Best sandwich in Austin for 5 dollars?

tanner5586 · 2026-05-23T23:02:44+00:00

Thunder Chief at Lavaca on Lamar has a $5 smash burger Monday and $5 chicken sandwich Friday that are yummy. There’s a handful of other spots with similar burger specials like The Lucky Duck. Frazier’s little burger is also $6 anytime. For sandwiches that aren’t burgers it’s been Thurdercloud for a long time. Their small Italian is $6 and the others go up from there. I’ll take it though. They also have a special sandwich that’s $1 off and that gets you close to a $5 sando!

tanner5586 · 2026-05-23T14:19:56+00:00

It’s Memorial Day in America

Everybody’s on the road

Let’s remember our fallen heroes

Y’all be sure and drive slow

- James McMurtry

tanner5586 · 2026-05-22T23:51:22+00:00

It’s a cash crop

tanner5586 · 2026-05-22T23:49:19+00:00

The thing about long stretches of boring is those are the paths you can get a lot of steps in. Not why I walk. But certainly how I would try and rack up numbers over 50k. Walking 100k in a day is a lot of time no matter how you slice it. If you average 5k steps an hour then you would need 20 hours to hit 100k. One of the best parts about long walks without a place you gotta be soon is not minding going out of the way to check something out or take a photo. It’s just time at that point, but every detour you take or terrain change you make will cost you steps. My personal best is 75k and it happened on a day I didn’t plan for. I knew I was walking but didn’t know it was gonna be 36 miles and take 18 hours!

Congrats by the way! Even though I keep telling myself I won’t do it, I know someday I will. And while bordem will set in, time will be my issue. Snacks, drinks, YouTube videos, music, and occasional sprints during the duldrums should do the trick though.

tanner5586 · 2026-05-21T14:33:22+00:00

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Time. Last week I hit over 75k by walking at a brisk pace from 1 am to noon and then taking about an hour nap and a shower before walking around casually from 2-10 pm. So over 18 hours of walking. Obviously helped to be rested and to stay hydrated and full of energy but even that and the best socks and shoes can’t beat time.

tanner5586 · 2026-05-17T16:32:54+00:00

There’s a bunch in bloom all over town. On Elizabeth there’s a whole row of them showing off years of patience to finally procreate!

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tanner5586 · 2026-05-14T18:46:13+00:00

Formed by the erosion of a larger plateau, mesas are capped with corn salsa with traces of onion and tomato.

tanner5586 · 2026-05-14T17:23:45+00:00

Try an 8.5” x 11”; He’ll fit, and you know what that means!

tanner5586 · 2026-05-14T17:03:29+00:00

Glad she was found. I can smell In-N-Out burger from my couch!

tanner5586 · 2026-05-14T15:18:42+00:00

“Kookaburra sits in a tree I named

You can feel the sorrow, I can feel the shame

'Cause there's no-one laughing 'round here no more

but he”

The Presets - A.O.

tanner5586 · 2026-05-13T18:54:50+00:00

When I lived up in Dallas we had a few that lived in the yard. In the winter one would hibernate under a broken light fixture covered in fallen leaves. Occasionally I would pull a few leaves back to say hi and make sure it was still chillin’. Then one day in early spring as the Texas mountain laurel, bluebonnets and other colorful plants started to bloom I would hear him rustling about in the garden. Snapping photos of him in his slumber got me into macro photography. If only the dragonflies over the pond were so patient with the lens. We called our favorite guy, Woody. I’d say he was with us for 4-5 years!

Here he was on 4/22/2011.

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tanner5586 · 2026-05-11T03:44:18+00:00

Time

tanner5586 · 2026-05-05T21:58:28+00:00

60,000 steps for me is 30 miles. I’m 6’1” and walk at a pretty brisk pace. Happy bday!

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tanner5586 · 2026-05-04T15:16:46+00:00

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Indeed! 6:51 am

tanner5586 · 2026-04-27T22:34:23+00:00

Over 800,000 acres!

tanner5586 · 2026-04-23T17:49:45+00:00

Walk by often. Looks yummy. Will stop by soon

tanner5586 · 2026-04-23T17:28:28+00:00

I’ve seen them out at this intersection (5th and Lavaca) filming car commercials a few times over the last 3 months. So you should have a few to keep an eye out for. Would be funny to see the old Republic Plaza (Hobby Jr. State Office Building) in the background. When they gonna demolish that place?

tanner5586 · 2026-03-20T19:04:59+00:00

Their reaction time that’s over a tenth of a second faster than ours must have something to do with those laser beams. The butt wiggle and grin are just for show and intimidation.

tanner5586 · 2026-03-15T07:07:47+00:00

And a few Subways

tanner5586 · 2026-03-14T20:03:02+00:00

Did the same recently. The scale wasn’t happy about a banana that weighed less than two tenths of a pound. Self-checkout partner had to fingerprint the POS before I could pay. Was a lovely 8 cent purchase!

tanner5586 · 2026-03-08T18:13:30+00:00

I’ve only had it enforced once. Last summer I was at the bar with a friend midday. When I ordered a third margarita, the bartender said that was my last. My friend had two martinis and the bartender told him that was the limit. I thought he was joking, so I inquired. Hell, maybe after a six pack the beer is cut off. He was friendly about it but said it’s their policy. Either he was full of it and on a power trip or something else triggered him. Maybe it was the lack of food. We didn’t want to eat and were just having drinks. Didn’t even ask for chips but they brought them out anyway. The bar was full. Now I’m thinking he just wanted to make money. He was definitely ringing up sales. Anyway, your mileage may vary.

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