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South Austin

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  1. Username checks out.
  2. Cubano is one of my favorite sammiches.
  3. They have dick-flavored koolaid in Norman?
  4. Going to Chicago in late April. Dinners booked at The Girl & The Goat, Avec River North, and Next. Been to the first, but not the others. Also seeing a show at Second City and taking an architectural river tour, which I've done before, but the wife hasn't. Managed to get a room at The Four Seasons for $425. Are the dogs at Devil Dawgs any good? Looks like an area chain.
  5. Hypothetically, what would be wrong with that?
  6. They’re just patriots showing their love.
  7. I used to shop at the Far West HEB when I lived in Northwest Hills, and the kosher deli there made kick-ass sandwiches. The egg salad slapped.
  8. If this dumb mother fucker had use of anything below the waist, he's the kind of Republican who'd be the first one to get a boner at a drag show.
  9. Keep Austin Fascist.
  10. I was drunk and starving when I bought one from the grab-and-go places under the stands at DKR a couple years ago. Ragrats.
  11. Wife and I went to Asheville for the first time last August, and we fell in love with the place. We talked about how it shot up to the Top 5 destinations of our retirement fantasy. Such a friendly community with great dining and breweries. I believe there's a separate thread for Ashville somewhere on Surly. We really want to go back, but I think it's going to be a while, because it may take a few years to rebuild from the hurricane devastation. From what I've heard, a lot of stuff in the central part of town is okay. But the "downslope" area just south of town near the river, including the River Arts District, has huge areas that were wiped out. See the before and after shots below.
  12. Hell yeah it is. My daughter passed on UCSB (not sure why), but got in to UC-Santa Cruz and UC-Davis, and actually got wait-listed at UCLA (sort of surprising because that was one of her "reach" schools. and knowing admissions criteria have gotten tougher she expected an outright denial). She also worked her ass off, was inside the top 5% had a strong SAT, but the UC schools didn't give her a dime, and I've heard plenty of other Texas parents say the same thing about their kiddos' UC application experiences. Say what you want about California, but the state university system takes good care of their own, and I think you need to be awesome at sports or find a cure for cancer if you're a nonresident looking for a tuition break. If my girl really wanted to go to one of the California schools, I'm sure I would've found a way to make it work. But I'm also glad she opted for Oregon, where they gave her a pretty generous scholarship. And she loves it there. Good luck to your daughter. Whatever path she choses, it's an exciting time for a parent.
  13. Note to self: Look for substitute teaching gigs.
  14. I never considered going to college in some state other than where my parents lived, and a lot of my contemporaries in high school were the same way. My daughter didn't apply to a single school in Texas, and only applied to schools in California, Oregon, and Washington. Seems like her generation is way more adventurous than mine.
  15. The kid talked to his finger. That's fucked up.
  16. I had tendinitis on and off when I resumed lifting right around 40 after about 10 years away from the gym. It was in my biceps, right where the muscle connects at the inner elbow. Had to do a lot of stretching, and biceps curls that were much lower weight going very slowly in the eccentric movement of the rep. Now, for any lifting day when I might do any work on the biceps, I spend a lot of time warming up that area.
  17. I briefly thought I might want a career in criminal law when I started law school. I interned at the Travis County DA's office the summer after my 1L year, and saw enough to say nope. I don't know how some of you do it for a living.
  18. @Ghost of LL, that's a shitty way to end the day, and I'm sorry you had to witness that. I've never seen a person die up close, not even a relatively calm passing in a hospital bed. But I'm quite certain I would react exactly as you did in that situation, from the helplessness to grabbing drinks afterwards. Only remotely comparable situation was I saw a plane crash as a kid, maybe in eighth or ninth grade. I was with my parents at church in Quantico, Virginia, and in the middle of service a small plane nose dives in an open field next to the church. The Catholic priest runs out to the crash while most of the congregation remains in the church. Several minutes later after first responders arrived on the scene, the priest comes back into the church with tears in his eyes, having administered last rites to the two passengers in the plane.
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