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  1. Another $50 gas to work half ass for 2 hours or so. At about 20" there is a fragmented shelf of limestone. Not so bad past that. Some fist size rocks, but all in all relatively doable. Here's the work site. Deepest point is now 36". I have left a step in one corner. Need to blow out the rest down to deeper point, and the step. All buttoned up for the day: Pondering a steel set system. It would be skinnier (lagging on the inside), more permanent, and when I get down as far as I want to, easier to pour concrete along the sides.
  2. He's a smart feller, not a fart smeller
  3. Here is my plan: OSHA regulations stipulate that a pit of more than 5 ft needs support. So once i get that deep, I will start shoring. This is my hole digging hero How to timber: https://youtu.be/HooY2cFAvVU Cutting timbers: https://youtu.be/rWRS4TqebRE Digging the shaft: https://youtu.be/zAcElBWErT0 Putting in set: https://youtu.be/VdEPVP5EdgU
  4. My neighbor's well about a quarter mile away is pretty shallow. Maybe 40 ft? So there is a maximum depth I'll reach. Realistically 20-23 ft would be deep enough to have a standing room side tunnel at the bottom. It'll probably kill me before then, though.
  5. I got a new 27" transfer shovel coming in this week! Heat treated head, powder coated, D handle. A sexy shovel to add to my shovel arsenal. My current bag is 3 larger fiberglass shovels (one point, one transfer/flat, one post hole), and one smaller pointed shovel. So clearly this was a big need. It will be helpful when I get down on my knees and fill an old kitty litter bucket. The bigger shovels getting a little unwieldy. Spouse says no more throwing money into the hole for a bit. 😕 Hole got some good rain this week. Not sure how wet the hole will be this weekend. May need to start covering it up. But I think Thurs and Friday will be plenty dry - perfect conditions. Aside from the 97 degree high.
  6. Seems like the blowing away cops sort of defeats the "arm more people" idea. My advice to whoever sold ARs or whatever to a edgelord 18 year old is to pack up and move away pronto. Or eat a bullet.
  7. Official statement from Red Bull regarding alleged murderer Ms. Armstrong's subsequent flight from authorities: "Red Bull gives you wings!"
  8. Conspiracy theory: monkeypox Russian bioweapon released at euro sex parties Conspiracy theory 2.0: monkeypox bioweapon released at euro sex parties to false flag blame Russians
  9. My ranch hand and I got back out there. Built and erected a headframe. Just a swingset kit. Eventually we can hang a winch to pull up buckets when we get deep. I may try to figure out some way to drape a sun shade over it, although the scraggly trees worked ok for today. Moved into place: Got out the jackhammer Big enough to fit a kiddo now. We were only good for about 2.5 hours labor. But I feel like we made some progress. Mostly got down to the next layer. Started busting that up to.
  10. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QKAjHQ9oAu8
  11. All he had to do was stay in the "weird sci fi dude" lane and get universal love. Keep a low profile in culture war shit. And only try to fuck chick's that want to bang billionaires.
  12. There is aggie talk of deploying the corps to guard the Century Tree against Bama tree poisoners. First I've heard of this tree (which has its own Twitter handle??) but I'm here for it.
  13. Porno, right? You are making pornos?
  14. Ah, bummer. I remember reading something like 32 deaths in 4.7M sales. Which is awful, but also maybe kmjust random noise? Those were magic for many.
  15. I wonder if it calls into question the recall of the Fisher aprice rock n play. If millions and millions were in use, and 1 in 150k infants got SIDSz wouldn't some kids die and it not be the bassinet fault?
  16. Nintendo Switch probably. Many classics, though some required subscription. But maybe you'd be happy enough with that retro Nintendo classic thing.
  17. Hope those business plans accounted for 55% collapse in prices. Hoodl! Diamond hands! LOL
  18. My hole would be compliant with Health and Safety Code 711.008. So if I croak, my wife can just call it a private cemetery and save some cash.
  19. I had no idea VW bought part of IH.
  20. You are probably right. Most will pick colleges to be near family, or for particular degree programs, or based on reputation. And my daughter is very privileged. We have a good sum in 529s, so we have financial options. And she is super smart, and will probably ride PSAT scores into financial packages. But nonetheless, we are at least one anecdote of this driving young folks out of Texas.
