Everything posted by abuelo gringo
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Netflix Recommendations
I am enjoying Criminal: United Kingdom. It's just interrogations of suspects/persons of interest. Detectives also talk strategy outside the room. My wife likes it a lot as she likes detective shows, but hates those with a lot of violence.
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Texas deep freeze carnage thread
Follow up on my frozen outside tap. I tried several buckets of water to no avail. I used a hair dryer inside the garage (opened up some of the sheet rock) and on the tap itself. Still no luck Left it open and opened some inside for pressure release, and after a couple of hours of warming temperatures, it started flowing naturally. Turned off, it has a very slight drip. Will replace packing washer per bongos rec. Thanks, all. Will be team drip next go around.
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Texas deep freeze carnage thread
Opened some inside taps. Removed cover. Poured room temp water on till ice pack gone, plus a couple of other buckets. Opened tap. No dribble or stream yet. Watching and waiting. No indications inside or outside of house of leaks, yet.
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Texas deep freeze carnage thread
I was team insulated cover for my outside taps. The one on the N side burst or had a leak. The tap is covered solid by ice in the shape of the cover. Do I need to turn off water main at street before I use water to unfreeze block of ice surrounding tap? Then turn back on to see what kind of leak I have?
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Beefcake Cawthorn is a proselytizing jackass who needs his own thread
Doesn't he know that he is advocating against the right of the Roman Catholic Church to enforce its religious beliefs in its own state? He obviously doesn't believe in freedom of religion.
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The Rudy Thread
LOCK! HIM! UP!
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed.
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Texas deep freeze carnage thread
Two over seventies in this household. Flushing regularly not a problem.
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Texas deep freeze carnage thread
Same here. I hope the styrofoam covers are adequate to 5 degrees (@6:30 this AM). I have kept all faucets in house dripping or light stream and open under sink cabinets at night. Normally, we turn heat off at night, but have set it at 60 the past two. Also have lights in unheated garage where wife has several plants stored. Seems to keep it just below 40. One of my outdoor faucets is on this wall, so hopefully that helps with it also.
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All things SNL
Roseanne Rosannadanna
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Identifying Trump rioters
Talk about a true classic reference. Done long before most Surlyites were born.
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Identifying Trump rioters
Now in the Tillamook County Jail?
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Amazon prime recommendations
Seven seasons on Britbox. I think about $7 per month.
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DISD High School Graduates
When I was in school, the Ticket was still WRR. I used to listen to it on Friday and Saturday nights for Blues and R&B with Jim Lowe and his "How Blue Can You Get?" show. Since it's been 50+ years since I left the Grove for Austin, I probably never encountered Blue from the Grove. Definitely a pre-Ticket reference.
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Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
One of them was prescient. "Ted Cruz sold us out!"
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DISD High School Graduates
We shared a tent block with Hillcrest guys at a high school ROTC camp at Camp Wolters TX back in the sixties. Some called it Hebrew High. One guy (goy) said it was great going to school on Jewish high holy days. So few students and teachers were there, everybody roamed the halls and hung out.
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DISD High School Graduates
Mind you, they'd all be 70+ year old GILFs now, if still alive.
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DISD High School Graduates
I had a history teacher, Dr. Talmadge White, that once said that most of us would graduate from HS, stay in what he called "Peasant Grove", marry a high school sweetheart, and live the rest of our lives in PG. Maybe that's why you never met any. I, luckily, escaped that, but many I went to HS with didn't. However, the Director of the Briscoe Center of American History at UT Austin and a former Democratic Party Chair of Fayette Co were co graduates of mine.
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DISD High School Graduates
W.W. Samuell was not a northern DISD school. I graduated from there, also, but five years after Martin was born. I was long gone to Austin before he was a radio personality. I did meet two Bryan Adams graduates in my work career. They were about six years different in age and did not know each other in high school. I did meet John Colley (later John Ford Colley) in high school. He wasn't in Samuell yet, but was in a friend's band.
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Amazon prime recommendations
I think Amazon also has Inspector Lewis, the series about Morse's DSS after he's promoted to DI. It may be the best of the three. Just checked. It's on PBS stream and you have to pay for it on Amazon. I watched it free, but don't remember if it was on another streaming channel.
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Lauren Boobert - Tits and a Gun
For those old enough to remember 1965:
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Surly Jazz Thread
I think I had or have 12 of them. Lost hundreds of vinyl and compact discs in a flood. I also had many by same artists, but different albums. Fairly good list. Getz/Gilberto belongs, but not sure at number 3. To paraphrase Todd Snider I have tons and tons and tons of Bix and of Louis.
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Celebrity Death Pool - 2021
Ferry Across the Mersey was pretty big here. Just checked - it, How Do You Do It, and Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying were all top ten US singles. Part of the British Invasion for those old enough to remember.
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NYE plans (in 2020? are you kidding?)
For viewing, probably Roberts Point Park, but a lot of people park in parking lots on the N end of the island or along Port Street. In the past, those areas were ridiculously crowded, a real traffic mess at the end. We were lucky last year to be invited to a private residence on the N end of Sixth St. where we could watch from a 2nd story balcony. We generally watch from our place on S. 11th, where you can only sees the higher, bigger bursts because of the buildings in between.
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NYE plans (in 2020? are you kidding?)
We've been going to Port A for many years for NYE and will again this year. Always just at the house. We did get an invite last year to watch the fireworks over the channel at the house of a friend of an in-law. We may go outside to watch parts of this year's fireworks at a distance, but mostly stay inside watching TV festivities. Son may come down. In year's past, kids and grandkids would often come, but not expecting much this year.