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Hornbeliever

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  1. First, completely agree. My comments to my wife were "this is unnecessarily complex for Vietnamese" but they saved themselves with some good dishes. Still find it unnecessary. Also, we had reservations at 500 pm because no other time on a Friday. Didn't believe it until I saw it. Place was hopping.
  2. Masterquoting myself. Finally tried Blind Goat. Solid place that deserves a repeat trip for us. Not a 10, not an 8. Like an 8.8 Quite delish brisket fried rice and crawfish noodles. Bone marrow was tasty but lacked quantity so wouldn't order it again and egg rolls were good but not great.
  3. I have a sort of litmus test to see if my tastes line up with yours enough to listen to your advice out of a show. S1 is one of the questions. You don't love Breaking Bad as much as I do? I get it. But you don't like neither S1 or Deadwood? We can stop convo rt now cuz I ain't listening to you. Go jerk it to Twin Peaks.
  4. Bruh, 96% of Surly is a Surly 1%er so I don't understand. Does $2k per person include getting to Ecuador? If so, could be tough for you to afford a week. But to actually be helpful and not just question, we took flight from Quito to Galapagos, then stayed in hotel on same island (San Cristobal). I remember flights being $400 or so each but it was 7 years ago so could be fuzzy. From that island, just paid to go on boats to other islands for our daily excursions. Obviously, then there is hotel and food. So if you fly, you will likely have to stay as cheap as possible to afford the day tours. I have no clue whether cruises are cheaper than flying since we only had few days for the galapagos part of our trip so when I researched, saw minimum cruise duration was like 7 days so I stopped looking.
  5. Im all in on a national championship this year and don't see a loss through 2027 at least when Arch is picked first in draft......but anyone who hates on analysts for not picking Texas stopped watching football in 2010 or so. You have the pattern recognition of Greg Davis reading an OU defense "12 four-yard outs on 3rd and 6 didn't work but I'm going in for thirteenths." We suck until we don't.
  6. I've heard enough. Dropping $10k to get $100k back.
  7. Did you make it to Maine? We are doing Houston to Maine road trip this summer with a stop in Disney to make sure we go the least logical route.
  8. It's edge grain and I do not have a planer....though I keep thinking I should buy one. I buy strips at Clark's Hardwood in Houston that are pretty square and even. This piece is cherry, maple, and walnut. Ps wood is not cheap. I'm shocked everytime I go. I have a hand planer and plane them out the manly (and stupidly harder) way.
  9. Forgot to add the first cutting board I made. Was given a Longhorn brand so been marking some stuff with it and branding is harder than I thought. I give out cutting boards when friends let me stay at their mountain homes and stuff so starting to get decent at them.
  10. Some furniture I made for country house. Cutting into old whiskey barrel was tough for me and wish I had a 2nd at bat. Still happy with outcome but various places I didn't cut straight. Also, cleaning that whiskey barrel with all that char inside might have given me cancer.
  11. Shit is bananas. My tenant doesnt move out until May 31 so I did experiment before hiring property mgmt/realtor to really rent my place in the '46. I put up a cheap yellow arrow sign at my rental house (not major street) on Saturday at 11 am. By 4 pm, I had 4 people interested to see it and one guy willing to pay premium and not even having to see inside (he is building house in neighborhood and wants to keep tabs on construction while staying very close to their kids elementary school). Anyways, going to show it to 5 people on Friday so let's hope this works out with great tenant that pays and takes care of shit.
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    Houston BBQ

    I have a 50/20/20/10/0 ratio for eating my BBQ at Truth/Pinkertons/Feges/Rudys/Goode Co and that order matches what I think the quality and consistency of BBQ is. Truth is best but most inconvenient. I've had 2 average meals there I would say. But that is a very high batting average given how much I go. I havent had bad meal at Pinkerton's but their best doesn't match Truth. Feges and Rudy's pretty convenient so that's why they are still in rotation. Goode Co = sucks.
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    TexMex

    The one on Long Point? If so, agreed. Feges BBQ line was too long one day so I went there instead. Didn't love it. There is taco truck near Antoine and Long Point that is way better, near the watermill express.
  14. Finally got my bees after a couple month delay. I know nothing and am on a journey so wish me luck and throw any advice out. Looking fwd to when I get honey and wax already but I know I will have to be patient.
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    Colonoscopy

    All done and removed three polyps. This means I have to have another joyous ride in 3 years. Was really hoping for that sweet 10 year call-back. All in all, the drink wasn't that bad. Tasted like stale Gatorade. Shitting piss got old but actual procedure was a nothing-burger. Car to car in less than 2 hours.
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    Colonoscopy

    My poop countdown is starying soon so not a short-term solution.
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    Colonoscopy

    I'm on deck and about to start the prep. They said to put Vaseline for protection from 'anorectal irritation.' So....do you put this on after each shitting session? Do you put a bit on toilet paper and spread it that way? These trying times are when not having any butt issues or need for Vaseline in my anorectal area to-date is costing me.
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    Houston BBQ

    Been taking my kid to ninja warrior place near spring branch and seen Aunt Pookies BBQ many times. Anyone tried it? Better or worse than Rudy's?
  19. Agree with Mack. I don't watch UT football for the wins but more to get to know the good kids and good families. I'm cheering only for them to become great accountants and teachers with their diplomas they are earning by playing a game. I miss Brett Robin on second Saturdays in October.
  20. Interesting. We have a place too but been hesitant to plant a fruit tree the last few years because a plant store told me they would need lots of water first two years. Do you have irrigation system of some sort? Or do you let Mother nature mother nature and see what survives?
  21. Went to Chris Stapleton. Amazing voice but felt short. Traffic in and out parking lot was terrible. I heard train was shitshow as well.
  22. I read Elliot say this will be a limited schedule this year to ease us into the sport. Do all these matches count on our record forever or is this a true gap year where nothing officially counts?
  23. Ok, headed there with 7 and 12 year old for 2 days (part of long road trip) and would appreciate advice. 1) Mt Pleasant or Charleston hotel? Don't need to be in cool mix since I have two heavy anchors in tow that prevent actual adult fun. 2) Already wrote down various restaurants to choose from out of this thread so appreciate it all. Any final comments on family friendly places? We go to bars and stuff with them...but tend to bail before cool people and/or crowd gets there. Can I go eat at like 5 p.m. at a place like Husk with them or is it too cool a spot?
  24. I remember the 90s when I was young and all we did on 6th street was discuss yield to maturity rates on all our bonds.
  25. I built a financial model for an LNG facility a Long, Long Time ago that, to be Frank (see what i did there), made me learn the deep underlying nature of a facility like that. At the time, you needed massive contracts with folks wiling to guarantee they would buy the LNG. No private company on earth could finance it without an offtaker or two that would guarantee a minimum revenue stream. Hence why there aren't more LNG facilities built even though the need was evident 20+ years ago.
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