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ROFL BOX

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  1. My 1st wife's grandmother was a Depression era kid & she was also a hoarder for specific things.  The entire house looked like the contents of 5 Hallmark stores were crammed inside her 1,800 sq. ft. home.  Every conceivable curio & collectable & figurine you can imagine.

    She was also into stuff from fast food joints:
     - Wendy's?  "They have the best wax paper cups.  Very sturdy.  We have to keep those.  Never know when you'll need some extra for a guest or whatever."
     - McDonald's?  "Yes, those salt & pepper shakers on the table - you're allowed to take those.  Why wouldn't I?  So what if we already have 140 of them?"
     - Burger King?  "The paper from their wrappers clean up nice.  We can use that later, I just know I will have a use for them."

    Then, one day... the husband decided to get a membership @ the price club (don't know which one).  Didn't take long, but their garage had enough practically palletized shit tickets that it could have solved the 2020 Corona Crisis & stacks upon stacks of paper towels - Trump could have been flicking rolls of paper towels to Puerto Ricans for 3 solid months.

  2. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    When my MIL died, and my worthless FIL moved on and out, without doing a thing to clean out the house, the wife and I had to go do it.  From the attic, we pull down several full giant black hefty bags....each of them full of white plastic grocery bags.  Probably 15+ years worth of them.  Bag, after bag, after bag.  There were surely a couple thousand.

    As a side note, do you know what happens to those bags when they are kept inside black plastic ovens in an un-air conditioned attic in SE Texas for a decade?

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    They turn into plastic snow.  Bags full of fragmenting white particles.  Delightful.

    Do you even shop vac, bro?

  3. 16 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    That’s not hoarding. That’s called “being a man.” One of the great satisfactions in life is when something breaks, loses a part, etc...and you go digging in those coffee cans and find the perfect replacement bolt, screw, or whatever...that’s winning. It’s a solid punch on your man card.

      & That's exactly why I'm manly proud of my Milwaukee collection, probably 25+ cordless including the badass rocket lights.  Having the right tool to actually get shit done when you need to is quite satisfying.

    Now, like NotThatBob & Onboard with the scrap lumber bits, I always say to myself "I damn sure can find something to do with that!" & don't toss some bits here & there.  A few years ago I made these little tank looking things out of cut pieces of PT 2x & 4x material.  Used the table saw to trim out between where the "tracks" are & put in small cuts to show treads... then the drill press for holes where small dowels went in as the barrel.  My son sold them as part of an entrepreneurship thing they do every year in the elementary school.  Totally unique & he sold something like 30 of them.  Kept me busy & it fed into the "YES.... Yes, you SHOULD keep all this crap.  It DOES have a use!"

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  4. 6 hours ago, phdhorn said:

    Actually, this was pretty much expected.

    Of course it was.  I don't give 2 shits about y'all turning on the sprinklers - it's all about what happens within a week of Dove season opening.

    Concentrate the water around the few ponds available... the birds are congregating... & BLAMMO! A good soaker shows up to spread the birds around because every 2" dip in the dirt becomes a huge puddle.

  5. If you can find a spot within 8 hours of the Austin area, I might could jump in as a second.  Would need details, pricing, etc.  It's also something I've always wanted to do.

  6. 13 minutes ago, destroya said:

    Start fucking with them and their house. Strobe lights, lasers, stink bombs, dogshit, get a bunch of fucked up junk mail sent to their house, put their number on a bunch of solicitor lists, salt their yard, hire some trashy woman to tell his wife she’s fucking her husband, or maybe some gay guy to tell her the same thing. Are there any homeless people nearby? Get them to take a shit on their front door. Gaslight the husband into thinking his wife is having an affair. Mail them glitter. Have a friend of yours rent the place and leave dead fish in the air ducts and clog the drains.

    UserID checks out.

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  7. 7 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    ours is a sky-watcher 80mm refractor apo.  the magnification wasnt anywhere what i naively envisioned, even after swapping different eyepieces. 

     

    be prepared to spend lots of money on the tripod.   possibly even more than telescope itself.  because the movement and motions are magnified alot, the tripod has to be ultra sturdy.  also the manual tripods are difficult to aim and lock off, so you might want the motorized/computerized ones, which are $$$$. 

     

    the other consideration is whether the setup is just for viewing, or you want to capture astrophotography, for which there are tons of accessories adapting cameras to the telescope.

     

    we just used it to scope out the moon when we first got it, then never again

    So are you interested in selling it or what?

  8. We have booked with both of those sites but not for South Padre.

    Never a problem. Sites are reputable & will aid in any booking issues or "not as advertised", etc.

    Read reviews, they are only made by verified customers.

    Watch out for the "cleaning fee", however.

    Staying 1 night for $ 125? $ 100 tacked on (total added to the advertised fee).

    Staying 10 nights for $ 1,000? $ 100 tacked on (total added to the advertised fee).

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  9. On 8/16/2020 at 2:00 PM, TexasEd said:

    Yes, and one for you too.  I was thinking that you might find this one cool.

    Yeah, that shortbox on a CabOver is def. worth the look.  I have my eyes on winning the lottery & there's this '54ish White CoE in Oak Hill that I wanna have ridonkulous stuff done to it, starting with a cab stretch, keep the tilt, make it 4x4 & slide a juiced up Cummins in there.

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