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Armybrat

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  1. I don’t recall when I first saw a color tv, but it might have been in the late 1960s at my parent’s house. I do remember seeing the first b&w tv at the bar in the Fort Leavenworth Officer’s Club about 1949 or ‘50. It was a round tube screen about 12” diameter. It picked up a station in Kansas City. Then we were stationed in Puerto Rico 1950-54 (no tv stations there), followed by a stint in St. Louis 1954-57 (1 b&w tvchannel). After that off to Taiwan until 1959 with no tv there either. Finally back to Austin with its one b&w channel owned by the LBJ family. Never saw a football game in my life until we got settled in Austin and I was a high school freshman.
  2. Well, we are off to a good start in the Meadows this week…..nobody got shot overnight.
  3. Never mind Austin, WTF is wrong with my quiet Brushy Creek neighborhood by Round Rock? Double murder by a juvenile early this morning just one block from our house: http://www.kxan.com/news/local/round-rock/two-found-dead-in-home-outside-of-round-rock-juvenile-in-custody/ We were wondering what the Wilco sheriff’s department alert that blared loudly from all our phones at 4:30am this morning was all about. Saw the cove blocked off with the crime scene tape and the Austin TV station cameras across the street when we happened to drive by there to & from dinner in Round Rock this afternoon. Just now read online what occurred. We don’t know anyone in that part of the neighborhood.
  4. Better yet, what did Maduro wake up to?
  5. We had three boys. State Farm auto insurance made $$$$ when all 3 started driving.
  6. Actually, dunno what happened to mine (photo - at Fort Sam Houston 1947):
  7. To top it all off for our weekend….. At 4:30am our landline telephone and both cellphones rang & lit up with a “shelter in place, lock your doors & windows - a law enforcement operation is going on near your location “ warning from the sheriff’s department. First such emergency warning besides weather that we’ve ever had here in our quiet suburb. Naturally, it was difficult to go back to sleep, and when we were both about to snooze off again around 7:30, the all clear message rang up just as loudly. The message included a map that showed the “incident” took place two blocks away. No info about the nature of the ruckus, Nice way to get up on a sunny Saturday.
  8. Went to the credit union bank and got the security clampdown on all our accounts and were reassured nobody could raid them. The fraud people will be working on our case and should credit our checking account for the $5,100 that was actually paid out towards a bunch of the credit card transactions. THAT should not have been allowed. Going in on Wednesday for a followup meeting.
  9. We just discovered that somebody called the credit union people yesterday and changed our contact information. Apparently they are attempting to to steal our identity to rob our account. I don’t think it is a coincidence because early last week we deposited a really large check that had been sent to us from an estate executor for an old family friend. Apparently the crooks have weaseled their way in through the credit card fraud they tried earlier.. They blocked our new replacement card that we just received in the mail Christmas Eve. My blood pressure has shot up badly already.
  10. We just discovered that some damned crook actually called our credit Union earlier this week and changed some information like phone numbers and email. Mrs. Brat is trying to deal with this shit on the phone right now (I cannot hear those people well enough even on speaker to help). Goddamned crooks have us extremely stressed right now.
  11. Or how about credit card thieves? This shit started right before Christmas - Credit card crooks using computers to steal from our Visa card. Elan Financial Services faud investigators damn sure better restore that $$$$.$$ permanently. Gee, those transactions over two days really look legit, don’t they? Never heard of that kind of online business, much less what it does
  12. “Prestigious AAU membership” A&M wasn’t a member of the AAU until 2001 after they were generously sponsored by Big Brother Texas who had been a respected member since 1929.
  13. We have been entertained quite well this week.
  14. Grainraiser Senior Member befriend Join Date: Feb 2008 8,547 posts, read 15,714,205 times Reputation: 7633 Man Bama fans are fuming and they ready to fire their coach. One guy rubbed it in and said Bama has not been this upset since the passing of the Civil Rights Bill. That one gave me a chuckle.
  15. Agreed. We should be better than this season.
  16. And in 1968 after three 6-4 seasons.
  17. Some of you guys would’ve called for DKR’s firing after the ‘61 season.
  18. Try 1959 when I first moved here….
  19. Sure does, but their NHS stinks just as bad as our insurance system.
  20. Tell that to my English friend who spent most of two months in one of Britain’s large NHS hospitals (in Swindon) where he was diagnosed with fungal pneumonia and treated unsuccessfully before they shipped him off (at his insistence) to the country’s premier pulmonary hospital (Brompton in London) and discovered he had lung cancer. After two weeks of treatment there he died at age 64 in his sleep Monday night.
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