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BearSchlong

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  1. Wrong thread, but I can't resist fucking with some people/bots.
  2. The one that comes to mind most recently for me is my latest halfway house project - he unraveled when his grandfather died. Everyone else in the family was irresponsible and crazy - but his grandfather was his pillar of sobriety and support. I've mentioned that we recently constructed a new residential building to house 20+ guys. One cool thing our executive director did was install plaques with the names of notable people, such as past board members, donors, or impactful citizens, who contributed to our mission over the years. Last time I was there, I noticed that this guy I'm helping lives in a room with his grandfather's name engraved on a brass plaque above the door to his room. Just a little detail that helps keep his feet in sober living. @Lidig8r - re: how a formerly homeless gent helped out in the flood. Around 15 years ago, a homeless guy named Eric entered the H.O.W. Center (halfway house). I have no qualms sharing his name because he would run me over to get in front of a news camera to tell the story himself. His mentor is a guy named Steve, and Eric credits him with saving his life. Unfortunately, several years later, Steve dies, and Eric enters a dark place. I offer a hand, he accepts, and we become very close. Relevant - Steve leaves behind a younger wife and growing family. Several years later, his widow marries another good friend of mine, a match made in heaven. Unfortunately, one of the children is lost to the 4th of July flood. Eric not only flourishes in business and life, but also becomes a single dad when his infant's mom dies from addiction. He eventually marries a delightful woman and builds a family. Eric decides his life's mission is to help the homeless, and he does so very loudly for a decade. On a slow news day, send a reporter and camera to Eric, and he will provide your lead story on the 6 o'clock news. Eric told me his pastor had asked him to start a church. Over lunch at Luby's, I asked Eric if perhaps his pastor was politely ejecting him from his church. He misses the joke. He buys a dilapidated 15 passenger van and leases a former restaurant. The Guadalupe floods. Eric and his church/ministry "Warm Hands, Warm Hearts" descend on the Hill Country to help find the missing girl and provide disaster relief. Photo below. I'm a cynical, suspicious skeptic, but I'll be damned if Eric isn't living his life precisely as prescribed in the New Testament. (I just texted him to tell him how much I love and admire the man he's become, and we'll be eating lunch at Luby's again this week.) The Flood relief crew
  3. there’s a dust storm in Mont Belvieu. I must be just ahead of young Mr. Heartfield‘s procession.
  4. Indeed. I don't know Thad and Melanie very well, but they have been I'm my thoughts all week. When Judge built that river house he probably never imagined the disaster that would destroy it.
  5. My daughter and her boyfriend flew down from Chicago to meet me at Lake Rayburn last week, where I was staying with a dozen or so from my wife’s coonass family. All weekend they kept asking her how she managed to navigate the city under the daily threat of being gunned down.
  6. Everytime I returned home from camp, my mom had a new car in the driveway and my dad appeared sexually sated. #campeconomics
  7. Or the recent discovery might have been a new penis.
  8. Cute little Berg. I walked the Bull Run 1 battlefield a few weeks ago for a few minutes during the heat wave, before heading to dinner in Falls Church.
  9. Texas family care network. https://txfcn.org/ Great website. Synergies, partnerships, and other mealy-mouthed jargon just to say “we now run foster care for region 5.” A Pennsylvania company. Using that private agency as a placeholder for shenanigans in the DFCS system. “Privatizing” foster care - and they are calling in cases to CPS to remove not just one, but all the children in a family where there has been a removal, even if no evidence for subsequent removals exists. Example - a mom has a child removed and placed in foster care, but in the meantime gets her life in order and ends up having another child. No evidence of abuse or neglect, clean drug and alcohol tests - and the hospital where the birth occurs has no problem releasing the child to go home. Enter these thugs, many who retired from state employment, who call in an unwarranted CPS case for exigent removal of other children - no investigation, affidavit, or court order - because its a profit center, with costs shouldered by the state. What a lucrative racket! Makes one wonder if they pay their workers bonuses for each removal. In recent sessions, the state lege has been incrementally rolling back CPS authority, which in many cases makes good sense - only to have private contractors overreach. File under private prisons, state agencies bypassing the judiciary, ICE contractors, tow truck companies, etc. My friend owns a glass company. At lunch, I always joke “hey if business is lagging, I’ll grab my shotgun and go break some windows for you,” to which he exclaims “NO!.” Privatization is just another word for grift.
