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CHIEF

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Somehow, I had lost the title to both my boat and the title for the engine. I tried to get in touch with the loan company I had used when I purchased it. They had been bought out years ago, and were no help. I called TPWD and got a great dude on the line, explained the situation, and there was no longer a lien on it. He told me the form I needed, and to just write down everything you just told me, and we will get you taken care of. Sure enough, in about three weeks, I got a new boat title. I didn't get the title for the engine, but figured it might have gotten delayed and would come later.

Today, I got a letter from a TexasEx that lives in the first house I bought in Cedar Park. He had gone out of his way to mail me the title to the engine as I had never changed the address. It had a very nice note that apologized for his kids opening it up. I just wanted to say "Thanks" and see if he might be a fellow Surly member. If so shoot me a DM, and expect a gift card in the mail.

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6 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

Somehow, I had lost the title to both my boat and the title for the engine. I tried to get in touch with the loan company I had used when I purchased it. They had been bought out years ago, and were no help. I called TPWD and got a great dude on the line, explained the situation, and there was no longer a lien on it. He told me the form I needed, and to just write down everything you just told me, and we will get you taken care of. Sure enough, in about three weeks, I got a new boat title. I didn't get the title for the engine, but figured it might have gotten delayed and would come later.

Today, I got a letter from a TexasEx that lives in the first house I bought in Cedar Park. He had gone out of his way to mail me the title to the engine as I had never changed the address. It had a very nice note that apologized for his kids opening it up. I just wanted to say "Thanks" and see if he might be a fellow Surly member. If so shoot me a DM, and expect a gift card in the mail.

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Um yeah that was me and on the gift card that’s Eddie V’s with a “V”. 

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It'll get you a half dozen blue point oysters, and that's good enough for me.

That is what I would order as well. 

I gave the "Green Hornet" to a buddy. The tilt and trim no longer works, and all of the hinges are rusted, its faded as shit. We had some good times on that boat. If we took it back to POC and dropped it into the salt, I am 100% sure it would disintegrate right before our eyes. Nothing funnier than when we made Justin drive back from the Big Jetties. because we had families with young children, like he was expendable. 

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Willfully Horn

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5 minutes ago, Parliament said:

My mom fwd:fwd:fwd'd me that literally 25 years ago.

My mom was on the right wing fwd:fwd. After taking the time to research and debunk every single email for a month, I just deleted the ones that arrived afterward. Had no effect on her.

It was posted on Bluesky today, and I had never seen it. I am impressed by you.

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I may have the best group of students (120+) I have ever taught (this is year 25 for me). The worst I can say is that they can be a little squirrelly, but they're 6th graders, what are they supposed to do about it?

Anyways, you hear a lot about kids these days, and how awful they are, but I'm here to tell you the kids are alright.

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On 12/15/2024 at 10:29 PM, tchookem said:

I may have the best group of students (120+) I have ever taught (this is year 25 for me). The worst I can say is that they can be a little squirrelly, but they're 6th graders, what are they supposed to do about it?

Anyways, you hear a lot about kids these days, and how awful they are, but I'm here to tell you the kids are alright.

I chaperoned a middle school trip to Disneyland earlier this fall.  I was responsible for a group of 10 boys for three days at the parks.  When multiple Disney employees ask you if you're doing okay, or shake their head with pity, or mention how they've never seen that many kids with just one adult, you know you're probably doing something that shouldn't be done as they see it all. I was scared to death going in that it would be a nightmare.  To the contrary, I was blown away by how kind and supportive these kids were.  For all the talk about how kids are being raised soft and with no work ethic, etc. they're also being raised to treat each other with respect and kindness and are much more fully functional and high quality human beings than any middle school kid, myself included, that I can recall from the past.  I truly came away from that trip with more hope for the future than I've ever had.

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Under the premise that discovery is a good thing, TIL science has discovered how to split electrons into fractions of an electron.
https://scitechdaily.com/a-physics-discovery-so-strange-its-changing-quantum-theory/

Setting up nicely for Pablo and Allan (UT Austin) to win the Nobel in 2025. They were predicted to win in 2024 for the magic-angle in twisted graphene but AI decided it didn’t want to wait to take over.
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