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CHIEF

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  1. Was wondering the same thing. When my new engineer gets his ass outta bed at noon, I'll ask him. CHIEF
  2. Well my son's best friends are twins, they go scuba diving with us, vacations, etc. We were having a party on Saturday night, when they got the call that their uncle had passed. He was a UT-Austin grad, and had put in 33 years at Lockheed and had just retired. He rode in amateur bike races, noticed he was feeling weak and tired a lot more. At Christmas, he went in for an MRI. The tumor was bad enough, they scheduled his surgery to be performed in the next 24 hours. He had completed 21 of 25 radiation treatments, woke up for the 22nd one, and was paralyzed from the waist down, and could no longer speak, or eat. Just bad shit all the way around. I have another friend that is a handyman. His son and mine fish a lot together. About nine years ago, he was diagnosed with stage four cancer in his sinus cavities. He had a horrible surgery, where they basically skinned his face off, and removed the tumors from his sinus cavities. They removed all they could, and gave him a terminal diagnoses of about 30 days.I don't want to offend anyone, but basically, he had "nothing to loose" with going experimental. He watched countless videos, made numerous phone calls and settled on a treatment of Fenbendazole, and turmeric. Yeah, the dog de-wormer. He swung by my house to pick up a turbo I gave him to go on his Dodge Cummins last week. I asked him how he felt, he said never better. Nine years ago, he was in bed, at home, with 24 hour hospice care, and a feeding tube. Now, he is back to work full time with enough energy to work on vehicles on the weekend. He still takes his medication regiment, it is very inexpensive, and like he said, he gets a free dog biscuit with every order. I know this sounds like the hokey Ivermectin argument with COVID, but I seen it with my own eyes. He barely weighed a buck twenty, now he is a healthy 185. I couldn't, in good conscious, not even lay it out there. Especially for those that have been told to go home, there is nothing else we can do but make you comfortable guys. I would never have believed it, if I would never have seen how bad off he was those years ago. Here is another guy that did the same thing: CHIEF
  3. My mother got CHIEF Jr. a 1 oz. Gold Eagle for his graduation tomorrow. She went to school with the owner of Cowtown Gold and Silver, in Ft. Worth. I'm pretty sure it is one of the new ones. I'll get a picture later. CHIEF
  4. It makes sense. Norman is a four hour drive, Austin is over eight hours from Spearman. It is practical to be able to go home, during the offseason, on some weekends from Norman to Spearman. Lubbock would have made more sense. Homesickness is a real thing. CHIEF
  5. MAC's great-grandmother and my great-grandmother were both Browns from Bosque County. I use Find-A-Grave for a lot of my genealogy research, and like MAC, I can't really find anything on the Browns. I don't even know who her parents were. For all I know MAC and I may be fourth or fifth cousins. CHIEF
  6. Was his uncle. But his Dad (John Jr.) was into it as well. Just not as famous as his uncle. CHIEF
  7. MAC is the great grandson of John Avery Lomax. His great grandparents and mine are buried in the same cemetery in Meridian, Texas. John Avery Lomax was a famous folklorist, and musicologist. He recorded old cowboy songs along the Chisholm Trail, as the cowboys sang them each night. https://www.tsl.texas.gov/literarylandmark/Lomax https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200196225 (Library of Congress) My late father was infatuated with "cowboy music." We mostly communicated by Facebook, talked about his great grandfather, my father playing songs that his great grandfather had preserved, Meridian, and Bosque county. That was my home turf. He is a great guy, and a gifted journalist. He will be sorely missed. CHIEF
  8. I could see a modification, but not a complete repeal. I don't think there would ever be a chance that three-quarters of the states would ratify it. CHIEF
  9. Wetter than last year, but not by much. Had a couple of storms split and go N/S of us. Knox City and Munday have water running down the ditches, the Sixes has had a decent amount as well. CHIEF
  10. This is so true. I mean, I can take mine back to Duncan I of Scotland, and that Neil of the Nine Hostages that sired so many kids that one out of every twelve Irishmen have his marker in their Y-chromosome. I have it as well. https://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/how-many-generations-back-are-we-all-related/ CHIEF
  11. Wait, this is tough after the Delta 9 Big Gummy. CHIEF
