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  1. I am reading all this and taking it in. Appreciate the advice and insight. When I stopped drinking I had a solid support group in my friends. But I am starting to see that changing. Was at a birthday with a large group. One dude says the classic "I don't trust people who don't drink." good friend says in response, "it is just a phase, he will start again sooner than you know." Pissed me off and told me not only are their changes within me I need to confront, but also in my settings.
    Hanging up, but will be listening. Thanks again for the good advice. If I feel off, I know where to come.

    This is the biggest issue for post rehab and the primary reason for going into sober living for awhile. Addicts who get sober who return to their drunken environment will usually relapse very quickly. That might be a crackhouse, or a mansion, or parents’ basement or working win a bunch of drinkers. Whatever it was you got to change it. And the biggest factor are people as you describe who want you to relapse to make their drinking problems less in comparison. Get a new social environment. And if family ain’t helping they’re hurting. Put a little cleavage there too.
  2. How about this approach that's different from our parents' time?  On road trips, or going to the beach, or whatnot....the folks packed a cooler with sandwich stuff.  There was no "let's swing through the Burger King drive thru" shit....or if there was, it was a super-special treat.  Otherwise, it was packaged ham, slices of cheese, bread, mustard/mayo, maybe some lettuce leaves if my mom was feeling super-fancy.  And store brand potato chips from a large bag (single serving bags?  At those prices?  Our name isn't "Rockefeller.")  Pull over to a rest stop, make some sandwiches, a few chips on the thinnest, flimsiest of paper plates.  Oh, and a cold can of store brand soda of some sort.  L-I-V-I-N.
    It was a big deal when, after a full day at the beach, on the drive back to Houston, we'd stop at the Denny's at Broadway and 61st for a hot dinner of some sort.  I'd have the chance to wash my hands at a real bathroom, get a big iced tea, and a burger, breakfast for dinner, or whatnot.  Then crash and fall asleep in the back seat on the drive home.  Good stuff, but man, eating restaurant food on the way back from the beach was living fancy.

    We lived in Memphis when I was young. Most of my relatives would pack sandwiches and food for the trip from Texas. No cooler, though they owned coolers. Just a bag of baloney or ham and cheese sandwiches and a couple bags of chips. Maybe some apples and bananas. A thermos of tea passed around. I guess a throwback to long drives in Texas where there might not be a place open for miles. Wrapped in wax paper. They sucked. Warmed in a car that was unair conditioned or barely so.

    My dad lived on the road and knew where to eat everywhere. We didn’t pack shit to eat. “Cant we pack you some sandwiches. It’s so expensive eating on the highway”.
  3. I like the el patio salsa but wife can’t handle the medium. I’d grade it better than ok but I likely won’t rebuy unless in sale.

    The chips though are killer. For those out of range Tom Thumb now has the el patio chips but they’re on an endcap not in the chips aisle. Go buy some so they add them to the assortment. They are close to the chips at el Fenix with the little bubbles in them.

  4. My wife has historically loved crab.  But the last two times we've had crab, it was the nice expensive containers of lump crab.  Which, as fresh as it is....isn't truly fresh.  And there's something about the taste she doesn't like.  Last time I served it, she said "this is weird, but....maybe I don't like crab anymore?"  I suggested that it's that she doesn't like even the fresh canned stuff.  So, we're sticking with live crab, cooked fresh, from now on.

    Unless I’m doing the Baltimore blue crab feast I’m not picking little crabs. Living in SF and Oregon spoiled us on big dungeness and Alaskan varieties. (99 cents apiece!). It’s why I usually just go with big ass gulf shrimp.
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  5. My sisters and I always had fond memories of my mother’s cooking, especially her potato salad, casseroles, and deserts. However, we discovered a darker side of her after she died when we found some contributions she made to her church’s cookbooks. Truly horrific sounding recipes like a jello salad made with canned salmon and canned asparagus. Just awful sounding concoctions that we kept just for laughs. 

    My grandmother made that congealed salad. But subbed tuna fish. Canned fucking asparagus is horrible but that was fancy eating to my mom and she preferred it over the fresh. It’s why I avoided it until later in life. She’d make this salad for fancy dinners with canned asparagus, le seuer peas, lettuce leaves and blue cheese. The congealed salads all had some kind of lofty name. Jello made a fortune selling basically boiled cow hooves to all these ladies.
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    literally one of the all time great NFL unis…GTFO here with that dumbass take…

    When those were the team unis everyone hated them: the fans and the players. They were ridiculed. Opposing teams made fun of the “flamboyant” pirate on the helmet.
  7. The outside of this chick's house had more traffic in like 3 hours than South Austin's mom has for, well, maybe 3 hours also but damn.
    Spoiler

    Rusty is there and then leaves while his son is outside biking around probably a few times while HER son is over there taking photos and videos from the bushes and oh Rusty's daughter also comes by that same night for some tea and murder and Rusty comes back for some sloppy murder seconds.
    Good thing she didn't have a Ring camera I guess. Or apparently anyone else around.

     


    And where was Barbara during all this that night? Her husband is not home obsessing over his lover breaking up with him. Her teen ager daughter took her car to go murder death kill. Her teen ager son out riding around spying on Carolyn. For such a doting mother she sure seems disconnected.
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  8. since i have decided to be super pedantic in this thread all of a sudden, i will go ahead and correct that team green has 2 and probably adding a third next episode.
    but you're right, rhaenyra has amassed a signficant advantage. the only thing keeping green in it at the moment is that they have the vince young of dragons.
    so, spoiler alert, guess what's going to happen in the next episode?

