D-League

[starchief5]

I still have a flip phone but I will get a smart phone probably this year. I don't like them and my fingers don't do a good job at getting the phone to respond. Sherry has a Iphone 7 and it drives me batty.

I do love the new TVs, computers and fully expect all to merge even more with phones. I was reading the other day that they have developed a transistor that is only 19 atoms. That is small and with that the size of a processor could be really small. The big hurdle is to get mobile net fast and cheap.

Flip phone for me. It is not even on except the rare occasion I go away from the house alone. I charge it about every three weeks. I do not even know how to text. Wife gave me a smartphone and I gave it back after a couple of weeks.

Wife has a smartphone but all she does with it is text - all day long.

My kids and grands are all women/girls. Everyone knows everyone else's drama. I made it a standing rule that if the drama is not something that I personally need to do something about, I don't want to hear about it. Six months later I might hear about some family "catastrophe" that blew over without my knowledge.

Grandkids in their twenties come for dinner and are on their phones the whole time.

 

[_Rooster]

Downsizing a few weapons.

I have a couple of Henry Golden Boys I am going to move. Never been fired and just two very nice pieces. One is a ..22 mag and the other is a Caliber.45 colt

22 Mag

Henry 45 Colt Carbine

Nice saddle guns.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Swanee, any swamp left?

With gators busting though kitchen windows in a very urban Clearwater I am beginning to have my doubts .

 

[55wildcat]

 

[_Rooster]

Flip phone for me. It is not even on except the rare occasion I go away from the house alone. I charge it about every three weeks. I do not even know how to text. Wife gave me a smartphone and I gave it back after a couple of weeks.

Wife has a smartphone but all she does with it is text - all day long.

My kids and grands are all women/girls. Everyone knows everyone else's drama. I made it a standing rule that if the drama is not something that I personally need to do something about, I don't want to hear about it. Six months later I might hear about some family "catastrophe" that blew over without my knowledge.

Grandkids in their twenties come for dinner and are on their phones the whole time.

 

[starchief5]

 

[wildcatdonf]

Grandkids in their twenties come for dinner and are on their phones the whole time.

Standard. Ours also.

 

[starchief5]

Standard. Ours also.

My wife goes into a panic if she discovers she left her phone at home. How would she know what everyone is making for dinner and what they are doing that exact moment? Kids would be absolutely lost without their smartphones.

 

[cordmaker]

Uh. wow. Yep, no coincidence. Cord, gotta think abit on this one.Somethings going on. FCC.

Let me know the results.

 

[cordmaker]

I saw it for 17.9 in Detroit in winter of '61. Passed by the stations selling it for 18 cents.

I remember 11 cents one time at a small station in a small town outside CC one time. Whenever the stations started lowering prices in town he always sold it cheaper at his station!

 

[cordmaker]

Probably not as easy. With all of the technology of today things are much easier. And with this people are softer and more dependent and few can actually take care of their own needs. Another thing I have noticed is people are under much more pressure than my fathers and grandfathers were. The pressure in today's world is more than many people can handle.

Another factor of today that bothers me is the fact all of us are under surveillance with big government tracking our every move and social media telling us what we can or can not say. Our government can make up a lie and destroy your very existence. The IRS can be weaponized and we know what the FBI and Justice Department can do.

So give me the choice of life in 2019 compared to life decades ago and guess where I come down. Give me the simple life where i am an individual who with the Lord's help has my destiny in my own hands. Not a government, not social media and not big brother tracking or spying on my very existence. It is a lot easier today but it comes with a terrible price. A price I would rather not have.

Life was hard but we just didn't know it until we got older!!!

 

[cordmaker]

Good morning D! Not a lot going on today except a wedding. The young lady lived beside us when she was born and now she is getting married. Where does time go!!!! Like we are on a fast moving train that is gradually picking up steam (the best kind) and not making any stops except at the end of the line!!!!! Hey could be a good sermon! No stops until the end, so be prepared we have no idea when our stop is!!!!

 

[warrior-cat]

Dats funie rat dar.

