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I shopped at Brookshire’s Fresh when I lived in Tyler. It was right down the highway from me. I loved the gelato, fresh pasta, and specialty meats. My students were convinced I was rich. edit: Most of the kids came from impoverished backgrounds and Brookshire’s Fresh was an unattainable luxury...

Winn-Dixie is all right too. We have one HEB in my neighborhood but it's fairly limited. My commute takes me past two much nicer HEBs, two Buc-ee's, Costco, Kroger, Walmart, South Asian and African grocers, and any number of Latin American bodegas. The wife doesn't complain when I come back from...

I'm glad to hear that. Whenever I'm visiting the wife's folks in Florida I prefer to go to Publix. And that's when I hear "you should have gone to Walmart!"

I hate shopping at the local Walmarts. Hate it, hate it, HATE IT. I always feel like I'm in a public restroom whenever I set foot in them. I'm not saying all Walmarts are bad. The Honolulu location I visited was actually quite nice. I'm saying THESE Walmarts are awful. The intererios exude a...

I'm giving Walking Dead: The World Beyond a try. I would call it adequate so far. But just once, I want to see a good zombie prequel. Stop with the Mad Max atmosphere already. Give me well-nourished, well-dressed, healthy people watching their TVs and social media feeds as they gradually see the...

Or their classes are taught by football coaches who routinely give them a 99 on every report card so they can play on Friday. I am in periodic contact with some teachers from that high school I taught at. Most of the academically inclined kids escaped after graduation. A good number of athletes...

You know, South Park did an episode about rowdy parents in the stands. You get some sports Dads who live vicariously through their kids. These middle-aged men wanted so badly to play baseball for UCLA when they were boys, and they see their kid's athleticism as a second chance. I taught in...

It's not uncommon for people to save and download a comic if they hear that it will be blocked in the near future. But yeah, that small number is sad especially when I remember how it used to be. Between issues with his Dad and COVID, he just lost motivation.

Midterms are today. My exams are multiple choice and online, so I use a program that tells me who’s taking the exam and how long they’ve been at it. The students who have taken it thus far are doing quite well and taking most of the allotted time. I love those kids. Every time there is an...

I finally sat down at watched Cujo. It only took me 40 years. When Steve King wrote the novel, rabid dogs were a huge problem in the US. The idea of a huge dog like a Saint Bernard coming down with rabies would have sent chills through a lot of parents. I'm also noticing that kids in the late...

I know what you mean. I'm friends with a family in College Station and their eldest daughter had to attend one of those. At first I thought Mary Catherine Harris was a Catholic school, but it's really for kids who are at high risk of not graduating. Apparently the daughter's grades were in the...

I just learned that one of my friends in College Station passed away back in August. I didn’t know until I read some Silver Taps updates. It must have been sudden because she was active on Facebook almost until the end. I hadn’t seen her in the years since I moved out of town. Still, it’s a bummer.

I'm dreading visiting the in-laws this weekend. I just know they've been glued to FoxNews and shouting at the TV during this whole mess.

It’s always the little guys who feel like they have something to prove.

I'm enrolled in a faculty enhancement online workshop. It's extra pay and I might learn a thing or two. This workshop is about "fostering a culture of belonging." That's useful. I try to make my students comfortable in the classroom. If they're comfortable they're less likely to plagiarize...

I was feeding the feral kitties near my department building and two out of the three trust me now (the third one is undecided). One of them even tapped on my foot while I served up their food. Hopefully they can be fostered out in a month or so.

The Astros are my AL team since I moved to Houston. And the Padres finished with a winning record, so I'm quite pleased.

Allowing hate speech was and still is a huge mistake. Most developed countries penalize it and they're much better off. In the US, hate groups get to spread conspiracy theories because of the 1st Amendment, and they can arm themselves to the teeth because of the 2nd. The Bill of Rights has...

@ PatrThom Forest Village has some balancing issues and bugs that weren't addressed for years. Now they never will be. It looks like some mods get rid of the worst bugs, however. At any rate, Medieval Dynasty does everything Forest Village does, except better.

I actually called into Houston Public Radio with a similar comment. We graduated high school when the dot coms went under. Patriotism got weird after 9/11 and the US became blindly nationalistic. Seriously, I never saw people praising servicemen with "thank you for your service" before 2001...