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  1. https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/s/AmOWw3lWhh
  2. Better not miss because the abuela that returns fire is a sniper with that weapon, guaranteed.
  3. Yep, parallel goat trails away from the bigger towns. Be prepared to possibly have to reverse it a hundred yards to one of those turnouts if you meet a damn bus or some farmer in a tractor--and you will.
  4. I’m less worried about where today ends than I am where August ends.
  5. I’ll be glad if the ugly is confined to today. Not optimistic about that.
  6. One of the issues it seems is that many of these bigger towns/smaller cities were built around a single industry and sometimes a single employer. When that business goes under, not only do you have massive unemployment but the tax structure collapses. The only people that stay are the ones that can’t get out. Plainview was once a bustling, growing city between Lubbock and Amarillo. Busy downtown, decent schools, thriving economy. And at the center was Cargill beef processor with 3,000 employees and $60 million in payroll. Good life for many people and all those in the area that provided services to those employees. Then the rain stopped. The local feedlots couldn’t afford to ship corn/feed into a system that was used to getting it brought from across the road. The cattle were liquidated. Very quickly there was no beef to process in Plainview. Cargill shut down, the feedlots shuttered, the teams that grew the corn went broke, the cafe that fed the meat packers and the cowboys went out of business and so on and so on…. Wife’s family had a farm west of there, and I was back and forth through Plainview as it collapsed—rapidly. When we were trying to sell the farm, we were there weekly sometimes and there was nothing left but the worst Chili’s I have ever seen and a Sonic. Whole areas of town are abandoned. Left behind rib-showing dogs walking the streets. Glad to say I may never see it again other than to visit the graves of the in-laws. These towns that were built around military bases and a single industry are either dead, dying or doomed and don’t know it yet. The rain will stop for them one day as well.
  7. Lost, to me sets the bar. I was hooked halfway through. Someone linked that Wonder Years pilot above. I remember watching that with my dad. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
  8. Damn that looks like one north of San Angelo. That barrel is rusty because I peed on it 40 years ago. Dad opened the front door and the back door on one side of the red suburban to make for a little privacy for mom and sister to squat.
  9. Yep. Sandwiches by the road. And if a big gust of wind came and blew that cheap ass flimsy paper plate holding your sammich onto the ground. Well, "Wipe the dirt off. You should have been holding it better."
  10. Pic she just sent. Pretty cool.
  11. Daughter is at the beach volleyball “stadium” right now. Tickets were $70, which seems reasonable to me. She said everyone is soaked.
  12. Played a game there in high school. One end of the field had some ant mounds. Extra motivation to stay on your feet in that red zone.
  13. Daughter keeps texting me as she is walking around trying to find a place to even get a glimpse of the water parade. Said it is crazy everywhere. I told her to just go to a bar and watch it on TV. But that is where I would have started in the first place.
  14. Savin' the world on her own
  15. I was in Paris about 10 days ago. It was being partitioned off pretty well. Lots of fencing, barriers, security. It was nuts as usual. Oldest daughter is there right now with beach volleyball tickets under the Eiffel Tower tomorrow. I will be much relieved when I pick her up at the airport on Sunday.
  16. Do you even plow your corn with a double shovel, bro?
  17. Major impact on baseball too. No more partials and many more fulls to give. The rich are going to get richer, and the smaller schools are going to field teams that won't be able to beat top high school teams.
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    Koe Wetzel

    Just clicked on that top video. Regardless of what you think about KW's singing, that Jessie Murph is completely awful. I had to turn it off when she started in. Then I thought "there must have been something she did that was good enough to get her a contract." Youtubed her and ended up on "Cowboys and Angels." Even worse than the crap above. Wow. Man, she is like taking your ugly friend to the bar with you so you don't look bad by comparison. Record Label: Koe, you always acting a fool. Find some woman and do a heartfelt duet. But don't get upstaged. You kinda suck at singing. Koe: Gotcha fam. Get Jessie Murph on the phone if she ain't tryna catch somebody outside.
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    Koe Wetzel

    Not sure what I think of Koe. He seems to try a bit too hard to be edgy. But I love this song.
  20. He would rather not disclose.
  21. Only a Lad Always loved this song--and the lyrics fit so well here. He didn't want to learn things---he liked to burn things.
  22. Watched on the airplane yesterday. Whoever made the trailer should have made the whole movie.
  23. Exodus 20:4-5 "You shall not make for yourself any carved image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven or above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them".
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