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CHIEF

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  1. Yeah, this guy just moved to be the Youth Director at a church we have been to a few times. Apparently he had some nasty baggage from Lubbock. Already let go before ever even starting. 1st Peter 4:17 17 For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? It says, right there in scripture, that judgement would begin in the Church. The chickens are coming home to roost. Another one: Matthew 18:6 If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Looks like God will have some retribution for them, and it ain't good. CHIEF
  2. Mrs. CHIEF is having to fly, to California, for work about once or twice per month. She has pretty much always flown Southwest. I told her one of these times, when they experience a severe decent it ain't gonna stop at 400-500 feet, it will be a smoking hole. American it is, until SWA figures something out. These incidents are gonna wreak havoc on their earnings. CHIEF
  3. I have a buddy from my home town of 219 people that lives in Circle C. He went to Texas State, where he met his first wife. She happened to be the daughter of the guy who had just sold his telecommunication/internet providing company for $200 million, it would become Grande Communication a few months later. That was easily the most insane wedding I have ever been to. The reception was in the basement of the Omni, or one of the other big hotels downtown. They had an open bar with high end liquor, a surf and turf dinner for about 500 people, small wedding gifts for each of the guests. Father of the groom said the bride's family had spent easily a million on the wedding. I bet the centerpieces for each of the 50 or so tables cost $150k. All that expense, and they were divorced in about five years. CHIEF
  4. Which one is that? Benbrook? CHIEF
  5. Ralph & Kacoo's, in Baton Rouge is permanently closed. CHIEF
  6. I have an aunt that just turned 70, her grandfather was a Civil War vet. He had her father when he was in his 70s. Her father was in his mid 50s when he had her, she was the baby of the family. What is really cool is that her father lived really close to us. When I was a kid, I would ride my dirt bike to their house a few times per week and help Jack (her father) check varmint traps. Jack had a moonshine still that had belonged to his BIL, and still used it. My paternal grandfather said that Jack's BIL made the best moonshine he had ever tasted, and they would run about 300 quarts per month out to Sweetwater during Prohibition. CHIEF
  7. That's kinda the way ours went. I have an aunt that made wedding and groom cakes, her gift? Wedding and Groom's cake. Her cakes are amazing, she normally gets from $1200-2000 for both. We have a family friend that is a wedding photographer, his gift was free wedding photos. Church and reception hall were free, tipped the pastor $50. A nice wedding can still be done inexpensively if you know the right people. If CHIEF Jr. ever gets married, and his bride wants to spend $100k on a wedding, or requires a $30k engagement ring, I'm gonna suggest he needs to get rid of her and find someone else. If times get tough, she is gonna jump ship and take half his shit. CHIEF
  8. One of the coolest weddings I ever went to was a friend of Mrs. CHIEF's from Westwood. They had it at a little old rundown church in Fischer (between Blanco and Wimberly). It was outside, and they had two kegs at the back of the aisles, so you filled up a beer and went and set down. Whole thing probably didn't cost a grand. I think Torn is onto something. A lot of women like to brag how much their wedding cost. Mine likes to boast about how little her wedding cost. Her grandmother told us we should just go down to the JOP on Monday morning and get married, like herself and my wife's grandfather, "just start your week out right." CHIEF
  9. Mrs. CHIEF's and my wedding cost a whole $1500, and $600 of that was her dress. I have family and friends, to this day swear it was the best wedding they ever went to. Money well spent for a 31 year marriage. CHIEF
  10. My favorite chapter. As a kid, 50 years ago, my parents were part of a Bible study. It had its own building for the study, that building's name was "Romans IIX." My folks were kinda "hippies" (Mom more than Dad) it was a lot like the "Jesus Revolution" movie. A lot of people were baptized in stock tanks. But the primary theme was love and forgiveness. I watch quite a bit of Near Death Experience videos. They are fascinating. Unforgiveness is an underlying theme that, however your relationship with God is, causes him not to accept you into his Kingdom. "How can you not forgive someone, and want my forgiveness for every vile and ruthless thing you have ever done? So much so, that I sacrificed the thing that meant the most to me, my Only Begotten Son." CHIEF
  11. Mine was Flaming Hot Cheetos. I swear I was a goner the first time I ever took a shit after eating them, the accompanying heat made me dial 9-1 and just hold my finger on the one again so I could push it before passing out. That way the paramedics could find me. CHIEF
