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  1. yes, and I think the UK banned their beef as well recently, so maybe this is some kind of retaliation??
  2. Great effort by UCLA receiver to score
  3. Huge runs by UCLA to both sides of the line…the direction does not matter
  4. Hoping for payback against an LSU buddy who wouldn’t shut up about their win against us…hoping UCLA wins it he hasn’t replied to any of my texts thus far…
  5. Huge catch and run there…UCLA in for score 31-20 12:28 left in 4Q
  6. Wow…not a hold there
  7. Appreciate it. Yes, we ended up hiring an attorney and he’s advising a course of action.
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    05

    I get a bit nervous every time I hear the Craig Way call on that play “all the dreams, all the hopes for the national championship come down to this one play”
  9. The lawyer’s name is Douglas Schapiro. Unique last name. link to his FL bar profile… https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/profile/?num=54538
  10. We’re the landlords, the restaurant is the tenant, but we (landlord) are being threatened with the suit.
  11. Agreed. Total scam - they are in it for claiming their attorney’s fees as damages. There are no other damages to the plaintiff. The plaintiff and the attorney MUST have a fee sharing agreement and I don’t see how that’s not unethical. Also, I have no idea how a FL attorney can practice in Texas (even though this would be in Fed court due to ADA) without being registered by the Tx Bar. In their letter they sent us a picture of the plaintiff, who was in a wheelchair, as well as his $16 receipt for the food he bought. This is the attorney’s firm…https://www.schapirolawgroup.com This same attorney and plaintiff have filed 18 lawsuits in Texas this year.
  12. We were sent a pre-suit notice threatening a lawsuit in 2 weeks unless we paid some Florida lawyer for this attorneys’ fees for alleged ADA violations at a restaurant. It’s not a huge amount of money, but a nuisance lawsuit threat. Did some digging and the same lawyer has filed 18 lawsuits on behalf of the same plaintiff in Texas this year alone. Thoughts or referrals?
  13. Trying to decide on a new W & D. We had a front load Samsung washer and a dryer that we bought in 2009 and they were fantastic. Not one issue. We moved into a house with a Maytag WD. The washer is a top loader with impeller and it sucks - basically twists all of our clothes and doesn’t clean well. The dryer is ok, but has a lint screen that pulls up from the top of the machine and leaves a mess when we go to empty it. Thinking about going back to Samsung, but reading the comments on here, it sounds like they’ve gone downhill since we bought our first ones.
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    Wine

    Late last year we moved to the Portland, OR area (Vancouver, WA) and looking to try some local wine from WA or OR. Any recs for wine that we should try or wineries to visit? We’re huge fans of reds (more on the dry side). In fact, we have some 2005 Rauzan-Segla that we’re looking to try soon and will post the pics when we do.
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    Getting old sucks

    Before they put you on a bunch of BP medication, get yourself a good BP monitor and write down your BP twice a day. Just to confirm, but I’m no doctor.
  16. Sorry to hear about that HouTex, it’s very tough to watch your dad (and family) go through that. If you need to reach out to chat, feel free to DM.
  17. Absolutely all of this. Each person has different symptoms, but they all seem to revolve around some WTF actions that just seem out of the norm. It much more than just memory lapses or forgetting why you walked into a room or what you were doing - it’s truly odd behavior. As far as I know, there is no medical test for dementia or Parkinson’s, but they are diagnosed through clinical observation and physical “tests”, like those described above. It definitely sucked for my dad, who was in such good shape all his life, but during the last few years, could not lift a spoon to feed himself. Another bit of advice is to closely monitor the caregiver (usually the spouse) and my mom in our situation. She had to do everything for my dad, feed him, get him dressed, shower him and she’s getting up there in age, so it really takes a toll on the caregiver. We finally decided that she needed help and got a series of nurses to help pretty much around the clock (after going the memory care route). If you’re financially able to swing that, I would advise that instead of the memory care home.
  18. Hang in there, Armybrat, you have plenty more time to annoy the youngsters. A caution about the memory care facilities for those of you having to go that route - take note of the medicine(s) the memory care facility is giving your loved ones. We found out later that they were giving my dad all kinds of sedatives that would knock him out for large chunks of the day. Not a doctor, so not sure if this was right, but certainly none of us were told that they had started those meds and we didn’t find out until later what they were giving him.
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