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  1. Due to the icy weather predicted to arrive last night, I went for a long walk prior to the game. Hustled home when I saw it was starting; spouse was watching when I returned and I ask the score. 7-0 GB and I was a little surprised but not a big deal. He's watching and I'm going around doing tasks, pre-supper prep etc and whenever he yells out, 'they scored,' was more and more like what the hell because it was (almost) always the Packers. The same Packers that I had assumed were underdogs. So I trot in to watch circa 2nd quarter. The folks that were talking about the defensive 'cushion'? Yeah, that seemed accurate and the weird thing was it had the effect/appearance that Dallas hadn't game planned anything. NGL, I was rooting for GB, after living up north for many years, we liked them--or more accurately, we disliked Jones and the way he micro-managed to the point of missing the big picture of team ownership (emphasis on team). Green Bay may go no further after this game, but they had in a way, less to lose, but they played like a team that was invested in winning, in proving something by winning. That seems more important than being invested in an image and proving something by trying to protect that image. (my amateur p.o.v. on Jones' method).
  2. Mandatory Clip in any northern volcano thread:
  3. Tried out a few new recipes last night; fortunately no ill effects and used up some odds and ends in various specialty liquours. Safe travels!
  4. I like the hole that you've dug, it's very nice. I would like to point out that had you gone with a wider shallower hole you could've had a nice ice skating rink this weekend.
  5. Are you referring to Indoor or Outdoor? I'm not sure how fleshed out the rest of their squad is, but Texas Tech has some flyers on their men's team. Def give the nod to Texas in the field events except maybe vault? Still a little early to figure it all out, IMO but I wish all the athletes good meets and no injuries. Some of the best squads in the nation in this state.
  6. Believe it or not, Indiana can get pretty fuckin hot in August. It's not Texas/Arizona hot but still quite toasty on certain days. Oh I know, and fewer of the older homes have central AC. But this game is at Kyle Field and in August that place will be like a steamy fryer.
  7. Their first game (Notre Dame) is going to loom large in August. It's a home game and that helps them because that stadium is going to be hot even if they played at ten o'clock at night but Notre Dame has aspirations on going better than this season (10-3) and probably has a better shot at realizing them than A&M. That's even with the cream puff schedule the Ag has (excepting one or two games, UT being one of them).
  8. I'll give them an "A" for punctuation but an "F" apiece in plumbing tech. ed. and physics because that lame ass plunger cannot take care of that load.
  9. @cactusflinthead --our red oak has finally lost the last of its leaves, most of which I raked up and either gave to a neighbor who has a shredder or tossed in my own garden. However, I usually mulch mow in the last of the batch to give the lawn a little tidy clip and deposit some nutrients. The final drop got a little late this year though until that wind hit. Too late? It's supposed to grow warmer mid week and I will put it on my list unless you think it gives the weeds more sun to germinate (because herbicide never gets em all). Thanks and bless.
  10. Crossing fingers that you get your electricity back. That's pretty cold.
  11. Agree with Slorch that Rodgers as a QB is a great athlete. Rodgers is entitled to his opinion and since he openly shares it world-wide we are free to mock or idolize it, however intelligent or foolish we are. Trent Reznor's (NIN) score for The Social Network is fantastic. I love that he was a theater nerd in hs. I also love how we mingle art and sports without a second thought: songs written for school spirit, football (the other one) has all of the club songs (some of these are quite inspirational as theme songs), hockey games and their iconic organ music, baseball evolves from the seventh inning stretch to the psychological examination of every slugger's walk-up song; half the time I'm thinking I'd like to watch games w/o the music (loud) and the other time wondering if it's done to keep people from fighting in the stands during the slow parts (only half-kidding here because that is truly one of the reasons it came to be, historians say). Not too worried about the gene pool myself. The human species is fungible on this tiny planet. Enjoy your time here.
  12. "You have to wonder what promises are made, or ..." Or if he stepped off the plane in College Station and said, 'woah, y'all have an insane amount of chicken finger places' and thought about his last well-check at the doctors and said, 'I can get better fried chicken in Alabama.'
  13. The more the pundits opine on the way citizens are turning away from religion (no CR), the more I'm thinking there is a sizable number of citizenry in this country that are perhaps looking out for the welfare of their family by not putting them in danger. Obey, obey, obey and submit, submit, submit are admirable admonitions when discussing quelling harmful and destructive tendencies but it's obvious that they are magnitudes more harmful when used by the powerful against the least of these, the meek and powerless.
  14. This thread has 192 pages to go before it reaches the debacle that is the College Football in 2020 in Danger thread that is also in this Forum so there's that.
  15. Unfortunately, not everyone is as smart/sensible as you are, plus there are people who may be new to a community and just don't know. In the old days, they'd talk about greenhorns who'd get lost on the prairies during blizzards because they didn't know the tips and tricks for how to navigate when there were no trees or other landmarks. As time passed, those tips and tricks evolved into modern day admonitions for how not to freeze to death if your car got stuck, etc. Things that you don't perhaps ever think of because it was something you learned over time. Same thing with people who don't consider their hydration when going camping or hiking in Big Bend or any safety precaution that someone raised in the hotter climes would seemingly 'just know.' Since I'd been raised in a climate where winter temps dropped below freezing, there was often snow, and the area had actual 'seasons,' I figured I knew the score. Then we moved way up north and it was a different scene. My coat was not warm enough for days when the high was a negative number. When I had to crawl into the car from the hatchback because all the other doors were frozen shut and I needed to get to work. And it was a stick shift and I was pregnant. (Don't even try and picture that one). When I high-centered the car on an ice boulder the snowplow had created because I was trying to turn into our driveway and now had two rear wheels airborne. That one took two neighbors and a pickaxe to resolve and my explanation to my bewildered spouse when he arrived home after it was all done about "I just thought if I floored it, the car would go over it like a mogul." Ah, good times, good times. Just be patient with the noobs. We learn eventually.
  16. Maybe it's because you have a Gritty avatar. If one eats the French Dressing Mexican Salad (the recipe that featured said dressing), one is going to definitely Find Out something. What that something is, is subject to interpretation.
  17. Sounds like a reason to celebrate. Slightly befuddled but not too far gone tonight. Martinis: Hayman's London Extra Dry, Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth, and Mezzetta Spanish Queen Martini Olives. Went well with the leftovers. Cheers!
  18. Also, Richard Dawson was involved with the Selma marches and McGovern's Presidential campaign.
  19. No. Please don't even start with that. Thread was trucking right along, so no.
  20. Speaking of them, I haven't looked; this whole outcome may be such an interesting thought process for them. Didn't some of their fans want DeBoer and he wasn't interested so they badmouthed him cause he wasn't SEC capable or something? But now, they don't play Bama this year I don't think; so, if this year goes poorly for him they can talk about how they dodged a bad coach. But then the next year if Bama were to beat them, then it's because Texas obviously politically lured DeBoer to coach at Bama.
  21. RIP to our Kenmore. It lasted for a long long time. Basic model with freezer on the top. Bought a Whirlpool that was similar but it is a pale pale imitation of our former soldier.
  22. When I have a newly purchased container of a food product and peel back the plastic in one swoop instead of the annoying little strips that stick to your fingers...it pleases me.
  23. No kidding. We'd done our regular trip but I ran out of one or two produce items I needed and the HEB near our house was crazy. If you have ear buds or noise-cancelling headphones, wear those. Then you can shop fast and won't be bothered by the shoppers' cries of pain when you hit them with your basket.
  24. New motto? Texas, it's a whole other tinpot country!
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