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CHIEF

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  1. Finally got to try Dayne's Craft BBQ. It was really good, but not stellar. I wouldn't drive from Granbury and wait in line for hours. We got there at 10:30 and the line wasn't bad. I would have been pissed if it would have been a couple of hours. Everything was cooked perfectly, and was plenty moist, but neither the brisket or ribs were seasoned heavy enough. Minimal salt, and no coarse ground pepper. The bark was lacking. $280 for five people. The sides were really good. TM gave them high marks for consistency. The ribs were better than even the moist brisket. It lacks consistency, but I would take Hard 8 in Stephenville, if you hit it at a peak time, when it is hitting on all cylinders over Dayne's. Salted nicely, with big coarse cracked pepper and great bark. CHIEF
  2. Shit, that post was over two years ago. They are married up and pregnant with their second kid, or they have already turned into bitter cat ladies. CHIEF
  3. This popped up on my Youtube feed. Kinda got choked up. Just the love and innocence of a child. I used to do this with CHIEF Jr. as my father had done it with me: CHIEF
  4. Or the Kdub. CHIEF
  5. This is why I posted it. There are some smart sumbitches in here, with first hand knowledge, that would know what is true or not. CHIEF
  6. Here is Lavrov discussing the reason Russia invaded Ukraine. I believe it was a travesty and a mistake, but Ukraine and the West have made mistakes as well. If Lavrov is correct, that Russian language is completely banned in Ukraine, that would be like the US banning Spanish being spoken in South Texas, which has had Spanish speaking citizens for a couple of centuries. He also brings up the 1999 OSC Summit, where NATO promised not to expand east, and broke the promise. Not stanning for Russia, glad they are getting this asskicking. If the Baltics, Poland, and Eastern Europe wouldn't have joined NATO, they would have been invaded again and back under Russian control. CHIEF
  7. The huge outlier is the pandemic. House prices almost doubled between 2019 to 2020-2021, in my market. Free government cheese, 3.5% interest rates, and reduced expenses of not showing up to your job every day artificially inflated the market. We are seeing a reckoning. My mother has been a realtor for over 50 years, and has still never seen anything like that time period. I'm thinking about building spec homes again. They will probably be on sub $20k lots, water available, aerobic septic, barndominium kits on slabs, and spec interiors. I can do this, in Granbury for under $200k with not much margin, but they will all be sold before I complete them. Not something I have to do, I can wait it out for the first movement of interest rates decreasing. But, to be honest, I'm bored, and young couples, around here, need a break. CHIEF
  8. Saw yesterday where the median home price is 57% higher than the national median income. I am out of pocket right now, so I can’t look up the article. But that is the all time record. CHIEF
  9. Never took CHIEF Jr. to Disney, the closest we got was Universal Studios before the Rose Bowl, specifically to talk shit to all the folks in USC gear. CHIEF
  10. If I paid $600k, for a boat, it would have to, at least make it's own payment. Through saltwater charter more than likely. If I paid $600k, I would be in full, "hey, motherfucker, where is the fighting chair?" mode. CHIEF
  11. Finally getting the cradle installed in our boat stall, in the next 10 days or so. We are gonna have to ease up, or we are gonna be 150 hours a summer on the engine. Son has a buddy that owns the local concrete plant. Bought a Paragon. $600k boat. It’s nice, but not “four of my boats” nice. CHIEF
  12. I went to Ft. Lewis, in Durango, my freshman year. My suite mate's older brother went to Wasted State, we went up to go see him the second weekend in September, I shit you not, it was twelve degrees at night. There was some kind of festival, that weekend. We were all broke, I drove, we coasted in on fumes. Was the first place I ever ate raw oysters. A guy had shipped several bushels in, and he had a lot left over. He told us if we had a pocketknife, and wanted to shuck our own we could have all we wanted for free. I was starving, so I ate about 5-6 dozen. Suite mate's brother had just got in a QP of the most badass hash I have ever smoked. He gave us an OZ on credit, told us to go sell half of it to cover his cost, and smoke the rest. CHIEF
  13. We have some friends, from Cleburne, that travel with my aunt and uncle on quite a few vacations. "Mindy" is as southern as it gets. My uncle said they went to Chicken Itza during the sweltering heat and humidity, they roamed around a couple of hours. This was still in the area of "big hair". He said as they were walking out, Mindy was telling all of the women walking in, "if you think that hairdo is gonna survive a couple of hours, out here, you're nuts. You are all gonna look like wet dogs, just like we do." CHIEF
  14. Well thanks for sharing The Heart of the Matter. CHIEF
  15. I have a client that has been wanting a house under $500k, with a pool and at least 2300 sqft. One came up, in our neighborhood today for $430k, decent pool but the guy was a widower and the house needs at least $100k worth of remodeling, no sprinkler, yard is just weeds. The lot is probably a little less than a quarter acre. Truly an eyesore on the inside. Home prices are just ludicrous. That is $10k more than the 4500 sqft. custom built hunting lodge that my parents bought in 1981, and the lodge happened to come with 420 acres. The median home price has doubled since 2019. CHIEF
  16. I could put together a team just from the people I know that would beat the WNBA Champion. If I took "applicants", I could do it with just players from my hometown of Granbury. CHIEF
  17. I could put together a group of late 30s to early 40 year old guys, in a 25 mile radius (to include my cousin) that could beat any WNBA team after about three days of practice to shake the rust off. They would do it for free. Kinda like the 15 and under boys team beating the Australian Women's National Team 13-0. Those boys should have made those bitches put up their salary for the privilege of playing them. Kinda like drag racing for pink slips. CHIEF
  18. I'm sure the truck driver could have told them that company policy does not allow hitchhikers, and it is a fireable offense to pick one up. Also the liability of riding on the truck frame, behind the cab is strictly forbidden by our insurer. CHIEF
  19. Nobody put up Arch's press conference at SEC Media Day yet? CHIEF
  20. This is what you do if you want your kids to be able to drive a standard. Hell, CHIEF Jr. could stop halfway up a hill, in our Jeep, slip the clutch perfectly, and take off again in the three hours it took me to drive out to the deer lease. Three days is more than enough time. But, every person should be able to drive a standard in my opinion. It would be a tragedy to be caught up in a natural disaster, and the cause of death was, "died because they couldn't drive a standard". CHIEF
  21. My first house, in Cypress Creek, off of 620 was $102,000, in 1997. I paid $150k for a two year old boat with 116 hours. Crazy shit. CHIEF
  22. I agree. A country needs to be the point of origin for most of their country's "top secret" innovations, and present that on the markets. There are about to be some rich Ukrainians. CHIEF
  23. Gotcha. Not people to fly them, but people to maintain them. Wow. I just assumed it was a Harbor Freight ratchet with metric sockets, who new. And that isn't said with sarcasm, just good knowledge CHIEF
  24. If I were Ukraine, I would have an open offer to any former F-16 pilot. We will pay you $1,000,000 per mission to fight on our behalf. We will make sure your family receives the money, if you are killed. I mean, at least your family is guaranteed a million dollars. Brave men have died for a lot less. CHIEF
  25. Sales should go through the roof. Even our decommissioned shit is better than what Russia, NK, and China are throwing out there. The only competition is probably Rheinmetal, even then, it pales in comparison. I like the idea of other countries at least paying as much of their GDP, as we do as Americans. Policing the World on the backs of the American taxpayer, and being ungrateful much of the time, is what some of these countries deserve. Too many folks in the cart, and not enough pushing. CHIEF
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