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This is so weird. On my Pixel, I can make the text bubbles whatever color I choose.

Can naturally aspirated individuals even get turbo-cancer?

I got to see my older son for the first time since he started school at UT in late August. He was coming through town with the ski team on the way to a tournament at ULM. I got exactly 5 minutes of hug-time before they had to leave, but that was a soul restoring 5 minutes for this old Dad. We had pulled pork sandwiches and tons of other food-stuffs waiting for the team on their trip home. Feeding hungry college kids feels good, and they were a great bunch of kids.

Quoted (months later) to add, since September almost is behind us: OU Sucks!

I'm so sorry.

Archie bought the house on Archer Avenue in the winter of his 5th year.

Yes, it's the grades at the end of the junior year. So not automatic, but if he does the holistic review, they will consider his grades through the first semester of the senior year. Auto-admit is just getting your foot in the door. You still have to write some pretty solid essays and have your resume considered to get into your major or colleges other than liberal arts. My son was auto-admit last year, but the application process still was grueling because he wanted either Plan2 or Liberal Arts Honors. Thankfully, his major (history) wasn't one of the more competitive ones. TLDR, not auto admit but don't sweat it. Auto-Admit application and holistic application are the same application at the end of the day. Declaring a major isn't like declaring bankruptcy anymore. You can't just yell it. You have to ask nicely, and they'll think about it. /so there are two jokes here. The Michael Scott one and the more creative one about how declaring a philosophy major is, in fact, like declaring bankruptcy. There probably are more.

I assume he's arging about ME, too. Narrator: He's good with Maine.

I'm a few in the bag, but I think I meant that unless he's the trustee (assuming irrevocable, which isn't the argument on display), what's he doing there. I may be being dense, I thought about this for about a minute on my way out of the office for a day off tomorrow.

The "rape a goat part"? Because, yeah. That was pretty overt.

Este.

Like we all have time to bang models and deal with A/M scanks.

Is he the settlor and the trustee?

Can we call it a tallywhacker?

This. I haven't a clue, and the linked article didn't shed a lot of light on his arguments for changing the terms of a presumably irrevocable trust. That said, I'd place the odds somewhere in between the likelihood of two pair and that of successfully navigating an asteroid field.

Or could nazi that coming.

He was a power lifter in high school for a couple of years. Ski tournaments are more fun. and . . .

I didn't see this mentioned. It's been around forever and is a sport on the decline sadly. Technically, it falls under Rec-Sports, but they compete regionally against other schools with the potential to go to Nationals. My son is a freshman and grew up in and around a ski club, and he was eyeing the ski team even before he realized that fraternity life wasn't for him. Within a week, he was signed up for his first tournament and has been hitting the lake four times per week. Traveling to LA-Monroe for a tournament this weekend. If any of you Surly-types have kids at UT who like to water ski, they should check it out. No level of expertise required (but it helps), and they have a lot of fun. He's also hitting me up for their snow ski trip over winter break.

That was pretty shellfish of her.

From all I have read, it should work fine.

My brain wasn't working or I was thinking 4 T in 1/4 Cup. I honestly don't measure anything for beans. I just pour a little in my hand, eyeball it, and toss it in the pot.

I've read SL twice at this point, both times as an adult. I enjoyed it more the second time. I reread Bram Stoker's Dracula last year and it might be that his landscape descriptions are a nod to the inspiration-novel. There's a lot of that in the early chapters/letters/diary-entries in Stoker's novel. Also, how it has taken this long to put Stoker and Straker together in my mind, I cannot explain.

Salem's Lot is definitely "early King" and possibly the last of early King. That is to say that it has all of the elements of a great story, i.e. Dracula set in 20th Century Maine, and the world-building you expect from having read The Stand and IT. But it's definitely a much smaller scale of world building compared to those two novels, which are among his best. And because it is shorter, the characters, although interesting enough, are less developed. I'm not usually one to gripe about endings, but the ending of Salem's lot . . . . . . . With regard to its being the last of "early King," I think The Shining is a far better novel, and the one where King really hit his stride. Salem's Lot simply is a very good read by comparison.

Bruen is, indeed, regarded.