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BottleRocket

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  1. I used to stay at the Tremont all the time. Had a regular room on the 4th floor at the end of the hall. Would stash a bottle of Weller on top of the armoire and it would be waiting for me the next trip. Nice and quiet. Cool hotel. The limo at the Galvez will pick you up and take you back and forth if you want some pool time. Drank some tequila with Kinky Friedman while we watched a Rangers game at the big ass bar in the Tremont lounge. Then head over to the Pearl for a dozen shucked and some shrimp diablo. I love Galveston.
  2. No. No. Hell no.
  3. Parley for raise at current employer. Lemons - Lemonade
  4. That cop needs to lose his job.
  5. I bought my wife's engagement ring through USAA's diamond buying services. Pricing strictly related to 4c's above. The only requirement that I had was that it needed to be bigger than her sisters' rings. Home-run. My wife eventually took the rock to a favorite jeweler in Austin and had it remounted in a custom setting.
  6. Roco drop his mix tape?
  7. That dude's tie should be arrested.
  8. Doing it all wrong and it’s going to be spectacular!
  9. Spring for FM. AM is only talk radio these days.
  10. I'll be contributing to this thread tomorrow... can't wait.
  11. Looking for a landscape sprinkler repair guy for S/W Austin. Need some heads replaced and system tune-up.
  12. For Austin https://world.utexas.edu/passport 2400 Nueces Street, Suite B Phone: (512) 232-5899 Email: passport@austin.utexas.edu
  13. Got mine replaced around 2010 and it rumbles and knocks like a got damn freight train. Service tech said he wouldn't flush it because of the risk of damaging things down stream. You would think that the thing was on its last leg but it keeps on rocking. I'm not sure what the failure point will be to end its life but I'm ready to shoot it myself.
  14. Thanks but ended up getting a 6s plus off of facebook marketplace for $200. Like new as far as I could tell. Thanks again.
  15. Anyone know the whereabouts of Bea Arthur?
  16. Important to note that this is probably stackable on items already being discounted or on sale. So you might be able to put together a screaming deal. (Insert mom insult here)
  17. Bunch of CR shit up in here.
  18. I bet this goes on all the time with caregivers for the elderly. Recently I saw some antique firearms being sold by a lady on Nextdoor. I did a little snooping and saw that she was a caregiver at one of the local assisted living homes here in Austin. These caregivers do a terribly important job for little pay, but unfortunately there are bad apples.
  19. We looked at SimpliSafe and Abode. We went with Abode because it didn't require monitoring. If you wanted monitoring, you could subscribe short term (while on vacation). Works great. Love it. The thing I like about it is that is has proximity sensing that detects when both the wife and I have left the property and will turn itself on or off accordingly. Works with smart phone. It has worked flawlessly. $400 or so. https://goabode.com/
  20. My great-great-great grandpa was Ed Burleson who fought alongside your old Jim Galbreath. From wiki: Known as the "Old Indian Fighter", Burleson was a veteran of the War of 1812 and had served in the Missouri and Texas militias. In October 1835 he was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the Texas army and served under Stephen F. Austin in the opening stages of the Texas Revolution. During the Siege of Béxar, Burleson served as the second-in-command to Gen. Austin, and in November, 1835 he was elected Major General of Texas Volunteers and took command of the volunteer army besieging San Antonio de Béxar and received the surrender of Mexican general Martín Perfecto de Cos. In March, he was appointed a Colonel of Texas Regulars and led the First Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Runaway Scrape and at the Battle of San Jacinto. Edward was the son of James B. Burleson, a company captain in the volunteer American army in the War of 1812 and later a participant in the Texas Revolution, as a Captain under his son's command. Edward learned of life in the field as an aide to his father, who could neither read nor write. Aaron Burleson, his grandfather, had fought as a minuteman in the Revolutionary War. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu40
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