SimonBolivar

Well not as bad as we expected and doable for 2 adults with graduate degrees in a 1BR.

Well at least that's usually Uncle Sam telling you that you're Bell County material.

I had been to NYC before but last week was my wife's first trip. She absolutely fell in love with the city which is really odd considering she gets tired of people and hates being out in the rainy cold which it was last week. She's always ready to come home from Mexico City to get away from the people after a couple of days and I was expecting that, but she was sad to be leaving. Part of the reason could be because we stayed in Tribeca which empties out after working hours are done, but the real reason though was how great the people are in the city. She was really happy with the Hispanic pride that she saw there and loved that people spoke to her in Spanish first which doesn't even happen in San Antonio or Houston (She dresses like con nopal en la frente, but actually loves her heritage and is a bilingual elementary school teacher). She was also blown away by how friendly everyone in the city was as we made friends quickly with people everywhere with them talking to us first. The dude working at the local pizza place The couple next to us at the Blue Note The lady on the subway with her dog The dude who knew everything about Broadway that sat in front of us at Gutenberg! The Holiday booth operator at Bryant Park who went to Texas State And on and on and on I think she was expecting more New England stiffness instead of the Mid-Atlantic bluntness of NYC. I caught her checking apartment prices yesterday and was pleasantly surprised at how affordable they are after COVID. I highly doubt we end up moving up there with so many nieces and nephews popping up in the family that live within 2 hours of us in Texas, but I'm sure we'll be back 3 or 4 times in 2024. Such a special place

And that's living in a great food/culture city like Houston. I meet transplants here in Waco all the time, poor bastards are actually choosing to move here.

The Clemson band just made the deportation list

We ended up going to both since they were right there. They were similar of course but we spent more at Union Square so I guess that means we liked that one better (went to the Strand not B&N) afterwards.

Uruguay is right there and you can visit BA all the time.

Yeah it was fantastic and really cheap too in a relatively intimate theater. Win, win, win.

Chuck Schumer was our guest producer at Guttenberg tonight, pretty neat.

We saw Tank and the Bangas tonight at the Blue Note. Damn tthey are fantastic and it's easy to see why they "won" Tiny Desk.

All of the Los Tacos #1 places are much more legit than I expected.

Heading out on Saturday, is the Union Square Holiday Market worth hitting up or is the one at Bryant Park better?

We would be going again if the one in Bellmead hadn't closed.

There was huge front page NYT article about how he plans to deport millions after sticking them in concentration camps and it didn't even get its own thread.

"Less than museum quality" should be put on my gravestone.

I've told it here before, but I had a lady that told me I was going to be diagnosed with cancer soon because I have some pre-Columbian American Art in my office. That was a few years ago now, so I guess God has a backlog and he just hasn't gotten around to it yet.

I think 70% of white girls between the ages of 13-40.

I'll hang out with the dude selling raspas from a cart and watch from afar.

Is it 9/11 that did it to everyone? I'm significantly younger than the group saying the 80s are 20 years ago and I feel the same way. Everything is based on a timeline that is right around 2000 or 2001.

Ya'll over here bad-mouthing Golden Corral. Where else can you get 8 difference carbs on your plate at the same time?

More good news https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/11/07/iowa-election-2023-results-pella-public-library-keeps-independence-gender-queer-book-challenge/71293663007/

We need to be congratulating Poe and getting him a good tee time for next year.

I'm sure Texans will get to vote on adding it to our constitution any day now.

STOP THE COUNT!!!

Live view of Poe and Co