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  1. Fantasy Factory IPA, Karben⁴ Brewing, Madison. Better than a cat and a unicorn on the label would lead a drinker to expect.
  2. I've just decided I need to start 10-15 minutes early if I want to see the start of a game. SECN is up there with the loss of regional rivalries as reasons to dislike the new world order. But the competition level of SEC baseball and softball are definitely on the plus side ... man, having Mississippi State and LSU as our first two conference series is pretty awesome and makes the loss of Texas rivals and OSU a wash. Definitely not missing K-State and KU in comparison, at least in baseball.
  3. It's really crap. I readily found the game today on the ESPN app that's on my NVIDIA Shield Pro (connected to living room TV), but I've had all sorts of trouble over the last couple of weeks with both UT baseball and softball. Have had to hop around between Disney+, ESPN, YTTV, scan codes and enter passwords and more codes ... often to no avail. Maddening. Currently working on my desktop in the home office, and the only way I could find the baseball game -- despite having both the ESPN and YouTube desktop apps -- was to go to texassports.com and just click on "video" under the game listing for today. That seems to communicate perfectly with ESPN/SECN+ on my desktop. But I hate that I can't access any of the standard YTTV functionality for recording, FF/RW and whatnot. Conclusion: ESPN/+/SECN+ suck aggy balls, if there is such a thing. But at least we just scored.
  4. Wife just asked if maple syrup goes bad. I've never had it around that long, especially when the kids were growing up. But now we've got some that was gifted to us and it's been around a while, so I decided it wouldn't be bad to research a little in case some spoiled maple syrup could keep me from ever seeing retirement. So we haven't seen mold growing on it, meaning we won't have to strain, boil and merrily pour onto the pancakes ... just merrily pour for the time being. But I've realized, as always, that everything is my fault for not taking control of my own life. Both wife and daughter make pancakes that are too substantial and generally healthy for me to enjoy them much anymore. Need to make my own damn fluffy pancakes so I can properly enjoy maple syrup and not have to worry about a miserable food-poisoning death. Just a heart attack. With bacon.
  5. Eh ... team results just got posted. U. of Minnesota light ROTC -- there are heavy ruck and light ruck categories -- finished the marathon in second for the second consecutive year with a team time of 4 hours, 27 minutes, 33 seconds. They beat NMSU (4:58:47), which takes this stuff pretty seriously as the home team. But ... and I haven't heard from our son yet, so I don't know how the guys on the team are dealing with this ... they lost to Clemson by about nine minutes. And not just Clemson, but a team of female ROTC cadets. One of whom is named ... I kid y'all not ... Shay Studley. Congrats to those women! They are going to have a hell of a party to celebrate this, I'd bet.
  6. Lot of great marches in Europe. Never did one myself, but during my last period over there as a student, I took advantage of the great Wanderwege whenever I could, especially when I was in the Odenwald for about six weeks. Done working for the day. Did lots of screen refreshing looking for Baatan results, but it's been only some individual results and none of the team stuff for quite a while. Time for lunch and finding the Horns playing softball. Gotta wait until next Sunday for Mainz, and definitely pulling for Stuttgart against Eintracht in the Saturday late game.
  7. Terrible weekend for the international break. Unless the Horns can show a little more against LSU today, it seems like slim pickings for sports viewing. The early NCAA exit killed my interest in the tourney. I'll watch the women's softball and basketball for a bit, but don't expect much competition in those, so it's mostly Bundesliga withdrawal symptoms for the day. Like the caffeine headaches I get when I cut out the morning joe for three days before a long driving trip. In keeping with the military theme while waiting for football to return: our son should be about 45 minutes into the Baatan Memorial Death March in New Mexico by now. We wanted to be in White Sands for that but it just didn't work out. He's competing for his second year with the University of Minnesota ROTC team, which is gunning for NMSU, winners of the collegiate ROTC division by about a minute last year over the Gophers. Team marathon in which everyone must cross the line together.
  8. The coaching death watches for our big three men's sports and the more visible women's sports are always brutal to observe, but it's tough to look away. I logged on this morning hoping the firing was done, because it seems inevitable. Texas coaches, despite their apparent flaws, are generally very fine people or they wouldn't have been hired. It's unfortunate that social media allow the worst of our collective habits to be magnified. That's the main reason I have taken voluntary leave from UT boards several times over the years. Most of the teens and early '20s has seemed like a beating. But at least with Surly there are drinking, travel and music threads to hang out on. Think I'll retreat to those for a couple of weeks, but all in all, it's a better time to be a Horns fan than it was not too long ago. Thanks, RT, and hook 'em!
  9. Finally got it on the app through my NVIDIA Pro on the living room TV, but it took several tries, unrecognized (but good) passwords, and various other steps. I was able to avoid having to watch the end of the softball game, but missed the entire first inning. Pretty sorry integration of ESPN/SEC+/everything else.
  10. Yep ... I've got it on my phone now, but not my desktop, either in YT or ESPN+. Gonna go try the living room TV, but had even more trouble there earlier in the week.
