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For Surly input, I present the Covid protocols for my kid's school. I have two school aged kids 13 and 15, both vaccinated. School is a small private school with at most 60 students in ATX. It is middle and high school aged kids only. My first impressions are does not go far enough, seems like it was made to please everybody, and difficult to enforce without flare. Wanted to get some group think on this for my response but mostly to have some ideas that are not my own when my wife quizzes me. I’ve listed below the measures with which we will begin the year: We are always keeping an eye on the wellness of our students, and always do a general wellness check as part of our morning arrival welcome and greeting. As always, if your student is showing signs of illness, they will be required to stay home. For students age 12+ who are unvaccinated, masks will be required. For students age 12+ who are vaccinated, masks will be optional. If your family is making the personal choice to mask even if vaccinated, we fully support you and will help to make sure your student is masking at school. We know that some of you have people at home who cannot vaccinate, and will support your student to mask for an extra layer of safety. For students who are under the age eligible for vaccination (under the age of 12) masks will be optional. Again, we will fully support your choice to mask at school. In the event of a Covid exposure on campus, we will consult with health experts and may need to close the school. For students age 12+, if you choose not to wear a mask, you will need to show proof of vaccination. If you’re child is vaccinated, please send a photograph or photocopy of your child’s vaccination record for us to keep on file. Please send this as soon as possible, or bring your student’s vaccination card on Day 1 so that we can make a photocopy. If we do not have proof of vaccination we will ask your student to wear a mask on campus.

Begun, the face mask wars have.

Even the pedophiles get it.

Kidwell....more like Kidsick amiright?

Just watched that 2nd to last drive. I remember those catches being more difficult. Those were some bad drops. 2 on BJ and one on Williams .

I guess they were not ready to play. I remember that game and although Oregon was a good team (ranked higher than Texas), that win would have put Texas in the top 10 and gotten some positive momentum indicative of a program on the rise to big time football. As it was and at the time it seemed like the 99 and 00 seasons were a step back from 98. Not the worst loss and no huge implications, but a big disappointment considering how Texas rebounded after OU and how winnable the game was.

The Blues Brothers (1980) Best chases, crashes, and SCMODS, plus it had cop tires, cop breaks, and cop suspension.

OU blowouts: I could probably have dealt with these if Mack had filled in the blanks a little better during his time here. Of course, if he had filled in the blanks, the OU losses would probably not have been blow outs. What I mean by filling the blanks is picking up those games that I think Texas should have won along the way that despite whatever we did with OU. Such as: 1998 @ Tech. Loss costs Texas the B12 South title, which aggy won. 1999 NC State: Inexplicable Special teams gaffs. Made no difference by the end of the season which ended with 3 straight losses. Still 10 wins v. 9. 2000 Stanford and then Oregon in the Bowl game: 1st OU blowout. 2001 OU: Not sure if a win was for certain, but a lot of this loss was on coaching. 2001 Colorado: Been covered. Costs Texas appearance in MNC champ game and B12 2002: @ Tech: Costs Texas B12 South again, despite OU loss. 2003 Washington State (#15): Loss knocks Texas out of a certain top 5 finish. Mack was on thin ice here with me as Texas seemed to be stuck in a 2-3 loss pattern. 2004: Kind of a repeat of the 2001 OU loss. The same but different. Mack never learns. 2006 @ K-State: Loss Costs Texas B12 South Title. 2006 aggy: Loss also costs Texas B12 South Title. 2008 @ Tech: Loss costs Texas B12 South Tittle, B12 Title, Shot at MNC. Win four of those games and one of either 2006 K state or aggy, keep Colt Upright against Bama and you are looking at a whole different resume. I would say reasonably. 2-2 In MNCs. and 3 more B12 Championships plus some better rankings along with another B12 south crown. Ifs and buts and all that, but the thing with those losses is that there were some repeating themes and a whole lot of close games that were victories that should not have been all that close. Fans blame Davis or the DCs over the years, but there just seemed to be an unreadyness to play sometimes with Mack's teams and it would cost them dearly. Throw in the OU blowouts and the 2010-2013 seasons and you have a coaching legacy narrative that is in question.

Lice talk not going away.

You are correct sir.

Rumor is based on some loose interpretations of some paper that was published on placental protein synthesis or lack thereof. The paper was not all that sound to begin with and the interpretations are even less so. Many vaccines have the same theoretical issue but have never caused any problems. No issues amongst the trial group and no issues thus far with vaccinated.

Legend tells of a legendary warrior who's deeds were legend.

Still go to your MD and do the pt stuff first. The Academy would be more of a background thing.

Reboot helped but still issues. No credentials here. Just been through a lot. Injuries can be complicated sometimes, so I would not be overly optimistic about quick results. A good back program might take 6-8 months, which could get pretty expensive. A single source of knowledge and specific programs like the movement academy I am in has been great. I wish I had started it when I was your age and before I started rock climbing. Precision Movement Academy. $400 lifetime membership.

