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  1. I use that all the time here in Texas, it's really the only 'local term' I've picked up after living here almost 30 years.  I try not to use it when traveling though, along with " you guys" because one gives me away as a Texan on the Coasts and the other gives me away as a Chicagoan/Yankee to you native Texans.  I have done radio broadcasting specifically because my voice is non-geographically specific, along with voiceover work, reading for the blind, etc.  And my vernacular is generic and fungible to the situation.  I don't use colloquial terminology.  But I've learned my Spanish accent is annoying as fuck to Mexicans.  
    You should mix in the aesthetically pleasing "yinz".
  2. The craziest Lake Travis event in my living memory was the Memorial Weekend flood that filled it up in 2014 (2015?).  Went from low as fuck to 680 in like a few days.  We went out on the lake the week after and the water was all cloudy from all the sediment.  Would like to see that again.
    I can see Mansfield out my window. That release flood was crazy; fucked up some boat houses on the upper end of the lake. A few nice boats got pinned and totalled on the Steiner side. The CFS were insane. We had a standing wave nearly a mile downstream, but there wasn't an approachable eddy, so no one surfed it. If you fell in; it was going to he a ride. At least up 10 above normal stage' close to the dam.

    At the dam it looked like death on a stick. So violent; so much water.
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  3. by the way, if any of y'all have a library card, check if you can get a free subscription to nytimes.com through it
    I'm able to read the Times via my library so I don't have to give those anti-Biden tankies any of my money
    Good call, and a lot of libraries offer sharing/ reciprocal memberships. I was able to get Austin access for my son Via Lakeway. Allowed us to do Homework all over between soccer games and practice. Libraries get a bad rap, I use one about once a week to knock out work between meetings.
    it's not all overdoses and grooming.

    I mean come for grooming, but stay for the strong wifi, cold ac, and quiet.
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  4. I fish and meditate to deal with my other issues.  I did do yoga for awhile, that's a good point...I need to bring that back into the rotation.  I volunteer through education/libraries, my wife's church, and community health care for marginalized populations to something probably on the order of about 20-30hrs/month.  I can't really handle drugs anymore because my other situation.  We also hike a lot.  Golf's too expensive and time consuming.  I swim quite a bit.  I have a handful of published essays.  And write quite a bit, again...to deal with my other shit.  There's really no fly fishing here in Austin, but thanks for the reminder to get back into yoga.  And not just the eye candy.  
    My new high is fucking with bad people.  I kinda did it for business purposes for many years, but I didn't realize it's the perfect substitute for other addictions.  My god, the rush.........


    I can appreciate that then, carry on. At least the fucking with bad actors as a maybe healthy buzz.

    Golf is too much of a time suck for a lot of family men.

    You are a high motor odd cat to say the least. Take care of yourself and don't let one additional issue morph into others.

    Motion is lotion, so keep on keeping on. I like Black Swan when I'm in town for yoga, and if you need yoga pants ladies as a motivator that's ground zero, but honestly it's just a great community despite being affiliated with Joe Rogan. My local studio didn't survive the pandemic and my health has been materially suboptimal since- just everything isn't quite as smooth. Home yoga isn't the same.

    We absolutely have fly fishing here that's a good primer to even better waters and fun.

    Biking scene is better than ever especially on trail gravel bike stuff if your inexperienced; mountain bike scene is insane with trails everywhere all levels.

    Hiking season is about to come to a crashing hault - get it while it's (not) hot.

    And try not to shoot any animals in the parking lot.
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  5. Okay, shit.  I got 89 minutes to submit the message to be printed and placed in the gift box.  
    We gotta tie Guilfoyle's denial of this into it somehow.  QuicK! 
    Add one of those old school squeeling rubber chickens to the cart?
  6. I think the actual act had little to do with anything political since it occurred before she even thought about public office.
    However, there was never any reason at all to disclose it, since it could be denied and never proven. Really just an unforced error or failure to read the room or worse.
    Killing an animal like a dog, can be a particularly brutal act when you actually have to do it or whitness it. There are many opportunities to stop and reevaluate.
    Different times, but I watched my grandmother execute a puppy back in the 80s for no reason other than the pound was 40 miles away and it was a stray. I was in charge of the burial.  I found the deceased bound with wire on both legs with a gunshot wound to the head. Grandma was a lifelong Democrat that would give you the shirt off her back. I took it that this was not the first time this had happened since they were close to the highway and railroad out in the country of South Texas.
    My mother told me a story from her childhood where her two pet puppies gorged themselves on chick's when left unattended. Their punishment was to be bound up in a sack and thrown in the river by her dad.
    How many of us on the board whacked squirrels or birds with our pellet guns when growing up? Not me, but I'm sure many of you have and felt the appropriate amount of shame and regret at doing so, and certainly wouldn't want to disclose that to anyone.
    Weird things happen in the country sometimes, especially  more than a few decades ago.  This whole disclosure seems odd, almost to the point where I don't think we are getting the real story.
    At any rate, this did not go the way she thought it would.
    My grandmother had to drown a litter of kittens as a kid, never owned another cat or dog- just chickens. She wasn't proud of it, even though she wasn't a pet person. We only found out when I interviewed her as part of my undergrad thesis project.

    This is so much different and in a much different age than depression era 30s in Texas.

    I have had to shoot an insanely rabid feral cat on my parents farm. You don't want no part of that brother, believe me. The rest of the cats were trapped and neutered, one was chill enough to adopt out. But that fucker had to go and it wasn't chill at all.

