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troph

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  1. That looks like my lawn before I mowed it Saturday. What is this green everywhere?
  2. Going on nothing but the sky,, tell me what month you think this morning is in central Texas? no cheating…. Yeah that’s not an August morning sky. I’ll take it!!!
  3. His essay is on point - basically a couple of short vignettes demonstrating the impact of poor leadership that lead him to his view on leadership, inclusivity, lead by example and accountability. He finishes with vignettes where he did those things as drum major. It totally shows compassion, leadership and passion. off the rails - I mean he’s quit his job and has no money, he quit doing things around the house without asking, before we left for a vacation he got drunk with his friends (not the worst thing a senior can do but way off his baseline), he’s running on adrenaline and full of cortisol as he tries to be the baddest drum major ever and it’s not a good look. He’s told me to be quiet 3-4 times in the last week where before it was rare. He’s got an inflated ego beyond anything I’ve seen from him, he won’t work on his college apps without me sitting on him, and he’s acting like a dick and is just an unpleasant kid to be around where before he was a dream kid to raise. I’m taking it in stride but it isn’t fun rn. he's got a mix of mostly big state schools out west but some Cali schools that will admit out of state like elites, and his back ups are pretty safe so in the end it doesn’t really matter.
  4. Is that Dan Patrick ? Fucking CR is —>
  5. Was it Lyle Lovett that said don’t eat Mexican food north of the red river or east of the Sabine … or something like that. Fucking Doritos with queso. Get these mother fuckers out of here. They can’t do bbq I sure as shit ain’t listening to them tell me how to do Tex Mex or worse actual Mexican food. Fucking uncultured mouth breathers.
  6. But are they better than the 83 horns? That’s the real question.
  7. The funny thing is his essay is about his experience as drum major, it’s a pretty good structure, a story that demonstrates poor leadership that led him to apply when he saw no one doing the right thing, he talks about his feeling and experience of what not to do then describes his philosophy of inclusivity, lead by example, and accountability both directly and indirectly with a story of his leadership success. He’s off the rails on the second two and yet he’s writing all about it. The humor isn’t lost on me at all.
  8. Bad pics but can anyone help me identify this make and model? Enjoyed watching it as we were cleaning up our boat and when we got home.
  9. That’s a nice looking watch I’ll check em out.
  10. I think it will be ok, his second draft today was decent. I told him he’s got 5 more drafts before it gets easier and it’ll be 12-15 drafts before it’s final. He was kinda shocked. I said, dude, this is what writing is all about. It’s hard work communicating precise concepts to an audience that is considering and determining your future. the shit thing about it is he was working for me but he’s told me he wants to quit so he can hang out with his friends. Ok that’s fine but now he has no money. He had to transfer all his savings for his (measly) portion of his car insurance. I won’t let him go without minimal gas money, but he’s now down from a legit paycheck back down to an allowance of $200 per month. He’s got a girlfriend who is actually in another town, I have no idea how he’s going to afford seeing her. The kiddo is just not paying attention and fucking it all up. School starts in 10 days, we’ll see. At this point I’m just going to ride his ass until the college apps are done. Ground him, scowl at him, who the fuck knows but I told him I’m not here to be your friend or to even be liked, I’m here to make sure you don’t fuck up your senior year and your college opportunities. It’s days like today that make me glad I’m divorced, he can go be her problem for a week. But rest assured (and yes I’ll be rested), in a week when he comes back his ass is mine until those apps are in the barn. Idgaf.
  11. I did yard and pool work for two days this weekend it was awesome outside. Sat in the pool a bit ago enjoying the perfection of my work and looking at the partly cloudy skies and high 90s on the temp and said to the wifey, this is how I remember summers as a kid, hot but completely doable even outside most of the day. We found shade, a pool and enjoyed a little breeze here and there and nothing close to heat exhaustion. I have no complaints.
  12. My senior is full on big man on campus attitude right now and is procrastinating like a mofo on apps. He’s grounded today and finally produced a draft essay. We are working through draft 2 before he gets to go hang with friends. It’s remarkable, after 3 years of killing it, almost on autopilot, he’s now regressed to what I expected his fresh and soph years to be but never were. I fucking hate this.
  13. Hadn’t thought about that. That’s a pretty cool way to use it.
  14. The gmt hand seems like an annoyance otherwise I like that whole line.
  15. Quinn had somewhere between 5 and 20 fumbles lost last year. No idea if that’s accurate. As always, verify critical facts.
  16. A weekend breakfast tradition like no other …. Since at least 2003… troph’s breakfast tacos. I mixed it up and used the HEB southwestern tortillas for myself this morning. Everyone else choose the regular flour tortillas. when ramblyn and I started dating she told me if we didn’t work out and I I’d to go online and use the platforms that I should lead with “breakfast tacos every weekend” and my peeps still pretty much soft demand them weekly.
  17. If I had to pick today I think it would be the seiko style first recommended - this one or the black version of this one … https://seikousa.com/collections/prospex/products/srpl51 the longines is nice but that seems more like a college grad gift. $575 doesn’t seem like an over spend for an 18 year old that likes watches.
  18. For mitigating the unrelenting heat of climate change and water scarcity that seems to be coming, I think the only answer is literally run for the hills (mountains) and hope the fires don’t get you. Upper latitudes near the Great Lakes too. I don’t know when that becomes the existential move but it’s already the comfort move.
  19. That’s a hot dog !!!
  20. its fine.
  21. read like a disagreement and another non sequitur to the climate issue.
  22. are you a bot? do you even read responses?
  23. Just because he said it doesn’t mean it’s true.
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