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  1. 6 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    And simply making pedestrian and public transport slightly less terrible for people who want that isn't infringing on anybody.

    Taking away existing road infrastructure to provide bike and pedestrian paths clogs already saturated arteries within this city.  Not to mention, yes, some days it's nice to get out and walk and ride, but we're not NYC, and no one wants to smell your ass after you rode an hour to get to the office on your battery-supplemented bike.  And if you're lucky enough to live in walking distance to your work, well, good for you.  Most people around here are not.

  2. 50 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

    Not me, but my business partner:

    About 13 years ago his daughter and last remaining child living in the house was finishing up medical tech school and was planning on moving out.

    In anticipation of not having tuition or a child in the house to pay for, he started work on his dream man cave. He tore down the old garage and rebuilt it and redid all of the drive with some pretty cool hard scape work. Inside he had a kitchen, bath, and open area where he put his new pool table. All surfaces were hard and could be washed down with a hose if need be. It even had floor drains. The fridge was stocked with plenty of beer and nothing else. Antlers and other hangings not suitable for the house were placed about the room and got it just like he wanted.  He even beat cancer during this time. Life was good.

    Well, the daughter did not move out, so while she was living there no crazy parties were allowed.

    Eventually, daughter met someone and he had to fork over a bunch of money for the wedding. Like 30 grand or something. But it would be worth it he thought, just so she could be out on her own with her husband making their way in the world.

    Unbeknownst to him, his wife promised them they could live at home to save money.

    So the man cave had to be converted to a residence. All new flooring, new kitchen, new bath, new bedroom walls, closet walls, and lighting. Pool table had to go to storage along with all of the other trappings.

    He thought it would be ok after  a few years when they moved out after saving some money for a house.

    Well, that day never came because his daughter freaked out and got a divorce 6 months after getting married. So daughter moves back into the house and garage apartment sits empty.

    So after about a year when the coast is clear, business partner converts garage apartment back into a man cave. Walls are torn down, new flooring, new kitchen, new bath Yada Yada yada. All the while, daughter is still living at home.

    He has been enjoying his man cave for a few years now worry free. His daughter even met another guy a few years back and he has a good job so her days at home are numbered.

    So last week on Thursday, he doesn't show up for our usual beer drinking meeting even though he says he would be coming right over (he basically lives across the street from our office/yard).

    So I walk on over to see what's up and he and his wife are under the man cave patio-talking. I can tell I am interrupting, so say my hellos and leave.

    The next day I apologize for interrupting and he just shakes his head. He says his wife told him that his daughter wants to buy a house and move out and wants to move in with her boyfriend to save money. He asked where they were moving and his wife tells him, she said it would be ok if they moved into the man cave, after it was converted back into an apartment. Face palm.

    He should tell his wife to move in with her boyfriend while she's at it.

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  3. 13 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    Not trying to be a Debbie downer, but that unfortunate fellow has a dramatic life story of tragedy and success.
    He was terribly burned when the helicopter he was piloting was shot down in Vietnam 55 years ago. Barely surviving, he spent two years recovering in the burn unit at Brooke Army hospital - much of that time face down in a sling apparatus. 
    The plastic surgeons grew him a new nose by cutting a flap of arm flesh and attaching it to the stump of his burned off original one. His arm was strapped up by his head for months while the arm flesh grew onto his face. 
    The surgeons did not try to replace his burned off ears and he wears a full toupee to cover his scarred bald head. 
    By some fortuitous miracle, when he crashed and the chopped exploded in flames, he covered his his eyes with his arm, saving his eyesight. But that arm was severely burnt.

    When he was discharged from the hospital, he stayed in Army as a career officer and after several command assignments in Europe & Asia, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Early after getting back to active duty, he married a beautiful young nurse, with whom he adopted a baby girl to raise as an army brat. (❤️). 
    Unfortunately tragedy struck his family about 10 years ago when his wife unexpectedly passed away from a neural event. 
    But he has continued to keep trucking’ on, doting on his daughter, a nurse, who recently married. 
    He is quite an inspirational gentleman and all around good guy.

    Incidentally, He & Mrs. Brat went steady their senior year in high school and dated all through college even though they went to different schools. They broke up in their senior year a few months before I met her at a mutual friend’s wedding (that’s when she & I started our relationship and married in June of 1967). 
    We are all friends and are grateful to be able get together at their Taylor Duck class reunions.

     

    You sure it was a helicopter that got his nose?

     

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  4. 32 minutes ago, B00M said:


    somewhere there’s a strange world. It’s round with rocky terrain, liquid water oceans, a breathable atmosphere, a temperate climate, and even gravity similar to earth’s… since I’ve now discovered the new world, I get naming rights, it’s best continent, and most importantly, credit, fame, wealth, and the associated pussy. You’re welcome Surly.

    futurama fry GIF

     

    Next thing you know, you're being sentenced to death by snu snu.

