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Maybe because it is Saturday night, they are out on the town, or whatever it was we used to do 30-40 years ago...
Sigh.
Sigh.
Freezing fog all day long (weather guessers said it would be gone by 10 AM... HA!). Had to drive over to a neighboring ranch and get a bunch of wheat for the chickens, then unload it in my garage, but other than that, didn't work too hard. Seems like each and every day feels like I am working harder, but I'm not, so I really have no good excuse for all my pains. Guess I really am becoming an old phart...
That's the part I really don't like. I'd like to roll the
That's the sad part for me... both of my knees are titanium. Total knee replacement both legs. So the joints might be super strong, but the cartilage and ligaments ain't worth a shit and I still have braces to wear on the outside, so what was the point of those surgeries?
I hear ya on that both of mine are bone on bone and i tore something inside one of them but I sure don't have the money for "my part" of the payment, so I just keep on wearing my brace. Now that I hear how your's turned out I am wondering if I should ever have them replaced. Anyway i have a fight going on inside me already.
Well, I do have to share a moment of honesty... if I hadn't had the damn things replaced, I would have been in a wheelchair many years ago. The maniscus (cartilage pad in the knee joint between upper and lower leg bones) in both legs was totally smashed to pulp and the bones were grinding each other into crumbles, making every step extremely painful. There is an article about this in the Path to Health newsletters, but that was about how I beat it back in 2004/5. That "win" was fairly short term, however, because the damage was done and that stuff is incapable of repairing itself once you have abused it into oblivion. So, to be honest, those surgeries have kept me out of the wheelchair for the past 8-10 years, but other things are coming apart at the seams now and I am turning into a really grumpy old curmudgeon. To roll the calendar backward, then apply the old saying "If I had known then what I know now..." Yes, I probably would have fucked myself up anyhow. Young people think they are invincible, and I was no damn different. Not only did I physically abuse myself (when you climb the mountain, sometimes you fall off it too), but I ruined my system by eating all the wrong foods -- foods that destroy you from the inside. Some of that is fixable; some is not. Oh well...
Well, old man, it 1:20 AM where you live and just after midnight here. Teddy is waiting for me to quit playing with the computer and go to bed. I am sure this old body would likely be much less painful if I were to lay it out flat, so I think I'm gonna do just that. Talk to you tomorrow.
Been a bit so I wanted to stop in and say hello, good morning and good night.
Cable repair person on Sunday morning?
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Yup, pretty surprised myself.
They confirmed yesterday afternoon and supposed to be here between 9 and 10 this AM
That's awesome. I had no idea they did service calls on Sundays.
Talk about huge gonads...
No no no, Chod, those are now known as "the imminent contact sensor array."
Of course, in astronomy terminology, this particular unit would be known as a "very large array."
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Deep in the heart of Taxes.
My refund might help pay my huge medical deductible this year.
Evening Jimi, Sandi.
Looks like most of the gang is here tonight. And Sandi lobbed the first biscuits?
Biscuit? if it came my way the wicked weiner dog got it.
Oh oh... Doesn't your dog only eat the cooked ones? Sandi, did you cook those biscuits?
The frozen ones just take him longer.
It likes anything it even thinks that people like.
Well except olives and I agree with it on that.
Well, Crom, if neither you nor the Weenie dawg will eat those olives, you can throw them in my direction. What doesn't land in my mouth, I'll save for the next homemade pizza...
The only problem I have with them is they are about a zillion calories each. Sigh...
Olives are a no carb thing for me cause I will NOT eat one.
Horrible things.
I can handle olive oil (if Popeye does not object).
But Olives are horrible.
Horrible things.
I can handle olive oil (if Popeye does not object).
But Olives are horrible.
Somehow I doubt that Popeye would even notice you were handling Olive Oil -- he's too busy groping his Spinach.
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The lights are flickering every now and then. The weather guessers claim we are gonna have a blizzard tomorrow and the wind outside is already gusting around 50 mph, so if I just disappear without answering tonight, you now know why...
Good luck on the Blizzard Rich.
Maybe it won't be so cold that the cat will not start?
Maybe it won't be so cold that the cat will not start?
I'm hoping the snow accumulation won't be too much this time around (hard to type with my fingers crossed), but Tuesday morning, Teddy has an appointment at the Vet in Sturgis to have his "imminent contact sensor array" removed and the forecast says this blizzard BS won't subside until noonish, so he might have to have his neutering rescheduled. Sure would be nice if Spring would hurry up and get here...
With 50 MPH winds it might not even snow there but all blow down on you from ND?
That is where it is coming from. The occluded frontal system already passed (we had freezing drizzle all day) and the low pressure center is up near the ND-Canada border and the winds are wrapping around it very tightly, so any further precipitation (like snow) will be what whips around the low and comes down the back side. At first they said we'd get 8-12"with 70 mph gusts and changed that to 5-8" and now it seems to be only 3-5", but the wind might take down the power lines and blowing snow might preclude me driving the 80 miles to the vet. Sigh...
Probably from the same system that is moving eastward across ND right now. It should run across MN and into WI and, given your location, will appear to be coming from the NW.
Anyway, nite nite Sandi. Hope whatever snow hits you tomorrow isn't too bad.
Anyway, nite nite Sandi. Hope whatever snow hits you tomorrow isn't too bad.
Evening Robert
Night Sandi see you tomorrow my friend
Good luck with the blood test tomorrow, Jimi. Anything in particular they are looking for?
I go every month to track my psa I have to wait around for an hour or so to find out but I need to keep an eye on it.
And thanks
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