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Finally got out to Meanwhile Brewing yesterday so I had to try Distant Relatives— can confirm it was very very good. Brisket was moist and tender and had great flavor, the chicken was really good, and the blackeyed peas with burnt ends were a tasty side..

Meanwhile Czech amber lager, dry Irish stout, and I think the Japanese lager imo

Dark Czech lager at Hold Out— very tasty imo

Schwarz and Hefe imo

Great beer all over the place now. It's easy to stay local.

Agree that SCOTX overturn was correct both legally and practically. Seems like the Third Court was trying to do what was "right" rather than what was strictly legal. Also agree that it just proves the entire structure is broken.

"Putin offers a ceasefire in the event of the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Ukraine." How generous of him.

Hey, question about driving to Fiesta Texas from Austin. Last time I came down (spring break, mid march) there was so much construction at 1604 and I10, it took something like 30 mins to go a mile or so. So, I'm coming down with my kids again tomorrow morning and I'm wondering, is that construction still there? If so, I'm thinking about taking 281 down and then cutting over to Boerne and coming down I10 from the north side instead. Does that make any sense? Is it a bad idea? Is there a better way?

I've already told my wife that when our youngest graduates high school in a few years and we move, we're selling the house with everything in it. I hate moving and I'm not going to move a GD thing, ever again. Everything conveys. The new owners can decide what to do with my boxer briefs and ridiculously huge collection of Star Wars t-shirts. I'm not taking a thing with me other than the clothes on my back.

No WAI we'd do that. Must be some independent consultants of unknown nationality...

Zilch so far in NW Travis. Radar says it's red right over me. But... nothin'.

Yup I'm fine with heat. But absolutely loathe the cold. Lake trash for life.

It's pure fan fic so of course it plays well with the ags. That's their jam.

This can never be posted too often:

The ags were as happy as anyone else to dump the little sisters of the SWC and move to the B12. They were desperately trying to move to the SEC at that time but couldn't without Texas. Their revisionist history that it was mean old Texas that killed the SWC is... baffling. The modern economics of televised college football is what killed the SWC, and most certainly would have killed the B8 as well if the 4 SWC schools hadn't joined them to form the B12. As for the B12, Texas didn't ruin it, Texas saved it. In the 2010 realignment it was Nebraska and Colorado departures that weakened it, but Texas propped it up and saved it by agreeing to equal revenue sharing and by pushing the media partners for better deals. In the realignment of 2011 it was the ags and Mizzou departure that weakened it, but again Texas propped it up. The proof is in the pudding, if Texas had REALLY wanted to leave, Texas easily could have. All options were open in 2011-- PAC, B1G, or SEC. Just as all options were open in 2021. It wasn't until the media contracts got so incredibly lopsided in favor of the B1G and the SEC that Texas knew it couldn't keep up by staying in the B12, that any decision to move was made. And geographically, the SEC made the most sense, plus it's the only place OU was welcome, and so the ultimate outcome was obvious. Plenty of us have been saying since 2011 that Texas was eventually going to have to join the SEC. Anyway, TL;DR-- texags posters are dumb They're going to be so disappointed when they find that the SEC is just an athletics affiliation and that Texas joining isn't going to change much of anything, other than scheduling among 16 rather than 14 schools. Oh, well, and the fact that they'll have to return to actually playing us every year and losing their accustomed 2/3 of the time.

I did Scout Camp at Lost Pines for 3 years, back then only really wealthy troops considered leaving the district for merit badge camp. High Adventure camps were different, but just for merit badge camps, it was Lost Pines or maybe Tahauya. My son's troop, on the other hand, has done the mountains in Colorado and New Mexico the past two years to miss out on the heat and misery. Lucky bastages. This year they're doing Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri, in fact they're there right now. It's definitely going to be warmer and way more humid, but still nothing like the inferno that is Bastrop in the summer.

I haven't worn pants since March 2020.

LSU Fan: Their coaching staff can't touch the ones that Saban put together Texas Coaching Staff: Stolen directly from Saban

Ha! Sounds like many of my experiences with the stoned-to-the-bejeezus crew at Conan's, yet I still love that place. And yeah I meant Mesa/Spicewood Springs. I had good experiences with that one.

Joke's on you-- the fake train is as real-built as it's ever gonna be, with your real money.

I used to get pizza from the Brooklyn Pie Co. location on Far West and thought it was pretty good.

There are already about ten threads for that but I'm sure our resident Chicken Littles and Ledge Jumpers will show up soon and reassure us of just how much our lives suck.