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  1. Austinvines
    This was too good not to steal.
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    My dad’s people were from Van Zandt County and we drove through Corsicana at least four times a year for 20 years. About 15 years ago when my kids were very little, my brother gave me a thought experiment where I had the choice of having someone else raise my kids in Austin, or me raising them in Corsicana but they had to go to public school all the way through. It was a close call.
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    I want a new AVR. I’m looking for one that can be used all the time for cable/streaming with good integration. I have a 5.1 system now that is capped out on HDMI and want something with a remote that handle handle it all quickly. We have google and use a firestick for most of the streaming but have an Apple TV as well. I have an older Logitech remote but it’s slow and not as intuitive as with multiple inputs. I guess a bar would be ok but I’d rather have a full surround than a gimped one.
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    You only need a 675 out of 1000. I overstudied and could’ve easily played a few more rounds of golf the summer I took the Bar. A very smart and now super successful friend did the whole whistling past the graveyard - “if I passed, it was by a point.” We all laughed and laughed because there was no way he was that close to the line. He got a 676. He studied just enough. I admire that guy. If you fail, the passage rate actually goes way down so good luck to him.
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    I particularly liked narrowing the answer choices down to two that were perfectly opposed. I finished the morning session early enough to go back and recheck the questions from the start. After I changed the answers to question numbers 1 and 2, I stopped and GTFO.
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    Zero. Was close on canned tuna but a tuna salad sandwich made from canned can be ok.
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    Hit a cat in high school when I was speeding home feeling like a badass. It ran through the street after but I’m sure it was fucked. Still bothers me 30 years later.
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    Saturday was so nice with cool temps and low humidity that I decided to tack on an extra section to my already longish ride and hit my longest MTB ride in both distance and time. Felt great afterwards and could move around ok yesterday.
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    One of my twins is at UTSA for CAP as well. After the six hours this summer, he has sophomore hours which will help with spring registration. Let me know what you find out about xfering after the Fall semester. I thought you had to complete the CAP curriculum (all 30 hours) and have the GPA to qualify, but I’d love to be wrong.
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    Sorry for the delay. It was basically room temp when eaten. Let it sit for half an hour or so before serving after putting it together. We ate half that night and the rest held up fine in the fridge for another two days.
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    Picked up olive spread from Costco last week. Had some extra times this morning and made muffuletta bread from the nolacuisine site. Sent my wife to HEB to get the meats and cheese. Turned out awesome. Yummy.
  13. Austinvines
    ¡No mames!
  14. Austinvines
    I’m a fan of the Kuat Transfer. Got a 2 bike one for my twins’ Ford Escape from REI for around $330. The trays and “crooks” are plastic on steel. Not as nice as the Sherpa or NV but those are spendy and the Transfer has most of the same advantages, like the locking hitch, locking cables, partial tilt down so you can get into your trunk/hatch without removing the bikes (although two would be heavy).
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    In Laredo, Carinitas Tapatio is some of the most legit pork I’ve ever had. Totally nose to tail and the folks cooking it are good people. Macizas (shoulder) is really good but the cuerito, buche, trompa, and chicharon with the sides they have elevate the pig to great heights.
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    I am really loving my hardtail on flats. I have nonexistent core strength and blew out my right arm trying to remove 20 year old shrubs with a pickaxe, but I can ride flat trails like a pro. Lol.
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    I’m riding mornings to beat the heat and trying to put in the work to drop about 12% of my post-quarantine fatness (about 20 rides a month for June and July). The great thing about an 8 am ride is how nice it is weather-wise. The bad thing is that it’s a nice time for snakes to hang out on the trail. Besides the rattler above, I’ve now come up on two absolutely beautiful coral snakes. The first was a decent sized snake, the second was young and small. The crazy thing was how fast both of them were. Thankfully they were quickly getting the f out of my way, but watching them coil and thrash in half a second makes me worry that they could get tangled up with me. I ride platforms and cannot bunny hop to save my life. I’d rather encounter a coral snake than a viper but it’s still a shock. Stay safe.
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    A 2:30 am frito pie from the Dog House in the Castillian lot always hit the spot.
  19. Austinvines
    Splitting a half ounce of dried between three and driving to the Dobie for the midnighter of Heavy Metal in about 1989 was glorious, if not terrifying.
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    I was 1/1 with this ID on my mountain bike ride today. He was snoozing across the trail and didn’t move for several minutes. Tossed some stuff nearby in hopes of him waking up and moving on. Slithered across the trail and I got by without him coiling up/rattling. Figure he was 2-2.5’.
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    Had a good brake check on my hydros this morning. This dude was snoozing hard. Took about 3 minutes for me to wake him up enough to cruise off far enough off the trail for me to slide by. For the rest of my ride, every root across the trail was out to get me. I stopped about ten feet away from it. I figure one-third of it is in the grass, so it was about 2-2.5 feet.
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    Austin metro just hit stage five (7-day moving avg of 70+ admits per day). This is earlier than expected. No idea what Adler is going to do but imagine he won’t take a wait and see approach.
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    My sons agreed to ride with me this morning so I gave them a little more time in the rack. Wheels down a little after 10 for some SATN sweetness. I’m real hot and tired but having a pool is absolutely worth it after these rides. Being old and fat increases the calories burned. I don’t believe it but will use it as the reason for my second barbacoa and egg taco. In May I started getting serious about logging some miles. Still old and fat but my stamina, wind and power have definitely improved.
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    We were there over the weekend. Total shitshow near town with zero distancing and tons of multi-family parties on the beach. Down by the state park we could park close to the water back-to-back with a space for our canopy. That was nice. The IGA was masked up and they were giving masks to the patriots who came in without. I especially liked the dude in the t-shirt with an AK on it and the text “‘You don’t need an AK’ ‘yeah and I don’t need a whiny bitch telling me what I don’t need.’” Plenty of Trump flags.
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    My brother-in-law works for the CoA. This graph was shared with the mayor and county judge. I have no idea what the models used to determine the predicted line, but let’s hope we get one of the ones lowest on the y-axis. Hold on to your butts.

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