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Your Mom

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  1. I was getting worried on this one. Wordle 240 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛ ⬛🟦⬛⬛🟦 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟦🟧🟦⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
  2. If you like little airplanes it’ll be great. I took Capr Air to Tortola in the BVI years ago.
  3. Wordle 239 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟦🟧 ⬛🟧🟦⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
  4. My kid was in 8th grade with a kid with a beard. He played football with a different colored helmet because they had to borrow a bigger one from the high school to fit him.
  5. New Geico commercial, not particularly stupid nor memorable for any reason, but I kept trying to figure out where I've seen that dude...
  6. Not married but a weekend get-away is my standard gift for the gf now. A winery, a camping trip, or whatever. I decided recently I’m done buying shit just because someone is due for a gift. Christmas and birthdays too. Kids are getting trips, concert tickets, etc. Experiences rather than stuff. GF too. Parents and sibling get donations to the charities that mean something to them.
  7. My backpack rant: Too many straps and too many pockets. Having shit strapped all over the outside of your pack is irritating. I can see maybe a simple pair of compression straps if your not disciplined enough to just pack less, but you really don’t need a dozen loops and adjustment straps all over it. Pockets on top of other pockets defeat the purpose. Once you fill one of them up, the other is nearly unusable and is now wasted cloth. I like having one large cavernous packing area, one single pocket for earbuds, snack passport, etc... and a tablet sleeve against the back. Ospey makes good stuff and I have a huge one for backpacking in the wilderness and another for a hydration backpack on long mountain bike rides. But for civilized travel I like the plainer packs with fewer bells and whistles. I like the Peak Designs 45L. Lots of space without 14 unnecessary pockets. The Eagle Creek pack midtown posted above is a great bag for half the price. Packing cubes are a waste. Some people swear by them. I don’t get it. I can roll, fold, and pack my clothes in the exact same manner without using the cube. I live out of a suitcase 3 days a week. I’ve never had a problem that a packing cube could solve.
  8. I'd be shocked if every council member, every significant city staffer, and a large number of her voters didn't already know about it all. In today's world, where Presidents get their mushroom dicks described in detail by trailer trash porn stars in tell-all books, it's just another person showing their tits and nobody cares. There is no smoking gun on this. It's just not relevant in today's world.
  9. Tell Romeo we're all sorry to hear about the divorce.
  10. I hate smoke detectors. I’d almost rather risk the house burning down than have them go off every time the oil in the cast iron skillet gets a little warm.
  11. That’s a really awful angle to mount the FMCs.
  12. Another board I frequent has lots of posts about camping. These guys are always asking about the best LED lights to illuminate their campsites. It boggles my mind. The less light the better anytime you are sitting outside enjoying yourself. I bitch at my kids when they fire up a flashlight when the ambient light would have been adequate.
  13. Come on man. That’s the vocal minority. I’m in our most redneck base and almost everyone I fly with is happily vaxxed. As for Bob, nobody knows shit about him. Most of us had never even heard the name before until he was announced last year. Turns out he was in charge of all our IT stuff a while back, and that’s umm… cause for concern. Didn’t know he was an Aggie until I read this thread.
  14. Just took a walk around the block in 78749. Some ice here and there but mostly just water. Just saw that Valentinas is opening today. Probably gonna make that my last journey on the streets for the day to grab a few Real Deal Holyfields for breakfast for the house.
  15. The flight is almost certainly not coming in. I’d be surprised if your airline has not pre-canceled it.
  16. i’m probably using the wrong terminology. All the plumbing and electrical that runs to the pool is in place and the deck is poured. They’ve been delivering equipment sporadically but it’s all still in boxes and not hooked up yet. We are currently one month behind schedule they told me to expect.
  17. A wife married to a bonafide Grizzly fucking Adams probably has less need for those devices than the rest of our wives. Someone upthread mentioned it, but I’d like to hear some of your scariest stories of times shit was going wrong. And thanks for what looks like it has the potential to be the best thread on surly. Username checks out.
  18. Thanks! I had a Mexican girlfriend for a while who got a recipe from her grandmother and made it a few times. But she was high and to the right on the matrix so eventually my desire to not get stabbed eclipsed my love of that candy.
  19. Is this your cooler?
  20. My dad and his wife are artists. Paid the bills and raised two kids with art. The talent skipped a generation with me but I appreciate art. The mixing of old and new techniques is interesting to me. Hand-drawn pictures with old real photos embedded, and then digitally altered and finally printed on an old-school printing press... I like stuff like that. Jake Bryer's digitally layers composite photographs are some of my favorite work from the last few years. I have a few of his prints on my walls. If you're looking for quality local art without pretentious gallery prices, check out Austin Art Garage hidden on South Lamar. They have lots of work from local artists. Some of Jake's work: https://austinartgarage.com/collections/jake-bryer
  21. This thread already a has every eatery from my childhood in north Austin in the late 70's to mid 80's. Scampi's Organ Pizza with that cymbal-banging monkey, Monterrey House on Burnet with those badass crumbly candies after the meal (That candy is called Leche Quemada, it's my favorite candy of all time, not to be confused that that nasty praline bar soft shit that looks like it. Last place I found it was a hole in the wall Mexican Joint called Noyola's in Humble), Pizza Inn, Showbiz Pizza, The Stallion. My dad bought a booth from The Stallion when they shut down and it was in our kitchen the rest of my childhood.
  22. Kenny beat me to it.
  23. I'm at 5 months. Deck coating, equipment, and plaster to go.
  24. That is stock suspension. In that photo the AHC is in High because we had gone down 27 miles of dirt roads with some rocky creek crossings to get there. But it normally rides an inch or two lower in Neutral node. I'm happy with the AHC setup. My lines aren't rusty and everything still works fine. I did buy a new set of AHC globe actuators that I haven't installed yet. It still rides smoother than my 2006 Tacoma but not as smooth as others describe and I suspect my AHC globes are near the end of their life. You can test that by counting the fluid graduations in the reservior between High mode and Low. My graduations are at 7 which is the threshold for needing replacement, 14 graduations is what new globes should have. The system works still but I'm told the ride will improve with new globes that move more fluid. I've flushed the fluid before and it was fairly simple. Swapping globes with a fluid flush shouldn't be much harder, except some people report a lot of difficulty unscrewing the old globes and have to resort of a chisel and hammer. I've been soaking mine in PB Blaster every few days lately and might tackle that this week. I need the AHC because with the tent on top it will only fit in my garage if I lower it all the way to Low mode. If I replace it with conventional suspension I'll need to remove the tent or park outside. My wheels are stock. They were powdercoated black. The tires are 285/75r16 Nitto Terra Grapplers. My understanding is that that's the largest size that won't rub. The nittos have a little less agressive tread than BFG K02s. All in all I really like the vehicle. I put a ton of miles on it and I find it very comfortable and enjoyable to drive, albeit slow. I'm going to drive it for another year and a half or so and then it will go to one of my sons.
  25. Not much going on here on my front. They poured my deck a few weeks ago. Still waiting on equipment installation, deck coating, and plaster. Question on the equipment: I recall a lot of folks having their stuff freeze up and break last year during the snowpocalypse. Other than leaving it running at a low speed, what could have been done to prevent that? Do people ever build a little enclosure around it? Is that practical or worthwhile?
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