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JuicyLucy
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Me not doing so well today. Down most of day in bed with back issues.
sucks but after 20 years I am pretty used to it.
sucks but after 20 years I am pretty used to it.
Back pain sucks! The ex got hurt at work last fall and the doc gave her a ton of muscle relaxers. Any time my back hurts I pop two of them, fire up a xxxx and hurt no more!
My left leg tends to be a gripe from Hades at times.
First thing what set it to being so, in high school I was a distance runner. I ran oh what is it the 16 or 18 hundred meter relay? At any given the match where I ran it had a notoriously bad track. It was asphalt covered with six layers of bouncy AstroTurf. Well, it had a pothole in it, gee golly guess I had to run right into that, wrenched the leg. Never treated it.
Second, I fell about 20-30 FT down the side of an old hickory tree, right down unto the ground and bashing that leg. Rolled on that leg another twenty FT down a rough hill. Got up hiked out two miles and never treated. I had thought I had heard a mountain lion/bob cat, ergo had scurried too quickly out of a tree stand, missed wood ladder rungs nailed into the tree.
Third I was holding my wife and dipped her back. We went off balance and I turned a full 180 degrees to catch her from hitting a wall. My left knee cracked on a solid oak bed post. I recall hearing her keep asking, "can you get up?" Of course, yes, I had to get up. I likely broke the knee but never did get it looked at to know for sure. I just went on.
Now, well about last year or so, ... the GP tells me I've gotten osteoarthritis. Further injury comes when she tells me like it or not I'm doing the same as everyone else, "getting old."
I think we need to go find us a new Wendy and get a new shadow sewn onto us, one much younger.
A six hour roast, damn. Bet that puppy is tender
The only time I cook anything that long is when I have the smoker going. Last time I smoked I cooked around 20 lbs of pork roast that was salted and cured for two weeks before cooking. Tasted just like bacon
JuicyLucy
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Me thinks your nacho cheese joke killed the room
That was pretty bad - probably made Cromwell's pain in the back worse too
Eh, got the flexiril here too. I could probably have something else brought to our door just for the asking. Have given it quite a bit of though too. It stays a thought for now. Probably take a sample and hit the floor as long as I've been away from it. Good to hear you get some relief though.
We got a new mattress, one of those weird foamy deals. It is really firm. She tells me I could sleep on a rock. Back feels better for it though. Besides that, a lot of external stresses are well, gone. We do have neighbors to one side of us I think might be finding out how the police enjoy making folks obey the peace. They get a bit too loud, which is what everyone told her to ensure I didn't do. *chuckles* I'm a church mouses, church mouse.
Hear my keyboard clattering? Main concern for me presently is finding something beyond the idiot boxes to do, aside from housework which I stay far too abreast of to keep occupied with for long. Been doing some wire and coils, yet I can only do so much of that, ... until I can figure if I can do some to sell here.
Hm. I might go fetch my comic books in order to database my collection. Started to do that while back but got sidetracked. Figure I could average oh say $5 per book, not sure how many I got but I'm sure it's over 100, night even be 1,000. Hm, even if I just 'yard sale' sell them that could be some good money to get a DIY juice kit set up. I dunno, we'll see. Never can tell with me. *chuckles* Oh look there I go again, better catch myself ...
Eh, got the flexiril here too. I could probably have something else brought to our door just for the asking. Have given it quite a bit of though too. It stays a thought for now. Probably take a sample and hit the floor as long as I've been away from it. Good to hear you get some relief though.
We got a new mattress, one of those weird foamy deals. It is really firm. She tells me I could sleep on a rock. Back feels better for it though. Besides that, a lot of external stresses are well, gone. We do have neighbors to one side of us I think might be finding out how the police enjoy making folks obey the peace. They get a bit too loud, which is what everyone told her to ensure I didn't do. *chuckles* I'm a church mouses, church mouse.
Main concern for me presently is finding something beyond the idiot boxes to do, aside from housework which I stay far too abreast of to keep occupied with for long. Been doing some wire and coils, yet I can only do so much of that, ... until I can figure if I can do some to sell here.
Hm. I might go fetch my comic books in order to database my collection. Started to do that while back but got sidetracked. Figure I could average oh say $5 per book, not sure how many I got but I'm sure it's over 100, night even be 1,000. Hm, even if I just 'yard sale' sell them that could be some good money to get a DIY juice kit set up. I dunno, we'll see. Never can tell with me. *chuckles* Oh look there I go again, better catch myself ...
If comic books went for $5, then I have a couple million siting here
After I flooded last year I threw away probably close to 15K comic books that went underwater. Luckily my older ones from the 70's and 80's survived.
Brainz liquefying?Man - woke up with all facial orifices leaking something - even my eyeballs
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A reassuring diagnosis
For a minute there I thought I might be coming down with a darn cold
If comic books went for $5, then I have a couple million siting here
Well, yes, I have a bunch like that 70's & 80's. A bulk of the collection is Marvel X-Men, which with the ones I've got even in simply "good" condition, could warrant around an average of $5 per book.
Like with anything from Tupperware to Avon bottles, kind of relies on "having a market", though. If I could afford to database them all and get them independently graded it would help ensure having a market. Been considering kind of pulling a foot's down and let the wife "afford" a trip down toward Charleston to get that.
You might laugh but I think between us we can at least see there is "something" to comic books. Granted I'm not going to promise anybody huge fortunes,but maybe a modest windfall? If nothing else it might be a little mad money when there's no money, something being better than nothing.
