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  1. 6 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

    I’ve posted about Shelby a lot over the past year. We said goodbye to her a month ago but we did get her a DNA test before she was gone. We rescued her as a puppy so never knew her true background, but we considered her a chocolate lab that likely had a little bit of something else. She was a little small for a lab with a slender face and a very soft coat.

    Anyways, we got the DNA results back and I thought it was pretty interesting and glad we did it for our own knowledge.

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    There’s also a page for nearest relatives that shows their pictures and locations (if those users provided them). And you can get health information for an extra cost, which we skipped since she was already gone.

    The company is Embark and it’s a mouth swab that you mail in. I paid $130 which includes shipping but I have a referral code that will save $30. If anyone is interested, send me a PM. Might make a good Christmas gift for a dog lover.

    It's really interesting for sure. We did this with Rocket and were shocked that the test showed he doesn't have lab in him, at least in any significant amount. I shared them back in the day and someone here goes "So that's what labs are made of. " This is Rocket and below are his results.

     

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  2. I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it. I think Jordan Peele does interesting work and has interesting ideas, but in execution they don't always play out as smoothly as I'd like. Perhaps some of my hesitation is because I thought the premise of the show was going to be the main characters road tripping around the US and running into weirdness as they search for Tic's dad, but that storyline was done in the second episode. I'm not sure how the supernatural stuff is going to play out if everything happens in Chicago - for example, WTF is going to happen with this Ruby/Hillary story now? Will Ruby never see the boss around town or in the store she loves?

    I do think the Christina/William thing is one of the more interesting plotlines and I want to see how it plays out. Are they trying to make us feel some sympathy for Christina and get Ruby to empathize with her? Although Christina obviously has the upper hand, being a white girl who's also a sorceress, she has probably faced discrimination associated with just being a woman in the 50s. Being able to walk around as a white guy probably gets her into places she couldn't go before and gets her information she couldn't get as a woman. Plus, is she queer? Is one of the reasons she likes being William so she can be with women openly? 

    Anyway, I'll finish out the season. I'm hoping they can smooth some of the rough edges. The show could be great if it's done right.

  3. It's a bizarre, trippy new Charlie Kaufman movie on Netflix starring Jessie Buckley (Lyudmilla in Chernobyl) and Jesse Plemons. Do yourself a favor and try not to read anything about it before seeing it, but if you're a Kaufman fan you should enjoy it. I'll put some spoilery stuff in spoiler tags.

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    The ending didn't quite land for me - I had to poke around the internet after to confirm what I thought had happened. The movie is based on a book that apparently makes the connection between the janitor and the other characters very clear at the end. I want to do a rewatch now to see everything again through the lens of knowing the whole story.

     

  4. 54 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    anyone with golden triangle / swamp people thinking of heading west...

    10, 90 and 105 are all trending to screwed.  96 north to jasper is the bomb, then re-assess.

    lufkin and nac would be my first targets for hotels.

     

    40 minutes ago, twosheds said:

    keep trying.  Tyler or Longview will be full in short order.  why people would go north is beyond me.  we don't have the infrastructure necessary to support sudden influxes of people in east Texas.  

    I would not be heading north at this point, especially not to Lufkin, which is still pretty close to Beaumont. This bitch is going to hit land and head northeast, going in around the same place Rita did, and if Laura also comes in strong a bunch of people up the TX/LA border are going to lose power and get stuck there. All those felled pine trees are going to block the roads and it'll be a mess. I'm sure traffic is awful but heading west and inland is the best bet at this point.

  5. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Good question.  Wait.

    Remember Rita?  I remember folks that evacuated Beaumont and drove north....took them 20 hours to get to Tyler.  I was trying desperately to reach them via phone and text to tall them to turn west and head to Houston, the track had turned and Houston would be a good place to shelter.

    Of course, they were olds, who had their cell phones turned off because 1) "we only use them in case of emergency" and 2) evacuating from a Cat 5 storm with a 90 yr old woman doesn't qualify as an "emergency."

    You can dodge a storm sideways just as effectively as running north.   Shit, evacuate down 59 to Corpus, it would be easier than a drive north with all the other lemmings.

