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3 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:
Any of y’all walk out on a job? Just straight up said “fuck this BS” and quit?
Only as a teenager. Worked 3 nights at a Whataburger and quit to go to work at a Sirloin Stockade where all of my buddies were working. Worked there for about 4 months when summer started and I then got a job with a civil engineering firm. I worked for the engineering firm every summer while I was in college.
As an adult, no.
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I am glad that I went to UT when I did (84 thru 88). There is no way that I could get in today.
Growing up all my daughter knew was UT and that was here dream school and the only school she wanted to go to.
I was in constant contact with UT admissions and her high school counselor constantly checking on her placement in the top 10%.
My then wife tried to talk her into taking other school visits but she was just not interested. She did eventually visit Baylor (nursing) just to please the ex.
Knowing that UT was all that she wanted was stressful. The ex was not involved at all so it all fell on me and there was no way I was going to fail my daughter. This went on several months until I get a call from her counselor saying that she set the deadline on class standings and my daughter was the cutoff for the top 10%. I remember shutting my office door and crying with happiness for my daughter and the relief from the stress. My daughter was admitted in the fall of 2010 and graduated in 2014.
I don’t know what I would have done had she not gotten in. Luckily it did not come to that.
I now have a granddaughter that is 4 and is all in with Texas. Praying now!!
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50 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:
Neither my mother or grandmother EVER put gas in a vehicle. It was my father's thing to do, women just do that type of stuff in their generation. When my father passed, it fell to me or my BIL's. Mom didn't even know how to put gas in her car. Strange, but I kind of miss those "old" days.
Whenever my daughter would come home from UT for a visit I would always wash her car. When she got ready to leave I would follow her to the local gas station and fill her gas tank up for her. Just a little more precious daughter and dad time.
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SIAP.
What has become of Neyor? Hurt? Just cannot crack the lineup?
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7 hours ago, smuggs said:
Folks that are hauling junked/scrapped vehicles down the interstate (to Mexico I guess?) in 100% laughably dangerous Beverly Hillbillies caravans. I live on I-10 and I see them daily. Toyota 4Runners pulling 3-4 junked Toyota Tacomas that are daisy chained ass-to-mouth rolling down I-10.
Yesterday between Baton Rouge and Lake Charles there was a 20ft box truck that was in a serious bind, towing a rollback truck with an old Silverado strapped on the deck, with a fucking Sea-Doo strapped down and half hanging out of the bed of the Silverado.
How is this legal? It was a Final Destination scene waiting to happen.
I see this everyday on my drive to work on I-20 in NE Texas
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Some people were born to complain.
It was a good win. Special Teams exempted. A 32 point win is nothing to scoff at. Two possessions were lost due to ST fumbles. Had Sark continued to press to breach 40 or 50 with all of the starters in and one (or more) had been injured, everyone would bitch about leaving the starters in too long risking injury.
Plus, having a lead this large allowed for the offense to work on some plays for future use in a real-time conditions without any real game harm other than ticking off the fan base. The same goes for the defense in letting others get valuable playing time in a low risk situation. I would rather use games like this, that are well in hand, to experiment and gain playing time for others than to not bring others in just to maintain stats and make the fans "happy". There have been plenty of times where a non-starter is forced to come in due to injury and the fanbase laments the fact that they had not had any previous real game time experience.
Baylor's will was broke after Texas' first score. After that it was like a cat toying with a mouse; all the mouse can hope for is a quick death. Revel in the scoreboard.
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18 hours ago, thunderlounge said:
Me neither. Although it somehow made sense to him in his alzheimer state.
And drove with it the 2 miles or so over to the national forrest refuge or whatever it’s called.
Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice, shame on me….something something something
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4 hours ago, Sandman said:
My buddy was a medic in Afghanistan. When his unit would go door to door, he was the breacher that went in with a 12 gauge. He got to go home on leave when his son was born. Fast forward to today, his son is 13 and playing the new Call of Duty game. My buddy is watching him play and his son had built a breacher class, complete with a 12 gauge and whatnot. He tells his son "Hey, that's me. I did that in the war.". He said his son looked at him and scoffed "Pfft, you were just a medic".
