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Let me explain why we will ALWAYS get fucked by the referees. Go out to any youth sports league out there. You have young referees at all the kiddos games. Guess what school's graduates are nearly nonexistent in these ranks. That's right Texas grads. What you do see is a shit ton of Aggies, and other schools. Twenty plus years later they are refereeing college games. There will always be an inherent bias against Texas, by the referees. It's part of our mystique, the hatred of us, is simply part of the package. For every call that goes our way, you can usually count about 8 that went against us. But that's the cross we bear, and it's one we will never shed. Doesn't make me less furious, when I see the repetitive nature of the calls and especially non-calls with our defense for holding. But at least this game we didn't help the refs as much with our own brain farts as much. With one notable exception brain fart. Anyhow the ref's suck and are for whatever reason make so many non-calls a game in favor of our opponents it's ridiculous.
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Well, tonight was the wife and my 40th anniversary. We had a reservation at Red Ash for a daylight saving time 5:30. But thought, you know the one thing that makes me feel like I am still part of Austin is SoCo. So I thought a decent Sunday pre-game time killer would be Chicken Shit Bingo at C-Boys. The long story short is, we walk in, and shortly later they toss the chicken in. Well the first "bingo" was pretty large... And with some time to kill I buy the suggested $20 for 5 tickets. Then they toss in the chicken, and it dropped two almost undetectable pebbles, that nobody but my non-drinking wife would have noticed. But there it was, BINGO! I just assumed they were gong to bring us the winnings. But you have to go up front and let them count the money out to you in front of the band. The best part was when the band leader said, "Well congratulations on your 40th anniversary, and what a romantic son of a bitch bringing her to chicken shit bingo." Anyhow what could be more Austin that Chicken Shit Bingo followed by Red Ash...
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
horn4life replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
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This evening, take a moment to step outside as the sun starts to set. In my neighborhood there there will be the little bitty Halloweeners. If seeing those very young kids, out for what may be their first Halloween doesn't make you smile (and perhaps bring a tear if you are an old like me) there is something wrong with you. So free good vibes tonight early! (think about those sweet kids, when the asshole teens roll up a few hours later)
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
horn4life replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Curious about what you pros think about the uptick in delistings? To me is sort of confirms what I have been saying for quite a while now, there are a lot of listings that are NOT priced to sell. The sale is not the goal, the high sale price memory from two years ago is the goal. And when you don't need to sell, are you really trying to sell? Or just wasting everyone's time? Anyhow this article is about how much higher than historic delistings are helping keep listing prices high. A growing number of home sellers are taking lingering properties off the market instead of lowering their prices. -
Because the "I never carry cash" contingent don't think about other people as much. IMHO- no offense to super credit card tippers unaware of taxation... @Brisketexan did make a good point, in tipping daily, to make sure the worker who does the cleaning that day gets the tip. If we stay a week, we might have the maid come in twice. We might ask for towels if we see them, So we do a lot of big back end tipping. (pun intended)
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I don't really care about anything but eliminating unknown letters. TREAD PIOUS MANGY BLACK Then I start solving... I'm basically 98% in the 725 tries. A couple of those were my forgetting to finish, or trying to guess early. PIOUS is the most often throw away. I used to use MONEY rather than MANGY, as eliminating or confirming A and E locations is a good strategy too. But that extra G elimination or confirmation. Anyhow good brain game on the crapper.
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The weight and length made me shy away from those. However, if I still had younger kids the utility of them hopping on the back in the neighborhood would be a neat novelty for them. And likely nature rides early Sunday mornings would be fun. I actually saw a pair of the Lectric brand bikes way down the beach in Port A/Corpus. One tricycle and one regular bike. They looked like they were used a lot and showed the salt damage on a lot of the hardware. But they ran fine and the ladies on them seemed to be enjoying them. No doubt salty air will. basically eat anything. But with a lot of prevention, and religious wash downs I am thinking I can get my $2K back in enjoyment. But honestly how many times would I actually make that trip? Once? Twice? Mostly it would be cruising around the neighborhood, or maybe early morning weekend rides downtown and back up NW. City of Austin gives a pretty damn good rebate if you your bike locally from an approved vendor. I have been looking at versions of this and some of the new tech, like a rear locking hub via app are appealing. What I also thought of last night was that I could ride to the train station, Hop the train, and then use it downtown. But then theft is my big concern, right? I have been looking at the Aventon Adventure for a while now. Anyhow here is a great link with a lot of the questions here answered by bicycling magazine with their 2025 reviews. Most of the bikes mentioned thus far here are on their ratings list. 16 best Electric bikes of 2025 according to bicycling.com FYI - City of Austin E-Bike rebates... Cost of $500 - $999 credit of $200, $1K- $1999 credit of $400, and over $2K nets a $600 credit
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I was telling the wife that maybe the ticket is get a front hitch fro my truck and buy a pair of E-bikes. One bad mofo for me, and something smaller for her. Thought the eBikes would be great if we we started doing more RV trailer stuff. As I could back in trailer, never take it off the hitch and just use the EBikes for weekend transportation. But mainly I see fishing use for me, along with very possible SXSW weekday music venue rapid movement and parking. But the idea of us both having a bike to go to more remote spots or to cover more trail is an intriguing idea for me.
