My experience with TX ( San Antonio and Houston ) during the summer visiting my girlfriend at the time was downright oppressive. In Las Vegas walking on the Strip in the summer and the surface temp was approx 115 degrees, that dry heat was much more tolerable. Some entrepreneur guys stationed at different parts were selling bottled water for us thirsty tourists. How football teams can practice in the late summer in TX is a wonder.Wow, still totally surprised that we’re well into June with not even one trip-digit temp. July and August are obviously our toastiest months, but, this is just weird. 94* just isn’t hot to me, and, it certainly doesn’t feel like summer here ‘til we have multiple days in a row of trip-digit temps...
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Songbird76
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That doesn't make sense...according to what I found on Google, Food and Wine starts in mid-July. They can't really have a food and wine festival with no food and wine booths. Where are you seeing they don't open them until October?
Disney is actively advertising for quick service positions. Perhaps they along with many other service industry companies are having staffing issues and or lower than expected attendance forecasts.
MinnieM123
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MinnieM123
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@BuddyThomas , just wanted to mention that I saw my first NYC vacation advertisement last night on network TV -- first, in well over a year. I sat there, glued to the TV, because I was almost in shock to see that after such a hideous year, it really looks like your city is finally opening up for tourists to have some fun!! 
ajrwdwgirl
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I think in the past they have opened a few after the start. They also might want to have more “new” stuff for the 50th in October.
Goofyernmost
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My system is all controlled on the same thermostat. I have to switch it to heat in the winter and cool in the summer, but once I make that change it just stays on. If it is a cool day, it just won't fire up the AC. Same in the winter, if it is warmer out, the heat doesn't have a need to run. The problem is my system is completely electric, as is my apartment. I have been amazed by the difference in either the cost of electricity or perhaps the efficiency of the equipment. The highest monthly bill for electricity I have received since I moved to NC was $105.00 the first year I was here. That summer had a very long stretch where the temperature was over 100 degrees and the humidity could only be described as like living at the bottom of the ocean. My average monthly cost normally, however, is around $75.00. (granted it's just 950 sq. ft.)Every place I’ve ever lived in Texas, since we moved back in ‘76, has had central heat and air.
And yep, it’s a balance. We actually don’t use A/C much in the winter, and definitely no heat during the summer, but, we also have ceiling fans that make quite a difference in the summer...!!!
When I lived in Vermont, my electric bill was always around $100.00 and went through the roof in the summer when the window AC's were running. On top of that I spent around $2000.00 every year for heating oil for the furnace. Those -30 Degrees F. days and nights sucked up a lot of fuel.
Songbird76
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Sure, but then why start the festival a month earlier than usual? Aren't the booths pretty much the primary feature of the FW festival? It's not like the Flower and Garden where the focus is on all the plants and shrubbery and the booths are just kind of a bonus feature. Food and wine is like....well, you have to have food and wine. That's the whole point of the festival, so it doesn't make sense to have a festival without them and then only have one month of the main feature. It's like saying a movie is coming to theaters two months before they actually show the movie. What will the offerings be in July at the supposed start of the event? It usually starts at the end of August, I thought. So they are starting it a month earlier than usual, but without the main feature.
Goofyernmost
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Knowing that the good old days weren't always good, I must convey this happening. Sunday morning I headed out to the grocery store when my tire pressure light came on saying it was low. Hell, I haven't had anything like that happen for 6 years. Anyway, I had places to go and since it had only lost about 15 pounds of pressure in a 24 hour period, I just added air and used the car the rest of the day. Where was I going to find a place that would fix it on Sunday anyway.
Yesterday morning I went to well known road service center and explained that my left front tire had a slow leak. That is were the simplicity ended. Back in the good old days, due to necessity, I would just go to a auto salvage yard and by four "good" tires for $10.00 each and take them to a garage (service station, do any of those still exist) and had them mount and balance for $5.00 each and I was set for at least another year for a total expenditure of about $60.00 for four tires.
