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So are you sure it’s gout? That happened to me last year, but it was my little toe. Gout can attack there too. Turns out that I stubbed it and I didn’t remember—adult beverages were involved. My toe was broken which is much better than having gout.

No doubt, though my beta is getting better. I’ve shot one 95 in the last six months and my last 20 rounds range from 77 to 90 with an average score of 84. My lowest round ever was a 76 in Colorado at altitude. It shows you how rare it is for a guy with a 10 course handicap to shoot 4 or 5 under net.

As you would expect, nearly all Americans have antibodies. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-06-01/cdc-study-nearly-all-americans-had-some-level-of-covid-19-immunity-by-last-fall#:~:text=Home-,CDC Study%3A Nearly All Americans Had Some Level of COVID,vaccination%2C infection or hybrid immunity.

Shot a 79 (net -3) yesterday in a medal play event. Won my net division flight. My index is now 7.9 the lowest it’s ever been. I’ll be 61 in two months and I’ve never hit it better and farther. Gotta love this game.

Re: the 105 year old guy, is there an age limit to such surgeries? Maybe it depends on the individual. My father was basically falling apart before he passed a couple of years ago at 91. His heart was failing and the docs basically told us he wasn’t a candidate for surgery or replacement. The family was ok with that. He was suffering from many ailments, including Parkinson’s, so we didn’t want to prolong a shitty existence.

You must not be a golfer. Daily fee courses would get killed too. Except for the few munis in the state, golf in Texas would pretty much go away without the green belt reduction. Our property tax system is out of hand.

You mean River Oaks Country Club? It most certainly pays property taxes, but it gets a green belt reduction for much of the land (the golf course). Country clubs still pay property tax on the assessed value of their structures and non-green belt land. For most big city Texas country clubs, they wouldn’t exist without the green belt reduction.

Tons of videos online. Just google dry wall repair. Very easy to do. I can’t tell from your picture whether you need to fill in the area with a strip of dry wall and then tape and float it with spackle or whether you can just fill it in with spackle and then sand and paint.

There’s also a difference between the PGA Tour and the PGA of America. The latter puts on the PGA Championship and it has its own qualifying rules. If a LIV tour player qualifies for the PGA. Championship, or any other major, then they can play.

Exactly. It’s a sport for many viewers to notice every little thing on the set and attribute meaning to it:

I recall that many posters were disappointed that many of the perceived mysteries were unresolved and/or they were plot holes. The sets were loaded with perceived symbols or clues and the theories were all over the place as to what the symbols mean and how they tie into the story.

Those unbalanced rounds are sometimes included in my mid 90 rounds. But it’s rare that I shoot a 49 or 50 on 9 holes. My unbalanced rounds usually are in the high 80’s with a 40 or 41 on one of the 9s. In my case it’s clearly mental. A couple of bad shots or extremely bad luck on a shot can cause me to get really pissed off and then I’ll string together several double bogeys.

This happens to me all the time. I’m a 9.4 index and after I shoot a couple of high 70-low 80 rounds and I think I’ve figured something out, I’ll shoot a 95 that brings me back to earth. And sometimes practice doesn’t seem to help. Crazy game.

I don’t get the goal of making a great whiskey from Texas. Kentucky (Tennessee?) makes great product. There’s a reason why it’s worked out that way. Take wine. Texas will never make good, much less great, wine. That’s ok. We do other shit really well.

Depends on how long you will be there. Car travel is easy. You can drive north to Locarno and even though it’s still Ticino it has a more traditional Swiss feel vs Lugano. You can drive south to Milan and get good Northern Italian food and great shopping. If you go there go see DeVinci’s The Last Supper and the Duomo. Watch where you park in Milan so you don’t get booted and then have your car broken into during your walk to the police station to pay the $40 fine. Been there done that. I doubt there’s much to do in St. Moritz this time of year—maybe hiking, but the drive there is spectacular. I’m guessing the valleys have greened up by now and they should be beautiful all over Switzerland. I never made the trip to Zermat, but I’m guessing the drive there is also fabulous. Our posts just crossed. The answer is yes.

There’s an old Brady Bunch episode on this. Apparently, fighting back works. Seriously, this sucks. Don’t let the school off the hook. They have to provide a safe environment for all students.

This. I wouldn't have thought that co-sleeping is a thing. We raised two daughters (now 31 and 29). On the first one we were pretty strict about the night time sleep schedule. After 6-8 weeks, if she was fed with a clean diaper and still cried at bed time . . . then she cried. It didn't take long before she learned to comfort herself and put herself to sleep. She was a perfect sleeper. We weren't as strict with the next daughter and we played hell getting her to bed and to stay in bed. With her, it was a negotiation at bed time every night until she was around 7. I'll be the cynic on this, but I'm not sure it really matters how good parents are at parenting. I've witnessed too many nice and thoughtful people end up with troubled, or just plain awful, kids and young adults. The opposite also happens. Unless you home school, the village is raising our children. Best advice I can give is to pay close attention to their peer group, and their parents, and do your best to socialize your children with the people you deem worthy.

Oh, and if the corporation that you/the estate own shares in didn’t pay its creditors then the shareholders (you/the estate) should not get anything upon dissolution.

Do what Stripper and Skipper suggest. Check with the Secretary of State’s office. SSBruin is also correct. But you first need to find out what happened to the corporation that you/the estate own shares of.

Those weren’t bad putts. Just didn’t go down.

Saw the Hook’em

Monumentally stupid if that happened after his second or third US Am title. After he won his second US Am I had floor tickets to a Rockets game and he was sitting a couple of seats away. I said to my wife that this guy is the next Jack Nicklaus. It was obvious to any fan of golf that he was destined for greatness.

That's been the case recently and perhaps before the Shell Houston Open moved from The Woodlands to what is now the Golf Club of Houston in Humble. When it was at the GCH and it was scheduled the week before the Masters they were able to set up the green complexes similar to Augusta National--this was widely discussed during the telecasts--and many pros who would otherwise take the week off before the Masters would come to the Shell Houston Open. The tournament had an excellent field before Shell pulled out. Lefty, Spieth, DJ, Reed, Rose, JT, Garcia and many other top pros would usually play. Check out the leaderboards from 2015-2018 (the last year it was played the week before the Masters). Of course, Tiger never plays the week before a major--I believe with no exceptions.

The HGA fucked it up. Shell pulled out as the sponsor and the HGA didn’t have the right stuff to find another sponsor. Thus, the slot was lost. Pity because the pros loved the course set up at the Golf Club of Houston and we had a great field being the week before the Masters. Then Crane came along. He gets it done.

I live nearby and that’s my understanding as well. I liked the store, but it never seemed to take off. I was there last Friday and some of the shelves were already beginning to have large bare spots. Especially the beer cooler. The newish Spec’s on Fountainview is already booming.