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  1. I’d climb all over those smothered thighs you know what I’m saying BLT the other day… extra iceberg lettuce - cold and crisp. Buttered sourdough and kewpie mayo. Hickory smoked bacon. One of my comfort foods.
  2. Pasteurization, vaccines, clean public drinking water, sewer systems, fluoride toothpaste, some of the great public health advances in human history. Yeah nah bro, get out of here with that shit.
  3. If you aren’t used to it. I play tennis outside at 5pm two days a week. I spent most of Saturday working outside and half of Sunday too. It wasn’t an issue but I’m acclimated. Over 100 degrees yeah, no way can’t do it. It’ll kill me.
  4. Still by the pool listening to the bugs sing happily and faint sounds far off in the distant - a boat here, kids splashing in a pool over there. Sounds of summer without the sweat and misery. It’s amazing.
  5. Thank you! The hardest part about this summer has been the total change from his SOP. He tells me I’m right all the time, heck he put me down as the person that most inspired him when the question was who in the band inspired you to be a leader. He said no one in the band inspired me but my mom inspires me. To go from that to “stop talking” even if only for a few months has been startling to say the least. anyway, I know this has gotten off the beaten path from the core app process but we all need to chill the fuck out, school doesn’t even start for 9-10 more days for most of us.
  6. The fact that school hasn’t started and kids are still lazy shouldn’t be overlooked. This happened every year for 12 years and while senior year starts with college applications it’s still the summer. anyhoo, my boy goes to his other mom’s today but you know what, he called me to tell me his band directors pulled him aside to check on him. You know what else? They said the same shit I did. He responded to them, called me, told me I was right and then we hopped on to a school apps discussion at his choice and we sent out some emails, did some social media follows. We chose not to visit before acceptance bc he’s very prone to falling in love with a place and that seems like a bad idea with schools like Cal, UC Santa Barbara, and UCLA on his list. So emails, social follows and some info sessions seem like the right way to “show interest”. we also worked on choice of major (he’s all over the map). we are probably going to be a little scattered down the stretch but I think he’s going to be fine. He even looked at some of the short answer questions and he feels good about his likely answers. gotta get on the housing apps this week too fucking A.
  7. Drinking wine by the pool, this shit is fucking glorious.
  8. That’s amazing. I would have lost my fucking mind. Reminds me (not food related) when my second son was born and my sister in law came down to help out and I was gassed, on fumes, needed a nap in the worst way. My then wife asleep in worse shape than me. SiL walks in the door says she’s here to help after she naps because the drive took it out of her. My ex father in law drove her. I fucking unloaded all my pent up wrath on her. She was not amused. She said she was going home. My response? insert “good” gif
  9. @Bozo_Casanova maybe we should hire the counselors but we haven't yet and probably won't. it may be nearsighted.
  10. to be fair to a lot of them, classes haven't started yet so their get in gear motivation is still in free-fly neutral gear for that last 10 days of summer. I get it. just don't be a dick.
  11. Yeah I agree hearing others say "same, same" is HUGELY helpful. on the writing front I can share some success, once he realized I wasn't happy and that he wasn't getting to hang with friends until he did some work, he got to it. not the way I would but he did it. then we worked through two drafts together and I was able to impart some real wisdom on how to write. I think he listened, his demeanor and his second draft surely indicated he listened. not sure anyone has really stopped to teach the young man how to truly write with intent. so I'm taking these essays as a chance to really up his writing skills. @BabaYaga my senior kicks all kinds of ass on the 4 requirements you mention. my 15 year old is good on 1 and 4, probably ok on 2. Appropriate attire.... someone PLEASE HELP .... socks with birkenstocks are killing my eyes!
  12. we have a service but it had been three weeks and they went a bit AWOL on me so I said fuck it I could use the exercise and wanted an excuse to avoid the gym and the courts. cut on the highest setting and still cut 2-3 inches off. I have a couple of heat stressed spots but not much. freaking yard is emerald green in the places that are under 6-8 hours of sun per day.
  13. he's spent all of 3 hours on his primary essay, he'll finish it around the 12-15 hour mark I think, it's also the one that touts his primary resume accomplishment - being in charge of 250 peers as the drum major. he's gotta nail that one imo. anyway, enough but my hooligan.
