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Zwylde

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  1. West Galveston Bay last Thursday afternoon.  One a piece (both about 19") for me and my buddy wading with live shrimp.  Water was in great shape despite the wind but no bait present in the area.  Loaded up after two hours and went and anchored on top of Caranchua reef and boated 5 more as the sun was going down.

     

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    Hopefully I will be able to post a whole lot more pics as this is now my permanent residence.  

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    However, I need to fill that boat slip up.  I'm still looking so if any of you have a relatively new bay boat you're looking to unload PM me.

  2. Closed yesterday on my Tiki Island house without a hitch.  I'm betting the seller was glad to hear that.  I'm glad I got the house I did but I can't help but be curious about how many more are going to hit the market now with the current situation.  Lotta folks are going to have to give up the bay house if it ain't there primary residence.  

     

    Good news is now I'm in the market for a boat and there should be a lot of those available now too.

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, deadshank said:

    Our payroll PEO is no longer accepting ACH payments (they distribute funded payroll checks then draft our payroll account to recoup the funds) and are now causing us to first wire the money to them and then they fund payroll.  I have no problem with this.

    They say they are already experiencing some companies not being able to fund their payroll liabilities after receiving funded payroll checks and then leaving the payroll PEO on the hook.

    Not a good position to be in for our payroll PEO.

    Ha, I wonder if we use the same one.  We still have a couple of employees who want live checks.  Our PEO tried to tell us that any live checks wouldn't be mailed out until Friday (payday).  I said, "uh.... no".  I'm funding you tomorrow, you can damn sure mail them tomorrow."

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  4. On 3/23/2020 at 10:35 AM, youdunnf'dup said:

    In theory, couldn’t you just set up a private room on poker stars, invite your poker night friends, and cash app/Venmo each other? I’ve never actually done this, so but I thought about it last night during self quarantining. Thought about trying it out with the guys i normally play with to see if there are any hang ups 

    Just did this exact thing last night with our regular Monday game exactly how you described it.  You have to buy play chips from Poker Stars ($1,000,000 chips for $4.99).  We played $100/$200 (max buyin was $20,000 per hour) with the understanding from everyone that its $1/$2 for real money.  One of the group is keeping track of all buyins for each session and we will all settle up when this is over.  Only weird thing is that PS takes an actual rake of the play chips but it shouldn't make much of a dent if everyone buys $1,000,000.  They also set up a Zoom meeting so we could all see and hear everyone if you wanted to.  Went off without a hitch.  It did take a little while to get used to how fast the action moves though.  It's been a long time since playing online.

     

     

  5. On 3/17/2020 at 11:44 AM, MaybeACoordinator said:

    This came up in another thread, but it's interesting to think about how much cash Tilman Fertitta is hemorrhaging on a daily basis. Casinos, cruises, restaurants, an NBA franchise in limbo, amusement parks (still open as of last night), hotels...he's like a one-man Las Vegas, and Vegas is not going to fare well. 

    I would have to think his business interruption insurance coverage is pretty hefty.  That is assuming the insurers have enough capital to pay off all claims, of which there will be, millions?

     

  6. 28 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Mind if I ask who it was?  I know a bunch of people in that space and just curious. Hell- I refer back and forth with a credit union guy for when he has a product I don’t and vice versa. 

    Did you pay an origination on that?  That’s a pretty sweet deal. 

    TDECU.  And I forgot to mention they also waived the origination fee.  I think they took my middle score which was 790 I think.

     

  7. 4 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Lock it and go. That’s a fantastic deal. I imagine that’s a portfolio product?  It’s a great one. Credit unions, if they want to and are competent, could own this space with stuff like that. As someone whose check was signed for 5 years by a CU (but didn’t work for the CU or in lending at the time) I don’t have much fear that they will be able to get out of their own way and figure that out- but they can probably help their members on accident. 

    The vibe o got from everyone there was state employee. YMMV

    I locked in about a month too early unfortunately with my CU at 4.125% but it was $0 down and no PMI.   I never assumed I would be able to get as much house as I wanted but with zero down I was elated.  This particular CU seems to be going after the market pretty hard in the Texas Gulf Coast market.

     

       

  8. Took the boy to High Island on Tuesday as it looked like the only brief window with no wind during Spring Break.  Greeted with heavy fog and low tide but a decent calm surf with some medium size rollers.  We didn't get any hits on baits cast in the second gut and only one fish on a yakked bait past the 3rd bar.  Sun tried to break through about noon but then fogged over again not to long after.  The whiting (our bait) were unusually hard to come by and the incoming tide started pushing us all the way up the road so we packed it in early afternoon in time to beat the traffic heading back home.    All in all a good day spent with the boy and he got at least one drag puller that was worth the trip.

