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moisturizing scorched grooves is *always* a good idea. Slapplication method to be negotiated between the groove owner and the moisturizerer.

Wow Jim. What a thing to go through. Sorry for your loss, I hope your family finds peace soon.

(I know this is late, but I just saw your post)

So sorry to hear of your loss. You were there for him, did everything you could ... a last gift. Thank you for sharing something so important.

Shoot, Jim, only just read that.
Since Grandad died I have wished I could read more accounts of people present when relatives stopped living.

I'm so glad I was there when Grandad died.
Because he would have died anyway and I just feel better that I was at his side.
In fact I told him to "Go home" because of his strong Catholic faith, and Mum and my sister (also Catholic) found this really comforting. He died about 15 minutes after that. I doubt he'd really heard any of us for at least 12 hours, but if it helped Mum & Law...

It helps me to process my own ambivilant feelings when I read about other people present at death when it was both expected and yet the loss was felt. Thanks for sharing.

Damn, I'd intended to post about this when I was back at my comp (I was reading on iphone) then totally forgot.

Jim, honey, what a thing to go through. I really appreciate you sharing your experience.

I've been present at one death, my Dad, but it was entirely expected, with us around his bed, expected right then and there. I've also seen a colleague have a massive heart attack and fall down to the floor, never to regain consciousness, and died in the ambulance. He was midway through speaking to me at the moment his expression changed. Looking right at me.

Neither of those experiences are entirely like yours, but I feel like I can make the mental leap to what that might have been like because of them.

*hugs*

We don't talk enough about dying in western culture. I mean, we talk about fear of dying, we talk about rates of death and we talk about disease trajectories, but we don't as a culture talk about death and dying very much at all until something hits us between the eyes.

I think it's a good thing that these experiences are shared.

My groove is scorched by Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, et all.

Listening to the lies fall from their lips makes me sick and angry. I'm all for free speech, yup, even lying. But I believe it's wrong to try to persuade by being so... enthusiastically and hyperbolically misleading. From Rush today: "... the biggest tax increase in the history of the world! .... (moments later) .... and the tax will be paid to insurance companies!" It's not a tax increase. And if it is a tax increase, taxes are not paid to private companies. I have heard a couple hours of this kind of fearmongering and lying. The maddening part is that lots of people are moved by this shit. A couple more examples:

"The Supreme Court has affirmed the limitless power of the federal government today."

"Obamacare is not about improving heathcare, it's about the limitless expansion of the federal government and the behavioral control of the American people."

"The American people know they're not going to be able to keep their doctor. It won't be long until the only place you can go for health care is the government."

"The court has now said it is constitutional for a tax on more than one child."

"Many more than 20 million people will lose their healthcare."

I can't stand this shit.

Mitt Romney's no better. I listened to his response to he made regarding the decision from the Supreme Court. In this case I have the transcript and I take issue with many of the things he said.

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Originally Posted by Mitt Romney

“As you might imagine I disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision, and I agree with the dissent, what the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected President of t he United States, and that is I will act to repel Obama Care. Lets be clear about what the court did and did not do. The court said that Obama care does not violate the Constitution. What they did not do was say Obama-care was a good law or its good policy, Obama care is bad policy yesterday, its bad policy today.

Obama care was bad law yesterday, it’s bad law today. Let me tell why I said that, Obama care raises taxes on the American people by approximately 500 billion dollars, Obamacare cuts medicare, cuts medicare by approximately 500 billion dollars and even with those cuts and tax increases, Obama care raises billions to our national debt and pushes obligation the oncoming generations. Obamacare also means for up to 20 million Americans they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and want to keep.

Obamacare is a job killer, businesses across the country have been asked what they think of Obama care, 3 quarters of those survived [surveyed, -- bigv] by the chamber of commerce said Obamacare makes it less likely for them to hire people. And perhaps most troubling of all, Obamacare puts you between the Federal government and your doctor. For all those reasons its important for us to repeal and replace Obamacare. What are some of the things we will keep in place? And must be in place for a reform, a real reform of the healthcare system. One we have to make sure people who want to keep their current insurance will be able to do so. Having 20 million people, up to that number of people, lose the insurance they want is simply unacceptable.

Number two, we’ve got to make sure that those people who have preexisting conditions know that they will be able to be insured. And they will not lose their insurance. We also have to assure that we do our very best to help each state in their efforts to assure that every American has access to affordable health care. And something that Obamacare does not do that must be done in real reform is helping lower the cost of health care and health insurance. It’s becoming prohibitively expensive.

And so this is now a time for the American people to make a choice. You can choose whether you want to have a larger and larger government more and more intrusive in your life. Separating you and your doctor. Whether you’re comfortable with more deficits. Higher debt that will be passed onto the coming generations. Whether you’re willing to have the government put in place a plan that potentially causes you to lose the insurance that you like.