    Rita was a clusterfuck of nightmare proportions. Everyone was on edge already because of Katrina and then they told a million people to evacuate at the same time. And, if I remember correctly, in a lot of places they hadn't marked the contraflow lanes so people didn't know they were an option. Took my parents 21 hours to get from Groves to Austin - it was them, my grandma, a pug, and a cat in a carrier in a Toyota Avalon. Ever since they've tended to get out early even when there's still uncertainty about the track, and they're retired so they have more flexibility than in the past.They usually leave their RV in Crystal Beach all summer but they brought it up here yesterday - there's a decent KOA in Leander, and they didn't want to get caught in all the traffic when the evac orders hit. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    TL; DR.  I and girlfriend probably should have died.

     

    17 years old.  Driving my truck with girl friend. We had just left a convenience store, bought slurpees.  Two lane highway, with shoulders, flat ground.  Around noon, August, no rain.   Truck has no seatbelts.

    I'm following a semi towing a grain trailer.  I pull out to pass.  As I get to the front of the semi, there's a pickup in front of the semi, maybe 25-30 yards ahead.  Driving pretty slow.  I'm doing 60 or so, and figure I'll just pass this truck as well.

    We come up on an intersection, not marked.  Dashed line in middle of highway, still a passing zone.  No oncoming traffic.

    Just as I'm about to pass the pickup, he turns left for the intersection.  No turn lights (or brake lights that I recall).  I swerve onto the shoulder, but his left front contacts my passenger door of my truck. Truck goes sideways....towards a ravine, maybe 6-8 feet deep.

    I don't know how many times my truck rolled.  All I do remember after the contact and truck turning sideways was ground coming up towards the windshield.

    Truck comes to a stop upright and I'm blacked out.  I start to come to, and all I can feel is the seat is wet.  My initial thoughts were blood.  The cab of the truck is pushed down close to my head, and I look to the right, and the cab is torn off.  The girl with me (Holly) I can't find.  I immediately panic.

    I feel something on my feet...it's Holly.  Somehow, she was thrown into the floor of the truck, her torso on the transmission tunnel, and her head over the brake pedal.  She's moving around.

    Maybe 20-30 seconds pass, and she's asking if we are ok.  I smell gas.  Driver's door will not open, but the back glass is gone.  Holly is struggling to get out of floor, and she's bleeding from her head.  I climb out of seat, then crawl through where the back glass was.  I get into the bed of the truck, and it starts to hit me exactly how bad the crash was.  

    Gas smell strong, and I'm scared truck is going to blow up or something.  I tell Holly she needs to get out, and she struggles to get up into seat.  I help her out.

    Cars are stopping by now to check on us.  We are just shocked.

    Time passes.  Highway Patrol comes by, the other truck in the accident is there (he could drive his truck, that's how little the damage was to him).  It didn't seem like much time, but it probably was around an hour or more, taking the reports, getting a wrecker, that sort of thing.  Ambulance has shown up as well, and are looking at the two of us.  Other than the scrapes we both had (I'm wearing shorts, and the tops of my thighs have burns on them from the steering wheel) we both are fine.  Holly had a concussion; I probably did as well.

    Wrecker driver shows up.  I know him and he asks if he should take the truck to my dad's business.  I tell him sure, and we go off in the ambulance to the hospital.

    My parent's or Holly's still have not been contacted by this point; the first my dad knew of the truck was seeing it towed in front of his shop.  He ran out, and the wrecker driver assured him we were both fine and probably at the hospital by now.

    Oh, and the wet seat that caused me to think there was blood?  Slurpees, poured out everywhere.  

    I got the ticket.  Passing at an intersection.  That was marked as a passing zone.

     

    Damn, that could've ended really badly. 

    Had a similar incident with the spilled drinks - my car got clipped turning left at an intersection, and we spun around a couple of times before landing in the median. My brother and his friend were with me and the friend blacked out for a few seconds. He'd been drinking a root beer and between that and him being unconscious we thought he was dead. (We all walked away with minor injuries.)

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