Travis In Austin

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. ~ James Baldwin ~

Not going to be using in a boat, but it is a space is a consideration. It was one of the factors they used, probably because it was a boating magazine.

Police Sgt. in Idaho, goes on a humanitarian mission to Nepal. Wow, quite amazing. I do work for the two largest police associations in Texas, can I share your story on their web pages? Thank you for what you do, be safe.

I am wondering the same thing. What am I missing.

I am with you on that, the Igloo Extream is 100 and had best ice retention, I am just try to figure if I am missing something here.

http://www.boatingmag.com/gear/boatinglab-tests-top-shelf-coolers Yeti, K2, Engle, does anyone have experience with these? Are they worth the price, do they hold up? They rate an Igloo, at half to one third the cost, with equal to better Ice retention

You will, I think I have a client that is going to start a hugh project for Occidental Petroleum down there, I would be down at least once a month. Thanks for the wishes.

Sweet, looking forward to that.

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future and the future is ours." Cesar Chavez

Me too

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I spent most of the day today at the local police departmen's Internal Affairs Division representing a police detective on a pretty minor allegation. Monday if a pretty funky day for a birthday, but it is all good. We are taking Friday off and going to Wardsweb's lake house on Lake LBJ, gong to relax, drink some cocktails, listen to music all weekend, it will be very nice. Very much looking forward to it, Travis

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein

Another one, anout overreacting.

I appologize for not wording my thoughts very carefully above. I wasn't intending to direct them to "you" personally, although that is clearly the way it sounds when I used "you" throughout. I meant the collective "you" as in "us". I should have said "when a person" instead of you. Noise to me is a completely seperate issue. There are most certainly annoying and distracting sounds that common courtesy can eliminate. Cell phones in a theater, texting in a theater are a couple of the most egregious examples. I do know that law libraries are designed to have the break areas away from the inside of the actual library, with seperate air handlers. They have specific quiet areas designed in them. Some people obviously put time and effort into that design. I never understood how anyone could concentrate in a cubicle atmosphere to begin with. Phones ringing, people popping in and out, walking by, conversations right next door, and on and on. There must be resources available on how to minimize the distractions, but none come to mind right off hand.

Another one from Rich Carlson: “One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It’s not and it won’t. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what’s wrong with life. “It’s not fair,” we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be fair."

I know this is an older post, but I just picked up Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all Small Stuff, this summer. Great perspective, I didn't realize he had died - WAY too young! Thanks for sharing, that's really cool that you knew him. I'm sure he's inspired and helped a lot of people. What a gift. He was a really great guy, we had a lot of laughs. His father was a very successful real estate/businessman but I never thought his heart was going into the family business. The interesting thing is he wrote a few nooks prior to his best seller that didn't sell well at all. He never gave up.

Glad it worked out for you, that is great news.

Microwave popcorn, coffee, baked apple pie from next door, the smell of fresh cut grass. I guess any of these could be offensive to anyone. It they are, too bad. You have no right to an odor free environment. You have the right to change jobs, even move to Utah where the consumption of coffee is much less. The only time you can shut down odors is if, as previously mentioned, they are considered toxic, or constitute a legal "nusiance" and fresh brewed coffee doesn't qualify. If you you think you have it rough at work because of occasional odors I would suggest you go to Hope next year, go to the Klipsch plant when it is downwind from the Tyson plant, you will never complain about the smell of fresh coffee again.

Well he is completely off base about Ray Guy. I have personally seen him kick 60+ net punts. I don't know if he invented the coffin corner, but he perfected it. Not very many people realized that he was always listed at the Raiders' 3rd string quarterback. We would arrive early at the games because you could see him throwing the ball long, and the crowd would really get into it. He could out throw all of them, Stabler, Plunkett, etc., by a wide margin. He was incredible to watch.

This is the news today. A girl is at home asleep and police come in unannounced, no warrant, saying they got a call from her roomate's family and they were there to check on her welfare. After they search house for roomate and see she is not there, they begin to interrogate her for information, she says please leave and they don't leave. I was interviewed for this story and on the news today, Fox News, so it must be true. EDIT: New link http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local-news/6985574-story Travis

Thanks for posting that, I had not heard anything about it. "Why with the time do I not glance aside To new-found methods, and to compounds strange? Why write I still all one, ever the same, And keep invention in a noted weed..."

