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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 1, 2019 21:40:10 GMT -5
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Post by Cramptholomew on Sept 1, 2019 21:58:58 GMT -5
Doesn't Houston have those awesome Vietnamese Hot Crawfish places? I've never had them, but I SO want to. For that reason alone, I'd stay in Houston. Jefferson is on the Louisiana border. Close to Shreveport. Easier drive to Louisiana than from Houston. Yes, the "Cajun" places in Houston are all Vietnamese. Lots of seafood of all kinds around Jefferson. I love all my Vietnamese friends, and one of them has a great crawfish boil every year that we always go to. It is real international event with people from every race and nation that you can think of. But real Cajuns make better Cajun food. Then you have the Creole cooking. Can't afford it in Houston. I went to Texas for two weeks the summer I was 16. I was a NY punk, and the locals did not know what to make of me. I had some guys in a pickup yell at me and throw garbage from their pick up. I guess, now, I can't say I blame them. I was weird. I think this was at the Palestine Walmart. I was with my friend's family, and they still had their house in Elkhart. It was an interesting trip. Ate WAY TOO MANY sopapillas and flautas at Poncho's in Dallas/Fort Worth. My friend's one grandma cooked terrible food, but his other grandma cooked some spectacular stuff. Best black eyed peas I'll ever have. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 0:11:10 GMT -5
People in Palestine TX still yell and throw trash at people out the windows of their pickups. Something to do with the water or is it the limited gene pool. It can be very hard to be accepted in a small town for that very reason. Texas has experienced a lot of growth in the last thirty years to the point it is hard to find a old school Texan.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 2, 2019 3:37:44 GMT -5
People in Palestine TX still yell and throw trash at people out the windows of their pickups. Something to do with the water or is it the limited gene pool. It can be very hard to be accepted in a small town for that very reason. Texas has experienced a lot of growth in the last thirty years to the point it is hard to find a old school Texan. No, just at you. 😎🤠 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 2, 2019 3:41:23 GMT -5
Palistine has grown up in the last few years, but I admit that there are still many hard core Texans who are still living in the 60s there. My niece and her husband, both retired from the DOC, are prime examples. Jefferson is a more enlightened town.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 5:49:31 GMT -5
Well Jefferson looks like a want to be tourist trap in the making. Just needs a Robert Kincade paintings outlet and micro brew. It has a Mickey Ya ya so it must close to civilization. I also see houses on stilts for sale so you feel right at home with flooding. Green water bayous for mosquitos double check. Ghosts check. A train ride check. Wally World for your fine shopping needs check. Pizza, Mexican food, ditch food, bbq so you wont starve. You will have to bring your own drug dealer and mini gang if you want crime. So yeah it looks pretty nice
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 2, 2019 18:22:22 GMT -5
Well Jefferson looks like a want to be tourist trap in the making. Just needs a Robert Kincade paintings outlet and micro brew. It has a Mickey Ya ya so it must close to civilization. I also see houses on stilts for sale so you feel right at home with flooding. Green water bayous for mosquitos double check. Ghosts check. A train ride check. Wally World for your fine shopping needs check. Pizza, Mexican food, ditch food, bbq so you wont starve. You will have to bring your own drug dealer and mini gang if you want crime. So yeah it looks pretty nice Laughed my a s s off...thanks for that! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 19:07:37 GMT -5
Glad to be of service uncle Walt but Jefferson really is nice place check it out visitjeffersontexas.com/ with darn near no crime. Houston is becoming a crime ridden cesspool just last week a lady was mugged in the parking lot where my wife works. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 2, 2019 19:52:01 GMT -5
Sean, I appreciate what you are saying...here in the small town that Tallahassee is, we are getting a lot of crime and shootings is becoming the new normal for us too....which is why I rarely go out and if they come over my fence...well, let's just say I have a lot of room to bury a body place plants in, if need be.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 21:06:45 GMT -5
In regard to living areas, NBR reported tonight that Arizona has the highest unemployment rate. Surprised me.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 2, 2019 21:30:11 GMT -5
In regard to living areas, NBR reported tonight that Arizona has the highest unemployment rate. Surprised me. The freeways in PHX are packed during the commuting hours, signs abound everywhere that “We are hiring”....I guess it shows that the media is always looking for a dark lining in Silver clouds. No surprise for NPR. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 22:06:47 GMT -5
NBR: National Business Report (yes, I know who owns them).
