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Hornbeliever

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  1. Why fake the funk? I go two ear buds in and let them go all they can eat Taylor Swift. Ps I’ve heard her so much since her concert in Houston that I’m a Swiftie now, don’t hate as it’s called Stockholm Syndrome. Help me.
  2. Knocked out three Smartless (headphones) and one family podcasts (Stuff you should know) on our drive from Portsmouth NH to Bar Harbor Maine. Great recs so keep them coming for everyone else......plus we have our return trip to Houston.
  3. Skip the Sisi on your trip to Vienna fo sure. We went to Bratislava as a last minute suggestion told to us by someone in Vienna and loved slovakia but reading 956 makes me wish we did countryside. I have very few specifics to help anyone other than that we enjoyed Slovakia. Munich and Czech and Krakow were also on this trip and we drank a lot so don’t remember most restaurant names. I did have drinks with a very old Nazi at the Hofbreau house. He was by himself and coincidentally sat by us. He and his buddies have/had been drinking there since 1950 and he was last one alive and still goes there. He became Russian POW and was not freed until 1950 or something. He didn’t deny holocaust but said average nazi soldier never saw that stuff.
  4. You must have gone on National Pancake Day because there were lots and lots of fat scooter people last week. To balance it out, we’re in Portsmouth New Hampshire now and haven’t seen one obese person nor a scooter here. While I’m thinking about it, haven’t seen a Waffle House either.
  5. We are on massive road trip with a 13 and 7 year old. Any recommendations for story-driven family podcasts that are 30 min long to hold attention? We have covered made it out alive podcasts but at 45-60 minutes long, great for us but 7 year old couldn't hang for that long. Hell, I'd like to hear other recs for podcasts even if long too now that I'm typing this out.
  6. Just went to MK and epcot. Tron is legit but short. GoG ride is also great. It's hot and tiring experience but for kids, gotta do it. I would never pay money to go myself but since you're doing it for family, you can choose to be angry or try to have fun and it's much better to just change mindset. Standby skipper is key. It basically gave us VIP experience without the cost as we always had Lightning Lanes waiting for us so we didn't wait in line anywhere really....But did have to traverse park various times and luckily our 13 and 7 year old didn't care (30,000 daily steps). Tron LL pass was additional $80 for our family of 4, fyi, but bypass virtual queue of an hour. Food sucks at MK so be prepared to eat weak cafeteria food. Epcot food (and alcohol) way better. Can't believe number of fat people in electric scooters at parks. Can't believe number of families I saw arguing with each other. Told my wife we are so lucky to not be paying a bunch of money to be miserable.
  7. Leon and Granada are cool. Hiking volcanoes near Leon and hooking up with Germans there (lot of europeans) is recommended.
  8. So I might have had too much and driven my atv into a tree. Wasn't going that fast, probably 10 mph at time. Anyways, go to trade it in for a 2023 model and the Polaris dealer wouldnt take it because of a bent frame and wouldn't fix it even though it wasnt too bad. Just walked to a body shop in Houston and they said they wouldn't fix an atv frame, only cars. Has anyone ever fixed a bent frame before on their atv? If so, how/where?
  9. When are people here in Central Texs planning to extract honey for first time? Imagine with early wildflower bloom this year might mean earlier extraction? I'm a novice so wtf do I know. I do know my hives are bumpin'. So crowded that I put one honey super on the overloaded hive ( without a queen excluder) and am putting honey supers on my other two hives this weekend. I know not what I do, forgive me.
  10. Hornbeliever replied to mbtex's topic in Houston
    Guessing you are Surly 1%er and buy your laundry detergent at Target instead of the back of a pickup truck in bulk size? Didn't see it on your shopping list.
  11. Hornbeliever replied to mbtex's topic in Houston
    Finally tried B&R due Surly rec. Very delicious but I wouldn't make that drive again with Truth and Pinkertons closer to me. Glad I went though just to scratch that itch.
  12. Hornbeliever replied to mbtex's topic in Houston
    I have. It is slightly above average. Little better than Rudy's.
