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  1. Finished Hymn of the Republic. I've found historical non-fiction seems to be my preferred genre. Ii was tempted to go with another Civil War era book but felt it was time to take a break from that. Have this one coming to me for my April read.
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    Finishing Hymn of the Republic now. Csb/ one of my closest friends great great great grandfather was Howell Cobb, in fact I knew/know 3 generations of men with his name, the oldest of whom was a WW2 fighter pilot, a UT Law grad, and later a federal judge. He married my FIL and his 2nd wife.

    I had heard the story from my buddy but was understandably surprised to see it chronicled as an example of Sherman’s destruction.

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  2. Good stuff. My work BFF who is in the program was at an event with another employee from our Seattle office and they ordered club sodas and a quick “Hey, do you know my friend Bill?” usually gets a knowing nod. And now there are 3 of us out of several hundred thousand employees.

    Funeral for my buddy today. The cathedral was PACKED and at least a hundred others were in an overflow room. 700 people is probably a low estimate. I got there a half hour early and had to sit on the back row. The only bright spot was seeing people I hadn't seen in 34 years who flew in from around the country for the service.

    My first impulse was to take a photo of the throng and text it to him in heaven and say “Hey dumbass, look how much you and your family are loved!!” I feel like such an asshole for typing that.

    This marks the 3rd suicide I've been close to since June of ‘23. I'm really getting weary of that dreadful feeling that accompanies the memories.

    So, powerlessness over people places, and things.

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  3. My wife is a closeted hoarder. I even saw a bag from Shein or whatever that cheap Chinese merchandiser is last week.

    My ex-wife and her mom were hoarders too, but their shit came from Neiman Marcus.

    So, progress?

    I had to take a piss at Northpark mall last week and visited Neimans for the first time in 20 years, and as I passed by the table in Mermaid Grill where, between bites of a Duke of Windsor sandwich, my old friend and celebrity attorney Roy Black attempted to convince me to not marry #1 without an ironclad prenup, I spotted this.

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  4. I gotta tell ya…I HATE crawfish cooked that way. The meat is unseasoned. Completely unseasoned. No salty/spicy boiling water gets in there. It’s just seasoning on the outside of the shells. Imagine really liking banana with peanut butter, but you spread the PB on the outside of the peel. It don’t make no sense.

    I’ve been eating them boiled in seasoned boil water for fiddy years, ima keep eating em that way.

    And I find boiled crawfish chewy, harder to peel, and overflavored. I don't hate them, in fact that's the way I always cooked them before marrying into their clan. And I'll still eat them without complaint anytime I get the chance.

    But that was before the enlightenment.

    The vinegar and lemon really soak into them during the 20-minute rest and accentuate the crawfish flavor. And they are so tender and almost fall out of the shells. And the claw meat comes out fat and intact.

    But Im the same way with all my seafood, I'd rather eat “naked” grilled fish than blackened.

    Boiling is easier at scale which is why it's popular for restaurants and events.
  5. C. Boudreaux makes the best crawfish I've ever had, and the family grew rice and crawfish for generations before they figured out there was way more money in petroleum.

    Anyway, the key is that each sack gets steamed - not boiled- that big pot holds no more than 4 inches of water, and the meshed basket sits mostly on top of the water. And it really doesn't matter how you season the water, because a quart of vinegar, a quart of lemon juice, a quart of minced garlic, a pound of butter, and the cajun seasoning dust gets dumped on top of the crawfish right after cooking. Then you shake the cooler every 5 minutes while resting the bugs for 20 minutes before eating.

    It's unlike any restaurant crawfish. 11 adults ate 3 sacks and I was so freaking full.

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  6. I don't see anyone stopping you.....but they probably DO go on another sub-board....

    There is something weird going on. I can post pics of crawfish, but not a photo of a 5x7 poster of 5 naked chicks laying in a bed with their hands covering each others nipples and bushes.
  7. All these damn years, I've been doing it the hard way. I may never go to work again.
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    I was in a conference room yesterday with a few dozen of my peers and VPs. Had to do some heavy spreadsheet pivoting and presenting on a big Webex screen. Whipped out the 2nd monitor and then saw a half dozen people head to Amazon and buy their own.

    Then I stopped by Tumi and upgraded backpacks to more comfortably accommodate the extra screen for travel.
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  8. I've previously mentioned my key 2021 sponsee who was a HS senior when I was a freshman.  The guy with the hottest sexiest girlfriends, the best booze and drugs, the coolest music, at the best parties, that 14 year old me hero worshipped.  Kind of a Dazed and Confused scene.  And now that he's in his early 50s I've taken him through the steps and he's got 10 months and he's become like a brother.  I've described how I know I'm alcoholic because from the moment I got to high school I wanted to be exactly like those seniors who were doing it right, weekends in oblivion.  And how when he got to AA he didn't recognize me or realize who I was until after he asked me to sponsor him.
    Last night we had one of those magical, intimate book study meetings.  We're on the stories in the back of the book, and my observation is that the women contributors do a smashing job with language. https://aa-edinburgh.org.uk/pdf/bigbook/pioneers_9.pdf.  This sums it up:
    . . .through a long and calamitous series of shattering experiences, I found myself being helplessly propelled toward total destruction.


    Dammit, he ended his life on Tuesday.

    He left behind a wife, 4 kids aged 4-17, 2 stepkids, and about a thousand others who are in anguish.

    I talked to him Sunday at 3 and he seemed to be in a good mood.

    A disease where we tell people ”I'm fine” even though we might be dying inside.

    Sitting on the patio at pecan lodge, listening to country music, swilling diet coke, and reminiscing. I need to shake off this meat coma and fly home and be with my friends.
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  9. I just talked to my best bud who drives those huge 1000 ft barge strings down the Mississippi from Illinois to Louisiana. As I was hanging up I said “try not to hit any bridges” and he laughed and said since the Baltimore incident his company is shitting bricks. They made him map out every one of the 70 bridges he will transit in the next 4 days.

    Then he sent me this, from when a front pushed through recently.

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    There's a reason those guys make a half mil a year.

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  10. “So Dad, I've been flying around in Chinooks a lot. Do you know what that is? Anyway, it is fucking HOT here and the turbines are attached to the ceiling so we fly guns out with the ramp down for ventilation.”

    Sends him pic of his grandfather flying in a Chinook in SE Asia 56 years ago.

    “Yeah son, I do”

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  11. Yep, that's my take on it too. We had one of those old school 80's 4 door Chevy Malibu fleet cars with a second brake pedal and steering wheel. He was cool as a cucumber about it. "You guys want to listen to some music? What do you like, Rock?" Then he put it on the local rock station. When we got over the bridge and into Bridge City, he had me pull over in a parking lot, looked in the back seat and asked "Who's driving back?"
    One day later in the week, we're driving around listening to the radio again and the DJ comes on and says "Caller number 9 wins 2 tickets to Molly Hatchet!" I was driving at the time and he grabbed the wheel and whipped us into the gas station we were about to pass and jumped out and ran for the pay phone...he didn't win, though. 

    Stephanie Ketchum on B95 FM? She is married to my buddy, such a cool chick.

    Seriously, the guy I stay with in Leander during hurricane evacuations - he was driving on the Lake Charles bridge on the way to a fraternity formal in New Orleans when a piece of steel beam flew off the truck in front of him, through his window, and ripped his face and scalp off. He was hospitalized for 6 months. He had great reconstructive surgeons.

    I still white knuckle that bridge on my way to Baton Rouge, but my wife refuses. She will take the Veteran’s Bridge but refuses to take the Rainbow.
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