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Your Mom

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  1. If I'm making two or more cups I use the chemex. If it's just a cup for me I use a Melitta brew cone and their #2 filter Same prcocess as a chemex but it drips right into your mug. The melitta cone is also a good system for camping, with a portable hand grinder or a bag of pre-ground if you're a savage. Water comes from a fancy electric kettle with a proper spout at home or a Jetboil canister with a rough pour when camping. The brew cone is less than $4 at HEB.
  2. Yeah, but I think he means just the cowboy themed ones.
  3. Does Lost Mines have something that connects to Pinnacles? Or are you planning to hike Lost Mine out and back before beginning the loop? Everything you're going to see sounds great. I've done the loop over two days and wished I had spent at least 3 doing it. 2 days left us without enough time to stop and enjoy it as much. If I were you I'd consider spending more time on and around the East and South Rims. It's the highlight of everything there. I've walked past ER2 but don't remember much about it. ER4 is the campsite you hear people rave about. We stayed there but, and maybe this was a seasonal thing, the view from there was far more obstructed by trees than I was expecting. ER6 or ER7 would be my preference next time. They put you closer to the rim and a shorter trip to wander out from camp and watch the sunrise from the edge of the cliff. The rangers are adamant that you plan on finding no water at Boot Spring. It was running when I was there last and we used it, just to say we did, but I'd plan on having enough without it. https://bigbendchat.com/ is a great source of up-to-date info.
  4. On the power and efficiency thing... when I went to flats I didn't feel like I was missing much but when I came back to clipless I realized I had been. Echoing Cooter's advice, 5.10 Freeriders are grippy as hell with a sole stiff enough to help you pedal better and just flexy enough to walk in. The difference between riding in normal sneakers and riding in 5.10s or similarly built MTB shoe is probably almost as big as the difference from those to clipless pedal shoes.
  5. I ride some of both. For many years I only rode clipless (worst misnomer in the industry). A few years ago I was going through a bunch of injuries and went a couple years without riding mountain bikes much at all. When I came back I was really tentative on technical stuff. I'd find myself unclipping at the slightest sign of trouble because I was more worried about falling over clipped in than I was about getting over the obstacle. Switching to flats helped that a lot. I was no longer worried about staying clipped in too long, I knew I could dab a foot down at a moments notice and it gave me a lot more confidence to commit to the move in trouble spots. Sometimes that one extra pedal stroke or the extra half second of effort to huck yourself up a rock is all you needed. Riding flats helped me stay engaged that much longer. As my riding has improved I've gone more and more back to clipless pedals. Maybe because I used to ride road bikes a lot, but I notice a big advantage in power and efficiency riding clipless. If you're a masher you might not notice it but I often find myself pulling through the bottom of the stroke and it helps me significantly. After a season or so of riding, clipping in and out just happens fairly effortlessly. It's been years since I've had any trouble at all unclipping. The action becomes as intuitive as anything else you do on a bike and happens without thought eventually.
  6. For sure. I almost forgot!... I was able to improve the quality of one of the ones I shot a month or two ago with some editing. Haven't taken anything new yet with the better camera settings. Here's Brushy back in Nov on the bike I just sold. Looking for something similar in 29 now. The fun stuff at Snail Trail is the last minute or so. I need to try some new routes through that but the one I did first is so much fun I never deviate from it.
  7. I've only been to Spider once, with WD40 and I planned on starting out on the greens too. He was right, they get boring immediately. Blues were perfect for me. For some reason I pictured the place being built for hardcore pro DH riders and that I'd be a little out of my league. It was not the case at all. The blues have some good rollers and little gaps you can either jump or roll, some chunky spots, some drops with options for big or small, and a super fun jump line with some moderate table tops and kickers at the bottom. I need to go back. I sold my Pivot 5.5 and checking out other rides now. I'm back on my older Salsa Horsethief for now as a daily driver. Demoed a Pivot Switchblade the other day and it was incredible. I spent all day at Reveille Peak on it, a few times down Flowdillo and then all over the granite trails up and down the hill. Had a little extra time before I had to turn it back in so I hit a couple spots at Brushy when I got back to town. I forgot the gopro that day of course. Going to try to ride a Ripmo this week and maybe one other before I make up my mind on what to buy.
  8. Quoting an older post, but I’m curious where you’re getting that from. I’m more interested in the contact tracing data than positivity rates and total cases but I’m not seeing that data on the AISD dashboard.
