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  1. DDR is a crazy talented scorer but tries too hard in crunch time and forces stuff, which works out badly. LMA is great until he's not and he lives and dies by his turnaround J, which would be fine if were a threat to drive (he isn't) or an amazing passer (he's not). So we got to watch 2.5 quarters of clanks. The offense was terrible but the defense was worse. I've never seen a Spurs team so disinterested in playing D.
  2. For me, working out (hard cardio like basketball or weight lifting) creates a ~24-hour window where I'm more insulin-sensitive. So I need less insulin for the same amount of carbs. When I do full contact sports like basketball, I remove my pump for the duration (up to about 2 hours) and then put it back on after. I check BG before I take it off and dose if needed, knowing that I tend to float downward as I work out, and I account for that. Sometimes I'll check during a break in the action if I'm feeling low, and I always keep a gatorade on hand to bring me up if needed. And I always check right after, and if I'm <100, I take gatorade or a carb to bring me up, because I know I'm floating down pretty hard in the few hours after working out. My endocrinologist and I have talked about setting a "temp basal" for overnight (I tend to work out at night) so that I take less insulin and don't go low at night, because I've had a few hypo episodes in the middle of the night, usually they wake me up, but they're scary. Basically check before and after, and during if you feel "off." Keep insulin and carbs on hand to correct in either direction as needed. Know that you're going to have stronger BG swings than if you're inactive. I don't know if your kid is driving yet, but if so, it's a solid habit to get them started to check their blood sugar before they drive, even if they think they're fine. I had a low-carb meal a few years ago, then went a worked out and didn't realize I was going low. I ended up blacking out behind the wheel and crashed, luckily no one was hurt other than totaling my car. I drove from downtown Austin to Cedar Park on MoPac, and I don't remember anything after going under 183 on N MoPac. I crashed at MoPac and 45.
  3. Depends, on a lot of factors. A good day for me, when I'm following keto, not traveling, wearing my sensor, monitoring closely I'll range from 70's to 150. I'm super carb-sensitive at this point, and even non-carbs set me off, like coffee. On a bad day if I ate carbs, traveled, my sensor expired, etc; I could hit 250 or higher if I'm not careful. I feel lows, but don't feel any different when I'm high, and life has this strange tendency to take over and then you realize you haven't stuck your finger in 3-4 hours and whoops...you're >200. Or maybe you mis-estimated your carb intake, or your insulin dosage, or you worked out (or didn't), or you're sick, etc. It's calculus, not algebra and I'm a grown-ass man and have trouble with it. So I have a ton of empathy for a teen or a parent of young kid with T1. Sometimes you can do everything right, and still be "wrong" with regard to your blood sugar. It sucks.
  4. I was 30 when I was diagnosed so never had to deal with it as a teenager, thank god. There was a learning curve and frustration, and even depression. But I got there eventually; the key was I wanted to be healthy. There is an 8-year old at my church who was just diagnosed and his parents can do 95% of the management for him. An adult can take responsibility. A teen in that in-between time going from kid to adult is going to be much harder. Ultimately they have to want to manage it, for themself. Can’t change someone who doesn’t want to change. Quick aside on cure stuff, there is a lot of great research here recently. I highly recommend looking up Dr. Denise Faustman at the Harvard Medical School. She is doing some amazing cure research on BCG.
  5. I started on multiple daily injections (MDI) and did that for several years. For the past ~10 years I've been on the pump, currently I'm on the Medtronic 670G, along with their Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. The pump and CGMS talk to each other and will auto adjust your dosage, it's one of the first "closed loop" systems that simulates a pancreas. There are pros and cons to both, but I much prefer the pump personally. You get better control, better measurement, better results for a pretty small tradeoff of having it attached to you.
  6. Bron still has the "I'll double it" offer from Tyrion on the table. It would be a natural move to take Cerise's gold and then ride north and ask Jamie/Tyrion to double it. Several wagons of gold would go a long way.
  7. Disagree; we saw his initial reaction. He is still grappling with it, and the sum total of people who know at this point is three. We will see the impacts of this reveal including lots of the stuff you outlined and more in coming episodes. “If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.”
  8. Anyone hoping that JJ fucking Abrams is the right guy to tie the story up and fix all those loose ends in the Star Wars universe obviously didn’t watch the series finale of Lost. Prepare to have none of your burning questions answered, while episode IX simultaneously introduces dozens of new questions, which will also never be answered.
