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CleverNickname

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  1. Not really. Well, I did find a used 21' ladder so that should hold for a while. I gotta build a 10x20 shed roof at la Casita. This weekend looks to be soggy, so I'm not sure if I will get up there. Did Big Bend / McDonald star party / Balmorhea for Spring Break.
  2. Bagged the South Rim with the kiddos this weekend. Did Boquillas for enchiladas, fresca, and cerveza today. Headed to observatory tonight, and to Balmorhhea tomorrow morning for a chilly baptism before home beckons. Window, Saturday evening:
  3. My 1/10 bandit and my sons 1/10 slash (with a beater body):
  4. I don't know how those dudes work a full shift busting ass. I can putter a bit at the ranch, but I'm going half speed most of the time. And day after day? Damn.
  5. Before I get old I want to get a dozen of these tainted pills just in case I need to crowd the plate, take one for the team, and earn a rbi the hard way.
  6. I was at the building supply store in Goldthwaite, and they locals were freaking out about being overwhelmed. They ran out of no trespassing signs. The worker pointed them to the purple blaze paint, but the lady wasn't having it. She said that she works in a law office and that the purple paint "wouldn't hold up - too many foreigners who wouldn't know." After she left I assured the checker that, as lawyer, it is true that purple paint is a legal method to mark no trespassing. But then I got to thinking, and if I were her lawyer and she was planning on shooting the hordes, that yeah... maybe more than purple paint would be a good idea. So anyway, nobody go get shot. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.30.htm#30.05
  7. If anyone wants ~15 of mesquite thicket, they can come take what they need.
  8. They said that preservatives would kill us, but perhaps they are just making people love longer. Maybe microplastics will make us immortal.
  9. https://youtu.be/CTuSi-U-Gl8?si=lGAH8Ourk9RB6arF
  10. @Rimbo that's crazy to me. On par with people who dont rver have an interior dialog or can't visualize things.
  11. Speaking of self loathing, this is one of my favs: https://youtu.be/lkajnfrLerU?si=Uy7089aXwB6XxoJP
  12. John Elway's Quarterback Normal/Reverse is my go to.
  13. He's a tortured artist Used to be in the Eagles Now he whines Like a wounded beagle Poet of despair! Pumped up with hot air! He's serious, pretentious And I just don't care Don Henley must die! Don't let him get back together With Glenn Frey! Don Henley must die!
  14. Probably easy to find now, but Making Love With You is great.
  15. She's mostly in to me for my penis.
  16. John Fullbright + Bruce Robison playing at Paramount in April. I'm old and psyched.
  17. I recently found out that my wife of 17 years and mother to my beautiful children doesn't really pay attention to the lyrics. I guess she just lets the vibes roll over? She doesn't really appreciate clever lyrics or concepts. I need some time to come to grips with this.
  18. My bad. I didn't realize Ray Dog had gotten himself into certain... quantum entanglements.
  19. Don't we already have one lovable free energy physicist? We might be at capacity.
  20. Pulled out the 8ft wood ladder. Too short on the deep end. Put a folding extension ladder. Got about 28 buckets out of the "shallow side" My buckets: So I'm about 11' even across the bottom. Next time I'll bring up some 2x10s for side lagging. It's time. Hoping to score a used 20 ft ladder. Might save the lagging for the heat of the summer, and try to get to 13' across before it gets too scorching.
  21. I have one that is a natural academic high achiever and another that is smart, but a satisficer who is okay coasting in that cohort below the GT crowd. (Second has natural confidence, lack of anxiety, positive disposition and social nature that I'd bet he makes more money in the real world. Unearned confidence of white boys is a super power.) All purpose advice: Focus on teaching grit. Help them work hard, encourage them to do the grind on their own initiative. That levelto be a chellenge but not too hard) may vary based on the kid, but just teach them that its okay to sometimes have to work hard. Encourage non academic sports and hobbies that don't come easy. Develop those good habits and attitude and they'll be happy and productive adults. Now maybe grit cannot really be taught. I dunno. So I also tell myself kid #2 can be fine with a degree from Texas State or Tech, or be a cop, or use that 529 money too be a linesman or electrician. Basically just pinch yourself, because I know *so many* super smart couples with kid(s) that struggle on the spectrum. My theory is assortive mating means 2 smart parents make kids that can be outliers. I pray those kids end up fine too. If you don't have those struggles, parenting is on easy mode.
  22. If he's never taken one before, I wouldn't want the first time right before I head to the airport. Lots of people are allergic.
  23. I'm alive. Barely. It's been rain in the forecast each weekend and I'm on what feels like day 21 of rsv/cold/flu/covid. And now begins spring sport weekend season, so time is a bit more scarce. On top of that, big wind blew off half my tree house roof, and I need to get new metal panels up. Sigh.
  24. Fwiw, I think the notion that senior in HS ought to have a concrete idea of what they want to do (let alone have substantive internships related to that) absolutely bonkers.
  25. My rising 9th graders counselors keep telling everyone (kids and parents) not to take "advanced" (pre-AP basically) everything. Take one or two classes with the norms, is how I interpret that. Does anyone listen? Like, she has expressed no real interest in engineering or sciences, but then again she is 14. Maybe she'll suddenly want to go med school and want lots of rigorous high school science. So: did yall's UT bound kids take pretty much AP/IB everything?
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