Jump to content

Storm the Field

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    3775
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Storm the Field

  1. Lol. Old buddy of mine makes a living as a real estate agent for people buying and selling ranches. Posted this pic today from a property he was visiting with a buyer. Easily the most dangerous hunting stand I've ever seen. Said it's about 40 feet of ladder to climb with those tiny little pegs. Enter through the floor, and then there's just a swivel seat up there.
  2. Just noticed that on the extended forecast. Cold and dreary Friday and Saturday, then cool and sunny for a few days, but after that, it looks like Winter all but vanishes. Supposed to hit 80 next Wednesday and Thursday. And then finish out the month with a bunch of mostly dry days in the mid 70's. I don't necessarily mind Spring starting a little early, but Summer better mind its fucking business and stay in its lane until Memorial Day.
  3. I think this is a bit of a stretch based on a hot January CPI report. CPI spiked last January too. Several wonks pointed out that a lot of the overshoot came from an unexpected blip in OER, which doesn't seem to match up with other data concerning rents. Now, if February and March numbers don't get back on track, "no rate cuts in 2024" might be more reasonable, but let's take a breather for a second.
  4. Oh here we go: JV says his shoulder is acting up heading into training camp. Says he's a couple weeks behind his usual routine of ramping-up for the season.
  5. Grabbed some of this to go with some al pastor street tacos last weekend. Pretty tasty, and not overly spicy. Pairs well with breakfast tacos too.
  6. Well that was quick. Space City Bagels soft-opened this morning, less than a week after Brazos shuttered. I may pop in on the way to work Friday morning and give it a shot.
  7. Saw that as a result of the Endeavor sale, Autry Stephens is expected to leapfrog Hildebrand and Harold Hamm to become the wealthiest oilman in America (going by the latest Forbes net worth figures), and he will now be in the Top 75 or so richest people on the planet. Unfortunately for him, he's 86 and recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, so his reign may not last long.
  8. Due to the horrendous drought last year, followed up by the big freeze in January, crawfish supplies are scarce and prices nauseatingly expensive. Seeing upwards of $15/lb at the few restaurants and bars that are even serving currently, and $8/lb or more for live crawfish if you can even find them. If I called my guy that drives a big refrigerated truck over from Louisiana on weekends and asked for a price quote right now, I'd probably hear raucous laughter. I usually wait until late March or early April for prices to drop enough to grab a few sacks for a boil, but am usually willing to grab a couple lbs cooked to snack on somewhere for Mardi Gras. Don't reckon I'll be doing either this year. Have to imagine it will be damn near Summer until prices get closer to where they usually are in the Spring.
  9. Diamondback Energy on Monday decided to buy the largest privately held oil and gas producer in the Permian basin, Endeavor Energy Partners, in a cash-and-stock deal for about $26 billion, including debt. The combined company would be the third largest oil and gas producer in the region behind Exxon and Chevron.
  10. This one has gone in my gym rotation. Just good old fashioned down-tuned death metal out of Dallas, with a pair of guest solos by Matt Heafy of Trivium.
  11. Joked with my Astros text thread that it should have been #wingamesathome or #takebackMMP
  12. Close. Made it all the way up to 4,999 at one point, but couldn't quite break through.
  13. My favorite vendor at Minute Maid Park. Amazon store on the club level. Scan your credit card, at the entrance, walk in, grab a beer, walk out.
  14. Talked about this before with a buddy of mine who has spent a lot of time in the restaurant biz, has owned and/or managed a couple different places. Said it's tough (though clearly not impossible) to run a profitable breakfast place in an area like the Heights if you're only selling low-priced to-go items like pastries or bagels. Need people to buy ~$15 entrees, overpriced coffee, mimosas/bloodys....etc. to get average per-customer-transaction something closer to $20 than under $10. Either that or you need to own the building outright and not be paying rent.
  15. Sounds like one problem is the shop itself doesn't have enough kitchen space to produce what they need on-site.
  16. Culturemap has a more in-depth article out: https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/brazos-bagel-space-city-bagel-heights/
  17. So, sounds like he wasn't gonna be able to produce nearly enough bagels to keep the store from routinely running out and covering rent and whatnot. Seems like something you'd usually try and determine before opening, right?
  18. This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in the restaurant business. Open for a total of like 15 hours before calling it quits. They were slammed Thursday-Sunday and selling out of everything. Posted Sunday night that they were taking Monday off and shortening hours Tuesday to continue working out some of the kinks but then planning to resume normal hours as of today. Typical soft opening shit. Less than 48 hours after that post, the owner calls it quits. Only 3 possibilities I see: 1. Epic partnership collapse. 2. Landlord/tenant nightmare. 3. Owner had a mental breakdown or drug/alcohol psychotic break after the stress of opening weekend.
  19. I've had quite an Astro-centric day. Wife's boss invited us to sit as his table at this charity event at ROCC. Berkman and Dusty were the featured entertainment and had a pretty funny 20-minute or so chat, just telling baseball stories and whatnot. Saw Crane and Dana Brown in the crowd. Mark Appel randomly was one of the guys sitting at our table. Just got done picking my first batch of April and May games from my season ticket group allotment. Just as I finished doing so, saw the news about Altuve!
×
×
  • Create New...