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  1. So, this is where the Italian snobbery comes out... I wouldn't go to Reale's. Very Italian-American and I'm trying to wrap my head around $17.99 fried calamari. Anyway, Austin just kind of sucks for your "trattoria" type Italian places... good quality unpretentious Italian food that is reasonably priced but well executed. That's why I mentioned Giacomo's in Houston. Artipasta is good but its a food truck... owner is nice and he does a great job. Its not like Dolce Vita where I can go on a Sunday and have a two hour relaxed lunch (sniffle sob sniffle). I DO like Bufalina and particularly for happy hour. Austin's Italian food scene sucks. For the whole sheet, right? RIGHT???
  2. 70 degrees this morning while taking a quick walk. I'll take it.
  3. I hear you. I miss our friends. I wish my parents were here... otherwise... I really really miss Dolce Vita but that ship sailed in 2020 when Marco Wiles decided to sell off the building. Having Giacomo's in Austin would help. Nothing like really good quality affordable Italian in Austin. That's a big gap here. Pizza is good if you know where to go and having a new DeSano within shouting distance will kick ass.
  4. "This school is diverse enough, and offers enough different opportunities that being a Geneva student is not one, specific type of person." I looked up the staff pictures. Pretty diverse. English, German, Croatian, Irish, Scottish, Blondes, Redheads, etc
  5. DeSano scoffs at all your suggestions
  6. For those who are interested, these are the last in-store shows at Waterloo before they move the store to the new location further up Lamar. I'm going to hit one of them. New location will apparently have a better stage for live music.
  7. Biked the loop around Town Lake yesterday - very much looking forward to seeing how the new pedestrian bridge looks over by Longhorn Dam. Also enjoy veering off into the East Austin south of Chavez to check out the neighborhoods. So much eclectic architecture. Love it!
  8. Its right in front of the capitol. My gut tells me it will be managed differently so as to not offend the sensibilities of Lt. Dan.
  9. Was driving south on 360 from around the Lost Creek area. Could see gobs of rain between there and DT. Good dumping.
  10. That commute?
  11. So wait, your commute is 2 miles!?! 'Cause that's a piece of cake. I closed up my office up by Central Market north. If I left at the right time from SW Austin to the office, I could make it in 25 minutes. During slow summer days, I could do it in 20 minutes. That's 13 miles. But on the way home, if I didn't split by 3:00, usually 30 minutes. I was driving to an office with me, myself and I. Not worth it. In Houston, my commute was 10-15 minutes taking backroads to go 3.5 miles. I can't even imagine long ass commutes... people who live in Katy and go downtown to Houston or Leander into town. F that. (Sorry... Cedar Park/Leander may as well be the end of the world for me. I get pissed if I have to go up there)
  12. How far is your commute? Timing?
  13. Let's gooooo!
  14. Closest Wunderground weather station (about 3-4 streets away) from August. I mean, almost 3" by mid-August and the highest temp at 101 is nuts.
  15. I've been on/off from home for years. BUT I'm in sales so I'm on calls and Teams/Zoom calls all the F'ing time so that helps. Just being locked inside and working on projects or something would probably drive me crazy. I think it helps to belong to a gym (for all kinds of reasons) because it gets you out and with people. I mean, in the end I'm a very social person who suffers from some FOMO so I can't stay locked inside. That's why I love the live music scene in Austin and I have no problem going to shows by myself or cajoling friends to go.
  16. Austin perspective:
  17. Sorry... I'm close to a million miles and I still find air travel magical. Yes, its not glamorous but whatever. It takes me to new places. And besides, people talk about "the good ole days" but forget smokers on planes. I took an Iberia flight in 1998 or 1999 and I sat one row from the smoking section. Somehow the smoke did not stay on their side. It was grand.
  18. 1" at our house yesterday. Beautiful heavy rain. That's 3" in August!
  19. Someone's bringing the back together... For reference...
  20. texasdago

    2025 ACL

    All I got out of that was "hey, that's Johnny Depp!!!" But nicely done on the minstrel image @jimmyjazz
  21. texasdago

    2025 ACL

    So Mumford came on the other day on SirusXM. I never listen to Mumford because no. Anyway, I thought, "maybe I should listen to it for a second and revisit the music" so I turned up the volume and, WTF. No. Really. Why?
  22. Yeah, this summer has bene totally tolerable. 98? 99? Ok. 100? Yeah kind of sucks but its not 105 or 107 day after day. Assuming the source I saw was correct, the hottest temperature this summer in Texas was 103. The highest in the state. If real, that's a cakewalk summer.
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