Storm the Field

May PPI comes in at -0.3%. YOY drops from 2.3% to 1.1%. Core YOY dropped from 3.2% to 2.8%.

Fished in an industry tournament down in Galveston on Saturday morning. One of my better fishing days in a while. Ended up with a personal limit of trout including a real nice 21'. Our boat finished with 13 keeper trout and 1 slot redfish, and landed probably another 20 or so throwbacks (small trout, rat reds, black drum...etc). Also caught the biggest ladyfish I've ever seen. Hit it hard and I got pumped thinking I had a prize trout on and then this monster jumps out of the water after about 5 seconds of fighting. Disappointing, but fun to reel in.

That squall that blew through Houston yesterday evening was crazy. I walked out to my office garage at 6:00 and it was just starting to drizzle. 3 minutes later, heading up Yale and it's raining sideways and you can hardly see the lane markers. Had some pea-sized hail bouncing off the hood of my truck. That was some of the quickest street flooding I've ever seen occur. And within 20 minutes it was all over.

4319 (as of this post)

Now that E3 is pretty much dead, this has become the de facto summer games showcase. Started earlier today and goes through Tuesday.

93 years late.

VIX sitting below 14, something that hasn't happened since February 2020.

Looks like Blastfurnace season kicks off in earnest on Friday. High pressure system will move in and park over Texas and stick around for a while. Extended forecast for 6/9 thru 6/19 is all mid to high 90's and low rain chances.

S&P is currently up 19.8% from it's October low (3583->4292). ~7 points away from officially being back into bull market territory.

Oooof, this should have been a walk off donger. 88 mph slider that didn't break at all.

Damn, I got briefly excited seeing Yainer come up with 1 on and chance to be the hero. First pitch GIDP to end the game.

Man, I just went down the rabbit hole on Tucker's game splits. Dude has only 2 RBI in the last 2 weeks and only 2 HR since April, the last coming 3 weeks ago. WTF?

Altuve has barely played this season, Yordan's in a mini slump (4/24 with .602 OPS last 7 games), Tucker hasn't hit a HR since 5/19.....the list goes on. And yet we're winning a decent amount of games, Pena is starting to heat up, mid-season Bregman is starting to activate, Yainer might actually be a contributor if Dusty would ever let him play. It's a mixed bag.

Devo comes in to a 1-1 game, gives up a leadoff double and then retires the next 5 straight batters. That ain't our day.

Hard to win a game with 1 run. Gotta make something happen this inning.

Welp, grounder, grounder, K didn't work.

Leadoff 2B for Diaz, gotta get him home.

Jobs report blows out expectations (+339K vs +190K). 14th! straight month above consensus. Nasdaq and S&P at 12-month highs. VIX falls below 15 for first time in 2+ years.

Not-humble-at-all-brag but I've been kicking ass since this post. Lost exact count, but I've worked out something like 33 of the past 40 days. Coming home from the gym this morning, it hit me that I'm absolutely in the best shape of any point in a good 5-6 years, though I still have lots of work to do. Tweaked my lower back on Monday, but fortunately have still been able to do cardio and most of my lifts this week. It just gets really stiff when I go from sitting to standing or do specific movements (bending over to pick something up rather than squatting down). If I tried to do a dead lift or something similar right now, I'd keel over in pain. Heading to the beach for a 4-day weekend tomorrow morning, so I'm hoping some extended rest will get me over the hump and back to normal next week. Self-imposed Summer Boot Camp starts on Tuesday. Really want to double-down on the diet during the work week and start focusing a lot more on my core and branching out from my existing routine. I think with 3 months of hard work, I can make significant progress getting my gut and waist on par with where the rest of me is.

81 with a pleasant breeze at lunchtime in Houston today. I am quite gruntled with this development.

Gary Larson did it better.

One place that is actually opening soon though is Pho Fix, a Vietnamese cafe in Stomping Grounds. They just posted that their grand opening is next Saturday, 6/3.

Hah. Drove by this morning on way home from the Y. Construction crews still there working. Last time I took a peak inside, the interior still needed a lot of work. Can't imagine they'll be open before end of Summer. Looks like they're actually doing a BBQ pop-up on Sunday and serving drinks out on their patio. First thing they've posted on their account in a long time. https://www.instagram.com/p/Csl9gTeJxNd/

Heading down to Bolivar alongside probably 50+ hometown friends for Memorial Day weekend, as we've done pretty much every year for the past 25+ years. Stick to the quieter neighborhoods and away from the crowded sections of the beach or bars where all the SETX trash converges and you're typically fine. We usually stake out a quiet section of the beach, far away from the jacked-up trucks and tattooed trailer trash. All that said, despite having been to Crystal Beach probably 100+ times in my life and knowing plenty of folks that have houses down there, I don't know a soul that would purposely go down there for "Go Topless" Jeep Weekend. On a regular weekend, there's a healthy mix of normal folks and heathens. On GTJW, it's 95% the latter.

CVX is really cornering the market in the DJ Basin. This gives them another 275K acres in Colorado on top of what they acquired when they bought Noble.