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dieucla98

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  1. Thank you for this forum and this opportunity to share my father's story. He was born in India in the 1940s - 8 sisters, 4 brothers. Worked on a farm to help his family like all his siblings. His home was maybe 2k sq ft, probably less, and I'm thankful I've been able to see it and stay in it multiple times. I'm also thankful my American wife has been able to see it. The house unto itself vs who I am today is an incredible story. In what we'd call 5th grade, my grandfather gave all his kids the same choice - stop school and continue to help on the farm or leave the town, move 90m away, live in a dorm, and continue your studies on your own. There was no 6th+ grade education options other than that. My dad, thankfully, choose school. So he left his house to be his own man as an 11 yr old. He came to the US in the 60s, got his masters in electrical engineering from UConn and started his PhD at GW but got "bored". Brought my mom over around this time and started his life as an IBM'er which ultimately brought him to Austin where my parents had me. He taught me how to work, how to embrace failure as motivation and merely a step on the journey. He taught me humility (I showboated at a baseball game once and I've never seen my dad more disappointed in me) and the importance of kindness to your fellow human. Unless they suck at math, because that was, and I learned this many times, utterly unacceptable. Two and a half years ago, I watched him have a stroke right in front of me. Watched his entire right half shut down. Then his entire self shut down. Thankfully, we were already in the hospital and the brilliant doctors saved his life. But his entire self was completely reset. Couldn't talk. Couldn't swallow. Couldn't walk. After that, he fought. Hard. He gained full physical function faster than anyone anticipated. He learned to talk from scratch. He never settled and kept fighting to get back to where he was before. I know that will never happen and I know he'll never stop trying anyways. That fight, that never giving into to failure - that's my dad and that's who I hope I will be.
  2. You guys are fighting with someone who thinks they are special because they know how frequent flier miles work.
  3. That's going to take some getting used to.
  4. $6M to risk an injury that ends your career or $1M+ to play one of best/safest jobs in all of sports (also, it's contractually $1M+ per year and a $1M+ signing bonus if he goes round 3, which feels right)? Give me the easy button.
  5. I've been swinging Cobra irons since ~2016. Nearly switched to a T100/T150 combo set last year but it just wasn't enough of an improvement to justify $2k+. Been trying to get rid of my even older TM SLDR 3H and have yet to swing something that I was convinced was a big enough improvement (and I've tried a bunch of different options over the years). I'm just not convinced iron or hybrid tech has really evolved much. I'm starting to believe driver tech is stagnating as well. Or maybe I just suck at this game.
  6. Take a gummy. Would love to see your source on all this science. Austin iced the fuck over during treepocolypse and the temp barely got below 31.
  7. 4" of snow on Thursday is backing off? What's your baseline I guess?
  8. Just wanted to say thanks for being a productive member of this non productive surly society. Though I'm not totally convinced you aren't just being swarmy and I'm too dumb to notice.
  9. We had half a yard to get to essentially close the game out. You go for that half yard every time.
  10. "Leaves" feels a bit voluntary.
  11. Only saw upper deck available. Picked best available and they tried to sell me top row 50 yard line. Went back and manually picked some - 107 row 3. Mega happy with that result. Edit: bought 4 and I'm not a season ticket holder but do donate to LHF and TOF.
  12. Agreed. As a niners fan, it's the same opinion with Shanahan. Find someone you trust and let them have the reigns so you can manage the whole team.
  13. We wandered the desert for 10 fucking years and now will be in the playoffs in back to back years and some of you fuckers are bitching about the coach? Holy fuck, some of you people are miserable.
  14. Wonder how much a difference that bollard under the car made. I'm sure quite a lot.
  15. I bring my normal toothpaste through ever time and, knock on wood, haven't been flagged yet. TSA pre check?
  16. If you're flying out of AUS on any Monday or Thursday, you better get your ass to the airport early. And you better be wearing your corporate logo swag and bringing your two pieces of Tumi luggage, too.
  17. Some PGA tour player said to take a bite of something and a swig of water before starting every hole. Most underestimate just how many calories get burned playing golf. I don't follow that everytime but I'm noticably more mentally in the game when I do.
  18. Dude couldn't retain a seat at Force fucking India and caught lightning in a bottle for one race to convince RB to sign him. He's the Danny Willet of F1.
  19. I smash mine before I put them in the skillet. That gives me a chance to fix my fucked up smash before it's too late. It's cheating but it's the same end result.
  20. I said I would be neutral with a 2-1 win but after seeing that pitch, holy hell, I'll take 1-0 and be happy about it. It looked like the ball was dragging an anchor all day.
  21. I hear ya - I'm hopeful we have a team that can (finally) overcome a few missing players and still take care of business like they should. Much like the true top national teams do.
  22. I'd take 2-1 and be neutral about it. This team is far too talented (including the coach, finally) to be happy with a draw against anyone in Concacaf other than Mex at Azteca.
  23. If you removed 90% of the sponsor logos off any of these cars, they'd probably look pretty slick too.
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