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  1. 6 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I thought it was the reverse? Boosters pay the initial lump and then the athletic department fits the bill for 8-10 a year until it’s done? The 12th man just did a huge capital raise and signed the check to the AD recently. 

    The stadium loan is to the university. If that isn’t already paid off, and it might be, they’ll just renegotiate that shit. 

    Aggy is the couple knocking down $10k/month, but has a $9500 nut due. They don't care how much things cost, but just how much per month. I'm sure most of us, here on Surly, know someone like that. 4500 sq/ft. home, a new Audi SUV, and a Platinum F350, and minimum payments on $100k worth of revolving debt.

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  2. My worst job was a short stint at a plant, in Waco, taking summer classes at MCC. If you ever cut open a hollow door, the interior is braced by corrugated cardboard that is glued together to form a lattice work. The facility was a non-a/c, non-insulated metal building that averaged about 115 degrees. It had automated glue guns, and band saws. The glue guns ran a little "rich" and would spill glue on the floor where it would promptly stick to the bottom of your shoes. This would create a situation where it was unavoidable to step on random small sheets of cardboard, and cardboard dust from the bandsaws, so you were constantly having to clean your shoes. 

    There were many middle aged people stuck in this dead end hell hole.They were way too old to be doing this kind of manual labor. Being the youngest there, by about 15 years. I got the worst job, loading the lattice frames onto pallets at the end of the assembly line, we produced several thousand a day. They came off the conveyor in groups of five, and fast enough that you would have to rotate about three feet every 2-3 seconds, from a bent over position. I could do this for about 30 minutes straight before my back would give out. They had six other people that could make it about five minutes each. I would rotate to their positions for 30 minutes to give my back time to rest, then it was back to being crouched or bent over stacking again. I did this for about a week before I had enough and went to work at a full service gas station.

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  3. 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

    It will depreciate more, but nothing like a comparable 1/2 ton pickup.  Depending on when he gets back out, he might do OK.  Loaded diesels are still going about 80%+ of sticker for first 3-4 years/100k miles.   Many were paying sticker (or a bit more) 2 years ago, but nowhere close back in 17-18.    The owners of the 17-18s are proving them alongside the rest. Look at high end custom boats of Texas. People are still selling simmons’ for what they paid >10-12 years ago, as new ones have become 200k (unaffordable for many) purchases.   There’s ALOT more people that can buy a 70k pickup than a 115k pickup.   Then again  markets change, all the time. 

    The window sticker was $88k new, they wanted $85k, but lowered it to $81k to match the price of a comparable truck. I imagine the original owner paid about $10k over. 2024 is the last year for the supercharged 6.2L V8. They are going to go with the new Hurricane I6 with twin turbos, so hp will drop about 150 hp. CHIEF Jr. tried to talk me into buying one of the 900+ hp Dodge Demons and put it in storage a few years back, said I could double my money in five years or less. I told him that was idiotic. Well...he was right. 

    We were talking with the guys at the dealership the other night. They said that anything with the hellcat, or helliphant engine that was new was picked up on a trailer most of the time. Many are being bought by Trusts as investments. They had three of the new Demon 170s on the floor. Window sticker was $125k, they were listed at $250k and all three were sold. All of the new Hellcat Chargers and Challengers are going to be electric.

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  4. 2 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    #Natureismetal

    Hunters had an "oops" moment with a youth hunter.  It happens.  Son rushed a shot and the deer didn't immediately drop.  Dad texted me and he was apoplectic.  Kids first deer.  They tracked and tracked.  Called my cousin and brought in tracking dogs with GPS collars and contacted our neighbors for permission to cross their fences.  Dogs found the deer that next evening.  One day.  Coyotes out there are nothing if not efficient.  So wild.  

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    Hogs will do that too. Between hogs and coyotes nothing but the spine, skull, and rack will be left after one night.

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  5. 1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

    On the bright side, buddy is a guide at a place in Waco called C5 Whitetails.  This guy scored 181 over the weekend.  Keeps wanting me to help out.  Make a grand videoing the hunt, taking pictures, dressing the deer, and cooking and drinking.  I need to find the time.

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    I used to set up at the Texas Trophy Hunters Expo with those guys. I can't remember their names, but one of them would bring his daughter. She was about 14-15 years old. She couldn't have been more than about 4'3" and 70 pounds. This was in 2020-2021.

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  6. My Dad was the fourth oldest of ten children born to a sharecropper family. We had hard times a few times in life, but he would always regale me with, "you think its bad now, when I was a kid we had to...." 

    1. We were so poor, momma would tie a string to a piece of bacon and tie the other end to a hook in the ceiling. You got to stand on a stool and swallow the piece of bacon. After 2-3 minutes she would come back and kick the stool out from under you.

    2. This is supposedly true. When his momma would cook a huge batch of biscuits, all the kids would take as many biscuits as they could and lick them to keep their siblings from getting them.

    I posted this when a buddy sent me a TikTok of "We were so poor stories."

    We were so poor that momma didn't have anything to cook us for supper, so she would just read us the recipe. I had a little brother that was hard of hearing, and he almost starved to death.

    We were so poor that Pop would have us run out in the yard and bark at visitors because we couldn't afford a dog.

    We were so poor that when we went to our aunt's house, we ate the fruit off the wallpaper print.

    We were so poor that momma made us eat cereal with a fork, so the next kid could reuse the milk. 

