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Re: HOH OFFICIAL - Good Morning/Day/Night thread...

Post by Hook » Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:57 am

We'll be getting OFF the ship in Houston the morning of 3/7.
We stay over night that Sat. in Houston.
We will be in Houston until the morning of 3/8 which is when we head back north to MN. :wink:
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Post by Hermskii » Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:26 pm

Remind me again a week or out.
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Post by Hook » Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:55 am

You bet! :wink:
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Post by Hook » Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:57 am

Hermskii, I emailed you (I will check response today)
Hope to see you 1 week from tomorrow, Sat. - on Sat 3/7 for a bit. :wink:
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Post by Hermskii » Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:44 pm

I got it. I stuck it in my calendar. I am plotting. We will meet. I think a beer will be in order.
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Post by EvilGrins » Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:58 pm

Good morning...ish. It's 10:59am here.

Is this forum hibernating? I see so little activity these days.

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Post by Hermskii » Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:50 pm

Everyone is at HOOKS. It is this way be design.
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Post by Hermskii » Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:41 am

It is one week later. HOOK should be departing the ship this morning. We have major timing conflicts.

My schedule:

09:30 - Bank run and fill with gas and get inspection sticker.
10:30 - Head to kids basketball game then end of season party afterwords.

HOOK just called. Looks like he is about 30 miles away on the very southeast side of Houston area in a little town called La Porte. More on this later. I will see him this afternoon.
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Post by Hermskii » Sun Mar 08, 2015 1:12 pm

It turned out that I had many other things I had to get done yesterday. I got them done and after a play one of my kids was in was over I finally headed over to where HOOK was staying. It turned out he was actually about 45 miles from where I currently live but was only about 10 miles away from my last house so the drive didn't seem long at all.

I rolled up on the hotel he and his wife and some friends were staying at around 9:30 PM. I brought a Unreal Tournament Retail game box with me so we could get a cool picture and make myself easily identifiable to him. I don't know why but I had seen a picture of Nameless Entity a long time back and at some point over the years imagined that was what HOOK looks like.

When I walked into the the lobby at the hotel there was a young guy sitting there watching TV and he was the only person in the room. I saw him and he saw me and I proceeded to look around for the front desk so I could notify HOOK that I was there. The young then started laughing// chuckling a little bit at me and so I looked back over at him as he was starting to stand up. He was looking at the UT box I had brought and was snickering a little bit. It turned out this young guy was HOOK! I have teased HOOK for years about being so old because he is a decade older than me at least. He didn't look a day older than me though.

I Walked over and shook his hand. He sat back down in his chair and I on a nearby couch. The chatting began immediately. We yapped up a discussion for several hours it seems. We talked about all sorts of things UT included. It became very apparent to me that HOOK and I have gotten along so well all of these years because we both have the gift of gab. I could have kept talking for a long time but the midnight hour approached quickly. My voice started to dry up and and get raspy as did his. We both lose our voice when exhaustion sets in.

His wife had gone to bed early and I had just had a very busy day with my family so I was spent too. Somewhere around 11:30 I had to call it quits because I was worried I'd fall asleep on the drive home and he was concerned about having to wake up at 5:00 AM to head home on a night that all the clocks in Houston were scheduled to "spring forward" 1 hour.

I had a great visit with HOOK! I told him I hoped to get to meet up with him again sometime in our lifetimes and he agreed hoping we could meet in the middle of the country next time so multiple other HOOKsters and House of Hermskii folks could attend. I think that would be awesome. I regretted not getting to meet his wife and thanking her for letting him put so much effort into our UT communities. I get that she was tired and it just didn't pan out this time.

I got pictures too! I will post them later tonight maybe. I'm asking my wife to crop/enhance/edit/modify them so they make me look better than HOOK. She said it will take several hours if even possible. I learned a few things during this visit. While HOOK is older than me, he certainly is not old and he is in such good shape I'm betting he'll outlive me. We can all rest assured he'll continue his UT work for years to come. He is far more driven towards doing it than I am right now which clearly explains his UT success over mine during the last decade or so. Power to him and gratitude for that! Also I see how fat I have become in these pictures and must do something about it. I'm about 235 lbs in these shots from last night. I should be at 185 or so. That is what I get for quitting smoking I guess. Lastly it became clear to me was "class act" HOOK is. He is a simple man who has fought his way through life and achieved his goals through hard work and keeping a clean slate with his family, friends and coworkers. He is certainly the type of person you'd want as your neighbor. That reminds me that he needs to be aware that each house on each side of me are for sale right now and that he could sale his big house and move into to one of these having it be fully paid for and still have nearly a quarter million in the bank easily! Just saying...

That is all. Great visit HOOK. I look forward to our next meeting. Some pictures will be posted soon!
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Re: HOH OFFICIAL - Good Morning/Day/Night thread...

Post by UnrealGecko » Thu Mar 12, 2015 2:53 am

Awesome! Looking forward to see the pics! :mrgreen:

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Post by Hermskii » Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:26 am

Here is one of the best ones:

I am on the left with the dark blue shirt on and Hook is on the right with the light gray striped shirt.
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Post by Terraniux » Thu Mar 12, 2015 2:19 pm

Nice! More photos of the members here please! Posts like these are great!

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Post by a nameless entity » Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:05 pm

You two look like long lost brothers who have just found each other!

Maybe you should check that possibility out! :wink:
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Post by Hook » Thu Mar 12, 2015 10:58 pm

Never know - my dad was an orphan with a ton of brothers and sisters.
I gotta get to bed right now, but I will comment later - Was VERY good to meet Hermskii! :wink:
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Post by EvilGrins » Fri Mar 13, 2015 12:08 am

Terraniux wrote:Nice! More photos of the members here please! Posts like these are great!
No, bad idea. Trust me... some of us should never be photographed or seen.
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