  14. I agree 100%. I'm venting here, pissed off, etc. but I'm taking it in stride, no yelling, no major shit, just cause and effect, consequences to his behavior. I do think he's far away from actually fucking up his college experience. It's way better to see this now even before school starts than at a critical point when he can lose something he's worked for, or even worse his freshman year of college. The only non-negotiable at this point are his apps and it's the only thing I said I would ground him over. But he wanted to quit work, I convinced him part time, then he did the square root of jack shit for a few days and this weekend. Saw me brushing the pool, adding chlorine, my wife testing the water, he bugged out and went to hang out with friends. later said he was going to do it sunday. I was like, "bro, you can't look at a pool tipping over to the green side and say, I'll do it tomorrow. I checked the chlorine tabs twice this week (we have 2 spots for chlorine) and both times they were empty." On sunday morning I told him I thought quitting was a good idea. He's now got $100 for gas and food for two weeks and his other parent can subsidize if she wants to (she lost her job, is burning through savings, and will take a pay cut so good luck with that). I strategically chose his job with me to be his acute failure/pain point this time around. He had enough savings to pay his subsidy of his car insurance through 12/31 so I took that. He honestly has no idea what's coming in terms of senior year, having a cute girlfriend he wants to keep, and being broke.
  15. I bought in right as it started to lift off (no pun intended, well maybe it was intended) and spent about 2 weeks studying it. I could be wrong but I'm in it for the long haul unless something in the business fundamentals changes. JOBY could lose but I don't think one company will take the whole market. Archer is there, the big companies may get into it too, but JOBY has the backing and the progress to suggest it's going to make a go of it. pre-revenue still (basically) so any run up now is certainly speculative but revenue milestones and profitability milestones still on the distant horizon means it has plenty of room for exuberance imo.
  16. I like liking things too, in New England I’ll go for the clam chowder, east coast oysters and avoid the gumbo and Mexican so I can like what I eat.
  17. That looks like my lawn before I mowed it Saturday. What is this green everywhere?
  18. Going on nothing but the sky,, tell me what month you think this morning is in central Texas? no cheating…. Yeah that’s not an August morning sky. I’ll take it!!!
  19. His essay is on point - basically a couple of short vignettes demonstrating the impact of poor leadership that lead him to his view on leadership, inclusivity, lead by example and accountability. He finishes with vignettes where he did those things as drum major. It totally shows compassion, leadership and passion. off the rails - I mean he’s quit his job and has no money, he quit doing things around the house without asking, before we left for a vacation he got drunk with his friends (not the worst thing a senior can do but way off his baseline), he’s running on adrenaline and full of cortisol as he tries to be the baddest drum major ever and it’s not a good look. He’s told me to be quiet 3-4 times in the last week where before it was rare. He’s got an inflated ego beyond anything I’ve seen from him, he won’t work on his college apps without me sitting on him, and he’s acting like a dick and is just an unpleasant kid to be around where before he was a dream kid to raise. I’m taking it in stride but it isn’t fun rn. he's got a mix of mostly big state schools out west but some Cali schools that will admit out of state like elites, and his back ups are pretty safe so in the end it doesn’t really matter.
  20. Is that Dan Patrick ? Fucking CR is —>
  21. Was it Lyle Lovett that said don’t eat Mexican food north of the red river or east of the Sabine … or something like that. Fucking Doritos with queso. Get these mother fuckers out of here. They can’t do bbq I sure as shit ain’t listening to them tell me how to do Tex Mex or worse actual Mexican food. Fucking uncultured mouth breathers.
  22. But are they better than the 83 horns? That’s the real question.
  23. The funny thing is his essay is about his experience as drum major, it’s a pretty good structure, a story that demonstrates poor leadership that led him to apply when he saw no one doing the right thing, he talks about his feeling and experience of what not to do then describes his philosophy of inclusivity, lead by example, and accountability both directly and indirectly with a story of his leadership success. He’s off the rails on the second two and yet he’s writing all about it. The humor isn’t lost on me at all.
  24. Bad pics but can anyone help me identify this make and model? Enjoyed watching it as we were cleaning up our boat and when we got home.
  25. That’s a nice looking watch I’ll check em out.
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