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  1. On 1/15/2019 at 12:38 PM, Paul Wesley said:

    I am trying to tidy up my place, Marie Kondo-style (look her up... it's a thing).  

    I own a big collection of song books.  Mostly classic rock, but a little songwriter/folk/pop stuff too.  Not sure what to do with them.  

    When I was a kid, and trying to learn the guitar, I spent a considerable amount of my lawn-mowing money (the only money I had) on records and song books.  They were purchases that you considered very carefully.  There was a music store (musical instruments) 4 or 5 miles from my house, and I'd ride my bike there on a summer day, and then I'd just stand at the song book section and try to memorize as many chords as I could.  Then I'd ride home and immediately try to play what I had seen.  If I were smarter, I'd have snuck in pencil and paper.  

    Anyway, I've got probably 30 songbooks that haven't been opened for a couple decades now.  Probably getting rid of them.

    If it's any consolation to you gear-hoarding bastards, I'll use the space on the bookshelf for more pedals.  

    I'm broke and trying to learn guitar.  I could pay postage  :)

     

  2. I have not done any of the Builder mods to my main base.  Should I work on those or not?  Just care about how it affects war matchups.

    If yes, what is the priority order?

  3. I might get back into this game.  Would you all take the founder of SB4 back?  I have 2 TH9s that were nearly maxed when I stopped playing a while back.  Started adding some of the extra items that have been added since then and upgrading walls.

    Have not done any of the builder mods yet.  Was curious how that affects the war handicapping.

     

  4. 13 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I did the software update for the downshift thing, and my in dash display that used to show 1-6 for the gears and highlight which one it was in, is now gone. What’s that shit?

    Use the +/- on the shifter and you can turn it back on.  Don't push it too many times and lock out gears you don'e want locked out though.

  5. Big Milestone.  My car turned 50 and I drove it for the first time in 7 years after completely rebuilding the steering, suspension, brakes and fixing a lot of safety and cosmetic issues.  Still need to get an alignment.

     

    Driving it I got a loud squeaking noise and found the original 14" wheels were rubbing the new Disk brake hard lines on the calipers.  I'm going to need to move up the purchase of 15" Magnum 500s.

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  6. On 1/19/2019 at 12:48 AM, utxmike05 said:

    Betty at Houston Coffee & Cars few weeks ago

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    What size tires did you get?  thinking of getting 235/60R15 on mine

  7. My wife took me to this.  It was bad.  Could have been cut in half and made a better movie.  Toning down some of the gimmick technology stuff like the pro/con analysis in one scene and a few others would have let the audience get into the movie instead of forcing so much "that's not credible/possible" analysis.   I felt like leaving about 3/4 through.  Nicole Kidman was the highlight and Jango Fett appearance was nice too.

  8. my uncle had a shop like that in San Antonio off Bandera he ran a rental business out of.  Brings back memories.

     

    On flat ground like that I always wonder about heavy rain and water runoff.  How do you plan for that.

  9. 11 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    God, the glorious meltdown. Of course the wusses of the world would probably ban Bevo forevermore on the sidelines but he could be put out to pasture of the finest grass with 72 glorious heifers all to his own and enjoy a rich and hearty life of chewing cud and fucking for decades to come. And all of his offspring would hate Chip Brown.

    Maybe you don't know what a steer is

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  10. Bevo just demonstrated the reason Longhorns have long horns.  Defend themselves and their calves from coyotes, dogs and other predators.

    I've loved this Baby Bevo since the beginning and the jumping through the fog before home games was just a precursor to this.

  11. 2 hours ago, pepper brooks said:

    Bought this bad boy for my son for Christmas.  Pretty excited to see how the kickoff stock works, and if it really does reduce kick by 70% as advertised.  Anyone else have, or shot this gun?  Didn't buy it here, but this is the gun.  

     

    https://www.cabelas.com/product/null/1821617.uts

     

     

    Berettas are my favorite shotguns.  The kick-off does work, I don't have one in my semi-auto but I have shot them. 

    The two main things to reduce felt recoil are proper fit and gun mount to the shoulder.  It should be pulled tight to the shoulder.  After that is stance and all the other stuff. 

     

    Good luck.

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  12. I went to both Texas and Radford.  I have a brother that lives in Radford and traveled here for the game.  He was at the practices this morning and said Coach Jones emphasized forcing Texas to go to the three and not let them score in the paint.  Looks like he was successful at that.

    Texas looked best when they were cutting to the paint and penetrating early but they ended up just passing the perimeter or trying to drive and there were few cuts without the ball.

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