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CLT... meh.. Cinnabon? Popeyes is in Nashville. And there’s a Whataburger in IAH too. Chick fil A in Hobby hidden over by the international gates. Ya Ya Mary’s Mediterranean pitas is also over there and is good too, but still closed for the vid.

There’s one and B and one over in either H or K. There may be one in the international terminal but I haven’t seen it, only been through there once or twice.

The Milanesa Torta at Rick Bayless’ Frontera Grill in O’Hare is the best airport meal I’ve ever had. I’ve eaten in airports 3 days a week for the last 17 years.

If my kid had to speak to other kids verbally over the phone or even text them he’d have no friends. They all talk with an app now, actual text messaging is for the olds. You can force your kid to communicate whichever way you like but if his friends are not communicating the same way you’re fucking his social life over quite a bit. If you don’t care about that that’s cool but I like my kids having a healthy active social life. It’s not a complete free-for-all, there are some limitations and expectations. The more they meet my expectations the fewer limitations I give them. My kids both got phones when they hit middle school. I monitored them pretty thoroughly for the first couple years and gradually eased up on it. i’m sure they’ve seen more than a few tiddies on them and I’m sure they’ve had communications I wouldn’t approve of but, all in all, they are thriving and doing well in life. Good grades, hang out with a good group of kids that are going places, good manners, a few typical teenage fights now and then but nothing that lasts very long. I can’t remember the last time I looked at either of their phones. I got into my share of mischief as a kid too. A certain amount of that is healthy for a teenager. How they’ll be able to manage that and how much rope you give your kid to hang themselves is something that only you can have an idea of. What’s right from my kid might be wrong for yours and what’s right for yours might be wrong for mine.

Yeah I guess.

I sleep on a platform in the back of my LX. Got a roof top tent on the way, probably next month. Doubt I'll use it until the fall though. It's that time of year when I just won't camp in the heat. Headed to Idaho to raft the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in July, but flying in so no truck camping there. This is the one I bought. Not my vehicle.

Best I can see, Southwest cancelled one flight into Austin and one flight out of Austin today (my apologies if the data I looked at is wrong... wouldn't be the first time). Dallas Love had 40 cancellations and DFW had almost 400. Austin had 11, 2 of which were SWA. Those 2 SWA cancelled Austin flights were from and to Dallas because of the storms rolling through there. Lots of others were delayed but eventually went. Dallas was shutdown for quite a while and it was wreaking havoc on the whole system, not only because planes were stuck there but also because once they could finally takeoff they still had to avoid those storms and fly on routes they wouldnt have otherwise been on. Entire departure and arrival routes get shut down on days like today and all the planes have to be put on other routes that already have planes on them. They have to keep those planes a specific distance apart from each other and leave them room to deviate around individual storm cells. I operated a flight from Hobby this afternoon and ATC needed 30 miles of separation between each plane taking off from Hobby because our normal routes we'd be joining were already full of planes avoiding the storms near Dallas. That's about a takeoff every 10 minutes instead of the usual one per minute. A 6 minute planned taxi becomes an hour long taxi with that. Any plane taking off to go north from Houston this afternoon had to go east or west first. That fucks with all the planes that were only going east or west to begin with because there's now too many airplanes on those routes. Same thing was happening at every other airport within a few hundred miles of the storms. That's why weather in one major city can fuck with flights that weren't even coming or going from that city. It's like when I-35 gets shutdown and Mopac gets fucked because of it. People on Mopac wonder why it's so jammed up when there's not even a wreck on Mopac. For TSA lines these days the leisure travel days/times are going to be the worst. Thursday-Saturday departures. Mid-week shouldn't be as bad as almost every flyer is flying for leisure right now and going on weekend trips. Thanks for the tip on Clear. I've seen it but never really looked into it. I'm taking 2 trips with my kids this summer and one with my Dad. Definitely going to try to time the 2 month trial to cover all 3 trips. Sorry for being so wordy. I'm bored in a hotel.

I have no idea what they saw or what the pentagon says they saw. But wake turbulence doesn’t work that way. It decreases with speed. Takeoff and landing attitudes produce the most wake, cruise produces the least. Im not saying it couldn’t be aliens. Of course it could be. But the assumption that is has to be is as naïve as the assumption that it has to be manmade.

What makes you think that? We’ve had the technology to drop a man on the moon and bring him back for over 50 years. We’ve had aircraft going 6 times the speed of sound for over 50 years now. Just the technology you can find in a drone for sale at Best Buy, while not on this level, is still staggering. Considering all the achievements over the years in military technology... supersonic guided missles, smart bombs, drones... that’s just a few the things we know about. We have no idea about what they’ve made behind closed doors. There’s no question they are making and flying things the average person can’t comprehend yet. Things that a fuzzy grainy video of would create quite a stir. A small group of military brass are laughing their asses off over this like, “Let’s send it out again tonight and fuck with people.”

I wonder if aliens occasionally come across our spacecraft out and about in the galaxy and debate them on their internet boards.

Brought a paintball gun to a gunfight.

My 16 year old son works at a restaurant downtown. He routinely leaves work after midnight. He doesn't have his driver's license yet so most nights I pick him up. But occasionally I'm just beat and he takes an Uber home instead. I can see who the driver is and what the license plate number is. Most importantly, I observe the ride all the way home. Easy peasy. No way would I have him call a cab on those nights without that level of transparency. For myself, when I'm out of town Uber/Lyft is just way easier than catching a cab. Don't have to call anybody, don't have to google the local cab company to get the number, don't need cash. And they consistently show up within a few minutes. Surge pricing... meh... it's worth it. Those are the times that I need prompt service the most.

Yeah but then you don't get that South Rim sunrise.

Wait a minute... guy's name is "Mike Haak." This has to be a Wee Too Lo, Sum Ting Wong joke right? Wanna see Mike Haak?

Wasn’t me.

I'm not a vegetarian. I celebrate all forms of cooked animal flesh. But... Morningstar Veggie Sausage is fucking delicious. My family has been eating it since I was a kid and I prefer it over real breakfast sausage. It tastes nothing like real sausage, so if you are thinking of it as a substitute for pork you will be disappointed. I just think of it as a completely different product. I still eat it several times a week, with eggs, in tacos, alone as a quick snack... My kids love it too. Also, a huge scoop of peanut butter in a bowl, covered in pancake syrup, and stirred up. Take two slices of bread and dip it in that delicious concoction one bite at a time with a glass of milk. That was breakfast at Grandpa's house and it's still often breakfast at my house today.

Yeah that’s got to be frustrating with summer right here. I signed with Cody mainly because they were the only company that didn’t completely ignore me. It wasn’t really my intention to go with the biggest company but I’m hoping that gives them a little more pull with the subs. Time almost isn’t an issue since mine will probably be done in the middle Of winter.

Who’s the builder?

Signed the contract on mine. I'll start posting all the titties around it in... umm... December or so I guess.

We've come a long way from "Give Me a Phat Beat!" and Ricky and Earl shooting lazers at Longhorn minotaurs.

TOEFLOP

Any low-flying American aircraft in the area?

That’s not the link we were looking for.

Never even heard of borates. I have some reading to do tonight I guess. I assume this is a chemical I'd add to a pool set up for chlorine without a SWG or UV? Thanks for all your tips on this thread.

Got the link on that video?