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harpercollins

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  1. My 7 year old daughter has been misquoting Hamilton after every chore. Me: “thanks for unloading the dishwasher!” Her: “Hypocrites—we get the job done.” Me: “Do you mean immigrants?” Her: “No, I’ve always lived here!”
  2. there's no marina, so i guess it would be a pain to pull it in and out of the water to refuel and store.
  3. it's high right now, so no danger of hitting trees. you do need to know where the trees are during a drought.
  4. my parents or siblings. would probably be a family biz.
  5. https://www.boats.com/resources/peer-to-peer-boat-rentals-a-brave-new-world/ this article on vrbo for boats is the one that got me wondering
  6. I've been trying to rent some watercraft to use on Lake Nacogdoches, and evidently no one is doing that there now (though i vaguely remember someone doing that when I was in high school). Since my parents live on the lake, I'm wondering if it'd be easy to buy a boat and rent it out on the weekends we aren't there. Anyone done anything like that before? I assumed the insurance is cost-prohibitive and that's why no one does it, but there's plenty of rentals on other lakes so maybe just an untapped market? Talk me out of it.
  7. [mention]Party_Taco [/mention] we need captions for that amazingness.
  8. I'm not understanding the logic in delaying the school start by just a few weeks. Has there been any indication that we are close to a peak? I have not seen anything that would suggest this will die down in the least without another shelter-in-place or vaccine. So unless the schools are prepared to shut down entirely until we have a vaccine, what is the three weeks going to do?
  9. From China. In a Chinese study of 72314 COVID19 cases published in Feburary in China, 549 of those 72k cases were in children aged 10-19. One child died which results in a case fatality rate of .18% with a confidence interval of 95% (meaning that the case fatality rate could be as low as .03% or as high as 1.02%). Dr. Escott has exploited extrapolated this single child's death in China in January to imply that between 40 and 1,370 children will die in Travis County if schools reopen. It's absurd and appalling, and that's coming from someone who supports the schools staying closed. No clue how to disseminate this perspective without sounding like a fake news trumpkin, though.
  10. The attorney general said today that religious private schools are exempt from local officials' orders.
  11. Reposting—Had to crop out identifying info
  12. Eating good tonight! (If i can keep them alive, that is.)
  13. I tried them tonight on the egg and they stuck horribly even on an clean oiled grate. Have never had that happen with 80/20 burgers before. I guess theyre almost pate like. Did not like.
  14. Yep! Most all of us had box fans on for white noise.
  15. Yeah I may be cutting it close based on my performance in yesterday’s kickball game. Time to ramp up the fartleks. #pushing40
  16. No I sleep through anything. Can’t figure out how it didn’t wake up my other 21 family members though. He ate two loaves of bread, 18 brioche rolls, three boxes of cereal, that giant bag of dots pretzels, three cartons of ice cream, uncorked an open bottle of wine, etc.
  17. This is two fridges next to one another. We are in a family reunion cabin at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park.
  18. These standalone ERs are so shady. I took my 15 year old daughter for a COVID rapid antigen nasal swab yesterday after a possible exposure last weekend. She had thrown up once the night before and reported feeling lightheaded after vomiting, and since she had been babysitting for my sister who is currently in a high-risk pregnancy, I wanted to look into getting her tested. I called signature ER who had been bombarding me with google ads. They got my insurance information over the phone, and told me the ER copay was $250, so I said no thanks (as I could get her a PCR test for free from her PCP). The receptionist quickly said, “oh okay we’ll only collect $100 of the copay.” Me: “I think that’s insurance fraud?” She says, “I don’t think so.” Ok, whatever—worth $100 for me to have a test result in “fifteen minutes” rather than 5 business days. I drive to Killeen and check in. Intake person has zero PPE. No gloves, no mask, nothing. I pay my $100, sign a bunch of documents and then park in the designated spot. We wait for an hour, and a second intake person (LVN I think) comes to interview my daughter through the car window. Again—no mask. Just going car to car interviewing people there for COVID testing. Wait for another hour and a nurse comes (finally someone with a paper mask) and does the vital signs and nasal swab. Wait for a third hour and the ER physician comes out and tells us test is negative. He listens to her chest, and asks her about being lightheaded after vomiting. He then tells me she needs further testing to figure out why she was lightheaded and vomited. “What kind of testing?” “CBC and lipid panel, EKG and chest x-ray.” “Wow! For vomiting? Did you hear something in her chest that makes you think we need an x-ray?” “No I couldn’t really hear anything because of the noise with the car running. My recommendation is to get admitted for further testing.” “Ok I’ll make her an appointment with her primary care physician.” “That’s fine, but since you’re leaving against my recommendation you’ll have to sign this affidavit saying that you understand you’re leaving against medical advice, and you won’t hold me responsible if she dies or has some adverse effects from forgoing testing.” “For real, dude? You go to 11 years of school to come out here and shill EKGs in the parking lot?” I’m sure they’re not all like that, but dayum. How do you sleep at night?
  19. I haven’t posted this because I wasn’t sure it would translate, and I’m also still in horrified disbelief that she said this, but I can’t sleep so here goes: I have five kids 7-14. We were all sitting around the TV playing jackbox games with the neighbors. My seven year old daughter, Maggie, is hilarious and was killing it on the game. Also playing was my 14 year old daughter, Annie, my middle three kids and a neighbor family. (If you’ve played quiplash, you know that the game on the tv gives you a prompt, and then the players enter a funny or clever answer in hopes of getting votes as the best answer.) The prompt was: “something you don’t want to find in your ice cube.” The two answers written by the kids to choose from were: A bandaid Blod I said, “blod? What’s blod?” Maggie (the first grader) blurted out: “well, i didn’t have room to type it all, but it’s not just any blood, I meant Annie’s (the ninth grader) vagina blood. Did you guys know she had that? Wouldn’t that be terrible in your ice cube?” Shocked silence and then awkward sputtering, finally followed by cackling. Neighbors quickly left to explain menstruation to their children.
  20. She sounds dyslexic. There’s a visual kind that you typically think of but also an auditory kind where you can’t distinguish phonemes.
  21. Made this tonight and it was delish. Packed full of flavor. A little greasy—might do skinless thighs next time. Subbed quartered canned San Marzano tomatoes for cherry and homemade black beans for canned.
  22. That’s all I was trying to clear up, sending lobo into a temper tantrum. 4 times as many people get commended or Hispanic scholar.
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