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  1. Haha - I was going to mention that as well! That cover and a James Bond shower scene in Thunderball when my Dad when took me to the Downtown Houston Loews theater in Houston as a 6-7 year old? probably permanently perved me out. 😉 But I love hearing all those old songs from my parents adult child rearing era. Amazing how many song on the charts in the 1960's were related to movie soundtracks. I highly also recommend the A&M records documentary, "Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records." It shows the type of musical environment that allowed a great like Mangione to flourish and collaborate. It's on a couple subscription services but worth a watch. Here's a Herb Alpert Freebie documentary I found that started to suck me in. I still love a full band with some trumpet and sax... always will...
  2. Yeah I grew up listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in the 60's. That music is fundamental to my soul. Mangione sort of became the next herb Alpert for his time. And Mangione being on A&M records meant Herb was gonna get a slice from his talent as well. Mangione got so much airplay Feels So Good almost started to annoy me, but it's a great song. And the man can certainly play! RIP. I did get to see Herb Alpert a couple years ago at the Paramont Theater during covid (where I got it actually). Really enjoyable show, as its multimedia and historical in it's presentation. The guy is practically a billionaire and what gives him the most joy is still performing and playing that horn (beautifully still.) Whenever I am Surf fishing in the early hours of the morning, you will always hear my playing Pandora's mix of Herb Alpert. I am gonna really be upset when he passes. As that will truly be closing a door on my childhood...
  3. I got pulled over, with a 6 pack of Lonestar about 5 hours after I got my paper license... And I remember by neighbor buddy yelping... "We weren't gonna drink it!" The same buddy who insisted we go into the undeveloped area a cop was just coming out of, to meet some of his buddies. Cop made me pour them all out before letting us go. I poured about 1/3 out of each beet and dropped them on the ground. Cops followed us out, I doubled back 5 minutes later and chugged the remaining beer in those bottles. I still remember the cop shaking his head at my paper license, and half smiling. Probably the look I shot my buddy when he siad "we weren't gonna drink it" may have saved me. I forgot about that one... But I gotta admit, I like talking tickets and police interactions a lot fucking more than listening to the pussy ass whining we were getting 10 days ago....
  4. I honestly did not really know about PINS until if bought a foreclosure in Flour Bluff to remodel. Worlds slowest flip as I called it, back in 2018. I had always fished Port A, but the more time I spent in North Padre the more PINS came up, and my daughter was wrking at REI and she added me to her annual park pass and I was bitten after that. I just love the steeper guts between sand bars and the clear water. It's amazing the difference in water clarity a few miles down the bend can be. There is a LOT more trash and washed up shit, but that's part of the adventure.
  5. To do this was the whole reason I bought the trailer to begin with. How far down on PINS is this out of curiosity?
  6. and Open Door is up 159% in the last week...
  7. You need to go down and fish the jetty nubs of the old fish pass to your north. Depending on the wind, one of those jetty's are likely holding a lot of bait. It's old school big block granite at the tips and you need to be careful with your footing. I honestly did not know it was there until a couple years ago, but now is a go to fishing spot for me. I talked to a guy that made $1000 on memorial day getting mullet off the same rock for hours upon hours, and having folks come haul them off. SO the bait if often there. AND I am pretty sure you do not need a fishing license in Texas state parks to fish! I am actually gonna go take a look at my rig this AM. Hoping that the roof held through all the torrential rain after a year+ of being parked. Praying I don't get some moldy funk smell when I open the door.
  8. I can see it, but I can really hear it... After Cooper makes another punishing, soul breaking run to finish another victory, the is a deep rumbling noise from the fans. Coooooooooooooooooop..... Coooooooooooooooop....(think of Conan the Barbarian where "Doom" is chanted by the faithful. Welcome aboard Derrek. I have a feeling you are truly gonna leave a mark. And not just in the back of safety's pant...
