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  1. 12 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

    We have an infestation of really tiny black flies in the house, no clue where they came from. I told her to just grab a can of Raid Flying Insect Killer and it should take care of them quick. She comes home with a can of some all natural, no harmful chemicals stuff. She proceeds to blast this all over the entire house and it’s like someone let loose with a can of cooking spray in every room! Oily residue everywhere and I don’t think it even unconvinced the flies.

    Speaking of oily residue...When my two kids were very young my ex-wife took a leave of absence for a year.  One day she was boiling some baby bottle nipples in water on the stove.  She and the kids proceed to go outside for some reason.  The ex gets busy talking to some other stay-at-home moms and forgets about the nipples boiling on the stove top.  When she finally goes back into the house it is filled with oily smoke.  The rubber nipples had completely vaporized.  She calls the volunteer fire department.  They respond quickly because "some lady's nipples are burnt".

    Of course I am at work during all of this.

    Due to the oily residue we ended up replacing the carpet and most of the cloth furniture and mattresses plus some of the kid's stuffed animals.  We were out of the house for about a week due to the clean up process with ozone machines, cleaning, replacing, etc.  What a mess.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, luke duke said:


    Get him an Ancestry.com subscription. You’ll keep him busy for a year or two.
    My dad has eleventy billion slides from the 60’s and 70’s. I bought him a slide scanner and he probably spent 500 hrs digitizing them.

    I have discussed this with him in the past.  He is not a fan of technology.  My parents do not own a computer.  They do have a mobile phone which is turned off half of the time to "save the battery".  They do not text.  My mom barely uses it but my dad will surf the internet a bit with it.  As i mentioned in an earlier post I will most likely have him come to my house with his tome of material and I will enter all of it for him.  I have a subscription to Ancestry that I use for WW2 military research.

  3. My dad is big into genealogy.  He has been chasing our roots for 40+ years now and has branched out in numerous ways. His idea of a vacation these days is going to visit other olds that he has traced down as family members in the southeastern states and visiting “old home places” (those that still exist) and cemeteries.

    In lieu of putting all of this info together in an online program like Ancestry he has developed his own system and has dozens of 3-ring binders put together with all them cross-referenced. Eventually one day I will probably be tasked to get it all entered for future reference.

    Anytime that I let them know that I am going someplace he always says, “You should go by and see your 18th cousin 4’times removed (whom I have never met nor heard of). They live in BFE Tennessee. It is not too far from XYZ”. Or “While you are close you should go by so and so cemetery. That is where ABC is buried”.

    On my last trip to London he asked if I could go by such and such property to see what it looks like today since one of my ancestors owned that property back in the 1600s. I did manage to take a picture of a street sign featuring my surname in a prominent part of London. He was happy about that.

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  4. 3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    IMO, the two most Texan things you can do are 1) Going to the state championship games in Jerryworld.  All of them.   No, only Saturday doesn't count.

    And #2 is this:

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    I’m Texan. Already making plans for Jerryworld again this year.

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  5. 14 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    Shingled a roof in August.

    I helped my dad reshingle my great-aunt's old pier and beam farm house my senior year of HS in August.  The house was old and had been added on to multiple times through the years.  The add-ons we not square.

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  6. 15 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    And registered the texags.com domain immediately thereafter.  

    Ok, you have gone too far.  I just turned 57.  A proud 1988 UT grad.  Just because I was at Texas during some dark ages of football (84 thru 88) doesn't make me that old!  I just like old movies.

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  7. 1939 would like to have a word with all of you.  Movies released in 1939 are:

    The Wizard of Oz

    Gone with the Wind

    Stagecoach

    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    Jamaica Inn

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Of Mice and Men

    The Hounds of the Baskervilles

    Dark Victory

    Gunga Din

    Son of Frankenstein

    Young Mr. Lincoln

    The Four Feathers

    Goodbye Mr. Chips

    Only Angels Have Wings

    Dodge City

    Gunga Din

    The Little Princess

    Destry Rides Again

    Another Thin Man

    The Roaring Twenties

    The Four Feathers

    Union Pacific

    Drums Along the Mohawk

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Gulliver's Travels

    Confessions of a Nazi Spy

    It's a Wonderful World

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    They Made Me a Criminal

    Each Dawn I Die

    Allegheny Uprising

    King of the Underworld

    Stanley and Livinsgstone

     

    I am sure that I am missing some.  Just a few on my list.

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  8. 4 hours ago, Wade said:

    This is more stupid shit husbands do, but don't have a better place to put it, and I really just want to vent.

    Wife wants to visit her Philippines homeland badly this summer.  I've been there and have no urgent desire to go back.  Agreed she and the two kids will go.  I get a two week vacation at home.

    Book a flight for the three of them early spring.  Prices are sky high, but found a reasonable $1.3K rate.  Flights to Asia out of LAX are usually quite late at night.  The ticket I got was for July 3 at 00:50 hours. Now, in my stupified mind that somehow translated into leave late night July 3.

    Day of departure I check the airline to make sure things are on schedule, and realize to my horror that they missed the flight.  Call the airlines, hoping they'll be accommodating and just put them on the next flight available.  Nope.  $450 penalty for missing the flight and must purchase new tickets at full rate.  All other options are worse.  All in all, this fiasco cost me an additional $4,500 in costs just because I/we misinterpreted the date of departure. Fuck me.

