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  1. 1 hour ago, The Royal We said:

    I'm thinking the opposite on the bigger cities vs. some random rural road. It seems like people coming from further east will be going to bigger towns. I'm in Nacogdoches and have been planning on going almost due west to find a spot along 287 on the other side of Palestine. The path of totality looks to cross this area 10-15 miles west of Palestine on 287.

    What's the consensus, a bigger city like Tyler where they have better infrastructure or a more rural place where there should be fewer people? My plan has been to find somewhere in the red circle that has a larger shoulder where we can turn around and be pointed back to home and safely watch from the side of the road. Will areas like this be all jammed up too?

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    I recently bought an old house in Kerens, not too far from there.  I would tell you to drop by, it's off 31 but I have 8 pecan trees and some other trees in my yard.  I may be at the house but not sure, I am driving up from Houston to drop off some things for the house so I will be in the area but may go somewhere else to watch.

  2. Girlfriend likes flying cheap so we use Spirit a lot.  As for delays, past year Spirit has been on time for every flight we have.  Can't say the same for SWA or United.  We always get the first row for a little extra money and we check a bag.  As for the clientele, it is interesting...   And as others as said, I will go out of my way to fly direct.  That is why we also use SWA and United out of Houston.

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  3. 20 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    And with commercial VPNs, you are counting on them not to retain the data (and many advertise this as a selling point), but your employer is very much going to run at least some kind of automated scan to make sure you aren't looking at stuff you couldn't look at if you were sitting in the office plugged into the local intranet.

    Most companies use Proxies that block comercial VPN's, your work can and will track your internet usage using that proxy.

  4. What I dont get is why do they get special treatment?  Send them to jail, the docs they sign to get the clearance state this is punishable by jail time.  I had TSI, son has TSI, both of us Army.  If I took home classifed stuff, even by accident I would lose clearance and get punshed.  Take away the clearance and lock all of them up and even go further and check all of House and Senate.  Doesn't matter if you dont think it should be classifed, it is.  They are breaking the law and should not be in office.

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  5. On 9/12/2022 at 1:02 AM, FartingMonk said:

    Ummmm, housing inspections are not a thing.  It's in fact illegal.  But I know what you mean.  We had a guy moving to another house in base housing so my chief got us to go help him move.  We damn near puked when we walked in.  Cat shit everywhere, slime on the couch.  We kinda looked around and said fuck this.  We can't do it.  

    Nope,  they can inspect with notice.  From the new Housing Bill of Rights from last year.

    The right to have reasonable, advance notice of any entrance by a landlord, installation housing staff or members of the chain of command into the housing unit, except in the case of an emergency or abandonment of the housing unit

    Back when I was squad leader in the 101st I had to go to a PFC's housing offbase.  He was late all the time and had lots of issues.  His trailer was nasty and so was his wife.  Gross.  Ended up having him move into barracks and his wife went back home with kid.

     

  6. On 8/24/2022 at 10:37 AM, BearSchlong said:

    at 24% interest, right?

    My son tells me that the cliche vehicle of choice for guys like him is the Toyota Tacoma.

    He just texted me all kitted out for a jump, he's almost a Jumpmaster. Ranger school coming up too.  I'm so jealous, I wish I was 30 years younger.

    My son wants a Tacoma.  He told me that a lot of the junior officers at Bliss had Tacomas.  🤣

  7. I was at Benning, Harmony Church, Aug 85, they smoked you, cussed you and  pushed you around as needed.  No AC in barracks, they were from WW2 and only time off was Sunday morning for Church.  All snail mail.  Food wasnt bad, I put on 35 Lbs in OSUT.  Next stop the 25th in Hawaii, food was OK, unit sort of sucked, light infantry and in the fiels constantly.  Next was LRSU in Germany, food sucked, and unit sucked.  Next was HHC, 7th Corps, very good chow beceause we had a 3 star and 1 start who ate in mess hall.  Went to Desert Storm with 7th Corps, worked in the Corp TAC, pretty cool, there is picture of me in a book General Franks did.  Lastly was 101st, food sucked and the barracks were terrible, dark and old.

  8. On 8/8/2022 at 8:22 PM, You don't know me said:

    No call from the boy over the weekend. Probably a "you all suck and haven't earned it" type of thing. I told the wife that it is all part of the game and nothing to worry about. No news can be considered good news. I did, however, get a letter from him today. He opened with "Dear Dad, I got all of your letters today. I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry a little. I didn't realize how much they would mean to me." Yeah, it got a little dusty in my office this afternoon. I try to write him a few times a week, just trying to offer words of encouragement. When I went through boot camp my dad wrote me one time. In that letter, he wrote that he was proud of me. First time I remember him ever saying that to me. I know he loved me and was proud, but to read it in his handwriting meant the world to me. I hope my letters mean half as much to my boy as my dad's meant to me. Looking forward to the next call, hopefully next Sunday.

