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  1. I should take off work and play video games and crush an oven pizza more often. Maybe 5-7 days a week.
  2. I'm taking off of work Sept 12 to ay Borderlands 4.
  3. re international schools. I am interested on behalf of my sophomore daughter. But the schools in Canada and UK don't seem cheap. They are every bit the out if state $$$ I see elsewhere at very good public universities. I guess we are in that "make good money but not $350k+ pay out of pocket $80k per year" group that is price sensitive. My daughter has excellent academics, but I think she will probably either need to find an OOS school that will give a partial (in state) rate, or non upper tier private institution that will throw money at her. It am thinking it may be that to go OOS she will have to take a step down in academic quality from top in state options (UT Austin). We have a good 529 chunk, but I try to tell it would be good to keep some it for grad school. Maybe a lot of it if she wants to go to law school.
  4. 1999. I'm an idiot.
  5. Sadly (?) the hole is not a well. Got out 5 buckets in 1.5 hours of work. My clothes must have had 2 pounds of sweat. Magically turned into this: Yeah, I dont see a change either. But onward and downward!
  6. I'm pretty sure it was 1999.
  7. Places I pooped not simply a hole (but I also pooped in a couple of holes): The fancy lake vault potty: The Thelm and Louise hold hands whilst pooping outhouse: The sourdough hermit thing:
  8. There are many things one can say about the Yukon, many said better by Robert Service than I ever could. But one thing remains true some 25 years after my first canoe trip there: Germans fucking *love* the Yukon.
  9. On the way back from the Yukon. This is my third trip. Went in 2019 as a dumb college kid. It was June, the water was high, I had no technical gear, it rained 80% of the time, battled white caps across Lake Laberge, the mosquitoes were insane, and most nights the tent was frozen stiff by morning. Obviously I loved it. Went back in 2002 with my father, to do 13 days down the Big Salmon from Quiet Lake down to Dawson. Took my son from Whitehorse to Carmacks; with a buddy and his son. Weather was amazing. High 40s or low 50s in the morning, to mid 70s. Almost no mosquitoes. Barely got the ponchos out, and it never rained overnight long enough to have to dry things out.Tailwind across the lake, mostly. Will probably do it again, either the Teslin or Pelly.
  10. if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. Those returns sound like bullshit, and you don't want to be holding when it goes up in flames. If my spouse put the college fund money is some speculative bs, I would divorce her.
  11. It's funny as hell. But the reason general counsels hate the scenario is not just because she can say "I was afraid to break it off, because of retribution." It's scary because evey happily married person who *didn't* get a huge raise/promotion can allege they would have, if only they were sleeping with the boss. So the individuals that have the company over the barrel isn't just that one person, its virtually everyone. Corporate doesn't care if the line cook is fucking the waitress. But when its a boss, its a problem.
  12. 2 inches last Sunday of which a half inch in 15 minutes.
  13. I put in 40 ft of metal edging hoping it will divert water flowing across the surface from a heavy rain. The hole had about the same water as the last time. Makes me wonder if that's the wet weather ground water level. Hmm. Some friends:
  14. It sucks that fractional gold buillon imhas such crazy premium. I would have way more in gold if 1/10 and 1/4 had small vigs. I suppose from a high wealth perspective that doesnt make much sense. But trading 250 eagles for 3 coins feels weird.
  15. Parents of campers: I can provide non-airconditioned accommodations while your goblin-sized spawn can learn good Values through Hard Work in the Mines of Mills County. PM for details.
  16. Avery got plugs or Hims hair pills? Looking good.
  17. I respect your learned opinion. But I'm like Lincoln on this. McClellan, you're fired. Pope and Burnside, fired. Hooker? Fired. McClellan: Fired again. You either fight, or you sit down. I said I want plump and pretty women on the Little River. Not little women on the Pretty River. I want it all. Desal. Fanning county? More like Fan-flooded county. Big ass pipelines stealing water from Aggy and piping it to Sand Aggy. And then when they piss it out, I'm shipping the piss back to Waco. I'm going to pump so much water into Ogallala that the sand hills of Nebraska will flush down to Kanasas and make it interesting. Money? We got money. We don't spend it on education or health care, what the fuck is money for? Im gonna take Commanche County and make it a giant hole and fill it up. I like holes and fuck those sundown town racists. "Stop, Clever, stop! It's too much water!" Hell no. We filling this damn bathtub, and I dont care how many turds have to float to make it happen. Jacob's Well ain't just gonna run, its gonna be a fucking geyser. We will fill up DKR like the Coliseum, and Fozzy Whittaker is going to ski jump over Katy Perry's left shark. Twenty-five years ago I promised my drunken longhorn peers a lazy river to cirumnavigate campus, and now is the fucking time.
  18. We need more projects like the (controversial) Austin injecting water into the cardoza aquifer. I predict there will be more of those in the coming decades. I want more. Take this surface water and pump it underground. Bring back to life springs. Liberalize cross water basin projects. Cloud seeding. Send more of that sweet Brazos water down from Palo Pinto to the Pecan Bayou. And then share Colorado water on down to Guadalupe, Frio, Medina, Neuces. Desalination with solar (who cares if it's interrupted power?) and pump it upstream. I want a verdant hill country, flowing creeks, people bitching their well levels are too high, caulking the wagon to ford the wide Pecos, plump and pretty women on the Little, houseboats on Amistad, canoeing through Boquillos canyon in November, catching minnows on the South San Gaberiel at the dinosaur tracks, jet skis on OC Fisher. Water abundance. Bring it. Drown me in it.
  19. We can retire 2032-ish. State and teacher pensions. Year 1 would net about 110k gross (and that's 100% joint and survivor option, and 2% cola on ERS, a new option). We.can easily live on that and not touch pre and post tax retirement savings. On track for 7 figures. We would be about 52. Kids would be in college (529s funded well, at least for in state tuition). So earlyish retirement is possible... That had been my plan. But we could also retire and come back and work and save another $4 to $10k a month, and just stash it to pay for future grandkids daycare, college, etc. Feels kinds selfish to check out when peak earnings hits. I think I want to work 20-30 hours per week, and my wife's could permanent sub from Oct to April. Would be nice to hit national parks April/May and September/October. Maybe Colorado rental in thw summer. I guess we will just have to see how we are feeling when the time comes. My mom has dementia and is in memory care ($6300/mo) so I would like to make sure we could afford that (plus maybe assisted living for the other) for 1 of us should we need it. Don't want to be a burden.
  20. All of TMs old camp culture articles are free too. I think it was the 1975 article that quoted a freshman woman at UT saying "I wint get into this sorority, I went to the wrong summer camp." that really clicked the camp to greek class/wealth connection for me. That one sentence explained it all.
  21. The flood was 9 ft higher than the 1987 flood. I can see how a failure of imagination would mean not prepared for that level of insanity
  22. reposting in this thread:
  23. this is how you interview:
  24. I'm up at the hole, so up 183 from Austin. No issues, cept maybe the rubbermeckijg at each swole river (South and Norrh forks of SG) and all them creeks. Mesquite creek near Lampasas county... damn!
  25. not sure it was mentioned above, but 1431 at Cow Creek appears to be gone. https://x.com/vileTexan/status/1941558771156910483
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