For those who are always looking for something to do in East Texas you don’t have to feel like there is nothing to do in your town, consider the cliffs. So how much does all this fun cost? We went in September of 2011 and we paid $6 a person. It was well worth the price!
This place is fantastic for the dare devil or for someone who can manage to have just a little excitement in their life. There is a cliff to dive off of for almost anyone here right into a crystal blue pool of aquifer water.
Do to the small amount of sulfur in this spring you don’t have to worry about critters and amoebas swimming around in this water which keeps it feeling like your swimming in a gigantic drinking water tank.
I took my brother here fr his birthday this summer as he prefers a present in the form of an experience or event of some kind and he was more than happy with the outcome.
We dove off several cliffs, swam around the large lake/aquifer/pool area and had a blast.
Unfortunately this place seems too good to be true and the legal liabilities seem pretty big if someone were to get hurt. Hopefully the worse case scenario might be you have to sign a release in case you kill yourself jumping off one of these cliffs.
In conclusion The Cliffs in Lindale offers one more reason why you can’t say there is nothing to do in this town.
If you’ve heard the term patent troll but are not sure what it means, then you’re in the right place. A patent troll, sometimes called a patent pirate, is a company or other entity, sometimes an individual that uses patent law to enforce patents against potential offenders in exchange for a payout. This practice is questionable, but current patent law allows it.
Patent trolls have no interest in using the patents they obtain for anything except as bartering power with large companies. Sometimes patent trolls purchase patents from companies that are willing to sell due to the fact that they never made what they had patented. In other cases, patents are bought in bulk quantities from companies going out of business or bankrupt.
The reason patent trolling is so lucrative, especially in hotspots like Tyler, Texas, is because it is very common for the patent troll that holds the patent to win in a lawsuit, which can sometimes mean payouts of millions of dollars with very little work being done by the patent troll.
Obviously, patent trolling is of questionable ethics but that only matters so much. The real problem is that current patent law allows patent holders to go after other entities even if they haven’t acted on their patent. Being the owner of the patent, even if you never used it, puts you in a position to barter with large companies with the threat of taking them to court for patent infringement. No company wants to deal with a patent infringement case and many cannot afford it period. Thus, patent trolls usually are able to “bully” the companies into paying an outside of court settlement.
To tip or not to tip? The question of tipping the Sonic car hops has many different opinions and answers. Many people think that they should not tip because it is fast food and you are eating in your car. You probably will have to clean up your own trash out of your car. The car hops do not get paid minimum wage most of the time because they are expected to get tips.
I don’t really know where I stand on the issue. When I have sat in my car and the car hop brought my food out to me I usually give them a small tip like a dollar, I may give more if they actually still wore skates. When you are paying with a card at the drive up, you do not get the choice to tip. So if Sonic made it easy and clearer if you were suppose to tip the car hops, maybe more people would.
I am not a big fan of the Sonic food. There really are two reasons to go to Sonic: sand volleyball, and drinks. Many Sonics in Tyler do not have the sand volleyball court, or the play area. The only thing that those Sonics have going for them is the large selections of Sonic drinks and ice cream treats.
For some reason Sonic ice is the best ice around. The other night I was having a huge craving for a Sonic Snickers Blast. The Sonic was suppose to about an hour and half after I got there, but when I asked for my ice cream treat they had informed me that they already had shut down and cleaned the ice cream machine. This is a really annoying thing that fast food places do.
If the restaurant is not closed I expect them to serve everything on the menu. There really is no reason to go to sonic if they wont serve the menu that they claim they serve the WHOLE menu all day!
Unless you were incredibly genetically blessed, you have probably experienced the dreaded plateau phase while trying to lose weight in Tyler, Texas. When you first start out, you steadily lose weight but after a few weeks for some reason it seems your routine isn’t working any more. This is because over a period of time the body will adjust to changes and what once worked does not work anymore.
So how do you prevent plateau? Keep your routine varied. You cannot do the same work-out in the same order for any period of time and keep getting results. Use the principals of muscle confusion so that your body doesn’t get used to any one thing. Work the same muscle groups in different ways to keep your body wondering what is coming next.
A good rule of thumb is to totally change your routine every 4 weeks. You may have 2 or 3 different routines to alternate throughout the year so that you do not constantly have to come up with new moves. As long as it has been a while since your muscles experienced a specific move, repeating routines will be fine. Some may even like to change out routines every week to keep things interesting and the body well confused.
Replacing fat with muscle may not make the scales move as drastically as you would like since muscle weighs more than fat, but the true results are in the way you look and feel.
