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Larry T. Spider

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  1. Isn’t Austin College really expensive? Maybe that was part of the humble brag.
  2. I agree with your take on removing Hamas being the holdup in any peace talks. But I don’t see any round table being taken seriously by Israel. They see them as a deadly cancer they are cutting out. If you leave any, it can quickly resurface.
  3. No idea if this is true but I’ve heard that in California you lock in your taxes at the purchase price. Prevents people from being forced out of their homes due to rapid value increases.
  4. McCallum pulls from as far west as past 360. It borders Eanes in some areas and has the same demographics in those parts. There are always some exceptions, but the kids and parents are way more relaxed (in a good way) than neighboring districts and other HS tracks. Having gone to Westwood and worked at a lot of these schools, McCallum would be my first choice.
  5. A bit of good news is that Buchanan has gone from about 44% full to 50% over the last 6 months. Slowly been creeping up.
  6. It was announced today that Jacob’s Well is closed for swimming this summer due to low flow. They will check monthly but it doesn’t look great. Thanks Aqua Texas.
  7. Some storms out near Brady making their way southeast. Won’t be a ton but might be one more round for the area west of Austin.
  8. The antics of these protestors with their “send humanitarian aid” bullshit are sucking up all the oxygen in the room. Fewer people are talking about dead Palestinians now than before they started.
  9. When I started this thread, Travis was 38.1% full. Despite being in the “rainy” season, we are now down to 37.1%. Good chance for some rain tonight then it looks dry for the next week. Let’s hope it falls in the right places.
  10. Pouring in round rock. Trying to leave lunch but guess I’ll have to order another beer.
  11. In accordance with Texas Education Code (TEC), §28.0256, beginning with students enrolled in 12th grade during the 2021-2022 school year, each student must do one of the following in order to graduate: Complete and submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
  12. We have a neighborhood kid that build a trailer he can pull behind his bike. Has his mower, weedeater, gas can, and other supplies. He works hard but I’m pretty sure he cleans up. Many people prefer to hire him over a larger company even if he can’t do it all year. Doing something like that teaches a lot of transferable skills such as sales, marketing, dealing with customers, managing expenses, cheating on taxes etc.
  13. Need new windows and a guy for Power was going door to door. Let him give me a quote and a sales pitch. It was 46k, which is quite a bit more than I was expecting. It’s a single story house in the burbs and that just seems like overkill relative to the value of the home. No idea what he paid but my neighbor had window world do his a while back and he was happy with them. I was planning on calling them but this thread has given me pause. Has anybody else had experience with them over the last few years? Open to any other recs yall have.
  14. Still steady rain in Round Rock.
  15. I actually see the inflation problem getting solved in 8-12 months, which will lead to lower rates. Unfortunately, it will be because the average American will have accumulated so much credit card and car loan debt on top of their student loan debt, that spending will have to come down.
  16. Futures down across the board. Im going to make a simpletons bearish case for the next 6-7 months. Yall poke holes in it. Inflation is sticking around enough to prevent rate cuts that were somewhat priced into the market. Global unrest is going to persist for at least that duration. Issues with China arent going away. Ukraine/Russia is still going strong and now we throw in a Middle East showdown. Now to tie the two together. Oil prices are going to go up, which will have an inflationary effect on just about everything, further delaying rate cuts, and cementing a shit market for a while. Tell me how I’m wrong and we are all going to get rich in 2024.
  17. Just some friendly unhoused beavers.
  18. Texans won’t go for an income tax because certain groups have convinced people they will end up with high rates for property and income. Who knows, they might be right. I think increasing the gas tax and sales tax are more feasible, but also unlikely. At least those help the red politicians argue that “more people have a skin in the game”. Both act as inflationary though.
  19. Maybe in the vaguest way possible without mentioning that part of our area is already doing this….
  20. A lot of Wilco gets its water from lake Georgetown, which is supplemented with water pumped in from stillhouse hollow. Wonder if we could devise a larger system with non-force field lakes such as Whitney, which is currently 100% full. Also Belton is close and 75% full. Obviously this only works if they receive rain when we don’t.
  21. The pictures are quite sad. I have to assume that very few people rely on the lake for their main source or water, right?
  22. In this part of the world droughts end in floods. The lake will eventually be full again no matter what this summer or next brings. It’s just a matter of the prolonged pain until it happens. Sadly, most of the Austin population is completely oblivious to how this could play out in the very near future.
  23. I started this thread a month ago and we have gone from 38% full to 37%. Doomed.
  24. Can you turn that into something shorter like a haiku?
  25. I was going to say the same thing. No way these guys are getting deals if there is strong evidence.
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