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Your Mom

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  1. Seeing as how her murder plan consisted of immediately telling someone she was going to get a gun and kill that poor girl and that she showed up to the house a minute after the dude dropped her off, cameras be damned… I guessing she wouldn’t be too hard to track down. She can’t use cards, banks, etc… probably has the kind of nest egg in cash you’d expect a yoga instructor dating a semi-pro gravel bike racer to have. I bet they’d have caught her by now if she was still running. At some point the crazy subsided just enough to have a “what have i done?” moment. I read in one of the initial stories that text messages on Mo’s phone made it pretty clear that she was also being misled and was unaware he had gotten back together with Crazy Red. That’s a lot to live with, knowing you killed a girl that didn’t even know she was betraying you.
  2. Longhorn Football. That's about it. I'll watch other teams and other sports but not have much more than a passing Interest in who wins or loses. I have no particular allegiance nor hatred for most other teams, even the polarizing ones like the Cowboys... just another team about as significant as any other to me. I do still carry a healthy hatred for the Aggies and Sooners. With the Horns, winning and losing used to make or break my whole week. For the last decade, it's been a gradual detachment for me. Probably partially because we have sucked for so long and partially just because you get to a point in life where too many other things become more important than games. I still get irritated at the losses but it doesn't stick with me long. Same with the wins, I'm happy when we win but it isn't going to define how my day goes, much less my week. I sometimes get privately judgey about people's fandom. If it's a younger guy I completely understand the intense and over-the-top emotional reactions to sports. Been there. If it's a guy at or beyond middle-age I wonder what's missing in the rest of his life that these games still rate that level of intensity. Maybe some people have room in their minds to be that passionate about lots of things at the same time. I don't.
  3. Stove, sans fuel, can be carried on or checked. Knife can be brought on in checked luggage only. Fuel canisters cannot be brought aboard at all. Never been to Banff but I'd guess fuel is easy to find before you venture out.
  4. I guess "namaste" was just some bullshit.
  5. I wonder if there's more to the story, but I think it's very feasible. The stick and rudder skills are a lot easier to learn than the rest of it. The ATC guy was also a certified flight instructor. I haven't listened to any of it but I bet he was telling him exactly what power settings to use, when and how to add flaps, etc... You can see he gave him a power setting to bring him in a little fast so he wouldn't stall it, looks like it anyway. That part can be coached fairly easily and people with no flight experience do it on their first lessons every day, albeit with the instructor watching next to them instead of on the radio. All that's left is the flare and operating the rudder pedals as you stop. He didn't really flare at all and I bet the touchdown was a lot firmer than it looks like, also wobbled main to main some. That's not critique, just pointing out that it's pretty typical of a beginner student's first attempts. To me it's more impressive that he didn't put it in the grass after the landing. I'd expect someone with no experience to have more trouble with the rudder pedals on the ground than with the flying. If you ever take flying lessons you'll be operating the controls and doing basic climbs, descents, and turns within the first 30 seconds of your first flight, it's that easy for basic flight. Landings typically start on lesson #2 after just an hour or so total time in the airplane and it's not unusual for a student to make halfway decent landings in that same lesson. Getting it on the ground isn't that hard when someone tells you what to do. Learning how to properly land is way more than that. Are you at the proper speed? On the proper glidepath? Crossing the threshold at 50 feet? On the centerline? Longitudinally straight vs crooked? Upwind wing low and compensating for that with opposite rudder? Touching down in the designated touchdown zone? Not flaring too high or too low? Holding the nose off? blah blah blah... There's a lot that goes into a good landing beyond just getting it on the ground. None of those things are going to kill you most of the time, but those little things are what most of the training time is spent on. If you aren't looking for any of that and your only goal is to get it on the ground in one piece, I'd expect lots of guys who can keep their cool under stress to do a salvageable landing. All that said, the guy obviously did a great job in a stressful situation. The only part that really makes me wonder about his experience is that he mentioned in an interview about gently pulling back when he took the controls so as to not stall it. I wouldn't expect someone with zero experience to know about how a wing stalls.
  6. Southwest Austin price for a basic 15' x 30' rectangle, 3'-6' deep, known rocky soil, no spa, no heater, no SWG, limestone coping tile, plus 750 sq/ft of concrete patio with sundek coating, typical polaris racer vacuum thingy: 84k. We've had water in it for about a month now. I spend about half an hour just floating on the shady side and reading a book every afternoon. I leap in it almost every day after a bike ride in the heat. But the added patio space has been just as valuable to me. We've been eating dinners out there, breakfast out there before school every day, beers with the neighbors in the evenings, and both teenage kids have been having all their friends over a fair amount, which they normally didn't do before. That alone made me quit worrying about how much I dropped on it.
  7. 10-year old me would've moved to Mexico if I had known I could go pro at homemade janky cart racing. 2x4s, a plastic seat ripped from a Big Wheel, and a set of lawn mower wheels... I owned the streets of North Austin for a short time but it would've been nice to learn from the masters on the dirt streets of Guadalajara.
