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Brisketexan

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  1. Cost, and what you'd get from it. It costs a shitload of money to move acre-feet of dirt away, with a minimal payoff in terms of percentage. But on the bright side, many of our future water supply projects are going to be costly as hell (all the relatively cheap ones have been done by now....except reuse/reclamation projects, those look to be the last low-hanging fruit, and they're happening all over), so hell, the ROI on adding capacity to an existing reservoir may be there. Check the state water plan, I'm sure it's been calculated and discussed somewhere.
  2. Belgium and King Leopold have entered the chat. There weren't as many games on their schedule but man, did they work hard to run up the score.
  3. Look....ENOUGH with the lawyer-bashing around here!
  4. It really is just a standard MO, isn't it? Practicing logical fallacies is functionally a sacred act for them. These are weak people, with weak ideas.....which appeals greatly to weak people with weak reasoning skills. So...it works.
  5. I have found that gas station burritos are the most powerful butt influencer.
  6. Well, it's a contradiction. Truth is, it always has been. Texans can be kind and generous, and mean and spiteful. I've shared before that I've been in small Texas towns where I've heard people say horrible, mean, racist shit....and people from that same community stopped, person after person, to help me when my truck was broken down. They offered time, help (real help, getting under the hood with me). So, Texas is a bunch of both. Sure, I think the ethos, especially the public one, has shifted in the shitty direction, and has elevated "mean" for no fucking good reason, and it's awful and embarrassing. But it's a complicated world, and people are always different shades of gray. Growing up, I experienced a lotta kindness and generosity from those oilpatch types. I also heard the N-word from them, saw them get too drunk and into stupid fights, all the shit that wouldn't surprise you. I don't know what to do with all of that. The worst of it makes me sad and angry. But the best of it makes me spend a 3 hour drive thinking about the place that made me.
  7. Thankfully, I think she gets it. She's lived in several countries already, and realized that while she loves them all, she's still a Texas girl. And for that matter, the actual first item on her resume is "Cowgirl/ranch hand" (as COVID broke, she had to come home from college. Needed something to do those5-6 months before her school figured out a way to re-open in the fall. A friend of ours has a Longhorn ranch, and no place else was hiring during COVID....so there she went, to work cattle, the whole nine yards. It's a conversation starter, at the very least). She's got a lot to figure out. But then, at her age, we all did. At that age, I simultaneously thought I had it all figured out, and also had no fucking idea what I was doing (heavy emphasis on the second thing). It's a harder age than society acknowledges. She's bitter about Texas these days, but I too remember being happy to leave Houston behind (it was taking a beating economically those days) and make my life in Austin. As experience and wisdom accumulated, my thoughts on Houston softened. I now think it's a damned fine place to live and make your way in the world. But it took distance and perspective to get me there. And after 30+ years, I've realized that Houston will always be one of my "homes." Maybe she'll feel that way about Austin and Texas one day.
  8. Was texting with the boy (presently far away from Texas) yesterday about a recent road trip, and gas station finds (I actually didn't eat any gas station comestibles, as I had just had lunch). His reply: "I miss a gas station burrito from Allsup's." Sniff. I raised him right.
  9. One of the most confusing place names in Texas. I remember as a little kid, my parents talking about how we'd stop for gas in Referio. We pass the city limits sign, stop at the next gas station. I'm confused. "You said we'd stop in Referio, but we're in Refugio." One of my earliest experiences with Texas jacking up place names. Signed, A dude who listened to the morning traffic reports in Houston for years before he realized that "San Phillipy" was actually "San Felipe"
  10. Just saw this advertised online…may need to try soon: I bet my wife would LOVE it if I brought that home.
  11. To balance it out, I know of entire neighborhoods in Austin getting dropped from coverage due to fire danger. So. Yay.
  12. Oh yes you can. They’ll give you some dirty looks, but trust me…you can.
  13. Skidmore had the billboard up celebrating the 6 students who made up the top 10% of their senior class. From the looks of em, at least 2 probably had decent looking moms. Keep your eye on Skidmore.
  14. Stoned rats is no more than a 2 on the NOLA weird-shit-o-meter.
  15. My charm is more marketable in Sinton.
  16. It SHOULDN’T be an “us v them.”…yet here we are. One party/movement has OPENLY declared they want to end public education, and they want to defund it, etc. It SEEMS insane (well, it is), but here we are. The insane has become reality. We need to deal with that reality.
  17. Sounds to me like you need to pull harder on your bootstraps. And your kids too - you’re never too young to learn that lesson!
  18. My main issue with the long cat text was….did it ever fucking say anything? Seriously…was there any point/conclusion to it, at all?
  19. I'll say this.....watching drones hit refineries makes my Texan ass pucker like a mofo. I've driven by plenty of Texas refineries, large chemical plants, etc. And, ummm....the ease with which a bad actor could create a kamikaze drone, launch it from damned near anywhere nearby, and fly it into crucial infrastructure to go "boom".....yeah, that troubles me. Do our plants have defensive capabilities? CIWS hidden somewhere? A platoon of rednecks with 10 gauges? Something?
  20. The bar they've put in at the Comfort Inn looks like it probably yields a damned entertaining time on the weekend. If you're into that sort of thing.
  21. It sure as hell ain't pretty. Never was. But it's where mom first found a safe place when she got to Texas. And there sure were a lot of hard-working folks out and about today - work trucks all over. Can't help but respect that.
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