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Eastwood

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  1. Might be hitting a different formation in a field using Leases that are held by production. If you have older leases that don't have Pugh clauses or depth severance that haven't been released, you can pool the old leases to form new units.
  2. Yeah, but he also might tweet "I spoke to Big Ben last night. Great guy. Biggest Ben you've ever seen. Best chime in the world. Never chimes at the wrong time. Amazing. Smartest clock out there. He thinks we should nuke France. INTERESTING?!"
  3. I'm no doctor, but fevers and antivirals lead to delirium at times, do they not? Maybe they took his tweeting phone while he was down and not giving it back until he's done with fever and antivirals.
  4. That was my first writing class, as well. Blue Book, how to navigate Westlaw/Lexis, and then the books in the library. I took an advanced legal writing that focused on structure and how to present your argument effectively in light of the evidence.
  5. What's crazy is that a lot of jobs you apply for in law school require you to submit a writing sample. I can't believe some of the legal writing I've come across over the years.
  6. Can't. If they don't get this next round of stimulus through before election, airlines are laying off mid 5 figures worth of people, the PPP forgiveness guidelines are still up in the air for a final determination with first payments coming due in November and December, and the market will tank when people won't be getting a second round of direct payments. House is going nowhere. Gotta get to an agreement with the White House on it and force Mitch to either vote or deny even his own constituents further relief.
  7. I wish there was some way someone could have foreseen this White House outbreak...
  8. Well, I was going to use this as a buying opportunity but nothing dropped low enough and it's already on its way back up.
  9. I think he dies within a couple of years after the presidency. Especially after red lining it for so long during this election cycle. Poor diet and no sleep on top of that, his body comes crashing down when he no longer has to keep it running and the threat of prosecution looms. That's what got Paterno, at least.
  10. I have family still stuck in Small Town, Texas. I say stuck, but they don't see it that way. They see it as home and I can't seem to get them to leave. Small towns have horrible internet, a lot of them are food deserts, housing is old and falling apart, they are at least 30 minutes to an hour from even basic chain restaurants, etc., etc. Being in a small town is really disconnecting for most people, especially people 40+ years old who don't use the internet for more than email and their Facebook echo chamber. They've been in small towns for so long and the cities have changed so much, even in the last 5 - 10 years, that merely visiting a city for a day rattles them pretty hard. They're already on edge because they keep hearing all the hyperbole about the "warzone," then they show up and have to deal with the traffic, construction, large numbers of people, and they go haywire. When my dad comes to visit his grandkids, I have to let him vent for almost an hour about how awful driving in was, how many people there were at Buccee's, and how he must have practically almost died getting here before he actually remembers why he is here in the first place. So the kids who grow up in small towns now go off to college and never come back because they've been away long enough for the nostalgia of home to wear off and the town's warts start to show through. They spend four or more years having the entire world and everything they need at their fingertips and have absolutely zero desire to return to Pearsall or Muleshoe or Ben Bolt or Nixon. The only outlier I can think of is Texas A&M. I know a good number of people who went to A&M and then went running back to their small town, whether it be to teach, work the family farming business, or take what little jobs there are in banking and county-wide IT work. I think most of us on this board can parse why that is.
  11. The ones on my Twitter feed haven't been posting, but they have been running around liking all the positive spin they can find, scrambling for someone to calm them down and tell them it wasn't as bad as their eyes and ears told them it was.
  12. Why in the world would anyone read a paper copy of a TO in this day and age? A PDF TO, especially if the attorney was super generous and bookmarked or hot linked everything, allows you to immediately find whatever you want. Is a Requirement calling to an interest or other requirement? Ctrl F the name or Requirement or click the hyperlink. Especially if it is a DOTO. This actually reminded me that last Nov. I had to contact an old wildcatter out of OK because he had a small WI in a unit I was working. Refused to deal over the phone and didn't have email. Said he would only correspond about the interest over snail mail. By the time we ever started getting any traction on it, the unit had been reshuffled in the drilling schedule. How that guy ever got anything done in a timely fashion in this day and age, I'll never know.
  13. That's his response, so now we have to wait and see how it all shakes out. It will get bumped to the front of the line, but my concern is that it won't be 100% resolved until just before election day, causing a flood at the polls of people who need to come back and cast the vote again, creating even more strain on polling locations.
  14. I'm on Tapa, so apologies if this joke has been made. There's only one thing to do in this instance... Go to Golden Chick, buy some Fletcher's Corn Dogs. Go buy some Shiner and wax cups. Walk around your house eating the corn dogs and slamming wax cup Shiners and talk shit to anything that is red. It's the only way that I have learned to cope with looking forward to what might be a horrific couple of hours.
  15. I'm going to wait until the 19th. Texas Republicans have sued Abbott over extending early voting to the 13th. My concern is that they will determine some time after the extension period that any vote cast during the extension was void. I have the ability to wait until the 19th, so I'm removing all doubt that my vote will count.
  16. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-tacves/index.html That allowed his company to employ her as an executive officer and then write off her consulting fees at the same time. That isn't CPA kung fu. That's double dipping tax fraud.
  17. When Hillary called him out in a debate on not paying any taxes, his response was "that makes me smart." His base ate it up.
  18. Yeah, I am of the opinion that there are no undecided voters left, at this point. Early voting is going to be at a record turnout level because everyone has already made up their mind which way they are voting.
  19. With the news coming out that Wall Street is donating more to Biden and headlines like this: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/jeremy-siegel-stocks-could-boom-in-2021-no-matter-who-is-president.html makes me think the Trump campaign has been put on notice by the big money that the administration has outlived its usefulness. The bungling of COVID and social unrest, as well as continuing tensions with China, has made Wall Street realize that 4 more years of this will wipe out any gains they may have had from his first 3 years. And really, the run up to DOW 20k! got rolling during Obama's last term. Also, I'm sure the other boys in the Rich Kid's Club aren't too happy about a bright spotlight being shone on the lack of taxes that they get away with. The longer this goes on, the longer the rich realize that they're better off with old status quo in Biden than another 4 years of Trump. For them, it's a win/win. The progressives are still mad that a Centrist is in office and they get an old white guy who has a long history in Washington who knows how to balance getting rich people rich without angering the masses back in the saddle.
  20. Baroness - Yellow and Green album captivated me for a long time. If that kind of rock is in your wheelhouse, it's something you can throw on and just let the album run. The flown of the album is on the same tier as Dark Side of the Moon for me.
  21. Yeah, we've really learned how to streamline things and programs like iLandman have really minimized the need for manpower and maximized the need to be computer literate. I'm pretty proud of my track record of always being on the last ship out of a project and have sees big land projects from the start, or damn near close, all the way to the finish. It always amazes me that we start with anywhere from 50 to over 100 people and over a period of months have the crew whittled down to a quarter of the size and productivity is either the same or actually improves. We have so many tools now that it wouldn't surprise me if companies are no longer doing the whole "flood a project with manpower and let the rest sort itself out" approach anymore. We'll never see a job market for landmen like the late 00's, early 10's ever again, IMO.
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