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HouTex

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  1. Joe Doggett, the old Chronicle outdoor writer, wrote that they are fairly easy to catch in Braes Bayou in the summer on flies made with coffee beans. They look like June bugs.
  2. My favorite probably was the La Gloria Cubana in Robusto and Churchill sizes (yes, avatar does check out). Davidoff's were nice too--i bought a bunch in Switzerland in the 90's--they were about $8 each back then. I also smoked a bunch of Padrons from Nicaragua and Puros Indios from Honduras. I was joking--sort of --on biting the ends. I usually used a straight cutter that you put between your thumb and middle finger, but it was not unusual for me to just bite the end off. Except for being a little untidy, I certainly never noticed a difference in how the cigar smoked.
  3. Same here. I used to be a 2-3 a week cigar smoker and I never experienced that. I now smoke one or two a year. And I always just bit a bit off the end. The cutters are for pussies.
  4. This thread make me miss my family’s place on the Dry Frio about 10 miles from Neal’s. My dad sold it in 1986. Tubing down the Frio with a cooler and case of beer was a blast. I love Texas.
  5. Hope you guys aren’t giving up your prior passion. There’s room for all kinds of booze/beer. Vodka, bourbon, scotch, beer, tequila, and wine all have a place in my heart. I discovered bourbon about five years ago and it’s now my primary dark liquor, replacing scotch. I still drink scotch and vodka is my primary summer booze. Beer was my first love and it never gets old. Wine is still my go-to with a fine meal.
  6. Same with YTTV and your phone and casting to a smart TV.
  7. I’m making several pizzas this weekend for a dinner party. I’ll do a margherita and one with pretty much everything. What are your favorites?
  8. Agreed. That's why I would not go all the way with it. But perhaps it's worth some settlement value.
  9. No. It's interpreted against them, especially if they drafted it, but the language and the overall agreement still must have some meaning.
  10. "Foregoing" (meaning "preceding") should have been "following" so that it would read "Notwithstanding any of the following . . . ." So if it was written correctly it would mean that even if any of (1) through (5) occur then you are still liable. I wouldn't recommend going all the way with it, but perhaps you can argue the language the LL drafted is vague or ambiguous or nonsensical such that it somehow relieves you of liability. Very likely not a winner.
  11. Sure, it’s in the cart but they still fumble around to find it as it gets tossed around with their phone and other shit in the cart. Then there are the ones that vecro to the frame of the cart. Sometimes they fall off and the player has to go back a hole or two to find it. I like that my watch is on my wrist and with a two second glance I have what I need even if it’s a blind pin placement. It also has a nice feature that with a press of a button it will display exactly how far you hit your shot when you get to your ball. My playing partners will hit their best drive and ask me to measure it. It’s almost always shorter than they think.
  12. I check it against sprinkler markers all the time when one is close by and it will not cause a delay. Always right on or within a yard or two at most. It’s also consistent with the guy shooting the distance with a range finder and if it isn’t it’s usually the rangefinder reading that was wrong—likely user error. I trust the watch completely. Do range finders give you front/back/middle? Depending on pin location and the slope of the green the front or back of the green yardage is more important to me than the pin location. For me, it’s the speed and convenience. I get annoyed with playing partners taking too much time fumbling for the range finder, stepping out of the cart and walking to their ball, trying to hold it steady after a few drinks, and they still have trouble getting a good reading. They then have to walk back to the cart and put it away. All of that adds time to a round when each guy does it. And sometimes I have to tell them to read it again because I know they didn’t get a good reading based on what’s showing on my watch.
  13. Bushnell iOn 2. I have the previous generation and I love it. I prefer the convenience of having front/middle/back always on my wrist. And it also gives distance to bunkers and penalty areas. The rangefinder takes too long and the watch is way more convenient for me because I usually walk.
  14. Typically, the people that regret it have corrosion issues with soft sandstone. Your pool is probably over stabilized. Pucks continue to add stabilizer until it gets so high that you will need to drain water to get the CYA level down. As said above, check out troublefreepools.com. The forums there explain the science very well.
  15. https://www.golfdigest.com/story/texas-best-in-state-rankings DN and WP have alternated 1/2 lately. That really wasn’t my main issue though. I take these rankings with a grain of salt. I think ACC is overrated as is WP.
  16. Discussions of the best courses in Texas is always interesting. I've played very little in Dallas, except for Los Colinas, so I can't comment on Dallas courses. But I've played ACC, Whispering Pines, all of the top private clubs in Houston (HCC, ROCC, Lakeside, Braeburn, etc.) many, many times, and I've played other courses around Austin and all over central Texas. IMO, ACC is a great country club, but, strictly focused on golf, it's not light years ahead of Barton Creek Foothills or Barton Creek Canyons, or even Spanish Oaks--assuming the BC courses haven't gone to shit. I've never played it, but I hear great things about Austin Golf Club. And to single out Whispering Pines, I like it a lot and I love staying in the cottages. It is consistently rated as the best course in the state and it might be, but I enjoy most of the courses mentioned above just as much.
  17. Get a rope. Oops, am I not supposed to say that now?
  18. Even Canyons? I haven’t played it in a few years but it was always in good shape.
  19. My advisor talked me out of going to 1/2 cash when the Dow was around 21,000 and techs were just coming back. I was so happy they came up from the lows i thought it was time to lower my risk. Glad i stayed fully invested. I’m not saying we won’t see a correction, but if you sell you can’t possibly know when to get back in. Or you could sell and miss out on some near term upside. And some funds require you to wait 30 days to get back in. Other funds are closed to new money.
  20. A lot of people were taught a lesson when the Dow hit bottom in the 1Q this year and thought they had to sell and didn’t get back in or got back in recently and missed some upside. Many here are trying to time every spike and pull back. Good luck with that over the long haul. Unless you are within five years or so from retirement just invest in several good mutual funds and leave them alone except for the occasional rebalancing.
  21. Make sure it has a deflector plate or you’ll need to buy one for long smokes. Also get a grate with feet that sits on the main grate that allows for another level of cooking for ribs or whatever.
  22. I loved my polaris 280. Super easy to maintain with very few moving parts. It kept my pool very clean.
  23. Watching the first two episodes is my July 4th tradition. Adams’ church speech perfectly describes how our rights are derived.
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