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CHIEF

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  1. I went one time, with a buddy, on Lake Travis back around 2000. It was the dude with the pink boat out of Point Venture that we used. I don't know if my buddy had to pay extra, but he let all 1500 feet out, and had to run wide open to keep me in the air. My buddy thought it was a funny joke, but it absolutely sucked. I could see the streets of downtown Austin from fuckin' Jonestown. I didn't spend time enjoying the sights, I was just looking for the clearest areas along 1431. All I could think about was the deck not being able to take the stress of having that much line out. So much thinking. The water is 160 feet deep, ok, so I will lose 160 feet of altitude almost immediately, do I have enough line left to land at Bar-K in Lago Vista. I'm a pilot, and was in full loss of power emergency landing mode. They started reeling me back in, so I was relieved, until the loose rolls would slip closer to the center of the reel. They would pull you in about 30 feet, then, the rope would slip, and you would shoot back up about 4-5 feet, and think the rope had snapped, or was unraveling. It was a nightmare. I told the boat owner, I was in legitimate in fear of death, and he should never do it to anyone again. Definitely in the top 5 near death, or thought you were gonna dies experiences of my life, I will never go again. CHIEF
  2. Saw Pierceson and Parker's maternal grandpa today, Sterling Randolph. He had on his UT cap, shirt, belt, and shoes. He lives on hole 15, and I live on 18, the next street over. He is on Cloud Nine. But always watches them by himself. CHIEF
  3. Like, when am I ever going back to Semester on the Sea? CHIEF
  4. Kinda what I was thinking. Obstinate, or just don't wanna jump. Quite the conundrum. CHIEF
  5. The tenants were all about inclusion and diversity, a real Green Peace vibe. This would be him when they got to Africa (it really is him), probably wouldn't go over too well. I'm sure his roommate would get sick of Merle Haggard. CHIEF
  6. With a name like Magomedov Gazimagomed, I bet he was at least in the fifth grade before he could spell his own name. CHIEF
  7. So budget the $118 for the nightly triple dip...if you're optimistic? CHIEF
  8. Fat and "Oriental"? With a killer fade? CHIEF
  9. I just looked it up. The best room on the boat with everything included is about $42k for the semester. For that many ports (about 4 days in each), and 105 days on a semi-shitty boat, not bad. Asked CHIEF Jr. if he wanted a semester sabbatical. Told him he could just take out a "student loan" and the trip might end up being free, except for the 105 condoms. He has seven years experience as a marine mechanic, told him he might want to apply for the Lifelong Learning position. Give him another $20k, and it still wouldn't have cost as much as his year at UTD. CHIEF
  10. JC, did you have Barrett's Syndrome? I have a hereditary hiatal hernia. I don't get heartburn much, if at all. But if I eat too fast, or eat something hot, but with a really cold drink, it will get about halfway down and I have to go basically, throw it up? I never feel nauseous but the food and or drink get caught in my esophagus, it comes back up, and I spit it out. I may not have it happen for three or four months, then have it happen one or twice in a two week period. My mother thinks it's Barrett Syndrome, and keeps riding me to get it checked so it doesn't turn cancerous. Was wondering what all symptoms you had. Sbb, I have a cousin that had Barrett Syndrome, it was pre-cancerous, so not quite as bad as yours, but if your issue hasn't metastasized to any other area, and you caught it early, there is a very good chance they can knock it out in one fell swoop. CHIEF
  11. It's time to go move into the sailboat, and do what you want to do. Kick it's ass. CHIEF
  12. I'm not sure. Before the war, there were hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women on mail order bride websites, looking to meet Western men, and leave the country. She may have been one of them. I have seen what many of these men look like, and the wool they pull from there. No way they are going to get a Western woman that looks like that. He has head tats, and is a security guard, not ideal. But at least he looks young, and in shape. Not sure who the instigator is. Women's number one goal in life, is security. She just provided herself a path to UK citizenship. CHIEF
  13. Ouch. I had an uncle that had a Coastal field and a sprigger. I never checked with anyone else. Haven’t checked prices since. CHIEF
  14. That was 2006 pricing. You throw cattle on when everyone has hay, but you can’t be in love with them. Sell them when it starts getting dry, and switch back to hay farming and sell bales at $100+ to the dumbassses that won’t sell their herd. I also had enough dairies that would have taken all I could have produced. CHIEF
  15. Yep. I consider missing out on that acreage a real turning point in what "could have been". Not a day goes by without it crossing my mind. Could have made $175k-$300k/year for the rest of my life, selling nothing but hay, or raising cattle when hay was plentiful. I know guys that have done it well up into their 90's. CHIEF
