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Apep

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  1. I couldn’t finish the ep. Not sure whose bright idea it was for a two-hour premiere on a Monday night with commercials. Shit. I struggle to watch the DVR’d recordings of 30-60 minute shows from Wednesdays and Thursdays by the next week.
  2. I don’t look forward to each week’s new episode of Picard. As bad as Discovery can be, at least they’re trying new things.
  3. I was the guy who had bad luck with Baratza. The first one I managed to break off the little plastic pieces while cleaning and the second appears to have been a lemon, jamming up bad after one cycle. I don’t have any problems with a manual grinder, so I’m sticking to that or something with blades for the time being.
  4. My 18 year-old son was recently diagnosed with depression. He moved to his college dorm in the fall and, after three weeks, basically stopped communicating with anyone and stopped going to classes. Now that he is home and seeing a psychologist he is getting better. Part of it feels like something both my wife and my mom have observed in their classrooms: Many young people got stuck during COVID. While my son seemed to be doing well, he was burnt out and a year-and-a-half of virtual classes left him the same age mentally/emotionally as he went into the pandemic. He was frozen in time. My wife says many of her sixth graders are stuck as third graders, their last full, normal year. My mom sees the same thing with her high school classes.
  5. Yeah. The $200-300 version that goes under the flat sheet, not the $1000 version with a fan and cooling and heating pads that goes under the fitted sheet.
  6. Skip the cooling mattress and just get a Bedfan and a good mattress. It’s a game-changer for only $2-300.
  7. I’m struggling with this season. The ideas are there, but the stories are not playing to the actors’ strengths. They’ve sapped the grit out of the captain. The treatment of the general borders on minstrel-like.
  8. One thing that ST is doing better than SW is not skipping weeks between different series. We don’t really need a breather.
  9. Meh. Can’t really say much about the new ep. It was all too conveniently quick. Not enough emotion from the right characters and too much from the wrong characters.
  10. https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/texas-man-sleeping-with-his-sister-kills-her-after-she-has-sex-with-another-man/ Dude didn’t know he had a sister in Guatemala. Meets her as an adult. They start fucking. He kills her with a baseball bat and I’m guessing a magic wand when she cheats on him.
  11. I’m thinking Rodriguez would have done better if this was not live-action. I think that was what he was going for, an homage to Rebels and Clone Wars and it didn’t work out.
  12. No. My son taught me a four-word opening sequence that makes it really easy.
  13. Apep

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  14. https://hypebeast.com/2021/12/lickable-tv-screen-japan-homei-miyashita?ref=thefuturist A Japanese professor has created a prototype lickable, flavored tv screen.
  15. Just to clarify: Most CPAs and EAs are lost when it comes to tax controversy. Even those CPAs that work in tax rarely specialize in controversy work and rarely seek it out. EAs, to be frank, are usually just glorified tax return preparers and I wouldn’t even call them CPA-lite in that context. However, a significant subset of EAs are either ex-IRS personnel who now work for the other side OR return preparers who became an EA so that they have the same rights as attorneys and CPAs when it comes to tax controversy work. You’re more likely to find an EA that does tax controversy than a CPA, because so many CPAs don’t even do tax work. And if you find a USTCP, they can take you the distance, all the way into Tax Court (if necessary), attorney not required.
  16. You want someone, either an Enrolled Agent or a CPA, who works in tax controversy. Ways to check include looking at their website. Are they an NTPI fellow? Are they a USTCP (United States Tax Court Practitioner)? Are they ex-IRS?
  17. Old is relative. It’s not just Tombstone. Far and Away is twenty-nine years old, so Nicole Kidman is an option. Shit, we got Drew Barrymore in 1994’s Bad Girls, Sharon Stone in the Quick and the Dead, Jodie Foster in Maverick, Salma Hayek in Wild, Wild West, Julianne Margulies in the Newton Boys, and the list goes on just for the 1990s.
  18. PT45 Beard Trimmer from the Beard Club. Use a Phillips Norelco Bodygroom 7000 for everything else.
  19. So YouTube is scrapping with Disney right before bowl season.
  20. Starting to look like last season was an anomaly. They are back with poor pacing, lack of character development, and a marked lack of patience. This most recent ep had a great, timely concept. But I do not care about a bunch of redshirt cadets. It must suck to be so outshone by Lower Decks.
  21. Got my Moderna booster yesterday, (had Pfizer the first two rounds). Drank tons of liquids yesterday and ate tons of food. It helped yesterday, but I woke up with severe body aches, fatigue, headache, moderate fever, and chills. Just took some advil with Jello and Gatorade and I’m feeling a little better.
  22. A few years back my main CPAP died so I used my travel machine until I could a replacement. It worked fine. The humidifier makes a difference for me and I'd never use a travel CPAP with an HME long-term if I had a choice. BTW, the CPAP bag doesn't count against the one carry-on and one personal item limit. You can even load it up with stuff in addition to the CPAP.
  23. You can buy gray market CPAPs without a prescription. But it is much easier to get CPAPs with a prescription. I’m getting a new one (after 13 years) so that I can buy a smaller travel CPAP and maybe have my insurance cover part of it.
  24. Try mouth tape. I have a beard and mustache and it still works fine.
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