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  1. 5 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    For a tourist...

    Food:

    Taquitos West Avenue - good atmosphere, food is really good for a popular spot, and something a bit different than most of the rest of the US.

    Pearl District- I like Southerleigh the best of the restaurants there but a neat little area to eat and shop.

    La Fonda on Main- classic SA place with a great atmosphere that out of towners love

    Things to Do:

    San Antonio Zoo- possibly the best in the state

    San Antonio Museum of Art- great location, architecture, and better works than expected for San Antonio

    San Antonio Missions National Historical Park- Not as crowded as the Alamo and gives a better understanding of Colonial Texas.

    Daytrips:

    Enchanted Rock State Park- Fun hike, that isn't challenging. It's about 1.5 hours from downtown.

    Fredericksburg- wine area, historically german town, WWII museum of the Pacific. A bit over an hour from downtown, can combine with Enchanted Rock

    Corpus- oddball choice but good for a day trip. Selena Museum, Texas State Aquarium, USS Lexington, ocean fishing, an ugly water beach with decent sand. 2hrs from Downtown

     

    8 days is a lot for SA, but plenty of daytrips options.

     

    I know that this is "touristy", but a trip to Mi Tierra is an important part of the San Antonio drill.  

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  2. 46 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Holy fucking shit, sure, why not, what a great week this is.  I am suffering from HELLACIOUS lower back pain.  It started Monday night, not long after my father died (so...stress trigger?)  I have never really had much back pain in my life, and I didn't do any particular act/event that triggered this.  It just felt sore, then got worse and worse.

    Now, it hurts like a motherfucker if I'm sitting and turn my head/neck significantly, of if I'm standing and I bow my head sharply to look at the ground.  It even feels like it's spasming at times, just tenses up and hurts as I'm sitting here.  Also, when sitting at my desk and working, I have occasional tingling in my right arm.  I went to my doc this morning (already had an appointment scheduled), told her symptoms, and she ordered an x-ray and gave me some pain pills and muscle relaxers.  I took a pain pill (I had a couple leftover from old scrips that I took to help me sleep the last couple of nights), but will take the muscle deal later.  So, I've had the x-ray, I'm starting on some meds.

    But...WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?  WHAT IS FUCKING WRONG WITH MY BACK?

    Muscle relaxers are the way.  Otherwise, you will just be swimming upstream.

  3. 48 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Grabbed two 2 lb cuts of venison on Sunday night, quartered them, rubbed with brown sugar s&p and garlic powder, threw them into the instant pot for an hour after browning the outside, with some broth for liquid.  Came out great. 
     

    I still have the backstrap- don’t want to fuck that up and it’s been too cold for the little grill so far.  Looking for good ideas. 

    My go to on backstrap is to insert insert sliced serrano peppers into the meat (hopefully left whole) and braise with beef stock and red wine.  Don't overcook it - serve rare-ish.  Reduce the stock and wine to a sauce while you let the meat rest.  Check out the interwebs for details.

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  4. 15 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Along this line, I represented a Nigerian mechanical engineer 2nd generation immigrant whose family owned a "7-mart" somewhere in the mid cities.

    Seven-Eleven, then Southland at the time, sent a cease and desist.  They demanded that he change the signage, which was a non-trivial endeavor, cost wise.  It didn't look anything like the 7-11 logo or colors, but did have the orange roof.

    Because Chidi's family leased and then purchased the premises from  . . . . 7-11.

    And it was more than seven years prior to the cease and desist.  So, 7-11 had no real excuse for not knowing what signage the Chidis were using as they actually owned the premises during part of their use.

    So, Chidi would agree to change it if 7-11 paid, otherwise we'd raise laches and estoppel and have a half-decent chance of prevailing, or at least stopping a preliminary injunction or TRO.

    They agreed.  It was like $5000, I think.  A tidy sum that would have hurt Chidi, but was nothing to 7-11 and they likely should have come offering to do that.

    Most boilerplate defendant answers include a laches claim.  The only time that I have seen a court deem it relevant was in a trademark case. 

    That explains why folks do need to work to defend their trademarks.  Silly or not, the beaver needs to defend its turf.

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  5. 5 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    Mad dogs was great. But it was no GM Steakhouse. That will forever and always be the best burger on the planet.

    Same genre was Ted's Steakhouse on Congress.  Honorable mention to Mike's Pub in the parking garage at 7th and Brazos.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I bet a lot of us are experts on the Ellis County Jail, because many of of us have probably had the experience of some cold, late December night at 2am,  when some toothless, inbred, goat fucker climbed onto a table and proudly told the patrons of the Waxahachie Waffle House #1347 that Dean Martin sang a better cover of “A Marshmallow World” than Johnny Fucking Mathis, and rest-in-peace Dino, but by the Gods we were not going to let that sister-fucker besmirch the good name of Texas-born Johnny Mathis by claiming that fucking Italian did it better when he didn’t have the range and just phoned it in on version he released three years after Johnny released The One True Version, leading us to explain to the police at 2:15 am why the EMTs were having to haul that unconscious trash off to the hospital, and their not excepting the YouTube video of Johnny that we played for them on our phone.

    Oddly specific.

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