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Jiggy-Z

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  1. My mom shot an 11 point buck right where the loop 1 tool plaza sits. Circa 1975. Good times except when my folks brought the deer back to our house and field dressed it over my kiddie pool. Not swimming in that again.
  2. Austin resident since 1967 here. Austin has always been about finding those hidden gems that are unique to this city., but the same could be said of any city. In old Austin, they were not that hard to find and despite their popularity, we're not that well attended. In true Austin form, by the time something got popular, the trend setters had already moved on, leaving the rest of to enjoy there work before business failure or what we would have considered overpopulation and saturation. These types of places and events began to drastically drop off 2 or three years before the pandemic, which is when I would consider the time old Austin died. Not coincidentally, that is when Austin real estate started to become truly unaffordable. All the signs were there even in the early 90's when I noticed that the core of the city no longer catered to the student and governmental emoyee populations from a leisure standpoint, as prices had become more in line with Houston or Dallas. These days, if you want and old Austin feel, I would recommend San Antonio, but their time is limited as well. Austin still has pockets and activities with that old Austin feel, but they are soon discovered and turned into phantasmagoric events soon ruined by lack of intimacy and bad parking options. It's almost not even worth looking anymore.
  3. It does sound cheap, but UT taking the initiative and some of the costs will ensure some build able land. It would not surprise me me if they drill 80' 5' diameter piers at 10' on center for all area that are not highway and build around that.
  4. Those detectorists are some interesting people. I ran into one on PINS after a fishing tournament down there when we were headed off the beach. He was was way down about the 48 mm. We stopped to check out his 15' bamboo surf rods that je deployed. The old man had a Spanish real on a necklace. Said he had found three from the 1550 wrecks at the 58, 59, and 60. According to Texas law, detecting is not even allowed on PINS, but if you do find something, you are supposed to turn it iver to the state antiquities board. Old man did not give a fuck and was terminal with cancer. Stopped for about an hour and gave him some beer. Tons of stories...and apparently Mel Fisher is a wanker.
  5. I will second: Endeavor. Good stories with with 60s and 70s nostalgia thrown in. Spot on. Unforgotten. Complex weave of cold cases and more complex than you average detective shows. Line of Duty. Modern set with corruption thread weaving through all seasons. White Chappell. Cheesieier than the above, but shorter. Easy to watch and good characters and sets. Good material too, would not be surprised at a reboot. All on Prime.
  6. The only "Sufferfest" I am familiar with was a Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour short featuring Cedar Wright and some other climber I didn’t know. They would bike all night to their next destination (50+ miles ish)and climb some nasty 5 to 6 pitch walls all day and then do it again the next day/night. It's some ridiculous amount of time like 60 or 90 days straight. I guess you can't do that indoors though unless the Suadis have some multi pitch indoor gym or something.
  7. The more you know...
  8. Current Austin forecast has us hitting 78 days over 100 happening on the 9th of September. That would be only 2 days behind 2011 pace if forecasts holds. Hang onto your butts. It's going to be a photo finish. Interesting enough, the 2011 summer needed 5 of the last 6 days of September to reach 90 days over 100 after a 10 day ish cool down in the middle of the month.
  9. I've been to Milwaukee. It gets better.
  10. Back in my LHB days, I can remember milling around on the TCU sideline in Fort Worth just before halftime and listening to the TCU defenders being just dumbfounded by his moves.
  11. Back in 2005 MNC season, Texas beat Rice 51-10 and they probably did not cover. That was one of the worst games ever played by a Longhorn team compared to their potential and by far the slopiest and least entertaining game of the season. Once you are a legit top 5 team, these early season tune ups are essentially meaningless.
  12. ...and just like Zoolander, he can't go left. Is that Blue Steel or Magnum.
