Working from home today in the 75650 trying to decide how productive i want to be today. One thing has been decided already...OU SUCKS!!!!!!!
FIGHT!!!!!
I am a Longhorn lifer. We were bad the entire time that I was a student on the 40 Acres (1984 thru 1988) and we were not so good during my daughter's time at UT (2010 thru 2014).
I have not read the previous posts aside from the one (@Ignatius) just above mine when I started to write this. My thoughts are very similar to his. I am sure that in the previous 5 pages there is a lot of well made arguments for and against. Like many of you I question offensive playcalling at times as well as defensive strategy. I wonder why the paid coaches cannot "see" what we are all seeing and witnessing on TV or in person at the game. We all have the solutions so why cannot the professional coaches see this? That, I do not know. Is it frustrating? Yes. After each disappointing loss I watch the scores scroll across the screen in hopes that it is all wrong and that we did win.
After the game last night I was exchanging text with my kids. I wrote to them that I just want us to return to prominence again before aggy gets there for the first time in modern history. My biological clock is ticking! My daughter assured me that I have at least another good 40 years of iife left. So, according to her, I will live to at least 96 years old!
So, putting time and age in perspective I am sure that I will be dissappointed way more than I will be happy with Texas football. But, I am a Longhorn fan through it all. Win or lose. I will continue to watch them each and every week in hopes that I will be watching the game where the Horns finally turn the corner and I will be along for a then glorious ride and will revel in every second of winning.
So until then I will continue to wear my Texas gear, watch the Horns, a cheer my Horns to victory.
I proud Longhorn. Hookem.
A good friend of mine played baseball at ASU, was their ace, and made it to the CWS. So this kind of hits close to home. Plus I was in Tucson last week.
Last week I was in Silver City, NM on business. Decided to drive to White Sands National Park on Sunday to do some hiking. It is about a 2-1/2 hour or so drive.
Got up early Sunday and had a bit of breakfast. Before I left on the drive I took care of business. I had no problem whatsoever until I am about 5 minutes from the Park. As I am pulling into the parking lot at the visitor's center I am starting to crown. By the time I get into the bathroom I have a slight breach. Finally get on the toilet and my insides come out. Cleaned up the best that I could and went into the gift shop to have a look around. About 30 minutes later I am at the trailhead to Alkali Flat Trail. It is a 5 mile loop trail through the dunes. As I am about to head off I have another rumbling in my stomach. Fortunately there is a restroom at the trailhead so I spend another few minutes in there letting out what is left of nothing in my system.
Surely there is nothing left and I have come too far to abort the mission now. Besides, my stomach does not hurt at all.
I finally get onto the trail and I am about 2 miles in when it hits again. So I turn around and clinch my butt and hike back out and drive back to the visitor's center to leave one last present before aborting the mission of hiking Alkali Flat Trail and brokenly drive back to Silver City. As I am leaving the toilet at the park I heavily line my now stained underwear with about 20 feet of toilet paper. By the time that I reach Las Cruces the urge has hit again. I find the first toilet that I can at a crowded convenience store. The bathroom is a one-holer and there is not lock on the door to keep people from walking in on me. I make an executive decision to drive to another store nearby. I make it OK bouyed by the extra toilet paper stuffed in my underwear. I leave Las Cruces and make it to the Loves Truckstop just west of town.
I pull into Loves and rush to the toilet. Get in there and realize that there is no toilet paper. Step back out of the stall and grab a roll of the rough brown paper from the hand dry dispenser. Too bad if the toilet gets stopped up with the heavy paper. They should have the real paper available. I finish what is left of my business, stuff my shorts with a ton of brown paper to the point that it looks like I am wearing a diaper and fortunately make it all the way back to Silver City.
The underwear and the remaining paper end up in the trash nicely sealed up in a plastic bag.
I am due to have my first one on October 18. Was going to go the Cologuard route but never got around to it. Finally told my doc at my recent general check up to go ahead and sign me up.
I guess the two Cologuard kits that I have received in the mail will become White Elephant Gifts.
I have nothing more to offer above the sage advice expressed so far besides that God answers prayers. Will be praying for your daughter and all involved.
I had to do this a few years ago. I was diagnosed with SVT. My heart will race 7 or 8 times a year on average. If I stay hydrated that seems to keep it under control for me. Once it does start to race I know how to bring it back under control. I am also on meds to keep it under control too. An ablation is an option but have opted to stick with meds for now.
Haven't had a big toe fusion but I hurt my big toe in high school and developed a bone spur on it. The removal of the bone spur resulted in limited movement of my big toe. The limited movement affects my balance with certain movements (lunges) and even hurts when I do push ups because of forcing it to bend more than it wants to. Don't get me started about weather changes. It hasn't stopped me from playing full-court basketball 3 days a week for the last 30+ years or hiking (which I do a lot of). I am very active but it lets me know from time to time that it is not the same. Getting old sucks.
I am posting this here and not in the Parking Douchebaggery thread because technically the red Honda is parked properly between the stripes but could have moved closer to the curb to allow more room on the passenger side. That is my truck barely visible to the right. I typically try to park far away from any one else to avoid situations like this but this was at a doctor's office and parking was limited. Fortunately I did not notice a ding on my door. Now the Ford truck to the left is clearly improperly parked.
Speaking of escalators, I can't stand people who just ride it all the way up or down without even moving. Take some steps you lazy fucks
This right here. I am frequently flying through the ATL airport. I am constantly saying "excuse me" as I go up and down thier long escalators and passing people. I try to avoid the train in order to get my exercise.
Adding to RPM's list:
Northwest Passage- A colonial era movie about upstate NY and Roger's Rangers
Plymouth Adventure- A movie about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims
30 Seconds Over Tokyo- WW2 flick about Doolittle's Raid on Japan early in the war
There are many more. He is good in all of his movies.