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CHIEF

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  1. You can still get a basic one for that. But with nice guts, sound system, cockpit, and the loungers that face the stern, and a 250 or 300 Yamaha/Merc hanging off the back on what is considered the best brands of tritoons (Bennington, Avalon) you are there, easily. The biggest problem with pontoon boats, is they are a bitch to put the cover on. We would come back after drinking on the lake, and no one ever wanted to put it on. That has more than likely hastened its demise. Of course, with no real skin in the game, that was bound to happen. I have been reassured that this new boat will get wiped down and covered every time it goes back in the slip. CHIEF Jr. is even ponying up for the slip cradle. Gonna pattern it off the trailer, and have a buddy from work, their lead welder and shop foreman, weld it up. I'll have to haul it on my gooseneck, to the lake, put it on styrofoam or blue plastic barrels and float it into place. That Bennington has had a dozen kids on it every summer weekend since CHIEF Jr. was sixteen. When they all went off to college, they would come home and spend the summer on it. It has been puked on, puked in, puked under, and puked off of. CHIEF
  2. For sure. That is substantially more than I paid for my first house. I'm gonna finance it for as long as possible (20 years) but should be able to pay it off in 4-5 years with a substantial down payment. I'm 57, no way I am having a boat note that I have to pay while drawing social security. I don't have any write-offs for income tax, they take me to the cleaners annually. No house, property, or vehicle payments. I'm gonna get creative with this toad. CHIEF
  3. Well, my old Bennington just turned 20 years old. The interior is getting pretty ratty, the starter went out on the Yamaha at the beginning of last summer, so we basically cancelled our summer weekends. Those starters hardly ever go out, and are really tough to find, so it was late fall before we found one. Now we thought we had a spark plug issue, but now think it is an injector. So time to get rid of it. This is the boat my Dad bought, couldn't get it on the trailer when it was windy, so he just gave it to me. I called my cousin at Fun N Sun in Hurst, about getting a new tritoon, and to get one comparable to what we have was over $120k new. CHIEF Jr. has always wanted a wake boat. He is a Centurion man. I always told him only a fucking idoit would pay six figures for a damn ski boat. So what is this idoit doing this Thursday? Going to go try and make a deal on this Sumbitch: https://www.awsboatstx.com/default.asp?page=xPreOwnedInventoryDetail&id=15925476&p=1&s=(Sort By)&d=D&fr=xPreOwnedInventory Depreciation was the deciding factor. I'll give my kid credit, he knows how to set the hook. We don't carry a dozen college kids anymore, so really don't need a tritoon. I'm gonna be officing like Cajun soon. CHIEF
  4. I think I would stay on the "mountain side" of that big ass crack there. CHIEF
  5. Funny. The day I read this thread was the day a new builder contacted us about listing his homes, when they are finished. First Indian we have had build in our subdivision. He went and bought the two cheapest lots he could find (dead trees and a big drainage ditch) and built $750-850k houses on them. I was really hesitant, but my Mom/Broker decided that we would list the homes in our subdivision, but not the cheaper subdivision 15 minutes away with roads so bad, you almost need a 4x4. Again, cheap lots. He is another Asam (Awesome), and wants these homes gone ASAP, as his investors are already getting nervous. I imagine his investors are immediate family. These houses are gonna be on the market for at least six months. Other builders are buying the nice lots, and building the same caliber of house for the same, or less money. At least I was able to convince my broker to only list them for 90 days. I figure this is probably going to end up as ISTY said. We will have a listing agreement, and then he will want to deal with the buyer direct, and not pay a commission. CHIEF
  6. I would have to have trailer balls drove into the rock about every foot, and NowThis my way around it. Sit on a ball, clench, reposition, then, move to the next, and repeat. CHIEF
  7. I have a cousin that Rahr would call, when they first opened, to come work at bottling time. Think he went in a dozen or so times in the three months they first opened. You got paid in beer, and lots of it. CHIEF
  8. This. The economy is a House of Cards, the war stops and things get so bad in Russia that there will be a coup. Putin knows this. CHIEF
  9. Like clockwork. Well done. CHIEF
  10. I was talking to my Mom about Ruth Buzzi dying. Mom said, "you know she lived on a place near Stephenville, didn't you?" I had no idea. Mom had met her at some fundraiser, years ago. Small World. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/ruth-buzzi-obituary?pid=209028753 CHIEF
  11. We have had two fatalities on golf carts since I have moved into my neighborhood, 13 years ago. Didn't know the gal that hit a brick mailbox at 30 mph, but knew the second, Phyllis. Mid 60s, usually saw her at the 19th Hole. My buddy hired her on as a cashier at the liquor store. Her and her husband got in a drunken argument coming back from The Hole. She decided she was getting out of the golf cart, again, at 30 mph. Sixty year old women can't exactly jump off and run down to a stop. Stepped off and did a header right into the pavement. CHIEF
  12. He couldn't have been too high. He was running seventeen over, for Christ's sake, not seventeen under. CHIEF
  13. I tried a few times and never could get up on my feet without planting face first. That was before they put booms on the boat, I know a lot of people that couldn't barefoot until they were able to learn on a boom. CHIEF
  14. 33-35mph. Depends on the size of your feet, and how much you weigh. CHIEF
  15. I have an uncle that was that good at barefootin’ back in the 70s and 80s. He is now 78 years old. Don’t think he could do that anymore. CHIEF
  16. I make French Dip sandwiches as a regular staple around the house. My FIL was a big cow tongue sandwich guy. I boil my tongues like doing a crawfish boil. I season it the same, boil it for 90 minutes then, set it out to cool for an hour. I peel the skin. I then shave about 3 days worth on my deli slicer. It is absolutely killer. The marbling at the base of the tongue makes it the best beef you will probably ever eat. I used to use the in-house roast beef at the HEB deli counter, but the lengua will make you throw rocks at the roast beef. Like skirt steak, before fajitas, lengua is now a delicacy that has gone through the roof on cost. 4-5 years ago a three pound tongue was less than $10. It is now about $8/lb. The last one I bought was over $28. CHIEF Jr. has about a half dozen friends that absolutely love it. But they have no idea what it is they are eating. CHIEF
  17. The Alsup's burrito, as my keen intellectual studies have proven, is pretty tasty, right from the heat lamp rack, in towns with a population of at least 4000. There are enough customers purchasing burritos that the oldest burrito in the rack is probably about 30 minutes old (Graham, Stephenville, Abilene, Mineral wells, etc.) In smaller towns, you need to cozy up, and flatter the oldest woman behind the counter. Like her hair, nails, neck tattoo, her bangs, and have her cook you up 2-3 fresh. This works in Hamilton, Throckmoton, Olney, Seymour etc. All Allsup burritos come from the same production facility, made by Windsor Posada. You can actually get them on Amazon. CHIEF
  18. I’m in about $30/oz. more or less. Dont have to sell it CHIEF
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. No need for personal attacks. That's my trifecta. CHIEF
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
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