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Walser

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  1. You fucking guys. My girlfriend looks at me funny this morning while I am cackling at some stupid shit I read here. I have several sites I visit so I don't have to start work. And I enjoy Merlot, sue me. Never change.
  2. Redundant user name blah blah blah
  3. Haha, no. My quite a bit younger ne'er do well sister is currently occupying my front guest bedroom. She is about a month away from leaving to go to Houston and finish up a nursing degree.
  4. This made me chuckle under my breath this morning. My sister and I got into a bit of a fight yesterday because she thought my recently adopted dobie had run off with one of her yeezys to chew up. (he hadn't) I told her she could find it next to my Hitler Youth knife. She didn't reply back. I found the shoes in the trash this morning.
  5. Anybody have any insight on the 101 Poker room in Katy? I gotta spend a weekend there soon. I have a pretty good idea what to expect but would appreciate any input.
  6. WUT. Point me in the general direction and we will have some words. And by words I mean I will bar egress before I torch it. In all seriousness I cannot imagine the backlash those Orcs would receive here in Austin.
  7. For what it is worth the two youth pastors I had growing up were quality individuals. Or maybe I just didn't have the right equipment. The vitriol from the Right towards drag queens or whatever is beyond ridiculous to be sure.
  8. My friend in Ukraine let me know about a Year One documentary locally produced there that was released yesterday. It is lengthy, but the quality is good and it has English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhssmUtN874 - part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlkzADUfb3s - part 2
  9. I speak weekly with a Ukrainian student learning conversational English. We have weekly lesson plans on various subjects but we are free to deviate from these. She is in her twenties (no pics) and her maturity and English comprehension is quite good. Better than most of us fucksticks. Delicate subject but talk of the war has started to take front stage. She is not shy nor traumatized and speaks freely. She has been sharing some humor, news and stories. A couple quick ones: She lives well outside the war zone but in the first days it was naturally very scary for everyone. She said there are naturally Russians spies around and the rumor was they would paint the roofs of houses for the Russian planes to bomb. People would be checking their roofs every day and put flour on the stairs to detect anyone using them. Often the police would get called by neighbors on other neighbors reporting spies on their roofs. Nothing ever came of that danger where she lives. She said in addition to normal taxes everyone she knows donates what they can to a general military fund. I find that very admirable; these people are all-in. That's all I got. If you got a particular question I can try and work it in during our next session.
  10. Thanks Biff. I have had the good fortune of driving around a lot of the country. I remember the big ass confederate (battle flag of Northern Virginia) practically flying across the Interstate in Tennessee. I was not gruntled.
  11. Do you mind sharing where these were? Asking for myself.
  12. Report on a volunteer organization: If you are like me you have looked into ways to support Ukraine but are scared shitless to donate to anything for fear of getting hookwinked. (Please tell me World Central Kitchen is legit) I volunteered for https://www.enginprogram.org/ . Conversational English volunteer opportunity. I went through my interview, training materials, training classroom sessions, and had my first one-on-one conversation with a Ukrainian English student. Program seems legit. Student was a twenty-something professional (no pics) looking to advance her career. I managed to not bring up Texas football in our introduction session. The program is Ukraine-focused and based in the US, though there are volunteers from all over.
  13. Knock at the Cabin yesterday. Another big idea out of the M. Night franchise having just a mediocre execution. Not terrible but not worth the price to see in the theater.
  14. We are wasting time.
  15. Big thanks to SL and Miller and the rest educating us. This is my go-to for catching up. Which is nice because I got awhile sitting in an airport lounge because yet another flight of mine got cancelled. Someone mentioned a while back that this is about good vs evil. We’re not aggie so we can appreciate nuance and that the world is varying shades of gray most of the time. But this is about the closest thing I can remember of obvious good vs evil. So I agree with this characterization. I’m our local Uke cheerleader so I gotta watch myself so my friend group doesn’t get too irritated with my daily updates. I have also found, unfortunately, almost nobody cares about what is going on there. I am surprised about the level of cooperation the West has reached in opposition of the Orcs. But we need to go all in. These half measures are going to get a lot more people killed. Let’s fucking get after it.
  16. No. It is different.
  17. what's a dark brandon
  18. I'm done. We all know where this is going. Supply Ukraine with every possible munition. Train Ukes throughout all NATO bases. Move multiple carrier groups into the Med and Baltic, potentially to enforce a no-fly zone. Open war is upon us, whether we risk it or not.
  19. Haha I got the best opportunity to use that line. I picked up a dog that had just gotten hit by a car and was obviously a stray. The injuries were severe but she made it. Now, it turned out she had been chipped. But they only info they could get was the name of the dog and a phone number. The vet was not eager for me to contact the wildly negligent owner but I felt I had to. I wanted to tell them they were not getting the dog back. Anywho, turns out her name was "Bella". The vet techs told me that I needed to give her a new name for her new life. So I said "Why should I change her name? They're the ones that suck." I'd always liked that name for a dog. /csb
  20. I only mostly despise you. BTW, I had a CT scan and ultrasound, and who knows what number of blood tests. Apparently I showed some markers for a fatty liver. The way the doctor explained it to me that a fatty liver can heal, but once it gets really bad to cirrhosis there is no cure. I don't want to find out if anyone likes me enough to donate part of their liver. To those on the fence about how to classify yourself and your relationship with alcohol...just stop for a period of time. You will find out.
  21. Once you get it working again establish a baseline. From the command-line do "ping -t 1.1.1.1" so you can get a measure of latency and any packet loss. There should not be any. You can also have your ISP run an intrusive stress test on your line. Do some speedtests https://www.speedtest.net/tr to determine throughput. You want to see consistency here. I know this is redundant but update the firmware if you can. Google fiber mesh has been golden for me. Good luck.
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