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BearSchlong

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  1. I’m not sure yet, haven’t had a chance to talk to him, but I’ll let you know.
  2. I live with low overhead so I can enjoy places like that without hesitation. Of course my kids are out of the house and from what I can tell my main work buddy has 4 young kids and just got gutted in a nasty divorce so I think he was limited to the company per diem. The others are a year out of school so they’re fine with bar food.
  3. Meanwhile, today at Ft. Bragg
  4. Newport Beach Alano club. men’s stag meeting. Great meeting.
  5. ‘Twas pure rationalization. If I could somehow get top shelf into my maw then I couldn’t be alcoholic.
  6. In the last 6 months of my drinking, I was averaging about a fifth to a liter of The Glenlivet daily. My drinks were a large tervis tumbler full of ice then filled with scotch. Just like my daddy before me.
  7. It killed my first and only AA girlfriend. Dead in a nursing home at 44. A beautiful blue eyed platinum blonde with the sweetest soul.
  8. Oh you went there. My 3 favorite words from a certain book. Always elicits a chuckle.
  9. Had drinks (club soda) there with all my millennial coworkers. I wanted to eat there but it was a little fancy for a gaggle of twenty somethings so we ended up with burgers at Stag bar around the corner. But yours was a solid recommendation. (And tech sisters have replaced tech bros, I feel like Charlie in Charlie’s angels.)
  10. A pathetic self-inflicted near-death experience derailed my fate train. My love affair with scotch whisky was, thankfully, interrupted by some paramedics and Bexar County hospital staff. Some neurons fired, and self-preservation ensued and has thus far continued. That’s it. I wish I could take more credit. Guys like John break my heart because there’s no “suddenly” to wreck their pride and ego and arrest their fall. Capitulation remains elusive, they overshoot the mark and the damage is irreparable. Spine shivering to contemplate.
  11. Ah, an answer on Billy’s. What’s a fun place with scenery that would be good for an after work tech bro dinner?
  12. Is Billy’s any good? I’m at Gulfstream RN after a trip to Balboa Channel park. It’s damned nice out here.
  13. This is also a helluva good read -
  14. As a recovered (not cured) alcoholic, that’s one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read.
  15. That’s a bit extreme. It was me. He’s not. But he was pretty fucked up in that video.
  16. Can we include compulsory intercourse for post-menopausal women too? Please?
  17. Dallas was everything the Woodlands was not. Great show.
  18. My wife woke up this morning after 2 large concert beers from some place called Karbach or some such place that wasn’t around in my day and she and felt like shit. My reply was “FFS switch to clear liquor or whisky, the only reason for anyone to drink beer is when the water is contaminated, I just don’t get you people.”
  19. 3rd Friday in May, every single year.
  20. Gravedigger is one of my favorites, and though I’m not chasing any particular songs this weekend I’d love to hear it. Ok I guess I’m also chasing Rooftop and Grace is Gone. Since I read your post earlier I’ve been humming to myself “Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain” We just had dinner at Whiskey Cake with my son’s in laws and I explained how I met his mother at my first DMB show, July 31 1995. Time is a flat circle and how they ended up with this particular son in law. Son’s FIL is a minister, so I left out the part about how when I met her we shared a J.
  21. That’s the hardest question to answer. I’d start with live at Central Park, live at red rocks, then the gazillion live traxx albums. Just use a Spotify sub. There’s Dave before he learned how to sing (early 90s), tracks with (sax)LeRoi, tracks with Jeff after LeRoi died, tracks with Boyd (fiddle), tracks after Boyd, tracks with various keyboardists before Buddy Strong, tracks after Buddy joined full time. And many of the best songs have never been studio released. Example - Break Free, which is one of my favorite songs of all time, got “released” in studio format today. I’m pretty sure a studio version of “Granny” has never been released either. Every version of every song sounds different, and that’s the hook. The easiest thing is to turn to SiriusXM channel 30 DMB radio.
  22. New album today. Texas two step woodlands and Dallas this weekend. First shows for me since November in Portland. Missed TX last year due to graduations so 2 nights in Chicago July 21 was our last amphitheater weekend. Happy day today!
  23. Bump. Restaurants in Costa Mesa and Newport that are noteworthy for the food and scenery? I’ll be out there for work all next week.
  24. If you really want to freak her out, tell her that families on road trips used to pull off the interstate close to sundown or whenever we got tired of driving for the day to find a motel. Preferably one with a pool and a diner. I’m looking at you, Howard Johnson’s and Holiday Inn.
  25. Not yet. I didn’t order the parts for the old one yet. Tbh I’m a little worried that I won’t be able to get it put back together correctly so I decided to just stop procrastinating and buy a new one that I know will last me a long time. I might get the parts and have a spare or just give it away. But the new one will be going in an enclosed shed when not in use, and I’ll be vigilant about keeping the hopper and auger free of sawdust. By my reckoning I paid a $500 premium for a new factory fresh one. Tl;dr I don’t trust my mechanical skills. I’ve also got that big Weber E335 as well.
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