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  1. Shut 'Em Out Eagle Defense! Goldthwaite does look significantly nicer than a lot of small towns. It has that DQ, no fewer than 2 mexican places, the Exxon grill, and a couple other restaurants. You can even get a cup of coffee in the weird knickknack store. I subscribe to the paper. A couple of years ago it finally went wet, and you no longer have to drive to Priddy for beer. My ranch is 8 miles away in Mullin, but if I was really moving to the area I think I'd buy a home in Goldthwaite and keep my property. By the time my kids are graduating high school it may be moot and Mullin ISD may consolidate with Goldthwaite - I don't see how they can keep enough numbers. That would be sad for the town of Mullin, of course. But probably inevitable. No more arcade in the DQ, but it does have a star of fame for the kid who played the younger brother in the Blind Side. Oh, and the town finally accepted and celebrated Coach Jody Conradt as a native daughter.
  2. My retirement plan (age ~52 hopefully) is to be Monday through Thursday at my little ranch in Mills County, and then drive in to Austin for Thursday night through Sunday night. Technically I'm just outside Mullin, but realistically I only see the neighbors if they happen to be driving past the dirt road the same time I stop and open the gate. By then I'll trade my suburban house for a townhome or condo that is less maintenance. That way I get a few days of city dining, movies, music, UT sports, etc before having some down time puttering at the ranch. I super hate mowing my lawn, but I'll gladly cut cedar and spray mesquite all day. I'm not sure if my wife will join me - she's a workaholic and finds the idea of taking retirement asap odd (I'm at the state, she's a teacher). I have this dream of buying a used backhoe and dump trailer and digging a giant hole, and making an equally giant hill from the spoils. Future people will see my hole/pond and be like "damn, some weird dude decided dig a giant fucking hole in the ground."
  3. You can buy box tops on ebay. I know that is crazy, but hear me out. You pay a little premium, but its probably a better payback than cub scout popcorn, girl scout cookies, or band candy bars. Your kid's class gets the popcorn party. If you buy them outside the two big turn-in seasons, the premium is way lower. The prices have jumped up. I have quit my job and make six figs solely on box top arbitrage. Buy in June, sell in September, easy money. (okay, some of this is a lie)
  4. Loved it.
  5. Jeez. Some surplus lines carriers getting phone calls tonight. $$$
  6. Jollyville 2 SW lcra hyromet: 0.02 in at 7:10pm; 0.52 in at 7:25. Pretty stout rate.
  7. That Pfizer thread reminded me. My daughter was referred from the regular ole optometrist to the ophthalmologist. Her vision declined more than you'd like in a single year. Anyway, doc prescribed low dose atropine. Just a drop in each eye at bedtimes, takes like 30 seconds. A bit of a pain to get as it has to be ordered from a compounding pharmacy that can do eye drops. Not that expensive, ends up being about $1/day and its worked like a charm thus far - no change in 6 months. Of course the crazy thing is that you can get 5% solution at vets for pennies. It almost seems like virtually 100% of nearsighted kids could benefit from this, yet I haven't met any other parents who are aware. Makes me wonder if there is no real profit in it. https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/ote-articles/low-dose-atropine-myopia-children-two-years-experience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41433-018-0139-7 https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/low-dose-atropine-kids-with-myopia
  8. Don't get the baby powder with talc, but corn starch is hiter-aids free.
  9. There may be some heavy breathing in this audio and I am sure it is not at all because I lifted the expanded steel lid and jumped out of my skin.
  10. Just outside Mullin, TX in Mills County. Part of my little ranch is the old oak savannah cross timbers. I Sorry its kinda jumpy - I'm zoomed in quite a bit:
  11. Well then have another!
  12. Meet my new friend. Western Coachwhip (?) chilling in the firepit of la casita. Curled up a lot, but I bet he was 6-7 foot.
  13. tagging on this thread: what age to start lessons? My daughter seems to enjoy the piano lessons* but son is less enthused but has expressed interest in guitar. What age should I let him peel off and switch to guitar? He'll be in second grade. * caveat: no way in hell we can push Age x3 minutes of practice. I can stand firm on things like making every game & practice for a team sport, because its a commitment to the team. But if I made my daughter truly practice for 30 mins each day she'd quit in a heartbeat. I got no leverage, and she knows it! Fortunately they both practice mostly daily, and the instructor seems happy to take our checks.
  14. FWIW the gov signed the bill to (be able to) sell the Hobby building (SB 1349).
  15. Wild. Was the gate being lowered or adjusted, or did it just give way? Not that it matters, really.
  16. Dewater. What a great word.
  17. The cell phone videos from the California 8.1 quake are going to be crazy.
  18. I'm 99% confident that is not Bill.
  19. Somehow I ended up as recruiting chair for our cub scout pack. Spring JSN is coming up. Funny enough my daughter is in girl scouts and has negative interest in cub scouts despite it now being open to girls. Quoth my 3rd grader ahead our recent spring campout (to which I dragged her along) on the Friday before "all the boys I hate are excited about going." LOL
  20. Not any drama with AD, I don't care about that. (well, its fun, but not for purposes of this thread) I haven't been keeping up with higher education, but with Powers passing it has been on my mind. I know that UT regents and president resisted watering down the flagship, and for that Powers gets a lot of praise. At the time Perry and his crew announced an effort to make college more inexpensive, I was mostly supportive. I haven't really followed things closely. I have kids school age, and it strikes me that I'd like some good public institutions around that they could go to later. Plus good schools are good for Texas, generally. What is the deal with that 25x25 thing? Is A&M's rep backsliding? Is having more & cheaper education incompatible with having more Tier 1-ish public institutions in Texas? What is the reputation of schools like UT-Dallas, Houston, Tech, etc and how is that changing?
  21. SSC on college admissions (long): https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/15/increasingly-competitive-college-admissions-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
  22. mine was mostly flat ATX, '59. First time since maybe 2008 that was true. Of course the 10% cap finally catches up with me, so it will still feel like it is going up. As much as it stings, its honestly pretty close to accurate. People in my neighborhood complain all the time, but I bet if the put a FSBO sign out for the TCAD number, some Californian would offer a briefcase of cash by the end of the day.
  23. I am into those scale 4x4s. Recently sold my gmade but may get back into the hobby. Kinda miss it. They are great with kids, because they don't go fast and therefore don't shatter into a million pieces. And in terms of crawling and trail running, its more of a laid back intellectual exercise than fast twitch.
  24. Yes. Did you do a strop of wood on the outside of the purlin? I did that for the insides.
  25. re: OPs barndominium - any thought to putting up plywood on the externals walls before the metal panels? I also did steel to steel for my casita, and I wonder how much of a pain it will be if I ever have to replace the walls. Not sure what the life span for those walls would be... 20, 30, 40+? I hope I don't regret not having an under layer.
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