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Wow, saw that The Revivalists are playing Stubbs tonight. Think I am going to go down and grab a ticket. Looks like a solo trip though... As wife and usual buddies are a no go. With the weather nice, should be a nice show.
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I think what's mainly broke is Peterson's brain. His financials merely reflect that brain broke, with a mirror image of bank account broke.
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This is the beach right out in front of IB MaGee RV park. Maybe 150 yards from our parking spot. Sun coming up over the tip of Port A South Jetty.
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Ha! That was my growing up Los Tios on Kirkwood and Memorial! If we hauled ass from Westchester we could barely get in and out during lunch time. Margs are pretty strong, but not too terrible tasting.
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Well had my 20 days in Port A and back in Austin. With two redfish limits pulled out of the Fish pass Jetty, and getting Redfish catch cooked at La Playa, and the Trout and Flounder cooked at Kody's. Outside of watching the disaster of the Florida game, the trip was as usual, relaxing and awesome. But here are a couple pics from the trip Sunrise from beach in front of IB MaGee looking at jetty 20 inch trout converted to Garlic Fish at Kody's Edwin the owner of Kody's asked my how big my flounder was. I said pretty big (21 inches) and he said he would make us something special if we brought it back in the evening. Pic is crap as my camera was still damp and fogged. But he basically wrapped a crab cake, with flounder filets, tossed it int eh broiler and then hit it with a white wine sauce. Charged us 14 each for the fish cook, and for a single crab cake. Having my fish cooked by Kody's and La Playa is one of my real pleasures in Port A! Anyhow see ya soon Port A! Tight lines, good meals, and a good buzz!
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You guys may have inspired me. We thought about trying to make a trip in early December, but oldest daughter is about to give birth so kicked that to the curb. But we could get a lot of what we want on the Jan 1 weekend. I assume that a lot of businesses will keep the Christmas lighting going through the long weekend? As seeing some of the displays and the Christmas vibe was what the wife wanted to see in December. And damn- I can go from the 1st though the 7th via costco for $2500 at the Royal Benjamin Sonesta, 2 pm check in/out, including private car transfers from airport to the hotel, and direct Austin flights for $2700! New Grandkid birth washed out our 40th, but we are getting a better present! So this might be a nice delayed alternative. I totally agree with the idea of trying to explore certain areas. I was looking at a Spring trip from the last week of march into April, to see some of the blooming season. We went at the end of April last year and it was waning for the most part. OK guess I need to take @PenelopeWitherspoon list of storefronts, and maybe let that determine my hotel. Anyhow glad I came over to glance at the thread!
