Jump to content

BearSchlong

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    4729
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by BearSchlong

  1. Dallas. It's a rather regimented big book study.
  2. My wife and I just spent 3 hours in the serenity garden on my back patio with his widow. My biggest realization is that I'm not God, and I can't save every alcoholic. She kept looking to us for answers, and we told her that our home is her home and that all we can offer is love and support and a safe place for her to come if things get too heavy. Then I called my sponsor and told him maybe I'm just a bad sponsor and he laughed and said you're not that important. Funeral on Wednesday.
  3. Exactly. If they were gone she would have never noticed anything missing.
  4. ????? Well, no. But my wife’s mom, grandparents, and great-grandparents didn't speak English at home. They spoke French, which came in handy in France in 1944 when pops was killing Nazis.
  5. And I find boiled crawfish chewy, harder to peel, and overflavored. I don't hate them, in fact that's the way I always cooked them before marrying into their clan. And I'll still eat them without complaint anytime I get the chance. But that was before the enlightenment. The vinegar and lemon really soak into them during the 20-minute rest and accentuate the crawfish flavor. And they are so tender and almost fall out of the shells. And the claw meat comes out fat and intact. But Im the same way with all my seafood, I'd rather eat “naked” grilled fish than blackened. Boiling is easier at scale which is why it's popular for restaurants and events.
  6. C. Boudreaux makes the best crawfish I've ever had, and the family grew rice and crawfish for generations before they figured out there was way more money in petroleum. Anyway, the key is that each sack gets steamed - not boiled- that big pot holds no more than 4 inches of water, and the meshed basket sits mostly on top of the water. And it really doesn't matter how you season the water, because a quart of vinegar, a quart of lemon juice, a quart of minced garlic, a pound of butter, and the cajun seasoning dust gets dumped on top of the crawfish right after cooking. Then you shake the cooler every 5 minutes while resting the bugs for 20 minutes before eating. It's unlike any restaurant crawfish. 11 adults ate 3 sacks and I was so freaking full.
  7. There is something weird going on. I can post pics of crawfish, but not a photo of a 5x7 poster of 5 naked chicks laying in a bed with their hands covering each others nipples and bushes.
  8. Boudreaux men have good garage decorating skills
  9. I was in a conference room yesterday with a few dozen of my peers and VPs. Had to do some heavy spreadsheet pivoting and presenting on a big Webex screen. Whipped out the 2nd monitor and then saw a half dozen people head to Amazon and buy their own. Then I stopped by Tumi and upgraded backpacks to more comfortably accommodate the extra screen for travel.
  10. Oh, and the Tuesday night Primary Purpose big book study in Dallas is an interesting experience if you’ve never been.
  11. Dammit, he ended his life on Tuesday. He left behind a wife, 4 kids aged 4-17, 2 stepkids, and about a thousand others who are in anguish. I talked to him Sunday at 3 and he seemed to be in a good mood. A disease where we tell people ”I'm fine” even though we might be dying inside. Sitting on the patio at pecan lodge, listening to country music, swilling diet coke, and reminiscing. I need to shake off this meat coma and fly home and be with my friends.
  12. So I've got some time, I'm thinking this appetizer at Pecan Lodge? Maybe head to Terry Blacks around the corner for the main course?
  13. SIAP https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/4ZXW2rlZfE
  14. I just talked to my best bud who drives those huge 1000 ft barge strings down the Mississippi from Illinois to Louisiana. As I was hanging up I said “try not to hit any bridges” and he laughed and said since the Baltimore incident his company is shitting bricks. They made him map out every one of the 70 bridges he will transit in the next 4 days. Then he sent me this, from when a front pushed through recently. There's a reason those guys make a half mil a year.
  15. “So Dad, I've been flying around in Chinooks a lot. Do you know what that is? Anyway, it is fucking HOT here and the turbines are attached to the ceiling so we fly guns out with the ramp down for ventilation.” Sends him pic of his grandfather flying in a Chinook in SE Asia 56 years ago. “Yeah son, I do”
  16. Stephanie Ketchum on B95 FM? She is married to my buddy, such a cool chick. Seriously, the guy I stay with in Leander during hurricane evacuations - he was driving on the Lake Charles bridge on the way to a fraternity formal in New Orleans when a piece of steel beam flew off the truck in front of him, through his window, and ripped his face and scalp off. He was hospitalized for 6 months. He had great reconstructive surgeons. I still white knuckle that bridge on my way to Baton Rouge, but my wife refuses. She will take the Veteran’s Bridge but refuses to take the Rainbow.
  17. I did mine in the summer at Lamar. They had Cameros. Drove all the way to the end of 1st St in Sabine Pass by the old Coast Guard beacon. Of course, by then I'd been driving around the mean streets of Beaumont after midnight with a cold beer in my left hand and some father’s teenaged daughter snuggled up to my right for quite some time, but I had to check the boxes.
  18. So who thinks Reddit is the new FAANG? I made some money on it today. Thinking I might add some weight tomorrow.
  19. Would such an item on a tax return also trigger an audit? Or is that just wishful thinking?
  20. Me at 30 - “time to wake up and get freaaaakayyyy!” Me at 50 - “cool, now I can watch that movie she has no interest in”
  21. I've got the one that sits on a foldable stand. Best $75 I have ever spent.
×
×
  • Create New...