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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. bump. Last night I caught Rounders for the first time in at least 15 years. It's on Paramount+ which I get for free from a credit card. There are definite plot cracks if not holes but I wonder if they occurred with the editing by dropping scenes. What is Grama and Worm's past together, and did Worm screw Grama in some way? Grama is angry at the end that Mike's paying off the debt. Isn't a loan shark satisfied about getting paid? He can still beat up Mike or Worm if he wants. Feels like Gretchen Mol's character had a larger role but it was cut. She's also very aware of Knish and Worm so I doubt she doesn't have some not-so-clean past. Petra was way too hot for the role especially in terms of Mike rejecting her while drinking after getting dumped. With this rewatch, Landau (law professor) may have wanted more than Mike than a professor-student relationship. He's overly excited every time they speak in an off putting way. The Mike-Johnny Chan play was ridiculous. Buying a pot off a world champ doesn't mean you can compete at that level. Mike knew it was a mistake when Worm sat down at the police card game. Why didn't he just walk away after a couple of hands. He had most of the money to pay off the Worm's debt. I don't know who owns the rights to this story but it's perplexing they never found a way to make a sequel in the early 00s. Even if you couldn't get Damon or Norton, create a rounder 2 with new characters. It might suck but it would make money.
  2. I used to work with a IT director who quit her lucrative corp job to open up a tanning salon. Perhaps she disliked IT and wanted a change, but for the life of me I couldn't comprehend that running that small business would preferable to a a high paying office job. Yes there are bad/stressful working environments, so why not try your luck at another company that gives you a large salary. The tanning salon idea could still be an option, and actually there is nothing preventing you from doing both simultaneously, unless it's your dream to actively work at the salon each day. I've also run across some older coworkers who go the small business route during retirement because they are trying to get their wayward adult children to commit to a career by creating a job for them.
  3. Angela has leverage over Ken at this point because he wants to get his senate campaign under way. He can't afford her divorcing him in the middle of a race so she can ask for the moon now. If Ken has billionaire backers, they may have to write her a very large check to walk away after signing a NDA. I could see her wanting a high 7 or low 8 figure settlement. I don't think he has it but others do. Since it's not uncommon for a senator to only face a tough race the first time, Paxton could easily be senator for the next 24 years.
  4. I don't know if it would be a satisfactory answer that the reward, of my suffering, is that people will know my name. How about a little less suffering and few less people know my name? Then again I've never been a fan of any story where someone is tested. It feels like a method to control people by proclaiming that it's God testing them. I can understand those in power like stories like this.
  5. The Hill Country will eat it up. The GOP will gain voters.
  6. Trump is scheduled to be at camp mystic today. What's the over/under on him praising himself, Noem, and bashing the evil Dems. I also guarantee that he will state that no one could foresee this disaster.
  7. Not surprised but wonder what event kicked off the divorce today.
  8. North of 113k now. i believe btc was 13k in Sept 2020. Not sure I would have believe that we would be adding a 1 in front of it 5 years later. Wonder if we will add another leading 1 by 2030.
  9. I would expect that we will see a indepth report from the NY Times at some point in the next 9-12 months. They usually perform deep dives into disasters especially where leadership failings are involved. They need the time to go through documents, fight to get govt info, and perform interviews.
  10. When my mom was ~80, her home was severely damaged by a hurricane. She basically only had me to help her move all of her furniture and the majority of her belongings to the sidewalk to be trashed. She could effectively do nothing to help. This was about 2-3 weeks after the hurricane. A house that had water in it, exposed to the elements and no power/AC for weeks is a nasty place. A church group from Washington state came down to Texas to help people. They were saints. Helping to haul things. Clean out the fridge. Even willing to assist my mom in going through personal items to see what could be salvaged. We knocked it out within 6-7 hours instead of the days or weeks it would have taken me. I forget their individual names but will forever be grateful for their help. EDIT: One benefit of strangers helping someone out is that the strangers are less emotional. A family handling this task on their own will naturally experience emotions that slow progress. The downside of strangers is that they might toss out something with sentimental value.
