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  1. Just now, SimonBolivar said:

    Team two showers. Need one to wake up and going to bed at night clean is a great feeling.

    I can't stand showering at night, because it wakes me up.  Plus I can't stand having dry feet and hands so I have to moisturize otherwise I'll be laying in bed contemplating moisturizer, which I hate using.  But as @HouTex mentioned, nighttime blowies dominate dry skin everytime, especially in hotels.

  2. 1 hour ago, Apep said:

    About a decade back, I realized most of my deodorant ended up on my armpit hair. Being a cheap bastard, I started using my electric clippers to shave it off once a week or so. That not only saved money on deodorant, but it also lessened the funk when the deodorant eventually failed. Then, a few years ago, I started using hand sanitizer to clean my armpits at least once a week. After that, my deodorants never fail. I've even switched to a Right Guard gel that doesn't mess up my shirts.

    I'm hairy as well and do the same thing with the clippers.  I agree that hair exacerbates the stink. 

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  3. On 6/15/2019 at 11:42 AM, BearSchlong said:

    Water still high and fresh in the marsh near Johnsons Bayou. Wind howling straight up the channel so took refuge in the marsh.

     

    Poor guy put a very nice Turner boat onto the top of a submerged piling and got it very stuck. My 2 buddies happened to be the closest boat and pulled him off.

     

    My dad and I were right in front of him and tried to wave him off to no avail.

     

    If no other boats were there he probably would have gone through on plane and then were talking serious damage and injury, plus would have hit his lower unit on the 350 hp motor.

     

    75% of the time the pilings are exposed and anyone who has been there at least once can navigate through them when they are submerged. I had gone through about 1 hour earlier, before this guy arrived, with a trolling motor and the big motor raised and still lightly bumped one.

     

    I'm about to contact Louisiana fish and wildlife and figure out a way to get these pilings marked as a hazard. There hasn't been a bridge in about 80 years. . .

     

    Mindbottling how they havent been removed or marked yet.

     

    Of course I took a video.

     

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    Of course my buddy who used his boat to pull the Turner off the piling is obsessive compulsive, so he tracked the guy down via facebook.  Here are the "after" photos of the hull.  Ouch.

  4. Lucky he didn’t hole that thing.  
    Lucky he wasnt out there alone cause he would have been on plane.

    When the Redfish tour is in town the guys in the scb custom wrapped rigs that drive their boats from 7 foot towers always pull their big motor, drop the trolling motor via remote control, and squeeze through on their way to the duck lakes a few miles up the bayou.
  5. Driving home, thinking - no obsessing about fly fishing... gonna need some guidance on gear and centex honey holes for me and my sons. Sigh.
    Find a guide that fishes the first 5 crossings of canyon lake tail race with nymphs and put him on retainer. I used to have the guy (as did Andy Fastow) but pussy (in NC) is undefeated. I'd call that fly shop in Greune and ask them. Join the Guadelupe river chapter of trout unlimited.
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  6. Water still high and fresh in the marsh near Johnsons Bayou. Wind howling straight up the channel so took refuge in the marsh.

     

    Poor guy put a very nice Turner boat onto the top of a submerged piling and got it very stuck. My 2 buddies happened to be the closest boat and pulled him off.

     

    My dad and I were right in front of him and tried to wave him off to no avail.

     

    If no other boats were there he probably would have gone through on plane and then were talking serious damage and injury, plus would have hit his lower unit on the 350 hp motor.

     

    75% of the time the pilings are exposed and anyone who has been there at least once can navigate through them when they are submerged. I had gone through about 1 hour earlier, before this guy arrived, with a trolling motor and the big motor raised and still lightly bumped one.

     

    I'm about to contact Louisiana fish and wildlife and figure out a way to get these pilings marked as a hazard. There hasn't been a bridge in about 80 years. . .

     

    Mindbottling how they havent been removed or marked yet.

     

    Of course I took a video.

