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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 7:11:48 GMT -5
By 10am this morning after 3.5 days of continuous and/or jolting pain I finally got a brake. Euphoric is the best description. It has been a heck of a way to go on a diet ! Looking frail and about 10 years older. No worries, will get back to working order as soon as able. Please continue your prayers Ashley as I am improving. Another week or two. Thank you. James, glad you're starting to feel better. Selfie on the way soon? Thanks Rick. I may wait on the selfie assuming I look like I feel. I did made it down to the basement yesterday. It only took 10 minutes ! Oh what the heck:  |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 16, 2022 7:18:08 GMT -5
"Oh...and I think we had the same type of lifestyle "back in the day"!  " That comes as no surprise. I'm sure you were accomplished Jason. Ever notice how a wife will put a stop to that activity ? Negotiating kitchen passes ain't no fun ! I'm not joking in the least when I say I'm surprised I made it past thirty! LOL Yeah...I'll admit she's made me a better person...or more the case of she's made me WANT to be a better person. I'm still a work in progress.  |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 7:41:03 GMT -5
South Dakota must have great water or good air. Jason's a special dude. World could use a bunch just like him. By the way I was sorting thru the glass arrowheads and thinking about getting the glass shop going in the new basement. Tons of unused space and new receptacles. Lots of new shelving. Really a cool space for the glass shop. Let me go down there and take a photo or two. Done We really only needed the basement to increase the first floor size. So it sits unused... I did have presence of mind to have the contractors build the store bought shelves and install 48" led lighting. and the electrician to install needed 50 and 60 amp receptacles. Needs tables/benches... The 1st spot was in a small dark dungeon. The first order of business will be casting the 6" x 2" x 11" bricks which would convert the large amount of 30" x 30" x 1/8" glass plates into sawable entities for most any application. Best done during cold season for keeping house heated !   What a great space for a studio/shop! Bet is stays cool down there in the summer. I'm kind of surprised Denise hasn't claimed already it for her studio.  If Denise goes to the basement now and finds out how cool it is in these dog days she may do a takeover Robin. It's a bit of a hike due to the steep trail. That would discourage her. Get her kiln setup and she will be down there ! She has the talent to make the fine cabs and pendants. I hope I wrote down the kiln program settings for casting the glass. Others have tried casting bricks with the US glass brands Spectrum and Bullseye but are having fractures at cool down. The US stuff gave me the same problems. This China made glass casts with no fractures. Much user friendly but no longer available. Some of the old bricks were left outside in the weather subject to freeze and still have not had a single crack. I was hoping someone else would start casting. Others can do plates but they are boring compared to pot melt bricks. I doubt I used 2% of the glass. I hauled about 2 tons of the China made glass in about 20 colors and it's sitting there waiting. |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 7:43:24 GMT -5
"Oh...and I think we had the same type of lifestyle "back in the day"! " That comes as no surprise. I'm sure you were accomplished Jason. Ever notice how a wife will put a stop to that activity ? Negotiating kitchen passes ain't no fun ! I'm not joking in the least when I say I'm surprised I made it past thirty! LOL Yeah...I'll admit she's made me a better person...or more the case of she's made me WANT to be a better person. I'm still a work in progress. I was curious if you had retired ! Or just getting started lol. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 16, 2022 7:53:06 GMT -5
I'm not joking in the least when I say I'm surprised I made it past thirty! LOL Yeah...I'll admit she's made me a better person...or more the case of she's made me WANT to be a better person. I'm still a work in progress. I was curious if you had retired ! Or just getting started lol. I've realized it takes WAY too long to heal nowadays (as I'm sure you can relate at the moment! ) to be standing toe-to-toe with someone...unless it REALLY requires it! LOL I've worked on allowing my fuse to be a LOT longer than it once was... |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 9:03:39 GMT -5
I was curious if you had retired ! Or just getting started lol. I've realized it takes WAY too long to heal nowadays (as I'm sure you can relate at the moment! ) to be standing toe-to-toe with someone...unless it REALLY requires it! LOL I've worked on allowing my fuse to be a LOT longer than it once was... Well done since anger is a dead end road. It is probably time to lengthen your fuse if you received your PHD in anger management    Jason, did you force law enforcement to invent that course ? Is there a thread on RTH titled "My craziest experiences" ? Bet there are some seriously crazy ones with this big bunch. |
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Post by liveoak on Jul 16, 2022 10:05:36 GMT -5
Is there a thread on RTH titled "My craziest experiences" ? Bet there are some seriously crazy ones with this big bunch. First on the new list- How I survived rolling my tractor down the hill
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 10:42:59 GMT -5
Is there a thread on RTH titled "My craziest experiences" ? Bet there are some seriously crazy ones with this big bunch. First on the new list- How I survived rolling my tractor down the hill Patty
Willing to bet there is a long list of similar close calls Patty. And many that went way further south. Can you believe I had a nightmare involving a tractor yesterday ? |
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Post by liveoak on Jul 16, 2022 10:50:23 GMT -5
Can you believe I had a nightmare involving a tractor yesterday ? I can believe that - crawling from the wreckage like that would definitely give me nightmares !
