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  1. 13 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Comfort comes from time and exposure.  I grew up hunting, and guns were exclusively for that purpose.  We had ONE pistol.  A Ruger MKI for snakes.  It took me a while to get comfortable with them and I'm still not great with them.  

    What helped me was cleaning them.  Get the manual, and take it apart.  See how it works.  See exactly what it does, how it does it.  Let your kids help you if you have and want to expose them.  It was my job as a kid after hunts.  Hated it at the time.  Later learned it was invaluable.  I knew every gun like my kids know their iPhones.  

    That's how the Army taught us. Clean it first and learn the weapon then treat it as a weapon.  I didn't touch a pistol until I was in the Army and deployed for Desert Storm.  I was issued a pistol, pretty much everyone had one and most of us had never fired one or knew how to clean that pistol.  In fact I was cleaning said pistol, the 45, sitting in APC monitoring radio for 7th Corps TAC, when I was assembling I let the spring at the end of barrel shoot out and it went out the APC and in front the Crops map, General Franks was getting a briefing and here comes this spring flying out there.  They all knew me and got a good laugh out of it....  Scared the heck out me thought i was going to get an ass chewing.

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  2. 3 hours ago, CHIEF said:

    Been looking for a dive trip for the last couple of days. Was looking at Grand Cayman after Hate's posts, but it looks like we are gonna have to go to Coz again, unless things change between now and June. The Carribean is still bottled up with COVID restrictions. It may be a while before they get vaccines.

    CHIEF

    Came back from Coz a few weeks back.  Planning trip to Roatan in June, I was looking there or Belize.  The lady going with me picked Roatan.  

  3. 14 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

     

    I saw a bunch of posts about Florida governor discussing the "covid passport" and actually made the mistake of reading the comments.  Amazing how many people believe this.  They also believe that thousands have died from vaccines, that FDA has not approved and none of them have any valid info to back up their beliefs or they use snippets to support their narrative.  We as a country have way to many people who need to pull their collectives heads out of their ass.   Unfortunately the post I saw was from family.... 

  4. 11 hours ago, WillUSAF said:

    I'm sure the shit the military put in me throughout my career is much worse but what the hell LOL

     

     

     

    11 hours ago, WillUSAF said:

    I deployed to Africa a few times. Ive been to some real shitty (literally sometimes) fucking places.

    Army here.  We may already be immune with all the shit the military put in us.... 😀

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  5. I don't care about the Texans, but Watson can't simply show up and jog around back there, it's not basketball he'll get injured.  the NFL is a contact league.
    Why I said quick throws away. It's a no win for Texans. They need to trade him. It's not like the Texans are going to playoffs any time soon. Watson also knows this, probably part of requesting trade.
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  6. 9 minutes ago, Jacob McCandles said:

    He's under contract. He plays for the Texans or he doesn't get paid. Under the new CBA, if he misses team activities he is fined $50,000/day and the fine can no longer be waived (as was permitted under prior CBAs). If he holdouts, the Texans can seek a return of some/all of any signing bonus associated with the current contract. 

    The only place DW4 has leverage is in the court of public opinion. His agent is the only one employing the outdated holdout strategy and this is the first time he's tried it with a franchise QB.

    That said, fuck Cal and fuck Easterby.

    Until he has "migranes" 😀

    Watson has options, skip camp and preseason, show up for 1st game...  (Harden)

    Then do as little as he has to do.  Game tape, yeah right, take the hits, nope, lots of quick passes......

    He has fan approval and NFL teams already know what he can do so not going to hurt his status.

    Texans need to trade him.

     

     

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  7. There is also an app sponsored by the CDC called V-safe that collects vaccine symptoms.  I don't know for sure, but would have to believe this information is collated and shared with the vaccine manufacturers.
    https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html
    When I got my first shot in Fort Bend one of the things they have you do is scan barcode that gives you option to sign up for VSafe. I did it and I received a texts in the afternoon with a few questions about the effects of shot. So there is some tracking going on but users have to agree to it and they have to sign up.
  8. Just vaccinated at a Harris County mega site. Took less than 15 mins. They’re handing out those shots as fast as people can pull up. Longest wait was for my ID card 
    I did mine 10 minutes ago in Fort Bend County Fairgrounds. Sitting in the 15 minute wait area. Like you it was really fast and I got a goody bag of stuff.
  9. 7 minutes ago, scottsins said:


    Nope.

    They ask in their pre-reg stuff once you have the appointment whether you have tested positive for COVID, and whether you are having fever/other symptoms and whether you are immunocompromised.

    Same here, I get my first shot today.  All questions to health were asked in Pre Screen.  Not sure they really checked and didn't ask me anything about my conditions when they called to setup appointment which really surprised.  One of the questions asked if I was a veteran, I am show so checked yes and pretty sure that didn't even get confirmed and I have a sneaking suspicion the Vet status helped me here.

  10. Good luck with the quarantine. Impossible to enforce and with negative test taken 3 days before you leave and if following CDC guidelines that should leave 4 to 7 days not 14. Also, what about someone like me? I get first vacinne tomorrow and the second about 2 weeks before I leave.... Lots of questions and I'm not sweating it till early March.

  11. I'm going to Coz for spring break. Taking my boys scuba diving. My oldest had Covid at beginning of Jan so is exempt from testing, I get my first shot tomorrow so I am not to worried. Like posted resorts are setting up to help with testing and if positive are making arrangements for additional stay.

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  12. Well I told about a tweet I saw about Fort Bend county doing shots earlier in this thread. I followed link and was able to pre register, 1B. I got a call today scheduling me for Thursday at Fort Bend County fair. Just stay vigilant and check the county sites. It's coming.

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  13. It's going to take people not buying tickets or merchandise. A few blackouts in Houston would also work since Texans are proud they haven't had any. Also, season tickets don't get renewed and the 30k list goes away. That's how we get change. But, I think there are to many Kool aid drinkers for this to happen...

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  14. Mahomes toe injury looked a hellva like turf toe. For an average joe that injury is a good month. My middle schooler just recovered from the same injury, but basketball and that took six weeks. She did play on it though. We got real good at sprained toe taping. 
    Good call on turf toe. Saw report that Mahomet is not 100% today. He has turf toe.
  15. Rename the team, Houston Templars. Change colors to white and red and put a cross on the helmet.

    If they do hire McCown with no head coaching experience based on his religious views this will be even more of a shit show. Bypass the black candidates, who have experience and hire the white guy who has never coached...

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