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Our company was recently acquired and apparently we have to provide I-9s. I received an email about it at 9:30 this morning. It's due on Monday. I just received a reminder email saying "I am reaching out, as unfortunately my records show that you have not completed your I9 reverification as of 1:33pm EST today, 8/24/23." Three hours later. Fucking ridiculous.

My wife does this. Instead of saying "please, get to the point" try "short story long....". Your wife will appreciate it.

Fuck all of you.

Plus, you’re in Flower Mound! Woof!

If you add three five-star players to your class your ranking goes way up? Weird!

This Bayou Splash is turning out to be as big of a wet fart as Aggy famed and totally unique and original pool party. I fucking love it.

Shit, I set mine at 77 but it can't keep the temp below 81 since I lost all my large trees in the freeze a few years ago and we have a West-facing sun room that just cooks the whole fucking house.

In some rare "we are NOT losing this place" good news: https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2023/08/hole-in-the-wall-dodges-closure-secures-20-year-lease-with-1-6m-from-city/ Hole in the Wall dodges closure, secures 20-year lease with $1.6M from city TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2023 BY CHAD SWIATECKI The Hole in the Wall music venue has secured a 20-year lease and will remain open to celebrate its 50th anniversary next summer, thanks largely to $1.6 million in assistance from the city’s Iconic Venue Fund. Will Tanner, who purchased the club located on the stretch of Guadalupe Street known as The Drag in 2008, signed the new lease agreement – an initial 10-year lease with two five-year extensions – with The Weitzman Group realty firm on Monday. The signing followed 10 months of negotiation and work with staff from the city and the Austin Economic Development Corporation to become the first recipient of city funds allocated to preserve culturally significant music venues. The University of Texas-area club, which features more than 1,000 live music performances per year, has operated on a month-to-month lease since its most recent yearlong lease expired in May. Tanner said that without the city stepping in, the club would have likely closed this spring. “It had a good long run, but it was probably done without this,” Tanner told the Austin Monitor. He added, “I’m very grateful for the city of Austin to recognize that this is something that they feel like is important to stick around. … Hole in the Wall 100 percent got saved.” The $1.6 million will help cover a portion of the club’s roughly $15,000 monthly rent over the length of its lease, and it will pay for improvements to the middle stage area and a rear building of nearly 3,000 square feet that will be made available for lease as a restaurant or other hospitality business. The city hopes to close more deals stabilizing threatened music venues and creative spaces in the coming months, using its cultural trust economic development tool. That is funded by a combination of Hotel Occupancy Tax dollars for iconic venues and money from a 2018 bond package that included $12 million to open and preserve creative spaces. The bond package provided $2.4 million late last year to make improvements to the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex and turn a 7,000-square-foot portion of the city’s Permitting and Development Center on Highland Mall Boulevard and Middle Fiskville Road into a work-and-display space for artists. The Economic Development Corporation began taking applications for potential cultural trust projects in late 2021 and used that process to identify more than $300 million in needed assistance for venues and creative organizations. The 45 submitted proposals (including Tanner’s) were evaluated, and 14 priority projects were selected, with potential real estate deals ongoing using cultural trust dollars as part of the needed capital stack. “The biggest point is that we’ve been able to help negotiate and secure an ability for Hole in the Wall to stay in place and thrive over the next 20 years,” Anne Gatling Haynes, chief transactions officer for the Economic Development Corporation, told the Monitor. She added, “This is something we think is a demonstrable way of investing in those businesses that have an economic impact to the city and community benefit. We consider ourselves the Live Music Capital of the World, not just in brand but the fact is that we believe in our artists and musicians, and this is one place where a lot of those musicians have played.” Even with city assistance, Haynes said, the deal was made possible by property owners with The Weitzman Group, who were willing to accept a rental rate that was “very low, considering everything else on The Drag right now.” The mostly flat rental rate stands out in comparison to the most recent appraisal of the property by the Travis Central Appraisal District that valued the club space at just over $2 million, about a $700,000 increase from its 2022 appraisal. Bryan McMurrey, managing director for the Transwestern real estate services company, said the handful of commercial space lease deals he’s closed on The Drag in recent years have brought between $50 and $65 per square foot per year for their owners. He said the Hole in the Wall space would likely fetch a similar figure, while praising the move to preserve it as a culturally important business. “You could probably achieve an upper $50 to $60 (per square foot) triple net lease deal there. … Somebody could come in there and make that space really nice. It’s a great spot on The Drag,” he said. “The club activates the district, creates foot traffic, and it’s kind of a point of interest for the people that live in the student housing back behind there to the west,” he said. “It’s somewhat of an Austin time capsule that kind of reminds us all of what it used to be back in the day when we went to school at UT.” In an acknowledgment of the affordability issues that are pushing artists and musicians out of Austin, Tanner said the increasing rents in West Campus and other areas near the university have made the club less of a hot spot for students and the working class than in years past. “There are less folks down there that are of age to drink, is the way to put it,” he said. “West Campus used to be more of a working-class neighborhood, and it still is really densely populated, but it’s densely populated with a lot of people that are pretty transient people.” When Tanner bought Hole in the Wall in 2008, he said, “there was a lot of mix of blue collar, musicians and service industry people that could walk there. That ship has sailed.” With its future now certain, Tanner and his staff will work to complete the upgrades around the property in time for next year’s 50th anniversary celebration, with hopes of booking acts from all five decades of showcasing live music on its compact, iconic stage that’s highly visible for pedestrians on the other side of its display window. “Stuff like this doesn’t happen at bars like Hole in the Wall,” Tanner said of the city’s financial and negotiating assistance. “We’re not like high-flying anything or fancy in any way. Definitely there’s a vibe there. The people that go there really love it, certain bands really love it, and I really love it.”

