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Larry T. Spider

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  1. Has Lake Travis ever been really low and been filled up by steady consistent rain over time or has it always taken a flood?
  2. Hadn’t driven by lake Travis in a while. Yikes.
  3. Having never lived there, I didn’t realize that DFW has so many current/potential water sources to support all the growth. Tons of decent sized lakes. I think Dallas currently sources water from 6 of them.
  4. Based on what you shared with 4% cutting it close in certain scenarios, my guess is that 3.5% is almost always safe. What do the simulations say?
  5. Although there are bad actors in every country, almost all of the negative issues being discussed here are specific to the US. We have the most fucked up breeding system, sales system, track management, drugs, and political corruption. Almost every major country in the world does it better than us. As a result, we have more horse die than other countries, and it’s not even close. Hell, in the UK they have these supposedly fragile animals jumping over obstacles in the middle of races and we can’t get them to turn left without breaking down. I am a small part of an ownership group trying to fix things from the inside, but it’s an uphill battle. We are slowing getting people on different boards, but every state is it’s own little kingdom that doesn’t want to give up control. Additionally complicating the system is the number of horses bred each year is declining. This puts tracks in competition with each other for horses, which gives trainers too much power. Local jurisdictions are scared to crack down on drugs because the dirty trainers will leave with all their horses. It’s a cluster but some of us will keep fighting for doing right by the horses and the honest people in the game.
  6. They should stay in the restroom and hide in a stall. If they are letting kids back in that are knocking, it’s a terrible habit and doesn’t follow any safety protocol. In a real situation, only the police unlock the doors and nobody moves for any reason. There is no verbal “all clear” or admin involved.
  7. The project costs have skyrocketed but money is already being collected from taxpayers. Where does that money go? Is there an Al Gore lockbox or general funds or to cap metro to blow on other stuff?
  8. Rough bar in a pretty nice area. Been a couple of times and there was always shit about to go down. Dude came up there with a gun once and the cops came and killed him by the nearby church.
  9. I mean, he did piss off a bunch of cops….
  10. I think MD Anderson to Nac could be a real possibility. They already have Nac Neurosurgery (not joking).
  11. Yes, and that looks perfect. Do people typically make reservations for lunch there?
  12. Any good casual lunch spots in Sonoma that won’t be slammed on a Saturday?
  13. Permanently closed back in 2018.
  14. Have a wine country quick trip planned at the end of October. We will have a Thursday afternoon, all day Friday, then maybe one early tasting Saturday. We are staying somewhat near Santa Rosa. We are looking for a mix of smaller mom and pop places and a couple of bigger names. Not planning on going to Napa, just the area around Santa Rosa and Sonoma. We love wine but anything more than $50 or $60 per tasting is probably wasted on us. Would love to hear some recs for tastings but also places that would let us just buy a bottle and sit at an outdoor table. Bonus points for views. Like reds, mostly Pinots and cabs.
  15. There is some important information missing. Was the “security guard” mentioned in the OP a school resource officer or other type of ISD police? A SRO is a commissioned peace officer and can arrest the student, file charges, etc. A security guard can’t. The principal can’t press charges, so I don’t know why people keep wanting that. The principal can have the situation investigated by an SRO. Giving the parents the option is pretty standard because some parents don’t want their kid interviewed by a cop or potentially to have to testify in court with the aggressor present. I have had MANY parents that only want their child dealing with school administrators for the school related consequences and do not want them talking to cops. If you press charges that will 100% happen.
  16. There are a lot of people asking for the school/administrators to press charges. They turn the evidence over to police (usually ISD PD) to make those decisions. It’s completely out of an administrators hands when it comes to the criminal side of things. They can make school discipline decisions, and it sounds like the girl is already suspended. Special education laws can make the severity of those punishments less than ideal in some cases though. For your reading pleasure: https://kidslegal.org/special-education-discipline-suspensions-and-expulsions
  17. You won’t get the video out of the administration at the campus level because they are not authorized to give it to you. It doesn’t mean that it’s impossible but you are going to have to involve the district, who will likely run it by their legal team. The video and consequences received by the other student are discipline records. Those are ferpa protected and they don’t let campus administrators make the decision on giving that stuff out. Just depends on how high up the chain you want to go and if you want to get lawyers involved. FWIW, it was a shitty part of the job to be a principal and not be able to show the video. They likely want to. Strangely enough, the other parents will have an easier time seeing the video because it’s a discipline record of their own child.
  18. I’m in western round rock and confirm. Cow pissing on a flat rock.
  19. I think I could do the cold if I was completely work from home. Fuck commuting in that shit.
  20. Price tag before renovations: 2.4 million
  21. That was my senior year of high school. Full pads, on the field at 4:00. They would just hose us down.
  22. Bumping this thread because they are anticipating possible rolling blackouts between 2:00 and 8:00 today.
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