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Your Mom

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  1. I'm in the middle of a couple weeks off and have been completely checked out. No fucking idea what's going on but it isn't good. It's embarrassing. The hardline anti-vaxxer crowd is definitely there and especially in the southern bases. I'm based in one of those and haven't heard anything about a concerted effort to fuck things up but I definitely work with a lot of guys not happy. I'm also the guy that stays off the work-related forums and FB groups so I'd be the last to know. For months we've been way understaffed as the company expanded. The training dept couldn't keep up with all the guys coming back from leaves and they weren't on the line as fast as the company hoped they'd be. The operation was already beyond it's limits. It hardly takes anything to completely wreak havoc right now. I get the desire to overschedule to cash in on a nation of people chomping at the bit to travel all of a sudden, but the signs were there that we weren't operationally ready for that.
  2. Some of you have horrible luck or weird expectations or something. I'm fucking awful at planning details of a day like this and ended up not really planning shit and everything went pretty damn smooth. Had a hotel room downtown. Traffic from downtown to some close in parking was easy and quick leaving the hotel at 8am. Had nothing more than a vague idea of where to park and ended up easily parking in one of those makeshift lots a couple hundred yards or less from the front gate. Met friends, found a ton of wonderful shitty foods and beer. Headed into the stadium about 10:40. That took a little bit with the crowds at the scanners, but nothing that would get my panties in a wad. Once inside it was up easy to get to the seats. Made it well before kickoff. Midway thru the 1st I made a concessions run... 10 minutes tops and a shitload of cold drinks for everyone. Went again in the 3rd and found most drinks sold out. They only had Mountain Dew and Pepsi. I hate Mountain Dew and Pepsi. I happily drank Mountain Dew and Pepsi because who fucking cares? Of course it took a while to get out of the stadium afterwards but again... so what? Kids and I checked out some cars and ate a little more and left the fair less than an hour later. Had some traffic for 5-10 minutes and then open roads all the way out of Dallas. And not kid friendly? Granted, my kids are old enough to not only be not bothered by a few key-placed "Motherfuckers" but to actively insert a few of their own... but still I never saw a single thing all day that wouldn't be appropriate for a kid. We talked about the idea of coming across some methhead sister-fucker types and the drama that could come with that. But we never saw anything other than people from both sides acting more or less reasonable. I've had worse fan experiences at DKR.
  3. I'm not really a Mustang guy.
  4. I waited in line twice for less than 10 minutes each. They were sold out of most stuff that second time but it was no big deal because I had bought about 3 drinks per person the first time. If you're coming back from the concession stand early in the game with less than 3 full drink caddies you're a rookie.
  5. Yeah but I love our shithole. I hope they never renovate it again unless it's in danger of collapsing. For sure, but there always has been. My kids never had their tickets scanned at all. They scanned mine and my kids had gotten caught behind another party and when they finally got up to the scanner guy they didn't know what to do because I had the tickets. I just waved them to ignore the guy and walk on in... so they did. Not even a second glance. The ticket scanner guys were overwhelmed and anyone who wanted to could've walked right in if they timed it right.
  6. You mean other than the OU team from exactly one year ago that came into our game with 2 losses and unranked? Your football posts come across like those from a 12 year old paying attention to her first season of football.
  7. I think that's a just a pump that can put out higher pressure for seating the bead on a tubeless tire. You need the get the air in quick for that. You only need that for the initial setup, not for daily pressure upkeep. I don't have one but my basic dual chamber pump can still usually seat the bead. If not a bike shop would use a compressor and have it on in seconds for a nominal fee if any.
  8. From my bed in South Austin and awake because my girlfriend had too much wine and set her alarm clock an hour too early... FIGHT!
  9. I’d be there but I’ll have the kids with me and they don’t know I have an alter ego named Your Mom and a bunch of imaginary friends from the internet.
  10. So they’ll still get to see Montana.
  11. I used the free version for a long time. Just checked and now I'm on the paid version but don't remember why. Mostly I just use it to follow my son and keep up with his high school track workouts. My rides go on there automatically but it's rare that I actively do anything with it. Strava for mountain biking seems like overkill. Every trail and type of terrain is so different that keeping track of mileage really doesn't mean anything like it does for a roadie or a runner. 10 miles on one trail might be a casual cruise while 10 miles on another trail might be a multi-hour ass-kicking. I guess a lot of people use it to chase KOMs or to compare their efforts on a trail. I'm rarely ever aware of how fast I go or how long a trail takes me. I tend to judge myself on the obstacles I clean or fail to clean each ride without regard to the speed. Trailforks is my go-to app. I use it to find trails, to get un-lost, to remind myself of trail names, etc... MTB Project is also good and has better descriptions of trails if you're somewhere unfamiliar, but for just seeing them and navigating them I like Trailforks user-experience best.
  12. Duggy's has done good work for me.
  13. Lincoln Riley is the child of two people who think it's ok to give your kid a last name for a first name.
  14. Needs Bert
  15. Did mine 6 months ago and it took 4 weeks. Regular service, not expedited. Situation seems fluid, State Dept website says 16 weeks now.
  16. After a Thursday night game week when they have extra time before the next game, and with access to a private jet that gets him to Ohio in an hour and a half or so…. Who cares? I’m glad he’s not here and I don’t really care for the guy but in the world of the NFL this doesn’t move the needle for me.
  17. Didn’t his old lady already tweet something that sounded like her being cool with it all? Whether she did or not, I don’t see this being anywhere close to something to derail anybody’s career. He rubbed a girl from outside her pants. Meh.
  18. My gap year consisted of getting up at noon every day to watch The A-Team reruns with Paco and then getting drunk on Miller High Life bought from the only gas station we knew our fake IDs would work, and maybe bang the girls that worked at Pizza Hut if we were lucky. Pass out at 2am and do it all again the next day, other than that the Pizza Hut girls who were already tired of our shit. Surprisingly, that gap year did not prepare me well for college and I ended up flunking out the following year. That lead to following Paco into the Marine Corps before finally starting all over at age 24 with good results. TL/DR: if a gap year doesn’t seem to work out quite right, try six.
  19. Who the fuck am I supposed to bitch about my kids homework assignment to or ask who to send excused absence notes to or ask what time the middle school football game is now?!!!
  20. Lincoln Riley's favorite day in Fall is when Pumpkin Spice Latte returns to the Starbucks menu.
  21. This was the first win that gives good information about who we are. TCU may not be what they were in recent years but nobody should have been expecting anything other than a dogfight. It was and we came out on top. We still have weaknesses and probably will for a while but I'm happy with where we are. Anyone expecting us to look like we did against Rice and Tech every week just isn't in tune with the realities of college football. There's things to work on but today was good. Another dogfight next week.
  22. Do you even Surly? Key contributors don't exist. Guys are either stars or scrubs. There is no in-between.
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