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 2, 2019 22:08:51 GMT -5
Glad to be of service uncle Walt but Jefferson really is nice place check it out visitjeffersontexas.com/ with darn near no crime. Houston is becoming a crime ridden cesspool just last week a lady was mugged in the parking lot where my wife works. Houston still has it's good points, especially for younger people. It is NOT the town I grew up in anymore. The other party is in charge so it's going the way of LA, Chicago, and other cities where they gained power. The Houston School District is about to be taken over by the state because of the corruption. It was a good place until Sean moved down here. |
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Post by trailboss on Sept 2, 2019 22:20:46 GMT -5
A huge part of Arizona is covered by reservations, and regardless of where the economy nationally is at, the tribal lands are always unemployed, it is what it is.
I admit to being somewhat jaded, but there is a movement (with huge financial backers) to convince people that the state of the union sucks and that there needs to be change. We are seeing a solid influx of Chicogoans, and Californians,so I expect to see what is predictable, predictably happen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2019 0:04:20 GMT -5
Ron I hope all your radios get stuck on a station that only plays Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift music.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 3, 2019 2:00:41 GMT -5
Sorry I've been out of action for a day or two. My head isn't really in it at the minute. SO much going on in my life at the minute. Wife's MRI is this afternoon, so hopefully that goes well. Next Wednesday I've an interview, so head is all over that too. But today is not about me... scrooge - thinking of you today as you go through your surgery. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 3, 2019 8:18:26 GMT -5
Ron I hope all your radios get stuck on a station that only plays Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift music. Que es "radio"? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 3, 2019 11:05:45 GMT -5
Visiting Jefferson with my nephews the first week in October and will settle my mind a little. Then I think wife and I will rent an Air B&B for 2 weeks to find out if we can stand small town life. It's farther north than I would prefer, but closer to most of my family that still lives in Texas.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Sept 3, 2019 11:07:21 GMT -5
Man, today is just one of those days at work. Found a server down, which thankfully came back up after a reboot. Had to look in every nook and cranny for a backup of a database from ANOTHER server that hadn't been used in 10 years. The database name was "test" - for a production website. Adding drives to ANOTHER server. People need a bunch of email lists altered and created. I can't remember the rest.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 3, 2019 11:30:18 GMT -5
Prayers for brother Scrooge and Paddy....hope that Sean is feeling better with his leg issue...still watching what the Hurricane is planning on doing...sun is out and it is hot and getting hotter. No big plans for the day...same as every other day.
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Post by toshtego on Sept 3, 2019 12:06:25 GMT -5
Visiting Jefferson with my nephews the first week in October and will settle my mind a little. Then I think wife and I will rent an Air B&B for 2 weeks to find out if we can stand small town life. It's farther north than I would prefer, but closer to most of my family that still lives in Texas. That will be some change after Houston. 2,000 people! What did Bob Dylan write about that area? " We traveled through East Texas. A land where many martyrs fell." From the song "Blind Willie McTell". The biggest challenge for me going small, and I went way smaller than a population of 2,000, was the intellectual desert populated by people who knew little, believed less and went no where. Fortunately, there were other outsiders to balance it out. I do not mean to be snobbish about this but the differences in education and life experiences can matter. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 3, 2019 12:19:51 GMT -5
 You are dead on Tosh, back home I love my Cajun people, but man no conversion, unless it’s weather, crops, whose diddling who, that’s kind of interesting, it drives my wife crazy, the slowness of the pace, I like it, wife doesn’t. It’s an adjustment for sure.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 3, 2019 12:24:08 GMT -5
Man, today is just one of those days at work. Found a server down, which thankfully came back up after a reboot. Had to look in every nook and cranny for a backup of a database from ANOTHER server that hadn't been used in 10 years. The database name was "test" - for a production website. Adding drives to ANOTHER server. People need a bunch of email lists altered and created. I can't remember the rest. 👍👍👍👍 Been there done that for decades. Better you than me! I may have to pick it up again if we move. Wife does not understand how much her income contributes to our income and lifestyle. Going to only social security will be a treat for sure. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 3, 2019 12:29:48 GMT -5
I tried to talk my wife into moving to Moreauville La, but the wife said no way. The whole town is cousins on the Lemoine side.
