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DalTxHornFan

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  1. Costco NY Strips are my go to. Buy the packages and individually vacuum seal the individual steaks and freeze them on a flat tray for later use.
  2. Yep. I help my 87 y/o Dad with some of his financial stuff and he loves the simplicity of having his "ready money" in a bank CD ladder.
  3. FIFY.
  4. Fair enough. But the other side of that coin is that when a company is putting together its capital structure, debt is almost always considered to be cheaper than equity. Certainly company management (and the bond holders) are interested in being able to make their periodic interest nut, but the bigger management objective is to make their business enterprise and thus its equity more valuable. There is a lot more upside (even noting risk factors) with long-term equity investments in solid companies. Also, under our present tax code, long term capital gain income is much more valuable than periodic interest income. There is a place for both debt and equity investments, but I think it ultimately comes down to your investment horizon and liquidity requirements.
  5. Apparently, there is very serious debate out there on this subject. (I'm on Team "Fracking") Fracking Vs Fracing – The End of the Debate? https://drillers.com/fracking-vs-fracing-end-debate/
  6. DalTxHornFan

    Chicago

    Those ISOs are fun to listen to! That wah-wah pedal!
  7. We always used Hines for our pools with decent results, but I've (happily) been out of the pool game for almost 10 years and have no clue about controllers and wi-fi stuff. Mechanical timer boxes were more my speed! Good luck.
  8. UT Coop has a link to a live Tower cam, but it doesn't seem to be working tonight. Muledick -- especially considering all of the new and used textbook arbitrage they've made off of errbody that went to Texas over the years!
  9. The coyotes clearly have had some butchery training to take off the hindquarters so neatly! Pop your knife in that socket, and Bingo!
  10. Mr. Ward does not seem scrubbed to me: https://www.1027espn.com/show/the-jeff-ward-show/
  11. I was there yesterday, wasn't in the market for whole pigs, but their selection of big primal cuts was finominal. It's worth a visit. I got a 5-lb boneless leg of lamb for $6.49 per lb. We will eat well this Christmas.
  12. No doubt about not moving back there! That area is very different now than it was when I was around there in the early 1960s. My paternal grandfather bought there sometime in the early 1930s when it was a new development called "Groves Acres" or such. He bought a home lot and some adjoining land for enough pasture to raise milk cows and goats. He actually built his house there by himself with additional manpower from friends and family. No mortgage. The building supply store nearby sold him all of the building materials on credit. He was able to pay that off pretty quickly with overtime from the refinery during the pre-war build up (not to mention the proceeds from all of the milk and eggs he produced!). That pasture is developed with several houses on it today.
  13. I've always enjoyed their menudo along with a barbacoa or lengua taco, but I'm a gringo, so what do I know?
  14. What kind of work are you talking about?
  15. I've never been a fan of bonds other than tax exempts -- I don't hold any now. All of my individual stocks have a history of dividend payments and are companies that I know pretty well from personal experience (kind of the Warren Buffett rule.) That said, several of them ended up suspending dividends during all of the Covid mess. I had some huge paper losses during that time period (you never lose if you never sell) -- but the ship has righted itself back into the black and resumption of the dividend payments are on the horizon. TLDR -- It's all a crapshoot
  16. Both of my grandfathers worked their entire careers at the Texas Company refinery. They both lived on Howe Street in the Groves. My parents were both PNG graduates. I am so very grateful that my parents relocated to Austin before my first birthday! (And stayed there!)
  17. The first football game that I attended -- at age 4 or so, was a PNG game! Go Indians! Great season.
  18. I was initially reluctant to click on this thread, but was relieved to find out that it was about food.
  19. Michael Dell didn't graduate from UT, but he's busy changing the area around there: Demolition Approved for 18th and Guadalupe Corner in Downtown Austin https://austin.towers.net/demolition-approved-for-18th-and-guadalupe-corner-in-downtown-austin/?pro=caitlyn@towers.net
  20. DalTxHornFan

    Chicago

    Let's not forget the negative influence of David Foster and Bill Champlin. That said, the band did what it needed to do to survive the vapid disco and power ballad era. The guys all (except for Walt Parazaider, whose wife must be a saint) had ex-wives to pay big money to monthly. Cocaine must be a hell of a drug.
  21. DalTxHornFan

    Chicago

    Agree that the ballad era sucked. Kath was a huge loss. This is the bad ass version of the boys that I like to remember:
  22. DalTxHornFan

    Chicago

    Yes, you are mistaken. Chicago II is a great album. What you are calling "Colour My World" is simply one movement of several from a masterpiece Rock classic musical suite known as "Ballet for a Girl from Buchannon" -- written by trombonist and composer James Pankow. [For radio airplay -- two movements from the Ballet were chopped into singles, "Make Me Smile" and Colour My World -- both Top 10 singles.] Chicago generally plays the entire suite in its live concerts these days even though it was too long for radio. Other notable songs on that album include a little song that you may have heard of known as "25 or 6 to 4", also a Top 10 single -- they played that song at their Rock and Roll HOF induction. Other memorable songs on that album that still hold up pretty well are "Wake Up Sunshine" written and sung by Robert Lamm and "In the Country" written and sung by the late, great Terry Kath. These last two didn't get much radio play since, between the two albums, there were already enough popular Chicago singles out there to fill out most any radio station's programming list. Agree that all the political stuff on the album doesn't hold up all of that well over 50 years later. YMMV.
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