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Trecdom2 wrote:

A baseball great has played his last game. Hank Aaron died this morning at age 86.

If you build it, they will come. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IJAP12e1oqcq0S_fuZrbbJfyBHYVah8b/view?usp=sharing

:(

Mira Furlan has gone to be with Valen. Best known for her roles in Babylon 5 and Lost, the actress has died at the age of 65.

***** Texas Saturday Breakfast *****

Old staple taco today! Still all fresh! Saturday Breakfast In Place time! Bring out the Drones! The NewTexas Happy Taco Stands, in conjunction with the NewTexas Incendiary Corporation, has approximately 1 trillion of the fastest, lightest drones you have ever seen. This fleet is specially designed to deliver tacos to every man, woman, child, whatever, in Texas, all 2,468,854,000,001 of you.

Today's special breakfast will Saturday Country & Egg Tacos [COVID-19 Week XLIV Edition]! The Head Smoker at the NewTexas Happy Taco Stands has been up all night filling Taco Town with smoke again! Snausages! Longtime Texans know this is code for a fine, big, fat, juicy, Texas kielbasa diced up and cooked up with hearty, rich, yellow, genuine Texas Grade AA scrambled eggs! The hardy mix is wrapped up nice and snugly in a sturdy flour tortilla, made fresh, in-house, with love. A whole egg in every taco!® And, because it is a great day to be alive, we are bringing you a Texas Two-Fer! We have yet a second Texas staple ready for you - the Sausage Wrap! Plain and simple, a big ol' chunk-o-kielbasa wrapped in a tortilla. The drones will be working overtime lugging this beast of a breakfast just to you today.

Today's Special Salsa is - Chile Quemado - a fiery roasted salsa made from tomatoes, onions, garlic, and jalapeños roasted fresh on the grill. A sealed cup of Texas' own freshly-prepared Guacamole and a cup of Pico de Gallo is also included. The tacos are hermetically-sealed in a Stay-Warm® pouch that is wrapped in the same ol' aluminum foil we are all so familiar with for our breakfast taco. The Juice Bar will not be possible this week. But, for your beverage needs, a packet of Sanka, Tang and a Lipton Tea bag will be included with every delivery as well as salt and pepper and a napkin. Yes, it is different, but it works and you do not even have to leave your residence. Woo! And, watch out for the drones! Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. You know you want to!®

Stay Safe Texas. Stay Well.

***** Texas Chat Reminder *****

The Texas Weekly Chat Session will be Saturday (TODAY) at High Noon Texas Time (CDT) ***Saturday***. And, if you can't be there right at Noon, that is Ok, Texas Chat usually runs 3, 4, 5 hours with some Chats running as high as 7 or 8 hours.

The Texas Chat Site is here: http://texasregion.net/blab70/login.php

Please register with your nation name. This is a great opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to find out what is going on! We chat, we debate, we talk about the weather, we talk about stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff, and more stuff. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and talking about the latest and most interesting stuff in NationStates at the moment. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, VirtualTexans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome. Texas Chat, 823 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 16¼ years! Check it out! Good stuff!

Another passing being reported, Larry King dies at the age of 87. Can't say I listened to him much, but he was certainly a well known figure.

Howdy Texan friends, just wanted to step by and wish everyone here a wonderful weekend from 10000 Islands!

Vincent's Sunday Surprise Beverage Bonanza

Howdy Dudes and Dudettes of Texas!

Today's Sunday Surprise Beverage is Make - Your - Own - Beverage Day! I've got lots of Large Boxes full of drink making ingredients stacked up right here and I'm going to beam them directly into the home of every Texan in Texas. Everyone will receive a Large Box and it'll materialize on the table closest to you. With all the drink ingredients in your box you can make Non Alcoholic Sangria (Sangria Mocktail), Jamaican Sorrel Drink and Pineapple and makrut lime crush. There's enough ingredients to make 3 glasses of each drink. You can keep the Instructional Guide CD as my gift to you:

When blending drinks in your blender always add your ice at the end so it doesn't jam up the blender. Also if you've got alcohol in your house and you desire an alcoholic drink just mix your own booze into the beverages.

