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  1. We flew into Great Falls, did a 5 day canoe trip on the Upper Missouri, and teenager rented a car and did Glacier. A fairly long drive... MT is a big state.
  2. Big Bend is still great. Two kids (12 and 9). Rented a subdivided house in Study Butte (Chisos Mining Co, Santa Fe unit). Day 0: drive. Dinner at taco place in Terlingua. Day 1: Big Bend Ranch SP. Hiked Escondido Spring Loop. Packed lunch, ate at Saucedo. Day 2: Lost Mine (arrived at trailhead before dawn and still barely got parking). Lunch at Basin restaurant. Recreated anniversary pics (got married at the Basin Wndow Overlook trail). Afternoon hike Santa Elena. Kids love to climb boulders in the canyon shade. Old Maverick headed out. Luna's Jacal is basically my happy place. I can't exaxplain it. Day 3: Grapevine Hills am hike, lunch in Boquillas. Souvenir shopping. Burro rides. Pm hike in Boquillas Canyon for the kids to get filthy on sand dune. Day 4: rented a jeep, drove River Road east to west. Lunch and hike at Masical Mine. Ice cream at Castalon to celebrate. Old Maverick to tell Luna about finally checking off the RR. Day 5: drove home. Did both Fort Lancaster and Fort McKavett. At Fort Lancaster we were the only ones and they give you a golf cart to drive around. Lol Next time we will do: Pine Canyon (after doing the RR I'm confident we can get to the trailhead); Cattail Falls (intended to go but no parking because of road work so did the Grapevine Hills); Closed Canyon; maybe do a boomerang kayak/canoe up Santa Elena (or north of park, depending on water level); Window + Basin (or finally take the kids up South Rim if they are ready). And of course do a Boquillas side trip, but this time I want to visit the hot springs on the Mexican side. It's only a half mile upriver. Anyone done Peguis Canyon from Ojinaga? It's supposed to be cool, mostly safe, and not far at all. I'm dieing to do Pine Canyon. If I do that, I'll think I'll have done every hike but the truly nuts high desert backpacking trips. We were going to do it, but I chickened out. If RR west is "hard" then I am 100% confident in doing it.
  3. Does recapture take into account cost of living? AISD is going to need to pay teachers much more, simply because even 45 minute out suburbs are that much more expensive.
  4. That's why when I was in high school when I brought my piece to a debate tournament, I didn't keep one in the chamber. Maybe those TOC bigshots do, but my goal was just a mundane TFL qual.
  5. This has been true since a couple "cheap" exocets sunk a British ship during the Falklands War. So 40 years or so.
  6. Man, I saw a tweet pointing to an unconsciousness or dead dude and circled his bonesr, with a comment that it would be from a neck/spinal injury. I can't unsee it. It haunts me. Dead boner guy. 😞
  7. But I think the research shows the radiation after the first 24 hours isn't so terrible. The power will probably be out. Things would be right proper fucked. But the reality is unless you are right at the target, your going to survive. Elevated risk of cancer maybe, but not Chernobyl deaths. Remember those poor souls (30?) were basically at fresh core debris. Maybe not if you live right in DC or LA or NYC or next to some base. But mostly if you are few miles away from a normal yield MIRV impact, you may live. And then... might as well be prepared? Seems awfully foolish to just give up and let your kids die because Surly is down.
  8. You guys are crazy. This "I hope I just vaporize" thing... I don't get it. I'd do anything to keep my kids alive, and until they are older that means living myself.
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  10. Ukraine ambassador raised the issue that maybe Russia can not be recognized as the successor to the USSR security council seat, and hence stripped of the veto. Unlike with China taking over the Taiwan seat in the 70s there was no vote, merely a memo from UN lawyers.
  11. They have hands tied on some stuff. Dealer licensing is mostly dictated by statute. So they couldn't just arbitrarily require fingerprints. To be a small time dealer there wasn't much they could require but require a fee and application. They could have at least verified that the dealers in the books actually existed beyond churning faux tags. But they software, damn did they fuck that up. VIN verification. Clamp down on "authorized users." And most of all, just look at the data. Some dealer that has a tiny used lot on a quarter of a block? Yeah, it's suspicious as hell they "sold" hundreds of cars in a month. Scrape that data. Hire and investigator and refer likely fraud to OAG. I don't understand why that didn't happen.
  12. I think since you can flush and wash hands, they will have school. Cafeteria lunch might be cheese sandwiches on a paper plate though.
  13. I guess covid WFH pretty much killed the adult snow day, and it sucks.
  14. Thr future is False my friends
  15. There was a Texas dad who caught a dude molesting his very young daughter a couple of years ago and punched the dude to death. No prosecution. I guess what I'm saying is rough justice can be done through prosecutorial discretion. https://abcnews.go.com/US/charges-texas-father-beat-death-daughters-molester/story?id=16612071
  16. I recall there was a homeless person in Austin busted for bludgeoning turtles to death along Town Lake with a hammer and eating them. Many people were outraged (morally) but in the end he got dinged on a minor game law. Not the Hammer part, the taking of the King's game. So anyway - I'm not totally discounting the kill to eat angle.
  17. They said it was Doe #1, Doe #2, etc. Obviously fake names.
  18. I always laugh when we have to wait for the deer to clear out before we back out of the driveway so we can drive 100 miles to wait in freezing cold in a blind some drunk moron built (me) and get nothin.
  19. Our 50ac is worth no more than 200k. We have 2 kids. I'm sure eventually one might want it and the other will want to be bought out. I'm trying to have it pre subdivided into equal halves, so they would also have that as an option. But the benefit of a small parcel is that it won't be such a huge part of the estate. But if the property goes way up in value I bet it would have to sell the whe thing.
  20. I have fond hazy memories of poker, weed, and Rock Band. Sometimes I think graduating was the dumbest thing I ever did.
  21. Probably just leads to getting a second guitar. And maybe a drum kit. And that's some real cheddar. Dammit. I just want to jam with my kids. Maybe they don't need to go to college?
  22. I know of am AISD school where 21 of 30 class rooms pool tested hot.
  23. AITA Christmas Edition: BIL plans to go with my FIL to our family land to hunt without white tail tags. I guess because it's $310 and he's cheap. I think they get the critter out of state $48 5-day license and just use my FIL's tag if he gets something. Just one morning hunt, so decent chance he'll get nothing. Am I the asshole because I think that's fucking bullshit? I'm not narcing to the game warden, but I made clear I don't condone. Also I am debating on calling him "Poacher" the rest of the week.
  24. I'm hopeful. Stability can help. We could be just a few points better in point differential and have a much better record. And then come into 2023 with back to back great OL recruiting, setting up for a nice mid 2020s run.
  25. I've been processing this since Wednesday and I still don't know how to reply.
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