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Axle Hongsnort

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  1. I'm fond of Saddleback Leather; I have 4 of their bags.
    Incredibly heavy, but you aren't going to break one.
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    I have these two canvas bags, but they are out of stock, and no ETA of when they will return.  I actually prefer the canvas due to the lighter weight:
     
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    I love my Saddleback. They are amazing quality and so cool, like strangers stop and comment cool, but not a practical daily bag IMO because they are heavy and bulky. I now use it for special occasions and have a smaller canvas tumi laptop bag but have mostly gone full backpack given convenience / practicality.
  2. I pay reasonably close attention to west and NW Austin real estate.  I am DEFINITELY seeing more price drops.  That doesn't necessarily mean prices aren't still climbing, they appear to still be on an upward slope, but there is absolutely a cooling off going on, at least in terms of sellers trying to swing for the fences.

    I dunno man, 78746 prices still a rocket ship for my three Cali friends transferring here
  3. solid, thanks for input. i’ve done almost zero swiss research but saw vail made a majority investment there and assumed it was a top choice.

    is there one area or resort that threads the needle of incredible skiing plus luxe hotel/spa accommodations and food? the chedi in andermatt fit that bill. for now, with a travel day on each end of a full week would be looking at like 5 days and wouldn’t want to switch hotels to see multiple places. my wife is a good skier and is coming to appease me (and ski).

    looking for the vail or park city of the alps i suppose. i’d splurge for a guided day in some backcountry or once in lifetime experience, but am not an extreme off piste guy seeking gnarly drops.

  4. Anyone skied Andermatt-Sedrun in the Swiss Alps? Vail bought a majority interest and is including 5 days next year in the local epic pass. My 50th bday plans might be taking shape.

  5. There’s no one good in Austin IMO for anything other than a first trip of season pre wax. I make it a point to do a grind / wax a couple times per season mountain side vs a random newb here. 100% always keep mine indoors in the summer.

  6. There’s enough indie diamonds in the rough, plus funky musicians like goose, billy strings is fun, spoon will bring hometown heat, war on drugs should be good. rhcp is far past their prime but will bust out enough early classics and cock socks to make it work. Plus my kids will get me up to speed on other new shit. it’s always fun…

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  7. Wife and I work from home a lot, and with a new 16 year old sharing our cars it’s become a little inconvenient, but not “have to have 3rd car bad”. I’m looking at a Thruxton 900 to commute to the office 2’ish days per week when I don’t WFH and random errands close to home. Commute is from West Lake Hills to Hyde Park / Quadrangle area meaning i could skip Mopac and take Exposition or Lamar to 35th/38th. I’ve done lots of road cycling and can appreciate idiot drivers, but from a motorcycle safety standpoint, what is worse, highway or tarry town/s lamar type riding ?

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  8. Two thumbs up. Perfect blend of comedy / horror by not taking itself seriously. I didn’t catch until after that the old lady and coked up stripper were same actress.

  9. You hit the subject on the head. The problem iwth the meniscus is lack of blood flow to a lot of it. That's why they snip out the tear. If the area has blood they sew it back

    I’m old, pushing 50, had a torn meniscus snipped out last year. Went to work next day, walked without crutches in 2 days. Was lightly jogging in a week. The hardest part recovery wise is from the cocktail straw sized hole they probe into your knee to find what to snip. But its not like a torn tendon that can get reinjured from trauma, it’s just snipping out little frayed edge which triggers the pain.
  10. We’re three weeks in, so in the honeymoon period, but really like it. I used to do a lot of road biking and have done various boot camp, gym, cross fit, etc memberships, but being so busy with work and kids the convenience factor is the shit, especially WFH a couple days a week.

    The breadth of classes beyond spin should not be overlooked. And the camaraderie of doing live classes makes up for a lot of the boredom of just riding a trainer. Watched the second half of horns game last night while having a simulated ride through France on the monitor and 45 minutes flew by.

    Stock wise, I wouldn’t think twice as a reason not to buy. They skyrocketed during covid and it was not sustainable. They have far too many active members for someone not to swoop in be it Amazon, Apple or private equity. The new CEO was the CFO at Spotify and Netflix which signals how they are thinking about digital and growth. He’s mentioned dropping the price of the bike am increasing the monthly subscription which is curios.