Respect to your buddy.
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14 hours ago, Sandman said:
I had my first grandchild 5 months ago and I worry about how that relationship works. I've never had a grandfather give me a hug and tell me he loves me. My dad's dad died before I was born, this is foreign territory for me.
My other kid is having a baby next year, so I need to un-fuck myself and figure it out, I suppose.
Hug them. Kiss them. Tell them that you love them. Be present.
But, it sounds like you know what to do. Just do it.
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6 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:
Grandpa was a piece of work. I remember riding in his truck and the conversations. He was a medic in WWII. He would get mad when I told him he was a nurse. “I wasn’t a fucking nurse”. “Yes you were, I have your nurse bag right here”. “That’s a war bag, son.” Call it what you want, looks like something a nurse would carry. “ Look you little shit, you have no idea.” You’re right I don’t. Then we would pull into Praseks and eat. He may have been a nurse, but he was a badass.
I had a great-uncle that was a combat medic in the ETO during WW2. Prior to enlisting in 1937 he served in the CCC in the southwest. Great guy, always smiling and happy. He is the one that jumped started my WW2 military collection. During the war he was awarded the Bronze Star with Valor. He would never really say how he earned it other than to say that he stumbled upon some Germans and all that he had was a hypodermic needle as a weapon. Upon his death another elderly uncle told me that he earned the BS by liberating some US soldiers that had been captured by some German soldiers. He would not go into detail on how he did it other than to say, “just know that the soldiers were freed”. My guess was that the “needle” was a sidearm. Either way he was a badass.
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16 hours ago, SHOOTER12 said:
Damn, I thought you were way younger than that.
On behalf of all our members...welcome to The Olds Club!
His Surly handle should have alerted you that he is old. It has been a long ass time since a treaty was signed under an oak tree.
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7 hours ago, Lidig8r said:
That was a tough 15 months.
Am still soldiering on. Either I am the most emotionally stunted man in the history of God ... or God still has plans for me.
IMO, I would roll with this right here in a positive way.
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May 1992.
My then wife was expecting our son to be born in late May. This also coincided with the third birthday of our daughter. So to avoid having a potential conflict on their respective birthdays we elected to have our daughter's birthday party earlier in the month. My ex-wife went into labor a couple of days before the birthday party. No big deal, or so we thought.
I am in the delivery room with her. She is having a c-section. Once our son was birthed I was sitting next to the ex comforting her as they took our son to get him cleaned up. As I am sitting there next to her while the doctor is sewing her up the nurse comes over and matter-of-factorily says, "Your son has a breathing problem and it is not good". And then walks away. The doctor quickly looked at her with a "WTF" look on his face. I just sat there for a moment in a bit of a daze. They immediately put our son on oxygen since his numbers were so low. I remember asking the doctor, "Is my son going to die"? Fortunately my ex was out of it due to the surgery so she was not fully aware of what all was going on. The nurse did come by later to apologize for the way that she delivered the news.
My son was on oxygen the remainder of that day and overnight. His levels began to get into the normal range the following day. So as the day progressed the ex and I felt confident enough in our sons recovery that I should go home to be with our daughter so that I could be there with her for her birthday party. So Friday night I go home for the Saturday party. As I am taking a shower Saturday morning I get a call on the phone but I miss it. As I am getting out of the shower I hear a neighbor banging on our front door. He tells me that my son has taken a turn for the worse overnight and that they are transporting him to a different hospital. I drop everything and head back to the hospital. To compound the situation the doctor on-call had gone into my ex's room to tell her that our son's condition was declining and that they were moving him. He just then left her there all alone and freaking out and for her to not be able to immediately get me on the phone just made it worse.
I get to the hospital in time to watch them load our son into an ambulance. They discharge my ex to allow her to go to the new hospital with him. So she and I follow the ambulance to the different hospital about an hour away. We rode in silence fearing for the worse. It was horrible knowing that we had no control and that all we could do was to pray and put trust into the medical staff.
