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Jiggy-Z

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  1. I called TEX from an airplane phone over the Pacific ocean. It cost a fucking fortune, but felt pretty damn futuristic compared to sitting on the ground in the Drum waiting for someone to come drop a class in person. This is how you humblebrag.
  2. Been awhile since I saw a really good brick fight:
  3. There was another video that I watched which was a much more dry and rudimentary presentation that made extensive use of original drawings, photos, and video. One of the things that that video kept harping on was real estate drone footage of the pool deck which never had a picture where there was not standing water even on sunny days. So its position was that the initial collapse was from poor drainage design (aided by failed waterproofing) which ultimately started the pool deck corrosion (chlorinated water and water logged beams/slab). That video also spent quite a bit of time on one particular beam in the parking garage which is seen in the the posted video. It is described as a 12" beam intersection with a 16" column and can bee seen freeze frame at the 2:58 mark in the posted video. The detail is correct and was noted on the original structural drawings. In any case, and as was stated in the video, collapsed pool deck should not=catastrophic failure.
  4. Thankfully the above video seems to indicate that the tenant reporting from above did make it out. I think.
  5. I wish Keith Jackson was still around to see this. I think I know just what he would say:
  6. Ah yes, the Members Only jacket of college practice facilities.
  7. Might be funnier with Gundy's face...closer to the original and all.
  8. Two weeks ago cops found my BIL (Tampa Area) passed out in his car at a Chile's, took him to the hospital where he woke up an started verbally assaulting the staff, breaking equipment, and taking swings at nurses. They gave him a shot to calm down but because he apparently had pneumonia, he passed out again and had trouble breathing so they induced a coma and put him on a respirator. Of course when we first found out he was in the hospital, all they told was that he was in ICU on a respirator. That was tense couple of hours. That guy is a piece of work. He is an MIT grad-Million dollar head and a 5 cent personality.
  9. This is like Malikmas all over again.
  10. I wouldn't say that. They are like the parsley garnish on a nice steak dinner. Maroon parsley, because I'm sure they have that.
  11. Never, ever, ever route for OU, even if it seems like it would be good for Texas. Never.
  12. Back in the day (1980's) my parents got real churchy, or I should say more churchy. They were already pretty hard core catholics and my brother and I went to catholic school we made all the holy days and then some, prayed at home (rosary and all), had tons of Heavy ancient catholic reference books and lots of paperback books on theology, bios on 20th century catholics, and all the religious artifacts and nick knacks about. They got into the more evangelical side of things and they brought my brother and me to all of their conventions, services, and seminars. There was much good that came out of it and despite being very uncomfortable with it the whole things was pretty low key and the money side was more like passing of the plate after an AA meeting than what is going on in the mega church world, although there were plenty of t shirts, tapes and books to be had for the right price. My brother who was much more cynical and kind of an asshole, used to remark that the people that showed up to these things were a bunch of losers and were generally fat to boot (he used much harsher language). The point was is that these were people who were in need of a pick me up and it was ok to be poor, fat, unattractive, lazy, unsuccessful, submissive, and have a history of poor life choices because god still loved you and everything would be ok in the afterlife. It was a way of opting out and not taking responsibility in the worst of cases. These were people in search of a fix, a quick fix if we are being honest. It doesn't really matter whether we are talking about salvation, lowering your handicap, losing weight, stopping arthritis pain, taking hebal medicine, pyramid power, getting that can't miss fishing lure, Amway, or hiring that up an coming college football coach. There is always some con that gets you to believe that success will be yours if you just do buy these things or follow this little known formula.
  13. Jiggy-Z