  11. ESPN telling me it hasn't started yet. YouTube telling me it's scheduled for 7:20.
  12. Westie for the Win American IPA, District 1 Brewing, Stevens Point, WI. In the back is The Rising Sun, a Japanese rice lager my son ordered. Liked the Westie. Not fond of rice lagers. Also got D1's Quad City, a Belgian quadrupel. That's one fine beer.
  13. So Peter would like it. Then again, he likes all the fruit beers.
  14. Looked around my old haunts in Lincoln Village in Darmstadt, part of the now-closed Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne. Seems the old enlisted quarters are being reclaimed as apartments or something, but the street view wasn't available. My old junior high school is up in the upper-right and just looking at the map made an address I hadn't thought of in decades pop right up in my head: Bldg 4431 C6 Lincoln Village, last apartment in the last stairwell. Like @Mittens says, absolutely a time warp. Found a blog post about the shuttered base with a ton of pictures in it. One of them showed the fence around the main base, where the PX and commissary were. As kids we found a spot where the space between the metal pole and the concrete column was wide enough for us to sneak through so we could go into the snack bar and play pinball all Saturday morning without needing our parents to get us onto the base. I can still hear all that Motown soul on the jukebox.
  15. How pronounced is the apricot in that one? That bottle looks like a 750 ml, but I suspect it was pretty easy for a couple of people to finish off. Or even one. The sour fruited ale I posted the other night, OTOH, was something I came to regret purchasing in a 4-pack by the time I got to the end of the pint. I said the Brewing Projekt usually pulls that stuff off nicely, but that one was a bit much.
  16. So you went to Hoffenheim for a game? An aspect of German football I love is that a village like Hoffenheim (with barely over 3,000 people) can have a club playing big-time sport, although I know the stadium is now in Sinsheim. And that's around 13K itself, with only about 37K in the area right around Sinsheim-Hoffenheim. Makes a small city like Mainz seem like New York in comparison, and Mainz is about the size of Bryan-College Station. (And everyone knows B-CS isn't very good at keeping its pro sports teams competitive in the bigs.) One of the reasons I probably can't keep up with players is I spend too much time looking at Google Maps, like the view @Mittens provided above, around game time. Great way to get myself in the mood for being temporarily in Germany.
  17. I do remember watching Stuttgart lose that painful game to Mainz in May 2017 when it made that first relegation final (although I had to look it up to check my memory). The fans were so crestfallen and angry -- and rightly so after that really long run in the Bundesliga. That was the first time that relegation really registered with me. I watch more of those games now than those involving the top teams. More often than not, Schalke, Hamburg, St. Pauli, Darmstadt, and of course Mainz have tended to provide more drama for a league where Bayern finishes things early.
  18. Had a Rotary Scholarship to study at Gutenberg Universität in 83-84 and stayed on in the Odenwald through early 1985 because of some generous Rotarians who gave me temporary work at their firms. Was not a fan at the time, and Mainz 05 was no more than a regional club. But I stumbled across some Bundesliga stuff about 10-11 years ago and was surprised to see Mainz in the top flight. Been watching ever since, especially after I started doing some high school sports on the side and our regional sports web site needed soccer coverage. Still a bit of a noob, I'd say, when it comes to following the rest of the league -- coming late to a sport seems to affect my ability to retain info. Had a couple of younger siblings born in Bad Cannstatt in the early '60s, but I was too young to develop the same ties to Stuttgart. We were later stationed in Darmstadt, so I follow Darmstadt a bit. What drew you to root for Stuttgart? Never got across the river to Wiesbaden for some reason, but have always wanted to go see a few things there.
  19. Haven't visited the BL thread in forever. Thanks for keeping it going, @Mittens. Will try to contribute. Mainz fan here -- normally worrying about relegation, but big fun on the other end of the table this year.
  20. Probably breaking some kind of beer thread law here, but posting anyway. Paczki, for those who don't know, are the Polish Fat Tuesday donuts. Beer purists will scoff, but I just think of these as alcoholic smoothies. Another from Brewing Projekt in Eau Claire, WI, which seems to be able to pull these things off nicely. Goes well with Horns and UTSA.
  21. Brewing Projekt in Eau Claire. Helps to have the brewery name, I guess.
  22. My contributions to today's happy hour: Their They're There NEIPA, Cow Cow chocolate milk stout. Picked 'em up while an Irish dance band was playing. The taproom, on the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, WI, was packed. Highly recommend.
  23. Son's home from the Twin Cities for spring break. Why is the Cake Gone imperial porter aged in rum barrels from Central Waters. Good beer to split -- 13.3 ABV. I've had this one when its been north of 14, too.
  24. Since we're talking about aggy and all, does anybody know if lawn-mowing as therapy, or maybe planting your yard with native grasses, has any positive impact against sleep apnea?
  25. I know. The masala was good, but at the same time, I'm left thinking, "What might have been ..." So now I'm googling around and found this cocktail recipe (which also sounds interesting) and this page called Hard Soups, which says about tequila masala, "This one is actually pretty gross but the pun was too strong for us to walk away." Somebody's gonna have to report back. And somewhere in another room of the house, my wife is typing on a post called, "Stupid shit my husband does."
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