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CoTex

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  1. I have no excuse. It was there, unloaded and I knew it was unloaded.
  2. You’re retired huh?
  3. You should have hired a lawyer.
  4. Yeah. I’ve asked myself that. It was tense - I was trying to get him away from my son - truck blocked in and dude was screaming. I should have stayed in truck with windows up and just called “the man.”
  5. I have been in fights everywhere from Port Aransas to Bridgeport Connecticut. I have a scar over my left eye because right handed guy hit me good one night on 6th. I have a scar on left palm because I ended up kicking and gouging in glass on the floor of a bar one night. I was never likes to fight guy - just smartass big mouth guy. But, Saturday morning wearing hoka’s with your kid - different game. Getting madder.
  6. I can’t be sure, but I suspect the log splitter guy was seasonal. He didn’t look homeless but looked pretty rough. No alarm bells because I was sorta expecting firewood guy to look like something from deliverance. I think boss guy probably went for coffee or something and when he came back he was surprised - didn’t expect to see someone driving off with his product. Then overreacted and that combined with low IQ and blind rage - he couldn’t put 2 and 2 together. Did boss guy have a pistol in the truck? I did (unloaded). Knife in pocket? If we start fighting is splitter guy gonna break it up? Slap me with a firewood stick? What the fuck man - I brought cash and just want firewood. I asked for 40 sticks - you set the price. It wasn’t even load up for cheap. If dude had said $50 I would have paid it because real goal was to get home and spruce up yard for party.
  7. If you have anything to lose. Family, home, career, it’s hard to win in a situation like that. yeah, on a keyboard we’re all Dirty Harry and Marcellus Wallace but when this dude is going all mf’er and your 11 year old is crying. Are you going to push all your chips in on money that doesn’t really change your life? As for me, I didn’t. I guess I’m a pussy but now I’m drinking my woodford and gaining saltiness.
  8. Worked for a law firm at 610 and the bayou one summer. That all glass building on the east side of 610, one or two exits north of Westheimer. I would track my hours on a piece of paper, and turn it in both as my time sheet and billing records. At that time the Harris District clerk was the slowest government office in the solar system and so most of my time was .2 drive to clerks office. 1.2 wait in line .2 drive back to office, for various files. The lady office manager handled payroll and so on payday I would turn in my time sheet/billing and get paid. I would hand it to her and she would grade my paper. “Oh, this shouldn’t take that long,” or “we can’t bill for this.” She would mark down my time and then pay me. Basically discount my time card by 20%. I was trapped. Only needed that job for 10 weeks so, quit to make a few extra bucks or take it. I took it but as revenge I kept my parking card when I left which, according to them, cost them a $40 deposit. I did learn from it though.
  9. Almost got into a scrape today. Ran out of firewood and having party tonight. Need firewood but our annual guy ain’t doin it on weekend. So I drive to a rural area in a sketch neighborhood where I have seen firewood for sale on side of road. Guy with large pile is splitting logs and has a couple cords. Inside a chain link fenced lot. I asked for 40 sticks. He says “$30 - you load it.” I back truck in and start loading with my 11 year old son. We get loaded, say thanks and are pulling out of lot. Truck races up and blocks me in. Large black man wearing a bunch of fake brand polo shit and gold gets out and starts cussing and screaming. I mean this guy is at level 9 and going berserk. Gimme my money mother fucker and this and that. I figure out quickly that splitter guy ain’t the boss and boss ain’t happy with whatever deal I’ve cut. Guy looks in bed of truck “you owe me $150.” Now I’ve got a couple of problems. I’ve got $90 in my wallet - I don’t have $150. 11 year old feels very threatened - is crying. Truck blocked in. .40 in the center console of the truck - unloaded no ammo. ”calm down man - we can sort this out.” Guy won’t calm down - irrational, freaking out. Splitter guy walks away. Zero help at all. I said “I got $90, you can have it and the $30 I paid him and I’m leaving.” More “fuck you, gimme my money.” I calmly repeated it about 3 more times before he took the $90 and moved his truck. It seriously crossed my mind that we were going to get shot or at least fist fight right there in front of my son. Shitty deal. now I’m surly and contemplating ways to take revenge and get my $90 back.
