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Mr. Drummond

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  1. We bought a house on the beach on the west end of Galveston, proximity was key for me. I need to be able to work down there and come up to the shop if needed -so being about 1 hour from my office is nice. Galveston gets a lot of hate, but i love going down there, sitting on my balcony, drinking and just watching the waves.
  2. i hired a kid that was an asst manager at CFA, was 19/20 years old. In less than two years that guy now runs my warehouse and all shipping logistics for overseas freight. Dude just gets it.
  3. Speaking of West Galveston, I just bought a house on the beach, ready to start surf fishing soon. Helpful hints or forums to get started? TIA.
  4. It is better than the first one. Margo Robbie is a smoke show. If that is enough for you, watch it on HBO max.
  5. First as a student Stanford 86 First as a kid was 76 aggy game.
  6. Its an epic clusterfuck of teenagers this week too. Can't wait to get out of here.
  7. Goodbye and Good Luck ! To make it thread related, the message the remaining 8 get to hear when calling austin and norman.
  8. Tell us you don't live in the Katy - Cypress corridor without telling us.
  9. My point had nothing to do with wins or losses. Our home schedule is an abortion: rice, ull, tech, osu and the kansas twins. Who caaaares. I could not care less about the Big 12 or any of the teams outside of OUsux. I want Texas to win, and i will watch, but this conference is an albatross around our necks.
  10. We need to get out of this fucking conference.
  11. Huh? No that’s not what’s happening at all
  12. What did you do for hard core fasting? @49, I'm fighting my ass off to stay under 250(5'11). Just two years ago, I was a comfortable 220. Really simply. I ate once a week. Thats it. Drank water and took vitamins. I did one long 22 day fast, which was a bit hardcore, but mostly, just ate once a week.
  13. Holy shit this. I don't know how many times i have heard "it was easy for you". Fuuuuuuck you, you still fat fuck. It was hard and it sucked balls.
  14. Everyone tells you you are going to fail - the fat ones secretly want you to fail so they don't look bad in comparison. Everyone tells you what you are doing is crazy (and what i was doing was hard and a little crazy - i can detail it if anyone cares). I stopped telling people what i was doing to lose weight, my mother was convinced i was going to die. I straight up started lying about what i was doing, i started telling people i was just eating healthy and exercising more. And yes the first 50-70lbs everyone is one board (those who didn't know about the fasting) but as i got closer to 200lbs , people who before weren't bothered by me skipping meals started saying things like, "you are already pretty thin and healthy, you can come out with us drinking and pizza this one time". There is a huge social aspect to eating, for me that was the hardest part, i was still cooking my family meals, but i wasn't eating them. There is a lot of brain power thinking about "what are we going to eat for lunch", "what are we doing for dinner" that takes up a big part of most peoples days. It is hard to get away from mentally. It is hard, it isn't fun. But i ate literally whatever i wanted for 15 years, so now, i have to pay for it. I have accepted it, I cant eat like a normal person, its okay, after 3 years it doesn't even phase me anymore. I ran the Houston marathon in Jan 2003 at 194lbs - by Dec 2007 i was over 320lbs - there are reasons, but its all bullshit - i just liked overeating.
  15. On TOS there was a fasting thread, and i talked a bit about some of my hard core fasting. I lost 150lbs in about 8 months and after almost 3 years I'm still 125 down. So went from 345 to 195, and i hover around 225 now (I'm 6'1 and 53 years old). So not close to skinny, but can tie my shoes and run a 10k without dying. All that to say I have some experience being fat ( i had a decade of big time obesity and a life time of needing to lose a few). I understand them. Those fatties know they are fat, they have just given up and don't think they can fix it. Every minute of the day they think about their weight, they don't go on family vacations, or if they do, it is reluctantly. That guy debated about going to the astros game because those seats are small and he knew they will be in the next person's way sitting there - but someone convinced them and they couldn't tell them why they didn't want to go. They wake up every Monday morning saying today is the day it will change and they fail by lunch. Over and over, decade after decade they fail. All that failure is just a beating and have given up. They have accepted their fate - they are committing suicide, and they know it, and they hate themselves way more than you hate them.