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 11:49:29 GMT -5
Can you believe I had a nightmare involving a tractor yesterday ? I can believe that - crawling from the wreckage like that would definitely give me nightmares ! Patty
Denise went over and took some close up photos of the steering system and the exhaust manifold. They both appear undamaged ! Those two items are probably not available any longer and render the whole thing junk. I hope to never change the engine(2 gallons) and hydraulic oil(8 gallons) that way again ! The 45 minute bath in hot oil pouring out on my privates wasn't pleasant either but it did motivate and lubricate the escape |
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Post by liveoak on Jul 16, 2022 12:48:47 GMT -5
Sounds sell-able-
"As is, where is, bring wrecker " 
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 16, 2022 16:01:38 GMT -5
I've realized it takes WAY too long to heal nowadays (as I'm sure you can relate at the moment! ) to be standing toe-to-toe with someone...unless it REALLY requires it! LOL I've worked on allowing my fuse to be a LOT longer than it once was... Well done since anger is a dead end road. It is probably time to lengthen your fuse if you received your PHD in anger management  Jason, did you force law enforcement to invent that course ? Is there a thread on RTH titled "My craziest experiences" ? Bet there are some seriously crazy ones with this big bunch. I never thought I had an anger management issue...other people did! LOL - I always thought of it as an "irritability with idiocy" issue. So, the key for me was to figure out patience...most times it works...other times it's a bit more difficult! LOL You know...I would love to read some of the "experiences" of other people. However, I'd have to check on some statute of limitation issues prior to me posing anything other than "hypothetical" situations! (Okay...not really THAT bad! LOL) I can believe that - crawling from the wreckage like that would definitely give me nightmares ! Patty
Denise went over and took some close up photos of the steering system and the exhaust manifold. They both appear undamaged ! Those two items are probably not available any longer and render the whole thing junk. I hope to never change the engine(2 gallons) and hydraulic oil(8 gallons) that way again ! The 45 minute bath in hot oil pouring out on my privates wasn't pleasant either but it did motivate and lubricate the escape WOW! I would not have guessed that steering system was undamaged!! That's awesome news if that's the case!! Ummm...there's a lot less painful ways to get a Brazilian Wax...just sayin'! LOL (Although, I've never had one...so I really don't know if it's less painful or not! LOL) |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 18:31:33 GMT -5
Sounds sell-able-
"As is, where is, bring wrecker " Patty
If it could be made to run it could be sold for 3 to 5 thousand. It is a logical route. The as is/where is works as well, just less money. It's yours for 1000 |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 16, 2022 18:58:02 GMT -5
Oh yea, the statute of limitations jasoninsd. That detail may limit the tales. Lots of fun to be had without going into the felonious zone but the 'fun' was usually had at someone else's misfortune. Had you ever heard of a book titled 'Steal This Book' ? Probably came out around 1969. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 16, 2022 20:15:33 GMT -5
Oh yea, the statute of limitations jasoninsd . That detail may limit the tales. Lots of fun to be had without going into the felonious zone but the 'fun' was usually had at someone else's misfortune. Had you ever heard of a book titled 'Steal This Book' ? Probably came out around 1969. I've heard the name of the title "Steal This BooK", but never knew anything about it. I just Googled it. That's one that would probably be a very interesting read... |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 17, 2022 4:46:21 GMT -5
