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drt

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  1. Also, if they're oak cabinets and you want to pore fill, prepare to hate your life.
  2. What he said. Brush/roll the face frames, spray the doors outside
  3. Can you expound on differences?
  4. Coworker's husband is in the national guard and tested positive last week as did many in his unit. He's been called up and in Dallas M-F all the last 2 months, home on weekends. Family BBQ over the 4th, both of his sisters now test positive. His dad and brother are getting tested today. They all have symptoms. So far coworker and their 18mo daughter show no symptoms, but until they do their PCP said they can't get tested.
  5. the urge to take the $700 in profit on it is strong.
  6. Yeah, cause what the country needs in the middle of this crisis is an agency tasked with reporting information relevant to public health. We don't have one of those yet.
  7. MvB gets released today. Looks like I know what I'm doing for lunch. Anyone had the JK dry hopped saison? Opinions?
  8. Within 3 days my st Augustine has gone from green and lush to crackly and signs of drought stress. And that’s with watering on Tuesday night.
  9. Uh, thanks Liverpool?
  10. Middle and high school are more able to learn via a remote environment. Limited evidence that smaller kiddos create fewer particles with less velocity out of the lungs, resulting in lower viral load passed on if they are infected. So are less likely to pass the virus via airborne transmission. Regarding that point: I don't know if I agree with that younger kid premise, as I haven't read the studies but people are clinging to it. Neighbor was going on about how no contact tracing in the US has indicated a smaller child has passed the virus on via airborne, but that's pure anecdote and I don't have sources. Honestly seems to good to be true to me.
  11. So I'm about 140 miles into this and I really like it. It has a few minor annoyances (uses phone GPS when I'm in the driveway close to the house, and tree cover really affects accuracy), and I wish I'd paid a bit more to get one of the Garmins that incorporate training status/effect but overall I'm digging not carrying the phone on runs. I haven't used it on as many trail runs as I'd like, as most of my runs have been after the kids hit the sack. One day I hope to play golf again, so we'll see if I ever get to play around with that functionality.
  12. NVM, after a quick google you have a ridge beam there, meaning the 2x6 is spec'd for the load and unsupported length is highly important. You can't remove the support without engineering around it. An actual engineer can tell you how, if it's possible.
  13. Without seeing the rest of the framing, no idea. But I'd guess it has the effect of shortening the unsupported span of the ridge beam, meaning removal would involve more than you'd think. Call an engineer, ours in Centex is cheap for a quick question like this ($150) and you don't have to worry about your house collapsing.
  14. You're not wrong about a poor kid not having an education and being screwed, but those poorer children are more likely to be overweight and have other health issues. So it stands to reason that in 10-20 years they have more health issues with the virus and it's secondary effects than their well-off peers. They absolutely do have a higher likelihood of living with grandma and grandpa and other family members, who also are more likely to have health issues. You might be robbing Peter to pay Paul .
  15. You can’t have one teacher alone in a room. Not being an ass but you obviously don’t know much about daycare.
  16. Also, a ton of them only had one main door for security reasons. Ours uses a different entrance for each class, but that’s simply not possible with tons of facilities
  17. In my limited experience ya the good ones do. But we visited as many bad ones as we did good ones. case in point our current one is as you describe, but they’ve still had to split all but the infant rooms to accomplish pods of less than 10 people. I think prior to all of this the state max was 15 kids with 2 teachers
  18. Daycare has its own challenges that k-12 doesn’t, can you expand on what you mean? Plus when we did the tour around what seemed like half the south Austin daycares 3 or 4 years ago the chain daycares were filthy and did not seem to have staff that I would trust to sanitize a room. The education level of those teachers varies wildly.
  19. Excellent point, but if you ask the TEA I'm sure the answer will involve more standardized testing.
  20. F'ing this. Donated last week and enjoyed the hell out of the 2 beers and whole pizza that followed. Plus I got a free whataburger coupon from the blood bank.
  21. It's not in the margin of error. Texas is significantly fatter than NY, NJ, MASS etc, as are most southern states. Has been a trend as long as the CDC has been keeping stats on it. I'm not sure what your hard on for the NE is, but I don't agree that our current surge in Texas was always going to hit these numbers. We fucked up by not mandating masks and keeping reasonable social distancing restrictions in place, and then doubled down by moving through reopening stages at a fast enough rate that it wasn't possible to quantify the effects of the changes we made.
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