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Well this has been RV month. Dragged her down to coast for from the 1st to the 19th. Good times in Port A, with good weather for the most part. A torrential rain did let me know that my skylight needed replacing that I knew, but the leak got me motivated. I have been regularly looking for any leakage, and the downpour let me see the drip. But it was dripping into the shower. Which made me concerned that there had been a leak a long time and the roof might be rotting out. Did I say I parked the rig, and didn't do a damn thing for nearly two years except freeze prep. She's a 2017 rig parked outside with a preoccupied owner, that now need a new roof. I have replaced the 30 amp plug, city water (with metal fitting not cheap plastic) using deeper screws to attach the fitting more securely. Removed and replaced the original culprit the leaky shower skylight. It was cracked pretty good around the seams. But the wood seems fine, but I did create a few tiny holes in the EDPM liner when cleaning out the old butyl tape and dicor. So.. that led to a trip to New Braunfels for a roll of roof tape to create a clean new surface for the new skylight. Of course since I made a few pinholes I decided to just re-coat the whole roof with RV magic. If I don't like the finished product I can always tear it off and put on a new liner. Basically a durable bandaid supposedly. So then I decide to hand scrub the entire roof rather than use my pressure washer. As I was concerned that I would blow water into any small whole in the liner and create even more problems for myself. Good news is the roof now looks like mostly black rubber, and while the hand scrub to remove anything loose, took about 4 hours on a ladder yesterday, I now KNOW that I do not have any liner failure that is visible, so I got motivated in the nick of time apparently. Took off all the vent covers and put self leveling on all those and cleaned and resealed the seals around the lids that had come loose. Today is remove the fridge and AC covers to clean the crap out of the edges and see if they need to be resealed with self-leveling sealant. As well as run a bead line of sealant along the outside side edges to lock down the existing rubber liner to the side molding. Then I will use RV tape on both sides and where the rubber is more stressed where it wraps over the corner of the roof deck. As well as across the roof where the rubber is more stressed by the plywood seams. That should give me a clean white edge where the roof liner is visible as a more durable foundation for the RV Roof magic coating, Also need to replace the jackknife sofa, as the lovely vinyl is peeling like a really bad sunburn. So probably putting in about $1500 to get the rig back in good shape. Oh yeah... need to get up underneath and deal with rust on the frame and repaint it where the scissor jacks are mounted and replace those, but that is a can to be kicked down the road until after the roof is repaired. And it all started with a little leak from a skylight into the shower... Anyhow the joys of RV ownership! But hell like I said, I parked her and didn't touch her for nearly two years while dealing with the deaths of both our mothers and my physically rehabbing my Dad. So a tough two years. But it was great in Port A! Reminded us of when we first got the rig and how much we enjoyed it as a mobile place that felt like home with our dog. It's super nice to just come and go depending on the weather, when we drop it for a month. As a reward for my hard work I think I am going to perhaps spring for a Starlink so we can have internet access in remote spots. Looks like I can turn it on and off by the month for $50 a month for 50GB of data. I think this might be the key to my using the rig more.
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If we can have Bijon Dijon... Might I suggest Niblett Extra Slippery Noodles! Thank you Ryan for providing the spark that allowed a season on CPR to take another breath. Hookem!
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Well...sounds even more true tonight.... though hard to hang your hat on getting your swagger back against SEC winless Mississippi Aggies... But at least there is still hope Texas 2025, towering and terrifying with tippity top thinking Title! A trip to Florida tilts the table, towards trepidation and terror. Today and tomorrow, and the tomorrow after that. Will tell the tale of this Texas team, who thought it, was all that!
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Kilz IMHO is overrated as a primer. Stuff is a lot thinner than good paint. But good easily accessible fix for smaller areas. As @ROFL BOX said there is not insulation between floors, so no soaking up of liquid into insulation. Still you would much prefer NOT to have any water intruding into dark spaces without airflow that could easily product mold. What I would have done (would have been likely overkill) since I was unsure of the water volume, would have been to remove the covers on a few of the upstairs electrical outlets surrounding the hidden wet area. I would have cleaned out my shop vac and then shoved my shop vac nozzle into the opening for the smoke detector to hopefully create a vacuum. Might have needed to drill some holes in the box for the smoke detector (if there even is one), to get the vacuum going. Huge overkill I know. But I would be hopefully be able to see if there was any liquid being sucked into the shop vac. but mainly I am trying to get some air moving though that dead air space between floors. What I have discovered that is fucking amazing is concrobium mold products. In that work differently. You can use the stuff to help you removed visible mold physically. But what is interesting about the product is that the product literally crushes future mold spores as they try to develop. Really, Really works well. If I even have another situation when a house floods and the walls have to be torn out (replace your toilet supply line today!!!!)After drying out and removing any visible mold I will spray this shit on every exposed piece of lumber before re-rocking the place. Anyhow if you ever have concerns about remaining/future mold and you can access the space, think of Concrobium products.
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Yes sir coach!
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Yeah> Probably a lot of your coaching behind that analysis. Hey coach? You can a guy with opposable thumbs or not? If you can't do a chin up, you are going to miss tackles. How many tackles you as coach are willing to accept, because of your lack of faith in the "next up" guy, is up to you. But smart coaches... want guys that can grab a guy and not watch their grib fail and the guy run on down the field. But coach... if you want a guy without a hand as your starter for Texas, who am I to not say you are not a genius...
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Try tackling somebody without a working thumb...
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So ADP is now going to withhold Labor Statistics from Fed? Wonder who put a finger on that lever?
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