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Storm the Field

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  1. Pleased to report I've been putting in work since this post. Have been in the gym probably 13/16 days since then and have built back up to doing the heaviest reps I've ever done at any point since I first started exercising again back in March 2022. Had my 2 scheduled cheat nights the past 2 Saturdays (buddy's annual birthday sushi dinner and company party, respectively), so should finish the month having drank only ~4/31 days.
  2. We already have a 2025 thread.
  3. Was down about 1% until noon and then rocketed up 6% in the next hour. From my exhaustive research (i. e. searching tweets for "nat gas") it looks like the 12z Euro weather model that came out mid-day was on the very cold side in regards to this upcoming arctic blast. Also, there was a very large inventory drawdown reported for last week. 13th largest weekly drawdown of all time, to be exact. Lot of predictions that next week's report of this week's drawdown will be in the Top 5.
  4. Nevermind. One of the other guys shut everything off right before the last freeze 2 weeks ago. Nobody has been back since, so no trip necessary.
  5. Welp, wasn't planning to head to the lease this weekend, but with the hard freeze coming up on Monday, looks like I gotta make a trip after work tomorrow so that I can shut off the water and drain everything so we don't end up with busted plumbing in the camp house. Was hoping somebody else was bringing their kids for final youth weekend, but doesn't sound like it, and since I'm "lease manager" for our group, I drew short straw. Ehh, could be worse, it's only a 2 hour drive, and I'll have a nice quiet evening to myself out by the fire.
  6. I was a KA at TXST years later and remember seeing Bill's picture on old composite photos at the house and hearing about his death. There's a scholarship in his name that is still awarded every year.
  7. Smoking literally anywhere and everywhere.
  8. Natty at $4.13 is highest price in 743 days, dating back to $4.17 on 1/4/23, which was also the last time that its price started with a 4.
  9. Can we please set that on cruise control for a couple of years?
  10. Heard earlier that Hughies Garden Oaks (actually Independence Heights) should be opening by March. The N Main location is closing down at end of month. Lazybrook original still kicking. New location is basically across Shepherd rom Wabash Feed.
  11. I got stuck in this yesterday. Pulled out of my office garage at 6:07, got home at 7:23. A trip that usually takes me ~15 minutes. Worst traffic I have ever seen on Washington in 6 years of being at this office. There were probably 15K cars trying to take Yale since every other North/South crossing in the area that goes over the tracks was shut down. Those trains are the bane of my existence. Whoever decades ago decided not to put underpass/overpasses where the tracks cross Shepherd/Durham, Heights, and TC Jester should be tarred and feathered. Whenever there's a train stopped on the tracks, Yale is often the only option, and that intersection at Yale and Center is not capable of handling the overflow. I saw dozens of near wrecks yesterday evening.
  12. Spring Training starts in a little under 5 weeks. With college football wrapping up and hunting season over, it's getting close to time to switch the ol' brain over to Astros hype mode.
  13. Rough day in the markets, but energy commodities are having fun. WTI +3.6% to $76.56 (3 month high) Natty +7.4% to $3.98 (highest close since 1/3/23)
  14. One of my "why hasn't anyone else thought of this?" ideas is that grocery stores need to sort avocados into 4 bins: Bin 1: Overripe. Sold at a discount. Use for guacamole or avocado spread. Must use immediately. Bin 2: Ripe. Use that same day or the next morning. Bin 3: Almost Ripe. Possibly ready within 24 hours. Perfect in ~36 hours. Bin 4: Far from Ripe. Ready no sooner than 48 hours from now.
  15. I'll have you know some very credible, definitely not insane people on Twitter and Facebook inform me that Plaza killed him as a Satanic sacrifice. B/c she is a witch and needed to ascend the hierarchy of the Hollywood Cabal.
  16. Didn't see this one coming: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DDC9wGHyGgi/
  17. Feel like I'm officially kicking off healthy January today. Not a drop of booze since Wednesday, but kinda half-assed it in the gym Thursday and Friday and didn't eat great this past weekend. Anyways, no more putting it off. Time to start taking in fewer and burning more calories. Back to full effort in the gym. Coffee for breakfast, light lunches, and healthy dinners.
  18. Self-starting cabrito.
  19. Slow season at our place, which is typical, but we put in a lot more effort this offseason and hunted it more. Guess that's East TX for ya. I shot a basic 8 point back right before Thanksgiving and one guy shot a doe on Opening Day. Frustrating thing is we were seeing plenty of shit on the cameras, including several quality bucks. The kicker was the very solid 8 with a wide spread who showed up on camera at a stand no one was hunting yesterday morning, seemingly to taunt us on the final day of the season. Genuinely baffled that more doe weren't taken, and it wasn't for lack of trying. We could never seem to get our deer on any kind of predictable daytime schedule despite feeding consistently for months. For pretty much the entire month of December, the camera I have set up was rarely ever picking up anything during daylight hours, except on really cold, clear mornings. But a group of mature doe would show up for dinner between 6:30 and 8:30 every evening. Solo bucks would sometimes stroll by after midnight. I think there was just too many other food sources available and they eventually just started avoiding feeders during daylight by the time Thanksgiving rolled around. Even the hogs became vampires. Can't have helped how much the weather bounced around from week to week this season. It'd be cold and clear for a few days and then back to the 70's and foggy, then rain a bunch, then get cold again....etc. My Dad was telling me that a golf buddy of his who processes deer as a side gig said it seemed like a very slow season as far as the amount of meat coming in (at least speaking for SETX).
  20. Tangential to Astros, but will hopefully make it easier to stream games down the road.
  21. Hasn't cooled down yet, but it's raining sideways in Houston. Temps should start dropping fairly quickly after this storm passes.
  22. Coldest temps (so far) of the season inbound Sunday evening.
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