  9. A couple of things since we are again looking at Hospice, but for my MIL. She has inoperable colon cancer and is turning 90 tomorrow. Or more accurately the surgery would likely kill her one way or another and her quality of life would be greatly diminished for what time she has left. Had a big party for her and all of the kids and grandkids were there who were not sick. So it was a great weekend of celebrating her life. And a special thanks to Caroline at Camino Real off 183 who went above and beyond helping us put this together. They were always wonderful to my inlaws, and just wanted to give them a deserved tip of the hat. But back to Hospice. My wife was basically the hospice nurse for her father and do to some terrible decision making by her mother all the burden was on her from the medical side of things until they got Hospice at the last minute. My wife this go round wanted to go with some folks that have ties to Christopher House so there is an environment she will not be managing so much at the very end. One of our concerns was that for quality of life my MIL would need blood transfusions. And we were concerned that transfusions might not be considered part of their care program. Well they are! Thankfully. On the dementia side of things the medications are only good in the early stages. I also think that if there is a choice to make a move to independent/assisted living with a memory care unit early in the process that is perhaps one of the best decisions that can be made. IF you find the right place. My wife is a Nursing Home Consultant Pharmacist so we thankfully know what is good and not so good in Austin. For example I think that my mother's life and quality of life would have been extended at least 6 months to a year had my folks moved into independent room she and my father would have become more of a part of the community there. More importantly whenever you do move a person with dementia, the are going to deteriorate with that move. Do to the change and unfamiliarity. Whatever percent decline this is, is greater in the latter stages than in the earlier stages. So in my case both my parents could have moved in independently and them when my mom became unmanageable for my father a move to a room downstairs where she had already been visiting would not have been at much of a decline. Anyhow there are not good choice, and all we can do it try to do the best we can, with the information we have. And unfortunately (or honestly fortunately) most of us don't have a lot of experience with end of life. But it's going to come for all of us, that's for certain. So do the best you can for your parents, and look forward and try to prepare things for yourself to make the process as easy for your kids as possible if you have them. God bless you all, and keep doing what you have to do.
  10. In fairness... that's a pretty low bar right? Since the Football team has won 4, 2, 4 and 5 (cue moronic Kyle Field SEC! SEC! SEC! SEC! Chant) SEC games in the last 4 seasons...
  11. Welcome U.S. Economy the Game! Until one day, the TACO retreat just doesn't go as planned. But PLTR just keeps roaring. I have a feeling like MP they have booked a lot of US government business but haven't reported it unlike MP, or OKLO. I also have always thought the long play on PLTR was the fact they have been operating AI in the more secure environments that exist, and I think the private sector will find that attractive. Unfortunately I am not leveraged to the gills this run up.
  12. This is the definition of how my sister helps... All Gas , No Bra Akes
  13. Shock... Surprise... We just landed another badass.... Our fate is not lost in the bunged up panties of summertime hysteria. I fucking hate to self quote, (and you can freely neg me for that) but you complaining hand wrining pussies with your panties up your fucking asses every God Damn Summer!!!! I see these naysayers and whiners as the sad kids of summer. Just never quite figured it out. It's about pools, pussy, and the smell of fresh cut grass with your windows down and the A/C blasting... I sort of have a feeling that our summertime whiners missed that part of life...
  14. Yeah I have some but not like I had before. I bailed completely and then started buying back in using covered calls, which kept fucking getting called. I keep getting nervous about the valuation too. But I am not leveraged to nearly the hild like I was before. So I now don't wake up to check the pre-market at 3 am... But not banking like I was on the rise either... I am trying to decide if that August 1 tariff deadline is going to taco on down the road or not? All evidence thus far would say bet on taco. But part of me says perhaps the taco trade, was really just a get across the finish line with the beautiful bill trade? If so then is there no longer a political need to taco? But mainly I worry about hanging onto to my PLTR, having them actually put up a good number, but have that good news drown in a sea of "What no TACO!?!?!" The administration tends to time bad things to fall on weekends, after hours or holidays where the market cannot directly react in real time. I still think long haul PLTR will be a great play, but the ride down is a lot steeper than the ride up. I think they are going to have good numbers and very good US government numbers. Part of me says go ahead and get risky with PLTR and hedge again with UVIX against worse case scenario. As UVIX is lower than when I first accumulated it the first go round on tariffs. But that sleeping past 3 am....
  15. Holy F batman, IF you can wade through the spelling errors in my above post you might decipher some useless information... '-)
  16. Not sure if you guys have seen it but on YouTube there is a history of the BBQ Family feuds in Lockhart. Pretty interesting, with the guy who writes about BBQ for Texas monthly woven through the documentary. T he whole thing about cooked correctly versus over cooked boild down to the "pull" off the bone. If you can take the bone and give it a little twist. IF the bone pulls free then you have hit the over cooked "curse." HAHA. But it makes sense, if you are trying to serve ribe, you want to be able to use the bone and the "popsicle stick." If you have overcooked ribs then the first bite will remove the meed from the bone, leaving a far too large chunk in your mouth. That to me is about the only real difference in perfect and overcooked ribs. I seriously doubt that very many folks would be able to tell you by taste much difference between overcooked and perfect is the meat was already off the bone. SO... to me it's more keeping the meat holding bone for aesthetics probably more than the actual taste difference. Anyhow the one thing this documentary did was make me regret now realizing that Texas Monthly had a BBQ fest in Lockhart. Might have to invest in those VIP tix next year. But I need to find somebody other than my skinny wife to gorge with me...
