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BottleRocket

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  1. Go get a Marmot Member's Only
  2. You might want to make an appointment with these guys if one is convenient to where you live. My insurance covered it after copay. After three or four sessions things got better. I'd put it at 60% improvement. https://www.airrosti.com/ From their website: "Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in your shoulder joint. The bones, ligaments, and tendons that make up your shoulder joint are encased in a capsule of connective tissue. Frozen shoulder occurs when this capsule thickens and tightens around the shoulder joint, restricting its movement. Signs and symptoms typically begin gradually, worsen over time and then resolve, usually within one to three years. If you’ve injured your shoulder or are suffering from chronic shoulder pain, and you don’t use your shoulder for a long time, your joint will stiffen up. From there, it becomes a vicious cycle. If your joint begins to stiffen up, it’s more difficult and painful to use your shoulder, so you use your shoulder even less. Eventually, the lining of the joint will get stiff, severely limiting shoulder movement. Frozen shoulder typically begins slowly and in three stages. Each stage can last a number of months. The first stage is the freezing stage. Any movement of your shoulder causes pain, and your shoulder’s range of motion starts to become limited. You then move into the frozen stage, where pain may begin to diminish, but your shoulder becomes stiffer and more difficult to use. Finally, you enter the thawing stage. Range of motion typically begins to improve in this stage, but pain may worsen at night and potentially disrupt sleep. It’s unusual for frozen shoulder to recur in the same shoulder, but some people can develop it in the opposite shoulder. Certain factors may increase your risk of developing frozen shoulder. People who are 40 and older, particularly women, are more susceptible. People who’ve had prolonged immobility or reduced mobility of the shoulder are at significantly higher risk of developing frozen shoulder."
  3. Macy’s, JC Penny’s, Kohl’s - look for a sale 30-50% off.
  4. The whole town saw Jimmy on the six o’clock news His brains were on the sidewalk and blood was on his shoes C’mon, baby, spend the night with me John Prine
  5. https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1996-09-20/524617/ A Small World After All FRI., SEPT. 20, 1996 What happened to all you people on Friday and Saturday? Everyone was abuzz over the One World Music Festival during the weeks prior to it, and the weather was fine, despite early fears that George Clinton's Mothership would end up being an Ark. Still, it seemed like a low turnout during the first two days. Guestimates from Chronicle attendees are approximately 900 for James Brown on Friday, 1,500 or so for Bunny Wailer and Spearhead on Saturday, and between 5,000-8,000 on Sunday for Clinton. One World is still counting, but Public Relations Director Dan Smith offers considerably higher preliminary figures for Friday and Saturday. Those involved with One World don't appear to be nervous about covering expenses -- such as paying the Godfather of Soul $55,000 and Ian Moore $10,000 -- or the fact that the festival has declared bankruptcy in three other previous cities. When confronted with the matter, Smith said simply that "everyone's paid." He added that due to the cleanliness of those in attendance, lack of traffic problems and fights or arrests, the owners of Resort Ranch are welcoming the festival's return next year, which is exactly what Smith & Co. hope to do. Here is a review of George Clinton's act that weekend: "After opener Buddha Bass something-or-other finished their set, the stage announcer -- some Nineties Wavy Gravy holdover who used three and only three adjectives (irie! phat! and righteous!) -- said enthusiastically, "Art rock is not dead." Well the person who resurrected it ought to suffer through something at least as horribly painful as BB's set. Next, Zuba's lead singer continually implored the crowd to "express yourselves," meaning roughly, "Please, get up and dance." Silly girl, people were expressing themselves; their continued immobility was their way of saying, "Your brand of mediocre white-bread funk displeases us immensely, now please go away quickly." Then again, you'd have to be a complete jerk to bother complaining about any of those things, because it took one nanosecond of Fishbone to right the day. There's nothing like a burlesque, blaxploitation sideshow stage act complete with a soulish, funky, ska, rockin' reggae thing (did I leave out any genres?) to put some shake in even the whitest of butts. By the time De La Soul hit the stage, the crowd was so amped it would've welcomed Vanilla Ice as if he were Chuck D. They weren't either, thankfully, and it's tough to figure out how the inventive NYC hip-hop trio gets trashed for sub-par live shows. Then George Clinton, after an arrogant and inflated intro (lose the 20-minute guitar solo please!), brings 25 musicians, a space ship, and Bootsy Collins out with him over the course of, like, a week. He and the rest of the P-Funkers flat wore the crowd out. He was big, strong, and funky with more endurance than Abebe Bikila, some punk Manchester raver on five hits of X, and Methusela combined. You think he's cheating by rotating fresh players in and out of the line-up from song to song, then you realize there were 7,500 of us in the crowd, and we couldn't hang. Rock & roll won't save your soul. The truth won't set you free. But on any given night, George Clinton can give you all the bass you need for well over three hours. Is that worth $30? Best damn bargain on the planet. -- Michael Bertin"
  6. I saw James Brown, George Clinton, De La Sol, and Toots & The Maytals play in..... get this..... Driftwood, TX in 1996.
  7. I first read this as "What's your prison" and thought Allan B. Polunsky Unit.
  8. What can I do for you?
  9. csb/ In the '90's my (now ex) wife was applying for a Phd program at UT. I had a friend working as a data input clerk at admissions at the time. When he got my ex's application he changed her ethnicity from Caucasian to black in hopes that it would increase her chances. Didn't work. /
  10. Also, would someone please chop an AU on the orange part of the sweater. Thanks.
  11. Not that I'd want to go out like that exactly, but I'm not spending the end of my life in a shitty nursing home either.
  12. Today: 1/31/19 Amazon Deal of the Day: https://smile.amazon.com/Instant-Pot-Plus-60-Programmable/dp/B01NBKTPTS?ref=dotd_h_t&ref_=pe_837390_391659460 Instant Pot DUO Plus 60, 6 Qt 9-in-1 Multi- Use Programmable Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Yogurt Maker, Egg Cooker, Sauté, Steamer, Warmer, and Sterilize List Price: $129.95 Deal of the Day: $79.99 | FREE Same-Day
  13. I agreed to use one for our son just so my wife would quit freaking out about fucking up junior's future by filling out some paperwork wrong. Money well spent just to keep her off of my back. But seriously, they found some money for junior's college that we wouldn't have pursued otherwise. All in all a win. I agree with Nice Guy Eddie, I just took the SAT and filled out the back of the form with three target colleges. A few months later I got an acceptance letter from one of them. Those days are over. We are in Austin and used College Funding Specialists https://collegefundingspecialiststx.com/Home_Page.html
  14. How about you spoiler tag that a-hole
  15. If OP dies can I have Armybrat’s guns?
  16. And I'll add that I never noticed this aggressive behavior until the COA added the dedicated bus lanes. It's as if that gave permission to Cap Metro drivers to drive like raving fuck sticks everywhere.
  17. 2nd'd - I drive South down Guadalupe to Cesar Chavez every day and those Cap Metro drivers are fucking aggressive and dangerous. They cut you off and swerve into your lane just as you describe. Almost every day I have to remain steadfast and give them wide berth - steadfastily.
  18. Hope that you don't die. If you do, can I have your Colt 1911?
  19. I read yesterday that Buc-ees has opened their first store outside of Texas - in Alabama. This pic must be from that store.
  20. Smart move to put pressure on trade talks with US. China is the number world importer of cotton. Brilliant move.
  21. They better not plant that fucking kudzu on the moon.
  22. Glad we could help.
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