  10. Yeah, and Brad Pitt and the fat guy from The Hangover to manage them. Even I could win with that crew.
  11. Now we're getting somewhere. Summer of '94, the Wash Tub car wash on Broadway, in San Antonio. Get the little red towels, dry the car, windex the windows, collect your dollar tip, repeat. When you see that black suburban coming down the tunnel you had better make yourself scarce. The surface temperature of a black suburban in San Antonio in July is greater than the temperature of the fryer grease at Corndog 7. When people talk about having spiritual experiences in sweat lodges, I can relate.
  12. I was thinking low-end. If we're headed down the trail of skimping on educational quality, why stop there.
  13. It's a good idea. I suspect IP work isn't going away. Python is a programming language. My internet research leads me to conclude it is a more common language and decent starting place.
  14. Thanks to all of you for the input. I'm a little out of my element on this one and appreciate the thoughts and sounding board. I need this kid to hurry up and be a success so I can worry about other things like, how to gamble on the sugar bowl in such a way that I can pay for my tickets to the national championship game. Present thought is to buy tickets now, and then bet against Texas, maybe the moneyline. Texas loses, I get a stack of cash and can sell my tickets to some poor Alabama/Michigan fan for a loss. Texas wins, I get a stack of cash and when ticket prices spike I'm already locked in. Haven't really worked out the numbers yet but I'm a shitty gambler and I'm pretty sure that me betting against Texas guarantees a Texas win.
  15. He says "thank you for everything you've done for me." He literally tried to start college without owning a computer. Some caring person fixed that.
  16. I want to set him up to succeed as best I can.
  17. The plan would be to go to the financial aid office fortified with our prayers and ass-kissing. It would cost more in tuition, dorm, everything, and he would be farther from his people/alone. Maybe a plan is to try to finish on time, and see what you've got - $0 debt and paper in hand. Look at jobs and, if nada, look at grad school. I'm asking this today because I'm seriously at a loss. I kind of figured I had handed this deal off to fate, but now I feel like the stakes are high. He did exactly what he was told which is rare with 18 year olds. Drug/alcohol free kid in college that works and, for his hobby, fixes shit. If someone had gotten to this kid 4 years earlier and encouraged him in high school, he likely would have gotten a scholarship somehow/somewhere. I feel pressure to give him good advice. His parents are good people but have no experience in this arena. Apparently I don't either.
  18. I don't know what python is going to do for him but, along the lines of CS or EE, he may to need to code sooner or later. He's going to sit around for 30 days over the holiday break, and I thought this might be a nice line to add to his resume "Google Professional Certificate - Python." I guess I could tell him to watch Breaking Bad reruns or play Assassin's Creed but I thought I would challenge him and throw him some cash for a little side gig. I majored in business and went to law school. I know dick about engineering or computer science other than you'll probably like the women in the college of education or nursing better than you'll like the women in the cs building. Journalism and Social Work can pay off too. I also know dick about welding other than there seems to be a lot of it in small towns, and his high school shop teacher thought he was good at it. I don't think there's anything wrong with being a welder but I think this kid has some horsepower to burn.
  19. He is doing great. I literally teared up when I heard his grades. I figured he would pull down b's and c's and would need a little encouragement. "Don't quit, now you know what to expect, just graduate - your grades won't matter after you get your first job." I guess I can save that speech for one of my own kids.
