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But I ... I ... believe in love. HUAH! (drum fill)

Nice! Who knew we had some DCI alums here. Cavs 91 and Phantom 93 are two of my all-time favorite old-school shows. I really wanted to do DCI (even switched to baritone from trombone in band for a year to get used to it), but couldn't swing it financially - it was either spend a few grand I didn't have to go do that, or earn a few grand I really needed working all summer. Kinda regret not doing it.

SIAP - I scrolled back a few pages and searched and didn't see this. Crazy story if true. aggy grad says he accidentally ended up in the corps, and then the band, and somehow faked his way through four years without ever actually playing an instrument. https://www.lonestarlive.com/life/2024/12/texas-am-alumnus-accidentally-joins-band-says-they-pretended-to-play-for-4-years.html

Dated a girl from Jacksboro. This is correct. (Dairyland is pretty solid, too.)

No. This fall has been nuts and frankly didn’t think about it. Wasn’t a choice based on any kind of moral stance.

I tested positive for Covid on Monday. It’s knocked me on my butt - I rarely get sick, and this is the sickest I’ve been in years. Started Paxlovid this am and had enough energy this evening to walk the dog around the block - and it wore me out. It’s only been two days of sleeping on an air mattress in the home office to stay away from the family, and I’m starting to go stir crazy.

Northeastern New Mexico for me. Same beautiful vistas and outdoor activities as CO, but the roads all suck so the bad guys can't get to you.

He was likely to get canned by UCF if he didn’t leave on his own. Preemptive move.

1. LBJ was definitely flawed. 2. Do not ever, ever compare LBJ to Gaetz again. LBJ actually accomplished things and seemed to care about the well-being of the country.

That's fair. My kid will be a poli sci major and plans to do band, so he'll likely find his people pretty quickly.

When we toured there they said it was only 30% of student body involved in Greek life, which is about double UT but lower than some other schools we visited (like TCU).

Translation: “There is a zero percent chance a liberal woman is a GC or anything remotely with construction” Let’s not pretend about what is really being said here.

Hadn't seen this posted. Residents in those apartments are lucky it stopped where it did. https://www.kut.org/transportation/2024-10-22/austin-tx-train-derailment-traffic-disruptions

Question for parents of college kids (or Surlyites who work in admissions): Many of the schools that are a bit less rigorous overall have an "honors college" that is much more selective and has specific classes that are touted as more challenging/engaging. Anyone here have experience with those? Are they worth it/as advertised?

He fired the Ticket as flagship station for the same thing (and then fired Ticket morning host George Dunham as stadium PA announcer just out of spite). I guess the 105.3/Audacy folks somehow thought this time would be different...

We did our Ark. tour a few weeks ago, with similar results - it's now my senior's top choice. He also toured UT, Tech, UNT and TCU. He felt UT was too big and, as a parent, the tour was pretty lackluster compared to the other schools (they don't have to do too much because of demand, I guess). He really liked TCU, but I just can't stomach the cost even with merit-based aid. Arkansas was gorgeous, really rolled out the red carpet for prospective students, and is a bargain given the aid he's eligible for (32 ACT and 4.0 GPA). He wants to do poli sci, which worried me given the state's overall politics, but the school seems well-regarded and pretty even-keeled in terms of overall nonpartisanship. I really hope he sticks with it as his top choice - I'd really love to make the trip up there for games and general visits every so often. One of his closest friends is leaning towards Ark. for the architecture program, which may also influence his decision to go up there already having a potential roommate.

The NYT Daily podcast had an episode earlier this week about the effects of NAFTA, specifically dialed in on the example of the MasterLock factory in Milwaukee which finally closed in March after decades of downsizing and disinvestment in favor of their Mexico plant. They interviewed a black man around 40 who had worked there his entire adult life, rising to supervisor but now facing bleak job prospects. Despite all that he still says he won't vote because "none of the candidates care about me" - but said if he HAD to vote it would be for Trump because "he's a businessman, and he's gangster".

Saw this in an MTB FB group today. This is only 3.5h from D/FW, so I'm excited to check it out.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/04/allred-closes-gap-against-cruz/

Patterson hated what CFB was becoming with NIL and the portal, and hasn’t been shy about expressing it. And his last few seasons at TCU were kinda rough. Having said that, Dykes seems good at using the portal to bring in talent but (1) doesn’t seem to know how to build a culture and (2) can’t seem to get on a consistent page with his coordinators in terms of playcalling. Patterson’s teams always seemed to play with a chip on their shoulder and rise to their competition. That’s not happening now.

Not football, but football-adjacent, and I bet there are a lot of LHB alumni on here who knew him. https://news.miami.edu/frost/stories/2024/09/robertcarnochanmemoriam.html

Allred signs are all over Dallas area.

UCF offense woke up, and Frogs made a couple dumb mistakes.

Rod lived a block away from me in Munger Place in the early 00s during his DMN days. He was a nerdy academic conservative back then, not too far off the path of normal - but in the ensuing two decades he’s gone totally off the rails.