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utee94

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  1. Yup, a friend of mine not only lost his exterior fender facia and wheel well, but the tire blew apart all of the plumbing and floor of his bathroom as it came apart. He had no trouble getting back on the road, but his bathroom was completely useless for a few days of that week-long trip, until we managed to collect some parts and cobble together a temporary fix for his last couple of days. Repair estimates were high, he ended up just totaling that trailer and getting a replacement.
  2. Internet message board television talk-- serious bidness.
  3. Crazy For You is probably my favorite Madonna song-- that entire VisionQuest soundtrack is pretty great. And +whatever on all of those saying that in today's information/entertainment climate, you just can't reach the mass saturation that you could up through the 90s and early 2000s. For that reason, I don't think you have to be a "cranky boomer" not to know Beyonce or Taylor Swift. It's likely every boomer has HEARD their stuff, but there's no reason why they'd know exactly who sang it. There's just not the market saturation to make the link, like there was 20+ years ago. Anyway, I'm solidly GenX and I liked some but not all Madonna music back in the day, and I certainly recognize and respect her cultural impact and always liked that she was so supportive of inclusion.
  4. Yeah no kidding. The part that was the exact same plot as the classic 80s cheeseball comedy Major League, was fine, but all the rest of it was just too silly...
  5. Yeah that Williams looks nice.
  6. Yeah I think plate ribs smoke up better than chuck ribs, and both are far superior to back ribs which are much smaller and have a lot less meat on them.
  7. Plate ribs are short ribs. Chuck ribs are also short ribs. I prefer plate, but you can make tasty bbq out of the chuck ribs too. The ones that are not short ribs, are back ribs. I don't bother with doing those on the smoker but some folks do.
  8. Yup, agree with all of the above. I like the look of natural wood on the treads, and you can always put color on the risers if you want something more interesting.
  9. And honestly it's not even every corner of every track, just a few select corners here and there on some key tracks.
  10. holy longcat, sheesh
  11. I have an idea, they should make the entire car sort of silver/chrome, and then use a little bit of orange highlight. Nah, nothing like that could ever look good...
  12. Exactly. If it's just an inevitability of physics, then I don't consider that to be a "real" pass and I'm thoroughly uninterested in it.
  13. Yeah I really do get why they implemented DRS, but I still hate it. It's just way too powerful at many tracks. Passing shouldn't be easy, but at some tracks, with DRS, it becomes an absolute certainty. And I find THAT to be boring.
  14. Can't speak for Fort Worth location but the Velvet Taco I tried in Austin is definitely not as good as Torchy's. If Torchy's can be accused of sometimes trying too hard, then Velvet Taco is the try-hardiest joint around.
  15. The drivers know when they're doing it, and they're doing it intentionally to gain an advantage. I don't have any sympathy for them if they're not warned in real time. They just don't like getting caught. Too bad.
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  17. ^^^^ Yup, pine doesn't take stain all that evenly. Pre-stain treatments help but even then, pine just doesn't do great. That's why so many people paint it, or leave it natural and seal it.
  18. Alison Mack was cute enough, but when it comes to Smallville I was all about Kristin Kreuk.
  19. The last time we had a low-high cycle was 2014/2015. It reached its lowest of around 622 in November 2014, and was full at 680+ a little over a year later. The majority of that occurred due to the Memorial Day flooding in Central Texas in 2015. Same storm that devastated Wimberly.
  20. I just stumbled over this site, which has daily levels for Lake Travis going all the way back to 1941, through present: https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/travis.csv
  21. I'd been avoiding buying a tonneau cover because I just didn't want to hassle with it, but since my truck is our main family vehicle and we just drove to Florida and back, I needed something just to keep any potential rain off the luggage in the bed. It's a soft cover so not great for security, but it served its purpose and worked perfectly for what I bought it for. I drove through several heavy rainstorms and everything in the bed stayed nice and dry. https://www.americantrucks.com/proven-ground-f-150-locking-Roll-Up-tonneau-cover-t542740.html It's also a super-quick install of maybe 20 minutes, and I could uninstall it just as quickly if I wanted.
  22. I still have this one, I've had it since I bought it new around 1984, and I wear it every now and then just for fun:
  23. This site has a link to a spreadsheet on the right side that has lake level data by month from 1941 thru 2015. Not sure why they stopped then, I guess they got bored, but there are other sites that have more recent data. http://www.laketraviswaterlevel.com/
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