real turf fan

Charleston was far more important 200+ years ago than it is now. Of course, if that's a criteria, Miami didn't happen even a century ago. But Galveston did.

The parachute deployments were both impressive as all get out AND beautiful.

I wish my late college roommate (an aerospace engineer who worked at Huntsville in work study) had lived long enough to watch this one.

That's horrible, and who let the kid play with chemicals?

Have they blocked paying for her travel?
That's different from forbidding her to travel on her own dime. OK, stop laughing at the possibility that she would pay her own way to all these "can't miss" meetings.

And something hit those fairly flat rocks some distance away that caused straight breaks. If we knew what was holding that rock together, and its composition, we could figure out the mass of what hit it.

Old people remember when interest rates were 15%

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Be a fun year if the boat was nice.

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We keep our boat at a marina that gets a lot of Great Loop traffic.

The drop off in traffic has been significant in the most recent years.


Be a fun year if the boat was nice. And your personal finances very, very deep pocketed and replenished magically each time the cost of fuel goes up.

A rice farmer over near Gueydan who I talked to three years ago wasn't having a problem with crop yield, but with getting time in the dryers so he could finish up his crop by getting it ready to sell.

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a fresh influx of liberal residents

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who are incapable of maintaining the century old buildings...much less do any work at all in heat of any season but winter.
So there will be work for the demographic that have always done it. And if they do a shoddy enough job, the next owner four years in the future will need to have that same work repaired and on and on.

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Hawaii. I'd take the windward side, on one of the western islands.