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Jiggy-Z

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  1. Yep. He is pretty passed and told me not to tell anyone. His secret us safe with me since nobody reads Surly.
  2. Not me, but my business partner: About 13 years ago his daughter and last remaining child living in the house was finishing up medical tech school and was planning on moving out. In anticipation of not having tuition or a child in the house to pay for, he started work on his dream man cave. He tore down the old garage and rebuilt it and redid all of the drive with some pretty cool hard scape work. Inside he had a kitchen, bath, and open area where he put his new pool table. All surfaces were hard and could be washed down with a hose if need be. It even had floor drains. The fridge was stocked with plenty of beer and nothing else. Antlers and other hangings not suitable for the house were placed about the room and got it just like he wanted. He even beat cancer during this time. Life was good. Well, the daughter did not move out, so while she was living there no crazy parties were allowed. Eventually, daughter met someone and he had to fork over a bunch of money for the wedding. Like 30 grand or something. But it would be worth it he thought, just so she could be out on her own with her husband making their way in the world. Unbeknownst to him, his wife promised them they could live at home to save money. So the man cave had to be converted to a residence. All new flooring, new kitchen, new bath, new bedroom walls, closet walls, and lighting. Pool table had to go to storage along with all of the other trappings. He thought it would be ok after a few years when they moved out after saving some money for a house. Well, that day never came because his daughter freaked out and got a divorce 6 months after getting married. So daughter moves back into the house and garage apartment sits empty. So after about a year when the coast is clear, business partner converts garage apartment back into a man cave. Walls are torn down, new flooring, new kitchen, new bath Yada Yada yada. All the while, daughter is still living at home. He has been enjoying his man cave for a few years now worry free. His daughter even met another guy a few years back and he has a good job so her days at home are numbered. So last week on Thursday, he doesn't show up for our usual beer drinking meeting even though he says he would be coming right over (he basically lives across the street from our office/yard). So I walk on over to see what's up and he and his wife are under the man cave patio-talking. I can tell I am interrupting, so say my hellos and leave. The next day I apologize for interrupting and he just shakes his head. He says his wife told him that his daughter wants to buy a house and move out and wants to move in with her boyfriend to save money. He asked where they were moving and his wife tells him, she said it would be ok if they moved into the man cave, after it was converted back into an apartment. Face palm.
  3. No spoiler but eposode 2: lol at the soldiers rehydrating all the womens first. Wink wink.
  4. The two boys still at home are competitive climbers. Among the best in the US, so it's more than a diversion. Although, I must say it gets used now as an excuse to avoid homework.
  5. Wife bought a piano during the pandemic because no one in our household plays or has any interest in playing piano. (Oldest son plays professionally, but lives in New Orleans- vists a couple of times per year). Also during the pandemic, She bought a rowing machine and a ski erg which do not get used. We have a very large living room and all of these things reside there. I am a pretty serious cyclist, so of course, there is no way my prospective trainer purchase can be housed anywhere but the garage which basically defeats the entire purpose of having a trainer bike. Also, garage is full due to the climbing wall we built....during the pandemic....sigh.
  6. Right now I'm torn between staying at home in southwest Austin and experiencing it on my roof deck and concocting a meeting of flat earthers in the dark zone to convince them that I am a god. Maybe I should do a surly pole.
  7. From a 2020 article. Paraphrased: Motorcycle jumping, skiing, gear head. Apparently still owns a Corvette his dad gave him as a wedding gift. I guess he can pick back up on those after 2nd term is done
  8. "assless chaps" is way funnier, especially when you are trying to insult someone. Either way, commence with the thread derail.
  9. So what the hell does Bidden do to relax? Serious question. I mean I seen him on a bike etc. As far as I know, he just works out and goes back to work.
  10. USA Today, not in color. Does not compute.
  11. The more things change... There was a lot of home construction going on when I lived there and we would dig tunnels through the dirt piles that were out in the front yards. We had lanterns and everything. The party came to an end when one of the tunnels collapsed on my friend and we had to dig him out before he suffocated. No harm done, but his mom got wise during nightly clean up and he squealed, so we got a safety lecture about construction sites and all got grounded for being stupid. Clearly some kid statute of limitations expired by the time you got around to your tunneling.
  12. Thus my family dog when he was just a puppy. He's not much bigger now, but he's got more range
  13. Does the side of the bed slide open? That is truck upgrade I could get behind rather than the 9 piece trifold tailgate with pimp cane and jump step...or the cyber truck.
  14. We lived on Melshire and bugged out to even farther north Austin in 1975. There was a big field behind our house that had killer bluebonnets and hundreds of horny toads. It had a track like trail around it and found quite a few meteorite fragments in it. Thin Treeline to the south where I found lots of skin mag "remnants". I was only 7 so not too impressed. Hung out a little bit with older dirt bikers who were probably all of 12 or 13 who smoked and I thought were sooooo cool. Good times.
  15. Speaking of skating rinks...I was disappointed when one day I was riding my bike over the vacant lot where the trucks would illegally dump construction fill which was honed into ramps and curves and other cool 1970's bike stunt shit, and the next day, was stripped clean in preparation for Playland Skating Rink which I think opened in 1974. We called the vacant lot the "Humpities" . Humpities you had a good run RIP 1974-1974.
  16. How did I miss this? Hope he is up there with Belushi in that big steam bath in the sky, getting "a piece of the gig". RIP Maury Sline.
  17. 2nd this. A lot of of good and overlooked info in there. It reminded of a book titled something like: Things Your History Teacher didn't Tell You. Which pointed out how much whitewashing American history textbooks have done over the decades. More actual facts than some of Stone's conjecture.
  18. I'm better off for having missed the whole SOTU address and rebuttal and getting the cliffs notes here on Surly today.
  19. I feel your pain being a 50 something white dude who owns a construction company, drives a truck, dips some Skoal, and enjoys hunting and fishing. I had to stop wearing red of any kind. Also, despite the above demographic, I am labeled as that "commie hippy liberal from Austin who went to that commie hippy school" when I go fishing with my Houston buddies. I always tell them, "yeah that bastion of free thinking that is the Red McCombs College of Business". Also a CPA, so I also get the tax side of things as well. Ah Ziggy, will you ever win?
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