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CHIEF

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  1. Well, I had to trek down to Cranfills Gap today for a memorial service for my favorite teacher. I absolutely loved the guy. The "cafetorium" was standing room only. Easily one and a half times the town population. He was always very straight, and you could never tell if he was joking. His middle name was Cornelius, when he told us, we wouldn't believe him, I mean who would name their kid with a name like that. He was born on the morning of December 7, 1941, we always told him that's why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor that day. Mr. Cox, or Larry, when we weren't at a school function was the epitome of using every gift God gave him to teach multiple subjects at our small school. He taught history, government (civics), coached when needed, and was responsible for any electives that the school district could coerse him into. He also drove a school bus three hours a day, and I rode every mile with him in eighth grade. He was a commercial pilot, so he taught Aviation as an elective, I was his first student to pass the Private Pilots exam, he was absolutely ecstatic. He had a few more, and one of the guys a year behind me, is now a pilot with United. He was a pretty decent guitar player, and taught a guitar class as an elective after I had graduated. He always made any of my family functions, he attended my wedding (a two hour drive), and my father's 70th birthday. My aunt walked in, he turned to her and said, "hello Debbie." She asked him, "have we met?" He told her they had a class together at Tarleton State 32 years ago, and he remembered her. He always could remember anything, and anyone, kinda like Mac Brown remembering your name. The service was really nice, I saw people I haven't seen for 38 years. Some you recognize, some you had to reintroduce yourself. I weigh about 60 lbs. more and now have gray hair, so I was in the introduction crowd. I was so skinny back then, I had to jump around in the shower just to get wet. It was kinda cool seeing the old school. The "cafetorium" wasn't there when I attended. They moved the tennis courts and the football field house is there now. But the best thing I saw all day was the newer "ticket booth" they had acquired: That is the same scoreboard they had when I played there 38-42 years ago, and it was old then. CHIEF
  2. Obviously not a Surly 1%er, very weak bidet game. CHIEF
  3. CIEF Jr. let a buddy borrow our game cam since he didn't think we would have a lease this year. It is on a tree down in Kerrville. I was kinda pissed. He ended up getting two of the Reolink cameras that can turn 360 degrees, pan up and down, and has a speaker so you can yell at coons. We are putting one at the feeder, and one to watch camp. CHIEF
  4. It is quite obvious that he needs to invest in several bidets, and stop having to wipe his ass like a Philistine. CHIEF
  5. Any WiFi enabled game cam is going to have some type of subscription plan. You can always go with the cheapest they offer. Tacticam is a good one. CHIEF
  6. Yeah, Mrs. CHIEF rolled over and let out a WTF? "Do they expect us to get out of bed, drive to Memphis, TX. and look for the perp?" CHIEF
  7. Doesn't matter how much of a smokeshow she was to all of the other male bears, it only took one, to be sick of her shit. CHIEF
  8. King County ( Guthrie and Four Six’s area).
  9. Well, that big buck I had to let walk due to age a couple of years back on one of the older hunting threads got shot in bow season last night. He wasn't a mile from where I removed my stand and feeder: He is bumping up against a 180 inch score. CHIEF
  10. Exactly. With millions of industrious immigrants entering the country, they would probably do it for less money than what the current union employees are making. They would do it 50% more efficiently, live ten people to a house, and be happy to be making 6-7 times what they were making back in Latin America. Right now is a crazy time for unions to be making these kind of demands. They may get air traffic controllered. My Dad's older brother dropped out of school in the 9th grade. Went to work at the GM plant in Arlington. He retired making $150k/year, with a full pension, 100% medical paid for he and his wife as a union assembly line worker about 20 years ago, and still bitched that he didn't make enough money. He also would boast about how little work he actually did. The shenanigans they would pull would get anyone else fired. Hanging lug nuts by a string inside door panels, intentionally break tools and equipment. It's no wonder manufacturing has been moved out of the country. I realize US ports can't be moved offshore, the ILA took one for the team during COVID, they should be compensated. If the West Coast guys are making $55/hr, offer the East Coast guys something comparable with adjustments for COL. Pigs get feed, hogs get slaughtered. The unemployment numbers are relatively low, but that only counts those who are eligible for unemployment benefits. We now have millions of young men, in this country, that do not even qualify, so they are not even counted. If the Port Authorities offer $25/hour, a green card, and benefits. What do you think would happen? CHIEF
  11. Well, I went to the new lease with CHIEF Jr. It sure is nice being an hour away than four hours away. It's brushy as shit, but, by God, it is relatively flat with no saltwater to cross daily. We trimmed mesquite hanging over the roads so nobody gets any "Texas Pinstripes". My biggest problem is there are very few places you can get your feeder more than 100 yards from the stand. Our last feeder was 176 yards, so TVs, phone calls, non-whispering voices didn't even have deer raising their head. Apparently there are a few mad folks that have been trying to lease the place for years. But our buddy roped, and hauled cattle with him for decades and just popped the question. The owner is approaching 80, and has prime horseflesh that is probably worth ten times more than his house. Here is his house (you aren't gonna believe this shit): Check out the glass on the dormer window. Thats a blue piece of ski rope that my buddy gave him, years ago, to hold his gate shut so the dog wouldn't get out. CHIEF
  12. Hopefully he is a poor man's Jordan Shipley, and not a rich man's Kia Money. CHIEF
  13. Why? If someone kills someone in a slow, miserable, and painful way, why do they deserve an effortless, painful, and pleasant death? CHIEF
  14. Going cliff jumping sans wingsuit would accomplish the same thing. Probably can even do it in the Lower 48 relatively cheap. CHIEF
  15. They could just put a couple of guys in scuba gear, have them fire it up and get it on plane. Pull the plugs and it will drain right out. CHIEF
  16. Either a B&C bobcat with a longer tail (I have seen this), or a mountain lion with his tail turned away from the camera. With the lack of spots, gonna say option two. Mountain lion population has been exploding and sightings are becoming more commonplace. CHIEF
  17. Well, looks like we pulled the trigger on 600+ acres between Strawn and Breckinridge. Fucking $20/acre, I can't believe it. But it has three wheat fields, a ton of water, and hasn't been hunted in three years. Apparently has some massive bucks with drop tines that either escaped high fence game ranches, or their offspring. It's 20 minutes from my buddies house, at PK, that got off of the Lambshead Ranch to hunt it. It's gonna be four guns, so a little tight. But the owner has 12K acres, in total that we can "earn" extra pastures, if you're not an idoit. I was at the game, so this is CHIEF Jr.'s first attempt at leasing, so I guess we will see how he does. No more four hour trips, and fucked up roads. Also, about 20 minutes from Mary's in Strawn. We are gonna be some fat fucks at the end of the season. This the latest I have ever leased a place in my life. I'm gonna gave to go out this week and get the feeders up and running, I hate to be rushed but IWIS. CHIEF
  18. CHIEF

