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  1. 21 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    San Jacinto battlefield will be a bunch of shitty identical-looking subdivisions

    Don’t have to worry about this, that’s the fuck side of town that no one, including the people that do, wants to live in.

    21 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    the Alamo will be moved to less-desirable real-estate.

    More concerning.  

  2. 7 minutes ago, troph said:

    To each his own.  My top 5-10 fishing experiences are all on a fly rod. 11-15 probably conventional off shore but give me another 5 years and those will drop further, after that it’s back to the fly rod. And I’ve barely scratched the surface. No permit, caught but haven’t landed 12-14 pound bonefish you have not heard a reel scream until you’ve seen a large bone take off, caught but haven’t landed a 50 lb tarpon and the fucker jumped 3 feet into the air before it through the hook, caught a heavy weight GT which is a catch of a lifetime, caught a 28-30 inch red, caught a slot from 60 feet away with a perfect cast and the momentary skill of a pro, and more reds and trout than I can count, almost all I saw them before they saw me and I targeted them. I’ve hit the mother load of 10+ trout in 30 mins on a fly rod more than once but first with Hollywood, on a fly rod is an incredible way to hunt fish and I started at 43-45 years old. There’s always time. You get bored it’s the next level. The draw is inexplicable.

    You’re describing what topwater fishing is to me.  Watching that wake come up behind and then the toilet bowl flush into a 30” sow, or the hand grenade that goes off when that upper slot red somehow wraps their stupid bottom feeding mouth around the back end of that spook.  Caught a >100# YF on a popper and spinning reel, after watching them soar into the sky when they missed it.  Chicken dolphin on single hook spooks around weed lines.  I bet I could catch 20x the fish if I didn’t insist on fishing one lure 95%+ of the time.  But when it’s on, there’s nothing like it (for me). I’ve got a shoulder I got to get figured out because it’s keeping me off the water for far too long. 

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  3. 17 minutes ago, troph said:

    That’s cool. They deserve to get bored. The rest of us have a lot more fishing to do before we are entitled to be bored. The power of humility, gratitude and appreciation is real. 

    Make no mistake, I’m sure he’s happier than he lets on.  I chalked it up to what it’s like when you hook a red while fishing Baffin in Feb.   Off my line carp, I’m here for the sows.  On legit 30+ fish days I’m sure you’re looking for something new to bite.  I assume because I’ve never been a part of something like that. 

  4. 26 minutes ago, troph said:

    Yeah but who is doing the real fishing? Until they are up at 1am the night before getting the rigging just right - or owning the boat and paying the crew to do that - then they aren’t really fishing.  

    Iirc they got heavy into bills in the 70’s, family and friends as crew. The old man is almost 80 now, so yeah he’s not captaining the boat anymore, or hunting bills in the gulf for that matter.  They’ve downsized their SF (to a smaller one) and chase pelagics down in Mexico and CR now.  For many years it wasn’t uncommon to have 2-3 captains from that family tree running boats fishing the big tournaments here (Poco, legends, TIFT) at any given time.  Salty, salty family on both sides. 

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  5. I took the kids CR50 around our green belt for about an hour a couple of nights ago.   I forgot how relaxing it can be even when poking around at relatively low speeds.  I need a dual sport. 

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  6. 11 minutes ago, troph said:

    My view is as things stop working for you it’s important to be more responsible for the full catch. Hard to do off shore but I’m sure catching a sail when you set up the rig, you figure out where to go and how to hunt for them is way more satisfying. In the end most of us tourist fish for pelagics, that’s a very narrow fishing experience and 95% of the fishing is done by someone else. I compare it to a Colorado vacation float trip for trout versus soup to nuts doing it yourself. Night and day difference. 

    This is someone who easily has triple digit sails, and they probably getting close on blues.  Grew up fishing the Marlin tournaments.  It’s (big) blues or bust for them, for whatever reason.  I always personally loved them.  And tuna.  And trout.  

  7. 5 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

    I cannot imagine 45 billfish.