  12. Bob George uses an analogy like that in his book "Classic Christianity." The parable is the difference between a city dog and a country dog. When you are just a Christian because everyone in your family is one, and you don't truly have a relationship with God, you are like a city dog. Always running away when the gate is open, always trying to dig out under the fence. Always doing something that is going to eventually catch up with you (running out into the street, and getting run over. Chewing an extension cord in two. Sprayed by a skunk.) Ideally your relationship with God should make you like a country dog. You have no boundaries, you could walk to LA, Chicago, or New York. Instead, you are laying on the porch, or under the pick up waiting for your master for affection, attention, and a joy ride. You can do anything you want, but choose to be close by your master. CHIEF
  13. Unbelief is but one, the other is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit: 31:And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32:Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. That is contributing the works of the Holy Spirit to Satan. Even a believer that uses the Lord's name in vain can be forgiven. Also, for those that use their OSAS as an excuse to sin: Matthew 7: 21-23 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ If you are gonna talk the talk, you need to walk the walk. We always are acting against human nature trying to live a life that we would want Jesus to approve of, and we never will be able to. That doesn't mean you don't try, and when you fail, repent, and try again. The idea is not to live your life for yourself, but to prepare your life so that Jesus may live his life through you. CHIEF
  14. It happened to us several times. If I were some of the higher end places, I would be plenty pissed. We had an amount we wanted to spend, would have stayed at that resort, but the price went up $1200. So we did the logical thing and dropped our expectations to not stay at their resort to get something in our price range. CHIEF
  15. Shit, ours is at 66. The fiancé owns the house, and is miserably cold when they come and stay. She is skinny, and I think she is anemic with thin blood. Even my BIL hates it, so the pussy must be outstanding. CHIEF
  16. Same boat. We sold the MIL's house in Cedar Park last year. BIL lives with fiancé in between 183 and Parmer, but keeps their house at about 82, so we ain't staying' there. CHIEF
  17. I love pickled garlic, but it is a “ no go” in my house for the very same reason. Wife can’t sleep in the same bed. She said I stink like the old Germans in her church as a kid. CHIEF
  18. Best thing we have ever done is abandon the Riviera Maya for the west coast of Cozumel, you never have to worry about the sargassum. CHIEF
  19. I would imagine it looked like Devil's Cove on Labor Day weekend. Dozens of half million dollar boats tied together with a shitload of strippers on board. CHIEF
  20. I have an uncle that is a retired Battalion CHIEF from the Dallas Fire Department. When he started, everyone has to be on the ambulance as an EMT for the first 2-3 years. He worked at the fire station at the corner of Westmoreland and Jefferson in SOC. One of his first stories he told me was about some dudes moving to a different apartment, and all the had to move with was a VW Bug. Their new apartment was just up I-30 a bit, so one guy is driving, the other is laying across the mattress on the roof, and has a grip on both rain rails. Everything is fine until he hits I-30 and has to run in traffic, and the mattress catches wind and throws the dude about 20 feet in the air. He said the guy was road rashed so bad, that you couldn't even tell what race the guy was, he was just "red." He has so many good stories from over the years, I could start a thread with just his stories. CHIEF
  21. Don't go in using your same account. Create a new one, or if a family member has an account have them look up flights. Airlines and travel sites are notorious for pulling that shit. Its a tactic to make you go ahead and book to avoid the prices going up again. Ask me how I know. We have three accounts to look at, mine, my wife, and my son. And yeah, those transfer fees are absolutely insane. I think ours was like $150 total from Cancun, roundtrip, two adults and a child. CHIEF
  22. Stayed there three times before we became divers, back around 2006-2009. It was new and very nice. Like Rage said, it is right next to Puerto Aventuras, which is where all of the fishing charters are docked. Not the nicest beach, but plenty of hot topless South American women playing beach volleyball. CHIEF Jr. was about 7 and we had to wrestle him away to go do shit. The hammocks are a nice place to take an afternoon siesta. Be sure to get the liquor upgrade, it was about $60 back then, and you can drink top shelf liquor the whole time you are there. Oh, and be sure and get the direct transfer to your resort from the airport in Cancun, its worth the price to not spend half of your first and last day stopping by the other resorts to pick up passengers. CHIEF
  23. I was an insurance agent in a former life. If someone doesn't have liability and looses a lawsuit, the lender isn't getting paid. I don't know of many agents that will cover a vehicle if there isn't liability coverage from somewhere. Farmers get it from their Farm & Ranch policy, it is extended to their tractors, UTVs, and other implements via the policy. Those are available through Farm Bureau and Germania , insurers that specifically have policies set up for farmers and ranchers. CHIEF
  24. And Chewy, I'm not trying to be obstinate. I've seen what gets driven on the trails in Colorado. I'm guessing at least 75% of the UTVs have to have full coverage because of the liens on them. CHIEF
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