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hornbri

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  1. 16 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

    Just finished Defending Jacob and think it was a good watch overall. Definitely a little uncomfortable at times, but it was a much more polished version of HBO’s The Undoing.

    Was the undoing based on the same book?

  2. 1 minute ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Now you're scaring me a little, haha. I will budget accordingly. It just seemed like an opportunity that was too good to pass up, and since I'm vaccinated (will bring mask of course) I was looking forward to just getting out for the drive and the outing. Am putting a cooler in the back so I can load up if necessary.

    oh in that case you can have a lot of fun in that store. 

  3. 1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    I am driving a friend to Austin in the near future and am thinking with the free time I will have to stop at a Central Market since our area doesn't have one.

    Any recs on must haves? I am making a little list of hard to find ingredients, but if anyone has suggestions for food items, if it's something I know I can't get locally then I may throw it in the cart.

    I've seen some ideas above, and I may look at the hot sauces, but I'm not looking to own twenty like some of you all. I cook a fair bit of Italian cuisine so any advice on products you like would be much appreciated.

     

     

    Not sure how small a town you are coming from. But in the theme of Italian and Central market, they have a lot of higher end dry pastas that really do taste much better, they also have fresh pasta in the deli section that is pretty good. They have a few Risotto's that I like (will try to find a pic of the brand). Really good canned tomatoes. 

  4. 5 hours ago, wood said:

    Matt's is good but not incredible, but Lupe is dogshit. No flavor. Bland as fuck. How they charge that much for that food with a straight face is an absolute mystery to me.

    The fajitas at Lupe are very good and very very overpriced the rest of the menu is not that great. Matt's is also not that great and not worth the volume of business they get, it might easily be the most overrated place in Austin. If you were near Matt's in Austin and that is the place you go I don't know what to tell you. There are several smaller mom and pop type places near there that are much better. 

  5. 8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I will make one soon.  The logistics are fairly simple to get there.  Emirates or whatever to Dubai and then to Male.  I did this in 2012 to Sri Lanka.  It's a long ass flight, but not much to it.

    We are doing AUS-DFW-DOH-MLE one way and MLE-DOH-ORD-AUS the other. 

    As flights open back up there is chances for less stops from AUS. You could do AUS-LHR-MLE for example (I don't think those connections are going right now). 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    If 98% of the world isn't back to normal by January 2022, we have much bigger issues.  I am headed to the Maldives in spring of 2022 come hell or high water.  And that high water is a comin' for them.

    I am going in September. They are open to travel right now so we went ahead and booked. 

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  7. I am not sure there are many winners at all here. As someone not planning on moving anytime soon it means more property taxes. For potentional buyers in the market it is extremely stressful. For sellers staying in market they are spending the money into a home somewhere else. The only people winning are people moving out of the area or retirees downsizing. 

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  8. 24 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    Calling it the "Covid Generation" for kids born between 2017 and into the next few years is a bit silly. My two year old and infant have no idea what's going on. My two year old might vaguely remember the masks (which he thinks are funny) but he's not going to associate them with anything.

    Covid generation would be any kid that's in at least pre-school through high-school, whatever years that ends up being.

    Agree with this, my 3rd grader has been effected without a doubt and this will shape her early learning and how she sees the world. My Kinder kid knows about it, but it might be a stretch even for her to remember a ton about this other then play time was different for a little while. 

  9. 18 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I believe step up in basis occurs whether estate tax is imposed or not.  That is, even if the estate is in excess of the exemption, assets in the estate receive stepped up basis in the hands of heirs or beneficiaries.

    I could be wrong, but I don't think so.

    So if you are already paying tax on the 15M value (for example) then we SHOULD allow the step up basis since they paid tax on the full value of the asset. 

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