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Ravishing Rick

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  1. I like the Austin + NBA legend theme going on. Austin Jordan Austin Bryant who’s up next? Austin James? Austin Abdul-Jabbar?
  2. I was there over Memorial Day. Best part was the gun range. AR-15 and a handgun running around shooting at targets.
  3. Fat is a topic I both feel passionate about as well as struggle with. A couple points: 1) May seem like a shitty humblebrag but I've been blessed with good genes, eat mostly food I cook at home (instead of restaurants) and have done p90x videos fairly religiously since they came out 15 years ago, so I'm in really good shape, as is my wife. However we are struggling right now with our 7 year old daughter's weight. She isn't totally fat in the sense that it would be the first thing you'd notice about her, but she's overweight. She has a mental disorder called "oppositional defiant disorder". It's really a horrible thing because you'd never know she has a problem, until she starts both verbally and physically assaulting adults. She was kicked out of her private pre-K program as well as banned from last summer's country club day camps due to her behavior. The only medicine we've found that really helps her is one that both slows her metabolism and makes her hungry all the time. Hence, it packs on the lbs. It's really difficult to manage. So I don't ever judge fat people, because I don't know their circumstances. I think an underreported issue with people's weight is the impact of mental issues and the medicine they take for it. I'm no doctor, just going off what I've seen personally. 2) I've got enough knowledge of nutrition and exercise to effectively manage my weight. However, I think the country as a whole could really benefit from a massive initiative to teach these subjects, either in school or somewhere else. I truly believe people just have no idea what they're doing. I have a cousin-in-law who is probably 30 years old and 150 lbs overweight, and he posts pictures of him lifting weights showing how he's working to lose weight. I mean, I guess it's a start but he doesn't appreciate that the impact will come from his diet. Go watch youtube videos of concerts from the 90s and look at the crowds - no obesity to be seen - it's a shocking contrast to what you see daily today. I really wish we as a country would do something because it's a true health crisis that people don't appreciate fully.
  4. For me the last 2 days have been a brilliant success. Via the NIL discussions, I was made aware of Olivia Dunne and have thoroughly enjoyed her instagram content.
  5. I'm pretty sure I screwed up the watering. I watered for 7 minutes at 7:30am, and then 14 minutes at 9:30pm. Most of the "brown squares" were waterlogged and the soil had washed away. Today I replaced those with new sod squares, and switched my watering to 5 minutes at 7:30am and 5 minutes at 1:30pm. I read where watering at night wasn't ideal, nor was having a soggy yard (which I definitely had). Thanks @freyguy for the dillo dirt suggestion. I live in Dallas so I'm not sure we have that here, but I did spread some Black Kow (manure) over some of the trouble spots. Hopefully that has a similar effect. All in it took 3 pallets of St Aug (I guess my yard is more like 1,250 sq ft) and maybe $150 in top soil/Black Kow, so I saved over $6,000 doing this. Additionally, since I did this myself, I burned a shit ton of calories. I tracked them, and over a 4 day period I burned 2100, 1500, 1800 and 1500 calories. Almost 7,000 calories total over the 4 days. Pretty sure that equals out to about 2 lbs. It was hot as hell throughout. Definitely a lot of work, but the board's inspiration kept me going. Thanks!!
  6. Update: After rejecting my landscaping company's $7,000 quote for 1,000 sq ft of zoysia sod, I took the board's advice and did it myself. A week and a half later, below is the pic of half the yard. I decided to go with St Augustine (Palmetto). Unfortunately some of the sod squares are browning out. I think it's because I got a pretty shitty pallet of sod and some of the undersides were dry AF and coming apart. I've been watering like a MF, but they just aren't coming back. Any advice to bring these back to green?? Worst case I go get a few more sod squares...easy enough.
  7. Very helpful and valuable advice. Thanks, men! Tomorrow I start ripping it up! Will plan on using the T Methyl on the new sod to start. Decided to plant St Aug again, rather than zoysia.
  8. Many thanks. Sounds easy enough, I'm sure I'll find a way to fuck it up, but even if I do so 3-4 times, I'll still save a lot of money.
  9. My front yard's grass looks like shit. It's St Augustine, and the dead spots are where winter grass is (dies in the hot summer). I've got a quote for $7,000 to rip it all up (1,000 sq ft total) and put in zoysia. Don't really feel like paying all that money. It's fairly shaded, but does get some sun. Any suggestions? Perhaps scrape out the winter grass/dead spots and put in St Augustine sod? Or plugs? Please help!
  10. Oh, I beg your pardon. Let me re-phrase for you. Any OU player "hoping to ascend" on the depth chart due to players leaving for the league might want to consider Lincoln's transfer portal actions the last few years. He will find another player to jump you faster than you can say dry brisket.
  11. Lincoln promising playing time “next year” has no credibility. He will find someone in the transfer portal faster than you can say belly tat.
  12. "Son, see those Fords at the end of the video? With the power of an OU degree, you can be selling those for the rest of your life."
  13. Fuck. My wife and kids are back tomorrow. Have fun, gents.
  14. Deep Ellum can work. When you say "not good for bitches", do you mean not good for picking up bitches, or not good for the bitch (es) you bring?
  15. If we do City Tavern, I'm game. If Immamac prefers Inwood Tavern (definitely an amped up night vs Downtown), then I will pay for your round trip uber, DalTxHornFan.
  16. I'm in Highland Park, and my wife and kids are out of town. Have y'all picked a place? Inwood Tavern always guarantees an interesting night.
  17. Would love that. Just give us Coach Pierce and CDC back and we will make it happen.
  18. Rice alum checking in... Bragga was a complete abortion of a hire. The AD at Rice is a fucking clown (Joe Karlgaard...came from Stanford). Wayne Graham had recommended Pat Hallmark as his successor, and the AD didn't listen. Pat has gone on to some nice results at Incarnate Word and now UTSA. Then Lance Berkman was publicly politicking for the job, but at the same time he appeared in a Houston commercial about his opposition to trannies in women's bathrooms or some shit like that and the Rice President decided that wasn't on brand for Rice, so Berkman was out. Berkman also managed to piss off some donors. Now I'm hearing through sources that Pat Hallmark won't work for the douche AD (can't blame him). Sean Allen has major ties to the Houston area, given his playing and coaching career across town at U of H. Would be an instant recruiting shot in the arm. The candidates I'm hearing about at Pat Hallmark, Sean Allen, Rob Childress, Tom Arrington (San Jac) and Jake Gautreau (Miss St. Asst....former Tulane player). I'd be happy with any of those. The decision makers will be the Rice President who doesn't give two shits about sports (think Mr Burns from the Simpsons) and the AD who is simply incompetent. I completely expect them to fuck it up.
  19. No Oklahoma. Probably doesn't think Riley hangs around that long. Either that or there's a minimum tooth count required in the state Arch plans to live in.
  20. It’s been suggested on social media that some apartment walls ran into his fist. Not clear on who started the fight.
  21. some good news from our great state of Texas - new covid cases have fallen off a cliff
  22. I’m a Rice fan, and I resemble that remark. (and cunts are actually great fun)
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