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  1. Yes, I've heard 2nd hand of people who had NG generators systems in the Houston area this week that have basically been useless. I don't fully understand that, nor did the person who told me the story. Thoughts?
  2. Store #6590 Store phone number - 979-822-7344 If you meant something else please let me know and I can try to find it
  3. Have a friend who got Moderna dose 1 on Monday at a CVS in college station. Drove through the ice / snow to get there, system down at location when she arrived but they gave her the shot. Then yesterday she gets an email that her dose 2 appointment set for mid March has been cancelled. No other explanation. She called the location who passed her to the national CVS number. The national CVS number passed her to the CVS Covid hotline who told her "sorry but all appointments are booked, but that new appointments might open between now and then. Good luck." Anybody have ideas of other ways to address this? Anybody have a CVS hookup that might get a better response than "sorry and good luck"?
  4. 119 in Phoenix back in the late 90s and -39 in Calgary in 2006. Landed in Calgary that afternoon, checked in to hotel and my co-worker and I planned to walk across the street (literally) for dinner. As we walked out the doorman asked if he could get us a cab. We said, we are just walking right over there (pointing to the restaurant) and he said "are you sure"? We said we were sure and then realized our mistake by the time we reached the corner but were too prideful to turn back. We did get a cab to go back to the hotel after dinner though.
  5. As a show of solidarity with my power deficient Surly brothers I just turned off some auxiliary lighting in a room we never go into. For real though, I hope everyone gets their power back on soon. Heard from a friend a bit ago who moved to a hotel only to have the power go out at the hotel about an hour after he and his family checked in.
  6. Blanket rolls up with all these features also. My wife graduated in a class of 14 kids from there about 30 years ago. The Valedictorian (not my wife) went into labor 15 minutes after the graduation ceremony ( I swear it's true )
  7. Hearing stories that the combination of applications for 2021 Fall and deferrals of kids originally accepted from Fall 2020 who are now planning to attend in 2021 have resulted in an unprecedented amount of demand for whatever spots UT (and I'm sure other schools) have available for Fall 2021 entry.
  8. Our 2nd round funded on Friday morning. Thankful to have it and glad the process was much smoother than 1st round. Now to get the 1st round forgiveness finalized.
  9. We've been in line for forgiveness since early October. They have asked us for additional supporting docs 3 times (as recently as last week). Hoping it will be finished soon. I am still a little unclear on whether our 2nd draw application has officially been submitted to the SBA or not.
  10. From what I have read the SBA had / has a glitch in their application portal for 2nd draw applications. They (SBA) were not allowing 2nd draw applications to be uploaded if there was a pending forgiveness application for the 1st draw. There was nothing in any documentation that require the forgiveness application to be processed / finalized, etc. Hopefully they can get that fixed pronto. Banks press Treasury, SBA to fix 'systemic' small business loan glitches - POLITICO
  11. Da, I'm thinking next time the job won't be left to something as unreliable as a nerve agent.
  12. Good point, they are dumping a TON on marketing. Somebody has to pay for those ads. My birthday is coming up and I asked for this. I'll post a review once it arrives.
  13. We planned a last minute trip to WDW January 6-10. Stayed at the Riviera Resort and overall had a good time. PARKS: Park capacity limits are nice but certainly not a line eliminator on the most popular rides. Having said that, we got to ride everything we had interest in with our longest wait (60 minutes) for anything being that stupid Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Rail at Hollywood. Most rides had waits of 15 mins or less and the premium rides were usually waits of between 30-45 minutes. The virtual queue system for the Galaxy's Edge ride is kind of frustrating but I'm not sure what the alternative is. Basically they open the system on their app at 7 AM for people who have Hollywood Studios reservations for that day and give out spots until they are full. Unfortunately they sell out in approximately 5 seconds. No joke. There is a 2nd round of spots available on the app at 2pm for people who are physically in the park at 2pm that day. Those spots sold out in about 12 seconds. Fortunately we got spots in that 2nd group on our day at Hollywood. The ride (and that whole Star Wars area) is pretty neat. The Tron ride being built at Magic Kingdom looks like it is going to be awesome. Not sure when it will open but I'll look forward to that on our next trip. We went to Epcot each night to ride 1 or 2 rides and have dinner. They are undergoing some pretty significant renovations in the front part of the park. Not sure exactly what the plans are but alot of the walkways are boarded up with construction going on behind. Alot of the shows are not operating (Indiana Jones, Lion King, etc.) Not a big deal to us, but might be important to some. I'm not sure why they don't still do fastpasses. I think that would smooth the crush on some of the most popular rides and I don't see how it is harmful to the social distancing goals. Have they said why no fastpasses? FOOD ISSUES: The mobile dining ordering places are actually pretty easy, you just need to make sure to think a little in advance if it is a popular spot (Woody's lunchbox) or when you're hungry for lunch at noon it can be disappointing to find out their next pick up time is 3:15. There are still plenty of walk up food places and even most of the mobile order places are readily available throughout the day. Reservation places were more hard to come by for us but part of that is we didn't decide we were going until about 5 days before our first day in the park and then we didn't bother looking for reservations anywhere because we thought that with 35% capacity that the restaurants should be open. We were wrong. TRANSPORTATION: It had been 3 or 4 years since the last time we were there and since then they have built the Disney Skyliner system. It connected our resort (Riviera) shown in the background of photo below directly to Epcot and with one transfer at the Caribbean Beach Resort station to Hollywood Studios. Pretty slick and beats the heck out of the busses. I hope they will expand that system throughout the WDW universe. Really fun trip and just by dumb luck our trip coincided with all the brouhaha at the Capitol Building and its aftermath so I was successful in ignoring that mess as much as humanly possible.
  14. Anybody bit the bullet on the X-Chair HMT? Seeing the commercials has given me the wants Also seems like it could possibly be priced at 3x what it should be.
  15. spicy deviled eggs fried okra moist brisket with bark beef rib coca cola fresh baked soft chocolate chip cookies and ice cold milk
  16. Somehow missed this until now. So sorry to hear it.
  17. Awesome. Good luck. Post the name / number on here some time for those of us in the are who need service or are ever asked if we know a good AC company.
  18. Craziest "scene" surrounding a game that I've seen before or after that day. Almost makes me sad to watch it now, hopefully we are approaching the edge of the desert in which we have been wandering.
  19. I've been saying (mostly to myself admittedly) all year that I think Sam might have been injured. He has missed several wide open throws from time to time during the season. I started thinking it around TCU and then really convinced myself in the OU game. He was hovering around 50% completions and a lot of his misses were bad misses. I appreciate what he has done at Texas and choose to mainly remember him as presented in the 2019 highlight video posted. Incredibly inspiring story and I'm sure the arc of his career has been much different than he dreamed about for all those years growing up. I have no idea if or what kind of role he can play in the NFL but similar to Gardere, he should never buy a meal or a beer while in the presence of Longhorn fans. If nothing else I think we can all agree that he's earned the right from this moment... Hook 'em Sam
  20. Is the deductibility of expenses related to PPP forgiven amounts being addressed in this bill? If not, what is the latest expectation for that? I know until further notice they are to be treated as non-deductible but I keep thinking hoping that will change soon.
  21. Likely not the last time the kid will take a walk like this, I really do hope he gets some help because otherwise...
  22. I am already a follower. Didn't realize that was from my Surly brethren. Great stuff!!
  23. Another shoutout to Thad and Phil at prodigy. They were able to help with something a little out of the box. Closed a week or two ago. This the 4th time I've used them and it has been a great experience each time. Highly recommend. Thanks.
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