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  1. I mean, we were just mellowing out to some Rachel Price, an exit away from home. I actually saw him in my rear view, thought “he’s going to fast and is gonna cut it too close,” and he hit me about .2 seconds later. Hope his car is his baby and he fucked it up and his girl thinks he’s a dick and he’s not getting laid because of it.
  2. He might have also clipped the suv on our right. No real hard hits, just clipped us.
  3. Black Camaro doing about 90+, sideswiped me. Got him on camera, but between reflective lighting and how fast he was going, don’t think I’ll get a readable plate. He’s on screen for no more than 3-4 seconds. Fucking asshole. Not major damage, but a pretty solid sideswipe. For no fucking reason.
  4. Solid.
  5. Goddamn, the bar mitzvah comment is fucking BULLSEYE. And not a cool bar mitzvah, but one for a super-spoiled rich 13 year old boy who thinks that all the celebration that day really DOES mean he's the biggest baddest dude alive. But his older cousin Rachel, from New York? Out on the dance floor having a good time? How YOU doin'? Sorry, went to a few bar mitzvahs back in the day, and I knew what was up.
  6. Rode in a Chinese EV as my Uber from the Munich airport (Chinese EVs are all over the EU). It was ridiculously nice.
  7. I like fried gibbets, and appreciate a mature woman with nice pillories.
  8. I was awarded the title Sultan of Shrimp when I waited tables at Red Lobster, so I can relate. By "awarded," I mean that one of my co-waiters called me that one night after closing when we hit the margarita machine a bit too hard. So, pretty much same-same.
  9. Bottom line, if you're looking for something NOT to hate about Buzbee . . . keep lookin'.
  10. Yeah....appreciate the insight on this some of y'all have shared. As mentioned a while back, we've worked with the refugee kiddo over who we have some partial guardianship (long story, only a partial legal relationship, mostly to help him out where his natural mother can't be helpful). He's something of a talented soccer player -- he ain't Messi, but he's good enough to get some college looks. It looks like he's down to Huston Tillotson, which has offered him a spot on the team, and a full ride, and UIW, which has offered him a "preferred walk-on" roll and....not a full ride. He's almost certainly not going to play pro soccer anywhere, but he likely does want to focus on training/kinesiology as a career. SO, we very much want him to get a degree. ANY degree, would be the first ever for his family. Challenge: he REALLY wants UIW, but there's a price tag. And while we are willing to help...we didn't plan to put a third kid through college. We will be talking to a friend of ours in admin at UIW to see if there's any path to defraying costs more, but....any thoughts on those paths, and soccer options? Academically and life-choice wise, we think UIW might be better too (it would be good for him to go to a new city, have a small bit of distance from his mom and brother, but on the other hand, not too far and not too much separation). But....a full ride to HT is nothing to sneeze at. And I have great respect for HT as an institution, they are sound and well-funded (just got a huge new gift). So, things to think about.
  11. See, great literature makes you THINK.
  12. I think this has pretty much got it summed up.
  13. Yeah....this. It's fucking baffling, yet, now that I've fully realized and accepted that humanity is irredeemably awful....it's not baffling at all. Congress is a fucking joke, and at this point, if we dissolved it, nobody could tell the difference other than the fact that we wouldn't be subjected to stupid social media posts by Ted Cruz and John Cornyn and nobody would know who Mike Johnson is except for his multiple Grindr hookups.
  14. For ease, go through the other carrier until they become troublesome, then turn it over to USAA if you have to. Sorry to hear it. My wife got smacked pretty good a couple of years ago, and there were some legit medical damages (nothing life-changing, but some time to recover, and a period of pain). Get a fair recovery for that, and don't close out the injury part of the claim till you know she's ok. And, hope that she's okay sooner rather than later.
  15. Other than pity sex, I don't think I've received any charity of any substance (not counting any number of small acts of kindness and generosity folks may show throughout your life). But I'm certainly the beneficiary of it - my mother and grandmother fled an abusive man in NOLA, and ended up in Kingsville. But for (1) gov't subsidized housing and food aid, (2) one of the leading families in the area setting my grandmother up with a bookkeeping job at a car dealer, and (3) that family also flat-out giving them things like some furniture, occasional money gifts, etc., there's no way they would have made it. It certainly helped me see that no matter how proud you might be, and how much you might want to think "I've earned everything I've got," you almost certainly didn't. Other people helped out with pure generosity along the way, and you quite often don't even realize it. And that's okay -- both the helping and the you not realizing it. Just understand that it's true, and that it's but one piece of evidence in the long line of truth that is "we all do better when we help each other." And I got to see it in action the other way numerous times, but one time in particular made a big impression on me as a kid. One of my cousins, a good bit older than me, but we were running buddies when we'd visit down in Mexico, had a store that failed. He was in a bit of debt, and at that time, Mexico had legit debtor's prison. I remember my folks sitting at the table crunching numbers, real concerned looks on their faces. I asked what was up, and my mother explained that cousin Julio was in jail, and his family couldn't get him out. He had a wife and a daughter on the outside who were just a wreck. I asked how much he needed to get out? $6k. My eyes got kinda big, because even at that young age, I knew that was a lot for our family -- maybe more than we had. I asked, anxious, if we were going to do it. My mother answered yes. I then asked if we were giving it, or was it just a loan. She explained that it was a loan, but we also knew that it wouldn't be paid back. She then explained that this is family, they need help, we can help, so that's what we're going to do. Even though it was a stretch for us. Even though it surely meant we went another year without a replacement car. Or we went another year without an actual vacation trip (not that we really took many of those). I'm sure things were tight for a while. But it made an impression on me. Can you help? Then help. I told that story at my father's memorial this year. And I learned that he had done similar things countless times. You need help? Here you go. He did that over and over. Maybe it was just giving $200. Another time it was him giving the company-paid first-class upgrades on a long intercontinental flight to his two subordinates who were flying with him from Buenos Aires to London for work. Or taking in my cousin and her (troubled and druggie) mother when they were on the edge of being on the streets. And goddamn, so many other things. And there's no shame in asking for or taking that help. It's why we're here. Fuck, if it's not why we're here, than what is the goddamned point of any of this? Goddammit. My dad wasn't soft, he was an engineer and a man of his generation. And he was a good man, and I fucking miss him and wish I'd done better by him.
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