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The doc prescribed 42 oxy pills, she took one of them and quit.  She was in a lot of pain pre-op, and tells me her pain level post-op has been largely zero.  She has some quad soreness at times, no doubt because the surgeon moved it around to inspect her hip and femur.  (This was a hip revision, nor replacement, he swapped out the ball with a new ceramic one).

I think interval training is very good, I usually run a mile at a slow jog and then walk and start 100 m "sprints" and walks.  I'm amazed at two things really, first is how much has changed in 30 years, most of which was sitting, and second, how much I have improved trying to get into shape (a bit).  It is MUCH tougher mid-60s.

I play baseball each January in Florida and my legs give out too soon.  My shoulder is a total mess of torn meniscus so I can't throw hard enough to really have additional arm soreness.  I am thinking about getting it scoped, it's starting to bother me in routine activities.  I tore it as a junior in HS first game of the year.  It was cold and I tried to over throw.

Costco is a madhouse around the holidays.  I'm fortunate enough to have a very flexible work schedule, so I'll only go there at something like 9:30 AM on a Tuesday or Wednesday.  Occasionally my i s c & a aggie wife decides to go on a weekend, and she knows better than to ask me if I'll join.

What state are you in?  Pretty good prices here in TX close to the tap. 

Gasoline prices generally reflect state taxes more than proximity.  Georgia used to have very low taxes and I'd always fill up here, but now they are about the same as neighboring states.  The highway system was neglected for decades before about 1968 due to insider shennigans one could see on the map.  They finally got a decent head of the DOT who changed that but it takes time.  I went to school with his son.

For example, I-85 was rerouted south because the then governor was from a small town south of the obvious route (Lavoinia).  South Carolina had already built a segment which now would not match the new path.  You can see that on the map today.  So, the route missed larger towns of Gainesville and Athens and went through sparsely populated parts of the state.  I-16 was the same way as the DOT head was from Soperton.

Metro Atlanta has 60% of the state's population now and for decades lacked the political power to get its share of the funding.  Our sales tax now is nearly 9% in part to try and compensate for that past history.

But, it's worth it for us.  A 200 acre park is across the street from our condo and we go there almost every nice day.  We don't really need a car, but have one (down from two).

The price of gas today is (slightly) less than it was in 1980 when adjusted for inflation.

It takes a lower percentage of real median income than it did back when.  And it's higher quality gasoline by some metrics.  (I'm not a fan of the ethanol part.)

Is Herman keeping his job a good thing or otherwise?

When John Blake was running the OU program from the definition of mediocrity (Schnellenburger's 5-5-1 season) into the dirt, a lot of OU fans were hoping for losses so that he would get fired ASAP.

That's not a good comparison, because Herman hasn't reached that level of mediocrity, much less the depths to which Blake reached.

Herman wasn't going to be fired at 6-6.  So he's not going to be fired at 7-5.

I hope he takes this opportunity to upgrade coaching for defense and special teams, and somehow improve offensive playcalling.

If he doesn't, then next year's record will look similar to this year's record, and another year worse than 8-4 would absolutely get him fired.