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I bet I ate a chopped brisket sandwich and a bag of Fritos at Bailey's BBQ at least 2 times a week in the 80s and 90s when doing stuff in federal court in Cowtown. And I always had a schooner of beer with lunch at Angelo's on Friday afternoons!

Way too many places just heat up Sysco bags. Gross.

There was one in Dallas near Highland Park. It was decent, but I'll always remember that place as where I watched Fred Akers and the Longhorns lose to Rice on a rainy night.

One can only dream!

What a fuck-up. That guy will be lucky to be working anything other than fast-food, if that. Not sure that he can be trusted.

Props for the Herdez avocado hot sauce. Really good stuff.

I find it increasingly easy to choose the "no tip" option, then leave cash in the jar or give it directly to the server on the way out. I try to never put a tip on a credit card -- there is no telling where that money is actually going.

Lots of nice equipment heading out of Austin this afternoon after the Formula One race. This is just the most recent 40 per FlightAware, the big exodus began after 3:30 or so. I bet that the FBO's were slammed this weekend: Departures: Austin-Bergstrom Intl Airport (Austin, TX) [KAUS] Ident Type Destination Departure Estimated Arrival Time Arrival N101UD GL5T Orlando Intl (KMCO) Sun 06:10PM CDT Sun 09:08PM EDT AOJF1 Sun 06:09PM CDT XA-CGG HDJT Sun 06:07PM CDT C-GNVI LJ45 Windsor (CYQG) Sun 06:01PM CDT Sun 09:36PM EDT EJA706 CL30 San Jose Int'l (KSJC) Sun 06:00PM CDT Sun 07:18PM PDT N609JS GA6C Portland-Hillsboro (KHIO) Sun 05:48PM CDT Sun 07:07PM PDT N4HD F2TH Dallas Love Fld (KDAL) Sun 05:46PM CDT Sun 06:20PM CDT N11HM GALX Snohomish County (KPAE) Sun 05:42PM CDT Sun 07:40PM PDT N765WM GALX Dupage (KDPA) Sun 05:41PM CDT Sun 07:42PM CDT FTH246 C750 Montreal-Trudeau (CYUL) Sun 05:40PM CDT Sun 09:49PM EDT EJA606 C68A Baton Rouge Metro (KBTR) Sun 05:35PM CDT Sun 06:24PM CDT XA-ATL GLF5 Sun 05:30PM CDT N810BE C560 Van Nuys (KVNY) Sun 05:27PM CDT Sun 06:51PM PDT LXJ406 E545 Kearney Rgnl (KEAR) Sun 05:26PM CDT Sun 07:03PM CDT JTL9 C680 Eppley Airfield (KOMA) Sun 05:24PM CDT Sun 07:10PM CDT N912KT PRM1 Clinton National (KLIT) Sun 05:23PM CDT Sun 06:34PM CDT EJM21 GLF4 Teterboro (KTEB) Sun 05:18PM CDT Sun 09:25PM EDT XA-KVD Sun 05:15PM CDT N599HG GLF5 McClellan-Palomar (KCRQ) Sun 05:15PM CDT Sun 05:49PM PDT TWY81 GLF5 Van Nuys (KVNY) Sun 05:13PM CDT Sun 06:03PM PDT N660CC BE40 Palm Beach Intl (KPBI) Sun 05:10PM CDT Sun 08:29PM EDT EJA827 C700 San Jose Int'l (KSJC) Sun 05:07PM CDT Sun 06:24PM PDT N350HH CL30 Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl (KPHX) Sun 05:05PM CDT Sun 05:08PM MST EJA257 CL60 William P Hobby (KHOU) Sun 05:04PM CDT Sun 05:37PM CDT Sun 05:37PM CDT LXJ522 CL30 San Jose Int'l (KSJC) Sun 05:04PM CDT Sun 06:29PM PDT

Do you own a shovel? Pit cooking is the traditional (and a fun way) to do a feast.

Crazy, those prices. Same for the packaged beef cheeks. Of course, when you buy the whole head (at old-school shops) -- they throw in the cheeks and the tongue for free!

You say that like it is a bad thing! /sarc

That is Aderet: https://aderetrestaurant.com/ Really good place. I'm a goyim, but have some observant clients that have taken me there for lunch meetings.

FIFY

That's exactly what I'm saying. There is no way for the IRS to know the circumstances of the payment. To them, a payment made to a taxpayer reported on a Form 1099 is going to be automatically classified as taxable income.

Here's another wrinkle for those that just want to have the IRS send you a bill for what the declare what you owe based upon all of the electronic data that has been sent to them about you: Venmo, The $600 Threshold, And You: What’s An (Honest) Taxpayer To Do? https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/venmo-600-threshold-and-you-whats-honest-taxpayer-do As an example, say that you buy Longhorn season tickets for a group of your friends and they pay you back for their share of the cost through Venmo, PayPal, or Zelle. Starting in 2024, that payment is going to be reported to the IRS on a Form 1099 that the IRS will assume to be income to you. Good luck sorting all of that out with the IRS even under the current system, much less some kind of automated system where the IRS figures it all out for you automatically.

I think that the finished product yields (raw vs. trimmed vs. sliceable meat) are pretty bad when it is cooked correctly and fully rendered the way that good brisket joints do it these days.

A good choice if you are willing to go with a "heads I win -- tails you lose" approach. I think it takes away most of the upside of home ownership and wealth creation. You may as well be renting your home, IMHO. I also think we are due for a real correction in rental rates and property values once all of the new MF projects come on line. People are focused on Austin proper (that is certainly a big number of units), but there are so many projects in process all the way from Jarrell to Lockhart, Georgetown to Cedar Park, Buda to New Braunfels, Bee Cave to Marble Falls. I don't see how all of this new product doesn't disrupt the market in a big way.

The downside of the Mueller affordable housing is that you don't fully own your own home. If you sell "your" home in the first year, 100% of the profit goes back to the Affordable Home Program. If you sell "your" home in subsequent years, your realized profit is limited to 2% (simple interest) for each year of ownership, the rest of the profit goes back to the Affordable Home Program. Given the current inflation environment, that sounds like a money losing deal. Might be a good move to wait for the bloodbath of rent decreases when the current deluge of new apartment construction fully hits the market.

I've been a CPA for over 40 years. The tax code was still very complicated back when we prepared tax returns by hand in pencil. The tax software (both the professional stuff that accounting firms use and the retail stuff like TurboTax) has made it much easier to prepare returns and to deal with complex stuff like Alternative Minimum Tax, Qualified Business Income deductions, Self Employment tax, operating or capital loss carryforwards, depreciation, etc. The free filing approach may be fine for many W-2 folks that don't have any deductions, rental properties, or other business interests. But high net worth business owners (like all the Surly lawyers) that have pass-through partnership income, different business interests, complex investments, and such are never gonna be interested in just trusting the IRS to tell them what they owe.

FIFY.

Nice buck. I say 3.5. Tight belly still above chest line.

Never heard of that place, but menu looks solid. Most any place in Austin that has Menudo on their every day menu is on my golden list. Thanks.

Joe's Bakery is the place that errybody on this site should be going to whenever they get the chance. P.S. Texas Chili Parlor, Juan in a Million, Amaya's Taco Village, and maybe others are also acceptable choices. Ain't nobody gots time for chain Tex-Mex!

Crazy game. 29-0 Colorado first half. 26-0 Stanford second half. 12 minutes to go in the 4th quarter.