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  2. People actually care about this. The giant planet-killing meteor cannot get here soon enough.
  3. ESPN front page, an MLB update about how the NL is "vastly" superior to the AL at this point in the season. Two of the teams they highlight, NYM and SD have lost series to Houston. I'm gruntled. Get Diaz, Walker and Yordan batting over .220 (baby steps) and we really might be cookin with gas.
  4. this is the exact opposite of my experience. lyft is almost always far cheaper than uber.
  5. That's some really really shitty reporting. Like legitimately almost everything is completely false in that article.
  6. I know this is TLDR, but I just need to vent a little. My mom is 95 and still lives alone. Two years ago, she fell and hit her head, and I found her unresponsive in bed the next morning. She had bleeding on her brain and had to have a hole drilled in her head to drain fluid. She has fully recovered physically, but her mental faculties have taken a pretty severe decline. It's not like dementia; she recognizes everyone, and her long-term memory is still good, but her short-term memory is just about completely gone. I end up having virtually the same conversation with her every day. She lives in the same townhouse that she and my dad lived in for 40 years, so she is really comfortable there and can function reasonably well there. She has just about completely lost the ability to operate any technology. I had to have her oven replaced, and she can't operate it at all. She can still operate her microwave and her coffee pot, but if either one dies, and I can't replace it with the exact same one, she will probably lose that ability. I have a caretaker who comes five mornings a week and makes sure she gets up, gets dressed, and has breakfast. She has a housekeeper who comes and cleans and does laundry. I go over every day in the afternoon and sit with her for a while, make dinner, and make sure that everything is turned off before I leave. I do all of her shopping, take her to all of her doctor and dental appointments, make sure that all of her prescriptions are filled, and that she takes her medicine every day. If something at her house needs fixing, I'll take care of that. I used to take her to church on Sunday, but thankfully, she now prefers just to watch it on tv. Of course, she can't operate her tv anymore, so I have to be there every Sunday morning for that. I have three siblings, but none of them live very close (Austin, Baytown, and Bellville). Thankfully my two sisters do come in every Friday so that I get a day off. One of my sisters does handle all of her finances, so at least I don't have to worry about that. I don't really worry too much about her being alone because all she does it sit in her chair and read her western novels. I do have to keep her well supplied with those, although with her memory problems she can read them over and over again. My two sisters have been talking about moving her to an assisted living facility, but I know that if that happens she will die within a few months. Her mother was just like that. She lived alone in her house in Wharton until she was 95, She got sick and my mom moved her to an assisted living facility near her in Houston, and she died within a few months. My mom does love my dog Sebastian, so he goes with me to her house on most days, but I have to be careful that he doesn't knock her over (he weighs 86 lbs). My mom lives close to Tanglewood dog park, so Sebastian and I usually stop there for a while and decompress a little. Taking care of my mother every day, and my Autistic and intellectually impaired daughter four days a week gets a little overwhelming at times. On Sundays, cook a big lunch after church, so I don't have to go back and cook dinner for her. Usually, on Sunday after my daughter's soccer practice, Sebastian and I will go to the ranch and spend the night. He loves to run all over it and chase the Longhorns, and I get a chance to just sit on the porch and chill. As long as I am back in Houston on Monday afternoon it usually works out fine. I am at the point now that I am seriously considering selling my house and moving in with my mom. She has two bedrooms upstairs that I could move into, and she never goes upstairs any way (thankfully). The only real down side to that is Sebastian. I think it would be a little difficult for him without any kind of a yard. My mom's townhouse only has an atrium that's about 10 feet by 20 feet, and that's not very much for a dog his size. Sebastian has been my rock through all of this. He can sense when I'm feeling down and he'll come over and nudge my hand until I start petting him to calm down. His favorite pastime is to lay next to me on the sofa, with his head in my lap, and sleep while I watch Longhorn baseball. Any way, that's my life. If you actually read any of this, I thank you. I feel better just typing it out.
