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mininghorn88

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  1. Hug them. Kiss them. Tell them that you love them. Be present. But, it sounds like you know what to do. Just do it.
  2. I had a great-uncle that was a combat medic in the ETO during WW2. Prior to enlisting in 1937 he served in the CCC in the southwest. Great guy, always smiling and happy. He is the one that jumped started my WW2 military collection. During the war he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor. He would never really say how he earned it other than to say that he stumbled upon some Germans and all that he had was a hypodermic needle as a weapon. Upon his death another elderly uncle told me that he earned the BS by liberating some US soldiers that had been captured by some German soldiers. He would not go into detail on how he did it other than to say, “just know that the soldiers were freed”. My guess was that the “needle” was a sidearm. Either way he was a badass.
  3. His Surly handle should have alerted you that he is old. It has been a long ass time since a treaty was signed under an oak tree.
  4. From our Beijing office ready to stream the game “my tomorrow” morning!! FIGHT!!!
  5. IMO, I would roll with this right here in a positive way.
  6. May 1992. My then wife was expecting our son to be born in late May. This also coincided with the third birthday of our daughter. So to avoid having a potential conflict on their respective birthdays we elected to have our daughter's birthday party earlier in the month. My ex-wife went into labor a couple of days before the birthday party. No big deal, or so we thought. I am in the delivery room with her. She is having a c-section. Once our son was birthed I was sitting next to the ex comforting her as they took our son to get him cleaned up. As I am sitting there next to her while the doctor is sewing her up the nurse comes over and matter-of-factorily says, "Your son has a breathing problem and it is not good". And then walks away. The doctor quickly looked at her with a "WTF" look on his face. I just sat there for a moment in a bit of a daze. They immediately put our son on oxygen since his numbers were so low. I remember asking the doctor, "Is my son going to die"? Fortunately my ex was out of it due to the surgery so she was not fully aware of what all was going on. The nurse did come by later to apologize for the way that she delivered the news. My son was on oxygen the remainder of that day and overnight. His levels began to get into the normal range the following day. So as the day progressed the ex and I felt confident enough in our sons recovery that I should go home to be with our daughter so that I could be there with her for her birthday party. So Friday night I go home for the Saturday party. As I am taking a shower Saturday morning I get a call on the phone but I miss it. As I am getting out of the shower I hear a neighbor banging on our front door. He tells me that my son has taken a turn for the worse overnight and that they are transporting him to a different hospital. I drop everything and head back to the hospital. To compound the situation the doctor on-call had gone into my ex's room to tell her that our son's condition was declining and that they were moving him. He just then left her there all alone and freaking out and for her to not be able to immediately get me on the phone just made it worse. I get to the hospital in time to watch them load our son into an ambulance. They discharge my ex to allow her to go to the new hospital with him. So she and I follow the ambulance to the different hospital about an hour away. We rode in silence fearing for the worse. It was horrible knowing that we had no control and that all we could do was to pray and put trust into the medical staff. Once at the new hospital by mid-morning, the staff went to work putting all types of sensors on him including applying oxygen once again. This on a Saturday now. By late Sunday he was breating on his own and all of his measurables were fine. Come Monday morning they declared that all is well but would keep him there for a couple of more days just to be certain. He did just fine the rest of the way. To be cautious the hospital sent us home with a device that would monitor his breating and pulse. It was basically a strap with embedded sensors that would wrap around his torso. The problem with the device is that sometimes it would work loose and would cause a false alarm. There is nothing like being in full sleep and hearing that alarm go off at night and bolting into his room to check on him. I believe that the machine caused more harm than good because of the stress that it would put us through when it would go off. Fast forward to about a year when we decide to no longer put him on the montor partly because not once in the previous time had we received any real alarms but also because of the damage to the machine incurred when my wife burned some baby bottle nipples on the stove (this story is shared in a different thread on Surley). Our son has turned out just fine; smart (college grad) and physically fit (played football and ran track where he was the anchor leg on all of the relays). I am trying to get him to do the American Ninja Warrior type stuff because he would excel with it. Our daughter does not really remember us missing her third birthday party that we left in the hands of good neighbors. She has turned out great too!
  7. We all know how pivotable having a good to great QB is to the team’s overall success. Texas has experienced it and now Bama is going through it. Will be curious to see just how effective a Deion team will be without having a QB the caliber that his son is at the helm. As we know, those are hard to come by.
  8. This move will make me reconsider Delta. I have been Diamond for years with both mileage and money spend requirements. All of this is courtesy of business travel. Last year, when they raised the money spend amount, I got a Delta card for personal spend since getting to the new milestone money wise by business travel would be marginal. Now with them raising the amount again, well, I just don’t know. I am a million miler plus on Delta. I am sitting around 700k with American for lifetime. It would take me a year to reestablish my status on American. I have never had to wait to get into a club either.
  9. On a flight to Paris and then connecting on to Beijing. Am able to stream on the flight and receiving it through DirecTV. I saw some more Horn fans on this flight too. A young (to me) couple. Did not get a chance to say “hi”. They are decked out in their Horns gear. The guy has a Manning jersey on. Let’s go! Texas Fight!!!
  10. Working from home today in 75650 prepping for a 2 week business trip to China and Australia. Unfortunately going to miss some games. FIGHT!!!
  11. Sounds like Dr. Seuss wrote this part.
  12. I made it until roughly 10:57am CDT today, September 14. Dammit.
  13. Consider yourself privileged. Do anything you want. You are blessed.
  14. So you are picking up I20 in Marshall?
  15. What route(s) are y'all taking? I may need to stand on the side of the road and wave in case you come through my neck of the woods!
  16. From my office in 75602 TEXAS!!!!
  17. I am on Teams calls daily. It is rare to run the video. Mainly use it to only share screens. Like previously posted if video is used at all it is for intros only if have never met.
  18. The company that I began to work for in 1989 was founded in the 1920s. During those years the company went through a couple of different ownerships but nothing really changed other than the BOD. The name stayed the same, people, processes, everything pretty much did not change. In 2011 we were bought out and went through a name, leadership, process, etc. change. In 2017 we were bought out yet again which again brought on major changes. We are now in the process of building a new office complex. So now, with over 30 years of having my own office (~12'x14' with a window, door, extra space, privacy, etc.) I will now be sitting in a cubicle that is 6'x9' with walls about 4' high in a common workspace. I am not thrlled. All in the name of "collaboration, synergy, and community". The whole purpose of why we were purchased in the first place is being "transitioned" out.
  19. We have done away with desktop phones in my office. All internal and some external calls are through Teams. So I either get calls on my cell phone or computer.
  20. There is a surprisingly a large amount of containers lost at sea every year with some of them staying afloat for months.
  21. TEXAS!! the brisket was cropped out:
  22. From my college roommate’s house in San Antonio for our family and friends opening football weekend food fest and watch party! TEXAS!!!
  23. The men’s restroom in our building has 4 urinals and three stalls for toilets. There is a guy in our building that always takes the middle stall no matter the situation. If stall 1 is occupied and stalls 2 and 3 are open. Please take stall 3. Give a guy some space.
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