A-Tex Devil

Another one……. In our remodel we replaced all of our gas appliances with electric and contractor capped off gas line to kitchen….. fine. One evening after we took possession of house we had strong gas odor that wouldn’t go away. Wife called 311 and AFD followed by Texas Gas Company came out. Long story - there was gas detected but no leak after pressure testing, but…... Texas Gas came and asked us where the gas was capped off in kitchen. Shrug from me, so we called contractor. He said capped off behind new cabinetry, good night. Texas Gas said they can’t access it and until they can see it and confirm it’s properly capped or disconnected, our gas is turned off. We scramble another solution with contractor’s plumber next day to cut off gas line from a point outside, so kitchen is completely disconnected. This is in lieu of busting open our brand new cabinets so Texas Gas can see the capped line. But now our kitchen is completely disconnected. Contractor wants me to pay for that work to disconnect the pipe. My view is that they covered up access to confirm it was capped and it’s on them to fix so that I can have gas and heat my house again. Thoughts? I am pretty pissed because now our kitchen is disconnected from the gas completely so it’s a pain for future owners if they want gas appliances. Contractor maintains they didn’t have to provide accessibility to the capped off pipe and they just did me a favor to help get gas back on.

We are wasting two DPs. We need to give Rigoni the Pochettino treatment next window and go get the best CDM from Europe looking to make the move to US. Not sure how to fix Ring being a DP. That was always a mistake regardless of how important he has been. Does Teen Wolff have a national team tourney this summer to up his transfer value so we have some money to spend? It’s still early and I see this team as middle of pack low playoff seed at this point. But we have to bury Zardes on the bench as nothing but a high energy/ last 15 minutes guy in the summer heat, and get Urruti back in there with Fagundez and Driussi.

If Duke can get by a not full strength TN today, things are opening up for them. They should beat FAU/FDU and if they don’t, shame on them. The top half of that bracket was not ideal for Duke as Purdue and Tennessee aren’t great matchups for them. KSU, Marquette and MSU are all pretty good matchups, though. I like one of Furman or Princeton to win today and will be betting money lines on both. I also think there is good value in the Maryland money line at +330 if Miller truly isn’t 100%. One of the 1s will fall and for some reason I don’t think it will be Houston.

And Tyler Adams isn’t even on it.

No shit. I was riding First Time lift in PC with my 5 year old today multiple times and his ass is at edge of seat leaning on bar watching the slope style course skiers and I just picture him slipping right through under the bar.

Wrapping up spring break in Park City. First time I’ve skied in 24 years and first time for my kids (wife passed on skiing due to recent surgery). This place has killed it. We splurged on an AirBnb just up the stairs from 501 and Main on Woodside and brought our nanny for the 5 and 9 year old. First day of ski school was a clusterfuck but we figured it out. Have gotten to ski with both of my kids the last 2 days and it’s awesome. And it is like riding a bike (although don’t tell that to you quads and knees). I hit the peloton and did squats and lunges 8 weeks ahead of the trip and it still didn’t prepare me fully, but better than nothing. Was doing blues again after a day and got some powder in Wednesday. Just have to know I’m not 21 anymore and enjoy it. Can’t wait to get back in the annual (or more) groove. And if you have celiacs in the family like I do, the restaurants here are on point. Just make reservations. Like weeks in advance. we will be back.

I mean if no high growth pre-profitable company could get bank debt we’d be in a really boring fucking place right now innovation-wise

This. And it's why things got a little scary when the other players in the market like Bridge, Signature, and PacWest (who acquired Square1) started taking shrapnel . These banks have found a way to help the high growth/pre-profit tech companies as they try to hit exit velocity. JPM, Wells Fargo, Citi, etc do not ever lend to these companies. They should, but they don't. They all have dudes running around the Valley and Austin saying they are trying to connect to emerging companies, but they just want the founders for their wealth management teams and then the exit work. It's really important to the venture backed model that things stabilize and these other banks, who were all inferior to SVB in market share, come out of this still able to lend to Series A and B companies that are pre positive EBITDA. And I agree Thiel deserves scrutiny. I am not a bankruptcy attorney or any kind of litigator, but if there is any potential claim against the VCs that initially started this run, I hope it's made. Would love to see the emails from Thursday morning come out in discovery. I am doubtful, though.

Same. SVB has had its issues in the past. They kinda flubbed PPP for instance. But they’ve stood behind and been flexible with distressed borrowers in the past. They are a predictable, reliable, and reasonable lender in the venture space all the way up to LBOs. That certain influential VCs stabbed them in the back like this, and that is what happened, is fucking devastating and those same VCs have had their portfolio saved by SVB over and over again.

What a shit show of a day. Something needs to happen quickly or the panic is going to infect PacWest, Bridge and Signature. Things are fucking nutso.

Sorry. Unfortunately work got in the way and couldn’t free up in time to catch the tube over. Ended up at a Chelsea watch party.

In London tomorrow night. How hard is it to get back to Mayfair from Dagenham after the game?

So my guess is DJTJ never puts him in a public place without sycophants but if he were to be in a press conference would love to see some plant from John Oliver or some other show ask “Tell me, Don, because the public wants to know, since you’ve been with Guilfoyle, what is the oldest and richest GOP donor dick that she’s sucked and is that person the same person? And follow up…. Did you watch?”

So Kelce was prett fricking good. The American Doll sketch had me rolling. Still working through skits this morning.

Keller didn’t make the bench. Was this Teen Wolff’s first full 90? If Ring is a real CDM I like having him, Perreira and Wolff on field together along with Kolmanic and Gallagher. Seems super small though. Liking 15 so far. Would like to see more of the dude that came in late to see if he is value add.

We lead the league in frosted tips, huh?

Ring at CB. Don’t hate it. Urruti is better than Zardes though. Jeez.

Bad joke based on a misspelling. Apologies.

He was wreckless. The other car… not so much.

I got all of the way through Our Idiot Brother thinking it was Parker Posey and not Elizabeth Banks.

Este

I preface this with I have never played the game But I find it interesting that they’ve made clear that Ellie never knew her parents She was born, what; 5 or 6 years into the apocalypse? Might she be some kid of test tube baby experiment to defeat the infection? I think I’d find that quite stupid but they have also avoided her real origin story. Hopefully it’s not as deux ex machina as that One thing The Walking Dead did get right is totally avoiding the “why” part Hopefully this show does the same

I am not close enough to Hollywood to fully have grokked it in real time, but apparently ep 8 was a hit job on Kathy Kennedy, who fired Rian off the Star Wars stuff.

I thought Stuver could have done better on goal 3 but he was probably gobsmacked that Kip let the dude get by. So long as Kip is on Austin FC II (or just not on field) I’ll shrug this off a bit as a fluke. The howler alone is a long term benching. Follow that with the third goal mistake and that’s a demotion. Zardes showed us in game one what he is and I hope to see more Urruti, as he gets how to play with Driussi and Fagundez. I wonder if we will miss Moose. I like Zardes coming in late in games in summer to run at tired defenders, though. Was less concerned with Rigoni as others. He had one instance when he dribbled down the 18 yard line in first half that was super annoying because he had 3 chances to fire one with his left foot. But I’ll give it time. Seems weird to me that Driussi is captain as well and wonder if that was part of his deal. And what does Ring think about it? Speaking of Ring, as much as I like him, wasting a DP slot on him was a mistake. Lots of guys on roster I am not familiar with. Hope to see some of them next week.

Super psyched for tonight. My season ticket liaison hooked us up to have my kiddo be a player escort for national anthem. First game in season ticket seats. Hope for some fun neighbors. Listos!