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CleverNickname

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  1. Preach, brother. I've always rolled my eyes and cops who want to pretend they are playing GI Joe. But only now do I associate that kind of cosplay with systemic racism. Two years ago my kids elementary school had a fall festival and the police showed up with some armored surplus vehicle. I pointedly thanked the cops for coming, but pointedly told them "next year, please bring a regular squad car." I don't my kids thinking an armored division is 'normal' for police. To their credit the following year they did.
  2. Plans thus far: • Swam, kayaked, and SUP on Lake LBJ this week for a bit. My in-laws have a place in Grabite Shoals in the water. May go back soon hit the Slab near Kingsland early on a weekday soon while the Llano is flowing. • Will walk the South San Gabriel off 183 next week on a weekday, before the summer dries it up. Dino tracks and wading. • Got a cheap place for a couple of nights on the Dry Frio in June. Just me and the family. Already have day passes for Garner and Lost Maples. • Day pass for Guadalupe River State Park for late June. • Locked up 3 nights near Hunt on the Guad for July. • Got 5 nights on the Frio near Leakey in August. Splitting it with my sister in law. The cousins have a ball together. Will do day trips and passes from there. • Still pending: Perdanales SP and Colorado SP. Maybe Blue Hole in Georgetown. Been meaning to check out Hancock Springs in Lampasas (currently closed for out of county residents). May pass up the Wimberly area swimming holes this year. I figure they may be too crowded. Ditto for Guad and Comal near NB. Might check out Devils Watering Hole. Not sure if the kids would hime to Barton Creek greenbelt places (and they might be busy).
  3. Nabbed park reservations for Lost Maples and Garner for next month!
  4. I nabbed a couple of nights in June at a place with shared Dry Frio access, and am sharing a bigger house with SIL and nieces on West Frio north of Leakey just before school (hopefully) returns. But I can easily take off more days and pop down a time or two. Plus when we they are there for a week I am willing to brave a popular float with some of the kiddos.
  5. Our usual far flung national park road trip is likely scrapped. I'd like to make as many Texas river frolics as possible. I'm pretty ignorant about the most fun swimming holes and float areas down that Frio/Nueces/Sabinal area. My kids (8 and 10) are decent swimmers, although I suspect they will prefer running water over shallow rocks to calm and deep holes. That may be me projecting my fear of slimy river bottoms, I dunno. What are your favorite places to go? What are worth fighting the crowds and what out of the way places are worth exploring?
  6. Question for RV people. Do you like to RV because you are an introvert and prefer your alone time, or do you RV because you are an extrovert and like meeting new people?
  7. NE running kinda fizzled, enabling extra time to clean out a gutter.
  8. I think when the Martians first attack Tom Cruise's row house in War of the Worlds?
  9. Haven't canceled the family summer road trip yet. Planning on Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce. We can easily just eat out of the car and skip restaurants. I'm a cheap bastard anyway. But hard to avoid hotels.
  10. So is the plan: (1) we shelter in place and keep it so few ever get Covid19, stalling until a vaccine or excellent treatment is available? Or (2) we shelter in place, knowing eventually most will get it, but doing enough to "flatten the curve?" Because if its #2 I will volunteer for variolation trials. If I am going to get it, give me a lose dose exposure in controlled circumstances.
  11. Question: it appears we can social distance well enough to flatten the curve, and not slam hospitals so bad that they get overwhelmed. But over the next 18-24 months... like 70% of people are still going to get the 'rona, right?
  12. Not major staples. But things like the kids preferred cereals, the good quesadilla cheese, pita bread. I kinda worry that if I wait 7 to 10 more days then we'd be really out of some stuff, and then it's not just mildly inconvenient but a real bummer. Like, why let get things get too lean?
  13. Last 2 curbside / instacarts have left some big holes they they couldn't fill. We could go another week without shopping, but it would mean kids bitching about lack of salty snacks, etc. So... should I just mask up and get it done, or endure sub-optimal food for the duration? I'm not really understanding what the guidance is at the moment.
  14. Think my yard guy (crew) comes today? I'm guessing they are considered or consider themselves "essential sanitation" or something. I may not be a rich man, but having somebody else mow my yard makes me feel like a rich motherfucker.
  15. It's the zero point energy power supply of life, if you will.
  16. Literally in the Basin right now. Park is effectively in government shut down. No visitors centers. Little store is open, but they have a cap on number inside. Basin restaurant is basically take out only plusbthe 4 outside tables. We've eaten 100% of our food from our own stores. I saw only 1 other truck in the state park yesterday. Today may be a little busier - grapevine hills and walking tornillo creek.
  17. Last laugh on those "asymptomatic" millennials when it turns out the virus attacked their testes and they are infertile.
  18. I have not. I asked as a "non urgent" question. Frankly I dont really expect a straight answer. I expect a "no one really knows."
  19. I sent a message to my doc to ask if I should taper from losartan 25mg that helps with my mild hypertension (120/90 with meds). Some thought that ace inhibitors might increase severity of covid symptoms.
  20. Health plans can waive cost sharing, but they can't force a provider (facility or doctor) to not collect the piece of the pie owed them.
  21. So over at King County WA Life Care, covid19 has killed 19 of 120 patients. That's already 16%. And I read the other day that they had 11 deaths before the first diagnosis, and usually they'd have 5 or 6. 16%. Not Great. Not Terrible.
  22. Real talk: half-assed containment *is* mitigation. Who cares how airtight it is? The point is to slow it down.
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