I see that Dish Network is now battling the NFL Network and they are no longer carrying them. Same for Sling, which Dish owns.

In the 20 or so years I had Dish, it was extremely rare that I watched this channel, even when they had games on. I probably went several years in a row without ever stopping on 154, which is what channel it was on.

I see that Jen Ohlson is still pushing her fitness software company, International Health Technologies out of Austin. I figured that since Texas uses different software for their school fitness tests that she would fail, but she's still at it and doing ok.

Good for her.

I can’t stop watching Jake Vale farting videos. I’m immature

Had to stay late for a school board meeting, but it was still daylight when I drove home. There was a damn stupid deer in the exact same damn place where I hit the last one. And it was thinking about making a run for it. Fortunately, it didn't happen. But there's always tomorrow.

I don't know man, maybe I should have started a thread called "watch Hoob fail to keep the fucking scorpions out of his house."

Did the customary blacklight on the wall last night, noticed one near the air conditioner, where I think they are coming in. One swat with the shoe fixed that.

For the heck of it, I shone it around the rest of the house and a pretty big one came out of the area where the ceiling fan connects to the ceiling, took a look around and then went back into the ceiling. I sprayed the shit out of the area and about 90 minutes later, I finally was able to sleep.

When I came home from work tonight, it was on the floor, nearly dead.

I need to move.

Are you putting down a chemical barrier inside AND outside? The chemical barrier isn't an instant kill, so if you only spray something inside they'll still be moving around a bit before it affects them.

I found a dead possum under the bird feeders this morning. I strongly suspect it was the Catahoula that killed it, but she has held up under intense questioning and has exhibited zero signs of remorse. She is a G-face killa, that dog and steps to like a mug.

You can learn a lot about yourself when presented with situations such as carcass removal. I am a pussy. I got the heebie jeebies like you wouldn't believe when I closely inspected it and even more so when i lifted its not yet rigor mortised but not all the way limp body onto the shovel, especially when its thick tail, white like braided rope, dangled from the side.

You didn't do the ol' pick-up-with-an-inside-out-plastic-bag-a-la-dog-poop-clean-up trick?

I'm a pussy about dead animals, too. Years ago we had a dead bun-bun on the side lawn. Forensics determined that it died by choking to death after nibbling on a soaker hose. I disposed of the carcass with a shovel and a trash bag.

And just this morning, I went downstairs during a work break to find two kittycats in the front room just chillin' with a crippled lizard between them. Not sure the exact type of lizard since I'm not a herpetologist. Some have suggested that they are aneids, which is a type of salamander, and therefore an amphibian, but I don't know anything about those either. Point is, the cats brought a fuckin' lizard in the house and someone had to throw it away. I grabbed a couple paper towels so I wouldn't directly touch the icky thing, picked it up, and put it in the trash.

<---real big pussy about these things

I do, but I guess I need to do it better. I've seen a couple in the house in the past month that were nearly dead. And a few that had plenty of life in them.

You should call my guy

Twins. Has there ever been a set of twins that one is grossly obese and the other is super skinny? Or are all of them the same size as the other?

I have twin half-sisters. Both of them and their mother got pretty fat. 6 or 7 years ago one of them flew to Tijuana with their mom and got thumb stomachs (apparently it's a lot cheaper in Mexico). Mom and sis lost a bunch of weight, though neither ever got "super skinny". Mom gained quite a bit back. Sis gained some back as well but she's not nearly as heavy as her sister.

Back when people still cared about herpes ('01 or so) I worked with an older black lady that referred to it as "the erp". She would say things like "yeah you know these kids run around like they gon live forever 'til the get the erp and get brought down to earth". Took me a minute to figure out what she was talking about. I've never heard anyone else silence the "h" in herpes, black or otherwise.

My dad seems to work in the word humble more than most and always silences the h. He also over stresses the “um”. It bugs me. He is white.

I miss orneadman.

Me too.

I read an article in Forbes earlier “Why Texas is in Trouble.” It detailed the bloated government employee salaries. Last year there were over 78,000 state and local government employees making more than 100k. Public school superintendents did surprisingly well. For instance, Carroll ISD’s super pulls in $452,014. Grand Prairie and Prosper also cracked the top 10 at 429k & 374k respectively. Not sure where hoob ISD is. He must be rich though.

