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Texas A&M Football 2025 - On the Edge of Glory(holes)
Hornbeliever replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I also went to this game to visit Stanford for grad school and watch the game. Worked at Enron at the time and they paid for all grad school visits so why the F not. Atmosphere and game were terrible but I do remember the positives: tiger and the fact that we were told ahead of time that security doesn’t check anything so we were able to bring in full bottles of liquor into the game and no one cared. -
For anyone in Houston, do you walk up and buy Rice tickets day of game? Buy in advance? TIA
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Made fig jam for fig-prosciutto pizzas and fig-cream cheese bagels. Easy process and deliciously fresh
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liam neeson is frank drebin, jr. naked gun is back.
Hornbeliever replied to henrygandorf's topic in Movies and TV
Watched it. It was exactly what you think a sequel like this would be like…decent movie, glad you went, but not great. though the night vision was one of funniest things I’ve seen in a while. -
I am super glad I waited….but I don’t know if that’s just rationalizing my decision or if that was actually the best choice. I do know this, I’ve knocked down 30-35 shots off my “handicap” which I don’t even know if one has a handicap when you never ever hit a drive on the (correct) fairway. My irons and putting would likely make me an 80s player bow but my drives are still pulling my score up 5-7 shots I bet. I only bought a package of ten lessons and my coach devoted 95% of time to finding my swing on irons/chips/putts and 5% on driver. Well, my game absolutely reflects that prioritization since we ran out of time. i also practiced the equivalent of what you smartly outlined. I have spent hours and hours on this new found hobby….obsession. Taking a break from lessons for a bit and just pounding balls (huh?) every other day for an hour or so. and yes, getting old sucks!! I’m in decent shape and have pulled a groin and strained a hamstring in last twelve months….after only pulling one muscle in 48 years of a quite active lifestyle. It’s one of the reasons I’ve started playing golf and giving up some other choices.
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@Bozo_Casanova we are on the same journey but I’m three months ahead and three years younger. Just finished my tenth of ten lessons and they’ve helped tremendously. I am no longer a hack and just a mediocre player. I just bought new clubs after my coach did a bit of a fitting. I wanted TaylorMade but after hitting various types of clubs, it became obvious that I was so much longer and more accurate with Mizuno 925s. I tried to pretend it was politics and not pay attention to the data in front of me but coach kept directing me back to the stats so I begrudgingly went with them and now I love them (after one whole round with them). I found no one talks to you about your swing. And like someone said, pick up a ball if putting group behind pace of play. No one cares about your score at all, people just care to not slow them down. Good luck to us newbs.
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We had burrata, pan de campo, beet salad, and a steak that were all A-players. the beef tartare dish (can’t remember the name they use) was a B. we only drank wine but their drinks looked great. This is my new date spot for sure.
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Credence is great. That is all.
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How is Memorial Park for beginner-ish players? I just started playing but am down 30 shots since i started a few months ago. Happy with progress since i started in April but happy in the way one is happy with someone on My 600-lb Life who lost 300 lbs…. Easy to lose 300 lbs when you are fat as shit just like it’s easy to drop 30 shots when you suck and shoot 130 first time out ( just cracked 98 at Sugarcreek). So still suck. I still have clubs gifted to me that were made in 1999 but now that I feel I’m committed to learning and playing this game, I’m going to buy new clubs in next month. I’ve take seven lessons and instructor finally told me my swing is far along to consider buying since swing is stabilizing a bit. Long way of saying I still hate slowing groups down so if Memorial Park is for like players in the 80s, I’ll continue playing at random places…but I live right by park so it would be nice to go play less than 5 minutes from my house rather than hodgepodge of places all over Houston I’ve played at that are 4-5x further.
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Sorry Mr Banks. Didn’t mean what I said
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Went to various parties where Elizabeth Banks was at pre-stardom. Any random UT bar in the late 90s had numerous better looking girls so it’s interesting to see what’s happened since mid-aughts with her.
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My daughter was 3rd grader on 3rd/4th grade league that was way more serious than I thought. Some parents acted like if their daughter was being scouted by UCONN. Even as serious as parents were, I did not see one purposeful pass the whole season so check your expectations. League was 100% pick and roll based and winning team had the better pg and defense. So yes to advice above about layups and defense. in this league, you could not double anyone whatsoever unless they were in paint and you couldn’t guard a girl in backcourt and no zone. Rules meant to allow some fluidity in game so I hated them at first but then grew to understand once I realized that without these rules, over/under would quite literally be 0.5. With these rules, over/under would be probably 40.
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Replaced a terrible light fixture with this one I made. Bought white oak and dug channels up top for the wiring and the six black pipes for the lights. This wood was so much harder to work with than regular Home Depot wood. Also pretty damn heavy so had to put it up with help of handyman. He had to hit the ceiling joists (?) exactly for large screws to go into. It was a process but was happy with his work.
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