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Dbeasy

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  1. sigh. I just want this one time before I die. And times starting to run out.
  2. Its really ridiculous. You go to all this trouble to save on taxes, only to just give it all up to a financial planner who basically has the right professional software to do the analysis correctly. None of the consumer software products are good enough.
  3. Wow. It is strange how he only took one visit here.
  4. Dbeasy

    Getting old sucks

    I went back to Dallas to visit old friends. I now believe that there are no more natural knees, shoulders, or hips in existence in the bodies of anyone over 60.
  5. Oh man, and I was getting excited about issuing a fatwa.
  6. Dang sorry to hear that about your health. It also sounds like there is potentially really an honesty issue with the recruit. Maybe it’ll work out. Teens are often immature.
  7. Why wouldn’t a recruit shop an offer? They could be doing it for a few good reasons. First, they may want to flesh out whether Texas’ offer is truly best and final, in the hopes of having Texas move up. Second, they want to see how much more they could make elsewhere. That then allows them to make an informed decision. Even if a recruit is locked in to Texas, it makes sense to still do a check on the market. Poster’s angst is stupid, unless the recruit is lying to Texas.
  8. How in the hell has the Netflix show Tires not been brought up in this thread. It’s a very refreshing funny show. It’s stupid humor but funny.
  9. Holy shit this is a great post. Every year I have some vague notion that surely A&M has to be good, and then posts like this insert reality into my brain. Amazing.
  10. The other thing about Mike Leach that some forget is the fact he installed the offense at OU that won the national champsionship for them in 2000 under Mangino as OC, and led to their Big 12 success for so many years.
  11. Bump. Still trying to find a financial advisor that is highly competent in tax optimization during retirement using Roth conversions and optimized spending plans, taking into account IMRAA, net investment tax, Roth seasoning rules, etc. Most of the advisors I've been exposed to either operate only under an all-inclusive AUM fee for total financial planning (which we don't need today; maybe down the line yes), or are not particularly sharp enough to really understand the complexities of the tax planning.
  12. The only thing worse than this fade: Is this fade:
  13. Based on imammac’s posts there’s a decent chance he’s banging his HR person.
  14. I’d watch Nickelback over Coldplay every single time.
  15. Have they shown Spieth today? He’s getting very little screen time.
  16. I dated a co-worker. We just celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary, she’s hot as hell, has a heart of gold, and I out kicked my coverage by about three counties. It can work.
  17. When things are going good, everyone is a genius, especially the boss. When things are going poorly, everyone’s a moron, especially the boss.
  18. A hypothetical. If Elon’s creation of the American Party were to cause the Republicans to lose the Presidency in 3.5 years to either a Democrat or American Party candidate (you won’t know until Election Day) would you contribute to and support the American Party?
  19. I always used to feel that the recruit ranking services had a state of Texas bias and maybe to a small extent a UT bias, solely because of the location of some of the early creators of these services. However, if you look at the talent Texas is pulling in these days from other states, it seems like they really are getting the “better” 4 and 5 star players, as opposed to those who were rated 4 or 5 stars but had some questions about them. Herman’s 3rd ranked class was full of pretenders.
  20. Please don’t waste our time on updates that don’t include pizza.
  21. Multiple people in Austin have encouraged us to go to various pizza places, like Bufalina, to have what they describe as incredible Neapolitan pizza. We’ve been constantly disappointed by the limp, doughy crust on the bottom that tastes like someone slapped Pillsbury Doughboy into a brick oven. I traveled to Italy all the time for business for years, and Neapolitan pizza doesn’t taste like that crap. Annoying.
  22. I don’t understand the point you are trying to make. As per below, rivals and On3 merged. People aren’t all of the sudden elevating rivals because of a five star. It’s because the actual rivals service is on3. Do you not understand this? Or do you believe the same old rivals is still there?
  23. I’ve not been paying much attention to the On3 and rivals thing. Aren’t the Rivals ranking somehow now taking into account On3 stuff? I’m lost on all that.
  24. Last weekend I was out in a rural area near San Angelo in the early evening when a wild cat flashed across our suv as we were traveling down the highway. We got a great look at it, but spent 20 minutes debating whether it was a mountain lion or large bobcat because, strangely, it had characteristics of both. I know both well from previous encounters, but nevertheless spent ten minutes comparing pics of the two on my phone just to be sure. We finally concluded it had to be a bobcat. 20 minutes later as we were driving down an isolated road a mountain lion casually crossed the road in front of us and walked into the brush, giving us a perfect view. Very strange evening. No one in that area had seen a mountain lion except for one lady transplant who had said she’d seen one, but had been ridiculed over it. And now to come back from a round of golf to Atkinson and cat facts. I should have known. It was destiny.
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