More of this to come I suspect. Tales from the non flying side: I have posted some interesting stories, job info, building expertise, from my files as an owner of a commercial concrete contracting company. I have been doing this for 25 years now and had as many as 80 employees with a current crew of about 20 who have all been working with us for 15-20 years, which is great because we have good people who can get along and know what the hell they are doing and can basically do the work of a firm with 2 times as many employees. Everybody get s paid more and the owners make more with half the hassle. However, this virus has been something else. Last spring (2020) we were really busy. Too busy, in fact. We had a bunch of jobs that were delayed and just started all at once. Things were tense with the virus, but we powered through and in a couple of months got back on plane with everything working like normal. We had adjusted to things and had a plan that everyone was cool with and nobody got Covid. Then, in the middle of the summer, all of a sudden, it was if I had a whole company of Conrad Doblers. I had factions, cliques, and general anarchy. Guys who were teetotalers were showing up hungover. Employees were coming to my office to complain about other employees for no damned reason whatsoever. And nobody ever complains about employees to me. My complaints are more about staffing, execution, scheduling or equipment that doesn't work. Once a week I would have to sit and listen to somebody gripe about how they were somehow wronged by somebody else, and when upon further questioning by me, got to the bottom of it being no big deal. I guess they just wanted to be heard for some damned reason. But this went on for months. To give you a clearer picture, we are kind of an old company employee age wise. All of us are over 45. These are guys that have been doing this a long time and are way past 20-30 something fits. Further, we were steadily busy and not subject to the malaise of little work which is just the worst. Oddly enough, the phenomena vanished just as Covid hit its peak and we had several employees get it with a few bad cases, although nobody was officially hospitalized. A few weeks ago I started to feel off and less enthusiastic about life, work, and stuff. At first I thought it was some kind of seasonal allergy thing, and then thought I might be having some kind of reaction to the vaccine. After a few weeks I think it is just things hitting me from the last 18 months. All I can say is I have been a jackass about everything. I have been a dick about contracts and change orders, and just a general pain in the ass to my clients. I'm not sure if it is the stress, or the realization that life is short and I don't need to put up with a bunch of crap. I would have no problem taking a flight or complying with any airline rules at all, but if I did, I can see where a lot this is coming from. I think there is more pent up stress than we realize. Its easy to blame a bunch of yokels on a flight but I suspect this is eventually going to spill over across party lines (no CR), maybe not on flights, but in other places in strange and unforeseen ways.

I came away from that encouraged overall and at the same time discouraged about how far we have to go.

Things start to happen at about that age and they get harder to fix. I'm 54 and they did for me. Before I start, a couple of things. On your low back: Stop stretching it immediately. Your back is in protective mode and need to be stable and heal. So keep with the drugs, ice and heat for a few days but no stretching, rounding or exercising it. Your low back is meant to be stable and there is a lack of mobility either in in your upper back or hips that is probably the culprit-probably a few other areas too. The good news for you is that this(back) appears to be muscular in nature as opposed to structural (disk, bone), or connective(joint/ligament/tendon) so it will heal quickly if you don't aggravate it. You sound like you have the right mindset and are not really overdoing it with working out, and if you have read any of my posts on workouts, you already know that even in your 20's you need to do very little working out in order to be in really good shape. With your weight loss you are now probably getting to about 20% BF which is really manageable from the not being a fatass issues. At this point in your life, stretching is going to be of little value unless you combine it with strengthening in your end ranges of motion. In fact, I would wager that some of your new found flexibility is to blame for most of your issues, because while you have created some new ranges of motion, there is very little strength or stability in that range. My computer is fing up. Will reboot and continue in a bit.

Worst humblebrag evar.

Told by my brother from his army basic training: There was this dude in his platoon or whatever they call it, that was a dim bulb. His name was Klegums. Despite having 20/20 vision he insisted on aiming his rifle with eye opposite the stock and could not shoot worth a shit. So he was already on the shit list with the drill sergeant. Its kind of an hilarious visual when you think about it. Then later, Kelgums gets caught jacking it to to some kind of science fiction magazine and is written up or an article 37 for misuse of government property. Drill sergeant finds out and calls Klegums out in front of everybody in the barracks: "Goddammit Klegums, whats this I hear about you jacking off to space ships and robots?" Kelgums doesn't answer and drill sergeant hands him a normal skin magazine. "here, use this next time, when you get out of basic ". Klegums ends up being the flag bearer for the platoon in some kind of final parade they do because he could not stay in step, so they figured it was best if he was by himself out front. Ended up being a big mistake because word had gotten around about his article 37 and rather than being hidden and unnoticed, he was out there for all to see and recognize. As my brother's platoon marched through the parade all the spectators were pointing and laughing at Klegums, making the "jack off" motion and moving their arms around like robots. Klegums was, of course, oblivious to the whole thing and was proudly marching out of step all by himself out front. Drill sergeant was so pissed off and humiliated, he made Klegums repeat.

However, there is a little known codicil in the bylaws that permits such by concrete contractors such as myself when anticipating a large concrete placement that is cancelled by rain.

I did not consider it a life changing event. I weighed the facts as I knew them, considered the Covid cases around people I know both severe and mild, and determined that getting the vaccine was the best decision much as it would have been had I been considering a vaccine dose for small pox, polio, tuberculosis, measles, mumps, or Q fever. There really is no virtue in just doing your damn job as a human being and taking advantage of the advances in modern medicine, it should just be expected as part of the obligation we have to ourselves and others.

Snatch: what a mad caper of a film. Might need subtitles for the gypsy dialog.

I called TEX from an airplane phone over the Pacific ocean. It cost a fucking fortune, but felt pretty damn futuristic compared to sitting on the ground in the Drum waiting for someone to come drop a class in person. This is how you humblebrag.

Been awhile since I saw a really good brick fight:

There was another video that I watched which was a much more dry and rudimentary presentation that made extensive use of original drawings, photos, and video. One of the things that that video kept harping on was real estate drone footage of the pool deck which never had a picture where there was not standing water even on sunny days. So its position was that the initial collapse was from poor drainage design (aided by failed waterproofing) which ultimately started the pool deck corrosion (chlorinated water and water logged beams/slab). That video also spent quite a bit of time on one particular beam in the parking garage which is seen in the the posted video. It is described as a 12" beam intersection with a 16" column and can bee seen freeze frame at the 2:58 mark in the posted video. The detail is correct and was noted on the original structural drawings. In any case, and as was stated in the video, collapsed pool deck should not=catastrophic failure.