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BearSchlong

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  1. I hate this post. I've already made one call to a lawdog buddy today to ask him to go to the jail and check on a poor guy getting fucked by the system.
  2. Your head football coach used to show up wasted at USC practices. We all love redemption stories. The only night I spent in jail was (redacted)
  3. he works as a "consultant" to Saban, and is then reinstated at Texas? I mean, the reason I can't vehemently despise Texas football is because Sark is like me.
  4. The cops got it all wrong, he was "instructing" her just like another former TT coach.
  5. This. I get it, he's a billionaire who can do whatever he wants. Just like Bezos he's made investor's fortunes, but where can I sign up for that class action? I'll say it again, the tipping point on me leaving my last company was watching "our" lawyers get played by Space X and TSLA lawyers. The epitome of bad faith negotiating. Last week I was doing an account review with a colleague and saw Tesla in his module and commented "you poor bastard, call me if they act interested in a deal."
  6. Should have done this weeks ago but I finally ejected on TSLA for the carry-forward loss, and because of general disgust. This is going to sound morbid as fuck but my dad used to be a fanboi when it was all (visionary) cool cars and space travel, and was an early TSLA investor. He died in March of this year, and I'm glad he didn't live to witness this car wreck (fraud). His last Christmas gift to me was TSLA (pre-3 for 1 split) at 1100. Can S&P boot him out of the index, pls? His bullshit just adds to the erosion of everyone else's retirement.
  7. Tom, 11:30 every Friday for the last 30 years, there has been a standing AA luncheon at the local Luby’s (still open and thriving). Usually, 6-10 people show up. One day years ago, this guy showed up who had been attending meetings other than my usual one and introduced himself, and we got to talking. He had been sober for seven years, initially in AA, then by himself. He was going crazy but didn’t want to drink, so he jumped back in, and I’m happy to say he’s one of my closest friends today. He said he tried to find happiness in every possible way without enlarging his spiritual life, buying homes, trucks, boats, toys, traveling, slaying pussy, and being a workaholic. But he was missing recovery and the fellowship, and now he throws himself into service work. I love the guy. Your situation is prevalent. Similarly, we get many people who were suffering lengthy enforced sobriety via incarceration who join AA as a requirement or recommendation from the parole or probation offices. They were alcoholic but not desperate enough for pruno. Prison sober time counts. Guys, when we get sober, we are like exposed wiring - zero insulation. Raw nerves that were previously anesthetized. Finding a higher power installs a circuit breaker, so we don’t get fried. During my first six months sober, I would tell people that I was afraid of what would happen if the pressure built and I needed a release - paradoxically, working the steps provided a plan for eluding the pressure. YGIFS, let her whirl. Buy her flowers for no reason. Try to see her as one of God’s children. Read the prayer of St. Francis. Read page 67 of the BBOAA. And page 417. And page 90 of the 12 & 12. I’m nuts, and the only reason I have a tolerable marriage is because we BOTH have good sponsors. If you recall, she was Al Anon just prior to when we met and fell into lust. Of course, if she is a psychopath (personality disorder) like mine and WULAW’s first wives, you must run to the courthouse.
  8. When I went to the one on Richmond to get my starter cheap hearing aids cleaned and checked (still very happy with them, Philips, $1,500, ) my wife had me pick up the wine advent box. Christmas relatives are gonna have fun with that. They have the 20 pack of 16.9 oz Topo Chico which is nice, and those salty as hell almond flour crackers. I’m about to go hardcore Keto for 2023 and will be crushing their meats and cheeses soon.
  9. My cousin’s kids attend school - and Astros games with them. I haven’t heard the backstory yet but I’m sure my mom is working in shifts to get the juicy gossip. The last message I sent my cousin was “hey my daughter is the media buyer for “Mothers against Greg Abbot, y’all are invited to contribute.”
  10. Did anyone seee “A man of no importance” with Jim Parsons? Had my usual Friday lunch with Terrence McNally’s brother and he was telling me about it. I’m going to be in NYC too late to catch it. But McNally’s brother is tight with Tom Kirdahy and he and I are going to see Anastasia on tour in Texas next spring.