     

  7. 8 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    Uhhh.  So, if I run his credit, there's no score?  Color me doubtful.   I'm guessing he's got a score, a very low one.  I've dealt with young folks that have no real credit history, but they've all had scores. 

    I'd love to be wrong though.  Having no score at all would be cool. 

    I just assumed that if a person has never applied for credit, nor ever had a payment reported to an agency, that they simply had no credit score.  I'm probably wrong.

  8. 21 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    I'd of missed the meeting with the client because I'd "overslept" and been awoken at 10 a.m. by my boss who had flown into town and was banging on the hotel room door. Allegedly.

    One night my company hired Hootie and the Blowfish to play an intimate client event at the WDW Conference Center. Scotch Whisky ensued.  I specifically remember sitting with Zack Thomas and Dan Marino and Zack shook his head and told me I was "out of control"

    1pm the next day the hotel security manager was banging on my door.  My wife, who was due with our daughter back in Texas, thought she was going into labor and could not reach me.

    Monday when I returned to work I was contacted by a VP in my company who was trying to understand why I tried to kick his ass during the party.  Amazed I didn't get fired.

    This story is not a humblebrag.  It hurt my ex wife tremendously.

    A month later we did the same type of event at a hotel in NOLA with the B-52s.  I was told in no uncertain terms by my ex that I was prohibited from attending the cocktail party, that I was to make the 5pm flight back to SATX.

    Newborn baby at home and I had a huge resentment against her for interfering with my fun.

    #teaminsanity

     

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  9. 3 hours ago, Sparky said:

    I often wondered why others had a hangover and I never did and it was because I never let it stop, as others have mentioned.  What I didn't realize, till I got sober for about 15 days, was I just got used to feeling like shit all the time.  Like just taking some Advil several times a day for a painful back I just drank early and often for my hangover and thought "well this is just the way I am, nothing I can do about it".  A few weeks back I had a bad stomach virus and for about 36 hours it felt like a terrible hangover, basically the same thing dehydrated, headache and couldn't eat.  And that was a perfect reminder of what will happen now if I was to take a drink.  It was miserable.

    Those mornings when I'd be off the reservation, away on business, my then-wife nowhere nearby to punch me for drinking. . .drunk near-sleep, wake up and get in the shower, realize I was still drunk but had a whole day worth of meetings. . .ugh.  Spending the whole day trying to act like nothing happened or that I was doing a great job, just trying to get through so I could get back to the hotel bar.  Ouch. Bonus if I didn't have a female coworker from a different branch office with me when I came to in that hotel room.

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  10. @thestud

    about the posts where you said your buddy was in ICU and was simultaneously worried about his job.

    That is such a great illustration of alcoholism.  We can be DYING yet are more concerned about something that is relatively insignificant like a job.

    Reminds me about the Egotistical Lawyer (or salesman, doctor, athlete, whoever) who won a big judgement and went out and bought a new Ferarri (in the original version, it was a lexus, but i'm an alcoholic so I'm going to embellesh a bit)

    Drive back to his law firm and parked that car by the curb, called up to his firm and told his partners to come see his new car.

    They did, and as he was showing them the interior a truck whizzed by, blowing the open drivers side door off it's hinges and almost running over the man.

    He shrieked "you've ruined my car, you sunufabitch!"

    His partner, who by now was pale as a sheet and looking faint, said "dumbass, that truck not only hit your car, it ripped off your arm!"

    The victim looked down, moaned, and yelled "oh no my ROLEX!!!"

    I know I've told that one before, but it still makes me laugh.

    With that I'll wish Alcoholics Anonymous a very happy 84th Birthday.

    June 10 was Dr. Bob's last drink, the day AA considers it's anniversary.

    One of my engineers (A guy who over the years has admitted a problem, but has basically been reasonably functional) and I spent a few days in the field last week, visiting customers. During the drive over, he was telling me about how he got a prescription for Naltrexon and how awesome it is.

    He offered to give it to me, that way I won't have to go to those AA meetings anymore.

    I chortled and said nothing.

    No I'm not pissing on the Sinclair method, I'm just reporting the conversation.

     

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