Pretty darn cool. One of my fave Substacks is Bless Your Chart. Chris has some amazing sports viz's and shares his code. This one is treating a CFB box score as a baseball line score. I modified one for last week's TAMU-MSU game. He's definitely worth a follow. blessyourchart.substack.com

The lowest price in a long while, but I would like it to be cheaper. Maybe Black Friday? Or closer towards Christmas? I'm in no rush.

Tonight is the 1st meeting of my group project in one of my classes this semester. With my mood being incredibly dour with the news of my vehicle, I'm not sure I can deal with a bunch of twenty-somethings right now. I want some peace, please.

Update on the vehicle: it requires a costly repair. Joyful. Just joyful. As long as I've been in the habit of pulling from my retirement while I was unemployed earlier this year, I might as well do it one more time. smh

I arrived home just in time to see this. Amazing! Even better, my ATS model had Jacksonville "winning" with 3.5 points. I was the only one in that contest who had Jacksonville. Everyone else chose KC for the week.

Another bad week in Fantasy. Both of my teams lost, but the ATS Model went 10-4. In that contest, I currently have a comfortable lead: record is 48-30, and the next person is 42-36. But the season is long!

Can make some serious money in these class action suits.

Heh.

Amazon tracking will be the death of me. Had me at 9 stops away about an hour ago and in my neighborhood. Now it says 1 stop away, but the truck is racing away East. It's at least a few miles away now. Checked the front door in case they forgot to hit "deliver" but nope. smh

Found out what tonight's AMC Screen Unseen is. I wouldn't mind going to see this particular movie early, but damn, I don't like driving my dad's truck too much. Too f'ing big. Ha ha! And to park in a mall parking lot? Ugh. At least, at work tomorrow, there's plenty of space in the parking garage.

Well, good to know that Google had it right for once. I had entered the symptoms, and it nailed it. Now, I have to find out what the fix and cost will be. There's an easy fix and a very expensive, "oh f$%k" fix. Unlikely to get the car back today if the latter is the case.

It took a couple of hours, but the tickets finally went on sale. I'm really looking forward to this one.

Interesting. Apparently, we were granted 3.5 extra days off for the holidays. Trying to think if I've had that in the private sector. The only thing I can think of is when we had an extended shutdown of the Fab/plant*. And, in those times, we used what PTO we had, which usually meant bad news.

Darn it, wasn't paying attention, so I just noticed that this is on a Wed night next month. Under different circumstances, I'd drive up that day and stay the entire weekend to see the One O'Clock Fall Concert on the 17th as well. But why Wed? Boo.

Sleep didn't quite go as well last night for a WFH day today. About 5 hours of sleep. Not quite 4, but I could've used 7. Hoping I can make it up tonight for an RTO tomorrow.

It might be a little early, but it's weird that the Austin Drafthouse didn't get the Livestream Q&A for BUGONIA like Dallas did. Will keep an eye on the schedule, though, just in case.

Driving my dad's Ford F-150 while my vehicle is in the shop. Insane that my dad has a 2019 truck with only 16,000 miles on it! Jeebus!

I was about to say where, but a spot check shows that Samsung is ramping up hiring w/ almost 100 reqs up. Some of those have been there for a year, so I can't really count all of them, but it's a substantial increase from just a few months ago. Quick advice: pick the process technician reqs!

Was it me, or did Bad Bunny seem pissed off the second time he introduced Doja Cat? Or at least unhappy about something.

F' yeah. There ain't no way Manning is leaving for the NFL after this season. Give 'em one more year so that he comes to College Station Thanksgiving 2026!

Because the housemates are using someone else's YouTubeTV, it's only available on one TV. Sadly, that TV is not in my home office. I'm having ESPN withdrawals, though, and I'm trying to hold off on the $30/month subscription. But I'll definitely need ESPN when the college basketball season starts.

All right, after pulling my hair out at the vehicle service center and my randomly assigned partner for our HW assignment being an absolute idiot, let's look in on how Texas is faring in Florida... ...oh, my gosh. Go Gators (for this week only; next week in College Station will be different)!

Ugh, what a day. Took my car in for some maintenance. They thought they fixed it. Left the service center to do some errands; the issue was not fixed. Took it back, and they'll have it through the weekend. Yippee!

