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Same in the 00s. Everyone knew and no one gave a shit.

Side note: I love how “fuckin business” works a couple of ways.

I worked at an MSP for years and had clients who would send it back and forth that way to each other. The most common were medical practices, but banking wasn’t far behind.

Fax was considered secure because you could lock up the fax machine physically.

My favorite setup was a medical practice that dealt with stomach issues, including colon cancer, and their neighbor in the same building who was a pathology lab. They both had the PDF to fax and fax to PDF servers set up to send back and forth when someone could just walk 50 feet and hand over paperwork.

He should know. He already read a different book about a guy who was hung like this:

And once you’ve finished:

It’s not like the old days, but you can still find high energy local acts out at places like BFE. Just keep an eye on their roster. I’ll likely see you there someday!

I get it. We played Fitzgerald’s a lot for the last few years before it closed. My buddy was sitting in the lighting booth watching the last show.

I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to capture that vibe anymore. BFE is cool. Numbers, for whatever reason, was never really my scene. I’ve played there but I don’t go out of my way to do it. Even The Farm isn’t really what it used to be. I wish I could remember what the name of it was before because we played there a lot too. Wildcatters out in Katy is pretty cool on the right night. Brash has the arcade. Karbach usually has something cool going on (I’ve got a friend over there right now). But none of that is like what Fitzgerald’s was back in the 00s (I was too young and hours away in the 90s, then I left for the military).

But you know what they say. You can never go home.

There are some cool places closer in but I try to avoid heading that way. We played White Oak Music Hall recently and it’s pretty neat. Fitzgerald’s closed a few years back and that place was amazing. On the other side of town is House of Blues which is always a good time.

I like The Farm and BFE, but those are two completely different vibes. I miss Acadia so much. That was my favorite place to be but they closed down last year.

Just to answer the question, tonight I was with a hard rock band. We did our thing then got hammered again.

Sorry, I was drunk as hell up on 1960 and forgot we were having a conversation.

Howdy neighbor!

Naw, I work remote, the HEB is walking distance, and if I’m on the motorcycle I’m headed the other way out of town. The only time I have to deal with it is when I’m playing a gig headed into town while everyone else is driving the other way.

Harris. Also just off 10.

So you’re picturing me every morning back when I had to drive in to work. Got it.

He’s sad because he was going to call in sick but waited too long.

That would be a nightmare for tattoo shops.

(For those that don’t know, many tattoo shops have Friday 13th deals with specific flash you can get for multiples of $13 depending on complexity. The quality ones have new cute Friday 13th flash a couple of times a year and lines around the block.)

If you’ve got any questions you can message me or reply to me here. I’m not a stylist (I’m a software engineer), but I’ve worked with several.

There are a couple of replies with good advice here. I’m going to add to them. First, remember that you don’t have to get everything at one go. It takes time to build style (notice I say that instead of fashion).

Not all body types can get a good fit off the rack, but having your clothes fit is probably the most important thing you can do. It’s not expensive to have shirts tailored. I have a long torso and narrow shoulders, so any of my work clothes or going out clothes are purchased a size too large and taken down to this very nice Chinese woman who takes them all in for me. It runs me about $25 per shirt to do it but I get a lot of wear out of them so it’s worth it.

Build a capsule wardrobe. A couple of nice plain white T-shirts (I happen to like 3 fit theory because of their range of sizes, but if you can buy off the rack almost any decent T-shirt will work) and a few different colors that you can swap between create a base to build around. Get a couple of dress shirts, one in white (my other go to is blue, but I’ve really gotten into a pink dress shirt under my sweater for cooler weather). Get some good fitting jeans, charcoal slacks (or a charcoal suit), and some brown, khaki, or olive chinos and have them hemmed. From there you can get casual button up shirts, a cardigan, and a nice sweater. You’ll also need casual footwear (I wear skater shoes), dress shoes, and maybe some brown leather boots (I wear Western boots but I don’t recommend it unless you are either very comfortable in them or are somewhere that they’re common…get some reasonable lace up boots).

Mix and match everything. At this point you’ll never look like you’re wearing the same outfit twice. You’ll look put together and you’ll have style. Layer your casual button up over one of the T-shirts. Layer the sweaters over any of your button up shirts. Tuck in if the occasion calls for it. Layer the sweater over a T-shirt.

This advice obviously isn’t for everyone, but you’ll look good. I get compliments about how put together I always look and honestly I rarely stop to think about what I’m wearing because almost everything in my closet goes with everything else and it all fits. With mixing and matching everything I probably have a ton of ways I can put things together with less than 20 items of clothing, 3 of them being shoes.

On any given day it’s easy for me to go from my desk job, to giving a demonstration to executives, to the ranch to ride some horses, then out to any bar in the city. Of course not all of these will apply to you. But if you take your time over the next several months you can get one item on payday and build things up and have something to wear anywhere.

I rarely remove the label from the fish I catch.

I always wanted to print a few up with some overtly witchy messages on them. They have this “satanic church” bogeyman, out here casting spells and eating children or whatever, that I really wanted to exploit just to fuck with the churches that do that.

But I have neither the time or energy to dedicate to these fools.