  9. I’m just here waiting for Derka to melt down about how everyone is against him and if we would just read this 17 paragraph post, we’d really understand his reasoning! It was a fine episode, and did its job. Agreed the writing isn’t as good as when they were drawing on source material. The dragon ride was hokey but also served multiple purposes (Jon = targ = dragon rider, and furthering the Jon/Dany relationship). The best was the intro scene when they were marching in, as a callback to the first episode in the series when Robert came to Winterfell. Sam speaking the truth to Jon was great. Sam is a lot like Rick Barnes at Texas, really undervalued! And we are going to miss him when he is gone, amirite?
  10. We did the math and it was cheaper for us to fly to Chicago and see it there, where it plays every week and you can get inexpensive tickets, plus make a weekend out of it, than to go see it in Austin.
  11. I've said this before but I think GRRM is beta-testing the "ending" with HBO. If the crowd goes wild, he'll flesh it out in more detail (or pay someone to ghost write it for him) in the books. More likely, because 2019, there will be a huge outrage and cry-fest online. Two weeks after the finale, GRRM will start to put out the narrative of: "Those idiots at HBO ruined my masterpiece. I didn't want the ending they shot but they did it anyway. You'll need to buy the book to find out how the story REALLY ends." ...who are we kidding, he won't finish the series, ever. He'll be even less motivated to do it now. Fat fuck.
  12. A Hound that was delirious and stumbling around after someone took a bite out of his neck. Wasn't close to Peak Hound, and he still knocked her down several times, plus she was wearing plate and he wasn't. Are we really comparing a hypothetical battle between non-existent characters in a fantasy TV show?
  13. Addition by subtraction. Can't wait to see DJM in uniform again...next year...
  14. I'm not saying it can't happen, and I hope it does (again). But we're fools if we don't look at the past 20 years and say that it was an outlier. The big markets are playing the game on easy mode when it comes to attaining stars. We're playing on hard mode.
  15. So that Zion can play out his 1st contract here and then leave? We caught lighting in a bottle and kept it there for damn near 20 years. The future of the NBA is not bright for small market teams. Especially small market teams who tank. Big market teams can do The Process and still be a big, attractive market for stars. We can't. And with the Association power structure tilting more and more toward the stars, combined with them wanting to buddy up and go build super teams, I think we're headed for a 20-30 year stretch where it's NY/LA/CHI/MIA/PHI/BOS/GSW and everyone else. We'll always have our banners and I'll remember Robinson, Duncan, Ginobili, and Parker fondly. The first 3 especially were cut from a different cloth than today's superstars.
  16. Not sure how you or I could prove it either way, but FWIW I have done both the email method and in-dealer negotiation, many times...
  17. If you must negotiate at the dealer (inadvisable) just be aware of their game. They're trying to push/pull money around, and look at the whole deal - price of the new car, value of your trade, financing terms, etc. They can make their money in any of these areas. They try to confuse by mixing them all together. You want to peel them apart and do them one at a time, as Guano said. Some dealers still use a variation of the 4-square worksheet: ...to confuse you. The ONLY thing you want to negotiate is the upper-right box: price. That's why if you're going to go in, you present yourself as a "cash buyer with no trade" regardless of if you are buying on credit or have a trade. Nail down the cash price. Then, mention..."now that we've settled on price, I'm thinking of getting rid of my current car. I could sell it myself or trade it with you, what will you give me?" ...then get a fair trade in value, or accept a lower value for the convenience of not having to deal with Craigslist. Last, a week before you walked into the deal, you've already shopped APRs with your local credit union and bank (UFCU and Velocity in Austin have been good to us) and gotten pre-approved for a great rate. Then you pop that on the sales guy: "Great, now that we've settled on price and trade value, I'll call my credit union and have them cut you a check." The sales guy will sputter about "I thought you were a cash buyer!?!" "Nope, we have a great-rate of with our credit union, and they will give you cash. Or a cashier's check. But if that's a problem for you...I guess I could go down the street to the other dealer?" Often at this point they will "magically" find that they can offer a rate that is even better than the CU. Or give you some kind of price break if you finance through them (you can usually pocket that benefit and immediately refi with your credit union). Pretty good article about how the dealers get you: https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/dealerships-rip-you-off-with-the-four-square-heres-how-to-beat-it/
  18. Same process but more legwork. Expand to neighboring states or nationwide. Evaluate if the costs of the trip offset the savings. Commodities tend to go at market rate though, so for rare or I demand models the dealers motivation to cut a deal goes down. Just like it would be hard to run that process on a new Ferrari or Porsche. I once bought a truck off eBay from a dealer in North Carolina. Flew there, drove it home with the wife. Nice stops in Atlanta and New Orleans on the way back. /csb
  19. Maybe...it's been a few years since I bought a new car this way. But we bought a new Mustang GT and got a fair deal. You probably won't save thousands, maybe a few hundred. Reputable dealers know that new cars are a commodity item; they make their money on upselling you unnecessary shit like window etching. Most know that nowadays buyers are too educated to get taken to the cleaners and we shop around, so they're more motivated to keep you coming back as a customer than to nail you, IMO. I did get the "we don't quote over email" responses from quite a few last time; I wrote them back and told them that if they didn't want my business, feel free not to quote me. I guess some have realized that people shopping this way are price shoppers and they don't want that type of buyer. Ultimately I think we searched every Ford dealer in Texas, ended up getting responses from 15-20 of them, and ended up buying from a little country dealer in Rockdale, which happened to be the lowest price and also only a 45 minute drive from Austin...
