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hookem2010

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  1. We are entering the 2nd trimester today. Just found out we're having a boy and all our genetic testing was low risk. Yesterday was a good day.
  2. They gave my wife a 3rd Moderna for whatever reason, but it kicked her ass. Fortunately for just a day this time rather than two with the second shot. I got Pfizer and felt nothing.
  3. Today's US at 11 weeks showed everything progressing as it should. It's beginning to feel real now, especially with the baby looking much more baby-like than last month.
  4. I assume it has been mentioned in the Boebert thread, but when there are over a dozen Republican congressfolks earning their own thread for going above and beyond with their insanity, racism, etc, it's hard to keep track of all their transgressions. God, they all suck so bad...
  5. I got my booster the other day, Pfizer to go with my original Moderna. No symptoms, but then I didn't really have any from the initial doses. Predictably, my wife was unable to get out of bed the first day after her shot due to severe chills and body aches, exactly like the last two times. It's infuriating that she voluntarily goes through that misery, despite being at minimal risk herself, and 30% of the country can't pull their heads out of their asses for 2 seconds to do something for the good of the rest of the country.
  6. Now that we are expecting one (same time frame as you, Shady Ray), I imagine we will want to go for two. Before we got pregnant, we frequently discussed having one and adopting one, as my wife is adopted herself. I guess we will we reevaluate as we get further into Round 1. So ready for prenatal visit #2 and getting out of the first trimester.
  7. Also, Desert Solitaite by Abbey. Given his overall attitude, might hit hard for a teenager especially
  8. It's Christmas book time again! I suck at fiction, but some adventure/wilderness non-fiction they might like... Undaunted Courage (Ambrose)- about Lewis and Clark Endurance (Lansing)- Shackleton getting stuck in the Antarctic ice and trying to survive Over the Edge of the World (Bergreen)- Magellan's circumnavigation Into Thin Air (Krakaeur)- probably familiar with this tragedy on Everest but I actually read this one in high school and loved it No Beast So Fierce (Hucklebridge)- man-killing tiger in India and the hunt for it Astoria (Stark)- about one of the first attempts at colonizing the Pacific coast Life and Death in the Andes (MacQuarrie)- each chapter highlights a different story from SA, from Darwin and the galapagos, to Escobar, to Butch Cassidy's last stand
  9. I know, haven't told friends or family yet. But just had to get it out somewhere.
  10. I'm scheduled to join the club for the first time on 6/11/22. We are just now 8 weeks, but initial US showed a strong heartbeat, so from what I can tell, miscarriage risk is now relatively low. We were not really trying, but it's amazing how quickly you get excited for something you didn't imagine happening anytime soon. I'll be 34 and she will be 31 when the baby is due, so now is as good a time as any.
  11. Snakes and spiders are generally OK with me, clearly. Roaches are gross but just a nuisance. Rats, especially inside a residence? Those can fuck right off. Alberta's keeping that shit locked down though.
  12. Yea, looked at another picture I took of it and it is a 7-legger.
  13. I did, hence the zero asterisks.
  14. Ironclad Beetle. They can supposedly survive being run over and going a month without food or water. Another member of their genus is used as living jewelry in the Yucatan.
  15. 'Tis the season for creepy shit. As I was scrolling through my snake pictures, I realized I have collected quite a few arachnid photos as well. Jumping spiders in particular are super cool and really seem to check you out. About time to invest in a macro camera lens. Pictured below are a very large wolf spider, banded fishing spider, yellow garden spider feeding, bold jumping spider and two other jumping spiders I can't ID.
  16. Following up on a previous post, Fox News anchor promotes Covid vaccine, gets death threats from viewers. I am fortunately not subjected to Fox News anymore now that I don't spend time in Texas doctor's lounges, so I don't know what he's like on a daily basis, but Cavuto at least has several instances of demonstrating that he is a sane human. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1049664531/fox-anchor-neil-cavuto-covid-19-vaccine-death-threats?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
  17. Collection from Hamilton pool the last several months (using zoomed in phone up to binoculars). Water moccasin ×2, diamondback water snake, blotched water snake, rough green snake and red-striped ribbon snake. I've stepped right over a juvenile water moccasin, and the adults are constantly by the pool, entirely ignoring visitors. Those things "aggressive" reputation is bullshit.
  18. A story in 3 parts. I don't think Donnie has forgiven us for Mango'ing up his golden years.
  19. Covers of the books mentioned above
  20. Bunch of Native American books popping up recently. I've read a bunch of them, and agree that Empire of the Summer Moon was perhaps the best. I recently read 'The Earth is Weeping', which essentially was a summary of all the Indian wars I had read about previously, but consolidated and abridged a bit. Great way to learn about all the western tribes (and how they were routinely, and predictably fucked by the US Govt). The Ice at the End of the World was a great book about Greenland, spanning epic Scandinavian explorers to the present-day scientists giving us a front-row preview of how and why climate change is going to fuck our shit up. Great combination of non-fiction adventure and science. I'm currently reading 'Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art'. It gets a bit dry when talking about stone technology, but the information archaeologists are able to tease out of shattered bones, chipped rocks and ash deposits on rock walls is crazy. I also learned about Bruniquel Cave for the first time. It kind of looks like a Paleolithic Thujone creation, but imagining hominids nearly 10,000 GENERATIONS ago creating something that is clearly symbolic and not simply functional blows my mind. I would love to go back and observe the world 50,000-100,000 years ago, as the Neanderthal, human and insane ice age world collided.
  21. I feel like this is as good a place as any to discuss the biodiversity crisis, as it often overlaps with climate change, although not in this instance. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048336907/elephants-tuskless-ivory-poaching-africa
  22. It's not really an all-or-none proposition. Even if we don't cap warming at 1.5 degrees C (we won't), it certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prevent 3+ degrees of warming.
  23. Can someone else marry Bezos, take more of his billions, and donate it? We need many more MacKenzie Scott's, since DC clearly isn't going to get it done.
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