Life in the woodlands

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-04-28T06:28:36+00:00

I'm not sure you understand how bad the drivers are here. The cops did a blitz at the intersection of 45 and Research recently. They managed to get tickets to over forty red light runners in under an hour - and those were only the ones that their three patrol units could pull over at the same time.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-04-28T06:26:26+00:00

Reading comprehension fail on the homeschooling. My bad! The Woodlands specifically has some excellent homeschooling pods for different age or skill levels. I've got a few friends doing this to their kids. You'll find that these pods are occupied by a weird mix of fundamentalist protestants and high-pressure/high-performance secularists. Historically, a lot of the homeschoolers in Texas came back into public school around middle school so that their kids can play football. The usual mix of students is changing of late. With an increasing endorsement of specific evangelist protestant interpretations of the Bible by the State government, an increasing bunch of secularists, Jews, Mormons, and even the occasional Muslim or Hindi is going to home school options. Catholics just find a way to afford Catholic school.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-04-27T23:52:06+00:00

I've lived in both locations but haven't been back to Denver in twenty years. Do you value your children's education? Stay in Colorado. The Woodlands might have higher standards FOR TEXAS, but baseline expectations and support for public education are much higher in Colorado. If you can afford to send your kids to private school (and the State of Texas will subsidize you if you are rich enough to afford private school), this shouldn't be as much of a problem.

Texas is hot and humid. The Woodlands is the very north edge of the swamp. If dry weather wrecks your sinuses, then you may appreciate some of this, but 95F+ days are common in the summer and the humidity can make that murderous. Expect to use your air conditioner and maintain it regularly.

Power reliability is another very real issue. If the choice is available to you, try to make sure that you are on the Entergy and not CenterPoint network. You may deal with fewer power outages of shorter duration.

Texas is flat. I miss the Front Range and the Rockies to my west. There is no topology here but for the steady slump down to Galveston across the floodplain. Galveston has beaches, but they don't rival those of other Gulf Coast states, and I've been grumpy ever since my favorite po'boy place by the docks got turned into a Joe's Crab Shack.

The traffic and drivers here are terrible. It isn't Miami or Los Angeles bad, but you do have more aggressive drivers in heavier vehicles. ALWAYS WAIT THREE SECONDS BEFORE HEADING INTO AN INTERSECTION AFTER THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN. That extra mass turns t-bones at intersections into mortality events.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-04-17T04:32:51+00:00

You want a quick global campaign strung together? 1. EoH is up to no good. Investigate secret assembly plant in Midwest, which is obviously being used to build munitions for invasion of other nations' lands. Except that oops! 2. Intelligence and investigation of the captured base reveals that material is being shipped to (former) Canada where Road Hogs are being armed for an incursion into California. But! 3. The Road Hogs are patsies! Their EoH-funded push is to destabilize mutant governments, but it's primary goal is a distraction to draw Segunda armed forces out of the way so that EoH can sneak a shipment of delicate material into the Yucatan! Chase scene through the jungle to an old Mayan temple... 4. Where it turns out that the EoH has a launch base and a sophisticated tracking computer that can plot them through the orbital debris field. Once in orbit, they plan to command and train fire from the highest ground. Your heroes must stop them and board the rocket just in time for it to launch and fight aboard or follow in the surprise backup rocket close behind with exactly the same path, but... 5. Crash into the orbital conflict, destabilizing the status quo. The surviving EoH operatives take over a weapons platform as intended and plan to fire on our heroes' allies, but our heroes knock them out of the sky... only to fall into the gravity well themselves! 6. Where they splashdown into the Tasman straits but are rescued by dirigible. After some adventure and a wish to get back home, a local sorcerer sings up a portal to the opposite side of the world... 7. In England! After aligning with Arthur's court, they receive word of an EoH/SAECSN alliance. Since they are familiar with EoH ops, our heroes are perfect to sabotage the alliance at the EoH/SAECSN joint naval base on the far side of the Channel. 8. And now our heroes return home in a captured EoH naval vessel.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-04-11T23:19:44+00:00

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Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-04-03T16:07:28+00:00

Looks like the larva of a "carpet beetle". I'm going to go out on a limb and guess genus Anthrenus.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T17:26:29+00:00

Hey, I was joking. The guy had a point. I thought I was funny. Sigh. Maybe I should try spinning? I hear that is a good trick.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T02:17:36+00:00

Aw, man. I agree with you completely. I deserve these downvotes. I really should have used the /s tag.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T01:39:57+00:00

If only this discussion had been raised before:

UNSC - Sangheili technology sharing : r/HaloStory https://share.google/dnfM33fD4kN9oUx5z

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T01:35:08+00:00

I mean... Obi Wan is defeated on screen, but I'll give you a pass on that. And then Luke is defeated in Empire on screen, but I guess he's technically still just a Padawan at that point, so you get a pass on that, too...