  17. Yeah... fucking Greg Davis... The way I would channel my frustration was to bellow out, "We Love You Greg Davis!" as the punt team would roll onto the field. Was something to giggle at against the damn frustration. And better than a string of F bombs... or more accurately... more F bombs...
  18. That's sort of what I thought. But I think that while the LLC owned it they had a flood claim on the property via insurance. Still I am assuming the LLC has been dissolved, but from the evidence they did have knowledge, and withheld it from disclosure. I honestly do not know exactly what remedy the neighbor has/will pursue. But figured some of you guys would have some solid info. And this is a lazy mans AI, Surly AI, as on Surly all intelligence is artificial isn't it? 😉
  19. OK I have an odd ball one. My Dad's neighbor on lake Belton house flooded last year, twice. The new owners bought the home, from an LLC. And they did NOT disclose that the house had flooded previously. My Dad just turned 95 and is happy to do some sort of deposition for them confirming the prior flooding. I think because the home is a vacation home and they just had a new baby they have been playing far too nice. Apparently they have not gotten much response from the listing agent, and need to go the attorney route. I also worried that they did not act within a year of the first flood, as they may be some sort of statute of limitation? I have no idea on this besides you have a year to file on car accidents... But I suggested that if they are not getting any response from the listing agent, simply move to the Texas Real Estate Commission, and lodge a complaint. A cheap way to get the listing agent whose disclosure was inaccurate, to respond. Other than that, attorneys and depositions. Any other thoughts? My main concern is that my 95 year old father may be the only person around who eye witnessed the prior flooding. And I do not want the LLC to get away with screwing over the new owner. BUT the LLC, may already have been resolved. So then what? Sue the individual memebers of the LLC for fraud? Anyhow just looking for perspective and advice. PS- house flooded due to runoff water, not rising water. And they nd the LLC made changes to the yard to push the water away from the house in response to the prior flood. SO there is some evidence of knowledge.
  20. So he needs to start dealing instead of using? 😉 JUST KIDDING!!!!
  21. Section 8 is a guaranteed government check. College housing is deposit forfeiture and damage repair. I looked at a Quadplex thinking section 8 years ago, and I figured it was going to be endless sewer problems. As that property already had folks flushing dumbass shit down the toilets. So went with a single family house. I would imagine I would prefer to have large deposits on college rental properties, and try to rent more to girls than guys. Hoping the gals won't fuck up as much stuff. But the flushing down the toilet issue might raise it's ugly head. But I would spell out that plumbing costs related to clogged plumbing caused by tenant would be passed on to tenant. ong term appreciation prospects would be a key factor. Perhaps the key factor. On the plus side for section 8, if you get a good tenant, you might have a check for years with minimal repairs. As a solid counterpoint.
  22. "I understand you want to move in. However, the fact you have not paid for your portion of the security deposit and first month's rent is very concerning to me. As I cannot afford, to pay your way. And if you can't pay your way to move in, how are you going to be able to pay your way month to month?" Then shut the fuck up. Let the say whatever drivel they can come up with. Then come up with this alternative. "Could you get one of your parents to co-sign for the unit? So that I am not fully liable for your portion of expenses? Because as of right now I owe my rent and security deposit, as well as the $XXX you have not paid. I cannot afford to pay your way, and I certainly do not want to be on the hook for a year of your rent. I am looking at a potential liability of $Xthousands. I want to move in, and I know you say you will pay rent. But if you cannot pay it now, how can you pay it for the duration of the lease?" Then shut the fuck up. I would think the parental co-sign option from their side would alleviate a lot of the concern. Assuming the parents are credit worthy and willing to put their credit on the chopping block. IF now that would really send up red flags to me, unless they can cover the expenses they have NOT PAID to move in. I cannot commit to pay your want and mine.
  23. There are ways to make rent outside the box...
  24. Spring 2027... Welcome to the Portal young man... 😉
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