  20. Maybe this is the wrong topic but I'm not sure it warrants a new one. I am mentoring a young man who I think has a bright future. In high school, he took all the mediocre classes, had a 2.9, and a 23 on the ACT. His shop teacher encouraged him to be a welder. Literally said "I'm going to help you get a welder job at ______ company. My wife saw a spark and told him to take an ACT prep course. He bumped his score up to 29, with just a little prep. Encouraged him to apply to colleges, he got into OK state and a few others. He ended up attending Texas A&M Texarkana because he can live with family there and they gave him money. Basically paying him to attend. He majored in Mech. E. and just finished his first semester. 3.8 gpa. He told me "I can do better, I played too many video games this fall." The whole time he was working part time at a local business basically as a gopher. This young man was a quiet but good high school athlete who, for whatever reason, never had a ton of ambition. Sort of just puttered through. Family are good people, all auto mechanics. No discipline issues. To make extra money this young man finds broken gas string trimmers/weed eaters, fixes them and sells them on social media. Can turn out 1 or 2 per weekend. So, I personally think that, with his grades and apparent drive, I need to help and encourage him transfer to the best possible school that will take him. If you're going to major in engineering, better school is ... better. But, I understand there is an argument for "if kid is succeeding, why would you mess with that." Yes, I understand a 3.8 at tamu-txk is not the same as splitting the atom, but I think it's a showing that he takes it seriously. These are the best grades he's ever made. Assuming he doesn't discover beer this spring, and makes another round of grades, I think I can get him into UTD, Tech, ousux or maybe aggy. I feel like Austin is a stretch but will likely apply. My basic questions are: 1. How big of an advantage would it be to graduate from UTD over TAMU-Texarkana? I assume that UTD's career services is going to put its grads into places like Texas Instruments and Toyota. I assume it's just better than a regional aggy school. 2. Of those schools, how do you rank the engineering/computer science departments (UTD, aggy, ousux, Tech, Okie lite). 3. How much weight do you put on "aint broke, don't fix it... a degree from a mediocre program is good enough... if he wants more go to grad school somewhere better." 4. He's thinking about changing to ee instead of mechanical engineering. I think ee or computer science would likely be better but, any thoughts? I'm not trying to tell him what to be but, he really doesn't know - likes to build things and fix things. 5. He's got 1 month until classes start again, and I am thinking about challenging him to something. I'm thinking "take a google class on how to program Python and, if you can show me some proficiency, I'll give you $250." I can be an asshole and this kid may be the only one that comes to my funeral. I want to help him as best I can. Please comment - any advice is appreciated.
  21. Do you even moneyball, bruh?
  22. Economically this makes sense for the poor college student. Scoop up 4 for $65 a whack and turn around - sell them to some successful longhorn fan for $475 a pop. $1,640 profit for 8 hours of time - that's over $200 / hour. Freshmen aggy students are outpacing the Brazos county bar association's average hourly rate. Alternate argument in favor, if you had the following three options for your free time, which would you choose: 1. Go to yell practice; 2. Stand in line waiting for a table at Lupe Tortilla, and then waddle back to your 80's era apartment; 3. Go glamping with a bunch of college girls in a well maintained city park with boring architecture. I'm in on 3, and doordash the Lupe to my tent.
  23. I have a question. Hypothetical, not about any specific team. If a player enters the portal in December, and skips the bowl game, and then his team goes on to win the whole damned thing, does the player get a championship ring? On the one hand, player may have played in some games, contributed in some way, but on the other hand - quit before the finish line, put self before team, wasn't part of the final push. I say "give em the ring."
  24. This may not be the proper forum for this but, i would like to objectively evaluate the strategy of Hunter Biden's press conference this morning. I think it's genius. 1. He's under indictment for 2 separate charges. Any lawyer with a pulse will tell him to take the 5th on anything even tangentially related to those cases. That means he's not going to testify. Even if you get him under oath, "on the advice of counsel I am exercising my rights under the 5th..." 2. If he's not going to testify, then the leak from the private deposition would be "he took the 5th." That would be the headline. 3. By doing this, he can say "i was available and willing to testify." So now he controls the headline a little. If you're Hunter's lawyer, or strategist, what would have been a better move? Testify? Skip altogether? I think this was well planned and executed.
  25. Good intel. Any “can’t miss” places like a brewery or pizza place?
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