I’m just explaining why parents might opt for a larger car especially if they have multiple children. It used to be mini vans, now it’s SUVs or crossovers which are probably not much bigger than station wagons.

Also car seats are enormous and don’t fit well into compact cars unless the passenger side seat is all the way up and maybe not even then. Good luck if you have more than one kid that needs a car seat too.

The air bike is the way to go to get to harder to reach sky islands. I think you can make them last longer by fusing gems.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that finds the underground creepy. I still haven’t explored all of it. I cheese most of the fights with bows. If you have bombs, freeze items to fuse, keese eyes, and muddle buds you’re pretty golden.

I’ve read or started to read 10 of them. I had a hard time getting into a Master of Djinn and didn’t finish. All Systems Red is fine but not great. I didn’t care for Name of the Wind or Binti. I loved Seveneves, The Fifth Season, and Ancillary Justice though.

It’s just gentrification and elimination of affordable housing. Presidium Group bought the apartment complex I used to live in on Riverside and changed the countertops and then demanded double the rent. They were also very aggressive about coming into our apartment whenever they wanted to do “renovations”.

I used to have a boring data entry job and I listened to audiobooks every day. It was great. Now I mostly listen in the car or while doing chores. I kind of miss having those long lengths of time to listen.

Emily Blair, the Austin Apartment Association’s executive vice president, “While the City is exploring the proposition of an ordinance such as this, it is imperative that existing standards are enforced and supported while carefully factoring in the potential housing affordability ramifications for within the rental housing community.”

This is basically a threat. You require us to have air conditioning then we’ll raise rents.

I recently bought the audiobook for Gideon the Ninth. Glad to see another recommendation.

They are not specifically German import mechanics but Juke Automotive is great. I would at least give them a call and see what they can do for you.

I actually mostly liked the Zilker Park Vision Plan. I see Austin is still intent on the idea that if they don’t build it, people won’t come.

Lots of good places already recommended, I’ll add Golden Goose, Cosmic Coffee + Beer Garden, Bouldin Creek Cafe, Elizabeth St Cafe, Captain Quackenbush’s has live music and a pretty good bar, Odd Duck for fancy dinner.

Dune. Hyperion was really cringey, I didn’t even finish it.

Wow, I had no idea the bill makes booksellers responsible for reviewing the books or risk not being able to sell to school districts. That’s completely absurd. Typical GOP, only business friendly when it suits their interests.

El Chilito and Thundercloud for sure.

This was some years ago but one of the things that finally prompted me to get a car was waiting so long at a bus stop that I got sunburned.

Second this recommendation. The aliens are pretty inventive too.