We took all of the beer and merchandise from in there in like 1990. Good times. Took about 30 trips on our Honda Elite mopeds.
So I'm in PPP limbo. Still waiting for an approval and decided a while back to furlough almost everyone bc my place has been closed. It's kind of wash based on my calculations; other businesses may be different. So if I get approved, everyone gets to work and gets paid for a couple of months. If I don't get approved, then I'll just let them get their checks from unemployment and the covid relief while I hold down the fort for the next couple of months. It's not like we have much new business going on anyways - it's 99% servicing old stuff. From an employee's perspective, some make out a little worse while most make out a little better. I think the break-even salary is like $55k or something around there.
Looks like testing has ramped up again. We hit 193k yesterday and 223k today. Positive test rate dropped again to 14.1% versus 20% a week ago. Texas looks like it has finally increased testing as well. The 5 day rolling average is up to 11.9k tests and we did a record high 17469 tests today. The rolling 5 day average of percent of tests positive has dropped significantly. We were hovering around 10-11% for awhile and we have showed steady declines down to 6.5% today.
G's Icehouse https://www.houstonpress.com/news/sherwoods-rules-6575479 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherwood_Cryer
With the number of infections in Texas, a declining curve, and a low positive rate, if Texas started an aggressive contact tracing program, we could get Texas close to zero
From an employee's perspective, I think the break even point is around $55k. You can max out your unemployment at $500 plus your covid $600. Are my numbers off? Anyhow, I have quite a few making under that so good for them, because me holding my breath for PPP to come through sucks more for them than it does for me. The vast majority of the money goes to payroll anyways.
I knew Sherwood and unfortunately grew up with his insane kids...but free beer and rides on the original Gilleys bull there when I was 17 or 18 was pretty dope. 5 bar fights a night to watch, easily.
David Allen Coe played there the night Miami vs Ohio State in the national championship game many years ago. I had the brilliant idea to take the crew there, 15 West U people and me and the G's crowd. I loved it, the others were a bit weirded out by all the stars and bars and whatnot. It was a ******* redneck zoo, and that's the last time I went to G's.
Same. I drove down 225 once for work, windows rolled completely up with no AC on... and suddenly the inside of my car was completely engulfed with one of the most horrible smells I've experienced in my life, I panicked a wrapped a shirt around my face and nose, and despite having more work in Pasadena, never took 225 again, never will go anywhere near those refineries again.
The out of work skilled employee is getting $1750 a month in employment and maybe $1200 in covid. That is a best case scenario that comes to $36k, just didn't see the jump to $55?
I think the covid is an extra 600 weekly, not biweekly, which bumps the break-even to around 50k. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bu...e-additional-600-to-unemployment-15184627.php
$521/week is the maximum unemployment benefits in Texas, and it's based on 50% of your wages. You also get $600/week from the federal government. So if you made $1042 per week ($54,184 / yr), you'd max out your regular unemployment benefits, but thanks to the federal add-on, you now make $521+$600 = $1121/week, or $58,292/yr. That's also not accounting for the fact that, on unemployment, you don't have to pay FICA taxes, so you net about 7% more.
Same here, if I can help it. The relatives and friends I had there are either long dead or moved away from the city the first chance they got. Stinkadena. That’s what we called it in my Southeast Houston neighborhood. If the wind blew the wrong way, good lord. The stench was horrific. Had some good times in Pasadena, though. There was an icehouse there I can’t remember the name of that would sell beer to underage teenagers. We’d buy a couple of cases and ice them down in the trunk of my cousin’s ‘56 Chevy and hope we didn’t get pulled over by the PPD. They were notorious assholes.
high population density equals higher percent of positive tests, makes sense notice the outliers, California/Florida/Hawaii, low percent of positive test relative to their population density I wonder what those states have in common..... warmth and sunshine
