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    Genuinely amazing to me that we made it Game 7 of the ALCS despite having a losing home record that got exponentially worse with each passing week since September. We're going to end this up batting well under .200 with RISP during home games this post-season.
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    Yep. Hopefully the old coot just retires. Jesus Christ, he'll turn 75 next year.
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    My last 3 games at MMP have been 9/24, when we got swept by KC, ALDS Game 2, and last night. Been real fun spending 3 of my last 5 Sundays watching us flounder. I think my in-person record for the year is something like 4-11. I'm not setting foot in that stadium again until the College Classic in March. Don't care what happens tonight. Just saw a stat that we've had 28 sellouts at MMP this year. We're 7-21 in those games. How can a team save its absolute worst baseball for its biggest home crowds? It boggles the mind.
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    Interesting, as there's not much overlap between the two's operations. More of a pure portfolio expansion than a consolidation play. CVX is getting Hess's position as one of the primary Bakken operators and their 30% stake in XOM's huge project off the coast of Guyana.
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    Necro bump. Newcomer to anime at almost 40. Before this past year, the closest I had ever come was the Castlevania series on Netflix. Have started off with what seem to be 3 of the all-time greats. Glad that I waited until now to start the following, as it would have been brutal to wait 2-3 years between seasons: Have watched all episodes of Demon Slayer that have been released. Loved it. Wish there were 100 more episodes already released. Caught up to all Jujutsu Kaisen episodes that have been released, with the exception of this past Thursday's. If Demon Slayer is ranked 1A, then JK is a very close 1B for me. Just started Season 2 of Attack on Titan. Took a little get into, but got hooked after a few. Glad to see I have something like 60 more episodes remaining. Spoiled some of what's to come by reading character bios trying to remember everyone's name. Looks like it gets incredibly complex.
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    I've never been more convinced, Jose Altuve is some sort of supernatural being, gifted to the city of Houston by some force beyond our reckoning. Look at him. That man has no reason to be one of the best baseball players of all time. And yet; somehow, he is. Like an anime character, his ultimate form emerges when all seems lost. My biggest complaint of this season has been that "the magic is just not there." So many games this year we went into the 9th down a run or two, got guys on, and just couldn't bring them home. Tonight, I'm as wrong as it gets.
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    Matt Heafy from Trivium has a weekly, hour-long show on Liquid Metal that's pretty great for finding new metal bands or new jams from bands you've previously heard of. Good shit from yesterday's show. I know some of you hate clean vocals, so just stick with it past the Deftones-esque intro to 1:00 or so. Reminds me of a slightly heavier Gojira.
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    After a lengthy stretch of really nice days dating back to last Friday, Houston's got some rather "yucky" weather on tap. Unseasonably hot, dry and sunny today and tomorrow, then clouds, humidity/rain and high in the mid-80's/lows in the mid-70's through next Saturday. Might be another ~10 days until our next dry day with a high below 80 and a low below 70.
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    Got the new stand delivered and set up at a promising location. Heading back out Saturday to clear out some shooting lanes and finish getting its feeder set up. Only got it about halfway done before we had to get back to town. Should end up being a good feeder for the money, but it was a bitch to put together. Next time, we'll probably just spring for the extra $200 or so to buy a fully-built model that we just have to pop on a trailer. Dad also fixed a broken control unit on an otherwise functional feeder at one of the existing stands, so we'll get that popped back on, fill it up with corn, and get it back on schedule. If all goes according to plan, I should get back to town Sunday evening having 2 more stand/feeder combos ready for the season than today.
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    Most old landmen are also unrepentant alcoholics, in my experience. When I first got out of law school and went and ran title for a year, used to get a kick at the old veteran coots that "worked" maybe 20 hours/week, billing $400/day or more and complaining about politics.
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    September retail sales came in much stronger than expected. 0.7% vs 0.3%. Decent chance that Q3 GDP will come in above 4%. Current market consensus is 3.8%. Fed's GDPNow tracker is currently at 5.1%, but will update later today.
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    49 outside when I woke up this morning. That's the lowest temp that Houston has seen since mid March. Was 67 inside the house. Looks like today will be pretty much perfect. Tomorrow and Thursday 10 degrees warmer, but still nice. Even Friday, when it's supposed to hit low 90's again, looks to be pretty low humidity and will cool down to 60's after sunset. Rest of weekend is pretty unremarkable. High 80's and overcast. Stays warm with decent rain chances next week. All in all, pretty typical October weather for SETX. A handful of days that remind you of late summer, a handful of perfect Autumn days, and the rest are just average "warmer than you'd prefer but at least it's not in the mid-90's anymore..."
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    17 patrol officers and jail staffers charged in wide-ranging investigation. Numerous others still under investigation. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/10/12/multiple-broward-sheriffs-employees-facing-indictments-over-pandemic-relief-fund-misuse/
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    3 runs gonna have to do it, it would seem. Need Abreu and Pres to ball out for 6 more outs.
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    Chandler says Urquidy is at 70 through 5. Only stretched out to 80. May try to squeeze one more inning out of him. Let's score 3+ here and give him the rest of the evening off.
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    They keeping the PXD office complex in Las Colinas? In other words, are PXD employees that accept a position with XOM staying put or moving to Spring?
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    XOM acquisition of PXD made official this morning. $59.5B for 850K acres. XOM now has a combined acreage position of more than 1.4M acres between the Midland and Delaware, and daily production of roughly 1.3MBOED.
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    Twins should keep letting Ober pitch in this series.
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    Leadoff double that gets moved over to 3rd with 1 out. Gotta put a ball in play.
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    Weather all over the map this week in Houston. Dreary days in the 70's today and tomorrow. Good chance at some rain late tonight/tomorrow morning. Sun comes out for a warm, muggy day in the mid-80's on Thursday. Summer pops its head out again for maybe 12 hours on Friday, getting up to low 90's before another front rolls in overnight. Seemingly perfect Fall days on tap from Saturday thru next Wednesday. Sunny, around 78/58 and low humidity.
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    Good news, bad news: GN: After a historic drought, we got a shitload of rain the last 3 days, and it's about to start cooling down and drying out in Houston. BN: Hasn't happened yet. Still mid 70's and muggy. The only fringe benefit of not getting any rain for 90 days was the complete lack of mosquitos. Apparently several trillion were laid during this past rainy stretch and every last one hatched within the past 30 minutes in my backyard.

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