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One of the first things I realized once I started semi-isolation, was that I was using a LOT more paper towels than usual. Once I started to get into the routine of disinfecting stuff, for me that is a paper towel and some alcohol, and I will be doing this a lot, probably for months and months. Plus being home and eating at home all the time I use more. It is the most sanitary way to dry your hands after washing too. I looked at my towel stash, and it was obviously inadequate. So off to HEB I went!

Actually, this might be pretty important. Especially the keypad/touch pad you use to approve the transaction. Everybody else who has been through the line has touched that thing in the exact same place you do. And the virus lives relatively long on plastic surfaces. It is probably wise to consider ANY touch screen or keypad as covered in SARS-2/COVID virus for the time being. Anything you can avoid touching, ESPECIALLY something that lots of other people touch, is a very good thing. I have some e-touch gloves (not sure if that is the right name) which let you use touch screens while wearing them, I put these on when I went to the ATM (which I also assumed to be covered in this virus).

That is my current HEB. I hope that tweet is not from Monday or before because I was there Tue morning. The rest of your comment is correct.

https://www.biospace.com/article/moderna-s-covid-19-vaccine-clinical-trial-starts-today/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/16/first-stage-of-covid-19-vaccine-testing-gets-under-way/ Some links. Sounds like it is farther along that I just suggested above. But still 12-18 months from being ready for widespread use.

I think it may be a proto-vaccine that still does not have anything related to COVID-19 yet. The trial is to try and find any bad side effects of the rest of the cocktail. I do not have a link handy, but I read something like that this morning.

I (was) with you on avoiding Tylenol completely, but I am going to skip the NSAIDs for now. The theory that I heard: Part of your bodies response to this virus is inflamation. By using the NSAIDs, you interfere with this process, and it somehow ends up worse. Whatever the reason, it seems that use of NSAIDs is correlated with the real bad reactions to this. This is surely not well tested at this point, or sure that there is any issue, but I figure it is good enough to give up on the NSAIDs for the moment. I am not in health care, so I am very interested in thoughts from any who are about this issue. So if I get an ache, my main plain is to just suck it up. I will go buy some Tylenol in case I get a fever that I need to try and manage, but hopefully I'll get to leave that bottle unopened.

Yeah, I am on the computer (Firefox), and I usually have NoScript throttling some things, so it might not act the same for me as others. I find it kind of a confusing UI. I think if you go to their profile page, which is where I would expect there to be some 'Ignore this user' option, there is no such thing.

For me, I hover over the users avatar picture, and in a few seconds, a popup comes up, that has an 'Ignore User' at the bottom in the middle. Click on that, and you can select what to ignore. I just ignore posts, thankfully I do not get PMs from anybody that I have on ignore.

If that is too gaudy looking, I am willing to help out and take it off your hands...

I want to get one of the 8R coins sometime. I would like to have a collection for the Six Flags, with one item from each nation that controlled Texas. For Spain, an 8R, Mexico City mint, dated 1800-1810, would fit the bill. I just have not got around to finding the right one yet.

That one is real, BottleRocket. Here are a couple of my Texas notes: The first is from the Republic of Texas era. It is not that obvious from the image, but the note has been sliced almost to ribbons. That is the cancellation from when this was finally paid off in $5 in real money. The Republic did everything that they could to default on their currency, but when it came time to be admitted to the USA, the obligations had to be met, as they were then sort-of US obligations, and the USA did actually pay their bills, and so a bail-out was arranged, and the note holders were eventually paid in full. (Most of the original holders had given up and sold their notes to speculators for pennies on the dollar, and it was the speculators who got paid in full, that is how things go.) This one is from the pre-Republic days, from the 1830s I think, for a private bank that hoped to open, under a Mexican charter. (Notice that this is denominated as 1 dollar and 1 peso.) This bank never actually opened (notice there are no signatures), but some of the blank printed notes did survive.

