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  1. Nora is broken for the 523rd time. She had had CCL tear on her back RIGHT leg and underwent TPLO surgery in December 2019 to fix it. It took about 3 months to heal but she finally got back to using her leg and was 99% normal. She then tore her meniscus on her back RIGHT leg in February of this year and had meniscus surgery on March 29. They also removed a plate from the prior TPLO surgery that they said was no longer needed. She still hasn’t fully recovered from that surgery. She can walk on it but she limps a little bit, maybe 80% normal. She turned a corner this past week right up until yesterday when her back LEFT leg gave out. It seems that she has now torn her left CCL, which is not totally unexpected because 60% of dogs tear the other side within 1 year, but it’s shitty timing because the right leg isn’t very good and it makes walking very difficult. The vet today agreed that it is likely torn so she is now on the schedule for left TPLO surgery in June. The previous surgeon’s office was being very unhelpful with all of this, which blows my mind as a human surgeon who goes out of my way for my own post-op patients, so we have tentatively switched to a different vet surgeon for the next time around. If anyone has personal experience with these types of problems and surgery/recovery, I’d love to hear it.
  2. I had the same thought but I really hope it doesn’t go that route. There are enough deplorable characters with potential motives for murder that they don’t need a last minute reveal of an unlikely killer to make the show great. They’ve done a great job telling the story thus far, now just wrap it up in a way that explains how John, Billy, Frank, and Dylan are all involved.
  3. Which makes you wonder if they are saying the same thing about us, which is exactly what we want them to think because this is our own technology that has everyone worked up. Maybe we’ve been working on this stuff for years and other people are starting to notice, so we had to spook our own Navy and cause a public frenzy to make it look like we’re just as clueless as everyone else. Some version of that explanation makes the most sense to me. It’s the most boring explanation but also the most comforting when the alternatives are China/Russia/aliens.
  4. Also, we have 2 full episodes left which seems like a lot of time to investigate Erin’s murder. I wouldn’t be surprised if we have another victim in the next episode.
  5. The only issue there is that Katie Bailey refers to her captor as “he” and not “they”, so if the dead kidnapper guy has a partner, the partner must not interact with the girls much. I’m leaning towards Erin’s killer being a second person who is mostly unrelated to the kidnapper.
  6. I'm a little bit with you on that, but I'm more concerned about the idea that an ex-husband would willingly buy a house that shares a back fence with his ex-wife. That's harder for me to wrap my mind around, so maybe the details of Zabel's residence didn't register as high.
  7. I don’t necessarily agree with this. It could be true but there’s no reason to believe it has to be true. Humans sent Voyager beyond our solar system while playing Johnny B Goode. Sure, it hasn’t gone light years, but it’s out there with no attempts to avoid detection. We’ve sent electromagnetic communication even farther, perhaps 120 light years away. Proxima Centauri is ~4 light years away and for all we know has habitable planets orbiting it. There are already plans being made for us to explore it. Do you think we will develop that technology and then decide not to explore Proxima Centauri until we can safely determine any and all possible lifeforms present and then further improve our technology to avoid detection? Absolutely not. In the infinite vastness of the universe it seems likely that there are alien species less advanced than us, more advanced than us, and roughly similar to us in both technology and behavior. Whether or not we ever encounter them is obviously debatable, but it‘s illogical to think that every version of intelligent life that could possibly exist is both technologically superior and has the intelligence and self control to withhold their own interstellar exploration until they completely understand human technology and how to hide from us. Maybe they are imperfect creatures as well and maybe their curiosity of other worlds outweighs their caution to interact with another species. Or maybe they don’t even recognize us as living creatures because a blue planet with an oxygen atmosphere appears so different from their own habitat and they aren’t used to observing carbon-based creatures that walk on a solid surface. Or maybe they’ve been watching us for a while but our own technology and detection capabilities have rapidly improved in the past 50 years and it takes them light years to send new stealthier drones here. Or maybe they are exploring thousands of worlds simultaneously and they actually don’t care about us anymore than the average Texan cares about sharks in the Arctic Ocean. There are endless maybes regarding the identity, technology capabilities, and behavior patterns of alien life. It seems foolish to write this off under the assumption that alien technology must be sufficiently superior and aliens must be sufficiently disciplined to avoid us. We don’t know either of those to be remotely true, and even if it’s true for aliens at Alpha Centauri A, it might not be true for aliens at Alpha Centauri B.
  8. I assumed that Zabel was from a different town elsewhere in the county. He seems fairly local because it’s easy for Mare to show up at his house (his mom’s house), but he actually lives in a different town nearby and that’s why he was an outsider. Not sure about his reunion being at the Easttown bar though.
  9. I figured out the disconnect. Cheval Blanc has 2 restaurants - La Case is the more formal dinner restaurant, La Cabane is the less formal beachside restaurant for lunch. Our concierge booked us a table at La Cabane for lunch. We've never eaten at La Case but I'm curious to get your feedback if you decide to go there.
