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pearlandhorn

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  1. I've always heard the old saying "it's not if you shit your pants, it's when..." When I ran my last marathon in April, I was so close at mile 25 to shitting myself that I had to walk for about 100 yards. It may have been the altitude (I was running from 10k feet down to 4k feet).
  2. I truly believe so. My mom is an absolute wreck with it all. Of course MDA has a doctor that specializes in Chordoma. It’s still such a small subset of sarcomas that there hasn’t been a ton of research on it. It’s wild though. My dad was very overweight for his entire life. After his first diagnosis, he cleaned his act up. Quit smoking, in the process of losing weight (down like 50 lbs with Ozympic), making better food choices, being more active. Then this. It fucking sucks but I think he’s taking it in stride. He’s tough as a mother fucker.
  3. Visiting this thread on behalf of my dad. 73 years old, urethral cancer survivor (diagnosed 8 years ago, surgery, treated), who now has been diagnosed with a Chordoma in his lower back. This super rare (300 people diagnosed every year in the US) cancer has wrapped around his spinal cord and docs at MD Anderson will attempt to remove it in one piece to prevent recurring. Chordomas are caused by leftover cells during fetal development that typically die off after the spinal cord is formed. It’s slow growing as all chordomas are. However, his annual CT scans after his urethral cancer would always show a small spot light up. He had some pain in his lower butt where his legs hamstrings connected to his glutes and went to get an MRI and it lit up like a Christmas tree. They’re heading down in a couple weeks for treatment plans and to schedule surgery. Thankfully, they don’t believe this one has metastasized. Radiation and proton therapy are on the table as well. We shall see. Keeping all those who are battling in my thoughts and wishing you all rest and recovery during your difficult times.
  4. 34-17 Texas 202 receiving yards for Michigan
  5. Quinn hates Michigan. He went to fucking Ohio State for a year and it brainwashed him. Horns by 100.
  6. Ehhhh. I’m of the opinion that the market has already priced in a 25 basis point cut. I’m also thinking that Powell won’t want to be seen as political and won’t cut more than that this month. I may be wrong though.
  7. Jerrick Gibson is a fucking bulldozer.
  8. Can we exclude government jobs too?
  9. Texas 51 CSU 23 WR - 297
  10. When you run a company in an industry that has in total 2% profit margins, I'd be pretty hesitant to lower prices of anything. But hey, what do I know about business?
  11. To put it in similar context, price of oil goes up, gas station immediately raises price of gas. Oil prices come down, gas station doesn't immediately lower price of gas. Is that price gouging?
  12. @ClintonaldoHow is your swim? I know you posted some results from a 70.3 a few months back but I'm curious on how often you swim, drills, etc.?
  13. Please do and I'd love to follow you on the course. I'll send you mine as well.
  14. When I did the Olympic in Austin, it got very boring very quick doing 4 loops on the bike. I'm glad Waco is an out and back one loop and a one loop run. When is D-Day for you again?
  15. Whoa. Crazy that they can do that with just a few weeks until the race. That sucks. Just do it.
  16. Enlightening honestly. However, I wonder what credit card balances not being paid off are, or even debt per capita are over the last 5 years.
  17. Enlighten me then. What exactly am I clueless on?
  18. Definitely. It’s not like I get paid to pay attention to rising costs on a daily basis. I just look around the grocery store and see a 30-50% increase in the cost of a week of groceries. The increase in the overall cost of living is staggering compared to 4 years ago. Rent/housing, utilities, gas, insurance (which is a fucking killer) are all drastically up. Americans have adopted the federal government’s solution to spending: just go into more debt. Credit card balances and overall consumer debt is at its highest rate in history. Devaluing of the US dollar by printing and spending trillions of dollars over the last 4 years is the culprit. It isn’t just the Dems either. Trump spent bookoos of money as well at the beginning of Covid. Whoever said that we should cut spending is 100% correct. The US needs to stop spending so much fucking money. Take a look at job growth by industry and notice that the second highest driver of new jobs is government. All of these new programs being pushed just push the US further into debt. We won’t be able to fund social security in 2030 because we’ve spent ourselves to death. But yeah, I’m kinda clueless.
  19. Seems like the only people talking about politics in this thread are the cloak room regulars.
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