  8. My landscape guy is charging $200 per palllet for labor to lay sod. That’s for basic leveling by hand and eyeball. I forgot the price for the actual pallet but that’s basic labor.
  9. Being that we have hi-def cameras on every house and street corner in America. And your average Joe can buy a high def GoPro and stick it on the anything he wants, do we have any vids of the aliens that aren’t grainy, vague, shaky, and from miles away? Maybe we do. Seems like we should.
  10. And that’s fair, I don’t claim to be the most passionate fan. The older I get, the less it means to me. I celebrate the wins, and the losses bother me for about an hour or two tops. Even when it’s losing to Kansas… in a night game.
  11. I used to love night games when college football occupied my entire Saturday. Now days I have other shit to do and I love the 11am games. Couldn’t give two shits about the heat, it’s just part of life here, get used to it or don’t attend the games. I wish we could move all the games to about 9am so I could move on with my day a little quicker. Difference of opinions about game times aside, creating or signing a petition for this is pathetic and embarrassing.
  12. Harry Hogge taught me you should always drive right through it.
  13. Did not know that, but it makes perfect sense. Its namesake lives in my neighborhood and I’ve watched him ride up the thing from the bottom and then turn and huck off of it. Good kid though. He told me to be on the lookout in a few weeks for some new stuff they’re building.
  14. Ask in the “post a photo you took” thread. Lots of camera discussion in there. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/39-the-post-a-picture-you-took-thread/page/60/#comments
  15. You mean like because she ate some the night before?
  16. In South Austin I pay $150 per cleaning, just once a month. I think the price per comes down If I did every other week. LetKelly is the service I use. I'm happy with it.
  17. The Real Deal Holyfield is the best breakfast in Austin. And when the special of the day is the ACP taco, it's the best lunch in Austin. When is their move to Buda?
  18. I ate shit pretty hard the other day. Nothing broken, but dirt rash, cuts, and scrapes from ankle to hip and a big raw spot on my forearm. There's a drop on the South Austin Trail Network, that we chatted about a year or two ago, by the Espcarpment Spillway. Maybe a 4-footer or so. I've been slow rolling it for a while and started hucking right off it maybe 6 months ago. It's the kind of drop I hate with a few too many rocks on the lead-in. It's not enough to throw the bike off course, but it's enough that I think about it. I got a little too comfortable with it the the other day and went off it more casually than normal. Got crooked in the air and had about a full second airborne when I knew it wasn't going to end well. Landed with the bike traveling one direction and pointed in another. Bounced awkwardly and slid a few yards in the dirt and gravel. I've been pretty good about wearing pads when I do stuff like that, but it was a spur-of-the-moment thing on a casual ride so no pads. We're getting more and more features built on what used to be my boring neighborhood cruise trail. Knee pads are probably about to become standard on more rides for me, and elbow pads on some days too. They'd have both prevented the worst of the dirt rash on this day.
  19. I thought he was Brazilian.
  20. Israel doesn’t fuck around when it comes to airport security.
  21. I bet there will be a spin-off with Jonah in a few years. He was coming into his own as an actor this last season, not the character itself, but his tone of voice, mannerisms, etc... He’ll make a good main character in his own story as a young adult Jonah back in Chicago.
  22. Very much this. Wendy was always supposed to be hated. Skylar White and Carmella Soprano were purposely written to be annoying as fuck and the shows were better for it. You can’t make all the bad guys likeable. Still didn’t like the ending. Not bothered that Ruth died, would have liked to have seen the Byrds go down in flames. I wanted the ending to be uncomfortable for the viewer with even the likeable characters going down. Marty and Wendy both get life sentences, both kids to foster care and broke and alone. I wanted just a complete gut punch of a consequence for years of dragging everyone around them down and something they have to contemplate forever. But no, the writers took the easy way out.
  23. Home Depot and Amazon both also carry Polywood. I bought some Adirondacks and a a pair of chaise lounges just a couple weeks ago and had them all within a couple days. Chairs from HD, chaise from Amazon. Good call on Bed Bath and Beyond with the 20% coupons. The HD selection has different model names so that it sounds like they are specially made just for them, but if you compare the details with the Polywood site it’s easy to see what model it really is. I love the Adirondack chairs. I agree with many reviewers that the arms on the chaise lounge are too low, but I’d still rather have it than something wood, metal, or wicker. Also, you really need cushions on the chaise. The Polywood is kind of slick and you’ll slide down it without one. I got thin cushions on Amazon so they won’t hold as much water when they inevitably get soaked. If I sat in the chaise lounge every day I’d probably get something with a little more shape to it and more comfort. I really only bought them because I felt obligated to provide them for guests at the pool. I am either on a pool float or in the Adirondack myself.
  24. Donated hotel points. I bang a lot of married teachers and we’re always needing a room.
  25. The big stuff is sandstone. Super grippy.
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