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  1. What Sydney wrote feels intuitively true (I really haven't used barbells since a shoulder impingement surgery in 2009). I definitely don't feel like I can do 50% of my barbell weight on other exercises using dumbbells. I'm also a very big fan of overhand upright row; if you'll lean over a little at the waist and raise the bar no higher than the base of your rib cage you will keep the stress on the rear delts (it'll hit your traps, too, but that's not the goal). It's not an exercise that wins awards at the beach but I think it helps keeps the shoulder development balanced (you'll hit the front plenty doing any chest exercise).
  2. Watts is out of eligibility; Holmes doesn't have NFL size and is at best in a job share arrangement with Brooks (in other words, it'll limit his scouting film). They aren't really recruiting nickels to play CB for the most part (there's obviously some crossover but they seem to prefer safety/CB tweeners at nickel). So really it's only Watts that's the obvious loss. Basically he'll need to beat out Brice who'll have a 2 year head start. I would agree with you that particular challenge, explained in that manner, likely isn't cause for an announcement delay. I do wonder if it's more like "Brooks and Muhammad are going to get the majority of snaps the next couple of years, hmmmm..." Anyway, I don't have any special insight, just speculating.
  3. I wonder if Black has some concerns about the CB depth chart. It'll be a surprise if he's on the four deep as a freshman.
  4. I'd probably listen to it live over Tim Brando and Spencer Tillman.
  5. Fwiw, I'm not sure if you're using barbells or dumbbells for the military press but I'm not a big fan of the former as I think it creates too much stress on the joint. You and I are about the same age; I've got years and years of consistent workouts stacked on top of each other and typically tell people getting back into it that you need to stay at low weight, higher reps to avoid injury (keeping consistent with your workout is one of the primary goals). That said, I've been experimenting with higher weights, lower reps because I think the higher repetitions are putting extra stress on my joints generally (which isn't something I think you need to worry about in your 20's). Definitely staying active in middle age has it's own challenges the workout guides and personal trainers don't really address.
  6. That's actually pretty impressive. I'm very curious what the long term goal is here, i.e., as cable viewership declines is it viable to have your own youtube channel that is programmed similarly but can have a niche focus? Essentially a private Longhorn Network unbound by all the NCAA and Bellmont bullshit.
  7. So I don’t have a Twitter account and I’m not signing up for one; when I click the link it doesn’t take me to a thread, just the post, and when I click the author I can’t see anything more recent than posts from 10/22. Am I doing it wrong?
  8. You can have it now if you want to pay 6 discount points
  9. I got a couple of drops at the Arboretum Trader Joe’s. Washed my truck earlier so I did my part creating the rain mojo.
  10. Just finished; I don't know how you binge this, it's DARK. Let me give you an alternative, less hopeful explanation for the final sequence than Sepinwall and others on the web that I've been reading this morning seemed to find. Say that the Mask Collector adaptation of the story required Sally's participation or her consent, and that she knew it'd be shifting the blame to Cousineau and she'd be living with that lie for the rest of her life. The finale is one where all of our main characters are acknowledging the lies they've told themselves; she's both acknowledging it and then repeating it. Maybe it's for the benefit of John, a way for her to personally move on, maybe it for money. Either way it represents a repudiation of the main theme (and her personal hell; she gets none of the glory she previously sought instead re-embraces her delusions, so to speak).
  11. CTJ is far too urbane for that, pretty sure he’s Pasadena/Deer Park. Liberty, for the record, did very well in the lady department, as did Barbers Hill, so not all of the little southeast Texas shit towns were deserts.
  12. Well, the fact the “power of Arch” isn’t lending itself to better WR recruiting in our own state should be somewhat supportive of the point the On3 guys were trying to make.
  13. I'd far prefer to see travel pics to another goddamn cheese pun. Here, I'll help get back on topic. Justin Wells, whatever you think of him, let slip during a video with Gerry and Sam Spiegelman today that McKinley will commit to Texas. I don't know if it was inadvertent but neither Gerry nor Spiegelman corrected him. Another thing that was touched on that feels intuitively true but I hadn't heard someone speak out-loud yet is that NIL is changing the merits of getting a Malik or an Arch to act as a in class ringleader or create some momentum. Finally, they didn't say this (in fact, they said the opposite), but I keep wondering why supposed A&M partisan Terry Bussey hasn't committed and keeps visiting schools he's already seen before. I don't think he's coming here (they indicated he's small town guy and that Austin's probably too big for him, plus what CTJ and others have said about where he sits in priority for UT) but maybe LSU or Bama.
  14. All of those piney woods schools were in our district growing up and Lumberton was as bad at football as you’d expect with those demographics. I also recall thinking that Lumberton and New Caney were okay but Kirbyville, Silsbee, Jasper, etc just had no good looking girls at all.
  15. I just saw the box score; did France's arm fall off or something? How do you give up 11 hits in 2 innings?
  16. Haha, I was thinking the same thing last night when I watched Ep 2. I’m glad ya’ll are liking Dawson because I think she’s adorable, but I hope her portrayal lightens up a bit as the show continues. Clone wars/Rebels Ahsoka was far more fun.
  17. Not to totally thread shit off topic in a different direction, but one flaw in your theory is that 50 years ago one might have compared both teaching and nursing as comparable employment for a skilled female otherwise underemployed elsewhere due to her gender. I'd think most nurses make 2X over a teacher today, to the point where it's diversifying by pulling a greater proportion of males into it (than earlier generations; it's still overwhelmingly female). Anyway, no disagreement here with prescription, but I think your diagnosis may be off.
  18. Sample Habib commentary: Habib yesterday: "I recommend you maintain a floating position as there remains upside left and the Fibonacci sequence that I stole from the DeVinci Code says rates should be better." Today--market opens down 50 bps Habib: "The market has opened down but since you received a lock alert from me yesterday you should be good." Me:
  19. Anyone want to venture an explanation for why the bond market is so favorable this morning? No credit if you just repeat MBS Highway or Chrisman.
  20. I don't know anything about de-mining strategies but I did see a lot of blown up vehicles in Iraq and that kind of damage indicates the roller didn't trigger it as intended. I would also think we have tons of surplus mine rollers that can be affixed to most any vehicle we could give them.
  21. All of my neighbors in my cul de sac in '59 are standing outside, mouths agape.
  22. LCHorn

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    So I think I read about this on Reddit and reluctantly tried it out (I’m a little snobby about writers and the author’s bio as a ren fair actor was a big red flag) and I’m a huge, huge fan. It’s basically a Ridley Scott film made into a book with heavy theological horror (very Catholic) and very well placed in history (post battle of a Crecy and during the plagues). I would think anyone that enjoys Game of Thrones but would something more in the horror genre would enjoy it.
  23. I'm not an appraiser and a realtor probably can't answer that question (too much fog of war); the real question you're wanting to know is "Will MY house rise in value sufficient that the cost can be recouped?" and there's tons of variables there and many you can't know. I mean, it only takes one buyer with a desire for a metal roof and you maybe get the house sold for a premium, but most buyers (particularly in this market) are going to obsess over every cost difference. The typical advice most real estate professionals would (or should) give is that that any single improvement between now and when you might sell the home is unlikely to be recouped. I'm not sure I'd even replace the roof at all unless you think it's bad enough it's going to deter buyers. I do think a smart realtor/GC could, if they knew what they were doing and you trusted them, take the right house, recommend a few targeted updates up to including the roof, and have that help your house get sold at all or for a sufficient premium that it pays for themselves or more. It's hard to speculate without knowing how dated your house is otherwise, whether it has any particular unique elements (view, pool, guest house), etc.
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