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HouTex

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  1. No where close to unforgivably high casualties. No one expected us to waltz in unopposed. There was the Atlantic Wall and it was fortified. It’s remarkable that casualties weren’t even higher across the landing zones. Of course, the casualties were absolutely necessary in order liberate Europe.
  2. Not sure if this is your assumption, but the casualty rate on DDay was not even close to unforgivably high. Of course the first few waves on Omaha Beach had casualties, but in the scheme of things it was not unexpected or unreasonably high.
  3. Sad, and so true. There were so many stories that came from that generation that were touched upon in the interviews with the ageing men of Easy Company. Like when the two guys from the small town who were 4F couldn’t enlist. They chose suicide over the shame they felt from not being able to serve. Shame is not a thing anymore.
  4. You threw it out? I’ve never done such a shitty job that I had to trash an entire brisket. It doesn’t have to be world class BBQ to be edible.
  5. Watched BOB again this past weekend. Still gets me at the end when Winters says that he wasn’t a hero but that he served among heroes.
  6. Everyone in our group loved Streamsong blue and red. Black was a far distant third. If you have a choice, I would suggest playing the red or blue multiple times vs playing the black course at all.
  7. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DelayedAthleticFerret-max-1mb.gif
  8. Is the top one a schnauzer or schnauzer mix? Looks similar to our schnoodle but darker. Our schnoodle is one of the most agile dogs I’ve been around.
  9. The Crossman pump was damn accurate against squirrels from 20-30 feet when I lived in Briargrove. Those fuckers would destroy all of the green pine cones and leave a huge mess in the yard. After two shooting sessions the word got out. Thereafter the squirrels avoided my yard.
  10. The 25 county SE Texas region (9.3 million population) today has 184 people in ICU with suspected or confirmed Covid. Lowest number since April 2, 2020.
  11. My dad has Parkinson’s and this is pretty much our current situation. It’s just horrible.
  12. This. Highly variable rainfall. Greater Uptown area has had a couple of inches over the last two days. Minor puddling on some streets but no big deal getting home this evening from downtown.
  13. Well, we were not lying.
  14. At the HEB on San Felipe in Houston today there were probably 20% of the customers without masks. No one told me to put a mask on and I received no dirty looks. At the Fairmont in Austin over the weekend we check in Friday without masks. The check-in clerk politely said that masks are required so we put them on. When I signed up for wifi they ask how the stay is going. I politely suggested that they follow CDC guidelines and allow vaxxed people to go without masks. The manager replied via text within a couple of hours saying that they just changed their policy to follow the CDC. So no masks required for the vaxxed at the Fairmont. Nice to see companies coming around.
  15. HouTex

    Wine

    How was that 74 Montelena? How long have you had it? I’m guessing it’s hard to find well-stored older wines from California.
  16. I highly recommend borates especially if you have a salt pool. I love the feel of the water and the smell. It also helps stabilize the water chemistry.
  17. I would want separate accounts. They would never agree to it, as I said. Bottom line is that due to my prior experience I would not deal with a sole proprietor or a small partnership. I would only contract with a pool company that had a very long term history and/or a balance sheet.
  18. He wouldn’t. But if he did 150 pools per year at say 100k per pool that’s $15 million per year of gross revenue. He can afford the overhead of managing the accounts.
  19. This is why I would never use another small-time pool builder unless he showed me evidence that he complied with section 162.006 of the Texas Property Code. I would want a separate construction account with only my money in it. Of course, the guy probably would tell me to get lost. So I would end up using a well established company that presumably would not be judgment proof. Yes, at some level, every entity is judgment proof.
  20. This, although I agree that the payment schedule at issue is pretty standard. My pool builder, basically a guy in a pickup, ran out of money after gunite and plumbing was done. By that time I had paid him about 70% of the contract price. I finally fired him after three months of no activity (it was post financial crisis and he had no new jobs). I had to sub it out myself to finish the job. It cost me about an extra $20k over and above the original contract price.
  21. When it finally opened last October, my downtown Houston gym only required masks if you couldn’t social distance inside the gym which was never.
  22. We are battling Parkinson’s and dementia for both my father and my MIL. Both at 90. In many cases people are living too long. My father is living his greatest nightmare. Not being independent is way worse than death.
  23. Already sick of rain in Houston. Really fucking up my golf games.
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