Jefferson is a completely different matter. Small but sophisticated. Close to Athens and Paris too! 😉 🤠🥴
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2019 13:13:19 GMT -5
John brings up a good point about areas with small populations and life experience. I know people who have never gone more than a few hundred miles from their place of birth or never left their state. I have always found it refreshing to go any place other than where I am as people can be quite diverse and interesting.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Sept 3, 2019 14:09:57 GMT -5
John brings up a good point about areas with small populations and life experience. I know people who have never gone more than a few hundred miles from their place of birth or never left their state. I have always found it refreshing to go any place other than where I am as people can be quite diverse and interesting. I now live on the eastern shore of Maryland. The Delaware side of the Chesapeake. It's like that here. People are raised, go to school in Salisbury U, or one of the UofMD colleges/universities, and then return to their hometown - never to leave again. I call this the Texas of the East Coast (not in a derogatory way). SMALL towns, and you'll NEVER be a local unless you were born here. In fact, the locals refer to transplants as "come heres", and some are none too friendly about it. We're probably 10 years behind, infrastructure wise. A lot of people require satellite internet, since there's no other viable option. Miles between towns. It's RURAL. Annapolis is an hour away from my town, farther from points south. When you get down to the eastern shore of VA, way down the peninsula, it's gets RURAL. There's literally a Food Lion every 40 miles, and that's about it. |
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Post by McWiggins on Sept 3, 2019 19:46:06 GMT -5
Cramptholomew and I live in a rural area and sure, it's got its character with local born and raised residence, especially those who work on the water but I spent my youth in the urban/city world and now older, I'd rather be where I am. Still travel when I can but rural life is for me. 
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2019 8:51:48 GMT -5
Was up at 4:00am with the leg and watched my new neighbors coming in. What a bunch of losers stacking boards for a porch for like the tenth time. I think they are tweakers, well I kind of know they are after watching them in action. They wont be here long before they cant pay the space rent or get thrown out after the cops visit. They have their power hooked up via adapters and wally worlds cheapest extension cord. That baby should fissile like a firecracker fuse all the way back to the main breakers the first time the AC and microwave are going at the same time. What me worry I am on a different branch. Nothing for me to do but oil my guns and wait it out. Should not be to long before the new park owners serve their first eviction notice. The older couple on the other side moved out yesterday cant wait to see what backs into that spot. The leg looks better no more red and on the last few days of Bactrim. So thirty days of antibiotics and a dozen drips later there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Still hurts because of sores leftover but they are nice and pink and healing. Going next week to a trusted wound doctor so he can have look to make sure. I need some cortisone shots anyway. Such is life when you are held together with a deluxe erector set and bailing wire. Everybody have a nice day.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 4, 2019 8:58:47 GMT -5
Cramptholomew and I live in a rural area and sure, it's got its character with local born and raised residence, especially those who work on the water but I spent my youth in the urban/city world and now older, I'd rather be where I am. Still travel when I can but rural life is for me. That's a really beautiful place. I am happy to say that my sister in law lives in the dirty, crime ridden part of Connecticut. I hope that it doesn't bother you too much that we are gleeful when a blizzard hits Hartford. Nothing personal. (to you) |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 4, 2019 9:19:13 GMT -5
Here is a clip on Jefferson and Caddo Lake State Park. Caddo Lake is a primeval swamp/lake like something out of Hiawatha. On the other side of town is a modern man made lake that has record sized bass and good water skiing and sailing as well.
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You are dead on Tosh, back home I love my Cajun people, but man no conversion, unless it’s weather, crops, whose diddling who, that’s kind of interesting, it drives my wife crazy, the slowness of the pace, I like it, wife doesn’t. It’s an adjustment for sure.