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  5. 1 hour ago, texasdago said:

    Went skiing over spring break... one thing I dislike about the average Texan skiers is how they show up and ski dressed like walking billboards for their schools... it looks goofy and fits the CO narrative of Texan skiers.  Anyhoo... I need to find a picture as my wife told me about and then I saw this family of four Aggies, all dressed in top to bottom aggy gear to go skiing... it was nauseating and it was perfectly on brand.  

    Probably my in-laws.  Although, the oldest daughter is considering Tech now, which is even more heart-breaking for all.

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  6. 2 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    While murder took a spring break, it's back on the job. After nothing in the first half of March, I think it's been three in the past week.

    After a Riverside case over the weekend, we're now up to 14 through 3/24. Prior years:

    2024: 14
    2023: 21
    2022: 18
    2021: 18
    2020: 11
    2019: 7 

    Almost three months into the year, seems like we're trending lower but still way above what it was like pre-pandemic. Combination of how everyone seems a bit more nuts following the pandemic and so many more people. 

    It's the Urbanists ruining everything.  And the lack of trains.

  7. 20 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    Heat pumps?

    Man, my house burns Natural Gas like a red-blooded American.

    Heat pumps are for commies and europeans.

    Some of us aren't so lucky to have gas hookups.  My first house had it, was the tits for sure!

  8. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Prosecuting bad cops = “vendetta.”
    Expecting the city that employs cops to have…oversight of them…= “unacceptable.”
    Yeah. Thanks for making my point. Cops aren’t willing to be cops unless they have 100% power and 0% accountability. Call that CR if you want, but the cops have made their position crystal clear.

    I'm sorry a cop fucked your wife once while you watched, but not all cops are bad.  And yes, it's a fucking vendetta.  How many cops has Garza dragged through the courts thus far?  He indicted 17 cops then dismissed them back in December.  The two Javier Ambler sheriffs deputies, who were found to be not-guilty.  Christopher Taylor has been through two mistrials.  Jose Garza has wasted resources and money prosecuting officers with exactly 0 guilty verdicts.  If you're a police officer, and you could work for Austin and get paid significantly less with risk of litigation left and right, or go work in a more police-friendly city that pays better and has a better working relationship with the DA and the City Council, why the hell would you come to Austin!?

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  9. 23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    And WHY are police departments understaffed?  Because the word is out: becoming a cop doesn't mean you have absolute power with zero accountability, you aren't fucking gods among men.  The kind of people who might be interested in becoming cops if the job comes with absolute, unquestionable power.  And the ones who are already cops are quitting/retiring, because they aren't interest in staying on the job if they don't get to keep the "absolute unquestionable power" card.

    Take this crap to the CR.  APD is suffering more from the image of the DA office's vendetta against the police.  And the City wants unlimited oversite on the APA and APD, and the city council renegs on the contract negotiations.  Until you can get City Hall, the DA's office, and APD to cooperate, it's going to be a gigantic shitshow like this.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:

    Why didn’t she put it on 80 so that the house will get hotter faster.

    /DNAgal

    She's right, you know... 

     

    At least when you have emergency heat like most heat pump units have, if you set your temp high enough, it will engage the heat strips and start blasting the heat out quickly.  Downside is it draws like 4x the power to run.

  11. 1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

     

    I don't know what's better: her trying to reholster the gun between the girls while it's still hot, or her taking a hot minute to deploy the gun itself.  Hold on, Mr. Attacker, I'm going to shoot you, but I need a minute to whip this out, cock it, get my hand out of the front of the barrel, aim it, and I MIGHT get you then...

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  12. On 3/16/2024 at 11:44 AM, CHIEF said:

    At full pool level, not over filled, I have seen depths of over 300 feet, on a high end depth finder, in the area right below The Oasis. I remember back in the 90's when someone lost a sailboat, and they didn't find it for about a decade. It's pitch black at the bottom.

    CHIEF

    Man, your depth finder must be REALLY off.  Below the Oasis, you MIGHT see 200 if you're lucky at full pool, but I would bet closer to 180 from my recollection.

     

    CSB: did a night dive on the dam a decade and change ago, and with the survace elevation around 680', I shoved my arm with the depth gauge about 2 feet into the silt at the bottom to hit 170' at the deepest point on one of the "jail houses".  If you guys REALLY wanted the easiest way to increase capacity, dredge the river beds, and I bet you could get a good 10-15 feet of silt out of there, not to mention a few dead bodies.  Removing the peninsula / sometimes islands, you're going to be blasting away for ages to get minimal results.

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  13. At Twin Peaks, had a check for 14.86.  Tipped her "pi" (can't find the symbol) for the tip, and totaled it out to 18, which was a fair tip.  She had to call over two to three managers to figure out what was going on.  Was a dick move for sure, but worth the laughs.

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  14. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    It wasn't a question of "affordability", they couldn't attract enough lifeguards.  The budget was already fixed.  Ultimately they increased wages a bit and have not had that problem any longer.

    You do realize wages pretty much went up across most service industries coming out of the pandemic, right?

    So they didn't have the cap in the budget to raise wages high enough to attract life guard applicants?  Essentially they didn't budget for inflation / growth and hamstrung themselves.

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