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  1. Larry T. Spider
    Seeing 105 in Austin on Monday and Tuesday. Furk.
  2. Larry T. Spider
    I can confirm. Emailed years ago and immediately started getting fundraising emails. Fuck that guy.
  3. Larry T. Spider
    All the training now is get in and engage immediately. Half the time the guy will just off himself when engaged. I’ll wait for confirmation, but that’s bad if they were outside waiting for a tactical team before going in.
  4. Larry T. Spider
    Considering the number of deaths, “it could have been worse” should be a massive call to action. What does that even mean? 40 dead kids?
  5. Larry T. Spider
    All true. Some of it was pandemic related but we couldn’t even get subs this year. Principal, AP, counselor, office staff, etc ready to jump in and teach at any moment. One adult per class is doing good. Two is a pipe dream. Also, most districts spend about 87% of their budget on staff. To put two people in each room, it wouldn’t double the budget, but it would be a significant increase. Texas taxpayers would never go for it.
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    Year 1 is 47k in uvalde. Year 10 is 50k….
  7. Larry T. Spider
    There is constant pressure from parents for more access to the building for assemblies, events, or just to hang out. Then shit like this happens and they want a super max prison. But then the memory fades and the pressure to open the doors starts up again. There is plenty of funding blame to go around, but part of the problem is that communities are divided on this. It comes up on almost every school tour I do. And no, there really isn’t a safe way to do any event that’s going to have more that 30 parents in attendance. Checking people in one at a time would take several hours.
  8. Larry T. Spider
    It’s going to rain when the one line comes across but be nothing close to what people were talking about a few days ago. Most of us knew better. Yards won’t need watering for a few days but we will be right back in the shit. Lakes still low/dropping as well. The only good thing would be the ground getting some water in it meaning that future rain would run off….but it’s not in the forecast.
  9. Larry T. Spider
    They should just put a live feed of the line. Let the zoo run it.
  10. Larry T. Spider
    Just started raining in western round rock.
  11. Larry T. Spider
    Seems like the RIPs to breweries has ticked up this year. Weird to survive the pandemic then fold. PPP loans running out?
  12. Larry T. Spider
    This is where I am too. Two of the four need to get fixed to see things calm down. Monetary policy and China getting back to work seem most likely to me. Who knows what will go on with Russia and oil. But, slowing consumer demand could lower oil prices even if supply stays somewhat tight.
  13. Larry T. Spider
    I think the only thing keeping the market from going off a cliff is the pent-up consumer demand after two years of Covid (see airlines). But, that is going to be put to the test between now and July 4th as gas will go over $5 in parts of the country that aren’t used to seeing that. You get the double whammy of higher costs for businesses at the exact same time the average consumer becomes much more price conscious. I do think it gets somewhat sorted out in the next 6 months though. China isn’t going to stay offline forever, gas prices drift back down in the fall, and people will have made their peace with the higher interest rate environment. Should be a rough summer though.
  14. Larry T. Spider
    Other than cops gonna cop, why did this take so long?
  15. Larry T. Spider
    What did lake Travis get down to in 2011?
  16. Larry T. Spider
    The rest of the week is going to be hot in all the major Texas metro areas. Any ercot warnings going out or are we supposed to survive this round of heat?
  17. Larry T. Spider
    I used to think we had a mess of a grid. Now I think we have a mess of a grid and people trying to make it snow inside.
  18. Larry T. Spider
    77 is perfect for me
  19. Larry T. Spider
    I’m thinking about selling puts on some stable value companies that I wouldn’t mind owning anyway. I’m good if I buy at what I consider a value. I’m good if they just expire and I make a few bucks in this market.
  20. Larry T. Spider
    I assume that is showing energy companies getting higher rates during peak demand times? If so, how do those costs get passed along? I’m sure it’s the consumer in the end but do we all have peak usage stuff in our contracts?
  21. Larry T. Spider
    I see both sides of it. I certainly have managed my fair share of people that think that the employer should kiss their ass just for showing up, while they provide very minimal quality. I do feel like I have seen more of this attitude over the past 5 years. But I also see productive people being asked to carry all the weight, working ridiculous hours, and gaining almost nothing from it. I don’t really have a solution but it seems to be a management culture issue in the US. I’ll blame HR.
  22. Larry T. Spider
    If there are native Spanish speakers in the class, they will need all day bilingual instruction, at least in the earlier years. There are many different models but most start with almost all Spanish instruction then they are down to 1 subject by 5th grade.
  23. Larry T. Spider
    There’s some truth to this. AISD was floating the idea of making every school dual language for a while until they realized Ms. Smith, the kindergarten teacher that everybody loves, would have to be replaced with a bilingual teacher. They can’t even find bilingual teachers anyway. Just because I like to throw a bomb then walk away. White schools adding dual language steals bilingual teachers from schools where they are most needed and where Spanish is necessary to communicate with parents so that kids with advantages can have one more thing. * I don’t necessarily believe that but you will definitely hear the argument.
  24. Larry T. Spider
    Don’t have a dog in the fight but hiring certified bilingual teachers is really tough. Districts are paying huge stipends to out-recruit other districts. AISD is bringing teachers over from Spain right now to fill the void. It might help her argument if she has a solution for this.
  25. Larry T. Spider
    If wind blows more at night, can we residential solar our way out of the peak demand problems in the summer months? Seems like the highest generation times would match highest demand times. No approval for large plants needed. Just start slapping up the panels with a state of Texas rebate to cover some of the cost since we aren’t spending it on a plant.

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