Austin Area TW Chapter (all gens welcome, even T4Rs; heck, just make it a Toyota and we're good)

When we moved back to Texas in '03, we looked at shantys in Steiner. Dodged that freakin' hail of bullets by not buying there.

 

I don't even have a doggy but this made me lol

 

I think they're about to eat him.

 

They call him Gaegogi.

 

I ventured out to bastrop today to get a little dirty. My visit to Triple C Chop Shop last night has the Pro looking real nasty.

 

Love that color

 

So sweet! Want to touch!!

 

I touched it

 

Can’t wait to get mine. Got a new update from my salesman, turns out the Pro will be here mid February

 

Very...patiently...waiting...

 

I live right down 95 from there, still haven’t had a chance to get my truck out there. Is it pretty muddy right now? Fun time?

 

It’s fun, nothing too challenging. There’s some big spots of standing water but it’s not very muddy because the trails are similar to all weather roads. I haven’t thouroughly explored it but what I did was pretty easy and fun.

 

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ATX

 

Morning atx

 

In a weird place right now. A good friend is a victim of the government shutdown, and opened a gofundme so people could send him money to help him with food and gas money. He’s a proud and self-reliant person, and this was a hard decision to make. He was even interviewed by USAToday about how the shutdown was affecting him, and they spin their article about how it could be unethical for furloughed employees to use crowdsourcing as a means to pay their bills.

What? The? Fuck? It wasn’t unethical to not fund his agency or make him work without pay, but it is for him to try and stay afloat?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...owdsourcing-workers-may-violation/2597757002/

Thanks to this article he’s taken the gofundme down and I see he’s trying to give the money back. He already felt ashamed to have to do that...and now he really feels like shit.

USA Today, go fuck yourself.

 

My word. Such a terrifying position to be in. Best wishes to your friend and all those affected by this time in history.

 

And people ask me why I got burnt out working in media...

make sure he knows to talk with his creditors, they may have a solution to help with his major items. far as smaller things, sounds like according to the article, as long as he keeps the "gifts" under $20 from EACH person there should be no grounds for an ethics violation.

 

The thing is he said he was going to pay everyone back eventually, so this would be like a zero interest loan with no time period. He’s going to be paid whenever they finally pass a budget, but who knows when that will be.

He’s also having trouble getting signed up for unemployment because the paperwork is on the IRS network, but since they shut down he can’t log and get it. Catch 22.

I told him that it’s easier to get forgiveness than permission, go ahead and log in, and don’t sweat the gofundme. He’s thinking about it.

 

Media sucks man.