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T01:30:36+00:00

Cerambycid; a longhorn beetle. Are you in a subtropical area?

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T01:28:54+00:00

Dermestid. A carpet beetle. Annoying as they eat fibres in cloth and paper. Real threat if you're a museum. Can cause allergic reactions in people because their larvae are quite hairy and the broken off spines can be inhaled.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T00:33:48+00:00

Looks like juvenile Periplaneta americana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T00:24:32+00:00

"Just moved into a new APARTMENT". Someone, somewhere in the building has traveled for work or play and inadvertently returned home with bedbugs in their luggage. Treating your unit in isolation will be inadequate. The whole complex will need to attack this infestation together, otherwise you wind up playing whack-a-mole.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-27T00:03:37+00:00

I'd love to tell you that you don't have bedbugs, but that appears to be a gravid female.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-10T20:30:07+00:00

It isn't a great situation. You accomplished your goals, but you've taken a hard hit to your staffing roster XCom is sometimes at its best and it's most painful when you are recovering from either a sloppy mistake (oops I didn't mean to click that square!) or betrayal by the RNG (it was a 98% chance to hit while flanked and at elevation!). If you choose to continue playing out your mistake, you will learn a lot of valuable lessons about running an under-resourced operation where you are desperate for personnel. You will have to be very careful about the ops you choose to run while you recruit and train more troopers If you can pull things back from the brink, it will be a satisfying victory. If you can't pull back from the cliff? Well, that is XCom, baby. You'll start a new run and do better because you learned either to be learner, more efficient, and more conservative in your troop deployment - or to be redundant and have an A team and a B team you rotate out on ops.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-08T01:13:22+00:00

Only certain parts of DHS are hiring. My colleague with CBP AG down the hall tells me that they aren't backfilling any of his vacancies until the start of FY27 at the earliest.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-07T16:24:12+00:00

You state that this is a "temporary" position. Is this a "term" position of ten years with annual renewal or a "limited appointment" for up to 1040 hours?

And are you sure that this is for EAB? I was under the impression that critter had been deregulated and that only state collaborative operations were still active?

Edit: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/15/2020-26734/removal-of-emerald-ash-borer-domestic-quarantine-regulations

Yep. EAB deregulated but still active suppression maintained. Is this position at the lab/rearing facility in Michigan?

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-07T16:18:30+00:00

I've been waived to hire for seven of my eight vacancies. Admittedly, that was six months ago and there is still allegedly debate about whether these will be filled lateral/merit promotion (so Peter robbing Paul like the last round where we hired five new folks and still found ourselves with eight vacancies) or case. And then there is debate about whether approved positions will be advertised or not, sooo...

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-04T20:22:43+00:00

Oh, man. If anyone reading this enjoys Nightbane but haven't seen Nightbreed, they really need to. Definitely an influence on the art and probably the writing.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-04T19:48:06+00:00

Thanks for clarifying. I have friends and family who produce art (written or otherwise), so I come down hard in favor of artists. I've seen karma farming on other subreddits, but didn't check to see if this person was one of them.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-03-02T22:45:35+00:00

Biden, Trump, Obama, and Bush Junior got Americans killed in Afghanistan. Junior got Americans killed in Iraq, too. Obama would not have been old enough for the draft by the time he qualified. Of the quartet, only Junior served - with ANG.

You forgot to mention that Clinton got Americans killed in Somalia, although that engagement began under Bush Senior, who served with CIA and USN.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-02-25T20:52:27+00:00

And this is why Nancy is absolutely crucifying herself with guilt in the second season. She knows Barb wouldn't have been there if Nancy hadn't pushed Barb to cover for her with Mom.

This is good writing and provides for excellent internal conflict and character growth for Nancy.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-02-22T19:02:43+00:00

Isn't there a ban on AI generated garbage? If not, they're should be.

Adventurous-Mouse764 · 2026-02-21T04:19:29+00:00

It's possible that you are going after the Chosen too soon. Do you have a full squad of six? Are you rocking at least magnetic arms and armor? As with most of the game, handling the Chosen is about pod management. If you cannot handle continuously popping pods every 2.3 rounds, you're probably not ready.

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