  7. The new one does more accurately capture the way I picture him most of the time
  8. Sark has been an NFL coach of late. His offense is not gimmicky. He understands the value in recruiting with respect to guys succeeding at the next level. He coached a 1st rounder recently. Sarks resume would indicate there’s some benefit in playing for him to benefit you at the next level. Injury concerns and footwork inconsistency are dings on his resume that are not necessarily failures to knowing how to play QB. I’ve never been Ewers biggest fan but taking flyers on some of those other guys over him is odd. And a number of teams were not in the market for a QB.
  9. No one doubts the effectiveness of their starting lineup with Jokic on the floor, especially when Murray can get something going (which is less frequent these days). It essentially won them a championship. They're problem is having zero depth. They basically played 6 guys last night.
  10. I guarantee that’s better for their business in almost every way. The thing about them, especially depending on whether the town receives a lot of through traffic, is that almost all of their customers are locals. The smaller the town, the older that clientele is likely to be. So, the food needs to be cheap for a couple reasons. Older folks and those living in small towns generally have lower incomes and are less prone to spend it on finer dining. To ensure the restaurant is regularly filling up, they need those locals to be coming several days a week. If the food costs much more than it costs to eat at home, the locals will just eat at home. Really, they’re making the same exact food their customers would make at home and just charging a bit extra to save them the hassle of cooking for themselves. Additionally, someone that’s going to eat at the same place multiple days a week is going to want absolute consistency. That’s much easier to do with cheap, processed food than it is with farm to table. Point being, while small town folks may want better options locally, they won’t actually support them enough for those places to survive. Nobody is driving from Austin to Liberty Hill for a good meal that they could get here for a few more dollars. Even in the places with a lot of through traffic, it’s harder for the more expensive places. Let’s say I’m driving through some random town and want to stop for a bite. I see two options, one where the parking lot is nearly full and one where there’s only a few cars. I’m more likely to pick the busy one on the assumption that it’s better. But it might not be. It might just be the cheaper one that everybody goes to several days a week rather than the good restaurant they only splurge at once a month. Wow. What a weird rant I just went on.
  11. What were his parents thinking?
  12. what a hack, shamelessly ripping off Peter King's schtick
  13. My bad. Further confirmation that I am an idoit. That’s what comes from ambien posting at 2 am and still can’t sleep.
  14. It won't be long before a household or even a neighborhood fights back because what do they have to lose? Their lives? What's a life worth when everything is taken and you're treated like a peasant with no rights.
  15. I grew up loathing green beans, all we ever had was canned. Then one time when I was maybe around ten years old, for some fancy lunch we were having, my mom made some fresh. I didn't want to try them but my folks made me. I took a tiny bite, then took another, and discovered how much I loved them. Turns out green beans didn't have to be a salty mushy disgusting mess. They could be bright and crisp and flavorful. From then on, I'd always ask my mom for fresh green beans, and she taught me how to snap and string them. Turns out that she hated doing that part, which is why she always used canned, but I didn't mind it at all. I'd just sit at the kitchen counter snapping, while she went on about preparing other parts of the meal. It's one of the early ways I began learning how to cook for, and take care of, myself. Now I love making fresh green beans for my own family. And of course, my kids don't like them-- they actually prefer canned!
  16. Weaker currency and lower stock prices. We are going to beat those shit-hole countries at their own game! Except the 94% lower egg prices
  17. I may have engaged in hyperbole in the first sentence.
  18. β€œStarting on Day 1…”
  19. This. The entire premise of the opinion piece is based on Schloss and him being "stolen" as if we had no right to hire a coach from another school. By now it's common knowledge that the guy followed CDC probably even more than he wanted to be at Texas. The basis of the argument is shit. The rest of the points are either horse or bull shit, take your pick. We were apparently not supposed to go after Beard because of some gentlemen's agreement that D1 schools never upgrade their coaching? That the first time I've heard of that. Tech and A&M certainly didn't look to their locker room to hire their next coaches, they poached, like every school that can afford a coaching search.
  20. The audacity of saying this when the Quinn Ewers thread is just a click away.
  21. So the 2 WR standouts in spring practice (Parker Livingstone & Daylan McCutcheon) both are from Lucas, Texas (Lovejoy). Anybody have that on your Bingo card?
  22. So when Biden was president and the stock market was booming, Trump took credit for it. Now after he's been president for three plus months, and has single-handedly wrecked the market and our economy, it's Biden's fault.
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