    I’ll plug the 30 minute HIT / Hill class with Leann as a hard and efficient quick workout. And she’s juggy.

    #SurlyPeloton

  11. Heading to Keystone tomorrow afternoon. Annual guys trip with 25+ year stretch with same 5-10 dudes. Couple lean years with marriage and kids, but game on tomorrow. dallas and austin guys departures pulled forward to skip the thursday ice, tomorrow it is.

  12. We cut off Sirius two years ago at the start of Covid and it’s really not been missed. The song rotations are crap anyway. Just stream Spotify. Or play digital music off the iPhone, or stream sports talk radio. I drove from Austin to Dallas and just stream apps. I do not miss the annual argument. 

    Nah, it’s got tremendous depth and diversity of music and news. Flipping through channels 15-35 gives everything rock related you could be in mood for, old and new. Plus pro sports all through the app. And the standup comedy stations are solid. I drive enough that firing up my iphone for spotify every time i start the car is a whip.
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  13. Spent the past 2 days skiing Telluride. They had a decent base so most runs were open but no fresh snow in the past ~1 week so it was mostly just groomers. Still fun though.

    Normally go with a group but due to different life circumstances it was just my wife and myself this time. She learned to ski about 10 years ago as an adult and struggled big time those first few outings, but since then she’s become a very competent skier and can easily do blues, most groomed blacks, and moderate moguls. I planned to take it fairly easy skiing with her but she kicked ass and we knocked out 41 runs and 45,449 vertical feet in 2 days. Mix in occasional stops at Bon Vivant for food and drinks and it made for an excellent ski weekend.

    Telluride now has ski tracking built into their app which can also generate a 3D map at the end of the day. I thought that was pretty cool compared to 3rd party apps I had always used before.

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    Also, for anyone familiar with Telluride, we got to do a dinner at Alpino Vino which was a great experience. They take you up in a snowcat, 14 people total, and you get a 4-course prix fixe Italian meal with wine pairing. Not cheap and not something we will do often, but a fun and memorable evening for anyone who likes that type of thing.

    Similar deal with my wife. Pretty hard core athlete who didn’t ski until early 30s. It’s part of the family vibe with the kids now, but there is a lot to be said for learning to ski that late.
  14. Apple family here.  I pay for their 2 TB storage @ $10 a month.  It backs up every iDevice that me, my wife and our 2 kids have, and also stores every digital pic I've ever taken in the iCloud Drive feature, along with anything else important. Right now, I'm using around half of that.
    It's not as good as Dropbox, but everything we have already can access it without needing to install dropbox, maintain logins for that service, etc.
    I do have a Dropbox, but only the free tier, and use it primarily as an additional backup for certain things.
    I also have a 24TB WD NAS that contains everything in the iCloud Drive, along with movies and TV shows.  The NAS contents are backed up to a 18TB WD external, along with a few 5TB WD externals as well every month or so that gets taken to my office at work to keep off site.
     
     

    Any thoughts on how the apple storage works with an ancillary PC? I’ve got pretty basic needs to just save “family business” docs (pdf, xls, sheets, etc) in an organized folder hierarchy that we’d create. I’ll never use a Mac for work and vice versa for my wife. And the whole family uses Iphones coupled with gmail reliance for personal and now work.
  15. Looks like for a family like ours with a combo of mac’s and pc’s, gmail accounts for work and personal and several iphones that going all in with google with their photo app coupled with google drive should let us kill drop box and apple storage upgrades. The reviews indicate the google photo apps plays nicely with apple.

    I’ve got a slew of old hard drives I’ve historically used for taxes, mortgage and stuff but if they ultimately require cloud backup as a fail safe measure then i think i’m ready to surrender fully to the cloud gods.

  16. Over the years the family has ended up with too many options. Drop box from the beginning for taxes, mortgage and personal stuff, then got into the Apple ecosystem with Iphones mostly for photos (with storage fees now, amplified with kids) and i’ve had a gmail address forever with minimal use of their storage.

     

    I’m looking to consolidate everything and am curious what others do.

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