CobaltBlue

Hope everyone's doing well. I got sick for a few days the weekend before last and was Covid-worried...but test turned out negative.

Before my nephew, I had a few relatives that had it...but it took 4-5 months for it to really reach my circle. I wasn't even advocating for anything policy-wise. I was just saying, "Hey, let's not completely dismiss the notion that this thing is going to only affect old/immuno-compromised people." As for me, my sister is immuno-compromised, and my wife also doesn't have the best immune system...so we've done the best we've can to be careful and minimize exposure.

He hasn't been hospitalized and hasn't had trouble breathing or anything, but he has just generally felt awful (throwing up and sweats) for a couple of weeks. (He tested Covid positive.) I think part of the concern isn't just death...it's that a lot of these folks could have long-term health effects. So even taking the somewhat cynical/pragmatic view of looking at things from an economic perspective...that's probably not going to help us.

My otherwise healthy nephew is 18 and has been having a hard time battling Covid for the past two weeks.

I don't get flu shots, but probably should. My wife had a pretty negative reaction when she got a flu shot a number of years ago, so she's avoided them since. (We're both very pro-vaccine otherwise.)

Thoughts? (I thought it was excellent.)

I was curious. You're in the middle or on the left? (I think I recall you said you had a brother.)

This goes into a lot of the history of the statues: Growing up in Georgia/Tennessee/Alabama, there definitely were some remnants of the Lost Cause in the past few generations. I will say that there's a level of resentment that I internalized as a Southerner. I had a decently thick accent as a kid, but I got mocked since there's a stigma that people with the accent are stupid. As a result, I consciously shed it...and now people are surprised when I tell them I'm from there.

It's a really great movie. Love the suit. Love the music. Love the visuals. Love the pudding subplot.

That tracks.

Maybe someone should make a dating site for people that have already had the Coronas.

I met my wife on Match. She was the only one I ever went on a date from on there. This was after using eharmony off and on for years. Think what service you're using generally depends on what you're looking for.

I should probably pull this thread up on my iPad since I'm so rarely on my desktop anymore. Played poker 4 times in January and have not yet played in February. Work has picked up a bit. Not killing myself with 55-60 hour weeks like last year, but putting in a steady 40-45. Mixed bag of kids per usual. Some are high achievers that put in excellent work...some I can barely get them to write a legible/intelligible sentence.

Can't tell if there's sarcasm there, but it was pretty fun for the most part. It was 6-max, so that was kind of cool. The first couple of hours were kind of annoying since I dwindled down as this guy was running over the table (he busted at least 6 people in the first two hours, so we mostly played 3-4 handed), but I caught fire after that. Was relatively smooth sailing after. Just won pretty much all of my flips. Only had 300k of 1.8m 3-handed, but then go moving again. Went into HU at down 600k to 1.1m, but got a decent double. Then we just mostly traded blinds for while before I got him pre

Since my kids were in daycare on the 30th, but I didn't have to work, I decided to hop over to Kennel Club and play a $125 $50 KO tourney. Was my first time playing live since August. Ended up running pretty hot, picked up 8 bounties, and won the thing. Nice little $2k profit. Certainly a positive way to close out the year.

Pretty quiet around here, eh?

From what I understand, the film departed from the book with regard to the ending. I'm not sure though. I only watched the movie once when it came out, and I'm currently about halfway through the book.

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that it's a sequel to the graphic novel.

The first episode was intriguing.