Turning into a
, I bet. That also explains the earthquake. You lot, zombies, were all coming to surface and shoved the ground around. I'll go sacrifice a few virgin goats now and hide all my extra peanut butter stash. I know you'll not come for me because I long ago took my brain, zombie food, out and lost it but good. Still, can't have you eating my peanut butter. I need it as rat bait for when you guys destroy our power lines and other infrastructure which can cripple our local grocer's markets. Why rats? Two fold reasoning actually, protein source, and it'll help curb the Black Death being spread. I'll feast on rats to avoid the Catholics killing cats as they did the first big time around, claimed cats were from the devil and spread the Plague. Got to enjoy the simple minded reasoning of grand Church sometimes.
super dose vitamin C
ignore dosage on pack, take 10,000 mg a day until cured
you can't OD it, you just pee out any excess
i know i sound like a whinging MIL, but it does work [brandy helps feel better until it works]
have heard super dosing echinacea works too, but i have not tried that
a mate of mine died of the flu last august [winter] don't mess around
Where do you live? For it being that hot?
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Oh geez that sucks!Man - woke up with all facial orifices leaking something - even my eyeballs
GFY all. Happy Monday
melbourne, australia
i think yanks kinda say "mel-booorrrrnnneee"
it's more "mellbin"
You know, Australia is the number one place I'd love to visit. Met some Aussies in New Orleans at the World's fair in 1984 and have wanted to visit ever since.
super dose vitamin C
ignore dosage on pack, take 10,000 mg a day until cured
you can't OD it, you just pee out any excess
i know i sound like a whinging MIL, but it does work [brandy helps feel better until it works]
have heard super dosing echinacea works too, but i have not tried that
a mate of mine died of the flu last august [winter] don't mess around
Oddly I know a doctor what says vitamin C is the cure for h*roin addiction as well. Always interesting to note the various odd correlations stuff has to bear.
Morning fugee's
Yesterday was the ex's B-day so went over to her place last night, grilled a couple steaks and then puppynapped my boy when she wasnt looking. Now Rascal is like a fungus glued to me side
Life is good
And GFY yall
Yesterday was the ex's B-day so went over to her place last night, grilled a couple steaks and then puppynapped my boy when she wasnt looking.
Now Rascal is like a fungus glued to me side Life is good
And GFY yall
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Just think a matching mech mod for that 40 MM atty.
And with a .015 coil you should hit close to 600 watts
Just think a matching mech mod for that 40 MM atty.
And with a .015 coil you should hit close to 600 watts
how's the man flu?
@The Cromwell What's the best build to put in a Wasp Nano? I was gifted one.
Lunch time flyby...
Hey everyone! Reading here so I've been keeping up. Working 7 days last week has zapped me. Off to work later.
@JuicyLucy I hope you're feeling better today!
Hey everyone! Reading here so I've been keeping up. Working 7 days last week has zapped me.
Off to work later. @JuicyLucy I hope you're feeling better today!
I put a 10 turn 26 ga SS316l 3mm id paralell coil in mine.
Non parallel works too but the parallel is better to me.
Some like claptons and such in there.
2.5mm ID in your chosen wire.
Parallel thinnish for mech. Thin clapton with very thin outer wrap single coil for regulated.
IMO
Thanks! I'm thinking of twisting some 26 ga Kanthal and using that to build a coil. Probably tomorrow though. And by parallel you wound 2 strands together right?
Thanks!
Parallel is more alongside. Like twisted without the twisting.
The two strands heat each other up, giving faster ramp up than duals
Thanks again! I'm fairly new to stuff like this.
Yep twist one ends of the wire tightly together with pliers.
Then wrap both at the same time without crossing.
then twist the other end together.
2 pairs of small pliers work best for the twisting.
No reason twisted wire would not work fine as well.
Thanks! I've been googling parallel coils. At least now I know what I'm looking at!
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Lunch time flyby...
Hey everyone! Reading here so I've been keeping up. Working 7 days last week has zapped me.
@JuicyLucy I hope you're feeling better today!
Doing good - and hope you are too
Good! I'm doing not bad, just tired.Doing good - and hope you are too
JuicyLucy
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I'm doing pretty well considering how sick everyone around me has been
Glad I was juicing all week, think that has kept it from rampaging through my system as hard as some
The coil I make.Thanks! I've been googling parallel coils. At least now I know what I'm looking at!
I take 2 wraps off of a standard sized spool of wire.
Put the 2 ends together hold with one pair of pliers and twist the ends together with another pair.
The pull the loop out and straighten it and make it 2 wires side by side.
Then I put the twisted end in the coilmaster wrapping tool and wrap by hand.
When I get the wraps I want on there I grab the wires with pliers up against the coilmaster rod and then twist them together with another pair of pliers.
Kiinda wish I was good at making videos.
Boden from ECF did this vid. except for the weird rod and the heating it is how I make parallel coils.
so far so good this winter. Just a bit of sinus trouble but no real colds or flu so far.
Had some kind of not too bad bug a while back...
From Grandkids I suspect.
Jinxed myself!
Thanks! I’ll look at it when I’m get home from work.
I tried to take one and the GD weiner dog kept aggravating me.
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Very grateful I don't own a weiner dog
They are aggravating little shits.
And the wife has been like a kid who wanted a weiner dog on this one too.
'Well it is OUR dog dog so you do most of the taking care of it'.
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Nope at least it has the decency to shit in the floor.Does it *GASP*on the lawn???
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