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Posts posted by texasdago
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Still positive and honestly other than a mild sore throat and a little congestion, I'm mostly annoyed of having to sit around. I am taking a couple walks a day to get some fresh air and ease the boredom. I'm a very active person - the inactivity is teh suck.
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45 minutes ago, YGIFS said:
As Turk Pipkin once told me, "Only time you worry about an Austinite is when they quit bitching about the ole' days."
THAT is an amazing quote.
Its funny... we've been on/off in Austin since 1989... even when we lived in Houston, we would come to Austin all the time so we saw the city change. One thing that has remained consistent with us is that when we lived in Houston (near Town & Country), we were always going into town and hanging out in the Heights, Museum District, Downtown, Montrose, etc. Our "regular spots" were in town, not as much near us. In Austin, its the same... we are still addicted to Guero's (tables on the sidewalk some of the best people-watching in town), spend a lot of time downtown, near and north of campus, east Austin, etc. And it's easy for us to get to the Hill Country although not a big fan of the big 290 expansion taking place... I guess it could be worse. Still, we've found this happy balance of all the things we can do in town and the easy access to things outside of town.
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A really interesting May 1984 article about the development of Rob Roy and Circle C from Texas Monthly. The whole thing is worth reading but, in light of our current discussion, I was amused by some of these quotes from 1984... nearly 40 years ago:
"In the midst of the frenzy, the old Austin dream died. The city started growing faster than it ever had. Many of the old politicians didn’t recognize it, but there was a new electorate in Austin, and the newcomers didn’t share the dream of first love at Barton Springs, cold beer at Scholz’s, and picnics under the pecans."
"It is a chicken-or-egg question whether the developers caused Austin’s uncontrolled growth or merely responded to it. But there is no question about the boom itself and the resource that spawned it."
"It wasn’t only the size and dimensions of the city that had changed in ten years: its heart and texture had changed too. The center of town used to be Sixth and Congress; now it was FM 2222, four miles north of downtown. Ten years ago FM 2222 was where the boondocks began, and the only people anyone knew living north of it were dope dealers. Now it was Main Street for high-tech migrants who had moved to Austin to work for IBM, Tracor, and Texas Instruments. According to one estimate, nearly 40 per cent of the newcomers were from out of state, and 5 per cent were from another country."
1984 and the article is rife with complaints of traffic, sprawl, the character of the city, low cost housing, transplants... it's a bit of a gem.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/high-noon-at-the-circle-c/
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3 minutes ago, HouTex said:
Life long allergy sufferer here. I’ve had allergy spells that were way worse than my Covid experience.
I can usually cope relatively well as long as I don't do a couple of key things...
1) go out and leafblow an assload of leaves during a high pollen day
2) go take a more strenuous hike like River Place
3) rub my eyes
So of course yesterday I did 1 and 3 compounded by the onset of Covid. Today I'm not doing 1 and 3 and feel a lot better.
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22 minutes ago, statsman said:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/03/health/covid-variant-xbb-explainer/index.html
The bivalent booster not so great with XBB. My thoughts:
1. We need a regular operation making annual unique Covid vaccines, like we do with flu (if that’s even possible; I really don’t know, and I gather Covid is still mutating quickly)
2. A year ago, I posted that there are three protections from bad Covid outcomes- being young, being fit and being vaccinated. If you can’t have all three, you should at least have two. Now, I think it’s time for the government to start doing what it has been reluctant to- start being vocal about the need for people to be fit. Especially the olds (like me). My reading of the CNN article is that being fit will do more good against XBB than being vaccinated (with our current vaccines).
Young... ehhhh
Fit... Check
Vaccinated... Check
Honestly, I wonder if I would feel much if if wasn't cedar fever season.
(famous last words)
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I have no idea what I'm looking at above but it looks like it needs neg rep.
After three years I finally tested positive yesterday. I probably would have chalked up how I felt to allergies were it not for a fever. So... tested and am now in isolation. Tested positive again this morning so that's two in a row.
Already feel a lot better... have not really taken anything other than one Excedrin and some Emergen-C. Double boosted including the bivalent. It just feels like I have mild allergy symptoms which could very likely be mild allergy systems thanks to the pollen. I'm sure that doing the River Place trail during high pollen yesterday didn't help.
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Have a friend who is a good guy in general but, man, he is a Tesla/Elon fanboi and I should know better to get in conversations with him. They are a beating.
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51 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:
Used to be an old wagon road between Austin and San Antonio, I believe you'd get on it somewhere south of town near that big field where they'd have concerts. Scenic two-lane drive winding along, pop out into downtown San Marcos, then there was another way from there on down south.
Bastards cut down all the trees, cut and filled the hills and valleys, and four-laned it so the Karen herds could roam the newly-generic landscape. Forgot about Oh-Woe-Is-Austin, THAT business was a crime against Texas.
If you weren't careful, the Comanches would take you out.
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I mean 35 between ATX and SA is brutal...
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1 minute ago, conVINCEd said:
I had to purchase tickets to the Jackopierce Christmas special several years ago (undefeated), and I can assure you that my email account has not been notified of their retirement.
Well, either way... (That's some staying power)
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36 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:
And the reason it hasn’t been torn down for mid-rise condos is because the mitigation from the fumes you released in that building was cost-prohibitive. Or historical designation. One or the other.
There are still several super whacked out Co-Ops in West Campus that are as insanely weird as you can get. The places look so nasty.
Btw, some free music this week.
"But I ain't ever heard of any of them!?"
