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CycleTex87

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  1. Those are some working clothes.
  2. $9.00 one way from Santa Fe to ABQ. Pretty cheap.
  3. This is a great thread and timely for my wife and me. Kids are done with college, we can’t permanently leave Houston for reasons, but would love a place in a different climate than hot and wet. Great thoughtful discussions on real issues like water and healthcare.
  4. Annunciate, huh? Try again.
  5. The correct number of bbq pits needed is n+1 where n=number of bbq pits currently owned.
  6. They’re not called “bullet tanks” for nothing.
  7. I noticed that there wasn’t much gender non-conformity going on at the Outlaw Music Festival.
  8. I ain’t clicking on that.
  9. Whiskey Myers tore it up at the Outlaw Festival last night in Dallas. Absolutely shredded. Great guitar lineup. Willie was Willie and great to see. Old dude can still bring it.
  10. To be fair, those are pieces from the outside of the sub, where water pressure was equalized. It’s the pressure equalization process that causes the problems on the inside of the pressure vessel.
  11. Currently staying in an AirBnB so this hits close to home. I will say this, I was looking to book an ABnB in a small Texas city, and found an interesting one but the host didn’t disclose the actual address until you had booked the place w/ deposit. Once I had the actual address it turned out the property had an active train track essentially in the backyard. I cancelled the reservation but they went ahead and kept the $60 or whatever non-refundable booking fee for holding the reservation for five minutes.
  12. My adult daughter (no pix) already has both tickets back to back to see these on opening day.
  13. Someone upthread mentioned R rating for nudity. So ScarJo? um, my friend would like to know this.
  14. I have an Omega I wear daily and have for 25 years. I bought an early version of the Apple Watch but found that I couldn’t really see it that well without putting on a pair of readers, so it lost a bunch of its utility. I wear it when I exercise. The Onega is a stainless divers watch so kinda casual anyway.
  15. Show me a loss?
  16. Hey @Ag with kids, that's good bull. Any idea how long until repairs are complete? Is the single lane over the bridge or on the causeway? I'll be there in early August, when I'm sure it will be hotter than it is now.
  17. Today in the Wall Street Journal: Stomach Virus Spreads Through Cruise Ships at Fastest Pace in Years CDC has reported 13 norovirus outbreaks through first half of 2023 Cruises are packed as more travelers choose long-delayed vacations at sea. The downside: Higher numbers of those passengers are getting sick. So far this year, there have been 13 outbreaks of norovirus on cruise ships, according to reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That marks the largest number of norovirus incidents on these vessels in a single year since 2012—and the year is only halfway over. The most recent outbreak occurred on a North Atlantic Viking Cruises sailing that docked in New Jersey on June 20. More than 100 passengers fell ill, according to the CDC, accounting for 13% of all vacationers on the ship. Crew members also contracted the gastrointestinal illness. Viking Cruises said it believes that the recent outbreak on its Neptune vessel “originated from a shoreside restaurant in Iceland where a group of guests dined during their free time.” Norovirus is particularly contagious, says Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and it thrives in the closed environment of a cruise ship. Health experts say normal sanitary tactics such as using hand sanitizer aren’t effective against norovirus, and people can get sick from ingesting very few particles of the virus. “The opportunities for close person-to-person spread are so intense on a cruise ship that once this virus is introduced into that population, it has many, many opportunities to spread,” he says. Taking Precautions Across the 13 outbreaks among cruises that docked in the U.S., nearly 1,700 passengers reported being ill during their voyages, along with more than 240 crew members. The Cruise Lines International Association forecast that around 31.5 million passengers will go on cruises worldwide this year. “Because cruise ships report illnesses to the CDC, there is more visibility and faster reporting to health authorities, which should not be confused to mean a higher incidence rate onboard,” a spokeswoman for the Cruise Lines International Association said. The CDC reports outbreaks when 3% or more of passengers or crew report symptoms of gastrointestinal illness to the ship’s medical staff on voyages under their jurisdiction. The ships also must have more than 100 passengers and sailings between three and 21 days long for an outbreak to be reported. In the five years before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were an average of around 11 outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness a year on cruise ships, based on data from the CDC. “We’re returning to what the norm was,” says Ross Klein, a researcher who has tracked health and safety incidents on cruise ships.
  18. My knee hurts, I don't want to walk that far. Getting old sucks.
  19. I bought a parking pass for like $50 for VIP parking, which turned out to be $75 with fees and taxes. SMDH.
  20. That's good info, thanks Chad.
  21. Headed to this with my daughter (no pix) who lives in Sherman. She "wanted to see Willie before he dies". I don't expect to see Willie for more than 20 minutes at most. Could be 110 F at the beginning of the show at 4:30 pm.
  22. ^^Humblebrag alert^^ All this "rain" and "lunch".
  23. Back in the day, my buddies and I used to enjoy just hanging out at the boat ramp under Loop 360 on Lake Austin on a Saturday afternoon and just watch the shenanigans as they happened. Great entertainment.
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