Once at the new hospital by mid-morning, the staff went to work putting all types of sensors on him including applying oxygen once again. This on a Saturday now. By late Sunday he was breating on his own and all of his measurables were fine. Come Monday morning they declared that all is well but would keep him there for a couple of more days just to be certain. He did just fine the rest of the way. To be cautious the hospital sent us home with a device that would monitor his breating and pulse. It was basically a strap with embedded sensors that would wrap around his torso. The problem with the device is that sometimes it would work loose and would cause a false alarm. There is nothing like being in full sleep and hearing that alarm go off at night and bolting into his room to check on him. I believe that the machine caused more harm than good because of the stress that it would put us through when it would go off.
Fast forward to about a year when we decide to no longer put him on the montor partly because not once in the previous time had we received any real alarms but also because of the damage to the machine incurred when my wife burned some baby bottle nipples on the stove (this story is shared in a different thread on Surley).
Our son has turned out just fine; smart (college grad) and physically fit (played football and ran track where he was the anchor leg on all of the relays). I am trying to get him to do the American Ninja Warrior type stuff because he would excel with it. Our daughter does not really remember us missing her third birthday party that we left in the hands of good neighbors. She has turned out great too!
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We all know how pivotable having a good to great QB is to the team’s overall success. Texas has experienced it and now Bama is going through it. Will be curious to see just how effective a Deion team will be without having a QB the caliber that his son is at the helm. As we know, those are hard to come by.
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This move will make me reconsider Delta. I have been Diamond for years with both mileage and money spend requirements. All of this is courtesy of business travel. Last year, when they raised the money spend amount, I got a Delta card for personal spend since getting to the new milestone money wise by business travel would be marginal. Now with them raising the amount again, well, I just don’t know.
I am a million miler plus on Delta. I am sitting around 700k with American for lifetime. It would take me a year to reestablish my status on American.
I have never had to wait to get into a club either.
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On a flight to Paris and then connecting on to Beijing. Am able to stream on the flight and receiving it through DirecTV.
I saw some more Horn fans on this flight too. A young (to me) couple. Did not get a chance to say “hi”. They are decked out in their Horns gear. The guy has a Manning jersey on.
Let’s go!
Texas Fight!!!
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Working from home today in 75650 prepping for a 2 week business trip to China and Australia. Unfortunately going to miss some games.
FIGHT!!!
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1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:
I haven’t reported all my misgivings. The immunotherapy I took to battle cancer triggered in a very significant way the colitis that for years has been held at bay with the Remicade I’ve been taking. But I had horrific diarrhea for months that actually hospitalized me. Steroids have gotten things somewhat under control, but my issue now is when I have to go, it goes from zero to 100mph in about 3 seconds. It’s brutal. Usually if I shit 3-4 times in the morning I’m good for most of the day. But I have to really listen to the guts. If there is even the slightest knock at the door, get to stepping to the hopper. I’ve shat myself once at work where I just immediately left. I’ve shat myself in the car. I’ve shat myself going the 15 feet to the bathroom. It’s been fun. Not reporting any recent shit, but fessing up to numerous incidents.
Sounds like Dr. Seuss wrote this part.
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I made it until roughly 10:57am CDT today, September 14. Dammit.
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20 minutes ago, VoteforHank said:
So with Alabama and LSU not looking so hot this year is it aggy’s turn to win the West? Is there a gentleman’s agreement in place that it’s their turn?
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4 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:
I've gone my entire 23 year old driving career and have never waited for a gas pump. Is that rare? Should I be buying lottery tickets?
Consider yourself privileged. Do anything you want. You are blessed.
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I don’t mind getting hot and sweaty if I am working or doing some sort of exercise, etc. I despise getting hot if I am on a flight or in a building/room and it is warm and air conditioning is available and it is not being properly used.
The latter usually happens when I am overseas as people just use AC differently than what Americans are used too. Spent last week in China and am now in Australia right now sweating my balls off on a domestic flight to Brisbane.