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  1. On 6/10/2019 at 3:47 PM, conVINCEd said:

    2 for 1 cfs on either Tuesday or Wednesday was on my weekly rotation in college.  Roommate and I would go and our total bill, with 2 drinks, was less than $10.

    When Mrs. CHIEF and I first got married and had two car payments, and a high end apartment we should have never rented, this was our Tuesday night "date". Wednesday night was Copper Tank dollar pints. For a Jackson, you could have 8 pints each, and still leave a $4 tip. Also lived on 10 cent shrimp, 25 cent oysters, dollar beers, and government cheese at Pearl's Oyster Bar, 69 cent night at Dallas Night Club. We were as poor as church mice, but had the circuit down pat.

     

    CHIEF

  2. CHIEF Jr.  and I smoked a Cuban every night the last time we went to Cozumel. Box of Siglio IIIs was $135, we each bought a box. Don't think I'll do it again. They were wonderful, but an Arturo Fuente Maduro curly leaf for a dollar isn't enough of a step down to pay that difference. My unrefined palate can't justify it.

    CHIEF

  3. I never really got into Sunvolt or Wilco. My cousin and her husband, recording studio and record shop owners in Ft Worth. just absolutely love them. They sound very "ordinary" to me, but to them they are God's gift. I feel the same way about Elvis Costello and Phish, very ordinary sounds that don't have powerful enough lyrics to overcome the bland chords. I've only had a very small sample of each, but that small sample sucked enough to make me not want to listen to anything more from them. I know each of these bands have devoted followers here, but I just never got "it".

    CHIEF

  4. On 5/25/2019 at 10:12 PM, williemackgarza said:

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    Finally broke down and picked up a Sig P365.
    Driving thru Lampasas this week stopped off at Hoffpauirs to check it out. Super nice folks.
    My local shop in Gtown had shut down so I thought why not give a local shop some business.
    Ive been a Glock die hard for years but gotta admit I love this gun. My new CC pistol. Glock 42 & 43 going to the safe.
    Question is why did I wait this long?
    Fits my hand well and shoots like a dream with 10 rounds in stock mag.

    Just bought CHIEF Jr. a Sig P365 for his 21st birthday, which will be this Saturday. My local gun dealer matched the $500 price that was on Gunbrokers.com. and the $30 transfer fee I would have paid, pretty much paid the tax on it. Love the way it feels.

    CHIEF

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  5. 11 acoustics ( 3 Gibsons, 2 Martins, 3 Taylors, 3 Alvarez), 2 electrics (both USA Strats), 2 ukes, a 1950 Gibson Mandolin, one lap steel (1930's Gibson), and a Deering 6 string Banjo. That's about it, maybe a bass laying around somewhere.

     

    CHIEF

  6. Thank you all. His whole business was ran off of sticky notes and yellow notebook tablets. It's been a mind fuck for sure. Hit the bricks at 7, this morning, finished up with my real estate stuff about 9:30 this evening. Just mentally and physically exhausting, but i know he loved me, and this was the path he would want me to take. 

    If your Old Man is still alive, please be sure to tell them that you love them. Any riffs you have, mend them (luckily I didn't have any).  Also, be sure and have fresh strings to throw on your new axes.

    CHIEF

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  7. 22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    CHIEF, if you don't mind and can find the time at some point, please post more stories, photos, or recordings of your Dad.

    Sure, right now I am running his metal fab shop. Put in 12 hours today. You would think that a 75 year old would only leave golf clubs, maybe a golf cart, a fishing boat, a car etc.

    I got guns, guitars, and a 50-60 hour a week job.

    CHIEF

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  8. 1 hour ago, SpiralOut said:

    Eh, when it's my time I just hope I get to go out on my own terms.

    Last year my grandfather, who was my mentor and friend and was just an all around awesome guy, died.  He'd been living with diabetes for years, but what did him in was falling over from all the medication he was on.  Normally he'd fall and be fine, but he was outside by himself working on some project of his and broke his collarbone and a rib after tipping over.  Then he caught pneumonia.  Made it through all of that, only to have his digestive system start shutting down.  In the hospital he looked like he was on death's door.  He asked to just be allowed to go in peace.  Nope.  Doctors and other family members wouldn't have it.  So he ended up getting operated on.  Then they did another operation to take out his gallbladder.  Except the real doc was on vacation so some stand-in, shit-tier doc did the procedure.  And he fucked it up.  So they had to go back in to fix it.  Three operations in the span of a week on an 82 year old.  He ended up being in there about a month.

    He made it out of the hospital and to a recovery/hospice place.  I went and visited him a few times each week and he hated it there.  The ladies running the show were always on him about everything.  The place is full up of cranky old people about to die.  Just not somewhere you'd want to be.  Oh, and all of this is costing a fortune, by the way, even with insurance. 

    So he gets out of the recovery center.  Makes it through all that bullshit folks forced him to go through.  Dies two days later at home from heart failure.  But hey, the doctors got theirs.  The recovery place got their pound of flesh, too.  And my other family members, who couldn't just let this wonderful man pass in peace, got a few extra weeks to watch him lie in a hospital bed in constant pain and discomfort. 

    Fuck all of that.  This keeping people who are going to die alive for a few more weeks just to milk them and their family for all you can is a fucking racket.  And it's morally reprehensible. 

    My FIL died a couple of years ago. They did the same thing to him. Hundreds of thousands for about 2 weeks of the most miserable existence I've ever seen. Luckily there is a history of heart disease in my family, so maybe I get to go out like Dad did.