  20. New cars are easiest. 1) Locate every dealer of the make you're going after in a radius you're willing to go to, e.g. 100 miles, or "All of Texas." Call all of them and ask for their "Internet Sales" department. Get that guy's email address. 2) Go to toyota.com and spec out the exact car you want, every detail - it's new so make it how you want it 3) Email that spec to every address you collected (be sure to CC: them so they can see that they are competing) with this note: "Hi, I'm a cash buyer looking for a 2019 4Runner with the following spec (see attached). I will make a decision on who I buy through in the next several days, please send me your best offer on this specific model and options (no changes). 3a - optional) After you get a bunch of responses, narrow it down to the top 3 and email back #2 and 3 with #1's offer with this message: "Hi, you're currently in my top 3, but I received an offer for the same model/options from another dealer for $xx,xxx. I'd prefer to use you for this purchase - can you beat this deal?" 4) Make a decision taking into account price, location, dealer reputation, etc 5) Drive there and hand them a cheque, leave with your new vehicle You can also use online services like TrueCar to get in the ballpark. Another option is have UFCU or Costco do all this for you - they offer that as a service.
  21. These are dark days. There is so much that divides us: healthcare, taxes, immigration, #MeToo and #MAGA. Thankfully there is one topic that crosses party lines to bring us together: the objectification of hot women. This thread to provide that neutral ground where we can all contribute to the healing that our message board, and frankly our country, so desperately needs. I ask you to join me in posting pictures of hot women in politics and political reporting below. Together, we can make a better future - for our children. #HornofGabriel2020 Elizabeth Halseth - Nevada representative SE Cupp - Republican pundit Dana Perino - Fox personality Dana Loesch Erika Harold - (R) Candidate (twice) in Illinois Kyrsten Sinema - (D) congresswoman from Arizona, openly bisexual Crystal Ball - (D) candidate for Congress, political pundit Kate Bouldan - CNN personality Eva Kaili - Greece Orly Levy - Isreal Belinda Stronch - Canada Nikita Klæstrup
  22. Bomb throwers gonna throw bombs. Trump could line up and shoot every Democrat and use their stacked bodies to build the wall, and Coulter would complain that we didn't also use their children - TRUMP SURRENDERED!
  23. I'm probably 9 months behind you. I never in my wildest imagined the pain of putting on a jacket or lifting a suitcase into the overhead. It's even painful for me to get my arm in the right spot for squats. I'm desperately searching for a shortcut to the yearlong process of unfreezing this thing. So far my research has turned up only a few options: 1) Benign neglect - effectively do nothing other than light stretching to get back ROM. Deal with the pain for 12-36 months and hopefully it will clear on its own. 2) Aggressive PT - get stretched by a PT and do their routine. My Othopedist says it will be painful, might give me minor ROM improvements but won't really accelerate the process much. 3) Steroid shot - might help with pain but won't affect ROM; downsides to having multiple shots plus it fucks with my already fucked blood sugars. Another Ortho offered to put the shot all the way into the ball/socket, not above as they did before, but again, same up/downside. 4) Manual manipulation under sedation - they knock you out and push/pull your arm in ways that would have you screaming if you were awake. Try to break the joint capsule. They put in a nerve block and pain med catheter into the shoulder. A week+ of seeing the PT for more aggressive stretching. They claim it helps accelerate the process. Advised as painful, hence the block. I'm not wild about any of this, especially going under general anesthesia. Small risk of them factoring a bone as they jerk you around. 5) Shoulder hydrodilatation/hydrodistention - they inject your shoulder with a high volume of saline + a small amount of steroid to "distend" it and break the joint capsule. Treatment started in the UK and there aren't many providers in the US that offer it - in fact I can't find ANY in Austin that offer this treatment. Less pain than manual manipulation, studies say it recovers ROM quickly and accelerates the whole process. Local ortho's are clueless when I ask about it. Surgeons want to surgeon.
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