In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Just got some quotes for my car today. Much cheaper than I thought things would be for a change.
4 new tires installed for 265 bucks, and a new windshield installed for only $135. Looks like I should be able to get both of them done early in August. After that, all I need to do is get new front breaks and get myself a burner phone for emergencies and I should be able to have relatively stress free driving to work this winter compared to last winter. :)
Now that I won't leak oil all over their parking lot I'm going to call my step-sis about starting the work on my teeth too. Get this cesspool cleaned up and I'm hoping that along with all the other changes in lifestyle and improvements in my health that I'll be feeling even better once that's done.
Then I start saving for my new furnace and central air, the gutters and fixing my back porch. Once that's all done, hopefully by the end of next summer, I can start saving for a new car and at that point I might actually be able to start enjoying a little bit of fun money for the first time since what seems like forever ago....
Well.... I might indulge on black friday. My old man just got a 4k 50" TV for 269 bucks on Prime day a little while ago. I had no idea TVs were getting that cheap. It'll probably pay for itself in 5 years with how much less energy it would use compared to my old projection TV that I'm still rocking. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I wish you all the best with all your plans Jack. 
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No smoke in the air today but the moon was orange last night when I saw it.
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I smell smoke here too, but I'm not sure where it's coming from since the nearest "big" fire is in the opposite direction.
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This is just too gross not to share, but if you're easily disgusted don't bother. It has to do with my sinus stent
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So apparently the doctor didn't remove "the stent", he just removed a kind of "pin" that held it together. I have been told to rinse, rinse, rinse my nose, and the usual procedure is to tip your head sideways and squirt saline solution into the upper nostril so that it drains out the lower nostril. But that just didn't seem to be doing the trick for me, so I squirted the saline solution into the LOWER nostril and held the syringe in place so that the sinuses and nostril fill up with water, and counted off sixty seconds to give the saline a chance to "work". Well, right after I did that and blew my nose, the rest of the stent came out. It was like nothing so much as a 1/4" dia tube made of "mesh" which was made of something like small fish-bones. Dissolvable, see? Some kind of synthetic collagen or something. I won't go on with a further description because it's gross and disgusting except to say that the mesh was apparently serving as a medium for some kind of nasty bacterium, but to see something like that come out of my nose was just ... well, I've never seen anything like it before and likely will never see anything like that again. So, if YOU ever have a sinus passage stent, you'll know what to do ... and what to expect!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Getting old ain't for p*%#@$s.... that's for sure.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Getting old ain't for p*%#@$s.... that's for sure.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That is the truth.
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My so-much brighter-than-myself sister has a hi-larious way of looking at getting old. She calls it the "stages of conversation". When you're young, you talk about school and people of the opposite (or sometimes the same) sex.
When you get married it's the kids. The house. The kids.
As you get older, it starts to be about your health issues. Your aches and pains, the medicine you take, maybe even the procedures that you've had, and your friend's health.
At some point, you start talking about your friends and family who died. My sis, she does this great Polish babcia (grandma) imitation ...You know Stella on the Nort Side? The one whose daughter left for Chicago? Yeh, yeh, the one who married that nice man from Cincinnati? Well, she died...
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What I noticed is that as I get older, my bedtime ritual gets longer and longer. It used to be that I'd shower, plop into bed, sleep like a log and wake up refreshed. Now, I have to take a shower, put steroid cream on my many many skin inflammations, take my pills ... for heartburn and blood pressure and aspirin for arthritis, brush my teeth, rinse and spray my nose and put on a nose strip so I can BREATHE at night ... set the AC to a temperature that I can tolerate, and MAYBE I'll sleep for all of 5 hours at a stretch, if I'm lucky!
So there you are, SIX! That's life when you get over 65-ish!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My so-much brighter-than-myself sister has a hi-larious way of looking at getting old. She calls it the "stages of conversation". When you're young, you talk about school and people of the opposite (or sometimes the same) sex.
When you get married it's the kids. The house. The kids.
As you get older, it starts to be about your health issues. Your aches and pains, the medicine you take, maybe even the procedures that you've had, and your friend's health.
At some point, you start talking about your friends and family who died. My sis, she does this great Polish babcia (grandma) imitation ...You know Stella on the Nort Side? The one whose daughter left for Chicago? Yeh, yeh, the one who married that nice man from Cincinnati? Well, she died...
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What I noticed is that as I get older, my bedtime ritual gets longer and longer. It used to be that I'd shower, plop into bed, sleep like a log and wake up refreshed. Now, I have to take a shower, put steroid cream on my many many skin inflammations, take my pills ... for heartburn and blood pressure and aspirin for arthritis, brush my teeth, rinse and spray my nose and put on a nose strip so I can BREATHE at night ... set the AC to a temperature that I can tolerate, and MAYBE I'll sleep for all of 5 hours at a stretch, if I'm lucky!
So there you are, SIX! That's life when you get over 65-ish!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
I hear ya Sig. That's the way it is with the ladies who I play mah jong with. Grandchildren, children and aches and pains.
My late evening routine is take my seizure meds, wait an hour have a snack, get up around midnight to head to bed. First stop is brush my teeth, attend to other things, get into bed and try to get some sleep. I can usually manage 8hours but sometimes it is less.
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Didn't notice removing a hunk of skin from my left elbow on Thursday when I was at work. Didn't feel it until I went to bed that night.
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