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  7. On 12/9/2023 at 11:54 AM, tx 3 putt said:

    Honestly good for him though, its a great feeling buying a damn nice truck 

    Holy shit. We went to the deer lease in the TRX. I have never ridden in anything like it. it will settle in at 90-92 mph on the highway in 8th gear on 35s. Never hunts gears or downshifts. Got around 12-13 mpg. We are nine miles into a ranch with dirt roads, extremely steep hills, and rock ledges. In my F-350 it will shake your fillings out of your teeth, and take you about 40 minutes to get to camp. With 13 inches of suspension travel we made it in less than 20 minutes, felt like we were riding on a cloud. It has a baja mode that changes the valving on the shocks that slows the shock rebound. He did his homework, and I can definitely see the allure. This truck isn't a pavement queen, its gonna see some shit. But this trip was truly eye opening. He put down a huge down payment, so his truck payment, fuel, and insurance can be paid with one week's pay, so he didn't do something completely idiotic. It rides smoother than my wife's Lexus on bumpy roads by a good bit.

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  8. It’s a 2022 with 16k miles. It was $81k. This is the last year for the V8. His rationale was that it will not depreciate, and could actually appreciate with the Hellcat engine. 
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  9. Well, CHIEF Jr. is living at home ratholing money after college. One of our friends, the one that would be giving him a construction loan to build his house, said he would need to buy something before any lender would ever give him a loan (he has a high credit score but almost no credit history). So what does the little fucker come home with? A TRX.

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    That is his old beater truck behind it that he decided to keep since they wouldn't give him much for it.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Izhmash said:

    Figured out my mistake. I was looking at The Judge, not the Monarch. Sorry to send you down a rabbit hole and thanks for the feedback!

    No problem at all. They are a good feeder to supplement your primary feeder during season. 300 lbs. will last the whole season and run out in January.

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  11. 8 hours ago, Izhmash said:

    Just realized these are made in Austin. Do they sell factory seconds, by chance? I could care less about paint jobs. Also - I'm curious about maintenance. Is the system easily accessible (or do you have to take apart the whole plate system on the bottom to do any work? How is yours working out for you now? Did you end up with a 500? Thanks in advance! We primarily use All Seasons, but considering the Monarch for a new deployment.

    They are not made in Austin. They are made between Alvarado and Midlothian, about 30 minutes from me. This is always our secondary unfenced feeder: https://deerfeeder.com/collections/feeders/products/the-barrel-stubby . $200 and you supply the barrel. You will need to attach it to "t" posts or drill through the skids and attach anchors. Cows, hogs, and Auodad will turn it over. But it is a deal for the money.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Tex Pete said:

    Mike Elko is vanilla. He’s who Texas A&M is. Even their “splash hire, big name, sitting national championship head coach” was vanilla. Nobody really cares beyond how much they force the rest of the world to pay attention to their never-ending train wreck.

    Their culture is the problem. They’re programmed to embarrass themselves. 

    If they would embrace their role as "spoilers" instead of "contenders", their mental health and their level of embarrassing themselves would be non-existent. They are the same tier with the Mississippi schools, South Carolina, Kentucky, etc. Their culture will always mean that. They will never be an Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, or Florida.

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  13. My parents were married for 52 years. Mom is quite a bit younger than Dad. He passed in 2019. She was only 71. The death of your spouse is really traumatic. Especially if you are over 90. I always admired Jimmy Carter. He is a wonderful person, he presided over some really tough times in American history. I could certainly see him dying of a broken heart. He will be deeply missed. 
     

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  14. 1 hour ago, torre said:

    https://www.tcta.org/legal-services/legal-issues-a-to-z/faqs-when-placed-on-administrative-leave

     

    I am not in the education field,  but did he contact the Texas Classroom Teachers Assoc  as the first step ?   

    Is he a new hire under a probation period ?    I believe @Knoxtnhorn is in the education field.   Though I think he is in the Metroplex,  perhaps he can offer advice.

    Yes he is a new hire. He had to restrain the child, the child was not hurt. However, SAISD has not provided him restraint training. The Principle, or Superintendent basically said "that's on us", if anything comes of it. He said he had to do it to prevent serious injury to the student that was being attacked.

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  15. I'm lucky that my Second Trinity well is about two hundred feet from the Brazos river. It is 579 feet deep and has over 150 feet of water in it. I've always had it in the back of my mind that it could be a gold mine one day. It's good enough to bottle straight out of the pump.

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  16. 1 hour ago, RPM said:

    I remember him from Apollo 8 and CEO of Eastern Airlines.

     

    He is not even 50 years old in this Eastern ad. When I saw him he looked easily 75 or older. Imagine looking like an advanced senior citizen for more than half your life.

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  17. 8 hours ago, RPM said:

    Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman - 95

    Frank Borman, Who Led Historic Flight Around the Moon in 1968, Dies at Age  95 - WSJ

    When I was in college, Frank Borman bought a 1964 Piper Twin Comanche. We went and picked it up, brought it to our FBO and annualed it and put a bunch of speed mods on it. We then flew it to Las Cruces, NM, where he lived. I was expecting to see this young guy that had been an astronaut. He was only a little over 60  at the time, but already looked much older than what I expected, and acted much older. He was interesting to talk to, but I thought he would have died a while back. After meeting him, its hard to believe he lasted this long.

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