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This postseason has become more sentimental for me and my wife's family. My father in law is the biggest Astros fan I know. He watches every game without fail, even DVRing them if he can't watch live and catching up the next day. And I'd better not tell him the score and ruin it. He's been a fan since the Ryan Express days, and still wears his 1986 NLCS shirt and talks about how his cousin Bill Worrell would get him into the Astrodome for free. He also had Muscular Dystrophy, and over the last few years his slow decline had resulted in him being wheelchair bound. In late September, he and my MIL were out in New Mexico at their family land when he had a stroke and had to be air lifted to Albuquerque. It was deemed minor, and we believed we were on the path to rehab and recovery, but complications due to his swallowing muscles not working caused him to be unable to eat and resulted in pneumonia. We ended up having to make the incredibly difficult decision to put him on palliative care, as he had no way to get nutrients and he would never regain the function of his epiglottis to prevent food and liquids from getting into his lungs. He passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 9th. One of the last things we were able to do with him in the hospital was watch baseball. His speech was all gibberish due to the stroke, but he was trying to tell us a story about one of the Astros players, but even though I named them all he kept shaking his head. Since he passed, watching the Astros has taken on more meaning for us, almost like a memorial to him. As all the funeral arrangements were made, and various family came into town, we always made sure to have the games on, as this postseason has taken on new meaning. Let's go Astros, win it for Randy!

Houston area Academy?

is that his kid? what, did he become a dad at 15?

One thing I've considered, when you have this 'death by 1000 cuts' defense it really forces your offense to be hyper-efficient. In the Tech and ISU games, they're going on these 15 play drives, chewing up 5+ minutes of game clock. It makes it where if your O doesn't respond in kind, you're looking at an entire quarter gone and you've touched the ball once. Not to mention it demoralizes your D and the O gets cold/out of sync. Sometimes I wish they'd just be more aggressive and be feast or famine, but I'm sure I'll have holes poked in this theory.

My mortgage is with Loan Depot. Safe to assume that if they declare bankruptcy the loan is discharged? Should I stop making payments now?

Yes, to expand on this thought, this is something I have been noticing as someone involved with UT students in a regular way. The kids that are serious are serious in a way that my cohort (late aughts-early tens) were not. I think the competitiveness of high schools and college admissions, combined with the economic situation they will be thrust into has caused them to really think about their future and plan out how they are going to be successful. No more just going with the flow and figuring it out as you go. Of course this has created an environment where only the strong survive. If you don't have everything figured out by the time you are 21 you are behind the 8 ball and might never get yourself to a point where you can own a home or have financial independence. No more finding yourself in your 20s and still getting a decent paying career and buying a home in your 30s. I think my generation was the last to be able to do that.

my condolences

Similar story for our place in Driftwood. 5-10 miles north is all 4"+ while the ranch is at around 1.5". Tanks are all bone dry.

yeah that looks like an injury waiting to happen

hydromet.lcra.org is down...what does this mean?

just reading the glassdoor reviews of his company is enough to know he isn't as virtuous as he portrays himself. He seems to be positioning himself for politics...these allegations should help in that regard.

Fwiw, I don’t think he was saying texass, his tweet says TEXASSSS. I think he was just drawing out the last syllable for effect.

raining in Buda again

2 and a quarter here in Buda

you'll need to show your math on this one. Its more like 500 a month, or more.

It’s not

it seems like it is going around at a much higher rate than ever before. So many people, myself included, have had it in the last few weeks. One of my direct reports just got it yesterday.

I got it for the first time (I think). Started feeling bad on Friday, then had a buddy who I saw on Tuesday say he tested positive. I immediately took a home test and came back negative, took another the next day and still negative. Meanwhile we are moving into a new house during all this, couldn’t come at a more inconvenient time. Nothing like moving mattresses in the triple digits while feeling like crap. Finally tested positive today. Overall it has just felt like a severe and long lasting cold, like others have said.

I was the one in the small neighborhood he advised to buy. It messed up the loan we initially tried to get in on, but we will most likely circle back to that at a later date when our appraisal catches up to reality. Just wanted to publically thank Gabe (Wulaw) and his team for his guidance through this crazy process. His insight and ingenuity really helped us make a difficult situation that we feel good About now. We’ve just moved in and are happy we made this decision. Side note: moving while it’s 102 out and you have Covid is not so fun.

What kind of business are you running? I’ve had the opposite experience managing remote teams in tech. Granted I’m just a middle manager, but the people that sucked in office sucked at home and the people who did well in office did well at home. And I can crack the whip virtually just as easily at home as I can in office.

Anybody looking for last minute tickets to the game tonight? I came down Covid so can’t go. Asking for 25 each on 1st base line. Shoot me a DM if interested.

I have two tickets for tomorrow available, section R3

that had to be premeditated-that he kills his grandma and goes over to the school. No way that would just pop into his head in the moment, right?

that lady should've just respected the dog before it ate her face off. The dog knew she lacked moral fiber!

yeah, I mean ideally I wouldn't have sold but we aren't in any position to pull off buying without the cash from the sale. But your point is well taken.