    Does that mean there’s a Jeff fisher coming to completely fuck up their dragon career?
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    The under dash Pioneer SuperTuner 8 track. Probably paired with some Jensen TriAx 6x9s or some MindBlowers. It was a killer unit and the tuner ungodly. I probably owe my career in electronics to that single product. I learned to install car stereos when I was 15 and it was a little side business thru high school. I installed dozens of those Pioneers. Fast forward 15 years and I’m the buyer for Pioneer’s largest dealer. Great product.
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  10. Bucs need to wear their sweet, retro Creamsicles more than once at home. Give the people what they want!
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    Worst helmet design ever. I hated the creamsicles and they were losers in them.
  11. Good luck in getting that through the NFLPA....  Not likely unless the owners gave up something really, really juicy....
     
     

    That’s 20 big name big $ QBs against the rank and file many of whom make less than a mil. It’s obvious the owners can’t help themselves in regards to QB salaries so they usually come up with things like a rookie cap and the salary cap.

    I would do away with void years first. That alone could fix the issue as it games the system. And would force front offices to deal with real money against real contracts.
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  12. On my dad’s side family get togethers usually included that most dreaded of Texas food traditions : the congealed salad. My grandmother and her sisters would make these awful things. Like lemon jello with tuna fish, pineapple and pecans. Or lime jello with mayo and sour cream with pimentos, peaches, ham, and marshmallows. Awful. My dad just made me try a bite of everything. If I didn’t like it fine. But those jello salads were always terrible.

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    Fostering this girl. She will make a great pet for someone. House trained, crate trained, does well on a leash, and is only noisy when you forget that’s she’s the boss. She made it all night last night in the crate with no problem. Does well in the car too. Multiple trips yesterday and no problem. No link for adoption yet but if anyone is interested message me and I’ll notify when the link is ready. I don’t set the fee, collect it, or know what it will be.

    That’s a good looking Beagle. I’d take her if we were able. Wife’s having major spine surgery tomorrow and recovery will be months. Hope someone here takes her.
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  14. If anyone can recommend a facility in the Spring/Tomball area or nearby please PM me. BIL had another incident this week and his wife has come to terms with the fact he's unable to stop & she isn't equipped to help him through this journey by herself.

    As stated, the fact that your SIL now recognizes her husband has a serious problem is a good step…for her. Al-anon can help her cope, encourage, vent.

    The truth is until your BIL desires to quit drinking and seek help no treatment or therapy or begging or threatening will work. He’s got to hit rock bottom and maybe his wife and family can accelerate that instead of enabling him. He’s probably planning the alcohol for the wedding reception and will use that as an excuse.
  15. Texzilla hates to see players get paid. He’s a simp for the owners. He spent all last offseason rejoicing at the idea that Lamar Jackson wasn’t going to get paid and claiming Lamar had made a huge mistake by not hiring an agent, only for Lamar to sign a record-setting deal. 

    The players get paid collectively all the same by each team thru the cap; the only difference is how it’s divvied out. Were I a GM I would probably divy it up differently than you. I don’t think every QB up for a contract deserves more money than the last simply for the timing of their contract. I don’t like FO stupidity. I don’t blame a player for where they are drafted or accepting money that is negotiated. I think in most cases teams paying outrageous percentages of cap to QBs will regret it simply because they can’t build a truly sustainable football team with adequate depth to get thru a season. I think the Ravens will regret that contract as will the chargers and browns and the Cowboys are and will if they Coro ate Dak. Most can’t put together an o line with 5 decent starters much less the backups that will be needed during a long season.
  16. The addition of a “true GM” does nothing in terms of success or failure with any team. For every Howie Roseman you have two or three Terry Fontanots. The most successful franchise in recent history had no GM just the head coach.

    As someone who has worked in companies from huge multibillion corps to sole proprietorships and everything g in between, I can say having the correct structure had nothing to do with the general stupidity of the brains involved. Business schools fail completely in quantification and measurement of the role of stupidity in failures.

    You’re saying you are tired of Jerry Jones. But you somehow believe he will hire this dream GM that will make everything right? Not going to happen.

  17. Seasmoke was not wild.  That was Laenor’s bonded dragon.  When Laenor “died”, Seasmoke was still in the dragon pit on Dragonstone.  The dragon keepers had him prepped with a saddle to be claimed by Steffon Darklyn before Seasmoke bbq’d him and noped out.  

    Seasmoke prefers the high heat rapid cook over the low and slow methodology. Has zero fucks for wrapping or 321 tricks.
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  18. She likely fried the taters in bacon fat. My parents kept a huge crock of it. Depression food. When most of us were poors. Though they didn’t have pre sliced bread back then.

    My old man would grow tomatoes and when they came in we’d have tomato sandwiches. Most of us have. But he’d go back to his Depression years growing up and make a BGLT…bacon grease, lettuce, tomato. He’d griddle the bread in bacon grease. So fucking good.

    Mom was picking cotton at 5. Think about that. I looked at my eldest granddaughter when she was heading to kindergarten. And thought of my mom at the same age, pulling a long bag in the Texas heat, cutting her hands and legs up on cotton plants, getting slapped by my grandmother to speed up. Going home to a tarpaper shack with a dirt floor and eating greens and leftover cornbread. Life was so hard back then and they were so tough. She never complained about it but was less nostalgic than dad about the food from then.

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  19. Yeah if 2024 season goes south, it's time to eat the shitty contracts like Dak's & Gallup's and keeping adding younger talent.  
    Dak's current contract situation...
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    It’s those void years that fucked them up. They did that going all in the past two seasons to make a run with those teams who had the talent to win it all and failed to do shit in January. Restructuring Dak and paying him more bonus than salary and using void years. They are the sucker bets of the cap. Dak can leave taking his money and cowboys get stuck with $40 mil in dead cap. Still I wouldn’t extend fucking Dak.
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