  10. I just had a meeting with a friend whose daughter was Reese’s roommate for 3 1/2months in Italy during a UTSA semester abroad program last fall. Damned sad.
  11. By now every single SEC coach and various celebrities have stepped up to pay for all the victims funerals. Facebook said so. AI Sark hugging families in Hunt, too. Unless that was real.
  12. They found Ella within the last hour, still looking for young Mr. Heartfield. Cadaver dogs doing work.
  13. My company is the same. I donate to my halfway house via payroll deduction but they won't match like they do with larger charities like the ASPCA. I can't think of the 3rd party administrative company but I also log service work time as we allow for that. Edit - we use https://benevity.com/
  14. The mom of a missing girl and I are both on the board of a nonprofit; our quarterly meeting is tomorrow - obviously she will be absent, but I’m dreading that meeting. I just hope we can get through the agenda before everyone is crying.
  15. He's talking about you, not me.
  16. Actually, it was the grand niece of a different friend, a lady named Debbie who is a lifelong teacher/principle and a close family friend. But my stepbrother and first cousin have children in her classes. The young man Heartfield is another, but that family is closer to my cousin’s family.
  17. Mary Grace Baker, 3rd grader at St. Anne’s in Beaumont, has been recovered, deceased.
  18. Yeah, lots of damned if you are, damned if you aren't going around, all magnified by social media. I feel like a ghoul, monitoring my friend’s Facebook for news that he and his wife found her daughter’s body. I just hope they get closure soon. Here is his wife (Ella’s mom). https://www.foxnews.com/video/6375339052112?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLZJXVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtP_IvCJunDm_DlsYvWBj0Vx0KFEP6hiz00rZ6RIUDoi3fyWCXKML6s-RBJS_aem_bD0IRi4J91y_8ipG1NcGGw A different Beaumont mom who was searching for her daughter was the one who found her remains. The mother posted “God told me to look here and that is where I found her.”
  19. A psychologist is having free zoom calls tomorrow to help parents game plan how to discuss the loss of friends to flooding. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/166qdudWUi/?mibextid=wwXIfr
  20. Done and thank you. If anyone looks at you funny, remember, I chose my username before I quit drinking.
  21. Southeast texas uses this. https://www.everbridge.com/?trk=ggls-mnbrand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=evbg_branded&campaign=96612624&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=96612624&gbraid=0AAAAAD_dm_ydS8QFgmjXuhLAME7QAczwz&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvajDBhCNARIsAEE29Wq3E1bdpqiEbi3jtUebBb-RqRyxZERtITGqJ33jjwY4FbyytcCeHMgaAh55EALw_wcB Everytime a warning hits I get a text, a phone call, an email. I also get a slack from my company’s weather alert system. There is almost no way I cannot be alerted when an event occurs, unless I am in a plane without wifi or - and I realize this is common in the hill country - cell service.
  22. Quit hogging all the vitriol; leave me some please.
  23. Spent an idyllic week in the first campground on the other side of that creek. Even a small squall swells it enough to make things sporty.
  24. I am very very close friends with her mother. Just gut-wrenching. Texting right now with her husband, to whom in some ways I owe my life.
  25. Shit. I remember the day Ella was born. Her mom and Dad are two close friends. https://kfdm.com/news/local/search-underway-for-kelly-hs-grads-missing-in-catastrophic-hill-country-flooding?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4HO9TMSU6vvH5zx7qyVSODdnoGk8I0CFl6M660C50BG3KfjnfNTfwLNWwLjg_aem_WRQL1u6kacGok7ZBH8_xsw
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