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  1. 17 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Yeah I think 89 was the coldest in my lifetime.  I just looked it up and the low in Houston was 9 on 12/23/89.

    -4 in Waco that day.  

    1983 in Waco strikes me as being colder than that, but it was not.  However, the fact that it was 7 degrees and my truck had no heater and shabby weather stripping probably had something to do that.

  2. Bahia Honda is a great place to snorkel off the beach.  John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is good.  Just up-voting these previously recommended places.

    If you have a day (or most of a day) Dry Tortuga is a good excursion and worth the time. 

    We have stayed at the Sheraton on the Atlantic Side in Key West.  They had a shuttle running to Duval area.  Stayed at a Hampton Inn on the Gulf side in Key Largo.  There was a canal close by that manatees swam up and down.

    We stayed at an older hotel on Duval street, built in the 20's but I can't recall the name of it.  It was great for convenience.  

    The vibe down there on Duval street is worth the trip.  Lots of folks just hitting bars and drinking without all of the alcohol fueled dipshittery you would find on 6th street.

    Also, the beach at Fort Zach provided for some great ,um, scenery.  Lot's of fit European women there on one of my trips.  

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  3. Bermuda grass...Battling white clover already.  Live in Buda\Kyle\SM area.  I have hit it with Ortho WeedClear a couple of times.  Last time back in December.  Sprouting back up in treated areas.  Used to dealing with St. Augustine.

    Any suggestions?

     

  4. Friend of mine from Waco died this past Sunday from COVID-19.  He was overweight. 56 years old.  Sucks.  He was good friends with my brother-in-law... grew up around the corner from one another.  His older brother was a good friend of mine before he died in a plane crash back in 85.  Survived by wife and 3 kids, an older sister and two younger brothers.  I feel worse for the siblings since they have been through this before.

    He is the first person relatively close(circle of family and friends) to me that I know that has died from this.  

     

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  5. 16 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    The technical/legal name of the city is actually, "The Woodlands" though, correct?  Nobody seems to mind we call it "El Paso"..."The Pass."  I do find it irritating living in South Austin hearing others refer to their residence as "Westlake."  That's not a city.  West Lake Hills is a city, and it's three words and only 3,000+ people live there.  Westlake is just a high school.  There's no HOA, no development, no neighborhood called "Westlake." 

    Every Austinite either lives in Tarrytown or Westlake apparently.  Every Houstonian I know that lives north of Loop 8 says they live in "The Woodlands."  I don't know where any Dallas resident lives because they open every conversation with what generation Texan they are, by the time they get to their cross-fit locale of choice, I've already left the conversation in search or more alcohol.  

    The legal name is 'The Woodlands'.  I seem to remember seeing Spring on some mail addressed to me a few times,though.

  6. 12 hours ago, nnm said:

    “The Woodlands” makes me surly. Like “THE OhSU.”  GMAFB. 

    Years ago, I worked for a guy who would talk about going to the woodlands to visit in-laws.  I would always illicit a WTF look from me.  It took a few times of him mentioning it to realize it was indeed 'The Woodlands'.  I ended up living there for 8 years at some point.

  7. Obligatory... Fuck the Big XII.  Looks like pollsters had some sense about the situation.

     

    Re: Craig Way

    Before the big TV contracts for college football, you pretty much were stuck listening to the Esso\Exxon Radio Network sponsored radio broadcasts.  I grew up listening to Frank Fallon on Saturday nights in the fall. I consider Fallon to be one of the GOATs.  Schoening and Way are in that same realm.  Way calls UT games like he is calling a High School Championship game.  He pretty much keeps any bias he has in check.  The only time that *I* have heard him have a 'WTF' moment was the 2015 Okie State game.

    I can get why people might turn him off from 10-12, but when it is game time, we are fortunate to have him calling it from our broadcast booth.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

    So, I usually get up pretty early and go to bed early.  I started doing it in my 40's because early morning time is the only time I can really have to myself--back in the day it was gym time or say, watch baseball highlights with no family interruptions.. Now it tends to be studying tech things or even just goofing around, but still my time.

    Well this week, my body decided that 3:30 AM every day is when I need to get up.  It has sucked. 

    No one cares...

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  9. Just stumbled on this thread.

    The MJ rookie card stings.  Had a chance to buy it or a Joe Montana RC... who knew.  Still have the Montana RC.  

    Any of y'all buy or sell?  I have some RCs like Jerry Rice, Earl Campbell... 84 Topps with Marino, Dickerson, Elway RCs, 89 Score with Barry Sanders, Aikman RCs

    First year of Hoops smattering of other brands and odd collections

    First Beckett for Basketball with MJ on the cover.

    I always hear about E-bay as the way to go as far as selling.  Seems like shops only care about flavor of the month type stuff.

    BTW...used to have an decent collection of baseball cards but my ex tossed them in the bottom of a storage room which was eventually flooded.  Brett and Yount RCs that I bought as a kid were in there.

     

  10. Remember when he broke the record.  What a moment.  My FIL followed his Minor(Jacksonville, Fla) and Major League field religiously.  He corresponded with Aaron and he(FIL) had a signed framed letter hanging in the pool room for decades.

     

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