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Wiler77

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  1. Alright, I'll show my dumbass bets each week. I already lost on Stanford last night. JFC, how do you lose to UCLA at home? I've been doing something I started doing with college basketball last week with is stringing together large parlays with overwhelming favorites. It pays about even money, but I've been having good luck. Parlay #1 Auburn (-1300)(391) Auburn Tigers @ (392) Arkansas Razorbacks(Match Miami Florida (-1300)(319) Georgia Tech @ (320) Miami Florida Hurricanes(Match) Iowa (-1100)(343) Purdue Boilermakers @ (344) Iowa Hawkeyes(Match) LSU (-1300)(379) Louisiana State Tigers @ (380) Mississippi State Bulldogs(Match) Missouri (-1900)(407) Missouri Tigers @ (408) Vanderbilt Commodores(Match) Georgia (-4100)(375) Kentucky Wildcats @ (376) Georgia Bulldogs(Match) Penn State (-340)(421) Michigan Wolverines @ (422) Penn ST Nittany Lions(Match) Parlay #2 Florida (-225)(373) Florida Gators @ (374) South Carolina Gamecocks(Match) Appalachian State (-670)(405) La Monroe Warhawks @ (406) Appalachian State Mountaineers(Match) Utah (-600)(359) Arizona ST Sun Devils @ (360) Utah Utes(Match) Texas (-1300)(349) Kansas Jayhawks @ (350) Texas Longhorns(Match) Parlay #3 San Francisco 49ers (-500)(465) San Francisco 49ers @ (466) Washington Redskins(Match) New England Patriots (-480)(475) New England Patriots @ (476) New York Jets(Match) Los Angeles Rams (-160)(463) Los Angeles Rams @ (464) Atlanta Falcons(Match)
  2. Florida -5.5 @ South Carolina I think beating UGA was a complete fluke. USC is bad. I may tease this with another game. Haven't decided what. Maybe Stanford vs UCLA.
  3. I can't see this picture for whatever reason, but my hope is it's something along these lines.
  4. OK that makes sense.
  5. Wait, if an employer fires you they can still enforce the non-compete? Surely not. Or I guess it depends on why they fired you.
  6. Exactly. This is what made me laugh. "All things being equal" I want the guy that works harder. Yea, no shit. But the question posed the sentence before was hard worker vs. good measureables. It's like he got confused while typing. And it's not as if those are the only 2 variables, nor are they binary.
  7. One thing I'm not clear on is what is a PQF? If I fly to Frankfurt and decide to connect through DC, is the round trip 2 flights, or 4 flights? I fly to Europe 4-5 times a year and maybe that much domestically, so I'm trying to figure out if I'm a winner, loser, or about the same in the deal. I usually have no problem hitting Gold, and really that's all I care about maintaining so I get lounge access on the intl flights. Platinum doesn't have any major benefits over gold that I would utilize, and I have no desire to fly enough to reach 1K.
  8. Yea, I missed the part where I take 220 for 10 miles. Futureman is living up to his name. I'm not detouring to Stephenville.
  9. Wenzel's Lone Star Meats in Hamilton looks like the new leader. Google says 2 hr 18 minutes, which will be perfect as I'm planing to run in the morning and can eat a light breakfast to ensure maximum hunger. And an added bonus of picking up some homemade jerky and pork rinds for the weekend.
  10. Fuck me. Gold star for you. Was coming back here to say after limited research, Storm's in Lampasas or Nita's and Glen's BBQ were the leaders in the clubhouse. The pictures of the BBQ look terrible, but the reviews are unanimously good.
  11. So I've talked myself into taking 71 to 281 to 67 into Dallas tomorrow (starting in Driftwood), and I'm looking for any recommendation on places to stop for food along the way. I'm planning to leave at 9am, and since it's just me and my dog in the car, I'll be leaving at 9am. What says Surly for good small town eats on that route?
  12. That would suck. I assume I was a top 10 customer back 1999-2001. Spent most every Friday night closing the place down, then at least one other night there. I didn't realize it became a 42 hotbed. Too bad it wasn't that way 20 years ago. Or maybe it's a good thing because I might have spent every night there wrecking shop.
