Six Nations starts tomorrow. Prop bet on whether Italy wins a fixture? Who wins it all? Ireland or France? I'll be pulling for Wales to repeat. They play favorite Ireland at 8:30am tomorrow on Peacock.
West side of Westlake Hills has no power and no water. Did get out and try the new pizza place in Rollingwood. Dumb name (Lover Boy Pizza) but good pizza and delicious salad.
Been misting/drizzling for about the last hour in Westlake and many more trees are all of a sudden cracking and dropping branches and limbs. Unless we get some solid rain to help melt off the ice faster before the wind hits tomorrow morning it's going to be apocalyptic in the Hills of WL
Street was blocked this morning with a down tree (we are on a one way in/out dead end street). Got an Uber to pick up mother-in-law on the other side of the downed tree and got her to the airport. Flight just took off. Dry January just ended (literally).
My mother in law has been visiting since January 7. Her flight back to Albuquerque today was canceled yesterday, so we rescheduled for the same time on Wednesday. Which I'm sure will shortly be canceled. We'll have better luck playing pickup sticks with our butt cheeks than we will getting her a flight back to New Mexico by Friday.
The area between Tres Piedras and Chama is one of the most desolate and beautiful places in the US. Getting in and out of there in the winter can be a bitch though.
Not NM, but just north of there you can buy yourself cheap acreage in the San Luis Valley. Only an hour or so north of Taos. No utilities or maintained roads though. And retiring to New Mexico is great until you need healthcare.
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Used to bowl in a league at Dart Bowl back in the day (or whatever the place on Grover was called before it was Dart Bowl, when Dart Bowl was up on north Burnet). I've always wanted to bowl at Saengerrunde. Looks like they have leagues. Anyone ever checked it out?
The Collin County DA and his top assistant of have been accused of sexual harassment by one of his investigators and three other employees.
Here's the pdf of the 75 page federal lawsuit. (H/T to Liberally Lean blog)
MLR has disqualified the Austin and LA rugby teams for the 2033 season, a move that likely means no more professional rugby in Austin for a while. Both teams have been for sale. Players will be dispersed throughout the league in an upcoming draft. Both teams were also disqualified from the playoffs last year for violation of league rules, speculation being violation of salary caps.
I really have nothing to add to this topic other than I had a frito chili pie at Billy's on Burnet today and the cook put the fritos on top of the chili and cheese, which at first pissed me off. But then I ate it and it was all good.
Their Texas Star Tacos at both the Central and South location (South Lamar outpad in the Ray Hennig's Heart of Texas store) were my introduction to brisket tacos. And they were outstanding. Unfortunately they took them off the menu in the early 90s.