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  1. Or could nazi that coming.
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    UT Water Ski

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

    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.
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    Gumbo

    That was pretty shellfish of her.
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    Gumbo

    From all I have read, it should work fine.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Bruen is, indeed, regarded.
  10. Both Heller and Rahini are pretty clear that the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to "non-law-abiding citizens" and do not impede felon-in-possession prohibitions. So at least there's that.
  11. You're correct. The quotation marks were necessary.
  12. I had to read Bruen and Rahimi recently. The historical analysis gave me a headache.
  13. Sunday night snuggles.
  14. Just putting this on this page so others don't have to go back and reread. Those eggs look great! /I can't see the handle on the lid. So that picture messed with me and looked like you had some sort of ice-water bath technique going on.
  15. I love cookies, but I really love brownies. So wheelhouse.
  16. I'm running it on a Firestick. I don't know. It works well for me. Hope everyone else can find their zen service.
  17. I'm hopeful that Gen. Z and Gen Alpha (a/k/a the Sticky iPad Kids) will turn this around. Signed, GenX democrat voter
  18. I know 2% is an impressive number, but damn! That upside for Harris should have been up 40% before the poll was even released by the standards of what should be painfully obvious to anyone with a working brain. I'm encouraged, but we (not us, but them) are dumb. Me viewing this data:
  19. This is pretty sick. Ween did a great version at Stubb's back in the day, but this crushed it in all ways but the patented DLR's, "Who-ah-whoa-hoos!" Different show, but killer for not having an actual Van Halen on guitar. /edit. The Ween version is sufficiently great. Much in the spirit of old-school Van Halen.
  20. This one stock. It's a beautiful stock. Most people don't know that, but it's true. Haitians . . . .
  21. Pop up commercials? The only thing I can think of as qualifying is when you get an advertiser during a normal commercial break that didn't pay to have the ad on YTTV, so it's a moment of zen with baby bears standing in a field or some such. No ads during programming on YTTV unless there are ads on regular TV.
  22. Yes. You just go to the channel in the guide and scroll into the future. I can't remember how far it goes. But once you record one program/game, it will record them all.
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