  13. Our Blackstone at the country house had a mice family living on it....nest, shit, and all. Welcome surprise that was. My plan to sterilize it is to turn up heat for a long time and just pour water on it and let it boil/evaporate various times. Any other suggestions?
  14. First, completely agree. My comments to my wife were "this is unnecessarily complex for Vietnamese" but they saved themselves with some good dishes. Still find it unnecessary. Also, we had reservations at 500 pm because no other time on a Friday. Didn't believe it until I saw it. Place was hopping.
  15. Masterquoting myself. Finally tried Blind Goat. Solid place that deserves a repeat trip for us. Not a 10, not an 8. Like an 8.8 Quite delish brisket fried rice and crawfish noodles. Bone marrow was tasty but lacked quantity so wouldn't order it again and egg rolls were good but not great.
  16. I have a sort of litmus test to see if my tastes line up with yours enough to listen to your advice out of a show. S1 is one of the questions. You don't love Breaking Bad as much as I do? I get it. But you don't like neither S1 or Deadwood? We can stop convo rt now cuz I ain't listening to you. Go jerk it to Twin Peaks.
  17. Bruh, 96% of Surly is a Surly 1%er so I don't understand. Does $2k per person include getting to Ecuador? If so, could be tough for you to afford a week. But to actually be helpful and not just question, we took flight from Quito to Galapagos, then stayed in hotel on same island (San Cristobal). I remember flights being $400 or so each but it was 7 years ago so could be fuzzy. From that island, just paid to go on boats to other islands for our daily excursions. Obviously, then there is hotel and food. So if you fly, you will likely have to stay as cheap as possible to afford the day tours. I have no clue whether cruises are cheaper than flying since we only had few days for the galapagos part of our trip so when I researched, saw minimum cruise duration was like 7 days so I stopped looking.
  18. Im all in on a national championship this year and don't see a loss through 2027 at least when Arch is picked first in draft......but anyone who hates on analysts for not picking Texas stopped watching football in 2010 or so. You have the pattern recognition of Greg Davis reading an OU defense "12 four-yard outs on 3rd and 6 didn't work but I'm going in for thirteenths." We suck until we don't.
  19. I've heard enough. Dropping $10k to get $100k back.
  20. Did you make it to Maine? We are doing Houston to Maine road trip this summer with a stop in Disney to make sure we go the least logical route.
  21. It's edge grain and I do not have a planer....though I keep thinking I should buy one. I buy strips at Clark's Hardwood in Houston that are pretty square and even. This piece is cherry, maple, and walnut. Ps wood is not cheap. I'm shocked everytime I go. I have a hand planer and plane them out the manly (and stupidly harder) way.
  22. Forgot to add the first cutting board I made. Was given a Longhorn brand so been marking some stuff with it and branding is harder than I thought. I give out cutting boards when friends let me stay at their mountain homes and stuff so starting to get decent at them.
  23. Some furniture I made for country house. Cutting into old whiskey barrel was tough for me and wish I had a 2nd at bat. Still happy with outcome but various places I didn't cut straight. Also, cleaning that whiskey barrel with all that char inside might have given me cancer.
  24. Shit is bananas. My tenant doesnt move out until May 31 so I did experiment before hiring property mgmt/realtor to really rent my place in the '46. I put up a cheap yellow arrow sign at my rental house (not major street) on Saturday at 11 am. By 4 pm, I had 4 people interested to see it and one guy willing to pay premium and not even having to see inside (he is building house in neighborhood and wants to keep tabs on construction while staying very close to their kids elementary school). Anyways, going to show it to 5 people on Friday so let's hope this works out with great tenant that pays and takes care of shit.
  25. Hornbeliever replied to mbtex's topic in Houston
    I have a 50/20/20/10/0 ratio for eating my BBQ at Truth/Pinkertons/Feges/Rudys/Goode Co and that order matches what I think the quality and consistency of BBQ is. Truth is best but most inconvenient. I've had 2 average meals there I would say. But that is a very high batting average given how much I go. I havent had bad meal at Pinkerton's but their best doesn't match Truth. Feges and Rudy's pretty convenient so that's why they are still in rotation. Goode Co = sucks.
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