  10. I’m still watching and mostly enjoying this. I thought episodes 1-2 were much better than episodes 3-4, but it still has my attention. Chuy has to come back into play at some point. I’m guessing he’ll save their asses when they get in another bind around episode 7. I want Allie (Theroux) to become more of a badass as things move forward. I’m assuming he’s on the run because he gained knowledge of some type of government criminal coverup. He worked for the NSA and we’re led to believe he’s a pretty intelligent guy, so I’d like to see him display some skills that help his family evade the types of dangers they’ve recently faced.
  11. I did not see that coming. I was a bit concerned that a twist was coming where Zabel would somehow be involved, mainly because my mind has become increasingly conditioned to try to predict the most nonsensical twist in these types of shows, but I guess that’s out the window. We have 2 episodes left and the kidnapper is now dead, so Erin’s killer must be a separate person still at large. They’ve done a good job of creating lots of unscrupulous characters that could be seen as suspects - the non-daddy baby daddy, the priest, Mare’s ex-husband, Mare’s friend’s cheating husband, the writer boyfriend. Just hope it’s not something stupid like her daughter.
  12. I’m on the side of thinking these UAPs are a human technology in some form, but I also think you’re making a lot of assumptions about what level of technology an alien race would possess and what their intentions would be if they choose to visit Earth. Just thinking about humans, if we’re still in existence over the next 100-500 years, we will be constantly pushing the limits of our technology to explore farther and farther into space. We will likely be sending unmanned rovers akin to Perseverance to other solar systems to explore potential habitable planets without knowing what is there in advance. That’s the very nature of exploration. I don’t think we will sit on our technology until it becomes sufficiently stealthy to avoid detection from any other possible lifeforms that could possibly exist, especially since we don’t know what those lifeforms are or what their own technology would be to detect us. Therefore, it seems entirely possible to me that an alien race could be similarly pushing the limits of their own technology to explore the universe, and perhaps some of their probes could arrive at Earth and exist in a format that is partially observable to us. Maybe they are 1,000 light years away and their own planet was facing extinction and they sent millions of probes in all directions out of desperation. Now some of those probes have reached Earth, but that’s not to say that we are special or that our planet was targeted, but merely that in the vastness of the universe, someone cast a wide enough net that accidentally encountered us and we happened to see it.
  13. It’s St. Barth.
  14. I think La Case should have lunch availability. Not sure where you are looking but I would be surprised if they are completely booked, given that it’s super low season with the island being officially closed right now. Toiny Beach club is closed unfortunately. Well, Le Toiny hotel is closed until October, so I assume the beach club is as well. If you find out otherwise, please report back. Nikki Beach is good and fun. Sunday is their big day so I would suggest going then. They have 2 seatings at ?12:30 and 3:00, and it’s never too early to try to get a table. Tamarin and Bonito are excellent dinner choices and we never go to St. Barth without them. I would also put Orega on that list if you need another dinner.
  15. I’ve done both the Jeep and the Mini Cooper and I would pick the Mini Cooper every time. It’s smaller and much easier to drive and park on their narrow roads. If you’re already locked into the Jeep I wouldn’t sweat it, but if you have the ability to switch, it might make things easier for you.
  16. Broadchurch was great. The Killing sucked. Mare of Easttown I’m still unsure about. It does seem like Guy Pearce is the obvious choice for the kidnapper/killer, but I suppose that could also make him a great red herring if they are going a different route. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a True Detective situation where we don’t actually know the bad guy yet.
  17. Did Wynn predict the future? In 2019 they were worried about Covid uncertainties?
  18. You haven’t met Mrs. WT who strongly prefers big lunches AND big dinners. Thankfully St. Barth is super cheap or we’d go broke. Typical lunch rotation - Shellona, Nikki, Cheval Blanc, Pearl Beach, Isoletta, Le Select, Sand Bar (Eden Rock), Mango (Christopher), Le Toiny Typical dinner rotation - Bonito, Orega, Tamarin, Santa Fe, Carl Gustaf, Bagatelle, Isola, Le Ti, Eddy’s My favorite lunch is a baguette, fruit, prosciutto, water, and rosé while sitting in the sand at Saline or Gouverneur. Then we pass out until 9 pm and then get ready for a big dinner.
  19. That villa looks great and you'll be right next to Cheval Blanc if you want a nice lunch or the spa. If you arrive on Memorial Day for a week, you'll overlap us by a few days.
  20. Just finished this and I’m pretty sad for it to end. Great read that gave me a lot of insight. I’ve read most of Larson’s other books and this is right up there with them. The only one I haven’t read is “In the Garden of Beasts” which has been on my shelf for a while, so I guess I’ll move onto it next.
  21. Watched the first 2 episodes tonight and love it so far.
  22. I used them in the past and it was a good experience.
  23. Both good choices.
  24. There have been multiple meta analyses published in the medical literature that show a benefit to face masks, social distancing, or both. I’m not sure what more you could want. Unless your keyword is “massive effects” and you are unimpressed by interventions with modest effects. The pandemic has killed 574,000 people in the U.S., so even if masks and distancing combined for a mere 10% reduction in mortality (which I think most would agree is low), that’s around 57,400 lives saved. I agree that vaccines were always going to be the home run, but that doesn’t detract from the role that masks and distancing have played over the first year of COVID.
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