  16. I dont disagree, i don't particularly like them. I just think for resale in the future, a high spec car "needs" them. I just have a lowly 2018 T that i bought certified last year, it doesn't have PCCBs.
  17. I think your build, being that track focused with buckets, rear delete, aero, carbon fiber etc, probably needs ceramic brakes as well IMO. It is beautiful.
  18. Yah now that i read my post, i didn't mean it quite a snarky as it sounded. Let me rephrase, what are you using honey for? i haven't eaten breakfast in 30 years, so that's probably it.
  19. How much honey are you people eating? I probably have had the same container of honey in the back of my fridge for the last 10 years.
  20. Have been in the PCBa business for 30 years, including owning my own contract manufacture shop with 4 SMT lines, 40 employees etc for the last 15. This is the worst it has ever been. At least weekly we are being given lead times to common items of sometime in 2023. I'll give some facts and some educated speculation. Facts: Covid shut down or reduced factory output, way more demand sooner than anyone thought, takes 4-6 months to get wafer fabs back up and going at full speed, 1/2 the number of boats (remember a typical IC could have the wafer made in Taiwan, assembled in vietnam, tested back in Taiwan, and final assembly in Philippines ) so 1/2 the number of boat hurts that back and forth of product , 2x the number of people working from home needing network equipment. Thats all pretty obvious and we would come out of that situation fairly quickly. But places like Malaysia being shut down for 2 weeks in june for covid and a civil war in Myanmar (where Panasonic makes all their sensors - ask me how i know) doesn't help. Speculation: The big guys chip makers, NXP, TI, On Semi, ST MIcro, etc etc all collectively decided we are getting our profit back, so they look at their line card and decide which items are profitable and which items aren't, they use covid as an excuse to make the profitable stuff put it on allocation which allows them to pick where to ship product to, and the rest of the little stuff gets blown off (thus some of the 2023 lead time). Now, you know who isn't getting allocated product first, the ass hole giant OEMs that haven't' allowed anyone (CMs, distributors or manufacturers) to make any money and push all obligation down to the little guy. Talking to a VP of a worlds top 3 electronics distributor that has Detroit as his area, ford and GM both cancelled orders and returned product to everyone at the beginning of covid making the little guys eat it. Shoe is on the other foot now, and everyone is taking their revenge. They are giving (lets use ford) Ford just enough of their product that they don't force them to redesign, which ford doesn't' want to do, but they are making them pay higher prices and making them wait. I buy 125,000 pieces of a micro controller a month for my largest customer and place them on boards. When covid hit, we didn't cancel anything, we worked with the manufacturer, the distributor and we slowed it down and slowly slid into the curb. It is appreciated, and my customer hasn't missed one shipment of the controller now that its ramped back up. Anyone else in the world is being told 60 week lead time, the manufacturer is picking us to ship to. Will the big OEMS learn? They will pay lip service to it (have seen some articles saying "maybe we shouldn't be such dicks" , but nah, they wont. When will it end - It will get slowly better (i have already seen some signs) for the next few months, then all at once everyone will realize they over compensated for the shortages and will start cancelling orders, then within a month most of it will be fixed. My guess is Feb 2022. TL:DR - Next summer cars will be back to normal.
  21. that Youtube clip is an old soccer (i think world cup) video. Not really from this weekend.
  22. Ate at the one at W. Airport and Murphy rd in Stafford today for lunch. Fried fish, okra and Mac and cheese. Roll and strawberry shortcake. It was a throwback for sure. I worked at the Wyatts at Westwood mall (SW Houston) in the summer of 1988, my friend's dad was district manager so I served vegetables on the line all summer and flirted with the iced tea girls (also college aged). Come to think about it, I also flirted with the older Hispanic ladies in the kitchen too, they loved me.
  23. Without the celebrity drop ins, how would we have ever known which episode was David Beckham's favorite?
  24. Tundra is full makeover. Also tonight, Ford is releasing the full electric F150 based on the rivian platform. Will be interesting to see its numbers vs the rivian truck that is 400 mile range and i think can tow 10k+lbs (although not for 400 miles ha).
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