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Your Mom

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  1. I saw some of that on Reddit yesterday. It doesn’t make me feel better, it makes me think the situation was even more dangerous than I first assumed. Doesn’t take two guns to commit suicide. Of course he’s going to tell everybody that he had no plans to do anything other than that. It’s a little harder to believe when he had two guns and was reportedly trying to get in a back door. Obviously the school can’t comment on the kids mental health issues or suicide plans now that his name is out there, but I hope they have some discussions in Advisory about suicide in general and reminding the kids to notice red flags and speak up. All us parents should be doing that at home too.
  2. Well both are hazy. And a Saturday night full of either one can result in a really shitty Sunday morning.
  3. Coaching isn’t the only thing in play here. I think even the most pessimistic fan knows we’ve made an upgrade there. But are you counting on no drop-off from a senior Sam Elinger to an unproven freshman under center?
  4. Hudson Card might be amazing. Sark might deserve that pedestal everyone has him on. The defense might be for real this year. The other teams in the Big 12 might have all regressed while we are the only one improving. Or maybe some of y’all have just been drunk on the preseason koolaid so many times you don’t even notice it happening anymore. It’s a rough awakening every time. 8-4 and I’d love to be wrong.
  5. Thanks, Atom... worthy of it's own thread. I hope we learn more about any motives he may have had.
  6. Circling back on this for my fellow AHS parents... KXAN named him this morning. He appears to be a former student, class of 2020. Former WR on the football field if HUDL is correct. (also needed to work on his bench if HUDL is correct). https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/armed-man-detained-near-austin-high-school-police-say/ Now I'm more concerned about it than I was yesterday. I was hoping it was some random guy who happened to be carrying and forgot he was walking across a HS campus or something. A former student with 2 guns, out there in the morning before school is a little scarier. If anybody knows more about this I'd appreciate hearing it.
  7. I believe that if one team has enough to play and the other does not then it’s a forfeit and counts in the L column for standings. If both teams can’t field a proper team it is a No Contest.
  8. Yengling beer. Or however the fuck you spell that. The bottom line is it’s a perfectly ordinary, average, forgettable beer. If you like old shit for the sake of nostalgia that’s fine but stop telling me how great this beer is because it’s not. And while we’re at it, people that are hard-core into anything from the East Coast or the Midwest can pretty much just shut the fuck up about all of it. Nobody else cares.
  9. 16 teeth in the back is pretty hefty. Maybe try an 18. It’ll be a noticeable difference.
  10. So you got pics of all the whores you bought with the cash slush fund you kept hidden from your wife or what? I mean, we all need cash. But unless you have reason for the wife not to know about it, a quick stop at an ATM or a cash back option at the grocery store seems a hell of a lot easier than funneling gift cards into checks to be cashed. That’s a shit ton of hassle just to avoid an ATM.
  11. It has nothing to do with the "Muh Freedums!" crowd. It's too much work for the teachers. Every teacher I know, which is quite a few in Austin, hated the hybrid system last year. Just in my small circle of friends I know 3 that quit and changed careers over with the hybrid system as the last straw. It's not a matter of simply putting a camera in the back of the room to record while they taught in-person like normal. That was deemed by the facebook mom nazis to be unfair to poor little Keegan at home as his education wasn't equal in terms of quality to little Brysen's at school. So the teachers had to make sure they got facetime in front of the camera and basically taught everything twice, once to the kids in class and once to the kids at home all in the same amount of time. It was twice the work in the same amount of time for the same shitty pay. As a result, Austin is currently short by 140 teachers. Asking them to do that again is going to result in a mutiny of educators and a mass exodus in the career. The only option for doing virtual is to hire more teachers just to do nothing but virtual. But how do you plan for that, not knowing how many kids will be out in a given week or what grades those kids are going to be in? And how do you hire more teachers for that when you are already 140 short of real teachers in classrooms? If my kids have to quarantine this year I'm chalking it up to tough shit... it sucks but it can't suck much more than the virtual option already did last year anyway.
  12. I've got a SS I take out for coffee in the mornings. It's only a mile away but sometimes I take the trail home and add a short local loop for a couple extra miles. It's a whole 'nother world of bike riding. It's a constant state of discomfort with either the irritability of spinning too fast or the pain of mashing too big a gear. It's good for reminding yourself that not every problem needs to be solved with a bike upgrade. Not what I'd want to spend the majority of my ride time on, but worthy of a spin every now and then.
  13. Shirt is wrinkled as fuck. Negged for handling your laundry like a 12 year old.
  14. I just saw a development sign today. You're about to get a mixed-use project at the southwest corner of Bliss Spillar and whatever they call that tollway (Mopac? 45?). Sounds like maybe a little Domain for the bubbas. The only thing missing is a trendy nickname.
  15. 13 year old and I laughed our asses off at it last night at Alamo. Superhero/Comic book shit is meant for kids. I can't understand an adult going into one of these movies and expecting solid acting and a thoughtful screenplay. It's a kids movie with extra violence and guts with a little adult humor thrown in. It was stupid, gory, over-the-top, and had some solid one-liners in it. And the fucking weasel... I don't see how you can expect more than that. Some of you take your comic books too seriously.
  16. Friend of mine who teaches elementary in Austin said this morning that it's almost comical how many parents have told her how pro-mask their child is and how their child is worried about non-masked kids. She says 90% of those kids with the vocal parents are the ones trying to lose the mask as soon as mom or dad drives out of the parking lot. Says most of the parents are completely delusional about their kids masking habits.
  17. I gave them notice and apologized in advance. They seemed ok with it. I got lucky with a whole street of really good neighbors. Not quite as cool as your neighbors though.
  18. I’m on the poorer end of people who build pools so I went with the cheapest option that wasn’t just bare concrete. In my case that was SunDek textured coating over concrete. Supposed to be cool to walk on and grippy. The fact that I don’t have a wife to keep happy made it an easy choice. Something like this:
  19. Bad phrasing on my part. Not the contract, the layout and construction approval documents. The digging began about a month after that. The contract was signed back at the end of May. After the contract was signed I had the HOA permit in 3 days and the City of Austin permit took a solid month. Then I was traveling a lot and so we did the layout in late July. Today was day 2 of digging err... rock-hammering with probably 2 to go. I was told to expect 5 months for construction with delays before gunnite and tile. I'm expecting longer than that.
  20. My Blue Heaven is based loosely on Henry Hill from Goodfellas. Scorsese based Goodfellas off the book Wiseguy which was written by the husband of the writer of the screenplay for My Blue Heaven. From Henry Hill's memoirs...
  21. So is this why is they cost more in Austin?
  22. I guess I’m off to a lucky start. Signed my contract a month ago and digging and deck demo began yesterday.
  23. White rocks in your front yard means the same thing as an upside down pineapple in your shopping cart.
  24. AISD athletic directors have lobbied for no masks while engaged in sports. Still must wear them at practices and competitions while not actually playing. No link, just got the email from our coach. Good stuff IMHO.
  25. A mask mandate during outdoor sports competition is ridiculous. Sports are optional. School is not. Apples and oranges. One should have a mandate the other should not. My kid went to school today in a mask. At cross country practice, putting in a 12 mile run in the heat…. No it ain’t gonna kill him but it’s ridiculous. My girlfriends kid goes to a round rock elementary school and their pseudo-mandate is just fucking insane. What’s the point of even having a superintendent, someone put in place and assumed to have good judgment for sound decision making for the district, if you’re just going to try and put out some half measures to keep everybody happy instead of making a firm decision and owning it. I’d have had more respect if he just came out as an anti-masker and owned that decision than for his bullshit mandate that you get to opt out of.
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