    Don’t think sails are as bad, and the light gear helps. Have a buddy that fishes down there 1-2x a year and they’ve had a couple 35+ days over the last few trips.  Unreal.  Thing is, sails no longer do it for them.  Which would suck imo. 

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  8. On 4/9/2024 at 8:05 PM, uoftorange said:

    Not finished still a good amount to do, but sized it up and got the drawers and drawer fronts installed.  

    I built the top piece to go on as well.  

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    Built the top shelving and above that will be my rack mount for my media server.

    First coat of paint on, hope to have it all done by Friday.  Might get a bug up my ass and install the drawer pulls tonight

     

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    Hiding cash under your shoe in a clear box, huh? 
     

    That looks great.  Following because full closet is in my list. But I don’t have the talents for this.  If wife would let me weld something up, I’d be in business. 

  9. 7 minutes ago, pantone159 said:

    Sorry about your luck. If you don't get a good look at totality, you miss the good part. A total eclipse is like nothing else you have ever seen. That includes any pictures you have seen before, which just don't capture how unreal it looks. All the leadup where the sun turns crescent, things get dark, is cool but not unreal like the eclipsed sun.

    We were in same boat. Damn, didn’t realize how bad we missed it.  Guess I might get a reunion trip to Oz in a few years.  

  10. 4 hours ago, Captainant said:

    That's... not the transmission lines between the vast renewables in West Texas and the rest of the state nor the high power transmission lines that caused more than a million acres to burn? And yeah, I've been looking at a downed wood pole on my street for a week and a half now, I'm eager for a metal replacement whenever they get around to it. 

    But I'm glad you have a local anecdote that gives you the thin justification to act like there's not a systemic issue

    Yes, I understand very well the difference between transmission and distribution.  Your post references neither, only that infrastructure isn’t valued because losses to shareholders.   Which patently (and anecdotally in this case) is false. 

  11. On 4/4/2024 at 8:17 AM, Jerry Callo said:

    When he's old enough, have him get a job at HEB.  My daughter (no pics) worked there her senior year in high school, goes on LOA while she is away at college, picks up shifts over school breaks and summer, and gets two partner discount cards.  10% off HEB branded items which includes most chicken and beef.  The discount card works even while she is on LOA.  Over holiday weekends, the discount card goes to 25% off.

    I used to manage an engineer that was great at engineering, but couldn’t take the stress that comes with the projects we’d execute.  He worked at HEB thru college, and was assistant manager or something similar when he left.   He wanted to go back so bad.  I often wonder if he ever just said fuck it, I’ll take the cut and returned after I left. 

  12. 6 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Not building more power lines aids profitability and thanks to our regulatory capture, creates a natural disincentive for a profit driven entity just through market forces. It makes power less available so utilities have more ability to induce local shortages to enable them to charge exorbitant rates! And plus who's gonna pay for those new  capital investments for infrastructure to reduce systemic risk?? It certainly can't be the shareholder!!! 

    Theres been North Houston pole trucks putting up new poles everywhere you look in a 75 mile radius outside Houston for the last 18 months. Replacing wooden poles with the brown painted metal shit. Probably so they can decrease profitability, right. 

  13. 18 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    Man, I could crush all of that with the exception of the weight limit

    That’s what I was thinking. Medicine ball would be a bitch on my 40 yo shoulders, though. Didn’t think I’d be over weight, username blah blah.  I’m pretty well past the weight (~20#) but the physical wouldn’t be an issue.  Even if he wasn’t mentally  insufficient, not a chance short and fat Rittenhouse makes those weights. 

  14. 8 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    Expensive place to buy, but fun just to look at their inventory - particularly their milsurp hardware.

    Used to go by there on lunch breaks every 3 weeks or so.  You can handle some really cool stuff.   They aren’t just high on the rare stuff, they’re higher than giraffe pussy on everything. Lots of it WELL used and beat to shit, too.   Must be doing something right though, they’ve got ALOT of inventory. 

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