isn't going to translate to ball speed :).
  14. Said very respectfully, this is pretty much all wrong :). "Swinging hard" doesn't mean that you're at all putting energy from your body into the club in the most efficient manner. Doing pushups isn't the best way to increase golf speed, either. Golf is a rotational game, played from the ground up. Watch the guys that hit it a long way, especially ones who aren't huge - Justin Thomas, Rory, Rickie. They all end up on their tippy-toes at impact, because they're starting their swings from the ground up. They also all finish with their chest AND belt buckle facing the target itself, or even LEFT of the target, because they've rotated so far and so hard. Think about a spiral staircase - you're doing mostly a rotational thing to go up, but you still gotta push up on each stair. It's a pretty good picture for how you unwind from the top of a backswing to get the most power - push DOWN into the ground, then unwind going UP. Bryson's swing has some unique technical bits, so don't start there, but go find a slow-mo of JT or Rory's golf swing. Consider Rory to be the most technically sound driver swing for the modern era - copy it, and you'll do fine (of course, your wedge game will suck, but that's not what you asked). In terms of workouts, it's legs, legs, legs, core, more legs, back, legs, shoulders, core, and then more legs. Push ups, bench press, incline press, all gonna slow you down.
  15. 15 rattles, I think? Maybe 16. Jesus christ that's a big rattler.
  16. You wrong-way playing son of a bitch ... sarcasm aside, I hard-core miss vegas. Not going back until this thing is more stable, but I'm stoked to read some stories of people rolling again.
  17. My favorite quote of the trip was "I didn't take the muscle relaxers, so I'm taking extra alcohol relaxers."
  18. *fewer.
  19. We didn't have a single person give us the side eye for personal liquor. We made several trips to the truck - granted, we also bought a bunch of liquor, so maybe they just gave us a pass.
  20. Neg me all you want, I'm not wrong. You played well for being a little gimpy.
  21. Yeah but you're playing at 2/3rds speed.
  22. Shit, I hit cut driver in the second round on Monday.
  23. Spent Monday and Tuesday out at Pine Dunes in Frankston, TX, with two surly-ites and one other guy. Played 36 monday (all from the tips, shot 79-87), and 18 Tuesday (blues, 84). What an amazing, incredible golf course. It's long, hard, fair, beautiful, tough, subtle, bold, big, pretty, quiet ... looks more than a little bit line Pinehurst in Texas. Quaint clubhouse and grill set in the middle of fucking nowhere, TX, with a world-class golf course. Even after three rounds I can't say I know the best way to play all the holes. All four of us hit several putts each that had perfect speed and still missed by five feet - the greens don't have huge break, but it was consistently hard to get the ball close. All the greens had areas to run the ball up, or at least a safe place to bail and chip from. Really tough visual sight lines off the tee - no blind tee shots, but lots of doglegs (lots of dogleg lefts), and a few shots that with forced carry that messed with your eyes. Liberal use of bunkers, with more than one in the fairway not as hazards but as aim points. The holes aren't narrow, per se, but with the pine trees and undergrowth so punishing, finding fairways is the key to avoiding big numbers. 4 and 17 are 460+ par 4s, and 6 is a par 3 that was playing 255 into the wind ... just sick. Top notch, all the way around, and a fucking STEAL at $89 (with $30 replays!). If you haven't gone yet, go. Make it a day trip if you have to - you won't regret it.
  24. Worked on Bomar ... and shit, we beat Kyler AND Baker. So fuck them.
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