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  1. no offense to gil, balboa bay club is fine but idk if I would describe it as "cool"  - service is good but it's got a 62 year old Newport Ned vibe, imo. 
    if you are willing to go down to laguna, it's a nicer place to visit, imo. 
    all kinda depends on what you want from the trip.  I know airbnb kinda sucks, but I would check out airbnbs on Balboa, in laguna, dana point, and San Clemente, depending on what you want from the trip.  if you just wanna chill and unwind near the beach, that's what I'd do.  south Orange County coast is a better place to live than to visit, imo. 
    for hotels, if you want a nicer hotel, check out these places - blue = stay on the resort vibe.   surf and sand = walk around laguna/beach town; Balboa bay = drive around Newport area. 
    • surf & sand (service sucks, but nice place to chill - walkable to nice restaurants, bars, random shops, etc in a beach town)
    • montage laguna 
    • ritz Carlton/waldorf dana point  
    • pelican hill resort Newport coast
    • Balboa bay club
    when I say check them out.  not all of those are for me personally.  but one may appeal to you.  surf and sand would be my go to rec.  or montage for someone bougie/older. 
    there are also smaller boutique hotels in laguna, but they are hit and miss.   my info might be outdated.  haven't stayed in a hotel in Orange County in a minute.  but I've frequented all those places and they are fine.  just a matter of what you want.  if you want to save some money, there are some cheaper places in laguna that have a great location but just aren't super nice on the inside. 
    for me, if you are going out of your way to move from Costa Mesa to somewhere closer to the coast, I would go beach vibe.  at the same time, keep in mind it may not be that warm in OC in 1 month.  
    have fun.
     

    After yesterday I gained more appreciation for your advice. In Dana Pt last night (Laguna Bluffs Marriott oceanfront room for a mere 40k pts????!!?!) but hung out in Laguna Beach yesterday which is totally more my vibe, especially after Newport.

    My wife’s first day ever in CA and the weather is perfect.

    About to go meander to Long Beach and take the ferry to Catalina.
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  2. Bumping this thread, because my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew are moving to Minneapolis from Portland, Oregon. My BIL was just offered a partner track position at a law firm.

    Last summer, my oldest nephew died by suicide. The whole family is optimistic, that this new start will contribute to the healing process.

    My brother-in-law has been a lifelong Minnesota Vikings fan, even though he grew up in Florida and Pennsylvania. My youngest nephew is a sports fiend, and is already pestering his father for season tickets for the NFL, MLB, NBA and hockey teams.

    Plus, it’ll be convenient since my daughter lives in Chicago.

    I’m sure I’ll be spending a lot of time there in the warmer months and I’ll be reading this thread looking for good intel.

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  3. To that point, Crosby’s book self-justifies his own extramarital adventures. Immediately before deploying he married Jean but while in England he hooked up with a former girlfriend who also found herself in London.

    And he was sent to Oxford as the Air Force’s emissary to study the abrupt and powerful societal changes in British society brought about by the presence of so many Americans, especially in light of the vacuum left when English men of fighting age were sent to Africa and other theaters. There, he hooked up with a worldly intellectual lady of noble descent and spent all his available time with her.

    After the war, he attempted to confess his affairs but Jean shut him down, effectively saying “what happened in England stays in England.” She bore 4 children and they had a lengthy marriage until her death from Cancer in 1980. He went on to earn a PhD at Stanford and a professorship at Harvard.

    American forces were paid roughly 4x more than their British counterparts. “Overpaid, oversexed, and over here” was a valid complaint.

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  4. When the rest of the world wakes up and acknowledges that the modern GQP checks pretty much all of the boxes of an extremist terrorist movement (including this big one: violence is a necessary and key element of their activity), we're all wasting our time.
    If you support the GQP in any way, you support terrorism.  And ironically, that means Dade, too.  The Leopards are now eating his face.  There's no place for good men of any decency in that party - the longer you stay, the more you make it inevitable that the Leopards will eat your face.  There is only one path for Americans, actually loyal to the Constitution and the Republic to take: oppose the Republican party, in every place, in every way, as if it was Al Qaeda.  Because, for all purposes that matter, IT IS AL QAEDA.

    Are you God’s agent saying I should run for TX21 as a Democrat?

    (My wife and Mrs. Dade (ad litem) will be in court tomorrow protecting a child. There are photos - a mother drugged out, her toddler sitting in the bed playing with an AK47.)
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  5. Ouch, and good luck.

    My stepbrother has a friend who he is trying to point to rehab.

    In the last month, he's been banned from the Little League field/organization for being wasted around kids, is about to be thrown off a pretty prestigious charity board for simulating fellatio on another board member, and then did shots at another family event and had a loud discussion about myths, generalizations, and penis-size with the only black guy in attendance.

    He's rich and writes big checks but is about to wear out his welcome in polite society.

    I chortled. Gave my stepbrother the phone number to La Hacienda and said good luck. He is so obsessed with polite decorum so if anything the aforementioned events were under-embellished.

    One of my favorite parts of the big book of AA mentions “let him drink for a day, and he becomes disgustingly, even dangerously anti-social.”

    Hey, that was me.

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  6. Now if Taylor wears a Biden t-shirt to the podium my weekend will be complete.

    I've been explaining that Taylor is a bigger GDP than 35 countries to the triggered snowflakes on my county GOP chair’s FB page. /no CR, just mad props.
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