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  1. 2 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Guessing his dad used anger and negativity to try and motivate him. Which is why he does the opposite, but he had to act like his dad to get Jamie motivated and it messed with him. 

    I thought about that, but the only time I remember him saying much about his dad was when he was playing darts with Rupert and he talked about how they used to play every week until he passed away. I didn't get the sense that he was a dick to him. 

  2. 7 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    H, no h, whatever it takes.

    This thing is scary, doing the Katrina thing, same path, same possibility of ramping up.

    Oh, and here's one more thing... Ida's forecast to hit the Gulf coast in two days... August 29.

    Katrina:  Hit NOLA August 29, 2005.

    And she was a 3 at landfall, too, which is what the last model I saw predicted Ida would be. I'm getting flashbacks to that NWS Katrina warning bulletin. It still gives me goosebumps when I read it.

  3. 12 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Big change coming. If there is a positive case in a class, nobody has to quarantine if the positive person and the people that were around them were both wearing masks the whole time. Lunch could still be an issue but it will end the whole class quarantines. 

    If you are a close contact due to lunch or some other reason you can get a test 5 or more days after exposure then come back on day 7. This second part is in place now. 

    When is this happening? My 4th grader's whole class was sent home yesterday to quarantine because one of the kids tested positive. They've all been masked so I'm not super worried about it but we're getting him tested soon so he can get back to in-person school. He's upset that he just got back to "normal school" with his friends and it only lasted a week before having to come back home.

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  4. On 8/15/2021 at 4:34 PM, Js1 said:

    Hi 911, the tv show I watch isn’t realistic nor does it air episodes in the order I want or resolving plot lines to my liking.  

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    I don't know about y'all but I'm over reality at the moment. Give me Ted Lasso escapism any day.

    On 8/15/2021 at 8:29 PM, Stringer said:

    I could be wrong, but I think there is about a 2% chance Ted and Rebecca get together. This creative team seems too smart for that and it would ruin the show. I see them more in the Fey/Baldwin 30 Rock dynamic. That doesn’t mean that the dating app wouldn’t put them together for some lolz, but they wouldn’t follow through with it.

    This is what I thought, but after yesterday's episode, I'm not so sure. Maybe the Bantr thing will be a fake-out? 

     

    On 8/14/2021 at 9:11 PM, tx ind said:

     

    Not enough love for this song. It's so great.

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  5. 9 hours ago, hullabelew said:

    @austingirl  background on the guitar and the radio below it.  

    That's my guitar, Lucinda. The first song I learned to play was Blue by Lucinda Williams, and I thought the name fit. She's nothing fancy, just a mid-range Yamaha, but she sounds good when I'm tooling around at home. 

    The radio is a Sears & Roebuck Silvertone 53 with a phonograph in the chassis, circa 1950. It was my grandpa's, and when he died a few years ago I found a place for it in the living room. The tuner will probably never work again, but my dad thinks we may be able to get the phonograph working again. Even if not, oh well. It reminds me of Pawpaw.

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  6. 5 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    My buddy in Nederland posted this morning they had already gotten 9" and it was still raining. 

    My mom said traffic was backed up at 365 and Hillebrandt Bayou because they were moving cattle to higher ground. 😬 Gettin' real down there.

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  7. 1 hour ago, texasdago said:

    Just tweaked a downspout to have the rain flow a bit better from the front of the house.  Tweaking complete 5 minute before the good times rolled in.  Meanwhile between Beaumont and Winnie, someone got a good 13" of rain this morning (!)

    In Fannett? I saw that - I've been watching KFDM's Facebook posts and it's nuts in SETX right now. A Lumberton ISD bus got stuck in floodwaters this morning (everyone is fine), and it looks like water is over the road in mid-county.