Congrats, H.E.! I missed this thread until today. I have read Texas Highways for decades, so when I just noticed this I picked up one issue that I had handy and found the awesome snowman on the back page. That is an honor to get to be part of that regularly.

I like the big hunks of silver. Nice and hefty. Mopar: Sorry, but that note is not real, it is a reproduction. The brown 'parchment' paper is a giveaway, there are lots of reproductions of different notes on that kind of paper. The signatures ought to be pen signed as well, and yours are printed. There is a real note that looks like that though.

It looks like an old-school stealth aircraft. Do they claim that it is hard to pick up on police radar?

I see it as a chance to get another win at College Station, which would be entirely delicious. Even though they should be the better team, maybe we can get it together.

Well, the main Japanese fleet DID show up, and got to engage Taffy 3 cuz Halsey had run off on a wild goose chase. So there is that...

I enjoyed the Selous reserve. The Selous river runs through there, and you get to take a boat along the river, and get a different view of the wildlife. I especially wanted to see crocodiles, and I was not there at the right time for the Serengeti, and the Selous did not disappoint. Also lots of hippos, giraffes, very colorful bee eater birds there. I flew in on a 12-seat or so plane to a tiny dirt airstrip, and was then picked up in a small boat for the ride to the lodge. I thought it was a really cool way to arrive.

I was amused by the down and distance displays on the scoreboard. They had those messed up every way possible. Wrong down, wrong distance, wrong field position. They showed 2nd and 64 to go from the 40 once. I was less amused when they had different timeout counts on different scoreboards at the end of the game. Could some idiot have thought we still had a timeout left from some bad scoreboard display???

Yep. And I remember 538 making the very clear point, that even though Hillary seemed to have the edge, it was close enough to go either way. The election day results were a bitter disappointment but not a shock.

Comment from the twitter feed from a supposed witness to this: From what I saw the driver entered the intersection a little late and the ped was crossing prematurely. I heard the ped yell something, driver later claimed the ped hit his car. The driver aggressively reversed and pulled over to confront the ped, which is why his car is on the sidewalk like that. Got out and maybe jumped in the air and kicked the ped. They went to the ground, by the time I pulled over and got off my motorcycle the fight was over and the ped picked up the scooter and threw it through the window and ran off I think I am putting most of the blame for this on the got-damned scooters...

My experience is that Android Auto is a complete pile of garbage, to the extent that I needed to uninstall it from my phone. The main thing that I wanted, was to be able to use Google Maps and show the map on my car console. Sometimes this worked ok, and this was really nice. But other times, there was some kind of glitch that caused Google Maps to crash and reset over and over and over to the point that it was worse than completely useless. I never understood why it worked ok sometimes and not other times. So I quit using Android Auto, and then I had to uninstall it to get Google Maps back to giving me voice directions. Besides that, I did not like how it handled incoming calls and texts, I thought it was hazardous. When I get a phone call in the car, I normally want to ignore it completely, other than to notice that I may want to check who called. I can do that fine with the phone in my pocket. AA made the incoming call a lot more intrusive and hard to ignore. AA also made it impossible to read incoming texts. I definitely do not want to send any texts while driving, but I can sometimes spare a couple of seconds to read one. AA made it impossible to read the texts. I think I tried for a while using the car console touchscreen to find the text messages, but AA is so slow and balky that this was slow and distracting. I definitely thought it was much safer to drive without Android Auto than with it.

Yeah, any optimism is 100.00000000000000000% misplaced. I see that CNN mentions that Mitch has a new Facebook ad where he is fundraising from the position that he can stop the impeachment. Absolutely nothing, meaning **NOTHING** will happen in the Senate. Trump will get away with ALL of this absolutely completely. Sorry.

A more meaningful map of the 2016 election...

Yes, no matter what the investigation comes up with, the Senate will do nothing and there will be no impeachment trial. The end.

Except they have a current winning streak at DKR, which we need to correct. (We beat them the last time we played, of course, but that was in CS. They won the last game at DKR.)