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I might have posted this before-maybe on the old site, but read Younger Next Year. If you do it right you can be active and healthy well into your 80’s. Eat healthy and work out a lot. Eating well is key. You can’t exercise the excess calories away.

Well, in my last round I had 38 putts and shot an 86. And I'm usually a decent putter.

But he was about to crack.

But then you'll miss out on the opportunity to buy that $120 bottle of wine that you can get at Spec's for $40.

The cheap way is to get some PVC pipe and make one or two fountains that screw into your pool return lines in the pool. The idea is to spray small streams of water at least 6 feet into the air. The evaporation process lowers the temperature of the water. In about 24 hours I could lower my water temp about 5 degrees. You have to run the pump 24/7. The TFP site has some DIYs on it.

James Brady. He was in the Reagan Administration and was seriously injured in the attempted assassination. You may have heard of the Brady Bill named in his honor.

What is that, yoga?

This. I don’t have a pool any longer but I miss my old house and pool. It got to where I needed to add maybe a quart of acid every two weeks or so and that was pretty much it. The Polaris 280 kept my pool spotless. No need for a pool guy.

Okay, Dude. Have it your way.

Speaking only about estate taxes, some of the discussion here is nuts. The Bezos story makes for good theater but it's not the rule for most rich people--say people between $50-$200 million in net worth that have sold their businesses (and paid income tax on the sale) and have a pool of investments and assets when they die. They are worried about asset preservation and/or income generation for their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and so on. I know two leading will and estate attorneys in Houston each with more than 30 years at this and they say that you can do everything right with things like revocable trusts and the marital by-pass trust, etc., but the 40% estate tax is real. They will also say that depending on how soon the next generation dies after the previous generation dies a $50 million estate can turn into an $18 million estate very quickly. Usually, the assets are invested very conservatively (again, it's all about asset preservation and income generation, not bitcoin-type investments) and the 40% estate tax can hit the heirs before the estate can grow back from the previous 40% hit. And when it's divided among numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren it's not like everyone is sitting on a beach earning 20%. For the vast majority of folks affected by it, the estate tax is a horribly unfair tax.

Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.

Yep. That was my point. Just because we see new cases, i.e. positive Covid test results, it does not mean people are “getting Covid”. That’s why I pay particular attention to the ICU surveys which are updated daily. Per Setrac, SE Texas ICU Covid numbers are near the lowest they’ve been since early April 2020.

Wow. I would think they are ready to drink. Please post notes.

This. It’s easy to figure that out. My house is wired cat 5e and it’s pretty awesome. All TVs are hard wired and the wifi (Orbi) works very well for everything else.

Presumably. He was only in the hospital for a couple of days. The % of Covid patients in ICU is still a good indication of where we are. He was never in the ICU.

Well, my 91 year old father was fully vaccinated in mid February and got Covid in late April from a caregiver (we think but can’t be sure). He had no symptoms though and was only tested because he went to the hospital for other issues. So he was one of the new cases that day. New case numbers are interesting, but I’m mainly concerned about hospitalisation and ICU stats. Both are near the early April 2020 numbers in SE Texas. I’m guessing it’s the same throughout Texas.

No where close to unforgivably high casualties. No one expected us to waltz in unopposed. There was the Atlantic Wall and it was fortified. It’s remarkable that casualties weren’t even higher across the landing zones. Of course, the casualties were absolutely necessary in order liberate Europe.

Not sure if this is your assumption, but the casualty rate on DDay was not even close to unforgivably high. Of course the first few waves on Omaha Beach had casualties, but in the scheme of things it was not unexpected or unreasonably high.

Sad, and so true. There were so many stories that came from that generation that were touched upon in the interviews with the ageing men of Easy Company. Like when the two guys from the small town who were 4F couldn’t enlist. They chose suicide over the shame they felt from not being able to serve. Shame is not a thing anymore.

You threw it out? I’ve never done such a shitty job that I had to trash an entire brisket. It doesn’t have to be world class BBQ to be edible.

Watched BOB again this past weekend. Still gets me at the end when Winters says that he wasn’t a hero but that he served among heroes.

Everyone in our group loved Streamsong blue and red. Black was a far distant third. If you have a choice, I would suggest playing the red or blue multiple times vs playing the black course at all.

My Schnoodle. Cool little dog.

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Is the top one a schnauzer or schnauzer mix? Looks similar to our schnoodle but darker. Our schnoodle is one of the most agile dogs I’ve been around.