Everything posted by CleverNickname
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Surly Dad Thread
daughter is 14 headed to high school next year, so I'm a couple years ahead. Good luck and God bless in holding the line. Every friend my daughter has she FaceTime and snaps *constantly*. And fortuitous, they actually set up face to face mall crawls and such. If your daughter claims social isolation from a smartphone ban... I would believe them. Even the apple iPhone chat bubble snobbishness is real. That said, bed time and screen time apps are plentiful and fairly simple to set up.
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General Lacrosse Thread
awesome re Texas lax. And props to Mr and Mrs Caven, the UT lax facilities are amazing for a club sport. I know the WW women's lax team had a visit to meet the UT women and tour the facilities a week ago or so. That donor was a forward thinker. kudos https://www.utrecsports.org/facilities/caven-clark-field-history HS state champs: it will coming back to 'Wood in 2028 and 2029, if not sooner. They got a killer crop of dudes coming up from middle school and some very good coaches.
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Surly Dad Thread
those cheapo restaurant crayons are shit
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Surly Dad Thread
Yeah, I hear that. Now I get to work from home about half the time, and that helps. Oh, you mean the kid. Probably just an introvert who likes structure.
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2024 Property appraisals are out
Nw Austin. I'm down 7.5% but appraisal still hasn't caught (10% yoy max) the run up from 2021.
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General Lacrosse Thread
Oh! I should note I am the proud owner of a 2023 Westwood Lax State Champ shirt.
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General Lacrosse Thread
At a mid week lax game at St Stephens. It costs $75k per year to go here. The end.
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
https://x.com/PNav57/status/1777046824806707426
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Truck Nuts
Hey guys - just got a new truck! Maverick XL. It has 4 wheels (plain steelies!), a steering wheel, doors, air conditioning, cruise control, a little bit of truck bed, and nothing else. Thinking about upgrading the rear cup holders, but maybe not. Not sure about sinking another $20 in. Can't really tow shit, but it does have a hitch. Ecoboost 2.0l isn't that much better fuel economy than my old v6 canyon. I gotta cut down my homemade struct ladder rack. Or just let it hang off the back, f it. Probably will be kiddos first car in a couple years, if they can handle the swag.
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$30MM heist in L.A.
3,000,000,000 ass pennies
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Medicaid lookback, etc
Oh, that's interesting! If anyone finds an Austin based consultant, let me know.
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The Austin / Rainey St / Lake Serial Killer
Anyone know the name of the victim found by Pennybraker this weekend? I think I might know them from high school. PM me.
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
Even if it's cloudy, won't it be pitch black for 2 minutes? I mean, that's pretty wild.
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Medicaid lookback, etc
My mom has 7 figs saved and I legit am not sure that's enough. But if TX medicaid won't pay for memory care, I don't know if it matters too much. I may have to see if another state has different options. Anyway, I have an appointment with a specialist.
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Barkley ultra 2024
https://www.irunfar.com/jasmin-paris-2024-barkley-marathons-interview
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Medicaid lookback, etc
I hear ya, but this ain't for me.
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Medicaid lookback, etc
If memory care is $11k a month, at some point it don't matter how much I love her.
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Medicaid lookback, etc
At some point my mom is going to need to transition to assisted living, and eventually probably to memory care. So I'm fully expecting that to be $120-150k per year if she outlives her brain. I'm going to meet with a will and estates attorney about a medicaid trust. Would an alternate strategy to divest a good chunk of assets now, and then pay for elder care out of remaining savings (on the theory that gifts prior to 60 months are kosher)? Probably not the maximum savings method, but that would work in part? I don't need the money, but maybe the grandkids 529s ought to get stuffed more aggressively now.
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Barkley ultra 2024
https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a46888033/conquering-the-barkley-marathons/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68643341 this write up os the best: https://ultrarunning.com/featured/barkley-2024-a-bit-traumatic-and-wonderful/
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I did not know that... trivial stuff you just learned
Damn. I sooo want to get Lassen, but I'm always in the area a week or two too soon and Bumpus Hell is still closed. I think I may have to wait until the kids are in college and I can do that sweet sweet September/October travel.
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Barkley ultra 2024
17 humans had ever finished it since 1989. The final 20+ mile loop usually starts about 48 hours in, complete by hour 60. First out on final lap picks clockwise or ccw. They go alone, into the pre-dawn darkness. Alternating clockwise and ccw, so they can't just follow each other. First person out choose cw, so #2 was ccw, #3 cw, #4 ccw. Clockwise is considered mildly better. Jared and Jasmin (who became the only woman to complete 4 loops minutes before) came in about the same time. They are both taking a rest, on the clock. So, next runner gets to go clockwise. Jared has finished multiple times before, one of the very few to have done so. See at about min 3: Final 3 mins of 60 hour race: fwiw the 2012 documentary is free online.
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
Are you crazy?!? Vampires turn to dust in the daylight. They are demons of the Night. What do you think they will do during the 2:30 of totality? They gonna rip your neck amd feast on your blood. BEWARE OF VAMPIRES DURING THE ECLIPSE! Why do you think the counties are declaring states of emergency? Because we are going to run out of tortilla chips? Fuck no. This is Texas. Devils Sinkhole. Congress Bridge. That stupid tunnel by Fredericksburg. Do I have to spell it out for you? Bat country. Most of em mexican bats, out here laying shingles amd eating skeeters. But some em... some of em are El Diablo. The Black Court. Nosferatu. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We are all fucked. Vampire Weekend, at noon, on April 8. Fucking A.
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Surly official camping and backpacking thread
I've often wondered what the etiquette about pissing on a hike. Felt weird, but how can you drink 3 or 4 L and not go? But I'm pleased the NPS officially told me to go ahead and water the trees.
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I did not know that... trivial stuff you just learned
I saw a black bear in Big Bend in '06. Looked like a scrawy black lab. The end.
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I've decided to dig a hole
Probably about 8 miles west toward Terlingua. You park on a little pullout next to a bridge over a wash and just follow the drainage. It's in the Parent hiking guide, but not on the park website. I think you could also come at it from Croton Springs, but you'd probably want a map and GPS for that. It's open desert, but damn some other Big Bend hikes can get crowded and sometimes a man just needs to stop and piss.