  21. I say this with complete sincerety: any Surly (or minor wards you can kidnap) are welcome to come to my next hole digging session. No pay. No benefits. No OSHA, no MSHA oversight. I have water, but it's untreated rain water and last time I had to clear a dead mouse from the tank screen. Lots of angry fire ants. But there is Hole.
  22. What's stopping you?
  23. If it happens, it happens.
  24. Instead of the plurality position, a highly gerrymandered system encourages maximalists positions. When HB 1280 passed Rs told Scott Braddock that it meant kthi g because they expected Roe to stand. The majority of folks would be okay with a 14 or 15 week limitation. So more restrictive than the last 49 years! Instead we get HB 1280 and Sen McConnell saying an R fed legislature (because of Senate and macro factors, all but guaranteed) may abolsih filibuster and ban all abortion nationwide in 2024 while various state politicians not ruling out banning contraception or Plan B. This is where we are. Think ivy is hard to get in now, try McGill or McMaster next year. Like most, a variety of reasons. Employment handcuffs for one. Pension. All this was theoretical until Dobbs. I have varied policy preferences from state leadership, but the state has sort of muddled through just fine anyway. Bickering about taxes, school finance, pros and cons of medicaid expansion, merits of climate change policies, and transportation priorities are honestly pretty tangential to my life. I go to work, Target, Home Depot, and my kids practices/games. I would miss HEB, I guess. And easy access to my ranch, with its new hole. Trump didn't change that directly (you could blame the Garland freeze out and RBG being stubborn and unstrategic, too), but through SCOTUS appointments. And now we have Dobbs. I'd actually be okay with another kid, but that's not a unilateral decision in a normal marriage, we are probably nearly all dried up, and anyway none of your business. We have access to Plan B for now (future pro tip: grab it in CO along with weed and hope the okies don't confiscate it). Hell, we could fly to Monterrey if we had to. And let's be honest: rape is more of a threat for young women (particularly those dating and going out) than my middle aged MILF wife. I mean, I bone her seven days a week, but I bet she's what that Amy Schumer skit would call past her last fuckable day. But this is real real. More real and personal than the vast majority of political bullshit. Even more important than Arch Manning - or at least as important! We have saved for retirement well over the years, and with the skyrocketing Austin home asset inflation, we wont have trouble relocating when our kids graduate high school. If we have to vote with our feet, so be it.
  25. Not sure if you were referring to my CR-ish thread bomb. But my point was actually not about crime rates or whatever. My point was I'm not sure I want my daughter to go to school where first trimester abortions are banned. I'm not so much worried about stranger danger rape (though the thought is of course terrifying). I am worried about the friend-zoned dweeb that takes advantage of too much alcohol, or "nice guy" who gets aggressive when she wants to stop at second base, or the creep boyfriend who stealths a condom. Those crimes are very rarely reported, but 100% something women have to consider. In Texas, sometime this summer HB 1280 will kick in. Abortions will be eliminated in Texas. Birth control is not perfect and for some women hormonal (or IUD) birth control just doesn't work or messes them up too much. It is possible that in 2023 the Texas Legislure will adopted further restrictions. I am not some super pro-choice advocate. I would probably be okay with a ~15 week window, if it included decent enough life of mother caveats. But HB 1280 has no such limitations. It's a full elimination of abortion in Texas and it is already law. Yes, I am sure Darrmouth or New Hampshire have plenty of date raping assholes. And that sucks. But - and this is critical for some of us thinking about college choice now or in the future - in August of 2022 in New Hamshire a woman who was raped can get an abortion. In August of 2022, a young woman raped at UT-Austin or Rice or whatever, cannot. This is a factor plenty of normal not-particularly woke gun owning people like me will consider. My daughter is still a few years from college choice. Fortunately she is smart enough that I bet some out of state college will offer scholarship money or at least an in-state tuition deal. Because I don't think I want her to go to college in Texas. And if she moves back after, that will be her adult choice. https://capitol.texas.gov/billlookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=HB1280 https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/11/texas-legislature-abortion-roe-wade/
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