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Dendox

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  1. My dad is a recovering addict and drunk. My dad was a stand out high school football player who played for Texas as a freshman and went on the obtain a degree from UT and MD from Southwestern. My mom left him when I was very young because he wasn’t a great role model. I have zero memories of living in a house with them together. I honestly have very few memories of my dad when I was young. My dad taught me love for UT football/baseball/basketball. He took me to as many games as he could starting around age 6. It was great. He moved from his town to my town to be closer to me (or run away from hospital administration that was on to him and his addictions). He was around until I was age 13 - and poof - he was gone again. I saw him very sporadically until age 20 when we coincidentally lived in the same town. Prior to living in the same town - every time I saw him he was drunk or looking for drugs. Quite an impression that left. After living in the same town - the memories are similar. When I had my son 18 years ago dad and I were on speaking terms. He was around and part of my life. I told him he had 1 chance. I don’t have a choice to have him around as a kid - but I had a choice to have him around my kids. For the first time in his life - sobriety really mattered. He got his 17 year chip last month. He earned it. My dad is the kindest human I know. He has nothing. Literally. But would give you half if you need it. He finds a way to help provide medical care to the indigent in the interior of Mexico several times a year. He works food banks. He donates his time. He is present. He is patient. He is a great listener with good advice. The kind that can likely only come from fucking up for 30 years in your prime. He is hokey. Too hokey for his own good. Makes my wife and kids embarrassed around non-family, which is painful because he craves our love and attention. there isn’t a person that I run into that knew my dad before he went off the rails that doesn’t think he is the best doctor and person they ever met. It’s hard to reconcile those stories with the man I knew for a significant part of my childhood. The takeaway - he taught me how to be a fucking great dad. How to be caring and compassionate with those you love and those you don’t know. He also taught me how to fuck up the dad/kid relationship- which has created the drive for me to be the best, most present, helpful, loving, sober (not to be read as never drinking) dad I can be. I love him dearly. I despise many of his decisions. I will miss him when he’s gone. PS - my mom is a freaking saint that deserves a statue.
  2. Well freaking done young man! Best of luck to you
  3. Here? https://aggypedia.com/aggypedia/aggy-athletics/aggy-athletics/#NCAA_Violations
  4. https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/northside-isd-officer-indicted-for-shooting-woman-outside-stadium-local-news-near-me-crime-law-public-safety-police-brutalityCop Indicted Interesting that the police version on the day of the incident was "she was aggressive" and "tried to run us over" - but a prosecutor and grand jury thought differently. Would be great if they would release the video. Scottie Scheffler ?
  5. I’ve typed and deleted and retyped 4-5 responses. https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/excessive-force-closings-19405000.php a friend of mine is tried this case. Damages portion was last week. No matter how egregious the behavior - there is very little chance for a verdict/award/settlement that will truly compensate the wronged party or deter the morons. brisket’s desire to have them pay damages out of pensions is fantastic. But a pipe dream. I’d settle for requiring these licensed professionals to have a professional liability type insurance policy with huge limits. If you are clean and no complaints - premiums are reasonable. If you aren’t premiums will be so high you are priced out of the profession. In either event - there is a chance at appropriate compensation for people “made an example of.”
  6. why does the article not tell us what the new charges are? WTF kind of reporting is this?
  7. I graduated in 2006 and still pay for the fucking things. If I had known better I'd have done a few things differently on the loan origination front and on the payback front. But being a young married guy with new baby - i was taking all the money they would give to make sure I the wife kiddo had some comfort. One day soon I'd like to slow down a bit. 50-60 hours a week isn't fun when 20-30 of it isn't billable/collectible (running the firm). Need to get more cases where an associate can help, meaningfully. Insurance defense cases are ripe for associate help. Huge construction defect cases on the Plaintiff side - not so much.
  8. Needed more water in the stadium. Twice waiting in line for 20-30 minutes only to learn it was Ultra or Ultra my 14 yo daughter doesn’t drink ultra. hilariously- when the scoreboard said no more alcohol sales after 3rd - she laughed and said “no beer? What will they sell? Empty cups?”
  9. Cotton candy bacon - meh Bourbon bacon - good burnt end Mac n cheese- really good fried frito pie - meh fried strawberry with chocolate and powder sugar - really good not enough water in the stadium - really really really shitty
  10. Blue line flag on the back of his GMC to be accurate.
  11. great info - you are right, according to the fancy DART website (orange to green)
  12. would every kid need the app, or can a dad have separate day passes and handle it for them?
  13. Great - thank you. I will download the app now. Any other suggestions? I've always just parked down by the fair, but with kids in tow, I thought the tram might make more sense.
  14. Traveling up with the kids on Friday. Plan to try and Dart tram to the fair. The tram picks up near 635 and 75 according to my analysis. Is there a reason to NOT do this? If this is a decent idea, can someone tell me any nuances about riding the tram (ticketing/passes/frequency/schedule) that a south Texas might want to know in advance?
