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mininghorn88

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  1. Recently stayed in the Crown Hotel in Perth. A nice, high-end hotel. There was a 3% or 5% surcharge on everything, inlcuding the room charges and stay if you used a credit card for payment. That adds up over a weeks stay.
  2. As stated already it is the Moulton Homestead Barn on Mormon Row in the Grand Teton National Park. It is one of the iconic images of the park. Been there a few times. It is highly recommended.
  3. Pics of uniforms from my collection of some brave soldiers that were total badasses that participated in the D-Day Invasion. I have uniforms of others that were in Normandy but came ashore later in the month. 56th Signal Battalion: 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. This soldier was later a POW in Germany but escaped to Czechoslovakia: B Company, 4th Infantry Division. This soldier was later WIA in July taking a bullet to the knee: 29th Infantry Division: 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne: 101st Airborne: 1st Infantry Division: COMZ, Armored Forces, Red Ball Express:
  4. Ummm…wow….this is beyond stupid.
  5. The above bolded is where I am. What if...I would like to think that my abundant cautioness these days is a direct result of industry, etc. constantly preaching SAFETY by identifying risks before, during, and after and mitigating them in some way and me taking those lessons into my personal life. In reality I am simply getting old and the agility, responsiveness, recovery time is simply not what it used to be.
  6. This past Friday one of our key engineers "retired" after 25 years of service to return to Pennsylvania to run the family farm. His parents and uncles, who have been running the operation, are now getting to an age where they can no longer keep up with all of it as they manange a couple of thousand acres. It is hard for me to believe that I had already been with the company for 9 years when he started. There have been many other individuals that retired after decades of employment during my employment period but I did not know them their entire career. His "retirement" hit me pretty hard and I must say that I shed a tear or two in telling him "bye" knowing too that my day is coming to retire further reinforcing that I am getting older. Certainly there are other things to remind me that I am getting older like having a 31 year old daughter, a 28 year old son, and two young granddaughters, but this really has hit me hard.
  7. Shortened the story for you. Brisket, that is some next level….that is some next level….I cannot come to say it about your wife since you are a brother Surlyite. But, you know.
  8. Just finding this thread. I live in a rural area (NE TX) plus I do a fair bit of hiking so I see quite a few sneks. Oddly enough, despite growing up in the country, I have never seen a coral or rattlesnake in the wild. Nor have a ever seen a scorpion in the wild except for a recent trip to Zambia where I found one in my hotel room. Have seen my fair share of copperheads, watermoccasins, and a wide assortment of nonvenemous sneks. The below snek was at least 4' long. Not sure what he is as it scampered away before I could get out of the truck for a closer look.
  9. This. Watched it for the first time on a flight from Tokyo earlier today. Highly recommend.
  10. I am in Tokyo this week on business. Took this photo of window cleaners at the Tokyo Skytree. These guys are washing windows at 1500’. Nope. Not for me.
  11. My ex-wife’s birthday fell on Mother’s Day occasionally. The day required two presents. There was no combining the two.
  12. Taking pictures of the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and the surrounding area never gets old. Each time I go I seem to get a nice picture from some new vantage point.
  13. This dude took up two spaces for his rig and still did not pull forward far enough either. This was at Superior in Shreveport. The pizza place next door is now closed and the parking lot was empty. The moron should have parked there.
  14. Just watched Argo, Hell or High Water, No Country for Old Men and Out of Africa on my flight back from Australia. All excellent movies. However, the endings of Hell or High Water and Old Men kind of left me hanging a bit.
  15. Some pics I took with my iPhone last night in Sydney.
  16. After counting a handful of people I gave up.
  17. Rural old man here batting .300. I know what a slab is. Had to Google donk and swangers. Seen them though. Does that count?
  18. Some of us that have to work for a living are behind you all the way…
  19. My white blood cell count is always “high”. Several years ago when it was first noticed they sent me to an oncologist as a follow up. Nothing else was noted. As a side note I rarely get ill enough to miss work. Have missed 3 days of work in 34 years due to sickness. Maybe my white blood cells are always at work?!
  20. My dad went to high school with the guy that founded Stereo and Record Center. We always got nice deals on TVs, etc. from the Longview store back in the day.
  21. I am in Australia right now. Will be here another week. I will start to count now to verify.
  22. I have a 10’ Stanley tape measure that I bought while in college for a project. Somehow have managed to hang on to it through multiple moves, kids using it, taking it with me on projects, etc. Still works like a charm.
  23. Reminds me of the ‘70s and early ‘80s trucker movies where the truckers block the police from catching the “Bandit”.
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