    Getting old sucks

    So the proverbial banana in the tailpipe? CHIEF
  19. That sounds very hopeful. I pray it is true. Who is the moderate voice for the Palestinians? Is it a new organization? And not the shitheels of Hamas or Hezbolla? CHIEF
  20. My point isn't really IF they should be reinforced, but who is responsible for paying for it. And who was there first should get the benefit of the doubt. When the city, and the residential developers decided to construct roads and houses adjacent they should have had their engineers come up with a design to protect the pigging station and got permission from the pipeline owner to install it and the city/developers pay for it. Not being privy to the contract, I'm not sure who is responsible for added reinforcement due to the suburbanization of the pipeline ROW boundaries. But all future contracts should have those responsibilities clearly defined. Like if a road is built within a certain distance, or housing. CHIEF
  21. It's like what was said up above, if you build things that can withstand every possible scenario that can fuck it up, planes would be too heavy to fly, and cars would be too expensive to buy. Making everything idoit proof is a very expensive and wasteful endeavor. Ultimately it comes down to risks people are willing to accept, like people living close to pipelines to save money on their housing location. People living close to petrochemical plants because they work there, and want to be 10 minutes from work. The Polly Anna-ish take that any and all hazards must be eliminated or mitigated in all aspects of everyone's daily lives is asinine. I know most on here accept that, but not all. CHIEF
  22. Again, who "skimped"? The pigging valve has been there for a lot longer than the suburban growth around it. Fingers can be pointed at any number of entities. But, I can guarantee you that the cost will ultimately be passed to the consumers. As much as you hate it, earnings goals will still be met. CHIEF
  23. Who should bear the cost? The pipeline company? A pigging station that had been way out in the boonies when it was built? There are several idoits, on this thread that would buy a new house built by a fifty year old airport, and then bitch that the airport needs to spend millions on sound abatement. CHIEF
  24. Mirrors on the ceiling, and just slightly out of the picture is the "pink champagne on ice." The strike is just a "visitor here, of its own devise." CHIEF
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