  11. Seriously, that is one of the most game changing items in my toolbox.
  12. So one of the projects I mentioned was delayed not by our team but simply because the client’s cadence is slower than ours. While others see disaster, I see us building credibility for a much more robust and successful project implementation for 2Q23 or so. Short term small something vs. long term large everything. I’ve seen other reps almost hyperventilating trying to demand attention so they can I got dramatically called out today by one of my senior peers not for anything I did or didn’t do but because my position, naturally, is point man on building a credible, honest, teaming relationship. My peer, who is responsible for crafting the technology plans for 30 accounts plus an entire state government, flat out told me “you get your engineers, get on a plane, and go sit in their conference room and listen. We must meet them not where we want them to be, but where they actually are, from an organizational technology standpoint. Go build alignment and credibility. Your role is to help us grow trust and currency.” Old me would have said OK, gotten drunk, and either quit, fumbled the job, or found a way to fuck it up. Sober me says time to approach this relationship with honesty, good-faith, and a genuine desire to be - like that big book says - helpful. Old me would have been balls deep in my comp plan, figuring out how to maximize immediate financial gratification. I mean, fuck em, what’s the most I can get for me by January, the rest of the year be damned. Sober me accepts that the job is what it is, the financial rewards are latent results of being a responsible contributor, and that what I need to do is be courageous, honest, present, and quiet. That I can use my brain to be of maximum help and work as a partner. In that scenario, trust God, clean house, and help others means I probably end 2023 with double or triple the income if only I can do the footwork, set my ego aside, and rise above the sickening transparency of a selfish actor. Then I get back into pages 60-63, am I the director or the actor, to page 99 of the 12 & 12, can I be the st Francis prayer in action? By all accounts I should be dead, but for some reason God or a power other than me or by fate or for some other arbitrary reason I was placed, decades later, into this service position. That’s it. My career is nothing more than my service position. I’m either making coffee and arranging chairs at a meeting, or flying all around the country and asking for understanding rather than demanding to be understood. How can I bring God into the global technology game? This might be a little sick but I’m gonna be dead in 30 years, why don’t I stop putting limits on God and just let him be revealed? Enjoy the show, right? (Cue the scene in Moneyball where Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is driving down the highway listening to his awkward teen daughter play the her song “Enjoy the show.”) Midnight ramblings of a midlife recovered alcoholic waiting for a product manager in Europe to wake up, check his email and Slack, and get me some pricing.
  13. You won’t be disappointed with the Req Tec. I would say that $200 is well spent.
  14. * sarcastic daily meditations. I’m in a business situation where I’m involved in a business deal that’s gonna net me a high 5 figure payout, or nothing. It’s my first time with this company, product, contract vehicle, comp plan, etc and It’s taking all my program to stay quiet, try to embrace an expansive mindset, and just let go and trust that things will work out the way God (a power other than me) will allow. What I AM grateful for is the tremendous upside available in all my dealings. For the first time in my career, every transaction includes dozens of engineers, product managers, executive advisors - everyone with an agenda. And I can’t control the situation. One of my reps scheduled a client call that I thought was redundant and I was so mad that I wasn’t controlling the narrative that I almost slammed my cell phone down at the table, then watched things unfold and realized that the reason the call was needed was because I had an engineer dominate the previous call which was the antithesis of the other partner’s practice. So until I have evidence that my way is superior, I’m going to squash my ego and trust the current plan. The ultimate test of emotional sobriety is trusting others.
  15. Like many of you, I get morning texts from quite a few old timers, usually a repost of a meditation. I’ve got one guy who sends me about 5 different meditations/devotional, but this is my favorite.
  16. I have closed multimillion dollar sales to the nuclear plant at that joint.
  17. I was playing golf at Ft Bragg with my soldier-son, and like a 50 yr old dumbass, I tried to outdrive him. My left knee went pop. I made it nine more holes before crying “uncle.” This happened in early November, and it’s not getting better; I aggravated it yesterday while putting up the fucking Christmas lights. I’ve been icing it and wearing a brace. Unless I get a better idea, I will be asking my doc for a referral to Fondren Orthopedic, but do any of y’all have experience with or can recommended knee specialist in Houston? Any practices superior to Fondren? (No offense to the fine doctors at Beaumont bone and butcher)
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