Just getting caught up on this thread, but check out the tough guy hero cop who saved the ABQ from the mentally-ill villain trying to purchase a bicycle. What a badass!

Also not legal under current NIL. That being said, I'm sure there are ways around it.

No one's giving up on Colin Simmons. Just like no one's giving up on Parker Livingstone. We're gonna have to fight tooth and nail to hold on through December .

While eating last night I thought that adding olives would be nice. Good call on the capers and lemon zest. As I mentioned above, when I pulled it from the oven and took out the thighs and pepperoncinis, there was a bit too much fat/brine in the pan to properly brown the potatoes, so I reserved about 3/4 cup and browned the potatoes in the remaining fat. I think next time I'm going to pull the potatoes after browning, deglaze the pan (which had a ton of fond) with a little white wine, add back the fat and brine and reduce it down to a bit into a pan sauce to pour over everything.

There's a thread for this dumbass conversation, dipshits.

The potatoes really are the star. I had to actually reserve some of the fat/brine from the pan so the potatoes would brown up the way I like, and then poured that mixture back over the plated dish. Chef’s kiss. Will make again.

Made that Bon Appetit Pepperoncini chicken thigh recipe that @South Austin first posted and it definitely fucks. Next time I’m gonna throw the whole jar of pepperoncinis in there, as the ten that the recipe called for got gobbled up quick. It’s relatively simple but it does take a lot of time to make

It was a banged-out football team after App State, Billy.

I'm not guaranteeing KJ Lacey ultimately signs with Texas, but QBs and WRs are VERY different. QBs tend to lock into a commitment and stick with it. WRs are WRs. We'll see what happens a year and a half from now.

Well, he did. But then he said "fuck that shit, I'm going to flip to Ohio State" Everyone agrees that recruiting is headed in the right direction. We (expect to) sign the #1 overall player in Texas, which we have done only twice in the last 12 years in BJ Foster (of course the year we sign the top dude he ends up being a huge fucking bust) and 2015 in Malik Jefferson. Sark's kicking ass at recruiting. And, sure, it doesn't matter what position the services rank as the number 1 player. But letting the top player in the state go elsewhere is not good. We need those dudes to be competitive. We gotta start locking that shit down.

Full disclosure, I had had a few whiskeys when I responded and what I thought was written in good-natured shit talking came off totally dickish. My bad and sorry 956. But I don't think your analogy is comparable. The guy at McDonald is punching an order into a computer, grabbing a bag of food someone in the back put together, and handing it to the customer. 956 wrote "So today at the bagel place there was one guy working, and he took the order then sliced/smeared the bagels and wrapped them up and handed them to me." So in this case, one guy is working the entire place, takes the order, makes the food, packaged everything up, etc. He facilitated the entire transaction. Bagel guy did more work. Certainly more work than a bartender opening a bottle of beer or even making a cocktail. However, unfortunately, "tipping culture" has blurred the lines of who we tip and who we don't, as well as how much we tip. And to reiterate on my second point, if I can get a whole burger AND wings for $12, I'm not gonna complain about them not making change. Basically because I can always use a debit card. Who ONLY carries cash, and who pays cash when you can use a card? I save my cash for transactions that REQUIRE cash like tipping hellhops and airport shuttle drivers. And again burger PLUS WINGS. $12? Sign me the fuck up.

"So if you do less than a waiter, the tip is less than 20 and if you do more or more strenuous work, the tip goes up. " Immediately after you say that you go to a bagel place, place an order with the guy, he takes your order, makes your food, packages everything up, serves it to you, and you only tip "a bit over 10 percent." You're a cheap bastard. You're at a place where you can get a cheeseburger AND WINGS for twelve fucking dollars, and you're complaining that they won't make change? You're a cheap bastard.

Unless Colin Simmons is Soso Jamabo, I don't think the percentage of asians at one school or the other makes much of a difference.

That's a damn fine dick-duster you had back in the day, brat.

Any douchebag that brings an acoustic guitar to play while sitting on the concrete bench at the deep end of Deep Eddy. We don't want to hear your little riff on "Under the Bridge", Chad. Also hate that guy at Barton Springs, but I can at least find another spot there.

I think it’s fairly obvious he’s a silent to both. Which is why silent commits are, and always have been, completely meaningless. I figured he was going to LSU but their mod hedging makes me think that CS might not know where he’s going at this point.

I think there was another thread about the absurdity of tip culture. In it I posted that at the new Moody Center they have kiosks where you can go to a fridge, grab a $15 beer and self-checkout. They're completely unstaffed except for a security guard there to make sure people don't steal shit. When you self-checkout, it asks for a tip. Fucking absurd. Are you sure it was for all tabs? Because most bars do this but only for all walked tabs. And I think it's a good system. I'd even pay 25%. I don't have to wait in line to close out and the bartenders don't have to waste time running my card and can serve more customers. Win-Win. Either way I'm fine with it. Don't want to tip 20%? Pay cash. But see how long it takes for you to get your second/third drink if you're not tipping appropriately.