  12. They are calling that far north reef Tiburon (with a tilde). Lotsa shit there... https://www.facebook.com/reel/540963201537123/?s=single_unit&__cft__[0]=AZWSV4IPNX1HAIY6VtipHSxg2_cNK_0gOs8I0KhEiYEfuM-F4jApQsBZGjVVdRzWO28X-miCUX5p2pDt4pueZTWQA9ew30nI86jUaVD0gMpoljnOskzgSxzb-hTTuOw6sSuxHaBjvZW45cead9mSxGqNx9kt_-C61-wPCelszLdO9fx5v_j0McfKQsOB7pOBNaE&__tn__=H-R CHIEF
  13. Mine is a 1983 Brazilian Rosewood, but it was inherited. It's my alternate tuned guitar. It is easily my most playable guitar you are a lucky man to have one CHIEF
  14. Well, you won't have to worry about a SIL. A hunting and tailgate buddy is always trying to get my son to date his daughter, she goes to the same college, and is on the equestrian team. She is pretty hot, but CHIEF Jr.'s response is "I have seen her feed bill, and I'm gonna be honest Travis, there is no one that is going to get into a serious relationship after seeing that." Apparently all the college guys stay away from the "horse girls". CHIEF
  15. Maybe HEB came through and got him some NIL to promote their Papa Murphy's pizzas. CHIEF
  16. My paternal side of the family got here between 1654 and 1658, my son is the 13th generation. All Scotch/Irish. They stuck to living in Virginia for the first five generations, hit the Cumberland Gap and moved to Kentucky by the late 1700s. Tennessee by the first decade of the 1800s, then to Pulaski County, Missouri by 1845. My 2xgreat-grandfather got to Bosque County in about 1850. My maternal side is mostly Irish, they were here during the Revolutionary War, and moved south, coming to Texas through Georgia, and Alabama. My wife's family history is very interesting. Her paternal side came with Prince Karl to New Braunfels in 1844, they are buried from Bexar, Comal, to Blanco Counties. Her mother's side didn't get here from Germany and Poland until the late 1800s, and made a fortune cabbage farming around Corpus Christi. They moved after a huge hurricane in about 1903, and bought a ranch at Tilden, sold that and bought several thousand acres around Blanco and Wimberly. CHIEF
  17. Another scam, again, it happened to my son. I was with him on the way to the deer lease when it all went down. A scammer hacked and copied his Snapchat page. the hackers sent a message, posing as him, to all his friends that asked them to Venmo him money, as he was unable to pay his rent for the month. Of course, his phone blew up with everyone calling him, since they all knew he lived at home. No one got suckered into sending him money. He has since, closed his Snapchat, and all social media, the only way to reach him is by text, voice, or email. Like a normal adult. CHIEF
  18. My son has a pretty big batch of Snap-On tools. I told him it would have been much cheaper to just have a cocaine habit during college. CHIEF
  19. Happened to my son. He recently got a call supposedly from one of his best friends. It was very frantic, but the scammer used words and phrases that his friend would never use. So he asked him when was the last time you were at my house? What kind of car were you driving? Of course they couldn't answer, so he hung up and called the friend, who was sitting in his underwear, eating cold pizza at home. CHIEF
  20. I've watched so many videos of drunk Russian soldiers, that it would make sense if the Ukrainians made Fentanyl vodka with labels in Russian. Drop them at the front, fall back, and wait till the fatal dose of Fentanyl to kick in. Or better yet, use something that takes a week or two for a fatality so the Russian troops have time to distribute it to all of their fellow assholes. CHIEF
  21. Headed down the week of May 21st to the 28th. CHIEF Jr.'s graduation present. Getting his GF certified right now. Both of her parents are certified and absolutely stoked she is doing it. Diving with our buddies from Gatos Reef. Mrs. CHIEF is gifting the GF her Mexican boyfriend, Dario. Great dude for first time divers on Cozumel. CHIEF
  22. Cool shit that I still use, but inherited would also be a cool thread. I have my great-great-great grandmother’s cast iron skillet it is over 150 years old. It makes killer gravy. I have the pitcher and cups I drank kool-aid out of as a toddler. CHIEF
  23. CHIEF Jr. Mixes the salt and pepper with the pickle flavor. It’s pretty fucking good. CHIEF
  24. CHIEF Jr. was in Stephenville yesterday afternoon. I texted him at 4:50 that he needs to leave town by 5:10 or wasn't going to have a windshield on the drive back. He said the temperature gradient was so vast, in such a short distance, that it created dense fog, with about 200 feet of visibility for about a half mile along the frontal boundary. CHIEF
  25. Half a D9 jumbo is bliss, a whole would be righteous. Spend that much on bourbon a week, at least. Gonna be my gateway to get off the sauce....I think. CHIEF
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