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  1. Matt Heafy from Trivium has a weekly, hour-long show on Liquid Metal that's pretty great for finding new metal bands or new jams from bands you've previously heard of. Good shit from yesterday's show. I know some of you hate clean vocals, so just stick with it past the Deftones-esque intro to 1:00 or so. Reminds me of a slightly heavier Gojira.
  2. After a lengthy stretch of really nice days dating back to last Friday, Houston's got some rather "yucky" weather on tap. Unseasonably hot, dry and sunny today and tomorrow, then clouds, humidity/rain and high in the mid-80's/lows in the mid-70's through next Saturday. Might be another ~10 days until our next dry day with a high below 80 and a low below 70.
  3. Got the new stand delivered and set up at a promising location. Heading back out Saturday to clear out some shooting lanes and finish getting its feeder set up. Only got it about halfway done before we had to get back to town. Should end up being a good feeder for the money, but it was a bitch to put together. Next time, we'll probably just spring for the extra $200 or so to buy a fully-built model that we just have to pop on a trailer. Dad also fixed a broken control unit on an otherwise functional feeder at one of the existing stands, so we'll get that popped back on, fill it up with corn, and get it back on schedule. If all goes according to plan, I should get back to town Sunday evening having 2 more stand/feeder combos ready for the season than today.
  4. Most old landmen are also unrepentant alcoholics, in my experience. When I first got out of law school and went and ran title for a year, used to get a kick at the old veteran coots that "worked" maybe 20 hours/week, billing $400/day or more and complaining about politics.
  5. September retail sales came in much stronger than expected. 0.7% vs 0.3%. Decent chance that Q3 GDP will come in above 4%. Current market consensus is 3.8%. Fed's GDPNow tracker is currently at 5.1%, but will update later today.
  6. 49 outside when I woke up this morning. That's the lowest temp that Houston has seen since mid March. Was 67 inside the house. Looks like today will be pretty much perfect. Tomorrow and Thursday 10 degrees warmer, but still nice. Even Friday, when it's supposed to hit low 90's again, looks to be pretty low humidity and will cool down to 60's after sunset. Rest of weekend is pretty unremarkable. High 80's and overcast. Stays warm with decent rain chances next week. All in all, pretty typical October weather for SETX. A handful of days that remind you of late summer, a handful of perfect Autumn days, and the rest are just average "warmer than you'd prefer but at least it's not in the mid-90's anymore..."
  7. 17 patrol officers and jail staffers charged in wide-ranging investigation. Numerous others still under investigation. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/10/12/multiple-broward-sheriffs-employees-facing-indictments-over-pandemic-relief-fund-misuse/
  8. 3 runs gonna have to do it, it would seem. Need Abreu and Pres to ball out for 6 more outs.
  9. Chandler says Urquidy is at 70 through 5. Only stretched out to 80. May try to squeeze one more inning out of him. Let's score 3+ here and give him the rest of the evening off.
  10. They keeping the PXD office complex in Las Colinas? In other words, are PXD employees that accept a position with XOM staying put or moving to Spring?
  11. XOM acquisition of PXD made official this morning. $59.5B for 850K acres. XOM now has a combined acreage position of more than 1.4M acres between the Midland and Delaware, and daily production of roughly 1.3MBOED.
  12. Twins should keep letting Ober pitch in this series.
  13. Leadoff double that gets moved over to 3rd with 1 out. Gotta put a ball in play.
  14. Weather all over the map this week in Houston. Dreary days in the 70's today and tomorrow. Good chance at some rain late tonight/tomorrow morning. Sun comes out for a warm, muggy day in the mid-80's on Thursday. Summer pops its head out again for maybe 12 hours on Friday, getting up to low 90's before another front rolls in overnight. Seemingly perfect Fall days on tap from Saturday thru next Wednesday. Sunny, around 78/58 and low humidity.
  15. Good news, bad news: GN: After a historic drought, we got a shitload of rain the last 3 days, and it's about to start cooling down and drying out in Houston. BN: Hasn't happened yet. Still mid 70's and muggy. The only fringe benefit of not getting any rain for 90 days was the complete lack of mosquitos. Apparently several trillion were laid during this past rainy stretch and every last one hatched within the past 30 minutes in my backyard.
  16. Hell of a run for natty the past 2 weeks. Opened 2 Fridays ago at $2.63, currently $3.28. 24.5% gain. 16% just this week.
  17. Wait, good news is good news??!?!? Markets initially freaked at the jobs report b/c of course bond traders hated it. Quick U-turn this morning after the initial selloff. Big headline job number, but wage growth was basically back to historic average of 0.2% MOM, which is nothing that SHOULD cause Fed to overreact.
  18. Dad informed us earlier this week that he finished the stand. Brother and I heading out to the lease tomorrow afternoon to set up a new feeder to replace one of the busted ones. Dad is meeting us out there with the new stand at sunup on Sunday. Just gotta unload it and attach the roof. Hot damn, the lease is now gonna have at least 1 fully-functioning stand and feeder combo ready to go in time for the season. And hopefully it will have been feeding for long enough to get some regular diners. itshappening.gif
  19. Almost time. 68 in H Town when I went to the gym this morning, but lots of moisture still in the air and it has warmed up quickly as the morning progresses. Gonna be warm and muggy until the drier air finally arrives late tonight. Heading up to my deer lease up near Rayburn tomorrow to do some work setting up a new stand and feeder. Gonna be in the high 40's when I wake up out there on Sunday morning. That's a temperature I haven't experienced in probably 7 months. Can't wait. Looks like we'll get just maybe 3-4 days of cool weather out of this first front before high 80's and humidity return around the middle of next week. On the bright side, looks like a second, longer-lasting front is expected to roll in next weekend. Lot of really nice days on the forecast for 10/14-20.
  20. No. Still gonna be highs in 70's, lows in 50's Saturday and Sunday. Humidity will be way lower starting tomorrow evening. Just not gonna be very long-lasting, as is pretty common with these early Fall fronts. Texas is catching the western edge of it. Gonna be colder and stick around longer east of the Mississippi.
  21. Cool front arrival, visualized:
  22. Make that $11 now, back down to $82.50.
  23. Typically fall with the switch to winter blend and less demand after summer, but not that drastically or quick.
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