    I did a similar thing as this once but it had to do with checking into a hotel after a late arrival.  When I arrived at the hotel they said that I did not have a reservation for that day and that they were "full".  I immediately realized that I had messed up with the online reservation.  Not to be totally defeated I was going to do my best to put it back on them that they must be wrong, afterall, I was dealing with the overnight shift hotel front-desk folks that most likely did not want to be there.  Through a few choice words and feigned anger they found an open room and I was able to check in with no penalty.

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  9. Personally I am not much of a user of cuss words but in my industry it is abundant in use in everyday affairs.  It also depends on what level of meetings you are in as to what cuss words may or may not be used.  If women are around it is toned down a "bit".

    I did call a guy out on a flight once to shut up because he went on a F-bomb tirade because someone slid his carry-on bag about a foot forward in the overhead compartment.  There were a lot of women and some kids on the flight.  He shut up quickly.

  10. On 10/14/2022 at 9:03 AM, Surly Bevo said:

    At West Virginia if they win they play the John Denver version of Country Roads.  If they lose the band plays Country Roads.  I've seen both (unfortunately)

    Yep, me too. I have always enjoyed going to Morgantown. That was always my Texas “away game” to attend.

  11. I was reading the obits in the local newspaper today and there was an aggy that passed away. He was in the class of 1959. They mentioned that his name would be read during the aggy muster thing this coming April. The oddest thing about the obit was, as they mentioned his surviving children and extended family, they put in parentheses their respective university they attended and the year they graduated. Most went to aggy.

  12. 2 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

    What trucks have rear ac vents for the kiddos in the backseat? 

    I would think that most full size 4 door models would.  My 2020 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab Z71 Texas Edition does.

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  13. 47 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    I think what people underestimate with Yellowstone is the amount of driving you have to do there.  Yellowstone and Tetons is a trip all by itself.

    Gotta get yourself a Joolca if you want a hot shower while camping.  

    I have always visited Yellowstone and GTNP "out of season" (mid-May and late October typically) to avoid the crowds.  Granted some of the amenities are not open but I would rather deal with that than the insane crowds.  The roads are typically two lane roads so if someone sees a bear, wolf, bird, etc. then they often stop in the road therefore backing up traffic until they have determined that they have seen enough and finally move on.

    Yes, Yellowstone is huge and a trip all by itself with a bit of time set aside for GTNP.

  14. 6 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I was actually looking at South Dakota yesterday.  There's so much to see in a relatively small area.  The problem is getting there because it's pretty much the middle of nowhere.  I figure it should probably be combined with Yellowstone, since it takes so much effort to get up there to begin with.

     

    Why?  You saying you should just disperse camp in national forests?

    Yes, The Black Hills are a bit remote but driving does not bother me.  I fly alot so I prefer to drive whenever I go for a vacation or getaway.  I drove from NE Texas to Teddy Roosevelt with an overnight stop in Grand Isle, NE on the way to Dickinson, ND.  Spent about 4 days in that area (ND) and then drove down to Rapid City where I met up with my girlfriend as she flew up for the second week. 

    We spent the entire second week in Rapid City doing day trips to the Badlands NP, Minuteman Missile NHS, Mt. Rushmore, Custer State Park, Devil's Tower, Jewel Cave, Wind Cave, Deadwood, Spearfish Canyon, Keystone, etc.  You can easily consume two weeks just in the Rapid City area if you took advantage of everything to do in the region.

    After the second week in Rapid City she flew back and I took a couple of extra days driving back hitting some more NPS sites back to Texas.

    Personally, I do not see the need to couple the SD/Black Hills visit with Yellowstone unless you have a lot of extra time to take off.  I have done Yellowstone/Grand Tetons separately so that I do not feel rushed.

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  15. 11 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Anyone getting out to places cooler than this shit show in Texas to hike this summer?  I'm heading to New Mexico next weekend.  Hoping to get out somewhere in August also.

    About this time last year I was in North and South Dakota doing some hiking. Did some hiking in Teddy Roosevelt and the Black Hills. It was pretty cool weather to moderate weather for the most part. I was up there for 2 weeks. Cannot recommend that area enough.

    I am thinking about heading up to Idaho for a week or two later this summer for some hiking.

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  16. 1 hour ago, GoPokes83 said:

    Got up early and the house was super quiet. I found the amount of grunts, sighs, groans and other small noises and sounds I make just getting up and moving around in the morning surprising. When did all that BS start?

    Every time that I stand up my knees sounds like the backspin of a ratchet wrench.

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  17. Back in April I was flying into ATL from SHV on a regional jet on a nice, clear day. We were making a nice and easy approach until when we were maybe 20 to 30 feet off of the ground when the pilot gave it full throttle and we quickly gained altitude. The pilot came on the speaker and said, “Ladies and gentleman, we are going to circle and make another pass”. That was the only explanation. Not sure if they started their approach too early/late or steep or if a plane suddenly crossed the runway?

    I flown over 2 million miles and that was my second aborted landing against one aborted takeoff that I have been a passenger on. The other aborted landing was due to poor visibility and the aborted takeoff was due to a hydraulic issue with the landing gear.

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