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I’m sorry. I wasn’t clear. My question was more about how exchange rates will be affected not about the politics. We are going to Great Britain this summer. We’ve already bought airline tickets and I was wondering if our budget is going to get blown up or not?
Or will these changes affect us at all?
Took drivers ed from coach Carter at Broadmoor in the 70’s in the summer.
Daily trips to athletic House to pick up equipment for practice.
My Dad had already had me practicing and I felt comfortable on the road.
They had started building streets and infrastructure but got caught in an economic downturn and there weren’t any houses. We would drive the streets with almost no traffic. No maintenance done and tall grass everywhere . Drove down a street with a circle at the end and some guy was railing this old girl on the trunk of the car. Dude never stopped my old man just said keep on driving. LOL
My old man was an artillery officer on Guadalcanal. First action after he got commissioned. Never said much about it. If I asked any questions he would shove a book in my hands and tell me to read up. A” history of the first Marine division in World War II” or Sledges book. But never answered any questions.
I think I’ve told this story before. My mom got a brain tumor and Dad almost died trying to take care of her at home. So we moved them to a retirement community. Very nice place. Mom very quickly got too bad for them to take care of.. in the mean time… dad hooked up with a woman who was part of the welcome wagon. We were told mom had 18-24 months. She died inside of a month after the moving in debacle. Within 2 weeks of her death, welcome wagon and Dad wanted to get married.
It was a scandal at the retirement community. End result was they eventually did get married and had a few good years together. I didn’t care for her but Dad seemed happy and she spoiled my daughter.
I could and did swallow a lot of shite for those two things to be true.
You just never know how things might go
My old man was the same. He was in heart cath recovery and he kept smelling something good. They kept it real cold in there. The staff had a hot plate and were warming their gumbo lunch. They had to bribe my Dad with gumbo to keep quiet about it.
When my Mom was in the hospital, he always brought donuts or cookies or something. My old man got a lot of good will doing that stuff
All the above. Enough good restaurants, HEBs aplenty. The woodlands pavilion has enough good music. Clean, very little crime, much less traffic than Houston. Easy to get around. If it wasn’t for a certain grand daughter being born, we would still be there.
When we moved there, I thought we would go downtown often. Way less than I thought we would. It’s not hard to plan special trips for special events
Would recommend .
Doctors are doing the same thing. Anything to save money and not hire enough help.
Old country church with my wife. Not a member of the choir is under sixty.
They barely keeping it together in a normal singing voice when the chorus goes up a couple of octaves. None of them could get anywhere close. Not only that but as they tried to get up there, they ouldn’t get up to the same place, al of them off key but in different off keys. I lost it. Couldn’t remotely keep my shite together. And being an old school church,bthey had to sing the whole song, 5 verses. So we had to sit through that several rimes. Each time was worse. You could see it coming around and there was nothing I could do. But laugh.
Caught my wife up in the giggles and a few others.
A lot of lawyers have salaries like yo-yo’s. Depends on what walks in the door. I know a small town lawyer had a slip and fall at Walmart where they clearly didn’t follow their own rules for spills. Made bank. Of course, the client had several back surgeries to get through. I wonder if he would say it was worth it
My father was in the 1st Marine division and landed on Guadalcanal. Island hopping and then to Australia.
Moved to another division to train for the Japan invasion. Was on a troop transport when some bombs were dropped and they became an occupying force.
Davy Crocket is also my gggg grandfather through my father’s side.
My wife also had a relative who died at the Alamo. What are the chances.
A football helmet. And a Blakemore tube. Just found out who the old school ICU person is!
If you’ve ever known people who worked in the funeral business…
You realize this story isn’t really a stretch of the imagination
You are living my worst nightmare. Prayers up boss,
Oh, she’s a real cutie. Too.
I don’t know what the deepest well is but I was on a rig right outside Port Allen south of 190 that drilled to 31,000
Feet in 1981-82.
They hit their targets and kept drilling just to see what the E Logs might show. Back in the days when they didn’t really give a damn about how much money they spent

re: Rewatched The Pacific...

Posted by chuckie on 7/30/23 at 8:28 pm
I think Band of Brothers is the better show by a little bit. But I’m drawn to The Pacific because (humble brag) my father was a marine corp artillery officer in the 1st Marine division on Guadalcanal.
When I asked questions about it he gave me books to read, 1 was a history of the 1st marine division in Ww2 and WTOB by Sledge.
Shell oil originally was thinking Lake Charles would be what the Houston ship channel has become but the locals wanted more control than Shell was willing to give.