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  1. It would have been awkward at Poker and Bunco later in the evening. Sorry about the bullet wound to the shoulder Rob. If it makes you feel better it was only an FMJ, I wouldn't use hollow points on my friends. CHIEF
  2. To be honest, how do you find out who to blame? An inspector, a sub, a nosey neighbor, the owner's kids? Anyone could have come in and turned the propane on at a burner, or the fireplace. Everyday I was building, when I got home from work, there would be at least two to three groups of neighbors walking through. Nothing harmful, they just wanted to see what people were doing with new construction. There is no evidence left, but unfortunate for the GC/builder, it is still his baby. I would error on the side that someone left a valve on more than the builder being at fault, even after my incident. CHIEF
  3. No need for personal attacks. That's my trifecta. CHIEF
  4. CHIEF Jr. had been on Vyvanse 70mg (highest dosage available), since the fourth grade. He cut back to 50mg about a year and a half ago. He was always average to a little above average height and weight during high school and college. He is now 6' and 225 lbs. and could stand to loose the 25, and be about perfect. Not sure if he would have been any taller. I do know that if he doesn't take it on weekends, he can eat a month worth of groceries in two days. He was a straight C student until the fourth grade, but it was straight As as soon as he started ADHD medication. I wasn't really happy about putting him on it, but the academic outcome is hard to deny. He was diagnosed by an ADHD specialist, we tried every supplement, vitamin, herbal remedy in the book before we put him on it. Nothing worked until Vyvanse. CHIEF
  5. Correct. Think about it this way. When you light a stove burner, or propane grill the flame only ignites the propane with the proper propane to oxygen mixture. If the higher concentration was more combustible, the flames would ignite the propane, in the lines, eventually make it back to the tank and create quite the shit show. CHIEF
  6. I would think a short flight over to La Romana would be pretty inexpensive. The scuba shop would send a taxi over to the condo, every morning to pick us up. The St. George shipwreck, the cannons, and the musket display are the things that stood out that I have never had the opportunity to do. Pretty cool to dive a vessel that large in water that deep. Here is a video of the St. George: CHIEF
  7. I almost had something like this happen when I was finishing up my current home, and about to move in. I have a 500 gal. propane tank buried in my side yard. I was the GC and we are in the county, so no permits or inspections, but still, you have industry safety standards. My tank runs to the house at no more than 10 psi, it is then regulated down to 4.5 psi, before finally being regulated down to 0.5 psi. Propane isn't supposed to enter the house at more than 0.5 psi, all gas appliances, fireplace inserts, etc. orifices are sized and designed to run at 0.5 psi. We were about 3-4 days from moving in, and we were cleaning the kitchen. I decided to try a burner out on my new cooktop. I reached down and turned the gas and hit the striker at the same time. When it lit, I had a fireball that blew the big pan drawers completely out to the end of the tracks, the underside of the cooktop was on fire, somehow, I was able to get back to the burner control knob and turn it off. I didn't have hair or eyebrows left. But the fireball was brief. It burned up just the sawdust that was still in the drawers, and went out. We had to have the cabinet sealer sanded back down, resealed it and everything was fine. Next morning I called the propane guy who had installed it, told him what had happened, and you could hear a pin drop. He, and his crew where out here in about 30 minutes, and went through the system. They had forgot to put in the valve that metered the gas flow to 0.5 psi, so I had 4.5 psi going to the cooktop. With seeing what happened with just 4.5 psi hitting air, after being on for a split second, I can say that if a valve had been left on for 5-10 minutes, and somehow got lit, it would have caused that kind of devastation. Even at 0.5 psi, and someone carelessly leaving a valve open for a day and it gets lit, you are going to have that kind of devastation, especially if the house is sealed up with minimal to no leaks. CHIEF
