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Storm the Field

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  1. Diamondback Energy on Monday decided to buy the largest privately held oil and gas producer in the Permian basin, Endeavor Energy Partners, in a cash-and-stock deal for about $26 billion, including debt. The combined company would be the third largest oil and gas producer in the region behind Exxon and Chevron.
  2. This one has gone in my gym rotation. Just good old fashioned down-tuned death metal out of Dallas, with a pair of guest solos by Matt Heafy of Trivium.
  3. S&P over 5K Nasdaq over 16K Like whoa!
  4. Joked with my Astros text thread that it should have been #wingamesathome or #takebackMMP
  5. Close. Made it all the way up to 4,999 at one point, but couldn't quite break through.
  6. My favorite vendor at Minute Maid Park. Amazon store on the club level. Scan your credit card, at the entrance, walk in, grab a beer, walk out.
  7. Talked about this before with a buddy of mine who has spent a lot of time in the restaurant biz, has owned and/or managed a couple different places. Said it's tough (though clearly not impossible) to run a profitable breakfast place in an area like the Heights if you're only selling low-priced to-go items like pastries or bagels. Need people to buy ~$15 entrees, overpriced coffee, mimosas/bloodys....etc. to get average per-customer-transaction something closer to $20 than under $10. Either that or you need to own the building outright and not be paying rent.
  8. Nailed it.
  9. Sounds like one problem is the shop itself doesn't have enough kitchen space to produce what they need on-site.
  10. Culturemap has a more in-depth article out: https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/brazos-bagel-space-city-bagel-heights/
  11. So, sounds like he wasn't gonna be able to produce nearly enough bagels to keep the store from routinely running out and covering rent and whatnot. Seems like something you'd usually try and determine before opening, right?
  12. And now there's already a story out.
  13. This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in the restaurant business. Open for a total of like 15 hours before calling it quits. They were slammed Thursday-Sunday and selling out of everything. Posted Sunday night that they were taking Monday off and shortening hours Tuesday to continue working out some of the kinks but then planning to resume normal hours as of today. Typical soft opening shit. Less than 48 hours after that post, the owner calls it quits. Only 3 possibilities I see: 1. Epic partnership collapse. 2. Landlord/tenant nightmare. 3. Owner had a mental breakdown or drug/alcohol psychotic break after the stress of opening weekend.
  14. I've had quite an Astro-centric day. Wife's boss invited us to sit as his table at this charity event at ROCC. Berkman and Dusty were the featured entertainment and had a pretty funny 20-minute or so chat, just telling baseball stories and whatnot. Saw Crane and Dana Brown in the crowd. Mark Appel randomly was one of the guys sitting at our table. Just got done picking my first batch of April and May games from my season ticket group allotment. Just as I finished doing so, saw the news about Altuve!
  15. Just wanted to recommend the new pizza vendor that sets up at Great Heights on Thursdays now. Just 1 guy with 2 portable pizza stoves, so you may have to wait a while (took our order about 30 minutes to come out), but it was definitely worth it, and not like it's hard to wait while sitting in a brewery.
  16. Exactly. HEB bagels are just circles of soft bread with a hole in the middle. If you have to settle for grocery store bagels, the single bagels they sell in the bakery case at Kroger are way better than HEB, and actually have a proper bagel texture. One of the very few areas where HEB pales in comparison.
  17. I stopped by around 8:15 on Friday. They were sold out of most of their bagels. Had to settle for poppy seed, which were still good, but not as good as their everything bagels. There were at least 20 people in there and another dozen or so came in during the ~15 minutes I was there. Ran out completely not much later in the morning. Until the initial hype subsides, I'm gonna settle for occasionally popping in on may way to work on Friday mornings and just grabbing some to bring home for the weekend. Either that, or make sure to get there by 7:45 or so on the weekends.
  18. Full-time jobs recovered much quicker than part-time post COVID.
  19. Reminder, there are posters on here who take Zerohedge seriously. That's right, mass unemployment occurs every single January. The powers that be just don't tell you about it and hide it! Getting real tired of these month-long Great Depressions occurring at the start of every year.
  20. Tweet is about the general trend in revisions, not limited to this report.
  21. Been working like a dog for the past 2 months. Staying at the office until 7 or 8, coming in on Saturdays...etc. Two high priority projects that were both due back to back. One was a colossal thing I worked on for close to 5 months due last Thursday, which is exactly when the client got it. Another was a rush job that would have usually taken at least 6 weeks, but I only got a month and had to work on it while also finishing the other thing. Due tomorrow. Just sent off to boss for final review so he can deliver it in the morning. I'm going home and drinking a couple of beers and going out to dinner with my wife. Then I get the house to myself while she heads home to see her folks this weekend. You know where I'm not gonna be spending most of Saturday for the first time since Xmas? Pleases the ever-living shit out of me.
  22. Almost that time of year again. A week from today, I'll be at the office, hungover from a Wednesday night client dinner and then downtown happy hour, struggling to get some work done before heading downtown again for my firm's big NAPE party. Will be hating life next Friday morning.
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