Got out early this morning for a few hours of fishing. Went to Rattler and was there about an hour when I caught 2 and one got away. The one that got away was probably the biggest because it pulled my drag out as I was fighting it and then it anchored itself around something on the bottom of the pond. I tried to let it run out but it eventually spit the hook out. Not long afterwards, 2 other people came to fish but were across the pond from me. When I was getting ready to leave I walked around to their side to talk to them when one of them recognized me. I was his Drill Sergeant Instructor at the Drill Sergeant School that was at Ft. Sill in early 1990. We talked a bit and I found out he also worked at Ft. Sill now. We are going to get together for some fishing in the future. Below is the picture he took of me and the bigger one I caught today.

 

[cordmaker]

Dats funie rat dar.

Got out early this morning for a few hours of fishing. Went to Rattler and was there about an hour when I caught 2 and one got away. The one that got away was probably the biggest because it pulled my drag out as I was fighting it and then it anchored itself around something on the bottom of the pond. I tried to let it run out but it eventually spit the hook out. Not long afterwards, 2 other people came to fish but were across the pond from me. When I was getting ready to leave I walked around to their side to talk to them when one of them recognized me. I was his Drill Sergeant Instructor at the Drill Sergeant School that was at Ft. Sill in early 1990. We talked a bit and I found out he also worked at Ft. Sill now. We are going to get together for some fishing in the future. Below is the picture he took of me and the bigger one I caught today.

Nice fish WC!! Is the biggest one the one that got way? Mine always is!

 

[warrior-cat]

Nice fish WC!! Is the biggest one the one that got way? Mine always is!

It think it was because it pulled my drag while trying to bring it in. The one in the picture did not.

 

[wildcatdonf]

Dats funie rat dar.

Got out early this morning for a few hours of fishing. Went to Rattler and was there about an hour when I caught 2 and one got away. The one that got away was probably the biggest because it pulled my drag out as I was fighting it and then it anchored itself around something on the bottom of the pond. I tried to let it run out but it eventually spit the hook out. Not long afterwards, 2 other people came to fish but were across the pond from me. When I was getting ready to leave I walked around to their side to talk to them when one of them recognized me. I was his Drill Sergeant Instructor at the Drill Sergeant School that was at Ft. Sill in early 1990. We talked a bit and I found out he also worked at Ft. Sill now. We are going to get together for some fishing in the future. Below is the picture he took of me and the bigger one I caught today.

Nice fish. Have y'all had any water trouble? Hope not.

 

[cordmaker]

It think it was because it pulled my drag while trying to bring it in. The one in the picture did not.

Just digging at you WC. Wish I was fishing!!! It's like I tell my grandkids, one time I hung into a huge catfish, but it broke the line! I got it to the boat and it was so big one eye was on one side of the boat and the other eye was on the other side! That's when I just get that look!!!!

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Dats funie rat dar.

Got out early this morning for a few hours of fishing. Went to Rattler and was there about an hour when I caught 2 and one got away. The one that got away was probably the biggest because it pulled my drag out as I was fighting it and then it anchored itself around something on the bottom of the pond. I tried to let it run out but it eventually spit the hook out. Not long afterwards, 2 other people came to fish but were across the pond from me. When I was getting ready to leave I walked around to their side to talk to them when one of them recognized me. I was his Drill Sergeant Instructor at the Drill Sergeant School that was at Ft. Sill in early 1990. We talked a bit and I found out he also worked at Ft. Sill now. We are going to get together for some fishing in the future. Below is the picture he took of me and the bigger one I caught today.

Very nice. Beautiful. Trust you are not flooding in your part of Oklahoma

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

 

[warrior-cat]

Nice fish. Have y'all had any water trouble? Hope not.

A lot of rain and my front yard is soggy but, nothing under water. Will try to cut grass later today because more rain expected for the next several days.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Dats funie rat dar.