I don't know why I bought that book up jasoninsd other than it's devious nature. It is actually a bad book that describes some rather evil terrorist info but it does have some great ideas on some more innocent ways to be devious. As kids we were had some overly creative pranks. My buddy and I used to initiate pranks on high school bullies from the wealthy side of the tracks. That way we felt justified since they usually deserved what they got. Being a prankster sort of stayed with me just to keep life on the fun side. I attended a highschool divided by the rich hood and a(my)poor hood. Lots of bullies and rich brats at that school. My older sister(senior in high school) had a boyfriend that used to pick on me and buddy neighbor Cliff. We had to do him, we despised him. So we tied threads to telephone lines(in a subdivision) every 200 to 300 yards up the street and tied them to telephone poles with eggs taped to them at early dark. About midnight Fri/Sat when he was bringing her home(loud mufflers and could be heard far off) we would swing the eggs out at windshield height quickly on our 10 speeds. He would hit the first egg and stop and get out to find the kid that threw the egg. We would already be up at the next egg yelling 'come get us !'. He'd burn rubber up the road only to get another egg on his windshield. While he was screeching up and out of his car trying to find the culprit we had already run thru the woods to the third egg yelling 'come get us !'. He's really mad by now. By then you knew he was going to KILL us if he caught us. The first time he hit a total of 4 eggs lol. We mastered this technique and it became one way of targeting the arrogant upperclassmen on their date night that harassed us. They lived in our neighborhood and we knew their patterns. Of course we would provoke these guys a bit at school to get them on our bad side lol. It wasn't any fun unless the prank was played on older bullies and jerks. Sort of a Robinhood thing. We graduated to other(mostly juvenile) night time pranks like dumping a 5 gallon bucket of pea gravel at the right drive wheel track at a steeply sloped intersection forcing the tires to spin giving enough time to throw eggs and escape via a preplanned escape route. Seemed cowardly but we felt justified by the risk of them catching us. Maybe karma is catching up ! |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 17, 2022 10:06:54 GMT -5
I don't know why I bought that book up jasoninsd other than it's devious nature. It is actually a bad book that describes some rather evil terrorist info but it does have some great ideas on some more innocent ways to be devious. As kids we were had some overly creative pranks. My buddy and I used to initiate pranks on high school bullies from the wealthy side of the tracks. That way we felt justified since they usually deserved what they got. Being a prankster sort of stayed with me just to keep life on the fun side. I attended a highschool divided by the rich hood and a(my)poor hood. Lots of bullies and rich brats at that school. My older sister(senior in high school) had a boyfriend that used to pick on me and buddy neighbor Cliff. We had to do him, we despised him. So we tied threads to telephone lines(in a subdivision) every 200 to 300 yards up the street and tied them to telephone poles with eggs taped to them at early dark. About midnight Fri/Sat when he was bringing her home(loud mufflers and could be heard far off) we would swing the eggs out at windshield height quickly on our 10 speeds. He would hit the first egg and stop and get out to find the kid that threw the egg. We would already be up at the next egg yelling 'come get us !'. He'd burn rubber up the road only to get another egg on his windshield. While he was screeching up and out of his car trying to find the culprit we had already run thru the woods to the third egg yelling 'come get us !'. He's really mad by now. By then you knew he was going to KILL us if he caught us. The first time he hit a total of 4 eggs lol. We mastered this technique and it became one way of targeting the arrogant upperclassmen on their date night that harassed us. They lived in our neighborhood and we knew their patterns. Of course we would provoke these guys a bit at school to get them on our bad side lol. It wasn't any fun unless the prank was played on older bullies and jerks. Sort of a Robinhood thing. We graduated to other(mostly juvenile) night time pranks like dumping a 5 gallon bucket of pea gravel at the right drive wheel track at a steeply sloped intersection forcing the tires to spin giving enough time to throw eggs and escape via a preplanned escape route. Seemed cowardly but we felt justified by the risk of them catching us. Maybe karma is catching up ! I'm not gonna lie...I wasn't sure where we were going with that book...so I was careful about my response! Now I get where we were going with it! LOL Here's what's interesting. I was a serious brawler as I got out of high school, into college, during my time in the Army...and for several years afterward. I had NO issue going toe to toe with ANYONE - and I do mean anyone. Some people who