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mininghorn88

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  1. Good things happen when you run the ball
  2. Brooks. 2 carries so far. Need I say more?
  3. Finally home from traveling abroad. Ready for some TEXAS!!!!! football!!
  4. I lived in Moore Hill on campus. My room was right above the front door on the second floor on the southwest entrance opening out onto 21st Street. Early one morning I heard a ruckus going on outside so I looked out my window to find Mary Lou arguing with the cops. They were having her Vette towed. This must have been a Monday morning and her car was not to be parked there. That is all I got.
  5. I fly a lot. I constantly see people boarding in the “need assistance” time that clearly do not need assistance. Rare do I see a gate agent stop them.
  6. Short on facial tattoos with the recent postings. I guess that genre of criminal is taking some time off.
  7. This right here. They keep saying, "Everyone is talking about Taylor Swift at the game tonight". Of course, because the camera is always panning to her and the commentators keep talking about it. If they would just shut up then no one would know or care. NFL just trying to increase the "brand".
  8. I was at a store Sunday afternoon in Shreveport. I was wearing a Texas Longhorn shirt. An elderly man (LSU alum) made a comment to me that Texas really put it to Kansas yesterday. I acknowledged his comment. He then said this: Man: "Next year y'all will be in the SEC where it will be a lot tougher". Me: Thinking to myself. Here it comes the old "the SEC is just so tough" that Texas will struggle. Man: "Adding Texas and OU will make it very strong. There is already Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss is having a good year, typically Florida and Auburn are decent. Carolina will get you from time to time too. You guys are coming on strong again. What a conference it will be". Me: "Whoa, whoa, whoa. You left out aggy". Man: Laughingly. "No I did not". Me: "I am glad to see that y'all are seeing what we have always known". Man's wife: "Oh, we have always known about them. They are crazy. We have some family members that are aggy. They are in their 70s. The whole fanbase is crazy. They never grow out of it". Our conversation continued a bit more ranging from football to education merits of the various schools. There were no merits for aggy mentioned.
  9. From Sydney, Australia about to start heading back home to the great state of TEXAS!!!
  10. I had an ablation performed back in April to correct my SVT. Had lay still for about 4 hours on my back in recovery. Couldn’t even cross my legs at the ankles. Back started to hurt.
  11. I don’t mind getting hot and sweaty if I am working or doing some sort of exercise, etc. I despise getting hot if I am on a flight or in a building/room and it is warm and air conditioning is available and it is not being properly used. The latter usually happens when I am overseas as people just use AC differently than what Americans are used too. Spent last week in China and am now in Australia right now sweating my balls off on a domestic flight to Brisbane.
  12. Only as a teenager. Worked 3 nights at a Whataburger and quit to go to work at a Sirloin Stockade where all of my buddies were working. Worked there for about 4 months when summer started and I then got a job with a civil engineering firm. I worked for the engineering firm every summer while I was in college. As an adult, no.
  13. I am glad that I went to UT when I did (84 thru 88). There is no way that I could get in today. Growing up all my daughter knew was UT and that was here dream school and the only school she wanted to go to. I was in constant contact with UT admissions and her high school counselor constantly checking on her placement in the top 10%. My then wife tried to talk her into taking other school visits but she was just not interested. She did eventually visit Baylor (nursing) just to please the ex. Knowing that UT was all that she wanted was stressful. The ex was not involved at all so it all fell on me and there was no way I was going to fail my daughter. This went on several months until I get a call from her counselor saying that she set the deadline on class standings and my daughter was the cutoff for the top 10%. I remember shutting my office door and crying with happiness for my daughter and the relief from the stress. My daughter was admitted in the fall of 2010 and graduated in 2014. I don’t know what I would have done had she not gotten in. Luckily it did not come to that. I now have a granddaughter that is 4 and is all in with Texas. Praying now!!
  14. Whenever my daughter would come home from UT for a visit I would always wash her car. When she got ready to leave I would follow her to the local gas station and fill her gas tank up for her. Just a little more precious daughter and dad time.
  15. 4 of the top 5 are SEC schools so it is a win for aggy. Next year it will be 5 of the top 10 which will be a scoreboard loss to aggy courtesy of hello Texas.
  16. SIAP. What has become of Neyor? Hurt? Just cannot crack the lineup?
  17. I see this everyday on my drive to work on I-20 in NE Texas
  18. Some people were born to complain. It was a good win. Special Teams exempted. A 32 point win is nothing to scoff at. Two possessions were lost due to ST fumbles. Had Sark continued to press to breach 40 or 50 with all of the starters in and one (or more) had been injured, everyone would bitch about leaving the starters in too long risking injury. Plus, having a lead this large allowed for the offense to work on some plays for future use in a real-time conditions without any real game harm other than ticking off the fan base. The same goes for the defense in letting others get valuable playing time in a low risk situation. I would rather use games like this, that are well in hand, to experiment and gain playing time for others than to not bring others in just to maintain stats and make the fans "happy". There have been plenty of times where a non-starter is forced to come in due to injury and the fanbase laments the fact that they had not had any previous real game time experience. Baylor's will was broke after Texas' first score. After that it was like a cat toying with a mouse; all the mouse can hope for is a quick death. Revel in the scoreboard.
  19. Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me….something something something
  20. Hug them. Kiss them. Tell them that you love them. Be present. But, it sounds like you know what to do. Just do it.
  21. I had a great-uncle that was a combat medic in the ETO during WW2. Prior to enlisting in 1937 he served in the CCC in the southwest. Great guy, always smiling and happy. He is the one that jumped started my WW2 military collection. During the war he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor. He would never really say how he earned it other than to say that he stumbled upon some Germans and all that he had was a hypodermic needle as a weapon. Upon his death another elderly uncle told me that he earned the BS by liberating some US soldiers that had been captured by some German soldiers. He would not go into detail on how he did it other than to say, “just know that the soldiers were freed”. My guess was that the “needle” was a sidearm. Either way he was a badass.
  22. His Surly handle should have alerted you that he is old. It has been a long ass time since a treaty was signed under an oak tree.
  23. From our Beijing office ready to stream the game “my tomorrow” morning!! FIGHT!!!
  24. IMO, I would roll with this right here in a positive way.
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