Quick, tell me a last minute show to attend tonight in Austin from around 6:00 to 9:00. Need to be out of the house for a bit. May just hit Continental Club or Antone's or maybe something random at HITW.
Has anyone ever bought a GreenWorks lawn mower? I used to have a Kobalt electric mower which worked like a champ and it flooded during Harvey. Got a Black and Decker POS and it just died which is perfectly fine with me. I would love an Ego since I have a bunch of their tools but don't want to spend that much. Do not need self-propelled. Just electric. Ideas?
T contribution to Thanksgiving dinner involves my secret Thanksgiving recipe.
Takes maybe an hour, max
Drive to The Switch in Belterra
But a bunch of ribs and sausage
Drive home
Reheat properly on Thanksgiving
????
Profit
The Austin homicide map is crazy when you look at groupings of murders, especially when you consider the Sunset Valley one was one guy killing his grandparents (so not random crime but some nutbag) and the one near Far West was vehicular homicide...
When you dig in the homicides in Austin, I sometimes wonder if the raw numbers tell the whole story and there's maybe less random crime than some thing, especially compared to other cities.
https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/austin-homicide-map-2024/
January 1st - man kills girlfriend
March 27th - child abuse
April 13th - fentanyl death.
June 19th - murder suicide
June 25th - child killed by a family member
July 1st - son kills father
July 3rd - murder suicide
August 7th - vehicular homicide
September 21st - grandson kills 2 grandparents
September 24th - murder suicide
October 14th - man kills mother of his children
November 18th - domestic violence (weird rationale on this one... https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/apd-84-year-old-man-accused-of-murdering-woman-dog-in-east-austin-home/)
I did not count self-defense in the above because someone still may have died. Anyway that's 13 deaths that are certainly not random. Not that any death is good.
Other things I learned:
A 13-year old can be a one-man crime machine
Don't wear a $100,000 watch around town
Don't slash someone's tires unless you want to die
Sure sure... Riverside is gentrifying but...
Not all Rainey deaths float
Some people die of "apparent gunshot wounds"
If you are homeless and you brandish a machete, you and a buddy might die
If you're not homeless but steal a homeless man's drugs, you might die
Like game rooms and throwing dice? You might die.
If you provoke someone who is on his way to anger management meeting, it may not end well
Before the 2023 season...
SEC home winning percentage: .525
https://aggieswire.usatoday.com/2023/07/16/texas-aggies-football-sec-home-field-rankings-usa-today/
We're so loud and intimidating when losing!?!?!?
The winning percentage alone can’t serve as a proxy for the hostility and pressure from over 100,000 fans screaming at you when trying to get a play call in. Aggie football may have had its recent struggles, but by no means is the 12th Man indicative of a last-place ranking among the other SEC fanbases.
This should be your European ski trip planning Bible below. Pretty self-explanatory.
https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=167136&sid=4e689adbebca9d92cda873ea4c198bb6