knew me, thought I just liked to fight...which was only partially true. Never once...and I can't stress that enough...never once did I start a fight. Don't get me wrong, there were many times where I knew which buttons to push to make the other person start it! The common factor about every single altercation I was ever in...they always involved the other person trying to be a bully in one way or another. I was always short...and always skinny in grade school through high school. Which meant I was an easy target for being picked on or being bullied. When I went to college, I started lifting weights and putting on putting on the pounds...and by the time I went into the Army, I was 5'7" and 175 pounds of muscle able to bench press over 300 pounds. I had decided I was done being or seeing other people being bullied. There's very few things in life that I hate more than seeing/watching someone trying to bully someone else. The vast majority of "scuffles" I got into was from stepping in when I saw someone else being bullied. Did I mention I hate bullies! |
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Post by 1dave on Jul 17, 2022 12:06:17 GMT -5
I don't know why I bought that book up jasoninsd other than it's devious nature. It is actually a bad book that describes some rather evil terrorist info but it does have some great ideas on some more innocent ways to be devious. As kids we were had some overly creative pranks. My buddy and I used to initiate pranks on high school bullies from the wealthy side of the tracks. That way we felt justified since they usually deserved what they got. Being a prankster sort of stayed with me just to keep life on the fun side. I attended a highschool divided by the rich hood and a(my)poor hood. Lots of bullies and rich brats at that school. My older sister(senior in high school) had a boyfriend that used to pick on me and buddy neighbor Cliff. We had to do him, we despised him. So we tied threads to telephone lines(in a subdivision) every 200 to 300 yards up the street and tied them to telephone poles with eggs taped to them at early dark. About midnight Fri/Sat when he was bringing her home(loud mufflers and could be heard far off) we would swing the eggs out at windshield height quickly on our 10 speeds. He would hit the first egg and stop and get out to find the kid that threw the egg. We would already be up at the next egg yelling 'come get us !'. He'd burn rubber up the road only to get another egg on his windshield. While he was screeching up and out of his car trying to find the culprit we had already run thru the woods to the third egg yelling 'come get us !'. He's really mad by now. By then you knew he was going to KILL us if he caught us. The first time he hit a total of 4 eggs lol. We mastered this technique and it became one way of targeting the arrogant upperclassmen on their date night that harassed us. They lived in our neighborhood and we knew their patterns. Of course we would provoke these guys a bit at school to get them on our bad side lol. It wasn't any fun unless the prank was played on older bullies and jerks. Sort of a Robinhood thing. We graduated to other(mostly juvenile) night time pranks like dumping a 5 gallon bucket of pea gravel at the right drive wheel track at a steeply sloped intersection forcing the tires to spin giving enough time to throw eggs and escape via a preplanned escape route. Seemed cowardly but we felt justified by the risk of them catching us. Maybe karma is catching up ! I'm not gonna lie...I wasn't sure where we were going with that book...so I was careful about my response! Now I get where we were going with it! LOL Here's what's interesting. I was a serious brawler as I got out of high school, into college, during my time in the Army...and for several years afterward. I had NO issue going toe to toe with ANYONE - and I do mean anyone. Some people who knew me, thought I just liked to fight...which was only partially true. Never once...and I can't stress that enough...never once did I start a fight. Don't get me wrong, there were many times where I knew which buttons to push to make the other person start it! The common factor about every single altercation I was ever in...they always involved the other person trying to be a bully in one way or another. I was always short...and always skinny in grade school through high school. Which meant I was an easy target for being picked on or being bullied. When I went to college, I started lifting weights and putting on putting on the pounds...and by the time I went into the Army, I was 