Or whether instead you want to return to a time when the American people will have their own choice in health care. Where consumers will be able to make their choices as to what kind of health insurance they want. This is a time of choice for the American people. Our mission is clear. If we want to get rid of Obamacare, we’re going to have to replace President Obama.

My mission is to make sure that we do exactly that. That we return to the American people the privilege they’ve always had that lived their lives that they feel most appropriate. Where we don’t pass onto coming generations massive deficits and debt. Where we don’t have a setting where jobs are lost.

If we want good jobs and bright economic future for ourselves and for our kids, we must replace Obamacare. That is my mission. That is our work. And I’m asking the people of America to join me. If you don’t want the course that President Obama has put us on, if you want instead a course that the founders envisioned, then join me in this effort. Help us. Help us defeat Obamacare. Help us defeat the liberal agenda that makes government too big, too intrusive and is killing jobs across this country. Thank you very much.”

I'd like someone to please explain the grain of truth at the center of these Faux pearls of wisdom, please.

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Originally Posted by Romney

Obamacare also means for up to 20 million Americans they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and want to keep.

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most troubling of all, Obamacare puts you between the Federal government and your doctor.

Howso?

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Number two, we’ve got to make sure that those people who have preexisting conditions know that they will be able to be insured. And they will not lose their insurance. We also have to assure that we do our very best to help each state in their efforts to assure that every American has access to affordable health care.

um... what? what was number one again? And why did you switch scripts to the one that supports the law "those with preexisting conditions should be able to get insurance"? "Assure every american has access to health insurance" ??

Romney makes a standard pitch "you have a choice, this or that. Him or me". I have two problems with this kind of appeal. One, misrepresenting the position of one's opponent is an almost inescapable peril. Second, I can't remember any of these hypothetical propositions that was truly this OR that, exclusively. It produces the opposite of the desired effect in me, it makes this kind of appeal sound like a lie.

Romney does it here like this:

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...the American people to make a choice. You can choose

a larger and larger government
more and more intrusive in your life.
Separation of you and your doctor.
more deficits.
Higher debt
a plan that potentially causes you to lose the insurance that you like.

Or

the American people will have their own choice in health care.
consumers able to make choices re health insurance

Come on. Even Romney can't believe this shit.

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Originally Posted by Romney

If you don’t want the course that President Obama has put us on, if you want instead a course that the founders envisioned

... seriously? The founders wanted to repeal Obamacare?

It makes me ILL.

Fucking stoopid fucking Wimbledon fucking tennis.

There were only two programmes I wanted to watch tonight: the final part of a 3 part docu series (The Men Who Made Us Fat) and regular panel show, Mock the Week. Both on BBC2.

Turned tv on for TMWMUF and the tennis still playing. Checked the radiotimes website and the listing is there, checked my tv's menu listings and suddenly my docu has vanished, and it's wimbers til 10.

Just tried again for Mock the Week and it's still bastard tennis. And MTW has now vanished from the tv menu and its wimbers til 10:30, just in time for 'Coast' a show about the British coastline I don't watch. If indeed that goes out at all.

Fucking hate Wimbledon. Bad enough it takes over BBC 2 for most of it, but the overruns and ever-lasting matches mean even the stuff that's still scheduled ends up being pulled.

Dont even like tennis. Bleh.

Given they're turning off the analogue signal in most areas, and everyone's moving over to freeview digital I really hope next year if the match is overrunning they can shunt the coverage over to one of the dormant bbc channels and leave the scheduled telly alone.

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 817499)

My groove is scorched by Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, et all.
<snip>
Come on. Even Romney can't believe this shit.

It makes me ILL.

V, here's a little balm for your groove today.

The Daily Caller
06/28/2012

Romney website: ‘Mitt will nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts’

Quote:

Conservatives around the country may be regretting Chief Justice John Roberts’ appointment
to the Supreme Court after Thursday’s ruling upholding President Barack Obama’s health care law,
but Mitt Romney‘s campaign website still holds him up as the paradigm of a Supreme Court justice.

“As president, Mitt will nominate judges in the mold of
Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito,”
the “Courts & Constitution” section of Romney’s website
continues to read hours after the decision was handed down.
<snip>
The judges that Mitt nominates will exhibit a genuine appreciation for the text, structure,
and history of our Constitution and interpret the Constitution and the laws as they are written.
And his nominees will possess a demonstrated record of adherence to these core principles.”
<snip>

Some conservatives have ripped Roberts for his vote.
Conservative leader Brent Bozell, for instance,
went as far as to call Roberts “a traitor to his philosophy.”

One of the big lessons we have to drill into Minifob right now is that sometimes other people are wrong, and that's okay. You just have to let them be wrong. I probably say this to him at least 2-3 times a week.

Why can I not practice what I preach?

Ahh, the false belief thing. Has Minfob told any lies yet?

Oh yeah, all the fucking time. He has major problems with losing. Typical of his age, but he will claim in front of 15 witnesses that the ball which hit him square in the chest simply did not do so.

