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  1. For those who are interested, these are the last in-store shows at Waterloo before they move the store to the new location further up Lamar. I'm going to hit one of them. New location will apparently have a better stage for live music.
  2. Biked the loop around Town Lake yesterday - very much looking forward to seeing how the new pedestrian bridge looks over by Longhorn Dam. Also enjoy veering off into the East Austin south of Chavez to check out the neighborhoods. So much eclectic architecture. Love it!
  3. Its right in front of the capitol. My gut tells me it will be managed differently so as to not offend the sensibilities of Lt. Dan.
  4. Was driving south on 360 from around the Lost Creek area. Could see gobs of rain between there and DT. Good dumping.
  5. That commute?
  6. So wait, your commute is 2 miles!?! 'Cause that's a piece of cake. I closed up my office up by Central Market north. If I left at the right time from SW Austin to the office, I could make it in 25 minutes. During slow summer days, I could do it in 20 minutes. That's 13 miles. But on the way home, if I didn't split by 3:00, usually 30 minutes. I was driving to an office with me, myself and I. Not worth it. In Houston, my commute was 10-15 minutes taking backroads to go 3.5 miles. I can't even imagine long ass commutes... people who live in Katy and go downtown to Houston or Leander into town. F that. (Sorry... Cedar Park/Leander may as well be the end of the world for me. I get pissed if I have to go up there)
  7. How far is your commute? Timing?
  8. Let's gooooo!
  9. Closest Wunderground weather station (about 3-4 streets away) from August. I mean, almost 3" by mid-August and the highest temp at 101 is nuts.
  10. I've been on/off from home for years. BUT I'm in sales so I'm on calls and Teams/Zoom calls all the F'ing time so that helps. Just being locked inside and working on projects or something would probably drive me crazy. I think it helps to belong to a gym (for all kinds of reasons) because it gets you out and with people. I mean, in the end I'm a very social person who suffers from some FOMO so I can't stay locked inside. That's why I love the live music scene in Austin and I have no problem going to shows by myself or cajoling friends to go.
  11. Austin perspective:
  12. Sorry... I'm close to a million miles and I still find air travel magical. Yes, its not glamorous but whatever. It takes me to new places. And besides, people talk about "the good ole days" but forget smokers on planes. I took an Iberia flight in 1998 or 1999 and I sat one row from the smoking section. Somehow the smoke did not stay on their side. It was grand.
  13. 1" at our house yesterday. Beautiful heavy rain. That's 3" in August!
  14. Someone's bringing the back together... For reference...
  15. texasdago

    2025 ACL

    All I got out of that was "hey, that's Johnny Depp!!!" But nicely done on the minstrel image @jimmyjazz
  16. texasdago

    2025 ACL

    So Mumford came on the other day on SirusXM. I never listen to Mumford because no. Anyway, I thought, "maybe I should listen to it for a second and revisit the music" so I turned up the volume and, WTF. No. Really. Why?
  17. Yeah, this summer has bene totally tolerable. 98? 99? Ok. 100? Yeah kind of sucks but its not 105 or 107 day after day. Assuming the source I saw was correct, the hottest temperature this summer in Texas was 103. The highest in the state. If real, that's a cakewalk summer.
  18. To be fair, any school district with money (or in a property rich area) is getting screwed. Even Eanes. I suspect not everyone in Eanes is a CEO or cryptoking. Mind you, I'm in AISD so not in Eanes. We get our own special kind of screwing over. Off topic... back to racists.
  19. Interesting schtick and they're talented... sort of a 70s funk/prog Rock/blue-eyed soul sound. They played a 40 minute set and while they were good, I was kind of ready to turn the page at 30 minutes. As for Babe Rainbow, Angus was sober and they all sounded great. Start of their US tour from Australia and they were great!
  20. Been curious to see them. Good a railing spot on the second level but may go down below later. Steamy tonight.
  21. Clickbait
  22. Game time decision. Just bought tickets for tonight's Babe Rainbow show at Mohawk. Hopefully they're not wasted tonight. Grandmaster opens.
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