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We have dinner reservations at Ocean 44. Looking forward to it.

Thanks. According to the internets (including Golf Digest), the courses at Talking Stick are pretty good. Yes, I know they aren't Troon North or Greyhawk, but I was surprised at how often they were ranked in "top ten public courses in Scottsdale" when I was snooping around on social media.

Headed there soon. Looks like plenty of casinos. Any recs on places to game?

Grew tired of her character long ago. My rank speculation is that John knew this was coming, allowed it to happen, but set something in motion first that will be revealed later, maybe in the final episode.

Agreed. Can we please beat the land thieves first?

No, actually, you were not. I was.

Dan Patrick said on his show a few weeks ago that he got a call from Sandler and Sandler told him he was going to be in the movie.

Terrible, tragic accident. I read a few of the articles, and it does not appear there were any witnesses. I'm curious if there were criminal charges filed in Travis County against the driver. With that said, Texas law says that pedestrians must walk on the sidewalk and not in the street if there is one. Sec. 552.006. USE OF SIDEWALK. (a) A pedestrian may not walk along and on a roadway if an adjacent sidewalk is provided and is accessible to the pedestrian. (b) If a sidewalk is not provided, a pedestrian walking along and on a highway shall walk on the left side of the roadway or the shoulder of the highway facing oncoming traffic, unless the left side of the roadway or the shoulder of the highway facing oncoming traffic is obstructed or unsafe. (c) The operator of a vehicle emerging from or entering an alley, building, or private road or driveway shall stop and yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian approaching on a sidewalk extending across the alley, building entrance or exit, road, or driveway. I did not know this until a client of mine was sued for hitting a pedestrian while he was driving and on the way to take his daughter to school. My client says (and no, I wasn't there so hell I don't know) the pedestrian was not on the sidewalk, was walking near the curb with his back to my client, then sort of stepped out in front of my client's car. He hit the pedestrian with his side view mirror. Pedestrian had a fractured wrist. I am NOT commenting or in any way suggesting this couple did anything wrong. I obviously have no idea what they saw, were doing, if the sidewalk was blocked, or what the truck driver guy was watching or doing. Merely commenting that I was surprised to learn that Texas law says a pedestrian may not walk on the roadway if a sidewalk is provided and accessible. I also did not know that if a sidewalk is not available, that Texas law says a pedestrian shall walk on the left side of the roadway facing the oncoming traffic. Regardless, I cannot imagine the pain of the family in dealing with a situation like this incident.

I am going to respectfully disagree with this take. And I was without power in Houston for 8 days and at the office for 6 days.

https://www.chron.com/weather/article/hill-country-rain-lake-levels-19594229.php "Levels at Lake Travis could rise by as much as five feet." We'll see.......

I was there about a month ago and saw a diamondback making its way along the trail.

Omar Uresti T10 after two round in the US Senior Open. Yeah, I know. It's early. But that's some pretty good golfin' right there.

Books are good. Worth the read. Seem to recall somewhere on the internets (so it has to be true) that the Swedish version of the movies stuck to the books but the version with Mara did not.

It's early, but let's just say we had a good first day. Hit it where they mow boys.

Bumping this thread. We're doing an Athens - Athens cruise for our 35th wedding anniversary. We are not stopping in Santorini or Milos. Once back in Athens, we'll have four days and three nights before our flight back from Athens. Try to hit both Santorini and Milos? This will be end of October so we will not have the summer crowds. We'll be in Athens for three days and two nights before we get on the boat.

Pretty hard to blame that on our pitching (which as admittedly sucked ass).

Nope. Wasn't smart enough to figure that out truthfully.

Anybody ever made the drive from DTW to Ann Arbor the morning of an 11:00 am kickoff?

Watched this again on cable telly-vision this evening. This is a really good movie. Don’t see how anyone could trash or dump on it.

Headed to Vegas this weekend. In addition to my normal gambling routine, I'm looking for some random $100 wager on something in the 25-1 odds range. Anyone? Anyone?

I was there. Great show. I think the 1984 Thanksgiving show was better though. Best I ever saw there.

So Mrs. Smwhorn (sorry, no pics. I'll cut you man) and I will be attending this one. Our first one this year. Any messages from the Surlyfolk to our players/coaches/refs/opponents they want relayed?

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39647922/award-winning-nfl-reporter-chris-mortensen-dies-age-72 He was pretty damn good at what he did.

Bumping this thread. Mrs. Smwhorn and I binged it over the past few days. It was our first time through. Really fucking good but there's just some shit I didn't understand or am not smart enough to have caught the first time through. Unfortunately, it took me 10 years to watch it the first time. I am going to look for one thing though without binging a second time. Trying not to "spoil" anything and being as bland and generic as possible, I want to know why they didn't notice the "bad guy" the first time they came across him.

I think we cover and win. ZERO legitimate or arguable reasons to think so considering how shitty we have played recently, but from time to time, we just win some games we shouldn't win. Gut feeling. Nothing else. No, I'm not betting any of you sumbitches any money on my gut feeling.