Got out early this morning for a few hours of fishing. Went to Rattler and was there about an hour when I caught 2 and one got away. The one that got away was probably the biggest because it pulled my drag out as I was fighting it and then it anchored itself around something on the bottom of the pond. I tried to let it run out but it eventually spit the hook out. Not long afterwards, 2 other people came to fish but were across the pond from me. When I was getting ready to leave I walked around to their side to talk to them when one of them recognized me. I was his Drill Sergeant Instructor at the Drill Sergeant School that was at Ft. Sill in early 1990. We talked a bit and I found out he also worked at Ft. Sill now. We are going to get together for some fishing in the future. Below is the picture he took of me and the bigger one I caught today.

That is one fine fish.

 

[warrior-cat]

Just digging at you WC. Wish I was fishing!!! It's like I tell my grandkids, one time I hung into a huge catfish, but it broke the line! I got it to the boat and it was so big one eye was on one side of the boat and the other eye was on the other side! That's when I just get that look!!!!

Going again tomorrow morning for a few hours then, wife and daughter want to go out.

 

[warrior-cat]

That is one fine fish.

Thank you, more to come.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Thank you, more to come.

Oklahoma bass have a wanted poster out on you!

 

[_Rooster]

 

[Ben101er]

It would seem all colleges even uk is crazy expensive these days but the dorms are like luxury hotels, and all the campus buildings are extravagant. In the mid eighties when i was there, Holmes hall (RIP) had only the basics two beds two desk and two closets, shared restrooms and showers for the whole floor and no ac. I don't understand why this is happening.

I spent 1970-71 in Holmes Hall, back when the basketball team lived there. I had the corner room on the top floor (4th). Good times.

 

[sligocat92]

I spent 1970-71 in Holmes Hall, back when the basketball team lived there. I had the corner room on the top floor (4th). Good times.

I lived just before the corner on the first floor 1983-84.

 

[railroadkat_1]

Notice the regular was 13 cents per gallon and premium was 15 cent




Man I remember the great part of history!

 

[AustinTXCat]

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

The good guys just bought two brand new engines. Hell they may have waxed them.

 

[starchief5]

Here's one Austin will recognize. Fern Lake in Middlesboro, the city's water supply.

Downtown Middlesboro, like many small downtowns, killed mostly by Walmart

 

[Ben101er]

I lived just before the corner on the first floor 1983-84.

It was not very nice when I was there. It amazed me that it with all the new modern dorms, that it was still being occupied till about 3-4 years ago.

 

[starchief5]

Middlesboro, KY. Where I grew up. City built in a meteor crater. Home of the oldest continuously-played golf course in the US. Hometown of that great actor Lee Majors. I grew up center left, where that white coal tower above the shadow is.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Middlesboro, KY. Where I grew up. City built in a meteor crater. Home of the oldest continuously-played golf course in the US. Hometown of that great actor Lee Majors. I grew up center left, where that white coal tower above the shadow is.

Are you responsible for this?

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I really liked this one:

 

[starchief5]

Are you responsible for this?

Definitely speaks of desperation for a city when Matt Jones is considered a celebrity there.

 

[UK82]

I've been invited to my youngest nephew's 8th grade graduation. Now I have to draw the line here. I know for a fact that the Catholics celebrate 8th grade because my wife is one. BUT, it's only 2/3rd's of the way to a high school diploma. Ya ain't there yet young man. What really irks me is that the invitation states that it's a promotion not a graduation. Like it's an actual job. My God!

 

[UK82]

I spent 1970-71 in Holmes Hall, back when the basketball team lived there. I had the corner room on the top floor (4th). Good times.

Haggin Hall for me, 1978-1979.

 

[starchief5]

Hey Austin. When I was coming up, city kids looked down on us Noetown people. We didn't mix at all. Was it still that way when you were coming up?

 

[AustinTXCat]

Here's one Austin will recognize. Fern Lake in Middlesboro, the city's water supply.

Downtown Middlesboro, like many small downtowns, killed mostly by Walmart

Agree about Walmart shutting small businesses down. They are brutal. Dollar Store is just as bad.

Anyway, the old Walmart in Middlesboro, located just around the corner from the present store, provided a better shopping experience than the new Walmart, in my opinion.

Fern Lake: I believe it's a pay lake now. The water is indeed wonderful. That Cumberland Gap "Mountain Spring-water" is actually bottled by Coca Cola at the facility in Middlesboro using water from Fern Lake.