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billfromlaketravis

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  1. Step 1: Drive to La Grange or West Step 2: Drive home.
  2. Infinitely likable guy, but he’ll fuck you up if you mess with him or a teammate.
  3. Keeping Adams is huge, obviously. Good for him. He seems genuinely happy in Houston. He would start on the following playoff teams: Lakers Knicks GSW Grizzlies Celtics (I assume they’re dropping Horrford ASAP) Heat Magic
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    TexMex

    Almost afraid to ask, but what cut of meat does Ruiz use? Goat really isn’t my thing.
  5. Wiki says 24,500 pounds. A bunker buster weighs 30k hence the problem. The F-15E and EX is enjoying a vibrant second life as an air to air defense platform. They shot down a shit ton of missiles and drones in the last Irani attack.
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    TexMex

    So let’s have the conversation about Brothers Tacos. Go for lunch. I ordered chorizo and egg + beans for breakfast and barbacoa + beans for lunch. The breakfast taco was very average. I know 3 putt will light himself on fire for this take. I would ask him to blind taste Chiloso vs Brothers. It’s closer than comfort. The barbcoa was outstanding. No notes. Plenty of parking nearby. Skip the lot and park on the street. Line the was manageable at 8 am.
  7. Y’all are fortunate. Every single damned Christmas gathering was packed with tension after I hit junior high. My grandmother was a JLC type. She wouldn’t drive her car through the living room, but she took bad news very poorly. Usually sobbing and the worst guilt trip you can imagine. The family would usually wait until the last few minutes of the Christmas gathering and tell her bad news. Almost always people moving Again, this show speaks to me like few others can.
  8. Much like their exburb restaurant scene, they’re 10 years behind the rest of the country. A 5 star, is a well a 5 star. It doesn’t matter if they’re from Texas or Georgia if they’re playing for your team.
  9. I think Miami is going to overpay for Durant and stun everybody. Riley and Spoelstra treat that Heat culture bullshit like a cult. They’re desperate to be right.
  10. Melton looks like he belongs. As does Cam. Good to see them possibly panning out.
  11. The Libby app is pretty good for those of us trying to duck yet another subscription cost. Pretty large non-fiction audiobook library. They allow 30 holds and 30 loans.
  12. I worry Iran is hiding something in their many mountains that the Israelis can’t get to. The F-15 is an amazing aircraft. Probably the greatest fighter/bomber of all time, but they need a strategic bomber to carry something heavy enough to bust a mountain. That’s where the US comes in. I hope we stay out of this.
  13. Iran is a big ass country, plenty of square miles to hide things. The Israeli attack was brilliant, but they didn’t hit everything. As we’ve seen with the Houthis , bombing the shit of them is great, but as long as they have Tacomas they can move missiles around. They can’t move uranium enrichment facilities. I hope they hit them all. Israel is going to take some hits. Iranian drones have been effective against modern Western surface to air systems in Ukraine.
  14. PSA: Darren Woods will be on Bret Baier on Monday. I hope he’s asked about outsourcing, but given the preview, I think it’s going to focus primarily on crude and gasoline prices.
  15. Burnt is the spiritual prequel to The Bear.
  16. Pretty solid lunch at Carrabba’s on Kirby. Johnny of course opened the door for me, haha. Veal marsala with tagliarini picchi pacchiu. Best damn pasta I’ve had a long time, but the veal cutlets could have been bigger. I should have taken a picture because they plated it well. I’ll be back for osso buco on Wednesdays.
  17. This is so weird, I couldn’t tell you if I like or hate it. Given the $85 price tag, I probably wouldn’t recommend it. Maybe, maybe it’d be a fun one to pull out at a tasting.
  18. Regardless, we’ve probably seen Ward get burned in a Texans uniform for the last time. Good riddance and I hope everyone is OK.
  19. He could get plenty of house/big lot in one of the Memorial villages.
  20. Imagine making $10 million a year and choosing to commute from Magnolia to NRG.
  21. Just when I thought Brooks’ contact sucked, I looked up Devin Vassell’s deal. The Suns should be placed in a conservatorship if Ishbia accepts Vassell, Barnes, and the 14th pick for KD.
  22. I worked the following restaurant jobs. All were somewhat miserable. - Busboy at Willie’s Icehouse - Sandwich artist at Subway - To go “waiter” at Pappasito’s - Waiter at a small Italian restaurant I’d say the Italian restaurant was the most similar to The Bear. A little Sicilian chef/owner with a lot of gambling and drug demons in his past. I have no idea how he secured a loan or if it’s was legal. He ran the place on razor thin margins before it went under. Very hectic kitchen smaller than most people’s office. It always got hot as shit back there. The stove/ovens, dishwasher, and the chef would crack the window to smoke a cigarette. All of the waitresses were bitchy and treated the busboy/dishwasher like shit. No HR to be found anywhere. We’d have a small staff meal before shift. He’s usually make the specials and let us try them. Really good guy, but he had a temper and talked a lot of shit. Great chef. Best lobster bisque I’ve ever tasted. He landed on his feet and got a plum job running the kitchen/catering at a racetrack in Texas. Full benefits and a steady salary are a Godsend for people in his field. I’m happy for him.
  23. I think you need to have worked in a restaurant to enjoy large stretches of Season 1. It feels like they were making art and they didn’t care if anybody liked it.
  24. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve only eaten there a few times, and it was back when I worked at the Capitol. My patronage leaves something to be desired. I love that Tarantino filmed on location there. I had a professor that held court there every Thursday. He always invited the whole class. Never took him up on it because well I had better shit to do, and I didn’t want to leave my car on a meter overnight. I hope some students did join him, and they had a good time swapping stories.
  25. Klosterman talks The Rehearsal on Bill Simon’s latest podcast. Best explanation of the show I’ve ever heard. He almost makes it make sense. Almost.
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