  11. Noem, the WH and the GOP-led Congress will do nothing to investigate Noem and FEMA's shortcomings. She probably can't fully avoid questioning by a Dem rep or senator, perhaps even Chip Roy, but she will deny that any delay occurred and definitely she doesn't have any rule in place that could lead to a delay. And it's not the GOP leaders' best interest to look too deeply.
  12. I'm still scratching my head on why they provided me 4 for 1 pricing. The initial guy at Discount Tire made some comment that they recommended all 4 because as tires are rotated or changed, the car's monitoring system may alert you to the wrong tire. I don't know but if that's correct I could see it almost being cheaper for them to solve the problem the first time by just fixing all 4 tires at once. And if the customer (me) refuses all 4, just doing it for free to get the customer out the door ASAP. In a related manner, the Discount Tire place I visited was the most amped up car repair/service location I've ever seen. I literally think they were completing a service every 2-3 minutes. They were running it like a chick-fil-a drive thru. You get some asshole like me complaining about a problem, do whatever it takes to get him out. I've been to other discount tires and it was a different experience. I believe I will be a customer for life now.
  13. Can BTC just get to $1.1M so I can quit my job?
  14. Kirk attended community college for a semester. He received all of the education he needed by retaking algebra.
  15. To my knowledge, there isn't a democratic party commercial. Yes there are candidate commercials only, and they too often don't want to get dirty. Instead they run a campaign that will lose.
  16. I'm sure everyone has been waiting for a final update from me so here it is. I finally was able to get back to Discount Tire and basically a competent mechanic was able to get the 4 new monitors to communicate to my explorer. Thanks for all of the advice. Y'all saved me some money.
  17. Not exactly a shock that a small town mayor has zero ability to deal with media. Not to mention that he probably has limited ability to deal with an emergency.
  18. I don't have a problem with Cruz going on vacation in Europe although July 4th seems like a bad time for a senator to leave the US. However I hope that someone asks his office about his trip especially if the US taxpayer funded it. Or did lobbyists pay for it.
  19. Yaccarino was never the CEO of X.
  20. The missing girls cabins look to be at the bottom of a cliff that I would assume did not flood. With the paths and road, that might be a 5 minute walk even for a young person. You would want a building up there, assuming they own the land. Or if the camp to the south was untouched, march the campers over there. I can appreciate that marching kids through a heavy downpour at night would not be an ideal option but its better than the alternative.
  21. horrible people are found on both sides of the aisle. Remember when those evil Californians had those fires sent from God. Plenty of people online said so.
  22. I think everyone gets the idea of summer camp but didn't experience it themselves. Meatballs was a favorite movie of mine when I was a kid. However my parents sending me to camp? Nah. I don't think they really cared what I did during the summer. Typical Gen X neglect. But knowing myself, if my parents had asked me if I wanted to go to camp, I would have said no. EDIT: While I would guessed there were camps in Texas, I had zero awareness that many were centered around Kerrville.
  23. Abbott and Patrick will send over a few million for a river warning system and pat themselves on the back. Only a few months after they refused such a request.
  24. Depends on the person and also how old they are. I'm in my 50s, so there wasn't a simple way to keep up with wide groups of friends after high school or college unless you live near them. Guys in the 80s or 90s weren't exactly calling or writing their male friends. Sounds bad to say but for me most hs or college friends were in the rear view mirror for me as soon as that time ended. I can look at my hs yearbook, see someone that I spent 100s (1000s?) of hours with from 5th-12th grade, and hs graduation was the last time I saw or spoke to them. And obviously I'm in the rear view mirror for them as well. When I hear someone speak about frequently seeing their old friends, it's just a different life experience than I had. Not weird, just different.
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