Tony, Thank you for the great news. Thinking of you DD. Travis

In most states it is theft by check, which is much easier to prove than theft. You do not need to prove intent or the state of mind of the check writer. In most states it is not theft of goods, which is much more difficult to prove. It most states if you call to report a stolen vehicle you will be asked if the item was taken without your knowledge or permission, and as soon as the check comes up, in most states, they will tell you it cannot be listed as stolen. You either have the right to repossession with the proper documents or a theft by check case. If it has to go so far as criminal court they can file it both under theft by check, and plain old theft, but they typically do not because with theft by check there is a statute that says they only have to prove that a check was returned, that they gave notice to make it good, and they didn't make it good. There are many more elements to prove on just "theft" such as intent and state of mind. So they typically do not charge theft, but every state is different and they can certainly charge it as a theft. In this particular case it is made more complicated by the fact that the ultimate possessor/buyer is different from the check writer/parents. There could be a theft charge against the parents, but more probably it is really conspiracy to commit theft. There for sure is a theft by check, or whatever it is called in Kentucky. Travis

Basically what happened is that a guy bought a couple of trailers from me, one for him and one for his dad. He gave a card for a deposit and was supposed to be sending his parents down with cash for the rest. There seemed to be lots of miscommunication on the buyers part because suddenly I've got two older, ticked off, and confused parents on my hands who don't have cash nor straps to secure them. They tried to go to a bank to get the rest but it wasn't their bank and they could only use the ATM, and came up with $1,200. Rather than send them home, I let them write a check for the rest, they said they'd just cover it for now and get their son to pay them back. At this point this circus of a transaction really isn't that far out of the norm, some people just can't follow instructions so I try to help them out rather than be a butthole. A competitor of mine who happened to be around even drove to a different city to buy them straps.So, lo and behold, that check bounced. Here's the thing though. The original buyer is unresponsive, the girl who runs their family trucking business and was going to talk to these people is now unresponsive, there's no way the parents don't know about this and they haven't contacted me, the business that one of the trailers is made out to on the paperwork angrily denies they even know any of these people even though the corporate officers listed online says differently plus it's their address on the title which they didn't seem to care about, there is no phone number for the older people and their bank won't give it to me, I can't report them as stolen at this point since technically they wrote a check, which means I can't block them at the DMV from registering them. I tried to run the original card he gave me just to find out it was a prepaid debit card and only had a small amount left on it. So basically there's two trailers of mine out there and I don't know where they're at or anything. I don't know if they are being used at this business, or they were sold to an unsuspecting buyer, or what. In the meantime I'm out $2,650 and I don't know if that is permanent or not. On Friday I got this "I'll make them famous" attitude due to the noncooperation and temporarily posted a picture of the check until an admin saw it. The check bounced, the item purchased with said check is now theft, call the police and report it as such in their state as well as your own. It is theft, but a specific theft, such as "theft by check" or "theft of service". In most states it gets you quick access to criminal courts on check charge, but not theft of underlying item. They won't enter it as a stolen vehicle in other words.

I don't see how this aspect is any different than any other four wheeler or dirt bike that has suspension and is of a similar size. We have a little Honda 50 and I don't see how it wouldn't do the exact same thing that you say. The 3-wheeler may be taller which could contribute but I don't see how the suspension would fix this issue. The suspension was a major issue because there were internal memos (all in the public record now) where a consulting engineer said it needed 3 things to be safer, active suspension instead of balloon tires, a rear differential, better foot pegs, and rear wheel protection so if your foot slipped off foot peg it would not end up in the rear wheels. The other issue was memos about the warnings in the owners manual about going up hills, weight shifting, etc. Of course there was a memo from Honda saying that the changes would be too expensive, and the warnings would hurt the image they were seeking to portray to the public. In defending these cases we were faced with a lot of twists and turns as more memos began to surface. The bigger problem was the 110, I believe that was the model, much more torque, much faster, and parents were putting kids on them like they were tricycles. On a flat surface, no turning they are absolutely fine. It required a lot more training and supervision of kids than most parents were aware of. For 99 percent of people they were just fine, but like I said before, they were very unforgiving. Travis