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Shit, parking has been fucked on campus since the beginning of time... Well my time... 1979. In fact my only act of vandalism ever, was in a dead end spot over by the swim center that was going to connect in eventually. So curing finals I parallel park at the end of the dead end, like the guy on the other side. The dead end went up into a hillside (which becomes important later). So I come out of my final, and some prick in a VW just parked in the middle of the dead end blocking me and the other parallel parker in. AND I had another final I needed to study for in a couple hours. I was fucking furious. I end up doing like a 32 point parking maneuver to get my car out, and not hit the other cars as I got out over the median. Well I dug around in my trunk and found an old carpet knife (no idea why it was there) and I went to work on that SOB's driver's side rear tire. I took about 10 steps back toward my car and then turned and went to work on the rear passenger tire as well. I was going to teach this asshole, that sometimes, it's really inconvenient to be an ass hole. But really, jamming in two people because you are an asshole. But yes looks cool, but can't we just always now make it a rule to add parking bigly to ANY large footprint buildings?
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
horn4life replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Funny thing is I came realy close to buying a house up behind Zilker back in 1999... Austin unfortunately is like any other cool place, not so cool people want to feel cool, and are willing to pay. The wife and I nearly exclusively eat at local or locally created places here in town, and going to SoCo is how we still "feel" like we are part of Austin. Trying to keep the folks that actually made it cool in business. Continental club and C-boys get a lot of our entertainment money, even though we are at like Oak Knoll and 183, because the music played there is still Austin at it's best. If they will sell me that place for list price, I promise I will support all the local businesses near my new Zilker house.... might even let the yard go to shit in honor of South Austin... -
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horn4life replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
With prices in that range the elementary school won't be there long anyhow. So... what do you guys think the final sale price will be? Obviously the sub $1 mil is designed to create a buss and hopeful bidding war, but what is the final close out sale price? -
Let me explain why we will ALWAYS get fucked by the referees. Go out to any youth sports league out there. You have young referees at all the kiddos games. Guess what school's graduates are nearly nonexistent in these ranks. That's right Texas grads. What you do see is a shit ton of Aggies, and other schools. Twenty plus years later they are refereeing college games. There will always be an inherent bias against Texas, by the referees. It's part of our mystique, the hatred of us, is simply part of the package. For every call that goes our way, you can usually count about 8 that went against us. But that's the cross we bear, and it's one we will never shed. Doesn't make me less furious, when I see the repetitive nature of the calls and especially non-calls with our defense for holding. But at least this game we didn't help the refs as much with our own brain farts as much. With one notable exception brain fart. Anyhow the ref's suck and are for whatever reason make so many non-calls a game in favor of our opponents it's ridiculous.
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Well, tonight was the wife and my 40th anniversary. We had a reservation at Red Ash for a daylight saving time 5:30. But thought, you know the one thing that makes me feel like I am still part of Austin is SoCo. So I thought a decent Sunday pre-game time killer would be Chicken Shit Bingo at C-Boys. The long story short is, we walk in, and shortly later they toss the chicken in. Well the first "bingo" was pretty large... And with some time to kill I buy the suggested $20 for 5 tickets. Then they toss in the chicken, and it dropped two almost undetectable pebbles, that nobody but my non-drinking wife would have noticed. But there it was, BINGO! I just assumed they were gong to bring us the winnings. But you have to go up front and let them count the money out to you in front of the band. The best part was when the band leader said, "Well congratulations on your 40th anniversary, and what a romantic son of a bitch bringing her to chicken shit bingo." Anyhow what could be more Austin that Chicken Shit Bingo followed by Red Ash...
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
horn4life replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
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This evening, take a moment to step outside as the sun starts to set. In my neighborhood there there will be the little bitty Halloweeners. If seeing those very young kids, out for what may be their first Halloween doesn't make you smile (and perhaps bring a tear if you are an old like me) there is something wrong with you. So free good vibes tonight early! (think about those sweet kids, when the asshole teens roll up a few hours later)
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
horn4life replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Curious about what you pros think about the uptick in delistings? To me is sort of confirms what I have been saying for quite a while now, there are a lot of listings that are NOT priced to sell. The sale is not the goal, the high sale price memory from two years ago is the goal. And when you don't need to sell, are you really trying to sell? Or just wasting everyone's time? Anyhow this article is about how much higher than historic delistings are helping keep listing prices high. A growing number of home sellers are taking lingering properties off the market instead of lowering their prices. -
Because the "I never carry cash" contingent don't think about other people as much. IMHO- no offense to super credit card tippers unaware of taxation... @Brisketexan did make a good point, in tipping daily, to make sure the worker who does the cleaning that day gets the tip. If we stay a week, we might have the maid come in twice. We might ask for towels if we see them, So we do a lot of big back end tipping. (pun intended)
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I don't really care about anything but eliminating unknown letters. TREAD PIOUS MANGY BLACK Then I start solving... I'm basically 98% in the 725 tries. A couple of those were my forgetting to finish, or trying to guess early. PIOUS is the most often throw away. I used to use MONEY rather than MANGY, as eliminating or confirming A and E locations is a good strategy too. But that extra G elimination or confirmation. Anyhow good brain game on the crapper.
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The weight and length made me shy away from those. However, if I still had younger kids the utility of them hopping on the back in the neighborhood would be a neat novelty for them. And likely nature rides early Sunday mornings would be fun. I actually saw a pair of the Lectric brand bikes way down the beach in Port A/Corpus. One tricycle and one regular bike. They looked like they were used a lot and showed the salt damage on a lot of the hardware. But they ran fine and the ladies on them seemed to be enjoying them. No doubt salty air will. basically eat anything. But with a lot of prevention, and religious wash downs I am thinking I can get my $2K back in enjoyment. But honestly how many times would I actually make that trip? Once? Twice? Mostly it would be cruising around the neighborhood, or maybe early morning weekend rides downtown and back up NW. City of Austin gives a pretty damn good rebate if you your bike locally from an approved vendor. I have been looking at versions of this and some of the new tech, like a rear locking hub via app are appealing. What I also thought of last night was that I could ride to the train station, Hop the train, and then use it downtown. But then theft is my big concern, right? I have been looking at the Aventon Adventure for a while now. Anyhow here is a great link with a lot of the questions here answered by bicycling magazine with their 2025 reviews. Most of the bikes mentioned thus far here are on their ratings list. 16 best Electric bikes of 2025 according to bicycling.com FYI - City of Austin E-Bike rebates... Cost of $500 - $999 credit of $200, $1K- $1999 credit of $400, and over $2K nets a $600 credit
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I was telling the wife that maybe the ticket is get a front hitch fro my truck and buy a pair of E-bikes. One bad mofo for me, and something smaller for her. Thought the eBikes would be great if we we started doing more RV trailer stuff. As I could back in trailer, never take it off the hitch and just use the EBikes for weekend transportation. But mainly I see fishing use for me, along with very possible SXSW weekday music venue rapid movement and parking. But the idea of us both having a bike to go to more remote spots or to cover more trail is an intriguing idea for me.
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Wow, saw that The Revivalists are playing Stubbs tonight. Think I am going to go down and grab a ticket. Looks like a solo trip though... As wife and usual buddies are a no go. With the weather nice, should be a nice show.
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I think what's mainly broke is Peterson's brain. His financials merely reflect that brain broke, with a mirror image of bank account broke.
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This is the beach right out in front of IB MaGee RV park. Maybe 150 yards from our parking spot. Sun coming up over the tip of Port A South Jetty.
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