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Larry T. Spider

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  1. What does this mean? I have zero industry knowledge.
  2. I don’t think they can but I’m pretty sure that some of their stuff makes in down here through friends. Tons of my friends have a stash of edibles from Colorado and California. With Dallas being so close to the border it will be everywhere there, if it isn’t already. They get all the revenue, jobs, and tax money.
  3. As long as it’s not herberts, we’re all good.
  4. These tests are the nostril variety that doesn’t need to scrape your brain. Very easy if you feel like you need one.
  5. It’s going to be fun to watch all the budget cuts in the legislative session while the Oklahoma government has made 105 million off legalization of weed. Much of it with texan dollars. We have 8X the population so we would probably pull in close to a billion off of it. Louisiana and Oklahoma casinos parking lots are full of Texas license plates too.
  6. I’m mostly afraid of what we have built as far as a safe work environment with 0 positive cases quickly devolving into a shit show with multiple staff members out, nobody to teach/watch the kids in person, and other staff members afraid to come to work. One week of virtual seems worth it to see how the numbers play out so we can get back to it knowing we are (somewhat) safe.
  7. It always cracks me up when people talk about keeping schools open because “kids don’t get it”. That’s nice and all but we also have teachers, administrators, teachers assistants, cafeteria workers, office staff, custodians, and maintenance workers that can get it. A few of them getting covid interrupts how the school operates and discourages the remaining employees for coming to work because it’s perceived as unsafe. In general, I have felt safe at work this year with the measures in place. I would not feel safe the week after the break with the number of people traveling. Wait for the numbers to settle and I’ll gladly go back.
  8. I was talking to a doctor in a meeting a couple of weeks ago and he considers our current state of health a national security issue. He was talking about obesity in addition to other things such as lack of exercise. He contends that there will be other pandemics that come along in our lifetimes as the world is becoming more interconnected. The US is at greater risk to economic shutdowns for prolonged periods than other countries due to our lack of overall health. He did give us credit for taking on smoking though.
  9. Thanksgiving is about to wipe the olds out, unfortunately. I can’t explain the psychology behind it but most of the older people I talk to in Travis/Wilco don’t think they will get it from their friends and family. They might be inviting a couple of less random friends of the family, but it’s still going to be bad. We are quarantining for a week (all I can do with work) and going to visit the in-laws just to stop them from having half of Houston over. Literally playing gatekeeper because my FIL would 100% die from this. They aren’t anti-maskers or anything but just can’t help themselves if a friend wants to come over. I will be really interested in the hospital numbers and death totals around December 4th and beyond. Hopefully I’m wrong about all of this.
  10. If/when we go all virtual, TEA is going to make us make up half of the instructional minutes, even though those are all days we are working. We are looking at just doing one week to avoid adding too many more days. We can play games and add a few minutes to each day to make up for most of it. I wish tea would understand that we are trying to operate in a pandemic with a shit load of our kids traveling over the next week. We need an additional week to figure out who is dragging covid back home with them to keep everybody safe. Stop acting like we are trying to skirt our responsibilities.
  11. We have tons of cases in the community surrounding my school but 0 at school. Some students have tested positive but they were all doing virtual anyway. The biggest risk factors seem to be sports practice, dance groups, and kids that wear a mask/distance all day at school only to go play in a pile of 30 kids after school.
  12. Beer brewing barron barrels buddy and is behind bars?
  13. Hearing through the grapevine at work that Travis county is going to announce stage 4 tomorrow. We think we can still keep our school open to the 25% of students that most need to be there. We are sending students home over the break with all of their belongings because making hundreds of deliveries sucks.
  14. Only ones I’ve got so far is trebek and John Lewis while guys like rush are still around. What a kick in the dick.
  15. At least they’re consistent?
  16. And then a higher court will reverse it. Even in the shitshow that is 2020, they are not going to toss 140,000 legally cast votes out.
  17. They aren’t going to throw the votes out. But if they do, shit is going to burn, and I’m ok with that. I would be disappointed if people didn’t riot.
  18. All of these personal stories typically don’t mean much but I could really see something being in play here. I don’t know a single person voting for trump that didn’t in 2016. I know quite a few that voted for Biden that didn’t last time. One hadn’t voted in 20 years.
  19. Same
  20. Based on what I’m seeing here in Wilco, I’m going to predict a Biden victory for the county. I will also predict that he beats Betos margin of victory of 2.8%. This area took a hard left turn after 2016 and isn’t going to look back. Lots of Austin type voters up here now that are college educated and can afford a 450k house but not a 900k one in Austin.
  21. Obviously a decline was expected. Is this concerning or about the rate you expected?
  22. Don’t underestimate the last minute comey surprise in 2016. You won’t see something like that this year, and even if you did, all the Dems will have already voted early or by mail.
  23. Would 400k from today through Saturday be a reasonable goal for Harris?
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