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  1. On 2/10/2020 at 10:39 PM, MaybeACoordinator said:

    My mom was a heroin / codeine addict who maintained on methadone for years. 

    It's a long story. When I was 8, she lost all custody of me because she was in active addiction and enlisting me in her scams. (Shoplifting -- we'd walk into supermarkets and toy stores and just walk right out with whatever we wanted. White privilege, I guess, and she played on that by her calculating that store employees would think that no mother would be so horrible as to do what they thought she might be doing with her kid in tow. I guess...and when she did get busted, I was not with her, so maybe it worked.

    Anyway, she lost custody of me and headed back to Texas (we were living in Nashville at the time) with my half-brother and had two more kids with my stepdad. Those were the years she stayed on methadone. Then in the late '80s she came back to Nashville because Steve Earle hired my stepfather (his old running buddy from San Antonio) to be his guitar roadie. Mama and Steve were drug buddies, my stepfather was a pothead and a bit of a drinker but no kinda addict. Anyway, he worked for Steve from about 1986 until Steve hit the wall, went to jail, and got sober, but by the time he cleaned up, mama had driven my stepdad crazy.

    Even when she was maintaining, it was a massive drain on the family financially. That shit ain't cheap, and mama would only work sporadically. So every now and then my stepfather would bring up her kicking, and man, she could go from smiling to a fucking door-slamming, cussing, screaming, breaking shit viper at the mere mention of her even thinking about quitting.

    So he gave up. And then along about 1991 the state of Georgia started offering a much heftier dose than what was available in Tennessee, so some enterprising Georgia MD thoughtfully opened up a clinic on the state line, two hours down I-24 from Nashville. Mama and her junky buddies would pile in a van every weekend and go down there and stock up. They all thought they were gonna get rich selling off the excess, but you know how that goes.

    I'd been renting an attic apartment from her and my stepdad during that time, and it was cool to get to know her as an adult. I saw her only two or three times for a couple of hours apiece from the time I was 18 until I was 19, so the couple of years I rented from them was my chance to get to know her and my brother and two little sisters, who were then about 5 and 3. And everything was going okay, I guess, when I moved out and headed off on a trip to Europe that was meant to be three months but lasted for three years. (Eloped with an Englishwoman.)

    By the time I got back to Nashville, my stepfather had booted her out of the house. She had started trading off Methadone and malt liquor and vodka and quickly become as bad a worse a drunk as she had been a junky way back when. She had driven him to a suicide attempt in one of their fights -- he picked up a big bottle of her methadone and chugged it right in front of her. He told me later he did that because he saw it as the "instrument of my family's destruction."  He recovered, barely, and she ended up running off with an alcoholic guitar player who she soon wore out and there she was again, putting another set of kids in mortal and legal danger. Eventually my stepfather got her out of their lives. I tried to take her in but she was such a disaster in her 48 hours under my roof my wife told me it was her or mama, and by this time we had my son to think about too.

    So we moved back to Texas and left her up in Nashville, where she died in the streets, horribly. (Run over by a car while trying to run across I-65 in the wee hours to get another beer.)

    I don't know if there was ever any saving my mom. She was hard-wired to be a junky from the time she was two or three, when she got horribly burned in a BBQ accident in Port Arthur and the doctors pumped her little toddler brain with morphine for a month. Her synapses were re-arranged then and there, and when she and a friend got ahold of some heroin sent home from Nam by her friend's GI brother, wham, she was hooked, addicted from that first hit. So she was kind of a special case, but I still want to kill that Georgia crook for opening that fucking clinic on the Tennessee state line.

     

     

    Thank you for sharing. Love and peace to you and yours.

  2. 22 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    So...to make a long story short, around a decade ago I basically sold some old farm equipment I inherited to a friend who paid with 4oz of gold (little gold bars).  He was a libertarian and a prepper, and he tried to use gold and silver as much as he could, and he thought he convinced me it was a good investment for inflation, etc. I just wanted the stuff sold.

    In hindsight, if I had kept the farm equipment, it would have been a better investment than the gold.  The gold ultimately changed very little in value between then and now (maybe $30 an ounce), but the tractor is now worth nearly four times what I sold it for.

    Anyways, we are updating our wills for our kids/family members (we forgot to do so after our youngest was born), and my wife has been going through and getting stuff together and taking inventory of our safe deposit box, and she mentioned the gold.  

    I had forgotten about it (not Surly 1%, it was just something I'd eventually get around to), and was a bit disappointed to see what it was valued at now, and wished I had cashed it in then and invested it.

    Suggestions?  I'm not going to sit on it for another 10 years. I probably will cash it out somewhere - McBride's Guns is not far from us, and I've always had good dealings with them for firearms-related stuff, and their site says they buy/sell bullion.

    Any pitfalls to avoid?  I don't think there should be a tax issue here in 2021 since the value has changed very little.

    I've sold some silverware and old jewelry at Midwest Refineries in Michigan. I did so because mr money mustache wrote about them on his site. Feel I probably got a better deal than those we buy gold/jewelry shops but don't really know. You can check out what he wrote at the link below. Good luck!

    https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/08/22/how_to_sell_silver/

     

  3. Just now, Buzzrock said:

    Rule out any place with consistent shitty winters.

    Yep. People from those states are driving a lot of the growth to the Sunbelt states.

    An interesting and semi related article below.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-southern-town-was-growing-so-fast-it-passed-a-ban-on-growth-11580738467?st=5ip5qv10spesv0v&mod=pkt_ff

  4. 38 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    ASU vs USC this weekend....

    Seems like Ol' Herm is doing pretty decent job of building ASU. He's running his program like an NFL organization, and selling that his staff will better develop players for the NFL.  He also has improved the recruiting at ASU -- Herm gets that better recruiting is critical for success in CFB.

    For discussion purposes, just say Urban is actually done coaching CFB, who else might be able to replicate what Herm Edwards is currently doing ASU??

    Jeff Fisher?

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  5. Just posting in a lame attempt to get some more posts going in this thread.

    I did just recently do a quick overnight at Palmetto State Park. Did the hike around the lake, checked out the old CCC building and then drove through Gonzalez on the way home.

    Anyone have trips planned for hiking/camping in Texas in the next few months?

  6. 9 hours ago, JMFP said:

    That's funny. I was born in Jay and live 35 miles from there now.

     

    What kind of rally? Only kind of "pride rally" I can imagine taking place around here would be for Cherokee pride 🤷‍♂️

     

     

    Did you grow up with Tommie Morrison?

     

  7. 2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    https://www.cleverhiker.com/best-backpacking-stoves

     

    I have an MSR pocket rocket that I was going to take on the PCT.  Also a Jetboil and an MSR Windpro 2.  Jetboil is prob my favorite if weight isn't a consideration.  As usual, I'll plug my buddy's site, but it really is a great resource.

    I have the Snow Peak LiteMax and like it for the reason it doesn't take up much space. 

    Your buddys' site is solid.

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