They took the car in and in about a half hour came out with a "list" of things that they felt I needed to have done. Apparently, the nail was in at an odd angle and couldn't be just repaired. (As a teen I worked in one of those service centers and probably repaired hundreds of nail punctured tires. Don't remember ever having to worry about the angle of the puncture.) Anyway, they couldn't fix it. So they gave me a quote for two (2) new tires because they felt it necessary to match the two front ones. There was only 20K miles on the originals. Add to that a road hazard warrantee that didn't make any difference in the tire that was already on the car and was the recipient of a nail on the highway. This was followed up by a need, in their mind for a four wheel alignment. The total estimate was $519.70 for a single roofing nail in one tire.
Gasp! You say? Well, I hope so. I know that todays world doesn't really lie they just tend to omit necessary information. Information like you don't need to "match" tires. That's a thought from years ago with bias ply tires, but the thought has been allowed to continue. Second my car was not thrown out of alignment because it came in contact with a a single roofing nail. So after quickly knocking off the unnecessary items it still came to $184.00 for ONE SINGLE FREAKING TIRE. But at least it wasn't $520.
I was brought up in a world of engines, cars, truck, buses and every type of wheeled vehicles possible and even though the last 10 years I have been pretty much out of the loop, it really bothers me that these tricks are used on the public. I feel for so many people that are not familiar with the mechanical items that they rely on. Young people or widows (in particular) that have usually never had to deal with automobiles and would have looked at the estimate, probably cried inside, but not knowing any better told them to go ahead with the repairs. That is the single reason why when my girls were in their teens I had them do their own oil changes, deal with tire problems including changing tires on the road, in one case even doing a brake job. Those places don't really lie unless you call it a lie by omission. $300.00 of my bill, might have not been harmful other then to my wallet, but it was completely unnecessary. Kind of makes me sad.
Yesterday morning I went to well known road service center and explained that my left front tire had a slow leak. That is were the simplicity ended. Back in the good old days, due to necessity, I would just go to a auto salvage yard and by four "good" tires for $10.00 each and take them to a garage (service station, do any of those still exist) and had them mount and balance for $5.00 each and I was set for at least another year for a total expenditure of about $60.00 for four tires.
They took the car in and in about a half hour came out with a "list" of things that they felt I needed to have done. Apparently, the nail was in at an odd angle and couldn't be just repaired. (As a teen I worked in one of those service centers and probably repaired hundreds of nail punctured tires. Don't remember ever having to worry about the angle of the puncture.) Anyway, they couldn't fix it. So they gave me a quote for two (2) new tires because they felt it necessary to match the two front ones. There was only 20K miles on the originals. Add to that a road hazard warrantee that didn't make any difference in the tire that was already on the car and was the recipient of a nail on the highway. This was followed up by a need, in their mind for a four wheel alignment. The total estimate was $519.70 for a single roofing nail in one tire.
Gasp! You say? Well, I hope so. I know that todays world doesn't really lie they just tend to omit necessary information. Information like you don't need to "match" tires. That's a thought from years ago with bias ply tires, but the thought has been allowed to continue. Second my car was not thrown out of alignment because it came in contact with a a single roofing nail. So after quickly knocking off the unnecessary items it still came to $184.00 for ONE SINGLE FREAKING TIRE. But at least it wasn't $520.
I was brought up in a world of engines, cars, truck, buses and every type of wheeled vehicles possible and even though the last 10 years I have been pretty much out of the loop, it really bothers me that these tricks are used on the public. I feel for so many people that are not familiar with the mechanical items that they rely on. Young people or widows (in particular) that have usually never had to deal with automobiles and would have looked at the estimate, probably cried inside, but not knowing any better told them to go ahead with the repairs. That is the single reason why when my girls were in their teens I had them do their own oil changes, deal with tire problems including changing tires on the road, in one case even doing a brake job. Those places don't really lie unless you call it a lie by omission. $300.00 of my bill, might have not been harmful other then to my wallet, but it was completely unnecessary. Kind of makes me sad.
Figgy1
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Yikes the last time we had a tire with a slow leak the whole thing came to $15. No extras found just replaced the tire in and out in 30ish minutes. I swear some places try and get away with words best not used here mostly aimed at women and slightly older folks
Figgy1
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@StarWarsGirl and @BuddyThomas guess who has HBO Max and thought it was just regular HBO
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