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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. spicy deviled eggs fried okra moist brisket with bark beef rib coca cola fresh baked soft chocolate chip cookies and ice cold milk
  5. Somehow missed this until now. So sorry to hear it.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. maybe it’s Maybelline
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. Likely not the last time the kid will take a walk like this, I really do hope he gets some help because otherwise...
  12. I am already a follower. Didn't realize that was from my Surly brethren. Great stuff!!
  13. 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.
  14. I feel like I should already know this, but what is your topic? You're not the pegging guy are you?
  15. I've thought about this also. Probably the same with the spunk and egg bank for someone who wanted to save them for later...
  16. We saved cord blood for our youngest (7 y/o) and just got the bill for this year's storage this week. I suppose we will continue to keep it but I don't even know what the use case would ever be or how we'd get it if we needed it. I have also wondered before if it (youngest's cord blood / stem cells) would be useful for our other kids or my wife or I if we ever had a need. I know I've heard stories before where a couple had a kid who had some specific illness and they ended up having another kid in hopes that somehow that new child could somehow help the existing sick kid. Any thoughts from anyone?
  17. Kindle is a better reading experience. Now, if your wife reads on her phone because she already has it in her hand (riding in car, train, plane, etc.) and would now always have to keep a kindle with her to use it in a similar fashion, you can probably pass on the purchase. If she just reads in bed and could just as easily pick up the kindle instead of her phone she will thank you for it.
  18. A rout? Thanksgiving weekend 1989 home loss to Baylor 50-7 and it wasn't that close. This was the same Baylor team rebounding from a loss to Rice 6-3 a week earlier. Times are certainly not great now but those were some dark days on the 40 acres.
  19. I heard from a friend who teaches in a Dallas suburban district who told me that they (teachers and students) were shown a video last week that instructed all that if they needed to sneeze that they should remove their mask and sneeze into their elbow so that they would not have the sneeze particles all over their mask. Am I missing something or is that about the most idiotic advice possible you could give a 6-11 year old kid?
  20. Sorry to hear that Brisket. @Anastasis our 7 year old had what you described about a month ago. Middle of the night wake up, feeling bad, mild fever, etc. Woke up feeling fine but we kept him home just for good measure. They told us to get him back in school we needed a negative PCR, or a doctor note that it was something else entirely or wait 14 days. We had him do a PCR test that morning but were resigned to him being home for 2-3 days while the results came back. As a shortcut I went and did a rapid test on myself thinking there's no way he'd be positive if I was negative (no symptoms at all for me). Of course my rapid was positive. Shocked, I called my wife to tell her to go do a rapid test. She did and was also positive (again no symptoms). We both do PCR tests that also both came back positive. Meanwhile the 7 year old's PCR test comes back negative. 14 days later as we are prepping him to go back to school my wife is talking to the nurse for the 3rd party that is managing the school's Covid response and the nurse says, "most likely your 2nd grader gave it to both of you, we see family after family where mom/dad/older siblings test positive but the 12 and under kids never test positive after having maybe a night of waking up feeling sick or a bad afternoon and are better the next morning." Moral of the story you and your wife should definitely get checked.
  21. We submitted through our bank's portal last week. They (the bank) has 60 days to review and pass a recommendation to the SBA who will have another 90 days to review before a final decision.
  22. Thank you. Do you know if this will be accessible after the event? Can't do that time today unfortunately.
  23. Sweet return. Near the end it looks like there are at least 20 players for each team on the field. Amazing he made it through.
  24. About 10 years ago I finally came to the realization that the Cowboys had become the Raiders with Jerry taking the role of Al Davis. Entertaining from time to time but never will be a real threat for winning consistently. I still watch the games if nothing else is going on and even hope that they win but I have no expectations whatsoever. Really like Dak and hope that his career doesn't end up being wasted. Last night when they opted for a 58 yard FG down by 25 rather than going for it was my signal it was time to turn the TV off. At least the horns have been disappointing for a decade also so I have that going for me.
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