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Brisketexan

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  1. Went old school today. The boy has two friends in from the UK, so we did a “bbq and hit the gun range” near Lockhart day. Took em to Black’s, and it was, as usual, reliable and fantastic. Is it the absolute best? No. But it’s up there. And it’s easy, and no real line. Then, we went and sweat our asses off at the gun range. The petit gal from Surrey can SHOOT. And, my new .45 1911 shoots like a dream.
  2. We’ve spent a fair bit of time there. Academically and politically, Bonn has a lot going on, so that’s good for her, as that’s why she’s there. Also, it had the best program for the degree she wants (she was also accepted at Koln and Tubingen, and another school in Vilnius, but Bonn was first choice). But yeah, we love Koln, and we’ve spent a lot of time in the Koblenz area (we have friends who are like family in the area). The Rhineland is really pretty and full of things to do.
  3. Well, one of our new airports will now be Cologne-Bonn. Daughter is wrapping up her gig in London, starting a two year masters program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bonn. Tuition and fees? $1500 per year.
  4. Will add them to my list. Loved the Pemaquids, Blackstones, and Norumbegas. But am definitely open to trying em all.
  5. There are, no doubt, 1000 Asian places in Houston that are just completely outstanding. That said, if you look for that sort of place, you can find a number of them in Austin now. We went to Special Noodle last night up 183, and it was fantastic and authentic as hell. A number of places on north Lamar, too. But they don’t get the Instagram buzz, and aren’t on the beaten path. Whereas Houston is so hodge-podge, someone you might know is close to every such spot. No doubt, in looking for good Asian grub, it’s easier to find in Houston. But Austin has improved by leaps and bounds, you just don’t hear about it. Because influencers aren’t eating there, and this town’s entire scene is defined by fucking influencers.
  6. Huh. I’m banking my rep points on surly as part of my retirement portfolio. They work kinda like S&H green stamps, right?
  7. So much this. We were hiking in Acadia last week, sometimes stopping to enjoy a pretty stretch of coast. This beautiful national park…and multiple dickheads had their speakers out playing their music. Yeah, I totally wanted to listen to Travis Scott instead of the surf and the birds and the GODDAMN FUCKING NATURE THAT IS THE REASON YOU GO TO THE WOODS.
  8. Shared this with the daughter, one of her flatmates in London is a big Greek dude, George, who is the flat’s grill king etc. He’s often cooking up various lamb and beef dishes for everyone, and he is beside himself about this news.
  9. Just know that premiums for all of them are likely going up around 20% next year. And not just because of their greed, but because of the “Big Beautiful Bill” Congress just passed. So, buckle up folks.
  10. That Irvine area is really nice, and super convenient.
  11. I would be. But that’s because I said something that really pissed off my wife.
  12. “Clumsily and imprecisely.” I’m sure RFK deeply appreciates that you, without fail, have his back. He wasn’t referring to illness-specific vaccines. That’s not what he said. He almost certainly doesn’t understand what he’s talking about, or what’s referenced above. Remember, he thinks infectious diseases aren’t a real problem.
  13. That's insane. I mean, when the SCOTUS voids the 13th amendment next year, you'll surely be able to pick up a Cherokee for half that price, just like back in the old days.
  14. Give it time. A future step is "your 401k loses tax-exempt status if it is NOT invested at least 30% in an approved crypto*." * Approved crypto will include Trumpcoin, and/or any other crypto that directly enriches the Trump family or indirectly does so (the primary beneficiaries of said coin spend $10 million at MAL every year or some shit).
  15. My good sir, "galactic stupidity" is our national ethos now. Imagine the dumbest things you could think or do. Then sit down and brace yourself, because everything our society is doing is 10X dumber than the dumbest shit you can imagine.
  16. It's not losing. Stay out of Texas. For a year, if that's what it takes. My grandfather got his ass hauled to Europe for three fucking years to get his ass shot at, frozen, etc. to save democracy 80+ years ago. Time for some people to spend time crashing on a couch in Chicago for a year to do the same.
  17. I also recently referenced the possibility of Ken Paxton fucking a puppy to death, and actually gaining support because that would "own the libs." So, be sure to add my history of violence to puppies to your list of things I'm totally in favor of.
  18. Jesus tapdancing Christ. Noted highly trained and experienced virologist RFK Jr....wait, what's that, he has literally ZERO formal training or qualifications in the field? Well, anyway, the world's most respected and highly trained virologist, RFK Jr, is leading the charge to create an...."everything vaccine." Will this "vaccine," which will "mimic natural immunity" (whatever the fuck THAT means in his sponge brain) be available for online purchase, pursuant to ads on right-wing podcasts and such? You bet your ass. Will it work? Highly doubtful, being that its chief promoter doesn't even think infectious diseases are much of a thing: “I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health." Those are his exact words, from way back....just two fucking years ago. Someone turned this timeline to max stupidity, then snapped the knob off to just let it run at redline.
  19. Naah, here's how this plays out. First, authorize the US military to engage in combat actions within the US against "invading terrorist groups Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa Cartel, and El Night-o Shift-o at El Taco Bell." Then, declare -- unilaterally, without any actual due process or adjudication by any body (remember, "you don't get due process if you're an illegal" is their firm position) -- that this group or that group of brown people here or there are members of such terrorist groups, and hit em with Fallujah-style combat operations. Sure, a few walls will get blasted down, a few belts of .50 cal will be unloaded into a fucking apartment or fruit-pickers' shack or whatnot, but why do you hate America and purifying the blood of our country? This is a plan to use military force against whoever the regime wishes, inside our own borders. Which, again, they've told us repeatedly is EXACTLY what they intend to do.
  20. Yeah. I grew up Catholic (catholic schools, the whole 9 yards, which also meant that some of my lifelong friends are dyed-in-the-wool Catholics). When I told some of them I was marrying my non-Catholic wife (at the time, Methodist, as she grew up in the Methodist church), a couple of them even commented "but....she's not Catholic!" Nope, she's not. And, we're getting married in her family's church (St. Luke's - gotDAMN is that a white folks protestant church). To make it even better, I'm now active in leadership in the PCUSA Presbyterian church, where my wife is an ordained minister. Kinda makes my friends' heads spin, but the cool part is that the priests and nuns who educated both of us (yep, wife went to Catholic school for a while - she was regularly "the protestant" in various classes) think it's pretty cool, and we've had a lot of good visits over theology with them over the years.
  21. And whether it was a clip of mosquitos or a magazine of mosquitos.
  22. Yeah....that's a pretty solid assumption on which you've built the rest of your posting strategy. Genius.
  23. "I was in Wichita Falls for a wedding. A Catholic wedding. Where the reception was alcohol-free. The long drive home down plenty of barren stretches of road gave me ample time to ponder exactly which of my many sins that experience was punishment for, but in spite of my multitude of sins . . . some of which are so appalling, I didn't enjoy even a brief memory of them . . . I couldn't come up with a single one worthy of the punishment of a dry Catholic wedding reception in Wichita Falls." There. Just wrote the first paragraph of my novel.
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