  9. As I questioned before. What are you doing to do with a US citizen? Where are you going send them when you deny their entry? Back to where they came from? What if that country won't let them in? They’ll put the burden on the airlines to deny boarding to anyone without the test.
  10. Figured this it was a joke until I saw who wrote it. Fuck off with that shit. Any crowd that surrounds any vehicle and starts banging on the windows deserves what happens next. Fuck around and find out.
  11. Yes, a white football with a picture of Vince young on it and a listing of his stats was game used.
  12. And I thought my industry had a lot of acronyms. You people are speaking in tongues.
  13. I dropped my LX off this morning to have the timing belt and water pump done at Land Cruiser Specialist in Austin. I always like checking out what they have coming through the shop. A whole fleet of awesomeness was there today including this especially sweet 200. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  14. That's the outfit and huge knitted mittens he wore to the inauguration yesterday.
  15. If I'm picking one QB for the season it's Simms by a longshot. If I'm picking one QB for a single series with the game on the line it's Applewhite. From everything I heard back then Simms was better liked and respected by his teammates. The views of the fans and the lockerroom seemed to be at polar opposites of each other. Part of what made Major a fan favorite was that he was skinny and awkward and was only recruited because Mack wanted Greg Brown and Travis Minor from the same high school. Expectations were low from the start. If he was a highly recruited guy at 6'5" with a cannon of an arm and put up his same numbers he'd just be another name in a list of pretty good UT QBs. He was a gamer for sure in the times we needed him the most but he was never the guy the fans built him up to be. You just expect that a guy that goofy who makes some clutch plays is going to be a good guy. The people I know who were friends with him in and after college said he was a generally a douchebag.
  16. According to my kids, 8th graders are having quite a bit of sex anyway. I’m not saying it’s ok or healthy, but not exactly traumatizing either.
  17. I don't disagree with that but I also don't buy the idea that UT is a place that every coach dreams about being at. I think for a significant number of coaches the idea of coaching at UT is no more attractive than coaching at any of another dozen or so schools. Our shit stinks too. The lifelong fan of any program is always going have a level of emotional investment that's far bigger than any prospective coach. You just can't expect your average coach to be as moved by the lore of Texas football as the rest of us. It didn't shock me when Urban just decided for whatever reason that he wasn't interested. There doesn't have to be some big smoking gun type reason. He just wasn't feeling it the way we all would. It doesn't mean CDC and the gang did anything wrong. The guy just wanted to be somewhere else for reasons we don't have to understand.
  18. Basketball in AISD is being played with masks on. Also visiting teams are not allowed to have any spectators. Home teams can have 2 spectators per player. I was at a middle school game last night and there were less than 20 people in the bleachers in the entire gym. 7 players and a single coach per team on the opposite side of the gym. Of course they are still having contact and heavy breathing through the masks. It's certainly less safe than a masked-up outdoor sport. But for our kid who doesn't play any of the outdoor sports offered right now and who has seen his friends exactly one time in the last 10 months the benefit outweighs the risk. Apparently all sports are now required to be played and practiced with masks on, without exception. Our cross country runner was previously required to wear the mask during warm ups and strength work but could take it off during runs as long as they stayed distanced from each other. Not anymore. They'll be running 11 miles at Town Lake this weekend masked up for the entire run. I'm not complaining about any of this and I realize that it's not free of risk. But it's also not the super spreader event the crazy mom-crowd on FB is making it out to be.
  19. People are coming and going from Mexico by the thousands every day right now. Planes are mostly full. It's nothing more than a temperature check or a walk through a thermal scanner on the Mexico side. Coming back into the US is even easier... just the usual passport check and a verbal question about COVID symptoms.
  20. You are correct. Still learning my way around this rig.
  21. <—Raises hand. Also, am willing to uproot the family if it turns out we live in the same town.
  22. They weren’t the first pilots to be fucked by a cow after a late night flight.
  23. Thanks, I had missed that post. Like I said it’s not the hill I’m gonna die on. There are bigger problems in the world and my kid learning algebra in the best manner right now.
  24. How do they determine who really needs it? My kid learns Algebra better F2F than via Zoom so in our eyes he really needs it. I’m guessing that’s not the standard they have in mind though. It’s not the hill I’m gonna die on, just curious how the district determines that.
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