    My son was at Jackson and they had a FB page to follow. Psoted pictures of recruits training and gave weekly updates of what they are doing and what they did.  Do they have it for your son's unit?  It was cool to see pics on son in training while he was there.  Also on the phone thing, back in mid 80's when i went to basic they would smoke us bad and had other forms on punshiment, today they take there Sunday phone privelage away instead of smoking them.

  9. 8 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

    That’s putridness right there. I am one who likes Brachs candy corn not the dollar store kind. Hot dog candy corn sounds like a war crime.

    If you want parents keep their kids away I’m thinking candy cigarettes might do it. They are probably expensive nostalgia candy now though.

    Amazon has them for less then a dollar a pack.   I may go that route this year.  In a new house so I can hand these out this year and never have to hande out candy again. 

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  10. I spent about a month there last year. Few weeks on Roatan and a week on Utilia.  Roatan I stayed in West End and West Bay.  I went for the diving.  West End is town, more shops and resturants.  West Bay for the beach, most resturants were Hotel resturants.  But there is a water taxi, think it was 3 US 1 way that you can get to between the 2 locations.  Utilia is  much smaller, golf cart to ge around, lots of backpackers working on scuba certs to become instructors.   If going hire a driver on Roatan and go check out the island, also mangrove tour was pretty cool.

  11. 21 hours ago, midtown said:

    Outdoor masking is gone from Belize now.   And curfew is also gone

    Good Timing.  I head down on the 12th, San Pedro for a week, few days in San Ignacio and then back to an San Pedro.  Staying until the 30th.  Lots of Scuba Diving this month.

  12. Saw posted by Bama Chick in regards to son graduating Marine Basic, he left on October and this is first time seeing him.  This is big difference from Army, my son started basic in October also but the Army gave them a 2 week break over Christmas.  LOL.    FYI, I was in Army 85 to 92, I have had a few calls with my son and um, lets just say Basic has changed since 85.   I am heading to Ft. Jackson tomorrow for his graduation, after that he is heading out to Goodfellow AFB for Signal Intel training for 6 months.  His recruiter and I convinced him to not go Infantry like I was.

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  13. I had it 2 weeks ago. Symptoms started 4 days after my Pfizer booster. All my kids got it to. Ex's family decided to still have their Christmas party and new years eve party. It spread from there. Luckily her unvaxxed parents didn't get it. Wasn't to bad for any of us. 2 days of what I always call crud, just felt like shit like I do with allergies. Kids are vaxxed and older and in shape so they had a sore throat and sniffles.

  14. My daughter, no pics, is vaccinated and had covid in August. She has been feeling bad for almost 2 weeks, had covid symptoms. Did multiple covid rapid tests and a pcr in er, all negative. Her mom took her to er because she was feeling bad, fever and body aches, er found nothing wrong with her of course.. Did rapid today for a party tonight and postive....

  15. All except for Egypt.  Egypt was different, they required PCR not rapid and they wanted to see card and proof in Egypt but like I said they just saw US card and passport and said welcome to Egypt.  Didn't look that hard.  As for using image on phone not sure about that.  We  are behind, other countries have bar codes for scanning and look better then our cards.  I did my vac at Fort Bend county site and my card is in pencil that I filled out, no one has questioned me on it, even on the cruise I took.

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  16. 1 minute ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    Anybody had to show proof of vaccine for international travel? Lost my card but have a digital copy from Walmart...I just have no clue if they look at my phone and are happy? It's got a barcode, but I'm traveling from Mexico to Colombia, so I'm assuming whatever system is used for that barcode is not accepted globally? How the fuck does all of this work?

    I had to for my Egypt trip in September.  They just looked at card and waved me thru.  I have been travelling a lot this last year.  Cozumel, Roatan, Utilia, Egypt and girlfriend just took me on my first cruise. (Yuck)  Not once did I have issues as all the places just glance at proof of test and the card.

  17. 13 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Comfort comes from time and exposure.  I grew up hunting, and guns were exclusively for that purpose.  We had ONE pistol.  A Ruger MKI for snakes.  It took me a while to get comfortable with them and I'm still not great with them.  

    What helped me was cleaning them.  Get the manual, and take it apart.  See how it works.  See exactly what it does, how it does it.  Let your kids help you if you have and want to expose them.  It was my job as a kid after hunts.  Hated it at the time.  Later learned it was invaluable.  I knew every gun like my kids know their iPhones.  

    That's how the Army taught us. Clean it first and learn the weapon then treat it as a weapon.  I didn't touch a pistol until I was in the Army and deployed for Desert Storm.  I was issued a pistol, pretty much everyone had one and most of us had never fired one or knew how to clean that pistol.  In fact I was cleaning said pistol, the 45, sitting in APC monitoring radio for 7th Corps TAC, when I was assembling I let the spring at the end of barrel shoot out and it went out the APC and in front the Crops map, General Franks was getting a briefing and here comes this spring flying out there.  They all knew me and got a good laugh out of it....  Scared the heck out me thought i was going to get an ass chewing.

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