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Would be nice to actually win a game against someone other than Minn or Chicago one of these days. Maybe start tonight?

If not frozen too long trying pouring hot water into the pump. I'm not sure when things froze for me but I was able to bring mine back after a couple of cycles of hot water. If that didn't work, I was just going to shut power off to the pool equipment and pull drain plugs and hope for the best as it thawed.

I think this is a big chunk of it. In particular the older generation and the undecuated. I'll add in a couple of other categories among those that are educated when I tried to drill down into this last election. 1. People that feel so strongly about pro-life that it trumps (no pun intended) everything. I don't really pretend to understand these people or how they can reconcile morality voting for Trump but they exist. 2. People that think the liberalism in society is a bigger problem than Trump. Last cycle it was BLM riots and more locally Eyes of Texas and Homeless infiltration in Texas cities. This cycle it will be DEI and open borders among other issues. Fox News and social media will help shift focus from Trump's idiocy onto these and similar social issues to convince educated whites that holding their nose and voting Trump is better than 4 years of further spiraling and "becoming California or Chicago". It doesn't necessarily need to make logical sense as none of these voters are going to do a critical analysis as to how much Biden's policies actually impact whatever perceived issue they have. It's enough to get this type to say I don't like Trump but I'm not voting for "X liberal policy" and that's that.

Mine just flips back and forth between spa and pool on 30 minute intervals unless I lock it. It worked fine in the 2021 freeze. Not sure what happened this time. Regardless, it seems to have done ok after I thawed it out Sunday afternoon. But the bigger question - what is the downside to just draining all equipment and draining pool below the tile line when you have an event like this forecasted?

Looked out yesterday and didn't see flow. Sure enough, some valve was stuck (which according to my pool guy shouldn't have stopped the flow) but there was obviously something frozen somewhere even though equipment still trying to run. Before draining equipment and salvage what I could, I turned pump off, poured a big ass bucket of hot water into the pump and ran it. Did that a couple of times and second time did the trick. My auto freeze switches from pool to spa in 30 min intervals but ended up just locking it in pool mode and seems to be doing ok 24 hours later. Still don't know WTF happened. Weird.

Exactly, you can't. If you or your kids have a fever or otherwise feel like shit, then stay home. But with a preschooler and first grader, if we kept someone home and/or "tested" every time someone had a cough or the sniffles, it would be a damn near daily occurrence November-February.

I had a bank client that put this policy in place after dealing with some fraud internalluy. The individuals wouldn't get a ton of advance notice of their time off if I remember correctly (maybe a month or so) and would not even have access to email etc. during their off period. Think it was 10 days for them. But the thought of a mandatory vacation without access to email sounds absolutely amazing.

He's probably not interested. The locker rooms get pretty hot at DKR I hear.

I'm betting FPI and similar will set our win total at 9 or 9.5. But then Vegas will bump that up to 10. Because as evidenced by this thread, give Texas fans a hint of success and any basic understanding of probabilities goes out the window.

Our floor certainly wasn't 11-1 or 10-2 this year either if you have any understanding of what that word means. You can't look back at outcome and call that a floor SMH.

This. Anyone calling 2 losses a "floor" is either insane or has no idea what "floor" means. 10-2 is a reasonable prediction and would frankly represent an extremely successful season and guaranteed playoff spot (almost certainly hosting first round with our schedule). But it seems like people forget about things like injuries to key players will occur and the fact that it's certain every team in the country is going to play some stinkers over the course of the year (and you just hope that doesn't happen against teams with a pulse). I mean we play @ Michigan, UGA and 3 rivalry games (2 on the road). We could easily lose 4 next year if the chips don't fall our way. I'm betting Vegas team totals for us is set at 9.5 or 10.

TCU was fouled on the other end next possession as well and refs magically swallow their whistles for that one. It truly is amazing the calls that shit school gets at home. There can't be a more unfair place to play a conference game in the country and it's been like that since we joined the Big 12 at least.

Seems to be a consensus that it will be cold in Dallas area. Just a matter of how cold, how long, and whether or not the precipitation will drop further south with it. And then for the rest of the state, how far down the cold will drop. Not seeing much from the local channel meteorologists yet but guessing this will be the big story by tomorrow night. I just went and double checked we were good on faucet covers etc. and didn't need to make a run this afternoon.