    Shooting problematic squirrels is a big ol meh for me. Don't be cruel and have a clean kill. Better death than rat poisoning.

    All that said I've dumped 6k to foster, train and rehome one abused dog; I've fostered many.
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  7. Okay, my first BarkBox can ship out by end of week.  For Cricket.  I have a senior staffer mailing address handy, but they offer anonymous shipping like if you want to surprise a friend or family member with doggie goodies.  But I'm guessing they won't open it if it comes unlabeled.  BarkBox has my CC# and zip code and name.  So if her office calls in a fit of rage, there's nothing wrong.  A guy sent some biscuits and toys for puppies, oops.  Don't like it?  Fine, let a low-paid staffer with a dog at home have 'em.  But they're gonna keep coming on the 1st of the month for a year.  
    But two questions:
    1.  If the "From" portion of the box is left blank, they're not gonna open it.  And the whole joke is lost.  So what do I put?  They said I could pay for it and order the items and put it from another party.  I'm assuming they have customers that order something for an elderly dog lover and then put down like a grandkid or friend who can't do online orders to make it look like the treats were from them.  And no, I couldn't find Michael Vicks mailing address.   
    2.  Any ideas for the note?  I originally had "To Cricket.  Thank you for your sacrifice, Love-America."  I have until tonight to personalize it.  Any other thoughts?  
    Serous question, and not throwing stones, but have you ever considered getting a few hobbies? Golf, fly fishing, painting, writing, eating mushrooms and doing yoga, or helping the homeless*?

    *This would expand your hard drug contacts for when 45 kicks
  8. Okay, my first BarkBox can ship out by end of week.  For Cricket.  I have a senior staffer mailing address handy, but they offer anonymous shipping like if you want to surprise a friend or family member with doggie goodies.  But I'm guessing they won't open it if it comes unlabeled.  BarkBox has my CC# and zip code and name.  So if her office calls in a fit of rage, there's nothing wrong.  A guy sent some biscuits and toys for puppies, oops.  Don't like it?  Fine, let a low-paid staffer with a dog at home have 'em.  But they're gonna keep coming on the 1st of the month for a year.  
    But two questions:
    1.  If the "From" portion of the box is left blank, they're not gonna open it.  And the whole joke is lost.  So what do I put?  They said I could pay for it and order the items and put it from another party.  I'm assuming they have customers that order something for an elderly dog lover and then put down like a grandkid or friend who can't do online orders to make it look like the treats were from them.  And no, I couldn't find Michael Vicks mailing address.   
    2.  Any ideas for the note?  I originally had "To Cricket.  Thank you for your sacrifice, Love-America."  I have until tonight to personalize it.  Any other thoughts?  
    Serous question, and not throwing stones, but have you ever considered getting a few hobbies? Golf, fly fishing, painting, writing, eating mushrooms and doing yoga, or helping the homeless*?

    *This would expand your hard drug contacts for when 45 kicks
  9. Absolutely ridiculous. Homie needs to dump her ass. She only sees him as an ATM machine. Who the fuck makes their SO pay for 18 people? Unless he invited them all, he doesn't have to pay for shit!
     
    Hoes be tripping, my homie had a nice exit on his business and is basically retired. Invited me to a concert that he had extra tickets for after another couple bailed. I was only marginally interested to begin with, but decided to go. I bought all his drinks to thank him, which was a lot of dough as they can drink. He sent me a venmo request to pay for the fucking tickets. Assholes.

    But Keep yo money player.
  10. Yall nasty
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    I'm 47 and not taking your anti-boner pills kind sir. Just because I play for the wrong team, doesn't mean I can't enjoy a classy pictorial from our hallowed halls of Congress ( a bipartisan lesbian photo pre-congress session amirite)
  11. Then maybe it does just need to be burned down so those people can see just how bad things truly can get. If we as a nation re-elect him after all he did prior and what he's DEFINITELY saying he will do when he's back in office then we deserve our fate and the destruction of this country. And all of this because a black man became President and really didn't do all that much but try to give people who needed it government sponsored health care. 
    And mocked dear leader, whom we are all mysteriously beholden to.
  12. This is the problem I see with a lot of "conservatives" I know: they don't think shit through. I put quotes around "conservative" because they're actually just knee-jerk reactionaries. Yours is a great example.
    • Another would be the lower-my-taxes-no-matter-what crowd (Roads will crumble, yo. That fire truck won't pay for itself.).
    • Or the I-want-God-back-in-school (Are you sure you want *their* god in your kid's school?).
    • And the people-shouldn't-be-on-welfare folks (Cool. So, are you willing to have your mother-in-law, who's on social security, move in with you?).
    I imagine most of them are really shitty chess players, as they can't seem to think more than a step or two ahead.
    Of course, this applies to some liberals as well, mostly younger people, but the majority of them eventually grow out of it.
    I suspect they suck at Checkers as well, and Candyland. Probably flip the board over with Monopoly.
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  13. And logistics. 3PLs use a lot of temporary labor.
    I’m probably simplifying it but I think this crackdown on undocumented workers is a significant reason for inflation.
    My painter is legit, as are his entire crew as far as I know. They'd usually have a bunch of new helpers that likely were not legal, doing shit like clean up and taping off. Those guys are gone, I have a 2 month waiting list on paint, my personal house has been differing maintenance for 5 years because all my crews are booked and can't find labor.

    So you've got painter's with decades of experience earning $30 to tape off floors.
    Yeah shits going to be expensive.

    I all started when that plane crashed in Los Gatos Canyon.
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