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  1. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFRpaXMr/
  2. My brother-in-law and I (both 50s) watching Gameday this weekend: "This show is unwatchable now that McAfee is on the set." 21-year-old nephew walks in: "McAfee made this show watchable finally." Me:
  3. Can I delete the top 2?
  4. Just got back from Vienna in June. I spent a few days in Krems. It's a cool little town with some nicer restaurants than you would expect. The wine produced there is world renowned so they get a high end tourist. About an hour by train from Vienna.
  5. Dachau is a short train ride. You can be there in 30 minutes or so. Go midday and don't plan anything fun that night. You won't be in the mood. It's a heavy place. I always look for ways to get out in the country so last time I took the train down to Tutzing (maybe 45 minutes from Munich). Walked along the lake there and chilled on some benches by the shore. Pretty place. Then I started back on an open ticket and got off in each little town where the train stopped. Walked around for an hour then jumped back on the train only to get off in the next town toward Munich. Starnberg was really cool. You can climb up the hill to the church St. Joseph. The church has a pretty court yard and a great view back over the valley. I didn't go inside but it looks beautiful. This made for a nice day, and I still got back to Munich in time to hit up some beer gardens--there are several fantastic ones.
  6. Damn, I may pay you $350 to take it. I really don't want to put this stuff in a UPS van headed north. It may just go back in the closet for now. I assume it won't hurt it to age a bit more. What can brown do for you?
  7. Is there a preferred online marketplace for this kind of stuff? I came across something called Reverb...
  8. Father-in-law had this sitting in a closet when he passed. '50s era Fender Champ Amp and Steel in matching cases. Plugged it up and all sounds fine other than I can't play it. Would love to know more about it if anyone has insight.
  9. Wife has asked me to help her sell this Fender steel guitar and this Champ Amp. All works fine. This amp seems to be one that is fairly sought after. No idea where to start with this. Any help is appreciated.
  10. https://www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybemaybe/s/AmOWw3lWhh
  11. Better not miss because the abuela that returns fire is a sniper with that weapon, guaranteed.
  12. Yep, parallel goat trails away from the bigger towns. Be prepared to possibly have to reverse it a hundred yards to one of those turnouts if you meet a damn bus or some farmer in a tractor--and you will.
  13. I’m less worried about where today ends than I am where August ends.
  14. I’ll be glad if the ugly is confined to today. Not optimistic about that.
  15. One of the issues it seems is that many of these bigger towns/smaller cities were built around a single industry and sometimes a single employer. When that business goes under, not only do you have massive unemployment but the tax structure collapses. The only people that stay are the ones that can’t get out. Plainview was once a bustling, growing city between Lubbock and Amarillo. Busy downtown, decent schools, thriving economy. And at the center was Cargill beef processor with 3,000 employees and $60 million in payroll. Good life for many people and all those in the area that provided services to those employees. Then the rain stopped. The local feedlots couldn’t afford to ship corn/feed into a system that was used to getting it brought from across the road. The cattle were liquidated. Very quickly there was no beef to process in Plainview. Cargill shut down, the feedlots shuttered, the teams that grew the corn went broke, the cafe that fed the meat packers and the cowboys went out of business and so on and so on…. Wife’s family had a farm west of there, and I was back and forth through Plainview as it collapsed—rapidly. When we were trying to sell the farm, we were there weekly sometimes and there was nothing left but the worst Chili’s I have ever seen and a Sonic. Whole areas of town are abandoned. Left behind rib-showing dogs walking the streets. Glad to say I may never see it again other than to visit the graves of the in-laws. These towns that were built around military bases and a single industry are either dead, dying or doomed and don’t know it yet. The rain will stop for them one day as well.
  16. Lost, to me sets the bar. I was hooked halfway through. Someone linked that Wonder Years pilot above. I remember watching that with my dad. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
  17. Damn that looks like one north of San Angelo. That barrel is rusty because I peed on it 40 years ago. Dad opened the front door and the back door on one side of the red suburban to make for a little privacy for mom and sister to squat.
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