[ARCHIVED THREAD] - The Duke is gone. (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/13/2011 10:49:51 PM EDT
-Duke-Nukem- that is. I helped him move to Fort Worth this past weekend. He'll be back periodically to visit. |
To The Duke!
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Greetings from Fort Worth! I love my new job, my new place to live, and my new life I'm building. Its pretty hot here, I rode my bicycle ten miles today after work and it felt like my head was in a blacksmith's furnace the whole time.
Its nice to know that you guys are all wishing me well. Things just couldn't be going better for me right now, I feel very fortunate. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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As good as its going next thing you know your gonna get LAID brotha!!!!!! Good luck with that idea. 
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/kjacks01/Posts/Laid.jpg He's Screwed and not in a good way, he ain't got them gunz no mo....
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Greetings from Fort Worth! I love my new job, my new place to live, and my new life I'm building. Its pretty hot here, I rode my bicycle ten miles today after work and it felt like my head was in a blacksmith's furnace the whole time. Its nice to know that you guys are all wishing me well. Things just couldn't be going better for me right now, I feel very fortunate. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Hell if I'd know you wanted your head in a Blacksmith forge I could have just invited you over..... 
Glad to hear things are working out.... 
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He traded them all??? Quoted:
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As good as its going next thing you know your gonna get LAID brotha!!!!!! Good luck with that idea.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/kjacks01/Posts/Laid.jpg He's Screwed and not in a good way, he ain't got them gunz no mo.... 
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Yes, my once impressive gun collection is no more. It didn't make me happy anyway. It became nothing more than a fancy way to distract myself from my troubles, and a justification to myself that despite my miseries I was somehow "successful", since only "successful" people have cool gun collections, right?
I got rid of my guns to pay some bills and obligations I had, and as part of streamlining my life and discovering what was truly important to me. The experience was quite liberating, as I discovered that I'm a happier, better man without a huge gun collection. I didn't own those guns, they owned me. And along with some other stuff in my life, they had me trapped for a long time. But after a long, difficult trial, I have succeeded in setting myself free! That doesn't mean I won't eventually buy some of my old guns back from the friends I sold them to, or that I won't acquire new ones, once I get on my feet financially. But I will never again use inanimate objects as a justification to remain in an otherwise miserable lifestyle. No gun, no car, no boat or big house is worth that. I feel fortunate to have learned this lesson before my 35th birthday, as I know men in their 60s who obsess over their bass boats while enduring miserable marriages and careers, and still delude themselves into thinking that fishing on weekends somehow makes it all worthwhile. Today at my new job I was assigned the task of writing an article on silencers. I spent half the day researching and half the day writing a rough draft. And I got well paid for my time! Can you believe it? In the space of one year I've gone from flirting with suicide to feeling like the luckiest guy on the planet. The lesson to me is, never give up! You can't predict what will happen next! Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Today at my new job I was assigned the task of writing an article on silencers. I spent half the day researching and half the day writing a rough draft. And I got well paid for my time! Can you believe it? In the space of one year I've gone from flirting with suicide to feeling like the luckiest guy on the planet. The lesson to me is, never give up! You can't predict what will happen next! Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I've heard of this miracle type turn arounds in the past. First, just a statement. There are many folks in your past who would have been negatively effected if you had taken your life. And, there are many folks who would never seen the good shit you do if you had taken your life. I even remember reading about some woman who was saved during WWII, and as a result... something like 40+ people were born into this world because she lived to produce. Keeps things in perspective I think. Second, a question. The miraculous turn of events... Did it have anything to do with a "nothing to loose" attitude which may have opened your mind to all possibilities? If not, then could you set me straight? Maybe your insight would makde something click in a way that allows some... or all... of us to reach a 'next level' type thing. If it's too deep for here, I completely understand. If it's too personal for me to even post such a thing... my apologies are extended and you can feel free to ignore the question. Well, no matter what. Glad you got it going right for you. |
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Yes, my once impressive gun collection is no more. It didn't make me happy anyway. It became nothing more than a fancy way to distract myself from my troubles, and a justification to myself that despite my miseries I was somehow "successful", since only "successful" people have cool gun collections, right? I got rid of my guns to pay some bills and obligations I had, and as part of streamlining my life and discovering what was truly important to me. The experience was quite liberating, as I discovered that I'm a happier, better man without a huge gun collection. I didn't own those guns, they owned me. And along with some other stuff in my life, they had me trapped for a long time. But after a long, difficult trial, I have succeeded in setting myself free! That doesn't mean I won't eventually buy some of my old guns back from the friends I sold them to, or that I won't acquire new ones, once I get on my feet financially. But I will never again use inanimate objects as a justification to remain in an otherwise miserable lifestyle. No gun, no car, no boat or big house is worth that. I feel fortunate to have learned this lesson before my 35th birthday, as I know men in their 60s who obsess over their bass boats while enduring miserable marriages and careers, and still delude themselves into thinking that fishing on weekends somehow makes it all worthwhile. Today at my new job I was assigned the task of writing an article on silencers. I spent half the day researching and half the day writing a rough draft. And I got well paid for my time! Can you believe it? In the space of one year I've gone from flirting with suicide to feeling like the luckiest guy on the planet. The lesson to me is, never give up! You can't predict what will happen next! Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Amen Brother! |
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My friend, you were the only one who lost faith in yourself. No one around you gave up on you. Don't do it again and please tell me you did not sell the wheelbarrow.