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  8. It's on Peacock now - showed up maybe 3 months ago? Anyway, Modern Family and Arrested Development had the best pilot episodes of any recent comedy that I can think of. MF started going downhill around the time Gloria had Joe, but there was so much greatness before that. Phil's birthday episode in the first season (Game Changer) still cracks me up, especially when he starts acting crazy at the end. When we find out Cam played football in college (Coal Digger). Etc.

  9. 1 hour ago, CleverNickname said:

    2nd Moderna jab. About 45 minutes later,, I was driving home and suddenly felt this overwhelming and irrestible urge to hear Matthew Sweet's power-pop ballad classic Girlfriend. Was it available for free on Amazon prime? Yes it was. Whereupon I rocked like it was 1991. I'm going to enter it into the FDA self report side effect database.

    And I thought my side effect was bad.

  10. Got Moderna 2 Thursday. Fever showed up about 18 hours later and lasted about 12 hours. It's gone now but my arm at the shot site is red, hard, and swollen (yeah, yeah, TWSS). It was much more severe than after the first one. With the first shot, I felt a little shitty for 24 hours but didn't get a fever. I did get a delayed reaction at the shot site about 2 weeks after the first shot, which healed and was fine till the second one. Between HornOnTheBayou and I, the difference in reactions seemed to be indicated by the reaction at the shot site after the first dose. He had fairly mild symptoms and no severe reaction at the site either time.

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  11. 44 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    I am taking my dog to the vet tomorrow. Her stomach has been making gassy noises the past few days. She has eaten the same dog food for years. But the last two days been throwing up her dog food. Apart from taking her to the vet tomorrow morning any thoughts? I know she is an older dog but she still runs around and her personality isn’t different. Just the stomach noises and the throwing up. 

    Is she still interested in food? This happened to Rocket over the summer and it ended up being because he'd gotten a corncob from god knows where and basically swallowed it whole. Rocket is an expensive dog.

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  12. I wanted to love this soooo much. The Stand is one of my favorite books ever, and my favorite SK book for sure. The 1994 miniseries was meh, and when I saw that they were rebooting it I couldn't wait. It has a great cast, and the miniseries format is really the only way you could properly adapt the book for the screen, IMO. 

    So as to not completely shit on it, I'll say that I liked the casting for the most part. Frannie was a bit weird for me, and I can't really articulate why, but the actress was good. The kid who played Harold was fantastic - definitely got a "We Need to Talk About Kevin" vibe from him. I really liked the rebooted Ralph character, Ray. Greg Kinnear was great, as always. It was also fun to see Krycek from The X-Files. I don't think I've seen Nicolas Lea do anything since that show. Kojak the dog was awesome.

    But.

    Flagg was a complete cartoon character. I mean, The Stand is not subtle in its metaphors, so I wasn't expecting a light touch, but they made a character who is obviously the devil completely flat. I guess in the book there are a lot more Flagg POVs so you get into his head a bit. Skarsgard was fine, but I didn't like the material he was given to work with.

    Nadine was ok, but I think her latching on to Harold probably came across as really out of the blue if you didn't know it was coming. Honestly, I liked Amber Heard better in the 10 minutes she was in Zombieland.

    The pacing seemed really off. There's a lot to cover, so I get it, but the further we got into the show the more it felt like they were moving too quickly. I think it's just more proof that you can't properly do this show in 8 or 9 episodes.

    Considering how little they developed Trashcan Man, I'd rather they had left him out altogether and had someone else bring the warhead. And the rewriting that has him being explicitly told to bring it to an airport hanger near New Vegas, and him fucking up and bringing it to the middle of town instead, did not work for me. It doesn't make sense that Flagg, supposedly omniscient, had no idea that TM didn't do what he ordered and was delivering death to the settlement. And it's not that his plans weren't ever upended, but usually when that happened it was because a character made a quick decision to defy him in the moment.

    Finally, they should've modified a lot of the colloquialisms from the book. They just don't make sense now. Julie calling Tom a "feeb", Tom says "my laws", etc.

    Still better than the 1994 version, though.

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