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  1. My brother and I were at a card convention on Austin, about September 1992. He was a Packers fan, mainly to piss of Cowboys fans. Typicla teenage iconoclast. Now we would call it being an jerkoff edgelord. Anyway, this guy with  a righteous cleft lip surgical scar had Don Majkowski's (1989 Pro Set rookie) for 75 cents. Beckett had it listed for $2.50! We checked it twice. You can fit 9 cards per plastic three ring sheet. Bro bought 27 of em. Three solid pages of ole Majik Don bootlegging to the right. It was glorious. Twenty two hours later he tore up his knee, and Brett Favre started the next 275 games straight. 

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  2. 20 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    Spent that day at garner  on Friday.  Holy shit, it was crowded.  I thought tpwd was limiting entrance, but it was nuts, nobody giving a single fuk. 

    Not much flow. I think the tendency to congregate at the dam is higher in these conditions. My plan is to hit the gates at 8am and wear the kids out by 11. 

  3. 13 hours ago, Lobo said:

    My deeper question is how will this effect voting in November?  Schools can reopen for 8 hours/day for the whole semester, but if it's not safe to vote for ten minutes one day in November, we have to move Election Day?  Can the AG and the Secretary of State (and related regulatory agencies), again override local officials (in this case the county staff who run polling places and count ballots) and say, "No, we can tell you to open up schools despite what your County Health officials are telling you and we can tell you to not open up polling places despite your County Health officials saying it's safe to run into Randall's and vote at lunch."     Does the mandate from OAG and related agencies to counties/schools set a strange precedent for counties/polling places a few months later?  Obviously one is more heavily tied to funding than the other, and money usually wins out.  But I'm curious about this strange juxtaposition.  

    For the most part I bet the figure out alternative polling locations. Lot of empty office buildings sitting around, hopefully they'll let precincts vote there. 

  4. Re: yesterday's drama from OAG and TEA: I think the workaround on AG new guidance is to not rely on local powers in the Health and Safety Code and instead a home rule city passes an ordinance. Maybe the OOG can exempt statutes (itself now dubious under new SC dicta) but unless a law specifically is written to supersede local ordinance, cities can usually do whatver they want for health, safety, and welfare. Maybe there is something in the Education Code that would preempt that, I dunno.

  5. On 7/24/2020 at 4:46 PM, HenryJames said:

    oh yeah, that article was totally my inspiration to check out Camp Wood and environs. I think I got similar inspiration from Texas Coop Magazine (which low key is like my favorite periodical in the world). 

  6. Schumacher's was pretty busy every time we drove past, so I only got to walk around a bit. With the picnic area and improved parking and on 39, it's almost too easy to enjoy. Also my kids aren't as in love with the shade/cypress scene. They like it bright and clear. But damn, Schumacher's is so fucking pretty. Same deal when we drove past Hunts Crossing. On an ordinary summer day it would have been fine. Maybe 1 other car. But there are enough little spots out the way you can just pass em up and find your own private piece of heaven. We'll probably go back to hit those up (particularly when my wife is comfortable with rope swings). Plus Mo-Ranch wasn't doing day passes, and that would be fun. 

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  7. 3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

    How crowded was it?

    So our rental was like 8 minutes away and it was a weekday. We simply got there early. Around 11:15am. As soon as we left the next group moved up from one beach below dam to our spot (at the best swimming below dam). Only maybe 3 families/groups there at the same time.  We all kept to our own by unspoken agreement.

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  8. 3 hours ago, NoName said:

    how big is the gap from the top 2 or 3 to the rest of the list?

     

    Kids loved the slide at Ingram Dam, so not too much. Then it's a gap. The South Llano near Junction has a surprisingly healthy flow, but it is not as clear and pretty as the Frio. The Slab was pretty rad, but I imagine that's heavily dependent on the daily flow. Wagon Wheel Crossing was really pretty and deep enough for my kiddos, but probably boring for older kids. 

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