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That is interesting. And now I'm ashamed for being Islamophobic.

A few nights ago, the doctors told my mother-in-law that she had a stroke. These two residents looked at her and with 100% certainty said yes you’ve had a stroke. The next morning, the neurologist took a look at her MRI, and said no you didn’t have a stroke, you have four masses (cysts) on your brain. I should have known that something was up when the overnight charge nurse gave a side-eyed glance at the two fledgling doctors (residents) and said I haven’t seen those two here before. So, we are off to Memorial Hermann and their fine neurosurgeons. This morning, another doctor told her that the cause of her cysts is pork in her diet. That, in order to prevent future problems, she should stop eating pork. And that doctor’s last name is Mohammed. Begs the question - cancer? Pork. COPD? Pork. Hangnail? Pork.

Look closer. It says Texas. They just jumped the gun. And they did get the memo, it’s been removed.

Harumph.

Thanks for that. The fact that this wasn’t a political issue makes me thinks the agency asked for the legislation, because it removes a lot of the decision making and puts it on the courts. What do you think?

Accord is the best car I’ve ever had. If Honda made a full size truck I’d buy it.

Call Fondren Orthopedic.

I’d ask him how much for 50 lbs of fresh dead shrimp.

I agree with your first point. Unsure about the anonymous reporting, I’ll try to find out more. I think it is to cut down on CPS being the go-to number to call during custody disputes. The calls rack up when it’s time for parents to legally hand over their kids and they don’t want to do they try to use the state as interference. I tell my wife this legislation is a good thing, the first time they get blamed for a child death they can wave this paper around and say “not on us, parent was non-compliant, talk to the judge or your legislator.” My guess is that public defender’s budgets will get emptied and the courts clogged up, but CPS will be less involved in “social work” stuff. It absolves the agency, IMO. To your point about parents being railroaded - it’s interesting because I don’t get to see that side, but I do not doubt it happens. I only get the amateur bystander’s look at the worst of the worst cases. I do believe that this will increase the number of child deaths, though.

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I really miss these days. https://x.com/rexchapman/status/1083904651945275393?s=46

I’m gonna need to borrow $300k after the first of the year. Waiting for a guy to retire and move to Austin so I can get into my Dad’s house.

My daughter has been out of school and in her current role for 15 months and her current firm was fucking her over, froze all raises, layoffs, etc. plummeting morale. She gets an unsolicited connect from an internal recruiter from a massive prestigious multinational (hq is Paris), 5 rounds of interviews, and a job offer at 2x previous salary within about 10 days. Resigned yesterday, starts her new gig in 2 weeks so she has some free time to go hang out at Wrigley which is her new evening go-to. I gave her the typical dad advice; make sure you have all contact info (colleagues, network, vendors) that you will use in next job, expect to be cut loose immediately, small world, don’t do a victory lap, burn any bridges, etc. I told her to give 2 weeks but she gave 4 days; apparently notice is no longer considered a polite requirement. To be fair, her company was exactly as described by former employees on Glassdoor. Having had experience with 2 employers where I wanted to prance around the office and yell “take that bitches” after landing a prime new gig, I mentioned to be cool and humble and don’t rub it in, that a lot of coworkers will be hitting her up for a referral into a new role, and of course it was a matter of hours until the texts “take me with you” started rolling in. All this to say that sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. I’ve been both, and probably will be again. The only thing I can control is my attitude. Can confirm IBM is onboard, big announcement with NASA last week.

Recommend me a desktop pc?

The legislature did some interesting things with CPS that start September 1. https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=HB730 Essentially, they cut the legs out from under CPS enforcement. It was Republican sponsored but was passed 143-0 with the speaker not voting. As I’ve reported before, his wife does a lot of ad litem work. It’s definitely pro-family, but not pro-child. Here is a preview of the forms that will be given to all adults involved with a CPS case. Also, anonymous reports to CPS are no longer accepted. If a reporter wishes to remain anonymous they can call it in to LEO who will protect them. I’m curious to see the results. For the first time, evidence in CPS cases will be acknowledged admissible in criminal cases. And all parents will have access to court appointed legal representation. But CPS won’t have their current latitude to do removals. But it’s almost as though workers will be reading Miranda rights from now on.

Tillman gonna monetize. And in this case, that is the highest and best use for the ship IMO.

That’s not limited wisdom at all. That’s gospel truth. Travel, if you must, but find a specialist who only handles the broken part. For me, it’s Fondren in Houston. No way in hell I’d let my shoulder guy even think about infringing on my knee guy.

If you didn’t feel that way something would be wrong.

Unicorn country right there

I’m sure it got autocorrected, probably a makeup container or something.

Were you raised by wolves? Not even for a romantic getaway hotel sex bathtub blowjob? #selfcare

She’s the invest supervisor. Maxing out the 3 year wage scale for pension. She grew up around LEO, her dad was the only fed who could stomach being present at James Byrd’s autopsy. I’m the analytical one, so after a tough day I start counting up the resources the state spends to stick a finger in the leaky dam of criminal/shitty parenting and I’m “hmm, so cops, overhead, CPS, overhead, lawyers, overhead, by my count that addict just cost society $40k minimum. Did y’all know that kids in the foster care system get a full ride to state universities?

You don’t? She keeps the AC at 65 at night, I use the hot bath to get warm and pop my spine, then rinse off in the shower. Not every day but I had a 6 am flight and woke up shivering.

17 years. Sometimes I wish she would quit and get a cushy corporate gig, but I knew what I was signing up for. She gets to retire early. She is good at compartmentalizing the job. The best part about yesterday was when she FaceTimed the dad and let him talk to his daughters.