5'7" and 175 pounds of muscle able to bench press over 300 pounds. I had decided I was done being or seeing other people being bullied. There's very few things in life that I hate more than seeing/watching someone trying to bully someone else. The vast majority of "scuffles" I got into was from stepping in when I saw someone else being bullied. Did I mention I hate bullies! WHAT MAKES A BULLY? A Bully is a very insecure person who tries to make himself "SPECIAL" by putting other people down in any number of ways - physical, mental, sexual, . . . The bully first converts the target into some kind of cartoon in their minds, then tries to get others to accept the cartoon version. Once that is accomplished the target is fair game to be attacked at will. The bully depends on US to allow him to become special. Unfortunately the only way I know of to stop a bully is to really DRUB them at whatever they are doing. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 17, 2022 12:39:56 GMT -5
I'm not gonna lie...I wasn't sure where we were going with that book...so I was careful about my response! Now I get where we were going with it! LOL Here's what's interesting. I was a serious brawler as I got out of high school, into college, during my time in the Army...and for several years afterward. I had NO issue going toe to toe with ANYONE - and I do mean anyone. Some people who knew me, thought I just liked to fight...which was only partially true. Never once...and I can't stress that enough...never once did I start a fight. Don't get me wrong, there were many times where I knew which buttons to push to make the other person start it! The common factor about every single altercation I was ever in...they always involved the other person trying to be a bully in one way or another. I was always short...and always skinny in grade school through high school. Which meant I was an easy target for being picked on or being bullied. When I went to college, I started lifting weights and putting on putting on the pounds...and by the time I went into the Army, I was 5'7" and 175 pounds of muscle able to bench press over 300 pounds. I had decided I was done being or seeing other people being bullied. There's very few things in life that I hate more than seeing/watching someone trying to bully someone else. The vast majority of "scuffles" I got into was from stepping in when I saw someone else being bullied. Did I mention I hate bullies! WHAT MAKES A BULLY? A Bully is a very insecure person who tries to make himself "SPECIAL" by putting other people down in any number of ways - physical, mental, sexual, . . . The bully first converts the target into some kind of cartoon in their minds, then tries to get others to accept the cartoon version. Once that is accomplished the target is fair game to be attacked at will. The bully depends on US to allow him to become special. Unfortunately the only way I know of to stop a bully is to really DRUB them at whatever they are doing. As I get older, I'm FAR less likely to want to get into a physical altercation with these type of people. However, I find the vast majority of bullies are easy enough to "counter-intimidate" mentally. Most of them are not used to reciprocation - nor are they prepared for retaliation. I get the whole concept of "turning the other cheek"...but for me, it only happens ONCE! I learned a phrase a long time ago, and it wasn't until I just Googled it to learn the source was Al Capone. While he is FAR from someone whose existence I would want to emulate, I can appreciate his quote: “Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.” |
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Post by jamesp on Jul 18, 2022 9:56:51 GMT -5
jasoninsd Short stocky dudes are the ones to avoid. I would not want any of you. Gimmee the big guy ! I am glad that you processed bullies. They are great targets for what you and I gave them. They were done a favor when put in their place. Maybe they did some soul searching...It would be a dream come true to go back thru high school knowing what is known now and having the tools to humiliate every one of them. Especially if they get their butts whipped by a little skinny guy ! Dad told me to strike the biggest badest bullying bully and pay the price afterward. At least other bullies were aware they were in for a fight if they picked on you. When that tractor started to roll past the tip zone I knew I was getting ready to experience a far superior opponent ! Thank God I slipped out of harm's way.
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