Yes, my once impressive gun collection is no more. It didn't make me happy anyway. It became nothing more than a fancy way to distract myself from my troubles, and a justification to myself that despite my miseries I was somehow "successful", since only "successful" people have cool gun collections, right? I got rid of my guns to pay some bills and obligations I had, and as part of streamlining my life and discovering what was truly important to me. The experience was quite liberating, as I discovered that I'm a happier, better man without a huge gun collection. I didn't own those guns, they owned me. And along with some other stuff in my life, they had me trapped for a long time. But after a long, difficult trial, I have succeeded in setting myself free! That doesn't mean I won't eventually buy some of my old guns back from the friends I sold them to, or that I won't acquire new ones, once I get on my feet financially. But I will never again use inanimate objects as a justification to remain in an otherwise miserable lifestyle. No gun, no car, no boat or big house is worth that. I feel fortunate to have learned this lesson before my 35th birthday, as I know men in their 60s who obsess over their bass boats while enduring miserable marriages and careers, and still delude themselves into thinking that fishing on weekends somehow makes it all worthwhile. Today at my new job I was assigned the task of writing an article on silencers. I spent half the day researching and half the day writing a rough draft. And I got well paid for my time! Can you believe it? In the space of one year I've gone from flirting with suicide to feeling like the luckiest guy on the planet. The lesson to me is, never give up! You can't predict what will happen next! Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: While I do like Dillo Dust on pork (meh on chicken & beef), IMO it definitely needs MORE heat! Mix it about 1/2 & 1/2 with a mixture of good cayenne pepper & paprika and it's about right. Quoted: Quoted: Good luck in Texas. They're pretty decent folks down there and they have good bbq. BLASPHEMY!!!  Perhaps they know how to cook a dry brisket. Atleast someone down there makes up a decent rub: http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6682/dillodust008qe6.jpg edit: photo shamelessly stolen from another thread.  |
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I hope things work out well for you! http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/kjacks01/Posts/upyours.jpg Oh my God, my email to Diane Feinstein! This September it will be eight years ago that the AWB sunset. Hard to believe... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I'll never forget the rim ramp job he gave me LOL. The price was right, wouldn't take anything for the work, it looked and functioned great but never helped the rifle cycle better as I'd hoped. Sold! I made these because duke used to post many pics with lulz that included his mug.    |
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I'll never forget the rim ramp job he gave me LOL. The price was right, wouldn't take anything for the work, it looked and functioned great but never helped the rifle cycle better as I'd hoped. Sold! I made these because duke used to post many pics with lulz that included his mug. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/hrsgrunner/Hi_Blinky.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/hrsgrunner/MrsDukeNukem1.jpg http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c60/hrsgrunner/Fun%20pics/polydukeani.gif I would so play that game... |
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HRSGUNNER, what gun was that? I did so many rim errr, ramp jobs that I've forgotten which one was yours. And yes, I have right clicked/save as on all of the pics in this thread. I went to a TX shooting range for the first time today and it was a great facility, not too expensive ($15 all day with no membership fees and they provide B-21 type targets), with polite and knowlegeable ROs who were cool with me practicing reload drills and shoulder transitions with my AR, and a ton of friendly people. I did my usual "old lady in church" act and was introducing myself and shaking hands with everyone around me. I'm going to like it down here I think, but I already miss my MO shooting buddies. And its only been a week! Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder.... I will start posting more pics of myself for lulz when I succeed in getting unfat. It got to the point where everytime I would post a pic people (and not just BeltfedMGs) would say "who's the fatty with the fancy gear, he should be ashamed of himself..." Now my gear isn't as fancy and I'm continuing to get back into shape. I ran my CMMG AR hard today and then slow fired it for groups with the govt. profile barrel extremely hot, and I was pleased at the groups it shot with surplus M193 and a barrel temperature that must have been in the 300 degree range (seriously, at LEAST). As a random thought, I just want to put out there on the record that imho CMMG is making better guns than they were, say, five years ago, and that the complete CMMG gun I'm running right now has exceeded my expectations (and those expectations were high to begin with). Its an EXCELLENT rifle and has passed every sort of test I've thought up for it, and I would not hesitate to defend my home with it or take it into combat anywhere in the world. Screw it, fat or no fat, I'll post up a pic of the gun I'm talking about. Its a light weight setup, everything you need and nothing you don't. Its a midlength with a 14.5+perm attached flash hider and it runs GREAT.  Yes, I have picatinny rails on my head. An HD camera will be mounted there soon. |
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Quoted: Second, a question. The miraculous turn of events... Did it have anything to do with a "nothing to loose" attitude which may have opened your mind to all possibilities? If not, then could you set me straight? Maybe your insight would makde something click in a way that allows some... or all... of us to reach a 'next level' type thing. If it's too deep for here, I completely understand. If it's too personal for me to even post such a thing... my apologies are extended and you can feel free to ignore the question. I want to make a big post about this issue later on, maybe tonight, if people are interested. I probably won't give up alot of details but the details aren't really what matters. And I thought, I don't know if anyone really cares or not, but I figure enough of you guys knew something was going on, and enough of you have read my angry rantings here for the past few years, that I think its only fair that I also post up and try to explain some of what has occurred to make it better and how I figured a few things out. If people don't want to read it, well its just like my angry rantings from before, there's a red x in the upper right hand corner and they can use it. Maybe some other people will like it or even find it useful, so why not explain? |
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Catdog,its called Elm Fork something-or-other, its on Luna Road in Dallas. I liked it enough that I saved it in my GPS so I can find it easily again later.
I'm posting from my phone as I lie next to one of the swimming pools in my apartment complex. I'm working on a tan, ten minutes on my belly and ten minutes on my back, now I think I'll go for a swim... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Two females who were very lovely and I made pleasant, polite conversation with both, as well as with other folks. People down here seem very nice so far. I'm not in a hurry to be "creepy guy with the camera" around the girls in bikinis at the neighborhood pool. Good way to get water splashed on my very expensive camera and pictures of pretty girls flipping me the bird. Maybe once they get to know me better.... PS, I got no tan! The lotion I bought is only SPF 8 but I'm still as pasty white as Bill Clinton's thighs. I thought the sun would burn me right through it. Oh well, Rome wasn't built in a day... |
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Ok, I need to make a point about Fort Worth and I hope I don't touch a nerve. I decided to treat myself to a nice dinner at a decent restaurant (think Buffalo Wild Wings, maybe a bit better, but not an expensive/exclusive place like you would find on the plaza, just a nice-ish family style chain restaurant). I'm waiting for my table and I'm people watching. It may seem shallow but I think the people coming in here have more self-respect than I'm used to in rural MO. Men have clean clothes on and are clean shaven or have nicely trimmed beards. Nobody smells bad. The number of good looking women is easily double what I would expect in KC and they are almost all actually TRYING to look good. Even the middle aged women with kids in their early teens are dressed very nicely, are wearing makeup, and have their hair arranged somehow. They clearly want to look nice for their husbands.
And you know how they say everything is bigger in Texas? Not the women. No sir. Its shallow and superficial but I'm still floored by it. After almost a decade of walruses wearing old tshirts and pajama pants at the Warrensburg Walmart, I'm really surprised by this. I'm in a clean tshirt, clean bluejeans, and a new Primary Arms ballcap I scored at SHOT show, and I look like the damn bus boy around here. I'm gonna have to take care of myself and get some new threads or these people are going to think I'm a slob. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |