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HouTex

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  1. These horror stories suck. Maybe I missed the more optimistic anecdotes but I’m one of the few of my close group of friends and their college aged kids that, to my knowledge, hasn’t gotten covid. One guy (maybe 68 years old) who had other health issues was very sick and went to the hospital for a few days. He was awake the whole time and just felt like shit. He never thought he was close to death. He’s fine now. Everyone else i know of that had it—maybe 30-40 people, basically felt like they had a cold and not a very severe one at that. One or two days on Zpack and hydroxychloroquine and they were back to normal.
  2. Yes on the big red part and hell no on the mustard part. Actually, the big red schtick in the BBQ thread is an attempt at humor. Not many people over 10 years old actually drink big red. So the big red part probably doesn’t belong in this thread.
  3. My only exception to that rule is a BLT. Mayo works on a BLT.
  4. ^^^ The right instructor is everything. Some pros can be great with some people and horrible with others. It can be hard to find the right mix of technical teaching ability and the right personality fit. I recently took a great lesson from a pro who was brutally honest with what I needed to change. I like that approach and i have thick skin. Other guys I know hate it and think the guy, and others with a similar style, are terrible. For them, bedside manner is very important. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to spend some $$ to find the right teaching pro for you. Another point for any sexists in the house, don’t discount lady pros.
  5. This. I’m really hoping everyone is joking about how scared they are without the shot.
  6. Depends on the stout. I’m not a fan of Guinness Extra Stout. Chewy is a good description. Guinness Draft is heaven sent. It’s a light bodied beverage meant for drinking in mass quantities. It’s relatively low in alcohol.
  7. He was awesome, and I loved it when the grand dad punched him.
  8. Diner is an incredible film. “The wedding is off.” “I’ll hit you so hard I’ll kill whole family.”
  9. This. I need about 2200 calories per day to maintain my weight. That’s at my current weight of 176 and with my exercise routine.
  10. Do all three separate shots several times over. Maybe four times each. Just to be safe.
  11. Disagree. As Grace said in To Catch a Thief, they are just common people with a bank account. Don’t confuse royalty with being rich. The rich can lose it pretty fast and they have.
  12. Hard to believe some people just toss a jury summons. If I was the presiding judge I’d issue bench warrants for your fucking arrest and leave your ass in jail until you spent the time and money to hire a lawyer to get your ass out. Sorry, this is a lawyer talking and civic duty and all that.
  13. But two of those sazaracs will set you free. Not a bad use of $36.
  14. Pretty much this. I recall sitting in a History class at UT in 1981 and the professor, George C. Wright, said pretty much this during the run up to Charles’ and Diana’s wedding. I thought the same thing then and the same thing now. I do enjoy much of the history of the royals as it impacts history—Henry VIII, Victoria and empire, etc., but I don’t really care about family spats.
  15. I thought Oprah did a good job with the interview.
  16. Unless it’s changed, with DirectTV and all the genies and five televisions the cost was $360 per month. If I only had one TV it might have made sense to stay with DirectTV. I save about $250 per month vs my old DirectTV bill.
  17. I heard that but it was just gossip, correct? Surely he did not do that.
  18. It’s just not a painful injection. The shingles shots (also two shots and recommended for people 50 and older), by contrast, were relatively painful as the serum was slowly injected. The shingles shots gave me a decent fever and flu like symptoms.
  19. Crazy stuff has happened before. When she was born in 1819, Victoria was 5th in line. Her father died soon after she was born and all three uncles died without legitimate issue.
  20. As for leaving the royal family, is Harry really out? As in not in the line of royal succession anymore?
  21. It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that most people have a medical issue that qualifies for 1b. Get a comprehensive physical with a full lipid panel and there’s likely to be something that puts you at greater risk. I have blood pressure and cholesterol issues. That said, I waited until last Friday to get my first shot to give others with more serious issues a head start. And availability in the Houston area has soared recently. I suspect when 1c comes along most people will have had the shot(s).
  22. I was only about 3 months old when it happened, but when i became old enough to understand it, the nuke scare was something we always thought about until Nixon’s detente policy was in place. We had those drills when you crawled under your desk and kissed your ass goodbye. While playing outside if we saw a mushroom shaped cumulus cloud in the east toward Houston we worried about a nuke strike. It was part of life then.
  23. I’m 58 and have lived in the greater Houston area the entire time except for my four years at UT. I’ve had pools a lot of that time. The December 83 freeze is the only thing that comes close. My family had a broken pipe in the garage from that one but no pool damage. I don’t recall ever seeing the extensive pipe/pool damage from a prolonged freeze in central/SE Texas that we got with this one. I’d say it’s more like a once in a lifetime event. 89 and 2011 had cold periods, but I didn’t see the extensive damage to pipes and pools like this.
  24. Got my first Pfizer shot today. Weird that I didn’t feel it all compared to the annual flu shot or the shingles vaccine. Zero soreness and no apparent side effects after three hours. CVS is a machine.
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