And today I've included a large container full of a dozen Low-carb turkey wraps. Made with turkey slices, spinach, and cheese, these light and tasty turkey wraps are great for lunch or you can turn them into snacks by chilling them and slicing them into smaller, bite sized rounds!

I hope y'all enjoy today's Sunday Surprise Snack and Beverages. Yeehaw! :)

Vincent

In memoriam, Larry King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtggbYWCivI

Watch it to the end. ;)

Some friends of mine worked the live shot. One of them shared this.

Hello Texan friends just wanted to drop by and tell you guys to have a good time!

Hello Nations! I take this opportunity to invite you to the official tenth anniversary celebrations of India: Nationstates. India has been the largest indie themed and one of the biggest RL themed regions in the community. The region has planned a whole year celebrations on this special occasion. Indicon is been conducted as for the opening ceremony of the year long celebrations. This event will have:
• Giveaways of Cards and Pokémon
• A logo making competition who's theme is 10 years of India. The winner gets a legendary card.
• .io extension games and Among Us
• Indian Music Listenalong: The Generation Drive (1950s to 2021)

https://discord.gg/ZZSdWrpXSw

Hey there, Texas!
How is everyone today?

**J Nobel Daggett looks at the latest embassy request...**

Oh, the folks in this region look like a barrel of laughs...

"By tragic coincidence, the anniversaries of NASA’s three worst disasters all fall in a short span of the calendar. January 27: Apollo 1 (1967) took the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee during a routine preflight test. January 28, 1986: Challenger STS-51L claimed astronauts Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, and Judith Resnick, when their spaceship exploded shortly after launch. February 1, 2003: The crew of Columbia STS-107. Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon lost their lives when their ship disintegrated during re-entry. We are profoundly grateful for their work and their sacrifice in the name of human progress and exploration. Ad astra per aspera.
The Spaceflight Memorial Emblem honors all three crews. It hangs on the wall of Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, next to the mission patches for Apollo 1, Challenger 51L and Columbia 107."

Michael/Denise Okuda

Good morning, campers. Someone tell me something good.

Received my first vaccine dose today. There was an extra dose at the end of the day, so it was offered to me. We'll see what happens in the 28 days between shots.

Trecdom2 wrote:

Received my first vaccine dose today. There was an extra dose at the end of the day, so it was offered to me. We'll see what happens in the 28 days between shots.

That's funny you depending on 21st century Earth technology when you have full access to 22nd & 23rd century medicine stop holding out on us Jim.

Funny that we have a pizza poll the day we decide to order pizza at home. No pineapple on pizza please

Space Force ranks have been announced. No change in officer ranks. E1 to E5 will now be, Specialist 1, Specialist 2, Specialist 3, Specialist 4, and Seargent. E6 to E9 will still follow Air Force Ranks with the exception of the top enlisted member, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force

Trecdom2 wrote:

Space Force ranks have been announced. No change in officer ranks. E1 to E5 will now be, Specialist 1, Specialist 2, Specialist 3, Specialist 4, and Seargent. E6 to E9 will still follow Air Force Ranks with the exception of the top enlisted member, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force

Boo they suck what they should have done was made ranks follow Star Trek TNG ranks like 4 circles for captain 3 for Commander and so forth

Gig em Aggies wrote:

Boo they suck what they should have done was made ranks follow Star Trek TNG ranks like 4 circles for captain 3 for Commander and so forth

We don't yet know what the enlisted ranks will physically look like, but every branch uses the same insignia for officers. Space Force is an offshoot of the Airforce not Navy so they're not likely to use naval ranks. They're in charge of missiles and satellites not space fleets

Trecdom2 wrote:

We don't yet know what the enlisted ranks will physically look like, but every branch uses the same insignia for officers. Space Force is an offshoot of the Airforce not Navy so they're not likely to use naval ranks. They're in charge of missiles and satellites not space fleets

The fatherless children... Should be naval all the way for the days when they have interplanetary ships with large crews.

P.S. Pineapple on Pizza is a communist plot designed to subvert the American way.