Fuckin' A this. I look forward to the Amarillo to Crested Butte stretch every summer. Getting to Amarillo sucks, though.
The one town we've been driving through for 20 years that I never understood is Trinidad. It always struck me as a town that has a lot of potential, but the population has been between 9-10k for the past 60 years. It sits at the base of a really cool mountain. From the highway it looks like it should have a historic downtown with breweries, restaurants, an art district, etc. It has fairly mild winters by Colorado mountain standards and hot summer days/cool summer nights. Access to fishing. I never understood why it wasn't more of an outdoors destination town. Then I found out that much of the land around Fisher's Peak was privately owned. That changed in 2019 apparently.
https://www.singletracks.com/mtb-trails/colorados-next-great-mtb-destination-plans-to-build-up-to-100-miles-of-singletrack/
May need to start looking at property.
Much like the Oxford comma, spaces can really change the interpretation of a sentence.
Dude is out there just making a living, and fucking tourists are calling him dumb.
I was at that show, and that is my answer to the "worst concert question". Holy Christ that was awful. Your description doesn't scratch the surface of how bad it was. Kenny had one foot in the grave.
We saw Tanya Tucker one of the years before that and she was ok. She could still sing and her voice sounded roughly the same. I feel like we went to another one of the "nostalgia" concerts at Rodeo Austin another year but cant remember which one. Kenny was the last.
I've long been of the opinion that "Shook me all night long" is the greatest rock song ever recorded. It's probably only around #5 of my favorite AC/DC songs, but in terms of greatest, it checks all the boxes better than others.
Great guitar intro
Memorable chorus that's easy to sing to
Good solo
Tight 3 1/2 min length
Lyrics fit "rock and roll".
It gets in, rocks your face off, then gets out.
UUUU back down to around $5. Time to buy and set sell price of $6.50.
That thing is a rollercoaster between ~$5 and ~$7. You can buy/sell 2-3 times a years just playing between those levels.
Was "It's a Small World" played on a recorder done through editing, or was there actually something playing that song at the crash site? Because it's a strange song to pick during editing but somehow unintentionally hilarious if that's real.
I don't follow the team super closely, but Driussi's drop in form has been pretty remarkable. He's not that old. Maybe this is just who he is and 2022 was the outlier.
He's not 68% from 40 and closer. That kick the other day was the first he's missed inside of 40yards all season. He has been terrible from beyond 40 yards, but I don't call that a "gimme", especially for a college kicker. That's what I was challenging.
I don't disagree he's in his own head on longer kicks, because he clearly has a strong leg and has had success from 40+ yards in previous seasons. But those aren't gimmes.
Let me start by saying he has regressed from last year. But what do you consider a "gimme" in college? Bert was 9 of 9 inside of 40 yards before the one he missed one to win it the other day. Do you consider 40-45 yards a gimme? These are college kids, not pros.
Place kicking has come so incredibly far in the last 20 years that I'm not sure anyone remembers when 50-52 yards was considered the far end of NFL kickers range.
Place kicking is so technical and can be just like golf with the yips. Or when you line up over a putt and the hole looks the size of a ball. It happens. These kids aren't pros. But there's a reason I tell my 13 year old if he can kick the ball consistently from 45 yards he can get a scholarship to a good school. He's in 7th grade and is pretty solid from 32 and in right now.