  16. The numbers quit working about a decade ago with rising land prices. There is absolutely no ranching land available anymore that can pay for itself. Even out in desolate places like Benjamin, the land is $1000-1500/acre. But it takes 40 acres to run one head. I missed out on a place in 2006, that I was going to buy instead of building my house. It was 320 acres (half section) just south of Cisco, with 319 acres of it in Coastal, it was beautiful, and only $1750/acre. The place had a few old plugged oil wells on it. I was going to drill out the plugs and replug below the water table, and use those wells for irrigation. It already had irrigation pipe, all I would have needed to do was buy compatible pumps. Dad put his pencil to it, said I could probably clear $75k/year. I told him if I spent that money on pumps and fertilizer, instead of cattle, and could cut hay every 28 days, and could get six cuttings at $50/bale, I could pay off the place in a little over three years. It was a drought that year, and hay was going for $150/bale. I could have probably paid it off in less than two years. I called the realtor, he said the place had just sold, but he had another like it. He sent me pictures, it was solid brush. Would have taken a couple of thousand an acre to clear it, and probably $500 to sprig it, and years before you could cut hay off of it. CHIEF
  17. BY, here is what I use: https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/zeiss-conquest-v4-rifle-scope?ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_c=Cabelas|Search|DSA|CatchAll|General|NAud|NVol|NMT&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhLKUBhDiARIsAMaTLnE9yePx0s-QslJuxWLv-BFzQf59ZtDgSBIMc9k2GXHCDQK73uh68b0aAjCLEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds mine is stainless, and I paid about half as much 16 years ago. But it's a great scope. I had perfect vision when I got it, but now need glasses. It has an adjustable focus on the rear objective, so I can shoot it without my glasses. I like the 44mm objective, it's a noticeable difference, in size, to the 50mm. Less chance of getting knocked off, and easier to put in cases. The objective is not wider than the gun, so a gun case doesn't pressure it from the sides. CHIEF
  18. It has really good margins, if you inherit it from your parents or grandparents, and it's the right kind of land. If you have irrigated coastal, buy cow/calf pairs with the mother already bred back, the margins are probably close to 30%. Enough to pay off the momma after two years. Your cost is only electricity for the well pump, medications, diesel, fertilizer, and baling. I know several 2nd or 3rd generation ranchers that are millionaires, or multi-millionaires. They hit the inheritance jackpot. They have hands that take care of the ranch, while they travel around the World, and go to the sale barn and eat chicken fried steaks once a week. It's an envious life. CHIEF
  19. I know many people are against farm subsidies, but this is the reason we have them. Having a secure agricultural base that can feed the entire nation should always be the number one priority of national security. The entire nation could sustain itself on government cheese, and saltines for a while. The Great Depression taught us this lesson. 40% of potentially enlisted men were 4F'ed going into WWII from illnesses related to malnutrition. My great-great uncle, got in at 120 lbs., was shipped to New Zealand, where he promptly put on an extra 45 lbs. He said there was plenty to eat, and all the ice cream he could put in his stomach. CHIEF
  20. Also from the article, the county population is at 57: Word of the arrests spread faster than a prairie fire with a tailwind through this West Texas county, population 57 as of the last U.S. Census Bureau estimate. Spread over 671 square miles of mesquite-studded desert, Loving County has no school, no church, no grocery store and no bank. The few children who live there board the bus in the only town, Mentone (population 22), and travel about 35 miles each morning and afternoon to attend school. The 117 population remark had me wondering, who the fuck is moving to Loving county. CHIEF
  21. My Dad ran over a bumblebee nest in a pasture on our ranch when I was a kid. He got nailed in the back of the head a couple of times. He parked the shredder back over their hole and left the shredder running, ran to the truck and came to the house. Went back an hour later and turned off the tractor. CHIEF
  22. It’s like your school teacher making the school bully give you your lunch money back, but you still have to give him your tater tots. CHIEF
  23. Parker and Palo Pinto were not even desirable during the heydays of the Barnett. It is way up dip. Those wells are marginal at $10/mcf. Permian wells flare off per day as much as a Barnett well can produce in a week. CHIEF
  24. The population must be exploding. It was 91 the last time I checked. Either they are horny out there, or nearly 30 people decided this is a good place put down roots. CHIEF
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