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MadTrapper

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  1. MadTrapper

    Vinyl

    Got this baby today. One of my favorites albums and musicians.
  2. Went on Friday and did the bus from downtown. I was on the first bus in the morning and they seemed to run smoothly, though I did hear some stories of drivers getting lost. Came back after FP2. Food and drinks were good and I liked that they had water refill stations. Sun was brutal and shade was at a premium, but it's central Texas, so it is what it is. Overall a great experience. Turn 12 was amazing. Loved the smell of the breaks.
  3. Can they not just go on wets?
  4. Feel bad for the fans in Japan.
  5. Just curious...why no south Louisiana?
  6. RIP indeed to a legend.
  7. Props to @utee94 for the advice a couple months back. Ended up getting a reasonable turn 12 ticket on Friday at COTA for the USGP. Heading up that weekend for Alumni band for the Iowa State game, anyway. Going to be a great weekend.
  8. Just started rewatching it with my young daughters this time to see how they'd react to it and so far they seem engulfed. We started the pilot, but didn't finish it and I just skipped straight to the regular episodes. However, IMHO, I still think there's some really good writing in the pilot between Q and Picard.
  9. Yeah ok I see what you're saying about GA. That makes a lot of sense.for Friday and I'll probably just do that. Many thanks.
  10. So I'm looking at COTA tickets for Friday for the USGP. Any suggestions on where to get seats at COTA? Turn 1, 4, and 12 look intriguing based on the track layout, but I've not been there before.
  11. Perhaps, but telling him to box right in the middle of him trying to overtake Checo was really odd. Read the room, Ferrari.
  12. The optimist in me likes that Texags is relatively silent. But wth do I know because I don't do the tweets or facespace. The pessimist in me is full Brisket. Some existential shit.
  13. So it's basically a more expensive Erwin Center? Yay.
  14. Well besides the fact that the article is from 2019, FL also has a massive area offshore that is off limits due to military training operations. Florida has been off limits forever and that's not changing soon. Is there prospectivity there? Yes. But no one expects that area to open up any time soon. Click bait article and politicians doing politician things.
  15. DW Horizon was terrible, complacent, and unacceptable...full stop. It's also difficult to compare the dirtiness of the spill vs. the dirtiness of the CO2 emitted while producing the oil and gas. But it's a fair point to consider and try to quantity all associated risks. I just don't know how you do that in this case. The elephant in the room is carbon, though. And if you can produce 100 MMBOE with 10 wells instead of 100-200+ wells onshore that also require millions of gallons of water to complete, waste water disposal, trucking, more joints for methane leakage, more opportunities for HSE incidents, etc., then the decision to discourage offshore development is short-sighted IMHO.
  16. Yes, GOM does have a relatively low emission per boe produced. Thing is, the ruling had it's precedent set in a Hilcorp ruling from from a challenge of one of their Alaska developments (Pt Thompson, maybe?). Then that impacted Conoco's Willow project that got delayed to some degree based on a similar suit brought against them. The challenge from environmental groups was that the BOEM didn't properly take into account emissions from foreign oil production/consumption when coming up with the current 5 year plan (that ends in July, I believe). Apparently the projections BOEM used of CO2 emissions from foreign oil vs POTENTIAL oil produced from lease sales were not rigorous enough, which to my understanding is indeed the case, and the environmental groups exploited that inconsistency, just as they did with Hilcorp and Willow. The fact that emissions from GOM production is lower than most other sources is essentially irrelevant in the lawsuit. So the judge basically had his hands tied and legally made an appropriate ruling. The blame really lies with BOEM and not easily revising their CO2 calculations after they were challenged with the two AK suits and lost. Very frustrating.
  17. It's an interesting thought experiment for sure and I get the assertion that the higher spread between Brent and WTI was presumably good for the American consumer with respect to gas prices. A counter point would be that the export ban put US oil on the global market and helped drive down global oil price as shale oil flooded the market and WTI and Brent basically reached parity. Would that have happened if we still had the export ban? I'm not sure. Maybe to a lesser degree? But it seems like lifting it benefited the consumer for a good seven-ish years. In your scenario I would personally prefer no export ban compared to streamlining process restrictions. However, I'm not happy that there's still not the next 5 year offshore federal leasing program, which means there probably won't be one for another couple of years at best.
  18. So deals were made I presume?
  19. Any word from you NAPE folk about API's appeal of the DC court's decision to vacate the November lease sale? I don't necessarily blame the court decision. It seems like BOEM did a bad job defending themselves.
  20. Since texts are encrypted these days, that's how you know it's legit. You should set that stuff on auto pay from now on.
  21. This seems fishy. You get notified in early January and they want payment by the end of January? Are you sure it's not a scam? I only say that because last year I got a letter saying that I under reported income and owed 10k. They thought we made extra money from selling stuff on Amazon, which we didn't. We've never sold anything on Amazon. It was clearly fraud and I wonder if that's what's going on? Or maybe a scam? That's what I thought mine was at first, but the letter was legit. Anyway, after sending a letter to the IRS explaining the situation, that didn't suffice. So we ended up filing a fraud claim with the FTC or some similar agency and notified the IRS accordingly. That did the trick and the IRS backed off. However, in all of that, they never demanded payment so soon. That gave us like 3 or 4 months to respond each time. But my cheeks did pucker so I definitely empathize. I consulted with a tax attorney at the beginning and he set me straight and just told me what forms to file. I can dig all that up if needed.
  22. Spent a few days in Silverton, CO and had a few feet of snow up around 10k ft. Put a new set of Michelins on about a month ago to finally replace the OEM Dunlops. Performed wonderfully. Nice little trip and the 4 and 6 yo got to experience more snow than I think they were ready for, ha.
  23. 6 yo goes this Saturday. Texas Children's has their stuff together. Sent from my moto g power using Tapatalk
  24. Tuned into the game after having a nice morning/early afternoon and the first thing I see is that 4th and 11 attempt. Nope. I'm out. Not subjecting myself to that. Sent from my moto g power using Tapatalk
  25. Holy crap. Do you have a newsletter? Sent from my moto g power using Tapatalk
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