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High Plains Drifter

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  1. Just got back from a week in Bend yesterday. Book-ended by a few days in Portland. Hiked in Three Sisters Wilderness Area: Moraine Lake (out past Mt. Bachelor), Matthieu Lakes (near the town of sisters). Beautiful, sublime, alpine lakes. Hardly anybody around. Lakes were swimmable, but nut-cutting cold. Tubed on the river through town. Grew up tubing all over the Hill Country, so that was meh, but daughter and her friend enjoyed it. Lots of fine ass paddleboarding around. Beer is prohibited on the river and the river trail through town, but lots of people were drinking openly while tubing without any hassle. The river trail is a great place to run or walk in the mornings or evenings. Everybody has a dog and a tattoo. Its fire season, so there will be fires somewhere. We had one day of smoke in Bend. Could of been worse, kind of a crap shot if you have fires large or close enough to fuck up the air. Drove right by fires both coming from and going to Portland that were large enough to call out the helicopters and superscoopers. Those planes are badass: Highs were in the 80s, but didn't get that hot until later in the day. Lows were in the 50s. not a foodie, but wife picked out one fancy restaraunt: Bosa (Italian). I thought it was fine. Wife loved it.
  2. probably worked out some sort of licensing agreement that involves glass beads and firewater.
  3. I saw Maiden at the frank Erwin center on thepoweslave tour. Best Maiden album imo.
  4. Looking at the map it crosses l35 between san Marcos and new Braunfels on paved streets. Who the hell is going to hike on paved streets.
  5. Anybody watching season 2?
  6. True story: I cycled in the Spanish Pyrenees years ago. Didn't leave an out of office email note though.
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.VK-Y.JQHuXiBpk9PR&smid=url-share FEMA not answering calls from Kerr Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters. The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired. 75% Kerr County voted for DOtarD
  8. Visited the WWII museum in New Orleans recently. Pretty pretty good.
  9. All this talk of prayer reminds of me Twain's "Letter to the Earth"
  10. That's because they don't really have plots.
  11. From the comments "One of the best episodes of Trailer Park Boys ever."
  12. My wife and I got mugged in New Orleans a year or so after Katrina. We were there for a wedding. Two guys ran up to us late at night, nobody around, pointed a gun at my face. (We probably should not have been in that area so late and alone. We were walking back from a bar to our hotel room). Got my wife's purse (ID, cash, credit cards, cell phone). I gave him my money clip, showed him my clip with credit cards and ID, said "That's all our cash". Then they ran off, so I still had my ID and credit cards and phone. Cops showed up less than five minutes after we called. Caught one of the guys a few weeks later, sent us a line up by mail. We ID'd one of the guys in the line up. He was already in jail for something else, pled guilty to our armed robbery, and went away for a while. Never heard anything about the other guy.
  13. Piss off an entire plane load of people. Take a swing at one of them as you are leaving. Everybody in reach went for a piece of that asshole.
  14. could have showed Gerogie's mom at least once.
  15. I think you're being a little ruff
  16. somebody needs to be sent back to schoolant.
  17. 10 stitches in the back of my left leg, right on the achilles. 4 decades later, still got the scar.
  18. I beat this game back in the 80s. I could play on a single quarter until i was physically unable to move the joysticks anymore due to wrist cramping. That was the only game I ever beat. Watching this video makes me get itchy. This must be what its like for a recovering heroin addict, decades later. Sometimes I hear those electronic screams of the last human family being stomped by the HULK Robotrons in my sleep.
  19. has doomlet hacked your account?
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