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Knoxtnhorn

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  1. Thanks for the head's up. I need to do a better job of following. After moving from cycling heaven (East TN), I've lost a lot of my cycling desire due to the fact that there's nowhere to bike in this God forsaken place (DFW) unless you're in to mountain biking. I'm tepid on mountain biking. I'd rather road. Anyway, I watched the first 5 or so stages of La Vuelta, then forgot about it. Found out a couple of months later that Kuss had won. Went back and watched the rest.
  2. Got another one. While putting my wife through her undergrad, then Master's before returning to school myself, I worked at a Mexican restaurant in Knoxville. Manager fired me one night. He was being a bitch, so I threw my apron at him. I didn't expect 15 pens and 40 coins to turn into restaurant, break room shrapnel. The next day, I quickly obtained a temp-to-perm job at Whirlpool. I was to train for a month, then fill in for those on vacation. Something that should have been easy was incredibly difficult. Contractors building housing developments would call to order appliances. I had to be able to determine which appliances, with certain outlets, and certain product numbers, go where. It was FAR more confusing than it should have been. I show up on Day 2 and their all, "Congrats! You're on the floor!". I barely knew how to answer the phone at this point. Cool. I'll just do my best and wing it. First call. 8:01AM. "I need 34 units of the T34 model with outlet codes xyz." I mean, I'm typing b.s., but it's nowhere close to how confusing this was. I put the guy on hold and just leave. Later that day, I talked my manager into giving me my restaurant job back.
  3. Mother effer. Flying to Vegas Tuesday. Just herniated a disc in my back. This is the *5th time in the last 12 years so, at least I know the drill. F sakes. I am not looking forward to the flight. *Herniated disc; not trip to Vegas.
  4. Also wanted to add my worst and shortest job to the thread. I was working at the Blockbuster on Riverside during the school year. I went home for the summer and worked at the local (Garland) Blockbuster. In not having to be at work til 10AM, I decided to apply for a prep job at McDonald's, which was located in the same shopping center. Show up at 6AM, cut some vegies, head over the Blockbuster at 10. The more I work now, the less I have to do when I get back to Austin in August. So, yeah. I lasted an hour. Bitchass, 300 lb shift manager started bitching at me for leaning on a counter while I was cleaning. I had had ACL surgery about 4 months prior, so I was still a little wobbly. I told her to go fuck herself and threw the cleaning rag at her. As I was walking out, I was all, "That was kind of cool." Little victories before becoming responsible.
  5. Was that it? That sounds incredibly correct as I do recall it had something to do with water. I think the town they dropped us off in was possibly Seguin. I know it had a decent sized college - hence the time spent in the library. I also recall we traveled south on 35 for a bit.
  6. Gee. What a shock. Shitty officiating.
  7. I damn near had a heart attack last night reading this. I think my gummy was kicking in extra strong but the line, "I can already tell without reading that this is cringey". I couldn't breath for 5+ mins I was laughing so hard.
  8. Lol. I've seen this meme for 3 days and thought the "gotcha" was the penis imprint in his jeans. /No homo
  9. I'm trying to watch, but fam just took over the TV room.
  10. God I hope you're close.
  11. Simmons playing like Phil Pozderac. Dig up that old reference Cowboy fans.
  12. Coincidentally similar stories at similar time frames.
  13. Dirt poor. Second year at UT. I come across an ad in the Daily Texan for environmental activism or somesuch. Pays up to $300 a night. I like green things like trees and money so, let's do it. I show up at 4PM. The job was essentially raising money from door-to-door. About 8 of us get picked up in a van. They drive us to some semi-rich burb south of Austin. I'm to follow another person around for 2 hours, then go it alone. I watch this guy occasionally bag $20 here and there. The rest of the time he's getting door slammed in his face. IIRC, there was some catch where you could earn $300, but that was if you raised $700. 7PM arrives and I'm off on my own. First door gets slammed in my face and I'm all, "F this". I find a small community college library and hang out there for a couple of hours. Van ride back sucked. Could have been worse. I picked this ad over a salmon fishery in Alaska.
  14. Knoxtnhorn

    Getting old sucks

    As someone who has always had nagging injuries due to sports and cycling, I hate that I'm at the age where I can't tell the difference between serious and trivial. The other day I woke up with a pretty severe pain in my groin. I had not done anything active lately, so my first thought was Lance Armstrong and cancer. Five days later, it's completely gone. Nothing. At 20, I wouldn't have given it a second thought.
  15. Question as I may have missed the memo. In rooting against San Fran and Detroit per poss future playoffs games, does it matter? Would the Boys have to go on the road against either team due to them winning their division? I just assumed best record hosts.
  16. Lol. That hold on Becton. If that's a hold, then Big 12 officials are missing 5+ holds a play.
  17. So aggy groupthink has shifted with the (lack of) win(d)s. 1. We have the best recruiting class of all time. We will be in the playoffs. 2. Jimbo sucks, but the recruits are still awesome. Let's hire a coach that will keep them. 3. Elko is hired and aggy Titanic begins to sink. 4. Well, those guys sucked because look at our record.
  18. Samesies. Hell, I'm to the point now that I'll come out of the wknd happy if all of my teams lose except TX.
  19. That's why I couldn't be on this show despite my wife's constant nagging about applying. Recall the challenge in/around episode 3 where they had to build some sort of plant thing using items around a swamp. Several got stuck because the particulars were so specific. They get to the maypole and it's all, "Just throw the shit together". Having one minor detail curtail my efforts would send me through the roof. Oh, and lol at Midsommar.
  20. Bump. The more, the merrier.
  21. Ok. I wondered if I was the only one. I know shitall about X's and O's as I only achieved the level of "intramurals brother". That being said, I don't see KState as having some inventive, can't stop this, offense.
  22. Heck yeah. Fav contest of the year. In for 2 entries.
  23. I think the best part of the aggy argument is that we don't deserve to be there BUT we're somehow favored against UW. I believe I saw odds that had TX as the overall fav behind UM - in betting circles.
  24. I think my favorite aggy oxymoron is the "Big Brother/Little Brother" thing. We're little brother with no power, yet we apparently control all the refs, the Big 3 networks, ESPN and Disney, the playoff committee, all the sports talking heads, the state legislature, and the SEC president. Our lack of power and presence has also destroyed two conferences, and we're on the way to destroying the SEC.
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