     

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  9. 2 hours ago, Homesickhorn said:

    Even better, is the fact that they make the Oaks Dad Club families sit outside, so that us Timbergrove Sports elites can sit inside, look down our noses at y'all, and talk shit.

    This hits close to home cause I played at Oaks Dad Club back in '77-'78. 

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  10. 20 hours ago, TankedBevo said:

    Couldn't agree more. His last album had me like WTF. I understand the need to explore different sounds but at least make it listenable. 

    I love the last album.  It's no where near country but its a jam. My only gripe would be that the vocal could be made clearer and I would have preferred him to put some more of his soul into it.  His best moments are when he really belts it out from the bottom but he just doesn't do it enough in my opinion.  Looks like he is playing it in its entirety on the tour.  Can't wait.

     

     

  11. My ex-wife ran for school board at one of the largest ISD's in the State about 6 or 7 years ago.  It was so eye opening to see how hard the incumbents fought for their positions.  I kept asking myself why?  Why would they fight with such vitriol for a VOLUNTEER, UNPAID position.  It made no sense.  I told her there is only one reason and one reason only they would fight that hard and it wasn't for the children.

     

     

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  12. 6 hours ago, irishtexan said:

    I like them both about equally. That being said, I think Isbell plays it a lot safer. He doesn't deviate much from the playbook. He'll vascillate from stripped down acoustic to full band electric. But it's pretty firmly rooted in Americana and he doesn't stray too far from what works for him. Sturgill, otoh, never seems to want to do the same thing twice. He takes A LOT more chances than Isbell. Isbell's never written two songs as different as 'Hero' and 'Make Art Not Friends'. When you take chances and diverge from the genre that initially attracted your core fanbase, you're going to alienate people.  Sturgill's more of a rock and roll diva in that he pretends he doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks when he gets great reviews, and then gets super defensive and petty when he's criticized. I love them both, but I don't think it's an apples-to-apples comparison. 

    Totally agree.  I'll go farther to say Isbell won't ever be as good as Southeastern again (his last two aren't even close) and I can see Sturgill just getting better and better based on what you said above.

     

     

  13. On 2/21/2020 at 10:24 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    Probably blame the airlines, oil, and car companies for helping push that attitude.

    Imagine high-speed rail between San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and New Orleans.  

    Oh, and throw in a stop in Lake Charles - 45 minutes or so from Houston to Lake Charles?  Those casinos should pay for that stretch alone, because a fuckton of people in Houston would hop on a high-speed train after work on a Friday, get off in Lake Charles, and head back home the same night or the next day.

    Toss in a line to Galveston as well - if you could get people in Dallas down to Galveston in under 2 hours, without the stress of traffic in Dallas and Houston, there would be plenty of families who would do it.

    Please no!  The Island can't handle any more people on Summer weekends as it is.

  14. 1 hour ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

    So when will mlb release the findings on the Red Sox 2018 cheating? I can’t wait to see the double standard response from all the writers and news media. I’m curious how they couldn’t run a investigation simultaneously on both teams? 

    I thought last week they said today would be the day.  Prolly waiting till after 5:00 so it has the weekend to blow over like a weak fart.

     

  15. F*cking Veducci going ahead and claiming the Stros cheated Kershaw even though Kershaw says he doesn't want to say that.

     

     

    “What did you think that night about that game?” I asked him.

    That didn’t come to my mind,” he said, referring to the Astros knowing what he was throwing.

    “What did?”

    “I just pitched poorly. Lost the game.”

    “That was it?”

    “Yeah.”

    “But you were dealing the first three innings.”

    “I don’t have the luxury of looking at it like that, like everybody else does.”

    “So your thought was just that you didn’t pitch well?”

    “It was a long time ago. I knew we had to fly back to L.A., so I was probably more worried about getting my kids on a plane at that point.”

    “But if you look at the breakdown of that game, you threw 39 sliders and got only one swing and miss. The last two batters drew walks on 3-and-2 sliders they spit on.”

    “I’m not going there. This interview is not going there. I’m not going there.”

    “Can you explain why you don’t want to go there?”

    “I can’t. It’s over.”

     

     

    https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/02/20/astros-cheating-scandal-clayton-kershaw

  16. 16 hours ago, Lat22 said:

    I was at Primary Arms this afternoon picking up a couple of orders and a transfer.  Was going to launch a MULEDICK to see if @Zwylde poked his head up, but the two cops in there were already looking at me funny.

    Lol.  I'm not in the storefront but I'm sure I would hear about "some crazy ass mofo yelling MULEDICK in the store today"

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