Well, time to go hear them. Gobs of music, all free!!! So much music in this city... Sorry but Jack-o-Pierce and Soulhat retired.
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It's not like the change has been hiding
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2 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
That’s the point. We didn’t want something different from the way Austin was. We liked the way it was. It’s why we came here. Now it’s something different and we don’t like it as much.
Places in the past don't exist anymore. My mom still complains about missing Rome in the 60s. It's not coming back.
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2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:
I know that's what you think you're doing. The reality is that y'all want to do the exact same things and go to exact same places that you used to. Some of those no longer exists. Others became popular, and thus more crowded and expensive. Do something different. Go somewhere different. There is plenty new, and not all of it requires you to be rich.
Exactly. This is exactly it. My eyes opened to the upside of the newer Austin when I stopped trying to recreate my college experience. I started working in new places and found there's a lot of cool stuff to do. The food has gotten better... Austin's food scene used to be average. More places to hang out... before it was the dirty 6th and now ut is further east and west plus the dirty 6th plus South Congress that was pretty lean in college. Y'all bitch but part of the problem is getting older, not losing spots. Yeah... getting older sucks... you can dream about going to 606, El Chino and Dry Creek (RIP that one sucked) and go have a drink at the countless new places that have opened up, many of which still have an old Austin vibe (Far Out is new, Cosmic and Radio are less than 10 years old), Sam's Town Point, etc). You can still go to places like Donn's, Mean Eyed Cat, Deep Eddy, G&S, Giddy ups, Antone's, Saxon, etc. etc. Not to mention there are still a ton of music venues in town, in Manchaca, as far as Cedar Park (blech) etc.
And just stay away from 35. It has sucked for yeeeears.
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Typo... Celis dammit
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One of the things I like about Austin is all the breweries.
Austin craft beer when I was in college:
1. Celia (don't think you could visit)
2. Uh... Shiner Bock?
Austin craft beer today and all the places you can enjoy (and this is far from exhaustive)
https://austin.eater.com/maps/best-breweries-austin-beer-taprooms-central-texas
How about distilleries?
Same story.
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55 minutes ago, Red Five said:
I'm thinking a four hour wait for that thing these days. The last time I tried to go to Barton Springs in the summer there was a line around the block waiting to get in. We left, and went to Matt's for dinner, and there was a two hour wait to get in there.
I'm sorry but if you can't get into Barton Springs without a massive line, you're doing it wrong. We will go in the dead of Summer when it's hot as balls and so long as you don't arrive at the wrong time, you can go in the back way with a tiny line. You just have to find workarounds. I'd give up on my secrets but I'm not giving up on my secrets.
And Austin is still weird enough where on some Sunday morning so I can go to my local park and see a bunch of people, some of which are topless, dancing around the music like it's the most normal thing in the world.
If I were to complain about one aspect of the growth I don't like it's the mid-rise towers in West campus. That was pretty jarring. But, I love the Austin Skyline. The skyline of my college years sucked.
1 minute ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:There’s lots of pretty places in Texas. Almost all of it is privately owned.
As if Big Bend is easy to access, too...
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13 minutes ago, deadshank said:
So much angst.
Exactly. People act like they live in Detroit. Maybe Texas Monthly should stick to picking on Cancun Ted.
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7 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
Texas sucks for public land. The 1500 acres in Houston and Austin’s green space is comically pathetic compared to any place west. The Greenbelt is overloaded with people and it’s starting to show. Every decent Greenbelt in town is overrun with trash and dog shit.
Austin is just such a beating to do anything that you could do easily even 10 years ago. Blues in the Green is a logistical train wreck. Trail of Lights is the same. Going to Zilker Park is getting close to impossible on weekends. Restaurants are packed.
We will leave as soon as my youngest graduates. Right now Fort Collins is the leader for us. It reminds me of Austin in the early 90s.I can take you to trails in the greenbelt in the middle of spring where you may come across half-a-dozen people. Blues in the Green? Yeah, it's busy... go park by Barton Springs, swim for a while then walk over. That's what we did this summer. Everyone told me I was crazy driving myself to ACL. Did it four days... parked in an area that was easy to access, walked 20 minutes into ACL and got out without any problem. There's always ways to make it work.
But... F those idiots who bag their dog turds and leave them on the trails.
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7 minutes ago, royiv said:
There's a small little 1500 acre park just inside the loop in Houston. You may have forgotten about it.
Yes. There is. There is one big park. Terry Hershey trail is nice. Hermann Park is great. Austin has parkland and trail systems spread everywhere with offshoot trails spread all over and around town. Just from a natural trail standpoint, it's not even close. The Greenbelt has so many offshoot trails
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Well, compared to Houston the number of greenbelts and hiking opportunities in/around the city isn't even close. Find me an experience like hiking River Place or Bull Creek or Baurle Ranch in the middle of Houston. Our area in SW Austin is packed full of MTB trails that you can ride all the way into town.
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2023 Bum Steer of the Year
in Daily Texan
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About Cain & Abel's... I agree it sucks that its closing. Made many good memories there and I still have by pewter mug... but man would I look like a total loser going there now so, yeah, its part of the past. Dry Creek closing sucked, too... I made it the last month it was open. BUT... when was the last time before that? I mean... yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeears... so if it was so important to me as part of my old Austin, why didn't I go? (and we allll know that its a miracle Dry Creek stayed open that long or wasn't condemned) .And that's the problem for a lot of these places. You love some of the places from your past or part of your old Austin? Frequent them within reason (ahem Cain & Abel's which, honestly, is just Abel's).
Dirty's? Yeah... I still go there. Save Dirty's.