    Getting old sucks

    Not sure if because old or new technology: I recently inherited my wife's smartwatch. (She was not getting optimal watch/phone interface performance so she switched to Apple product). So I get this thing up and running and all synced up and noticed the "sleep" function after a few days. I suffer from mild sleep apnea and thought lets see what's going on. So after a few days things are great. I get this little graph showing what my readiness levels are for the day after I get up and how much in the way of resources I recovered during sleep. So things are good and I am anywhere from 90-100% recovered upon waking and my sleep quality is great. Heart rate during sleep drops down into the mid 30's beats per minute, god REM, Deep and light sleep numbers. Then one day, I decide to have a nice pint of IPA around 8PM. I wake up the next morning feeling like shit, then I check my sleep stats. I am at 19% resources which was 6% lower than when I went to sleep. No deep sleep, no rem sleep, and my BPM dropped down to only 60BPM. Thinking this might be a one off, I repeated the experiment and same results (more alcohol yields even worse results). Not only that I have found that if I exercise (mostly walking) in any way past 8PM, my sleep also suffers and I feel it. So yay me.
  14. Unlimited online choices. Wanted to get a percussive massage gun to work out some knots on my shoulders. Holy shit. There were over 1200 options on Amazon. So instead of ordering a therapy gun and getting some relief, I had to spend a few days slumped over my phone to see every combination of stall force, amplitude, battery life, programmable settings, blue tooth options, styles, colors, reviews, noise, attachments etc. Finally got it ordered then was notified it was on back order for three weeks ...argh. Ordered another one and it worked out great, although at first I was not filled with confidence. User brochure title exactly as written: TRIGGER PIONTS THERAPY FOR MYFACIAL PAIN.....great.
  15. Poor camera work. You kind of lose the human scale.
  16. Given their relative sizes, the "electron" bird would need to be somewhere around Waco (if proton and neutron were in Austin), in order for the correct subatomic scale to work.
  17. Looks like the leader in the clubhouse is staycation here in Austin. This is kind of my weak spot. I was over 40 the first time I ever visited the Capital Building for real and I grew up here. I must have been sick all of those days in elementary school. Although I did enter the building right before the 1999 Congress Ave. Mile (age 32) for a pre-race deuce. It got me over the top and I finished in 4:58. So any new ideas for day trips or local stuff?
  18. Did you remove the action figures from their original packaging?
  19. True that. My oldest son lives in NO and we visit from time to time. A few years back we used to go to an annual rock climbing competition there and rent a house with another family. One year my oldest arranged for the Air B&B and he got us a sweet deal...in the lower 9th ward. The neighborhood was alright with some spotty rental conversions and long time residents. The way into the hood was pretty dicey . Google maps took us under this bridge with some locals hanging out and shooting up while we did our slow u turn under the bridge dodging old couches and other furniture. All the kids made friends with the local kids and they all played football and Frisbee in the streets while the adults watched with beverages from the front porch. I don't remember much else except that two of the kids they were playing with were named Taco and French Fry. That neighborhood was creepy as fuck though. There was an old abandoned schoolhouse across the street and a lot of the houses looked haunted.
  20. Not tight on money. I too think there is more at play here. My guess is BIL is pissed at SIL, because I know this is her doing. BIL and I get along great. In fact, with me being around up there I think he gets away with a whole more than he is used too what with me being a surly degenerate and all. About four years ago BIL and I went out in the canoe before dusk to see if we could scare up some bass. It is not a big lake (about 400 acres) and we can see his cabin from our fishing spot. We sat out there, drank lots beer and slayed the bass on top waters for about two hours. I had no idea what I was doing, I just did the stuff I normally do for speckled trout when the water is calm and it somehow worked. He now thinks I am some kind of fishing guru. Poor guy was all stressed out with work and family and would later remark to my wife that was one of the best days of his life (top 20). And no you sick fucks, we did not do any Broke Back lake type of stuff...... .....that day.
  21. Thanks for all of the suggestions. Keep at it, the more options I throw out there the more the wife thinks I am involved and working on this. So I tried to keep the starter post brief as I have already been abused on on the Wives thread for being wordy and not funny. But here it goes: So we have been doing this for about eight years now and there has never been any sign of trouble. We all get along, we contribute on the provisioning, help out with maintenance, dishes, meals, kids all get along as well. So all good there. We have been in contact with BIL and SIL all summer about a late July /early August trip (just like every other year). Everybody was all in especially since we missed last year due to COVID. So about two weeks ago the wife starts putting feelers out for an exact time window. (We have 4 pets and a small goat herd which need advanced arrangements. The goats would need there own thread, but that is another story) . So that goes OK and my BIL said he needed to check with the SIL on which week and would get right back to us. Time goes by, we are hyping the trip to our kids, I'm puttering with fishing equipment, even went out and bought a new inflatable SUP for the trip. The wife calls every few days and ...nothing, which is not unusual for BIL, so we don't really think anything of it until late last week, when my wife said her brother is still not calling back and we both suspected something was up. My wife thought that perhaps BIL and SIL got into a big fight or something, since the last time we talked to both of them SIL was drunk and was coming up with nutty ides like inviting my parents on the trip, which would be a horrible idea, and BIL was cutting her off to keep things on topic and was clearly annoyed-but hey we have all been there and I didn't think that was the reason. I was leaning more into some last minute thing dreamed up by my SIL: Which it was. Turns out that there 3rd oldest child wanted to visit colleges, so SIL planned a family trip to Chicago that somehow destroys the 3 week cabin vacation window. Wife said she tried to work something out on the front or back end where we get there before or leave after they leave but no dice. So a legit excuse but kind of shitty with the last minute stuff and length of time involved, plus BIL is kind of a pussy, plus it still sounds like BS to me.
  22. You left out coffee on the shitter and 6 pair of safety glasses.
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