    CHIEF

  9. Thank you all. About to have some new items in the GuitarPron thread. He loved CHIEF Jr. and myself immensely, and purchased many nice items to pass down to us. Guitars, rare shotguns, etc. First person I will think of when I pick them up each day.

     

    CHIEF

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  10. Well, sometimes life just sux (like OU level). Lost my Pop last night. Greatest man I ever knew. Died in his guitar room preparing a lesson for Sunday School this morning. 5th heart attack, we knew that would probably be the way he was going to go. No long illness, no hospitalization. FUCK, he had a beautiful life and a beautiful death. Just got finished with a jamm session.

    If I live the rest of my life using him as an example, I will have lived a very good life. No complaints.

     

    CHIEF

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  11. I shot a 600 lb sow in Aspermont one evening on our deer lease. The next morning I went to show CHIEF jr., and she was gone. Finally found her skull and backbone about 30 yards away. Other hogs and coyotes ate her in one night.

    CHIEF

  12. On 5/2/2019 at 10:51 PM, Homercles said:

    I’m about 2-3 years away from pulling any real triggers but figured I’d throw out a lure here...I need some input on what to research for the future. This will be long-cat, so if it dies with no replies...it dies...tragically I trust you bastards.

     

    I tend to keep my cars a long time. When I moved back to Texas in 02 I bought a 97 Prelude (that I still miss) and kept it until 2010. Before that an ‘89 Bonneville that survived Stillwater for 4 years. I’ve got two kids in car seats so I need a 4-door. In a couple years when my daughter is pushing 5, and my back seat isn’t a sea of crushed Cheerios, I want a new ride.

     

    Current car is an ‘07 CTS-V with 94k on the clock. Just had new shoes affixed, water pump, serp belt and a few other minor things knocked out (oil, TB cleaned out, plugs/wires). Brakes are only two years old, but I’ve had a litany of sensor problems...coolant temp, clutch position, throttle position, sunroof, etc. The CPS apparently has some wiring problem that’ll cost $1k to rewire as it’s an intermittent interface issue at the harness...it throws a code every 6mos or so.

     

    I was leaning V2 for my next car, it’s easy to get addicted to a flat torque curve and a 6spd stick (at 38yo I’m not sure I’m ready to give up rowing my own gears)...but damn I’m tired of a big shop visit every few years. Read on jalopnik how the CT6 is a top-10 unreliable car.

     

    Thoughts on what to look for next? I want another car in ~5s range getting to 60, preferably with a stick, with a nice interior that’ll let me sync up to my phone and leather seats, can fit two car seats in the back and won’t break the bank once it gets to be a decade old. I’ve removed the front clip on my v to change the headlights, the door panels to install new door actuators, etc...so I can be handy when I need to be, but don’t want another garage queen.

     

    Looked at A6/A7s, been soured on Bimmers after my friend replaced the whole cooling system on his 325 and my dad needed a new dash on his 525, worried about sensor problems on a 2010-2013 V2, more reliable options like Lexus don’t come with a stick or are underpowered, etc. I’ve wondered about G8 GXPs, SS or E63 wagons but worry they are unicorns.

     

    Any ideas outside A6/7, 550i, GS350, or V2/G8? My budget will be about 30-40k in 2021, gotta be a midsize+ 4 door, and has to have some capability to dance and sprint as I’ve gotten used to a bit of a bruiser in my V. Older AMG S or E? Will an S4 handle car seats? Is my fear of a V2 overblown? Is the GS that boring? I dunno. Could use some ideas so I can start researching now...when the time comes I’ll have patience to find the right one.

     

     

    We've been looking German and Japanese, and tend to keep cars for 10 or so years. Wife says the 7 series is just too big. With that said we are starting to look at the Lexus GS F. N/A 5.0 467hp, not a speed demon, but pretty quick, and Toyota build quality and reliability. Has paddle shifters, not really rowing, but those are tough to find in anything now.

    CHIEF

  13. I've been carrying a leek for about 7 years, I'm gonna have to get one in orange, and two for graduation gifts for CHIEF Jr.'s two buddies that are graduating UT and UTD in May. They are great graduation gifts.

    CHIEF

  14. James Taylor with the folks, as a kid. First one I bought my own tickets too, and went with friends was Van Halen 1984 at the Cotton Bowl. Went to every Texxas Jam there ever was, and the Freedomfest after that.

    CHIEF

  15. On 7/12/2018 at 2:13 PM, Chad Fuck said:

    She's at the top of her game.  This last record is pretty damed good.  

    Gonna be this generation's Carole King. Phenomenal song writer.

    CHIEF

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  16. 11 hours ago, futureman said:

    was he not swimming in a lake of gold coins like scrooge mcduck?  chewie is one of the most iconic characters to ever appear on screen.  I would’ve thought he had fuck you money. 

    Hw lived in a pretty unassuming house, but Angie comes from money. Her Dad owns the most high end and lakefront property in Hood county. However, he just got divorced and his ex-wife ended up with a lot of it.

    CSB- Peter's son is kind of an arrogant prick. He was in our 19th hole one night, didn't know everyone new who his dad was. He hinted that he was kin to someone famous, used that connection for all of his passwords. Mrs. CHIEF looks at him and says, "I bet your password is Chewbacca." The look on that fuckers face was epic, cause she was right.

    CHIEF

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