Yeah, the weather nerds are starting to sound the alarm about massive cold blast starting Friday in North Texas severity TBD but potentially bad. Fucking Great.

I see he is "week to week". Could be worse but time for others to step up and snag some points until we get healthy.

Now that the year has turned and horns season is over I feel like it's finally time to start focusing on hockey. Took my son last night. Was a great game but brutal loss. Nervous about Heiskanen. This team will struggle to beat anyone without both him and Oettinger (particularly considering it's probably going to take a while for Otter to get back to form even when ready to play). I saw today they 'don't think' long term which is good. If it is anything remotely long term it almost forces a trade sooner rather than later to stay afloat.

Did the Harbaugh to NFL/Kelly to UM rumors die down? Is any coach going to make a move from a comfortable situation to LSU until that is resolved (presumably over the next 2 weeks)?

We had an great meal at Carlos Elegante over the summer as well. Agreed it doesn't feel like a "big night out" kind of place and definitely not Tex Mex but an excellent meal however categorized.

Fuck it. I'm on to next year. I certainly have not done a deep dive on Michigan's roster but a Michigan win likely means more underclassmen turning pro + more likely for Harbaugh to leave. Ann Arbor is going to be a tough W under any circumstances so I'm at if a Michigan win on Monday shifts those odds in '24 slightly, then Go Blue!

Party was great. Do you have a final number on the donation able to make to Texas One Fund from the event?

I like to venture out of the Quarter plenty. But staying at The Monteleone, pre-dinner drinks at Carousel bar and a lunch or at least mid-afternoon snack at Felix's are a New Orleans staple for us I don't ever plan to change.

We had a good trip. Flew in Sun afternoon and went straight to Felix's for some chargrilled and other bites. I didn't even know they had seating on the upstairs balcony overlooking Bourbon but they put us up there which was cool. Did a big group dinner at Luke NYE which was solid but not great although they did have a great oyster selection that night and we had a ton of those pre entree. Did New Years Day Brunch at Miss River which I would put up there with some of the other great brunches I've had. The only downside was they were all out of Crab so that limited the menu. We bar hopped on Bourbon post-brunch then hit the Manning's pregame party but my wife and I snuck out for a couple of dozen chargrilled oysters pregame across the street at Dragos that really hit the spot. Obviously wish the game outcome was better but a great trip. On the topic of too many nights in New Orleans, I ran into a friend at Pat O's early Monday afternoon that had been in N.O.'s since Friday afternoon and was turning 40 that Monday at midnight. He was then flying to Vegas this coming Friday. He was starting to question those plans. Yep - welcome to 40 buddy. I've been here a few years now and not as easy if it used to be. To me perfect N.O. trip is about 50 hours give or take from being dropped off at the Monteleone until being picked up to head to airport. We were a few hours short of that this trip and, while completely exhausted, left late Tues AM wishing we had time for one more NOLA lunch.

That's exactly what I said during the game to my wife. I listen to Sirius XM and read a bunch of the national articles during the CFB season. People tended to forget that THE hot topic those first few games of the season is whether UW was the best team in the country and whether anyone could stop that offense. That was the version of the UW offense we saw. Not whatever version struggled in the middle of the season after the first Oregon game. I was sitting there thinking as hot as Penix was they should have thrown it every single play regardless of down and distance. As a neutral observer, I truly hope Penix stays that hot again next Monday so we see how that elite QB and WR play does against Michigan's (admittedly much better) D.

I had been drinking all day but that was where I came out watching the game from a YL seat in the 300 level. I felt like we tried everything on defense and it didn't really matter. The Defense actually played well enough to win which is pretty shocking considering how elite Penix and those WR's played.

I tend to agree this is definitely how it is going to be going forward. With NIL spreading the wealth around, Bama and UGA can't just stack a roster with 5 stars at every position where anyone else is at a massive talent disadvantage. I think most years will be a lot more similar to this year where any of the final 4 teams can win and it's all a matter of who plays their best game on any given day. It sucks to come so close and lose (particularly knowing we didn't play our A game) but our roster should FINALLY be back in the position that we should be in the 12 team mix most years which is all you can really ask for as a fan.