  15. If anyone wants to email the good sheriff of Hall County - tom.heck@co.hall.tx.us. I did reach out by phone, but they did not answer. (806) 259-2151
  16. 100% this. I decided to go ahead and wake up when the thing went off. Shortly thereafter went to google and started typing in blue alert s when google autofilled the rest of story for me. Clearly I wasn't alone in that search Then I googled Hall County because I didn't know where the fuck it was. Amarillo? I am in South Texas. Is the dude on a plane? Want me to meet him at the airport? Next google - ios blue alert not - which autofilled for me how to turn off blue alert notifications Problem is - its really an all or nothing for the big ones. There isn't a "blue alert" toggle. So, for me, it is nothing. No alerts at all. Thanks a lot Hall County
  17. Have no fear - the legislature already approved of the theft and will, no doubt, make sure that the law is on the side of the O&G business and NOT on the side of the consumer. The facts in the article are pretty detailed and damning. It would seem that this could be proven pretty easy if they really do have the data.
  18. Hmmmmmm - wanna go park and watch a high school football game and not get shot - stay out of San Antonio. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/09/29/woman-shot-at-dub-farris-athletic-complex-files-lawsuit-against-northside-isd-two-district-officers/
  19. Troph - you are in the same place we are in as a concept. Professionally, I can't lose the data. I've been trying to cobble together a solution to do what others here are talking about with 2-3 iterations of "back ups" for redundancy in the event of fire/failure/ransom. My problem is the process to do that and IMMA has excellent ideas on how to deal with this based on my preliminary communications with him. Looking to flesh it out some more and hopefully pull the trigger to make my life easier.
  20. we are an all mac environment. We have about 4TB of data - 2TB of which are "fresh". We use dropbox for business after running into a lot of issues with sharefile "syncing" via onedrive app on mac. Dropbox has been very good to us from a usability standpoint. Once a month we back up our fresh files to backblaze. This is a true back up and not a sync/merge. We have been using multcloud website to do this and it works, sort of. In the old days you could have an external HD be the location of your data for dropbox and it was easy enough to deal with it. These days, the local storage must be internal. none of our macbook pros have 2 or 4TB of internal storage (duh). I am looking for a way to set up something that is simpler, easier, scheduled/recurring that will allow me to do one full back up ever so many weeks and syncs/merges every two weeks to account for new files in between back ups. I was thinking about regularly downloading to an external SSD a full copy of each subfolder (by year) of our files that are fresh and then moving them to backblaze manually. That might work. However it is 100% manual and there is a file size limit on the GUI for backblaze that forces me to use third party solutions. I went down a rabbit hole today of rclone, b2, syberduc, blah blah blah. I am relatively tech savvy, but I am a lawyer with no IT training. Just a guy who hunts and self studies enough to get the job done when possible. I think I am beyond my element in trying to figure out the best way to do it. Yes - we have an "IT Provider" - but they aren't really all that helpful at thinking about things outside of the box, like this. Happy to pay for someone's time, buy beers, whatever.
  21. The thing is, once you watch a couple of games, and are toggling back and forth, it becomes super easy. At least on a firestick for me Hold the center button down and it will go back to your last channel immediately. Like previous channel did in the old days. Hit the down part of the circle and you get last channels to switch from (if your game of choice was two channels ago, or three) Or you can quad box and watch four games at one time. I still had cable up until about 2 years ago. I have my channel numbers still memorized. I hated the YTTV usability/remote for about a month. Now, its not even on my mind until I hear people bitch about not having numbers.
  22. That is a fucked up story. Factually and as written. Do professionals not proof anything these days?
  23. wow! Proof is in the pudding! And then you have this https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202406255931/fda-again-rejects-abbvie-parkinsons-drugpump-combo-update
  24. We don't necessarily need/want a new domain name. The old man has name recognition and we like his name being around. The firm name is changing to reflect our ownership - but the website name/address i am indifferent on. Our biggest concerns and what started this analysis: - we no longer want to advertise via findlaw. The cost isn't huge, but the inquiries we get from there create far more burden than they are worth. - findlaw is our website host. If we slow our spend on advertising with them does that affect our website rankings in searches for things like "construction lawyer" "defect lawyer" etc. We advertise in those spaces (among others) with findlaw. - If we can safely stop advertising and safely stop paying exorbitant fees for our website, we would like to do that. Safely means - not taking a profound hit on the search engines. Truth is - we would probably gladly pay to keep hosting with findlaw and simply stop "Advertising" if it means that we can keep our search ranks and cutback on worthless intakes. Its not a money thing as it relates to the web (though I hate overpaying for anything) - it is a money thing when I think about what I spend each year for someone to process 20-30 intakes a week for cases we RARELY take that only show up because of the link to findlaw advertising.
  25. no. Smith Law Firm will change to Smith, Purcell and Lewis. If one of the legal service providers is hosting/providing our website and we are paying them for the website, along with some advertising through other "related" websites (Findlaw) - any chance that changing the website host and name will ruin us? Old man at the firm is gravely concerned about it. I am less so as 90% of the people we actually end up representing come to us via referrals and word of mouth, not web searches. If it will be an issue, we are likely to change the name and keep the website provider and move in slow stages.
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