  13. This is the part that got me.
  14. You're going to want to read this thread from start to finish if that's your plan.
  15. I'm trying to make sense of the statement above, which was quoted from the DART website and I just read again, with the map below. There is no mention of the special red lines on the website, yet they clearly show up on the map below. I'm going to be hoping on the red line at Walnut Hill/75, and from the text is seems like I needed to take it to EBJ Union Station and transfer to Green line direct to MLK. But the map looks like I can take red the whole way, and at some point get on the special dotted red line that goes direct to MLK. But it's not entirely obvious to me where the dotted red line originates. Going back look straightforward--Red Line at MLK north to Walnut Hill.
  16. This is like Craig getting fired on his day off. How the hell does shit get this escalated on the bye week?
  17. Wait, were they on top of her head? We call that Tuesday in our house. Or they were on her face in use? That's a new one for me if so.
  18. OK 8am it is. Planning to use DART and not worry about parking and traffic.
  19. Going to first TX/OU game in close to 20 years on Saturday. I generally dislike crowds and planned to get to Fair Park no later than 9am. I see the grounds open at 7am, but the website makes it sounds like most rides and food aren't available until 10am. Is that true? I assumed for TX/OU the vendors know people get there early and have things ready to go earlier than that. I really don't remember what time I arrived back in the 90's.
  20. His only problem at school is he's a shit-tastic speller. He's really quite smart. He's goes to math class with the grade above him, and he's reading a grade level ahead. He doesn't have any anger or self-esteem issues at school, at least none that he shows and he wears his emotions on his sleeve. In fact, the teacher talks about what a good leader he is because he helps other kids who are struggling at things and is inclusive of all the kids in the class. We have probed the whole "is he getting bullied" angle, but we're confident that's not happening. And he's a mid-level TaeKwonDo belt and I've explained that he has the green light to use his skills if he, his brothers, or his friends are getting picked on. The real problem is he takes any failure, and i mean any (from not playing well in sports to the slightest reprimand at home) as a personal insult that he is no good. He told me yesterday he thinks he's a bad kid because he gets in trouble so much. He doesn't get in trouble much, but when he does it hurts him so deeply and profoundly. And sometimes he'll flip the fuck out at the slightest bit of punishment, like yesterday. Not like "Chill out and stop being a brat". More like "holy shit who is this kid he's not making any sense". We've talked to him countless times about how great he is, we show him every day, we spend time with him, etc, etc. He has a good home life and lots of friends. My wife and I have talked for a while about how worried we are about his mental trajectory, and the incident yesterday made it clear we need professional help. Sorry for the novel. I appreciate the suggestions
  21. Putting this here rather than the Help board because I think it'll get more eyes. I'm looking for child therapist recs in Austin to help my 8 year old son. He has some anger and self-esteem issues we believe he needs professional help for.
  22. People actually pay for this shit. A successful year is just being able to say "wait until next year!" He's also doubling down on the the whole "players can't have headsets on". At the halfway point of the season, what constitutes a successful year? I think that's very tough to answer, and, I believe, even if you lose, how this team improves and plays against Georgia and LSU has a lot to do with it. I think the bare minimum that you're hoping to see at this point is a 4-4 SEC finish (that means beating Ole Miss on the road and Miss State and South Carolina at home) and winning a bowl game. All things considered, to drop one game off of last year's record against this schedule wouldn't be the end of the world. Not saying that's a 'successful year' because it's not IMO. But I am saying that, when you're set to return as many as 21 of 22 starters (and definitely something close to that) and will soon be starting four true freshmen, it's not going to be the end of the world or derail progress under Jimbo or on the recruiting front.
  23. My sources tell me we're up 2 with 4 to play. That's better than up 1 with 5 to play which is where we were before. But if certain things happen this week that I can't tell you about, we'll only be up 1 with 3 to play. That's still better than up 1 with 5 to play, so things are trending in the right direction.
  24. To this day my friend and I say "Thanks Dan" whenever someone makes a completely obvious observation. Dierdorf was beyond bad.
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