Happy New Year You Surly Bastards!
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
Travel for us ended up being a more significant cost than I had really thought about going into having a college kid. When I went to college, I went and came home at Christmas and summer. My parents never stepped foot on campus. With my oldest, we have two parents weekends a year and both end up being on busy school event weekends so finding a place to stay is not cheap on top of traveling back and forth. The first year she was also not great at planning ahead on coming home. We would get a call on a Mon/Tues wanting to come home that weekend, so we paid last minute airfare a few times over the course of the year. This year has been a lot better with her planning when she wanted to come home and being more settled I think. She bounced between SEC schools during her first year football season on the weekends, this year she was pretty much on campus the entire fall semester other than a couple of away games. The other thing we have found with both kids is that there are generally pretty good travel/transportation options from campus to a major airport. There are decent shuttle services tailored to the college kids that run from both cities to the major airports 1.5 hours away that are pretty cheap.
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
Ark and TN aren’t in the same ballpark for admittance rates especially for Ark border states. Ark and Mizzou bend over backwards to pull kids from out of state. My youngest is deferred as in-state kid at TN and has $20k a year plus in scholarships from Ark/Mizzou with a not so great ACT. It’s kind of wild because both campuses and towns blow Knoxville out of the water and Knox has a severe campus housing shortage on top of that. Clemson is going to be tougher than TN but quite a bit easier than UGA for out of state kids. UGA’s honors college is extremely difficult to get into as an OOS kid. Youngest accepted and started looking for a roommate at Mizzou then Samford came in with a great offer so now she’s having second thoughts. Christian college, really nice campus, in the middle of the SEC schools where her friends are going, etc have her rethinking everything. It really gets under the skin of my oldest that her younger sister who has f-ed around all of high school is getting $20k a year plus scholarships offers and she is at UGA full price.
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2025 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
Middle of the normal range on both including everything else that was checked. Dehydration would be odd because I only drink water and the occasional unsweet tea and it hasn’t been an issue. Stopped statins, switched to plant based protein supplement, and took the week off from any significant weights and have just walked more. Retesting Friday and will go from there.
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2025 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
Up close to 2000, heavy upper body workout Monday, light legs Tuesday, blood draw Wednesday. He wants me to keep up the running/walking, go light on weights, increase water, retest next week and he’s going to order specific enzyme tests to try and narrow down what is driving it.
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2025 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
Getting old is a beating. Been having issues with some tendinitis in my elbow/forearm, so I took a few days off from lifting. Then when I went back to it I just worked through it and it’s been manageable. Went in yesterday for normal cardio check (did hour+ long workouts Monday/Tuesday) and the doctor wanted do blood work to check inflammation levels. My cardiologist calls me after hours tonight (which has never happened through all my myriad issues including needing a stent ASAP) to tell me my CPK levels are off the charts high and be there first thing in the morning so they can put me on an IV to try to flush it some. He also wants me to lower the intensity of workouts which seems counter to him telling me to get serious and get in better shape. Now, I’m going to have to rethink what I’m doing after making quite a bit of progress in 4 months. Shit’s frustrating.
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2025 Surly NFL Eliminator Pool
Eagles have the Raiders this week, would normally take the Niners and that’s who I had planned. However, with the Indy injuries I would probably hold them until next week as that play is better than the Eagles on the road next week. Just depends on who you have left. My general rule is never take the road team, so that goes against it. If Indy’s backup is out, they will have a hard time even at home.
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2025 Surly NFL Eliminator Pool
My big dollar one looked similar. $150k in the pot, switched off of Miami to TB this morning. We had 51 teams left this morning, 1 has made it through with 3 still in play. Other big money pool was similar, 4 made it through with 2 still to play. I won 2 college survivor pools so I don’t feel terrible, but it still sucks to change off a win with that much money on the line this late in the year.
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Election Day 2025
Outlying counties are coming in, nothing from Davidson yet. The outlying counties will all go 70/30 Epps, so Davidson vote numbers will be key.
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2025 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
I have no input on what, but I would probably jump in on something not riding related. I row most days with the time change and cold weather instead of walking/running. Dropped below the 250 mark for the first time in 20+ years, getting closer to 230 which is where I figure I’ll settle. Been keeping measurements on quads, biceps, chest, waist, neck, weight since September. I’ve seen significant changes in measurements while only being down about 13 pounds in the time frame. Going to really start hitting weights hard next week to see what I can do over the next 3 month period.
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Lane Kiffin to LSU?
I’m fine viewing him as a villain, but you’re crazy to think Ole Miss is in the same ballpark as LSU. The only reason they have any sort of relevance right now is because they tied themselves to Kiffin. It’s also just funny at this point to see the commentary. When is the right time for a coach to leave for a tier higher job with the way the portal system works? Kids sit out of bowl games, coaches jump ship before bowl games, it’s just the way of the world. I’m in the Ole Miss backyard, watching them sink back to mediocrity after riding the lightning and getting burned is entertaining.
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Lane Kiffin to LSU?
Some of these takes are quite entertaining. We’re talking about Ole Miss football. 4 out of the last 5 seasons have been their best ever. They got what they wanted out of Kiffin and him leaving was always just a matter of opportunity and money. LSU is a much better opportunity than Ole Miss, so here we go. It happens every year, maybe just not with a playoff team that best case scenario could win one game. We’re not talking about a blue blood job he’s walking away from. Saying all of that, he was king of Oxford (not saying a whole lot just for the record) so he may end up regretting this one. ESPN should run his 30 for 30 on how great it is at Ole Miss on a loop all afternoon.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
Didn’t take long for certain members of this fanbase to start SEC’ing themselves with some of these takes on scheduling and the season. You can’t lose to FL (not even counting OT against MSU and KY) and make some of these arguments with a straight face.
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Surly kids who can't get into UT
Guess I will have another SEC kid, Mizzou made her a great scholarship offer (kind of amazed because she filed test optional) and she is going to go ahead and move forward with it. It has been her first choice from the time she started looking. Going to be a pain for us with one in Athens and one in Columbia and us dead square in the middle, but we’ll make it work.
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Texas @ Georgia November 15, 2025 - The Beginning or The End
You sound like an Aggy repeating the same thing over and over every page. 3rd downs, missed throws, just sloppy ass play, etc are much more to blame than penalties at this point.
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Should Traffic Controllers be paid during shutdowns? And should private planes receive the same access as commercial airlines during flight restrictions?
They should be paid or shut the whole thing down. No one should have to show up on a promise of getting paid at some point in the future. That’s not the way this would work. As far as private, I’m fine limiting at the largest airports but past that it would be everyone or no one in my eyes. Park them all or let them all fly. I fly 2-3 times a month and rarely if ever use a major airport. I generally use the smaller airports for 95% of my flights. I had to go into Dulles this week and the FBO’s were loaded down with jets. I bet there were 100+ Saudi (I’m guessing) military guys at the FBO on Monday going out on several Gulfstreams and planes were sitting everywhere they could find a place to put them.