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  1. If this dude gets away with it, I'm damming up the creek on my place. Imma get mine.
  2. I had a sort of unspoken oberservation that young folks were increasingly ambivalent about Isreal and sympathetic to the bleak circumstances of Palestinians. And this just sort of destroys all that goodwill in a day. I don't get people.
  3. Kitties Penn State (easter Mountain Lion) Northwestern (Wildcat) Houston (Cougar) Kansas State (Wildcats) Kentucky (Wildcats) Arizona (Wildcat) BYU (Cougars) Auburn (Tigers) LSU (Tigers) Missouri (Tigers) Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Bovine Maryland (Testudo) Florida (Gators) TCU (Horned Frogs) Iowa (Hawks) Kansas (Jayhawks) Texas (Longhorns) Colorado (Buffalo) The Maryland/Florida/TCU makes for a neat trifecta. Those are the core. Fewer birds than you might expect, but maybe one day Illinois will join them. Colorado/Texas make for a pair. Furry friends Wisconsin (Badgers) Minnesota (Gophers) Michigan (Wolverines) Baylor (Bear) Georgia (Bulldogs) Mississippi State (Bulldogs) Cincinnati (Bearcats) - not a cat, apparently! So many critter teams - I decided to go with "fur" as a theme. Is a bearcat snuggleable? I dunno. But I bet a Mountaineer could make a jaunty hat out of it, so let's put em here. Jobs/Occupations Purdue (Boilermakers) Nebraska (Husker) Indiana (Hoosiers) Oklahoma (Sooner) Oklahoma State (Cowboys) WVU (Mountaineers) Texas A&M (aggies, but also Reveille) People, its made of people. Warmongers Vanderbilt (Commodores) Tennessee (Volunteers) Michigan State (Sparty) Texas Tech (Red Raider) UCF (Knights) Ole Miss (Rebels) One could argue some of the Jobs pod could be here, but we've got to have some balance. Other Ohio State - Buckeyes Illinois (formerly Illini, possibly belted kingfisher?) Iowa State (Cyclone, but also Jack?) Alabama (Crimson Tide, but also elephant) Arizona State (Devils) Utah (Utes)
  4. Any advice? For summer '24. Loading the family truckster and hitting the road. We've done a lot of road trips, but we haven't gone to GSMNP. Tentatively thinking 2 day ls driving from Austin to Gatlinbilurg or Pigeon Forge. Long days but not 12 hours on the road. Any cool pitstops? When the kids were little they did the Arky diamond mine. Not sure I'd youngins give a dam about Memphis or blues or Elvis. Might do 3 days on the west side and then 2 nights in Brevard or Bryson City to cover NC side. Focus on reasonable length day hikes and occasional dips in swimming holes. I like old ghost towns and such, my kids are sort of meh. Usually wake fairly early to do trails in the cooler morning, with swimming or scenic drives in the afternoon. Might swing by southern route on the way back for a day at Gulf Shore or similar beach.
  5. Maybe I had the wrong takeaway from that article... but is roughly $100k plus some spending money a decent target to shoot for re college savings? Thats... not as bad as I have been afraid of. Since this thread is also about baring your soul, or at least the fruit of one's gonads... One daughter (13) who has a legit shot at top 6% at a notorious public hs crucible. If she doesn't get auto admit, she'll probably have great scores, APs, IB, etc. I will encourage her to go out of state, to avoid regressive abortion politics. Sorry, not sorry. Son is 11, smart and will study, but not the perfection seeker his sister is. So he won't make top 6%, but with his charm and manner will probably make more money and be naturally be hapoy wherever he lands. He'll probably end up and Tech or whatever. I bet he'll enjoy a school with div1 athletics to watch and a weekend party scene.
  6. https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-truth-about-college-costs
  7. Lemons into lemonade... sometimes dealerships sell off inventory at steep discounts after hail, right? I'd be in the market for a truck that got hit by the ugly stick if it mechanically is new. I try to be a drive til it falls apart type owner.
  8. I've heard before many enlisted don't give a shit about some letter-of-reference-from-my-Senator-having officers team. But I've also heard otherwise. I myself come from a long line of cowards and deferments, so I don't rightly know.
  9. Anyone else notice a lot of "actually FIRE people are miserable" articles recently? I'm not particularly conspiracy minded... but its almost like there is a concerted effort in business press to discourage that kind of thing.
  10. Colt owns the Dunkin Donuts at 183 and Pavillion, and the remodel is great. He could work the drive through. I bet he'd even give me extra napkins.
  11. Opposing fans... stick with the horns down and stfu
  12. I mostly watch NFL on mute. But jeez, how bad does Romo suck now? He was good first year... early onset dementia? Maybe he just is lazy? Or he sucks when he isn't cribbing from pre-game conversations with coaches?
  13. NIL OL and DL boosters, take a bow
  14. OU lost, but Lebby/Briles drama is a bad look...
  15. Don't sleep on last weeks putting a player back in the game after being knocked the fuck out.
  16. Keeping score: Texas - 13 Alabama - 3 Honey Pepper Pimento Sandwich - 24
  17. I feel like an asshole asking... but with wegovy hype do you regret doing the surgery and not waiting for semaglutide?
  18. Trader Joe jerk plantain chips are very good.
  19. It would be incredibly easy to pull together a database whereby defense attorneys or the public could document instances of police getting caught fibbing in official statements or testimony. A local cop wikileaks, basically. All of which could he used to impugn any particular cop so documented as being external evidence that goes to a cops credibility. But I don't have the guts to do that - that's a great way to get framed up and have your life ruined.
  20. I think I dug about 8 buckets, but I have a new place to put the dirt I'm moving. Weather turning enough to stay overnight amd work at dusk and again the next morning. Current pile: New ramp. I figure I can make it tailgate high. Shallow side getting there:
  21. I find it helpful to have a deep hole, just in case.
  22. Did you know Townes Van Zandt wrote The Rut in 1968 and it was an unreleased b-side off of Our Mother the Mountain?
  23. Since the property is > 10ac, I told my wife to just declare it a private cemetery and move on. See Health and Safety Code 711.008
  24. I'm about 8 ft deep. Nine on one side. Too hot to dig much this summer. I should be able to put the the next 4 ft of lagging/set in this fall. I've cut the 4x6s and the 4x4s, but not the 2x sides yet. Then downward to 12, and so on. I figure 4-6 ft a year is a good pace
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