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    Getting old sucks

    Have you asked your PCP or a PT about this? I'm 61 and I work out every day during the week with cardio and weights and on the weekends I'll do a physical activity like golf (walking 18 holes), tennis, etc. I've been doing this since my middle 40's. At my annual physical my doctor will give me some tips and a lengthy handout showing various stretching and foam roller or lacrosse ball exercises to help with occasional sore joints and muscles. If I play golf several days in a row I may experience some minor back soreness, but it goes away quickly. Otherwise, I am rarely sore after working out. Maybe it's because I don't push it too hard. I'm almost 6' 2" and weigh 176 and my goals are to maintain body weight and strength and keep my heart healthy. I'm not trying to build muscle mass as if I were a younger man.
  2. Here’s a graph showing the number of US high school graduates by year. When my first daughter graduated high school in 2010 it was near a peak but it was still better for her then then it would be now. She easily got into Georgia and finally got into UT on an appeal. The numbers show that it levelled off for a bit and then increased dramatically. It’s supposed to peak in 2025 and then go down. It that happens it could present some good opportunities for students at what I call middle tier universities. Those schools will have to compete harder for good students. The top schools will always get their pick of the litter.
  3. I hope they bring Norm back. “It’s a dog eat-dog-world, Sammy, and I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear!”
  4. Snowmass snow stake from moments ago.
  5. Uh, no. My reply (albeit short and sweet) to Armybrat was about one thing—whether Iran is funding Hamas. That money (obviously) is fungible goes to the heart of it. Nothing political about that. Nice try, though. If there’s a discussion about whether the US or the world should do something about Iran’s role in this then that would be political. I avoid the political discussions in Surly like the plague and I won’t engage in that discussion. And by the way, apologies in advance if I missed them, but I didn’t see your “CR is ——> way” remark to the 20+ smarmy posts about neocons and other right wingers in this thread. Those posts are as political as it gets.
  6. A discussion about whether Iran is in fact funding Hamas is political?
  7. I almost always walk. But a few times this summer I rode a cart when the Houston humidity was too high. Luckily, the hottest days in Houston this summer saw unusually low humidity so walking was ok during the late afternoon. Per my GPS watch, I average around 5.5 miles for 18 holes.
  8. Great time for golf in SE Texas. The rain last week in Houston has local courses in great shape.
  9. This. While the 1965 Battle of the Bulge film was not accurate in many ways, there was a good scene where Robert Shaw’s character presents a cake that was captured from a US enlisted soldier that he received from home as evidence that the war essentially lost barring some military miracle.
  10. Similar experience here. Roundup Spring 1980 as a senior in HS sealed it for me. I wasn’t provisional but i went to summer school before my first fall semester just to escape my small town and it was one of the best summers of my life. One of my daughters got into UT on an appeal in 2010-not sure if they do that anymore. Her back up was Georgia. We didn’t even try UT with my second daughter.
  11. This. During the hottest days this summer the afternoon humidity in Houston often was in the 28-32% range. That’s low for Houston. Afternoon golf at 100+ degrees was much more bearable than a morning tee time in the low 90’s with much higher humidity.
  12. A good friend of mine will only use a sugar cube. And while I like a rye OF, he makes his with Weller SR and they don’t suck.
  13. Ok. Still, for me, it’s just as easy to throw in a half teaspoon of sugar in an OF glass and mix it with the bitters and a splash of water until it’s well blended. I’d have to experiment with unheated SS to get the sweetness just right for my taste.
  14. Aspen Highlands screen shot from a few moments ago. First decent snow fall of the season that didn’t quickly melt.
  15. On the smoked OFs, I’ve tried them a few times and I’m not a fan. Maybe they weren’t done well, but they all tasted like my OF was poured into a half full ashtray and then served.
  16. I’m also mostly drinking OFs and Manhattans. But I don’t use simple syrup. I believe heating the sugar does something to the sweetness. I use plain white cane sugar and about half of the amount usually called for. I make sure it is mixed well with the bitters and a splash of water so there’s no unmixed sugar in the finished cocktail. As for Manhattans, I found Vya sweet vermouth from Californiaand I believe it’s a game changer. I also will make a Sazarac once in a while. Done right, two of those will set you free.
  17. Went to the SMU game this past Saturday. Fun time. The Boulevard pregame tailgate thing is a great idea. I randomly saw some UT friends I haven’t seen in 25+ years that live in Dallas. I really like the smaller crowd. And damn, I’ve probably never seen so many attractive 40–60 year old women in one place.
  18. And then Amazon can deliver my order in one day. Weird how that works.
  19. He was very good in Gosford Park. He played the rich industrialist that often got his female factory workers pregnant. Couldn’t shoot a shotgun to save his life.
  20. Yes and it’s usually easy to spot someone giving a lesson. They stand out like a sore thumb. If the bootleg instructor is a stranger to the resort perhaps you can say he’s your uncle. But these days they can scan the lift card and get a quick identification.
  21. Would need more information for answer this. I don't think B can force A to probate a will. B can file a probate action in probate court as if there's no will. B would serve A with the action and then A would need to come forward with the will or else the estate will pass as if there's no will--everything would go 50-50 to A and B--assuming no other siblings or a surviving spouse. Does the purported will provide for a treatment other than a 50-50 split of everything between A and B? If A takes the position that he/she gets everything under the will and proceeds accordingly without probate (not sure that's even possible), and if B does not agree then B should file a probate action as if there's no will in order to get A to produce the will. It would be far better for A and B to work together and try to avoid probate all together. And some of the assets are likely not subject to probate and there may be a simplified way to get the house and other assets in A and B's name other than probating the estate. The life insurance and possibly the bank account will pass to the beneficiaries, or, in case of the bank account to the JOWOS, if there is one. As for creditors, the executor or court appointed administrator would have to perform some amount of diligence to identify creditors and serve them with a notice to file a claim. A or B should probably do that anyway and try to settle with creditors unless, and I don't know the answer to this, the assets in the estate are exempt from creditors' claims. I've never looked at it, but if there's no surviving spouse with a right in a homestead, I suspect that a decedent's residual estate property is always subject to creditors' claims.
  22. Excellent point. I think it's hard to prove either way, but the co-morbidity issue suggests, at least to me, that the Covid death numbers are over-reported.
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