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drt

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  1. https://www.change.org/p/city-of-austin-opposition-to-homeless-shelter-center-proposed-location-1112-w-ben-white-blvd? has started making the rounds. Whee!
  2. Also a nice little note: CoA is planning on buying it for 8-9 million, currently it is assessed at ~2 mil by TCAD. Either the city is way overpaying or commercial property is criminally undervalued, but seems like residents get screwed either way.
  3. When we went we did hikes to Observation Peak as well as Specimen Ridge. Neither were very difficult, Specimen ridge was definitely less crowded. We were told that Electric Peak was a good challenging hike, but ran out of time to even give it a try. We camped in the park itself and had issues getting into the campgrounds we wanted, it gets really f'ing crowded in the summer. It took getting up balls early and hustling ass to get one of the first come, first served sites in a decent campground. Honestly I enjoyed the Tetons more, but both they and Yellowstone should be required visits if you're in that part of the country.
  4. Regression to the mean?
  5. Spain sure is nice most of the year.
  6. It's funny because the Community First Village that everyone touts as such a success and blueprint to follow is actually out in the country.
  7. So I was talking to an architect buddy this morning. Apparently he went to some seminar on affordable housing or some such recently and heard some stats from whatever body was doing the presentation. 2000ish chronically homeless in Austin, another 7-9000 temp homeless out on the streets on any given night was the number thrown around. For each one COA spends $220,000/year on police, ems, outreach, etc. If you put them in some sort of housing that drops to $90,000. Hence the current push to put them in beds by city council. What he (and I) don't get is how you just put it one neighborhood. There is no way this will ever be equitable, but to just dump this one facility in South Austin is not only unfair, but a drop in the bucket to the scope of the problem. This facility is slated for 100 beds. ARCH is losing 60. Kitchen's response to this issue in our neighborhood has always been reactionary and minimalistic. This just continues the trend. Meanwhile my neighborhood is getting less safe. It was actually promising how many new young families have moved in in the last 4 years. I expect them to migrate out if this moves in. We probably will too.
  8. It's another site for housing, services, etc. Basically an ARCH, but in a somewhat affordable neighborhood. Lord knows this shit wouldn't be in Tarrytown.
  9. I think it's the ISA building right there on the NE corner.
  10. I just tried to turn on the game via the Fox app again. Doesn't work, again. This is pathetic.
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    USMNT 2019

    As long as it's not a major injury, I'm actually glad Adams is heading for a rest. Very little to be gained by him being there, imo.
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    Austin FC

    Ya that fevo link is what my men's league team got sent by someone. So either our group is together, or we all just paid money to some enterprising individual.
  13. Same. Fuck Ann kitchen. She specifically said it would not be close to neighborhoods.
  14. It looks like they're moving a bunch of services to an as yet unnamed location in south Austin, likely close to us. Nextdoor has been a comedy the last couple of days.
  15. Mine will only open the tactical cam.
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    USMNT 2019

    Uh, can you provide some background on that? If I remember correctly he was pretty clear about his recommendations to MLS around starting/improving their academies, but I have slept since then.
  17. I had a friend die of cervical cancer at 31. Diagnosed while she was on vacation for her 30th birthday. It was a terrible year while she fought the disease. That's now mostly preventable.
  18. Ya I ended up just going with Raleigh as Floratam apparently doesn't do well with any shade, and couldn't justify the extra cost for Amerishade around a house we might outgrow in a year or two. We'll see how it goes, I need to trim some limbs in the back as well so maybe that'll help. Also I'm tilling in some compost as the soil sucks currently.
  19. We hit https://www.zumaltenmarkt.de/ and https://www.goerreshof.de/ for bavarian food while we were there. Both good.
  20. Did not watch, but not sure that a bolt stunner kills viruses. Fire does. Sometimes.
  21. Jesus that’s a depressing stat
  22. https://mill-king.com/ is what we buy. It's delicious.
  23. We got golf ball sized hail in 78745
  24. I think its Tuesdays that CM Westgate has 25% off growler fills. I think growler fills were already cheaper for mainstays like EJ, but this makes it significantly less than going across the street and buying their beer at PHP South Lamar where it's brewed. Makes no sense, but I'm not arguing.
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