  8. We had a destination wedding in Punta Cana this last week. The wedding was on Wednesday, so we went down on Saturday, and dove Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, on the southern coast at Biyahibe. Biyahibe is a great little town on the southern Dominican Republic coast, to the SE of La Romana (which has an international airport). Overall, I think it is cheaper than Cozumel, but about an additional 1.5 hour flight. Flights, food, and drinks were noticeably cheaper, except for tequila. But we always drink rum in the Caribbean. The food, except for one restaurant sucked, so advantage Cozumel. Most of the dives are shallow (30-60 feet), and the topography is very much like Tormentos, or the east side of Cozumel, Kenworth sized coral reefs, with small mixed coral in between. The shallow reefs have much more life, and undamaged coral, that was a plus. But there aren't any multistory reefs like Palancar. We used John, at ScubaFun, for our dives. Very good shop, recommended by ScubaBoard, professional, and with decent equipment. Nitrox is a bit tough to get. They rely on you, the diver, to pick the mixtures, test the tanks for percentage, pressure, and IB. Thank God, that CHIEF Jr. paid attention in nitrox class. The first two days were shallow, but we decided to pick our own shit to do on the last day. They loaded up 4-5 other divers on the same skill level. The first dive was a sunken freighter in about 130 foot of water, really cool, more for working on bouyancy. The second was to my first colonial shipwreck. Saw cannons, muskets, and cannonballs. Anyway, I would say it is worth the trip. CHIEF
  9. Well, just got back from the Dominican with a destination wedding in Punta Cana.We stayed at The Finest/Excellence Punta Cana. The resort was nice and clean, the shower head phenomenal, strong tasty drinks, but the food absolutely sucks. They don't use any seasoning, and the salt and pepper shakers were always empty. That wasn't just a resort thing, but we experienced the same thing in Biyahibe. The wedding was on a Wednesday, so we went down a few days early to dive the southern coast. Driving was like NASCAR, our VRBO was nice, but the water pressure was so low, that you didn't dare use soap, or you wouldn't be able to rinse off. The worst food I have eaten, and some of the best food I have eaten. There was one restaurant, Beachside by Onnos, that was inexpensive and absolutely rocked. They had crispy pork belly bao buns, crispy pork belly fried rice, and the best chicken yakitori I have ever eaten. Nothing else was even close, even the high end places. Overall, if I were to go back, it would only be to Biyahibe. You don't get hounded by hawkers on the beach, very low key as there are only about 3k people. La Romana is about 20 minutes away, and has an international airport. It is cheaper than Cozumel, for sure, the shallow dives were as good, or better than Cozumel (same structure, but less reef damage), but the deep stuff isn't in the same zip code. CHIEF
  10. Things and times are definitely different than our track meets in 1A in the 80’s. Our coach would ask to borrow a pocket knife to cut athletic tape, and would bitch about it if no one brought one. CHIEF
  11. CHIEF

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    Many many years ago, I got popped for a BWI. The Game Warden was sitting in a marked channel with his nav lights off. I jumped in his ass after I almost ran over him. Another warden on the boat vouched for me, so I got it deferred, but still had to be on six months of probation and was tested monthly. I poured about a half cup of creatin in a bottle of Gatorade drank that, refilled the bottle with water added another half cup of creatin drank that, then did it once more. I passed every time. Creatin is the marker used to check if your piss is diluted. CHIEF
  12. We have a huge Kroger's right across the street from our big HEB, we are about 25 miles west of that line. I don't know how many times Mrs. CHIEF has told a store associate, "you no longer carry, whatever item ?" , "don't make me go across the street to The Devil's store to have to get it." CHIEF
  13. As I've gotten older, I have also became fearful of heights. Not incident related, but just coming to the realization that I'm old enough that a fall from 10-12 feet isn't going to be like the old days where I would get ankle pain and just walk it off. It will now probably be broken bones, an ambulance ride, a few days in the hospital, and weeks, or months worth of pain. I don't even leapfrog over the side of a pickup bed onto the ground anymore. I go sit my butt down on the tailgate, and slide onto my feet, like a bitch. CHIEF
  14. It is just a matter of time before one of these “well behaved “ dogs is gonna bite someone they are not familiar with, or attack another idoit’s dog (that also shouldn’t be there) and the establishment is gonna get the shit sued out of it because they allow people to bring their dogs in, or don’t enforce their own policy. The liability alone should make them enforce a no pets allowed, and give them good reason. CHIEF
  15. I'd put Pascale's Manale in there as well. It has bit more cream and a little less tomatoes. CHIEF
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