  13. Obligatory In Russia, flight takes you.
  14. In Russia, flight takes you.
  15. Thus reminds me of the time when we held out hope that RGB would live to inauguration day.
  16. Yesterday Mabry petered out at 3pm, so here is hoping.
  17. Mabry rocking 97 as well. It's going to be close. Stay tuned.
  18. I don't know about later in the year, but when I do my long rides on weekend mornings, they feel like a walk in the park comparatively. Come to think of it, riding in the cold kind of sucks too.
  19. During the week my only time to excercise is in the afternoon at the hottest part of the day. Due to injury about the only thing I can do is cycling, which due to my own personal hang ups, I won't do on a stationary bike. Nevertheless, I am able to get in 30 to 45 minutes outside on some more intense hill and sprint type of training. Any more time than that, I feel dangerously overheated. Also, it becomes a logistical problem, as that is the amount of time that my do rags and head band become completely saturated with sweat and I can no longer control the stinging drip onto my eyes. Some days I start out and head down the drive only to be hit in the face with a hot wind of death and then "nope" out and go watch tv, preferably some thing with some cold wintery scenery. The wife and kids rock climb at the gym in ac comfort.
  20. Back in college, the Spuds McKenzie hype had, at one point, reached it's logical and useful marketing life, but Bud Light just kept beating that horse. In a drunken revolt, my buddies and I fashioned a new Bud Light mascot: Skeets McGillicudy, named after my friend's grey tabby cat Skeeter and erroneously given Lucille Ball's maiden birth last name. (Her maiden name was Ball and her mother's maiden name was Hunt)
  21. Wunderground has Austin at 99/73 one week from Wed. Looks like a weak front based on the wind. Will probably fizzle in Oklahoma with the dry air air filtering in for a 109/80 day in Austin.
  22. My Wally Pryor CSB: I was in LHB back in the mid to late 80's (trumpet), and in addition to the the volunteer gigs we had to do, every once in awhile something came up where we got paid. I was enlisted to go play the "call to the post" at some charity "Kentucky Derby" fake gambling party at the Austin Country Club. It paid $100 plus food and booze and that was a lot of money for a college student back then, so I took the gig. So I wrangled up a tux and complimented it with my LHB colonel Sanders clip on for the chef's kiss. My only job was to go around the club and play the call to the post for about the first 45 minutes of the event while the guest were arriving and mingling. I got fed before the event along with the staff, but I was allowed to eat at the guest tables, I guess because I was wearing a tux. Before I knew it, I had a fresh mint julip in my hand and they just kept coming. So when the time came, I went and did my job hammered on mint julips. The only problem was is that I wanted to keep drinking, and the only way to do that was to keep playing... and I did as only a desperate college student could. So eventually, they asked me to stop, and me and the remnants of my last mint julip were escorted out of the ball room to the back patio. There sitting on the couch all alone was an equally hammered Wally Pryor. Wally, no doubt instantly recognized my colonel Sanders clip on and with a far off bourbon drunk look in his eye shouted "heeeeeeeeey uuup" and the threw me a wobbly hook 'em. Seeing I had made a new friend, I grabbed a chair opposite Wally and responded "Is there a way a guy can get a drink around here?" Seeing a kindred spirit, Wally obliged and we sat out there until dark bull shitting and drinking. Wally had to go when a couple of his handlers came out and cut him off because he apparently had a habit of getting over served at these type of things when he had an audience. The same gig came up a year later, but for some reason I was not selected.
  23. Since the 2011 vs 2023 discussion has now entered Emmitt Smith v Barry Sanders territory, I have provided a helpful link from KXAN with some of the blow by blow details from 2011 for the Surly analyst to pour over. For Austin only. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kxan.com/weather/ten-years-ago-austins-hottest-summer-wraps-up/amp/
  24. User name checks out.
  25. Just rewatched last year's game. Missed chip shot. Blown safety call. Missed sack on Young. Missed fast mask on KR. Holding on the long run. Plus a bunch of other plays, any one of which could have meant the w. Go beat their asses this year.
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