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Caver60

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  1. I work at Natural Bridge Caverns. Spring Break is our biggest week of the year, typically. This year, the majority of Texas school districts are on break this week. The rest will be off next week. The split is pretty even, though, so there will be almost as many people on vacation next week as there are right now. We are open, and there are plenty of people here. Not what it would be without the virus running amok, but we are still busy. We are running down 25% or so compared to what we were expecting before this thing got loose. For context, we usually see 2500-4000 people per day during Spring Break. For the life of me I can't imagine why anyone would think "Virus? Sure, I'd be happy to place me and my family in a group of 50 people in a warm wet environment". But they are. We are doing all sorts of planning, as most all of us are. Suspending spending on projects, planning for laying off hourly employees if we are forced to close. Our best advice will probably be for our hourly folks to take unemployment in the worst case scenario. We do offer health insurance, but no way are hourly hourly folks going to be able to afford COBRA if we let them go. I think that CTJ is right, the travel industry is going to get pounded by this thing, and it might take a couple of years for things to settle down. At some point soon, tourist destinations will likely start closing for two weeks. As soon as that becomes "industry standard," we will too. I think most places are trying to get Spring Break $ in the bank before choosing to do that. I can understand a beach vacation at this point. Stay in a condo, be on the beach away from others. I'd avoid theme parks like the plague, so to speak. And I wouldn't come here, either. I sort of have to, but you shouldn't.
  2. Watching them from heaven?
  3. And anyway, even if Jerry didn’t fire him technically, Jerry also hired fucking Barry Switzer. That closed the door on my Cowboys fan chapter. Looking back on it, it seems sorta stupid since Barry is kind of a hoot. But he may as well have been the antichrist while he was at OU.
  4. True! If your players had just been a LITTLE BETTER you wouldn’t be asking these questions. We are down and all, but it’s nice knowing we still live in your head. Gracias
  5. 34215
  6. I remember hearing that Phil had been a kicker and an OL at Lake Highlands. So when he got to Texas, he kept working out with the OL there, too. Always thought that was awesome. He must have looked like a dwarf.
  7. Nobody mentioned a coelenterate recently. Which is unusual and alarming, because generally this place is full of them. It implies that the usual hand wringing and spineless whimpering is justified.
  8. They would christen it the battleship Texas Aggie
  9. I would love to have a drink with W. Most of us would, and I think he was a good guy in over his head as President. I feel sorta the same way about Switzer. But then I remember that he was the antichrist to me as a child growing up. And then I recall that I was always a Cowboys fan, until the moment that fucking Jerry hired him. Fucking Switzer. And my love and enjoyment of pro football was over, to this day. my love for Texas comes first. Always. Fuck that guy. And fuck Jerry. I’m on the CTJ team on this one. He might be fun, but fuck him. How anyone can praise and respect DKR and what he did here and the legacy that he left and still have no perspective on Switzer is beyond me. That dude sucks. He may be fun, but he sucks.
  10. Agree on your points. It's something that they sell to recruits over there, I'm sure. Fewer snaps, less wear and tear, preserving bodies for the League. It's a good argument for them because it can exist outside of the "our record is better than yours" sort of discussions.
  11. Texas defended almost 200 more plays last season than aggy. That defensive plays stat is really the biggest single reason why Jimbo had a decent first season over there.
  12. I worked with some buddies in the Physics Lab in RLM. We used to go in there after hours and play Doom deathmatches all night long. Had to scoot out of there real quick when the profs started coming in the next morning. This was early 1994, when networked computers weren't so common. It was sweet
  13. Pretty sure Kerstetter got a RS this past season.
  14. These arguments brings us full circle to the FUPM years.
  15. Lots of good ones. I always liked Pale Rider.
  16. Every time we have another school shooting, I'm reminded that the gun control debate in America isn't a debate at all. When we stand by and collectively watch our children murdered and do nothing, there is no debate.
  17. Catholics aren't Christians?
  18. That's one dumbass kid. I was our deep snapper in high school. One time we were playing Fox Tech (doesn't exist anymore) and after I snapped the ball the guy who was head up on me knocked me on my ass and proceeded to choke the shit out of me under my facemask. I swear I almost passed out. That was fun.
  19. It should come as no real surprise that I work in an actual cave. That morning I got up and was pulling on my boots and watching GMA. They knew that a plane had flown into the fist tower and were speculating on the whole thing, and I was thinking that it was likely a small plane with a suicidal pilot. They showed the tower then, and since I have never been to NYC and seen how BIG the towers were, that only confirmed my thinking. Some little plane. Right. So I clicked off the TV and went to work. As I was heading down into the cave, one of our receptionists came in and told me that BOTH towers had been hit by airliners. I told her that she was full of crap (which was usually true) and went underground. I'd been down there working for a little while when one of our employees came through and said that the Pentagon had been hit. Shortly afterward, a tour came through the cave. I still hadn't seen a TV, and I said the lamest, stupidest thing to the tourists: "Welcome to apparently the safest place in America right now," meaning the cave of course. They all gave me blank stares. I got out of the cave and into the visitor center as just as the first tower fell. My overwhelming feeling was sadness. Not just for that day and all of the people affected, but because I knew deep down that the United States of America was going to war somewhere. We didn't know where at the time, but I knew with total certainty that we would and that when we did, a whole lot more people would die.
  20. Got damn. I hate Aggie success as much as anyone, but you idiots throwing shade on their play tonight need to get a fucking clue. They played their asses off on national tv, and we struggled with fucking Tulsa. And
  21. Man, sorry that you are going through all of this. Divorce, job stuff, and your mother passing. Wow. There are rarely any words, especially from a stranger, that can offer much solace in dark times. Nevertheless, my former father in law offered me some one time, and they have always held true for me. He said, "Something terrible happens and you feel empty, like you might die. And then the next day you get up again and that feeling goes away a little bit. And then you get up weeks after that and the feeling is a little less still. And then months and years go by and you might still have that pit in the bottom of your stomach when you recall those days, but you can live again, and enjoy things, and love again." I strongly believe that we are put here to love each other and help each other, even when that means helping each other along to the next good place. You are doing that for your mom. Mad props.
  22. CDC also took down the signs in front of Occupy Left Field (no real benefit to anyone in the University but the players, who have some noisy fans out there) , in addition to lowering concession prices in DKR. This guy is on the right track as much as any AD at Texas can be, IMO.
  23. The aggies I work with feel EXACTLY the same way. I cheer for the inevitable roller coaster disaster every season, but I’m gonna be surly as all hell if and when it goes down this season.
  24. Here in Comal County, bucks are still in their bachelor herds. Running together until they start running tail.
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