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  1. 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.
  2. From Sydney, Australia about to start heading back home to the great state of TEXAS!!!
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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!!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. SIAP. What has become of Neyor? Hurt? Just cannot crack the lineup?
  10. I see this everyday on my drive to work on I-20 in NE Texas
  11. 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.
  12. Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me….something something something
  13. Hug them. Kiss them. Tell them that you love them. Be present. But, it sounds like you know what to do. Just do it.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. From our Beijing office ready to stream the game “my tomorrow” morning!! FIGHT!!!
  17. IMO, I would roll with this right here in a positive way.
  18. May 1992. My then wife was expecting our son to be born in late May. This also coincided with the third birthday of our daughter. So to avoid having a potential conflict on their respective birthdays we elected to have our daughter's birthday party earlier in the month. My ex-wife went into labor a couple of days before the birthday party. No big deal, or so we thought. I am in the delivery room with her. She is having a c-section. Once our son was birthed I was sitting next to the ex comforting her as they took our son to get him cleaned up. As I am sitting there next to her while the doctor is sewing her up the nurse comes over and matter-of-factorily says, "Your son has a breathing problem and it is not good". And then walks away. The doctor quickly looked at her with a "WTF" look on his face. I just sat there for a moment in a bit of a daze. They immediately put our son on oxygen since his numbers were so low. I remember asking the doctor, "Is my son going to die"? Fortunately my ex was out of it due to the surgery so she was not fully aware of what all was going on. The nurse did come by later to apologize for the way that she delivered the news. My son was on oxygen the remainder of that day and overnight. His levels began to get into the normal range the following day. So as the day progressed the ex and I felt confident enough in our sons recovery that I should go home to be with our daughter so that I could be there with her for her birthday party. So Friday night I go home for the Saturday party. As I am taking a shower Saturday morning I get a call on the phone but I miss it. As I am getting out of the shower I hear a neighbor banging on our front door. He tells me that my son has taken a turn for the worse overnight and that they are transporting him to a different hospital. I drop everything and head back to the hospital. To compound the situation the doctor on-call had gone into my ex's room to tell her that our son's condition was declining and that they were moving him. He just then left her there all alone and freaking out and for her to not be able to immediately get me on the phone just made it worse. I get to the hospital in time to watch them load our son into an ambulance. They discharge my ex to allow her to go to the new hospital with him. So she and I follow the ambulance to the different hospital about an hour away. We rode in silence fearing for the worse. It was horrible knowing that we had no control and that all we could do was to pray and put trust into the medical staff. Once at the new hospital by mid-morning, the staff went to work putting all types of sensors on him including applying oxygen once again. This on a Saturday now. By late Sunday he was breating on his own and all of his measurables were fine. Come Monday morning they declared that all is well but would keep him there for a couple of more days just to be certain. He did just fine the rest of the way. To be cautious the hospital sent us home with a device that would monitor his breating and pulse. It was basically a strap with embedded sensors that would wrap around his torso. The problem with the device is that sometimes it would work loose and would cause a false alarm. There is nothing like being in full sleep and hearing that alarm go off at night and bolting into his room to check on him. I believe that the machine caused more harm than good because of the stress that it would put us through when it would go off. Fast forward to about a year when we decide to no longer put him on the montor partly because not once in the previous time had we received any real alarms but also because of the damage to the machine incurred when my wife burned some baby bottle nipples on the stove (this story is shared in a different thread on Surley). Our son has turned out just fine; smart (college grad) and physically fit (played football and ran track where he was the anchor leg on all of the relays). I am trying to get him to do the American Ninja Warrior type stuff because he would excel with it. Our daughter does not really remember us missing her third birthday party that we left in the hands of good neighbors. She has turned out great too!
  19. We all know how pivotable having a good to great QB is to the team’s overall success. Texas has experienced it and now Bama is going through it. Will be curious to see just how effective a Deion team will be without having a QB the caliber that his son is at the helm. As we know, those are hard to come by.
  20. This move will make me reconsider Delta. I have been Diamond for years with both mileage and money spend requirements. All of this is courtesy of business travel. Last year, when they raised the money spend amount, I got a Delta card for personal spend since getting to the new milestone money wise by business travel would be marginal. Now with them raising the amount again, well, I just don’t know. I am a million miler plus on Delta. I am sitting around 700k with American for lifetime. It would take me a year to reestablish my status on American. I have never had to wait to get into a club either.
  21. On a flight to Paris and then connecting on to Beijing. Am able to stream on the flight and receiving it through DirecTV. I saw some more Horn fans on this flight too. A young (to me) couple. Did not get a chance to say “hi”. They are decked out in their Horns gear. The guy has a Manning jersey on. Let’s go! Texas Fight!!!
  22. Working from home today in 75650 prepping for a 2 week business trip to China and Australia. Unfortunately going to miss some games. FIGHT!!!
  23. Sounds like Dr. Seuss wrote this part.
  24. I made it until roughly 10:57am CDT today, September 14. Dammit.
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