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Not really. We had cold events in 1985 and 1989. But we are always having some kind of event whether flooding, drought, infrastructure failure or whatever. There is no excuse for not attempting to prepare or be informed. If you do these things you will not only help yourself, but give yourself the bandwidth to really help others.

As others have said. No need to keep the gas pipe on once wood is sufficiently lit. Problem might be an incorrectly constructed Rumford fireplace. Not sure of your set up, but fire brick angles etc are important. I have found a hot fire vents better. I am burning an almost infinite amount of mesquite so your mileage may vary. It was a priority when I built my house to have a competently constructed indoor and outdoor Rumford fireplace based experience as a child with poor builds listening to my dad bot h about them.

Hope you didn't run out of peanut butter.

A little late to the party but nevertheless: 290 Circle Drive area. No power interruptions with plenty of firewood, running and extra water, and sleeping space. Our concern here is the second wave tonight might damage power lines causing outage and that we are out of booze. No freaks or pets. Pm or respond to this thread. Also have 4wd for shuttling.

Snowed 3 times that winter. By the third time, I was sick of it. 2nd snowfall was pretty cool. I was down on campus as a HS senior for an audition. Ended up on LBJ library hill sledding on cardboard. Audition also went well.

Team PEC checking in Circle and 290. Power all night and day so far. PEC has a service center and yard almost directly across the street and next to it is a firestation. Fingers crossed. Hopefully this makes up for...checks watch...the 107 consecutive hours (and counting) below freezing thus far and the 1/4" of ice still on everything from Thursday.

I am in the Circle drive area(austin) and we have been below 31 since midnight Thursday (i.e. Wednesday night). All of our trees, grasses, fences have ice on them. Wind has been 10mph nonstop. I went to my construction yard by the airport this afternoon, and by the time I got to the y in oak Hill, all the ice was gone and the temp rose 4 degrees. It was just a normal cold day elsewhere. Got back home to 25 and sleeting, wtf. Must be living in a snow globe.

Back in the 70's, my elementary school football coach, E.G "Ox" Emerson, used to pull out his stach of old football and WW II Pacific theater films on cold rainy days when we couldn't practice. The football films sucked unless he ran the projector backwards. But the WW II films were awesome totally politically incorrect. I can still hear the narrator saying "look at that Jap destroyer blow". When my mom picked up my brother and I and asked us what we did for practice, we would tell he we watched a bunch of WWII "Jap films." Good times. Funny thing is that was only 30 years after the war ended. That would be like our kids watching Gulf War I films.

I believe the correct nomenclature is "golden sombrero", sir.

I'm only seeing like 36 hours below freezing in Austin. You guys keep on "Jim Spencering" though.

This bleeds into the larger topic of mundane nationalism/patriotism seen at events or in our daily lives. A few years ago, before Kapernick, the topic of Jerry Jones charging for "troop honoring" at Cowboys games came up while I was on a four day camping/kayak fishing trip. A few of the guys were enlisted vets and most of the rest are O & G guys in Houston, so despite being reasonable individuals otherwise there is definitely a "patriotic" lean to the group as a whole. Of course, since I am from Austin, and prefer to hash out the where tos and why fors of such situations, I am generally labeled as a liberal hippy, all in good fun, of course. I do need to put in gentle reminders that despite being from Austin, I was raised catholic, am a CPA, own a construction company, and was educated at that bastion of liberal free thinking that is the Red 'racist" McCombs School of Business with not just a BBA but an MPA as well. My thesis started out by positing that, when it came to honoring the troops, that we perhaps had become fatigued by the whole thing. After all, ever since 9/11 we have been on a non stop veneration of all things firefighter, first responder, cop, military, and victorious dead, what with our endless wars on terror, drugs, and such. I went on further, stating that in my many years as a musician in HS marching band, HS concert band, HS jazz band, various all-region , all -city, All -state ensembles, Longhorn marching band, Longhorn jazz band, solo performances, and numerous professional gigs, that I had played the national anthem over a thousand times and that by the time I was in my mid 20's that I was thoroughly sick of it and it had become a trite experience whether performing or listening/singing. Not stopping there, I went on to giving a brief history of how the Pledge of Allegiance came about in the 1950's and how it too had become a trite and wrote thing to be "gotten over with" during my school days. I also added that my children were now also subjected to an additional and almost identical pledge to Texas while at school, ....in Austin. In conclusion, I stated that these customs had, at best, become a distraction from the acts real patriotism, like voting, becoming informed and involved, paying taxes, having a civics curriculum in school, thinking, and otherwise truly participating in the hard work in maintaining and improving our democracy such as it is. I got a lot of nods and then we proceeded to change the subject and drink a lot more beer.

The building is still there but no operational bar is working. I went to that place (Circleville Inn) about 20 years ago when it was just as you said, except they had a licence and I bought booze there. They closed down and there was another owner who put a little money into the place and changed the exterior color scheme from blue and white to orange/red but they did not have a licence. Yeah, i was usually drunk when I got there, but figured I could walk home in a pinch. From talking to the locals over the years, that used to be a really rough place. An old white guy parks his taco trailer in their parking lot and sells a pretty mean brisket taco. If you keep heading down Circle and make you way to the Austin zoo area there are a couple of dead ends that lead onto UT property and COA property. They are monitored by camera now, but my wife and I used run down there and hop the fences back in the day. Barton creek is back there and on the other side of the creek is Spanish Oaks.

