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Surprised Helo isn’t here to remind us Judge sucks.

Ewers is not the answer.

He can't.

Game 1 delivered.

Holy shit!

Your “opinion” inspired you to vote for a guy that started an insurrection to overturn an election that he lost, and now plans to pardon the criminals involved in that insurrection and use the American military to go after his own enemies. A guy who said “Hitler did a lot of good things.” A guy who has been convicted of sexual assault. A guy who might very well destroy our democracy. So um, no, we aren’t very tolerant of that “opinion”.

I assume that as well, but Nancy was consumed by grief and bitterness, so watching a story entirely through that lens is underwhelming. I’m hoping there will be some kind of twist or reveal similar to Atonement, where we realize that the story we’ve been fed is deliberately untrue and there is a deeper explanation.

Voted today. Fuck Donald Trump and fuck Ted Cruz.

Finally caught up on this show. Can’t decide if I like it. Feels like a mix of The Affair with Big Little Lies. So far, the plot is a little boring to me. Married woman and teenager have affair, teenager drowns, and years later the teenager’s parents seek vengeance by publishing a book to torment the adulteress. Nothing about that is all that groundbreaking, but we still have 3 episodes to go, so we shall see.

I’ll be in San Juan for one night in a few weeks. Arrive mid afternoon, fly out early the next day. I’m thinking just dinner and drinks in town unless there’s something I should attempt to see or do. I booked dinner at a place called Cocina al Fondo that looks good online. Someone told me to spend time in Old San Juan. Anything specific? Is it overly touristy?

Well since we’re historically a red state, maybe lower numbers would be an indicator that long term Republican voters are underwhelmed with their candidate this time. Wishful thinking?

I’ve been a little bit tuned out the past few weeks so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I see PredictIt is now giving a moderate edge to Trump. What changed? Is that even a metric worth acknowledging?

There were also plays where Quinn had time and he ignored open receivers, over or under threw targets, or threw into Georgia players’ hands. He is also slow and has zero ability to move when a rusher gets through the line. The line played poorly but that doesn’t excuse a lot of Quinn’s wtf moments.

Both can be true

Well shit, I hadn’t even considered the possibility of Quinn coming back until reading this post. The night somehow just got worse. Maybe he could transfer back to tOSU.

Arch please

Good luck and have fun. Lifelong Dodgers fan here, went to the NLCS and WS in Texas, but really want to win one in a non-Covid year. With all the shit you’ve been through lately, you deserve this more than anyone.

Love her. I’ve followed her on IG for a while and she seems like a person who is genuinely having fun doing all that life has to offer. She goes places and does what I would do in those places, which is entirely unlike certain other pop stars or celebrities. Her recent Austin posts and especially the performance in the Texas jersey are icing on the cake. She posted from Barton Springs.

It’s possible to love the game at the State Fair and Cotton Bowl and also recognize the major failures that could be improved. No one wants it moved to Jerryworld. We just want better ingress/egress and concessions that don’t run out of everything before halftime. Not being able to buy anything to eat or drink does not magically add to the charm of a football game.

I would rather dissolve the football program than see this game played in Jerryworld because I’ve seen Big 12 championships played there and that place has the environment of playing in a Costco. Screw that. That said, the State Fair and Cotton Bowl experience needs to drastically improve. I know renovations are planned so I will hope for the best.

No, the Cotton Bowl itself was the worst part. They were practically out of water by halftime for a 2:30 game in 95F weather. You simply can’t run out of water. It’s a safety issue if nothing else. DKR has massive water dispensers in the concourses so you can refill a water bottle if you need to. It was near impossible to buy a water in the Cotton Bowl and there were no options to refill your empty bottle. Even their water fountains had plastic wrap taped across them. The concession lines were extremely long and there are no TVs in the concourses so you will completely miss a chunk of the game while waiting to hopefully buy whatever you need if the line you chose doesn’t completely run out before you get to the front. I’ve never seen anything like it.

I’ve been to about 15 TX-OU games over the past 25 years and I’ve always been a huge proponent of keeping it at the Cotton Bowl, best game environment in all of college football, Jerryworld sucks, etc. Yesterday was by far one of the worst gameday experiences of any game I’ve ever been to. Crowd control pre-game is awful and borderline dangerous. They should have daily capacity limits for the State Fair to limit the amount of people going in who aren’t attending the game for this one particular day. They need wider gates at the stadium with more ticket scanners to expedite movement. Inside the Cotton Bowl was not much better. It was elbow to elbow everywhere, which maybe that’s always been the case and I was just more annoyed because of the clusterfuck outside the stadium. Hopefully the renovations and new concourses will help. The worst thing of all was the lack of water, food, and beer in the stadium. I left my seat in the second quarter to get more water and the upper level concessions had a line 75-100 people long. I skipped it and went back to my seat. Tried again a few minutes before half and lines were gone because the concessions were out…of everything. No water, no shitty Pepsi products, no chips, nothing. Went downstairs and the lines were long as well, waited for a few minutes in a line and then they ran out of water, only beer. Left that line and went to another very long line with water, realized I would miss the entire 3rd quarter in that line, so I went near the front and gave a random girl $20 for her to buy me 2 waters. The beer guys were also running out of beer from what I saw. I luckily wasn’t planning on drinking yesterday but the booze options appeared to be Bud Light, Ultra, or White Claw, if you could even get one. Gross. Awful concessions. How go you have 100k people at a stadium in 95F heat and not plan better on water? Running out in the first half? That’s a major problem. At the end of the day, I was there to watch Texas beat the hell outta OU, and we got that done, so I left happy. I am hoping for some significant improvements in at least the stadium before next year.

That’s insane to think about. Just did a quick Zillow search in that area with a $5MM+ filter and there are tons of fancy homes for sale on those barrier islands.

I sort of expect that 20-30 years from now, many neighborhoods in Florida that are currently desirable places to live will be full of vacant and partially destroyed homes. Home insurance is already expensive and carriers are withdrawing from Florida and other high risk areas. With the increased frequency of major hurricanes causing significant financial losses, parts of Florida may become uninsurable, and then what? People can’t live in a home that may get destroyed any given year with no insurance.

For being a bye week, this was pretty pretty good.