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I received confirmation from the UNT Jazz Studies Department that "Lab Band Madness" will now be held on Fridays at the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival. It's to avoid conflicts w/ the students who are in the UNT Mean Green Brigade (Marching Band). I'll have to remember to plan better.

I feel seen. Chatting with my boss (also a Former Aggie) about the Texas A&M football and college basketball exhibition games I'll be attending this month. She asked me, "Who do you go with to these?" Um...well, by myself. Don't have to worry about another's schedule.

First week going hybrid in the new job. Worked three days in the office, two at home (next week the opposite). Average number of hours of sleep the nights before I WFH: 7. Average number of hours of sleep the nights before the office: 4. WhyTF is that? Drives me nuts.

Uuf, UNT moved our graduation date from a Sunday afternoon to early Saturday morning in December. I was hoping to enjoy a leisurely afternoon ceremony rather than a wake-up-and-get-ready f'ing early ceremony. 🤣

I mentioned that, in my previous job, I created and maintained several data systems. Laying me off was not a great choice. I received a text* yesterday stating that yet another "thing" I made had broken, and people were scrambling.

I signed up for Py San Antonio. It's free and on a Saturday afternoon. www.meetup.com/alamo-python...

Fumble on the 1. Holy crap!

Thursday night with post-season baseball and Thursday Night Football, and this Wingstop only has three employees. The order board has 15 orders. Yikes!

The ability to place your order via QR code at the Drafthouse is back in Austin, at the Mueller location. They had tested it at Slaughter 1-2 years ago. Pretty seamless for me tonight. I left my ticket open for when the server came to drop off my order, so she saw the All-In pass and applied it.

Crap. Just realized that's the same weekend that I'll be busy going to a concert, a CFB game, and at least 1, maybe 2 CBB games. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Looking forward to this tonight!

Holy sheet!!

Great discussion!

I am totally reading this in the voice of Ralston Hill from 1776 (the movie). He was playing the role of Congressional Secretary Charles Thomson.

I've been so busy that I didn't even realize AMAT never called me back. They were going to call me to set up an on-site interview the week of the 15th, but never did. Dude was a brand-new manager who had never hired anyone before. I'm firmly entrenched, though.

40 years! I've been using it since 1993 myself. Lotus 1-2-3 before that.

Getting serious ALIEN: EARTH withdrawals. Sure would be nice to get a new episode tonight. Hoping to will it into existence...

May end up canceling the Denton trip this weekend. Can't leave until 3, which puts me in Waco at rush hour, Ft. Worth in late rush hour. I'll be lucky to get to Denton by 7. Parking, walking, etc., I'll be lucky to catch 2.5 Lab Bands. Just bad timing. Better to stay home.

Pretty rough week in fantasy. Lost in my IDP league, lost in the standard league. And my ATS model is going to end 6-10 (after going 10-6 last week) in that particular pool. smh

I saw RE-ANIMATOR for the first time, in its 4K restoration, tonight at the Drafthouse. As soon as I walked out, I saw the email about this next week at the Paramount here in Austin. I have nothing scheduled for next Monday night...

Today was my 1st day WFH with the new job. I'll still have to be back in the office 3 days this week and then 2 days next week, so I'm basically 50% WFH over 2 weeks. I'll receive my first paycheck either tomorrow or Wednesday as well. That will be hugely welcome, for damn sure!

Tonight I'm seeing a movie I've never seen before: RE-ANIMATOR. Very much looking forward to it. I just listened to a podcast about it a few weeks ago, and I've always been a huge fan of Mr. Combs. It appears to be the 4K theatrical restoration and is nearly sold out!

Oh, my gosh. The orange-flavored Celsius drink tastes horrible. Ugh!

Having both the University of North Texas and Texas A&M football teams undefeated at the moment is something to be proud of.

Just realizing that the Lab Bands play on Friday frustrates me a little more. I sold my Miss St-TAMU ticket b/c I thought I would be in Denton all day Sat. As it turns out, I could've made it down to College Station after all. I'll need a reminder that the Lab Bands play Fri now, I guess.

Fudge, I just noticed that the UNT Lab Bands are playing on Fri for the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival. Last year was the 1st year they played on Fri instead of Sat; some students play w/ the Marching Band at a competition (as part of the exhibition). I'm going, but I won't be there until 7. Damn!