Moved out to Circle Drive area in Austin back in 1998. 6 acres but it felt like 50. Back then I would have described the area as rural, but I knew it would not last forever. It was the perfect blend of rural with some convenience as there was a convenience store and gas station about a mile away and the Y in Oak hill was only 3 miles down the road. There was a subdivision that had been developed back in the 60's that is close by but there were large lots and it never got built out completely. There was a mix of large ranches and some larger homesteads in the 10 acre range butted up to the Circle drive, which btw used to be old US 290. There was some crazy rural shit going on back then. Lots of hunting on an old quarry close by. Crazy neighbors who ran cock fights, dog fights, meth labs, and some prostitution. Tons of wildlife including foxes, porcupines, hawks, owls, and bats along with the other usual rural critters. Over the years, we got an apartment complex at the old quarry, a big fire station, three new fancy subdivisions close by, a huge PEC yard and office, commercial warehouse space, a wedding venue, expansion of the gas station into a beer garden, expansion of the Montessori school, a water tower, and a left turn lane, not to mention all the stuff I have left out. I can't see any of the development from my home but I did have to put in a fence when we had kids to keep the still roaming pit bulls from our neighbors fighting stock from mauling my family. The fence was a nice addition as it also kept out the Jehovahs and fly by night asphalt contractors. We have a huge garden, goats, a nice 1/2 mile trail, a big area in the back for fires, and I still piss freely. My folks live on a 400 acre ranch in south Texas, but I don't think I could do that with their set up. They have highway frontage along with county road frontage that has a lot of oil and gas traffic. That too is becoming less rural as San Antonio has expanded.

KC won a lot of close games this year by not having ridiculous penalties, dropped balls all over the place, and making plays when it mattered or when they had to. I could point to at least 1/2 dozen plays or so that if KC does what they are supposed to, this game has the potential to play much closer. As it was, the game reminded me of one of the old school 80's or 90's SB beat downs that the NFC dished out on the regular to the likes of Miami, Denver, or Buffalo. Despite the fact that I was a big Bucs fan before my oldest son moved to New Orleans (I am now a Saints fan for that Division and a Cowboy homer since the 70's), I found myself rooting for KC...which is also weird because as a Cowboys fan, I still have ire for Andy Reid and am also an NFC fan in general except for the 49ers and NFC East. I fancy myself a pretty good judge of SB football, especially after watching the action in the playoffs and I did not see this coming.

I have a picture from my first communion out in front of Saint Louis church on Burnet Rd. across from what would be Northcross Mall. Nothing but a bunch of fields in the background. Good times. Also spent many an afternoon at The Goldmine and staring the Nike Cortez' at Phidippides because I could not afford it.

Posted this in the other thread but,. His favorite work of mine:

I always enjoyed his Killian's Red commercial back in the 80's. Total different.

Freetime wasn't given. It was earned.

..also by Oliver Stone...The Untold History of the United States...A 10 part series from Teddy to Obama. Regardless of what you think of Stone's catalog of work in general, this series provides an excellent "other side" to the whitewashed version we learned in history class. FDR through Truman is especially good.

I fell asleep at the playground. I layed down on a 4 X 4 that they used for the curbing surround. Snored like a champ apparently.

On the bright side, I had a similar issues two years ago and got it checked out with no real problems. No real issues. Doc's basic explanation was that due to aging, sloppy diet, and drinking that some reflux was occurring (although I never had heartburn or any acid in my throat that I was aware of, just the sore throat). He seemed to think it was a nerve in my stomach that got agitated. He put me on Nexium for a week to get things calmed down and after that things went back to normal...just watch that late night eating, milk and booze.

I have had some trouble with both shoulders as you describe. My right shoulder is doing great now but I think it is compromised from an injury in college. Left is doing what yours is right now. I aggravated it while building a bouldering wall in my garage. Right now I am kind of reverse engineering things as I feel like the origin of the problem is in my upper back and neck area. A lot of shoulder problems come from poor thoracic spine mobility and weakness. We tend to get rounded shoulders and then go about our business, which impinges the tendons and sometimes nerves. I have no recs from creams and lotions, but I would look at the the t-spine and see if you can get things going in the right direction there. My right shoulder was giving me the business about a year ago and I got it cleared up with no MD or meds other than some Aleive. For what its worth I am 54 and have been doing a lot of rock climbing at the gym and outdoors with my kids the last few years and my extra weight put on by covid (+15lbs in the last year) is really messing with me. I recently had to stop climbing due to not only my shoulder, but a wrist issue and climber's elbow (basically golfers elbow) in both limbs. The shitty thing about this is that I can't deal with the elbow issues because the rehab aggravates my left shoulder and my right wrist. Additionally, climbers elbow does not fix itself with rest...and I have also had to stop playing classical guitar at use of my fretting hand aggravates my shoulder. I can walk, do squats, and elbow planks and that's about it.

..or any year.

For most administrations (all other really), this thread could have been started following the results of the election. But for DJT, we would dare not start such a thing due to the inevitable nonsense that would take place right up to the bitter end.

He stated also, he goes to Hooters for the great wings and subscribes to Playboy for the articles and cartoons.