Texsox

Yeah, Colorado City is huge with over 4,000 residents. It's like having the mayor of Caseyville, Illinois representing Illinois politicians.

Balta, why did you ever move to Texas? You hated it before you ever got here. Haters gotta hate.

Do you prepare for a once in a hundred year event? What backup do you have in place for 100 days over 100 degrees? That's our norm in south Texas and our power grid handles it without a hiccup. Try that in Chicago. Most homes rely on electric heat here because we don't heat very often. The systems are built around summer cooling. Why invest billions of dollars in a system that might be used once every 50 or 100 years?

23 hours without electric. House was down to 41 degrees. It's baseball weather

Thank you. It's been 25 years since I drove regularly in snow. We're all staying home. The biggest challenge is most of Texas heats with electric. Our electric grid is in a stage 3 emergency situation which means rolling random blackouts. We have about fifteen minutes of electricity every hour. Most of the wind turbines are off line due to freezing.

I wonder if this changes anyone's mind about TLR and relationships with players.

Tried to get him cheap.

Hendriks was captivated and charmed, particularly by La Russa. They knew each other from ARF, the Animal Rescue Foundation founded by La Russa and his wife, Elaine, in which Liam and Kristi donated their time and money. “Tony would come down to our clubhouse in Oakland and we would talk," Hendriks said. "I loved his mindset on the way he manages. He knows how to run a bullpen. I mean, he was the one who established that closer’s role with Denis Eckersley. “I appreciated his old-school vibe. If a guy is pitching well, let him pitch. I told him I always want that ball.’’

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2021/02/15/liam-hendriks-white-sox-free-agent-contract/4486039001/ I posted this elsewhere but it probably needs its own thread.

This snow and ice should keep people distanced for a few days. But many of the vaccination locations are shut down.

Yuch. Several inches of snow overnight. Lost electric several times. Fortunately not for too long each time and the house stayed warm. This is a student holiday and teacher workday. I was going to be on Zoom conferences all day anyway. My landscaping is taking a pounding. I'm estimating $1,000 and a couple years growth time will be lost. The growth time is the saddest. No instant fix at any cost.

Twentyfive years ago the first words of Spanish I learned was adios frio. There was ice outside of my glass. The only salt I wanted was on the rim of a margarita.

We just spent over 24 hours below freezing and it's getting worse. I've seen forecasts of it getting down to 9 by tomorrow afternoon here in south central Texas. I can't believe I would be out ice fishing in this shit. I'm huddling in my upstairs staying warm. Holy crap y'all must really be suffering up nort' I did buy a new shirt. It's a big ol Texas flag with Secede? Y'all Better Hope We Don't Invade across the front. Now I realize you'll stop us with this cold weather crap.

When it gets around freezing here in Texas some school districts use a weather day and keep everyone home. I'm reminded of my first experience with this and hearing all the districts that closed but we were open. I was getting ready for my commute on possibly icy roads when a coworker responded to a social media post I made complaining about leaving my warm home to drive on frozen streets. He pointed out how our school building was the only warm building some of our students had to go to. The poorest of our families do not have furnaces to keep them warm. Perhaps a small fire. Perhaps they have enough blankets. I wiped the tears and drove my humble ass to school and said a thank you for all my blessings. It's inconceivable to me that we still have folks in America that risk dying when it's too cold or too warm. Stay warm y'all.

Tex says howdy. Y'all staying warm? It's colder than a cast iron commode here in central Texas.

It's almost unbelievable.

I'm referring to the OEMs that buy chips so they can manufacture their products. Ford has the buying power to go directly to the manufacturer. Smaller companies aren't buying directly from AMD, TI, Motorola, etc but through component distributors who are authorized to carry those products. So for example if you need 10,000 ICs, you will be routed through a distributor. During allocations those distributors do quite well.

Thank you for sharing. I'm laughing at the absurdity of it all. It's like Prohibition era, trying to buy booze, acts. I'm not going to blame any single politician or political party because a failure on this scale requires everyone fucking up. I think we could have done better.

BTW smaller and medium size customers of chips buy through authorized distributors like AVT and ARW. When a components are in short supply profits go up.

JC Penny at 18. I ran up a few hundred dollar balance and it took forever to pay off. First Visa at 22, ran up a $1,000 weekend golf trip tab including taking a cash advance to cover my bets. That was taking forever to pay off and after paying the minimum payment for five years I discovered how the credit card trap works. I can't imagine how much trouble I would have been in if I was given a six figure line of credit. I'd still be in debt.

Exactly why I backed off. But it is mindblowing that a twenty year old could be given an opportunity to run up a big six figure debt. How difficult would it be for that kid to get a credit card with even a $75,000 limit? Hell did he qualify for even a $7,500 Visa? Perhaps this is linked to my complaint about student loans. Kids with no financial experience can put themselves in a huge financial hole that will impact the rest of their lives.

A hospital a couple hours away keeps posting on Facebook they have extra vaccines and to come on by, no waiting. Again WTF? Go on Facebook to find a vaccine. Amateur's hour. At least I was able to register on line and am waiting for an appointment time.

Thank you. So, how the hell does a 20 year old kid get in a position that he could lose even 15 or 50k? I started to write he should have been restricted to a cash only account. But then I can see why there shouldn't be general restrictions. I'm realizing what a neophyte I am. ETFs, a couple mutual funds, a few single stocks.

I was just reading another story about this kid and was wondering, this is a right hand left hand kind of deal. RH showed the kid down 750k but somewhere else he was close to 750k ahead. I wonder if their platform would have allowed him to cash out the 750k and run like hell. The more I read the more my heart breaks for the kid and his family.

Here, it's call and hope you get through. Seems like there should be an on line registration where you could verify any circumstances that would move you up.