Another shocker. The city manager in Laredo pulls in $880,486. Little Elm was 2nd at $574,594.

I often wonder how I screwed up my career path so bad that I can't feasibly afford the average house in DFW. Even in Euless which has traditionally been pretty affordable, the new homes being built in the last 5-10 start in the high 300s and just go up from there. They can't build them fast enough. What the heck are these jobs that are paying enough for these? It damn sure isn't project management in the sign industry. :/

The superintendent at my previous school talked about this one day. He said that even with a superintendent's salary, he was having a hard time building a house that he could afford. He makes $135,000 at a 3A school. Fuck that guy from now on, but he's right.

I saw a vacant fixer-upper brick house for sale near Bonham State Park and I looked it up on the tax rolls. It was only $87,000. I would love to retire there and ride the trail every day, but I guarantee you that place has squirrels and raccoons in it.

They are california my texas. That's why

Digital thermometers are up to $100. Battrees not included.

There is a semi annual intimates sale going on at Kohl’s right now-Aug 30. We’re talkin bras and panties.

I immediately pictured Johnny from Airplane! blurting out, "There's a sale at Penny's!"

Picked up trash along my road today as usual.

The good news: there wasn't much trash at all, which is unusual.

The bad news: somebody took a dump in the ditch about a quarter of a mile from here. They used napkins to wipe and left it all there.

People are damn pigs.

everybody poops

I adopted a cat a few months ago. Wait a minute. Let me start over.

A damn cat showed up a few months ago and not wanting any animal to starve, I fed it. It thanked me by having four damn kittens. Now the little bastards are tearing shit up on my front porch, which I have renamed the damn cat porch.

It's 9:15 and I can hear stuff rattling around right now. It's a matter of time before they go all snow monkey on me and ride one of my bicycles off into the woods.

I'm a borrowed .410 away from being done with them.

Hoob, you need to collect those little shits and get them either adopted or to a shelter (preferably no-kill). A shelter will spay and neuter them before they let them be adopted. Soon those 4 will turn into 40. Ferals love to fuck, man.

I never poop in admin because it's a portable building. I figured the sounds would echo throughout the place.

The main area of the building is a community office type setting with a half dozen desks sitting there. One desk had a container of Metamucil sitting out in the open.

I say out loud, "Wow, I've made it this long in life, and until now, I've never seen a bottle of that stuff just sitting on a desk."

One of the secretaries immediately says, "You should hear him in action after he takes it. It sounds like he's playing some sort of musical instrument in there."

good lord

With all of the rednecks out here frying turkeys outdoors, it is damned impossible to find propane on Christmas Eve.

I'm working from home today in the kitchen and noticed a real RJ-11 phone jack here. I bet today kids have no idea what that jack is used for. These kids nowadays are so dumb.

That's what I used to plug my Atari 300 baud modem into and after that my Hayes 1200 baud modem. Those were better times.

When I had TWO lines in the house, one for phone calls, one for downloading crap on Usenet, life was wonderful. Those were better times indeed.

hell yeah.

I'm starting to get beaten down by YouTubeTV not carrying Fox SW. I'm not the world's biggest Stars and Mavs fan, but the option to watch would be kind of nice. I'm not ready to surrender and go back to cable yet, but baseball season will drive me there. And regardless of how dogmatic Mark Cuban is about it on Twitter, I'm not going with the piece of shit AT&T app.

Out in the hinterlands, we don't have a choice except for DirectTV. I love the Rangers, but I'm not doing satellite for a last place team. And knowing my luck, DirectTV will stop showing FSSW as well.

Funny how Cuban discovered that the situation was more complicated than he thought it was. He went from saying an agreement was going to happen to actually sounding sympathetic to Sinclair Broadcasting. Eff them all. Or as a former Ticket host once said while getting a haircut, "Eff everybody in here."

The inflated TV deals will hopefully be a thing of the past soon. The athletes won't like it.

Cuban pretty much took the stance of "if you picked a service that doesn't have a deal with the regionals, sucks to be you". I tend to think the leagues will step in at some point since so many fans are being left in the dark, but not if they have sweet sponsorship arrangements with AT&T like Cuban.

And not that I'm watching much there anyway, but NBCSN is shutting down by the end of the year. Several of their contracts are expiring soon and the content that's left is going to the big network, USA, and Peacock.

A good chunk of EPL is already on Peacock.