But those pass quickly, he does know in his heart that he's wrong, he's just covering embarrassment. It's the times when he is right that cause the most problems. He gets really irritated if someone is doing or saying something incorrectly and they won't listen to him tell them why they're wrong.

I do know exactly where he gets it. :)

Sort of like your dad telling you your eyes aren't green?

Hey, there you go! It's my dad's fault.

THIS is really scorching my groove today. yesterday too. i was going to go watch lurker and sometimes poster dr. froth play in his band. if i'd of gone? i'd of gone to jail. cops + me = jail. read it. the way that the fucking cops are these days...they suck. (sarge excluded of course.)

The ONLY thing to do when police ask you to remain/detain is to say: a) Am I free to leave? (If so, leave at once.) b) Am I under arrest? On what charges? c) I am exercising my right to remain silent pending legal counsel. (It sounds ridiculous to SAY "I am exercising my right to remain silent", but apparently you have to explicitly say that, as otherwise a judge may decide you didn't exercise this right and were just obstructive.)

Unfortunate second-hand experience.

Not trying to trump anyone with first-hand experience. But after reading the linked article I wonder what would've happened if every patron in the bar had refused to give up their ID and wait for it to be returned? Because this was definitely a breach of the 4th amendment. That said, I know the 4th amendment means squat in a given bar, on a given night. :mad2:

Just curious, why didn't go you to see Dr. Froth play, Fred?

Anyways, I read Dr. Froth's blog. Even before I read his scenarios at McD or Walmart, it did not sound right to me. And when I watched the video, the situation seemed even more ridiculous. You know what? I know cops. :D Love them. They are wonderful people. I'm gonna call the one I'm closer to and ask why this is so. These days I'm usually "I don't give a sh*t," but after watching Dr. Froth's video, I really want to call this cop "friend" of mine and ask him why they do such things.

i didn't go because paul had come home from the hospital that day. wasn't going to leave him here alone.

i know a couple of them too. sarge excluded. they're alright. but when it gets to the point of harassment?

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There is no argument that you can give me that will make me think for ONE FUCKING SECOND that these power-hungry fuckbags had reasonable suspicion that all hundred plus patrons of the bar were about to engage in a criminal act, engaging in criminal acts during the exact moment of the raid, or had just completed the act of evil prior to the arrival of the police.

These things unfortunately happen. I know some good cops too. But I also know that, if I'm ever stopped/detained/whatever, I will NOT say a word. Because everything I say can and will be used against me, and nothing I say will help me.

And cops are a brotherhood (minority sisterhood) and stick by their own, so LB, I doubt you'll get a satisfactory answer from your friend. Sorry.

My power went out 11pm Friday, and came back on 3 hours ago; and now my cable's still out.

That sucks ... I heard DC had the worst of the power outages.

Nothing like south Jersey, and much of it will take days to restore power.

I feel proper hard done to if we lose power for half an hour.

Scorching my groove today is my eczema. Think it's infected again. Only finished the more recent courseof antibiotics 5 or 6 days ago. Which itself was a top up of the previous course.

Waiting on a call back from my doc. Feeling really scritchetty and ill.

I don't have to worry about finding or giving a fuck today, because a perfect clusterfuck found me.

I was supposed to go back to smalltown PA tomorrow, hang out with friends and watch fireworks, then sign papers on Thursday that would make me a free woman, see my financial counselor, and join a pontoon boat party for the weekend.

Then my dad called ... he's having urgent surgery Friday. In Canada. So I buy a last-minute plane ticket and I'm going to be there, leaving as soon as papers are signed Thursday. Well and good. Nervous for him but he needs the surgery.

Then the lawyer, who's just back from vacation, isn't getting back to me - may not have the papers ready Thursday - we may or may not be able to even see him Thursday ... I'm left with a vague promise from the secretary that he'll 'try' to see me/stbx at 8:30 Thursday morning. No promises as to whether the papers will be ready.

Then stbx spends the day texting/calling me, freaking out about money, and telling me his income has dropped hugely this month. There won't be much to share when we split the accounts early next week.

And, as I get home after hours of stbx, I get a call from the friends in smalltown saying plans are screwed, their daughter's flying home a day late so they won't even be in town tomorrow, they're picking her up in the nearest big city. They'll just stay and see the fireworks there, most likely.

So I'm scheduled to drop cats off with son#3 in the morning, I'll arrive in smalltown early afternoon tomorrow, have no one to hang with (everyone has plans by now), spend July 4 alone, go to the lawyer Thurs morning and he won't have the papers ready, fly out to Canada in the afternoon ...

well, I'll be there for my dad. So that's still good. But the rest ...

Damn ortho - that's like a 1/2 dozen murphys all in one post ...
This part though -

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stbx spends the day texting/calling me, freaking out about money, and telling me his income has dropped hugely this month.

I call BS! jus sayin.

Life in general!

Hey, we love your work....here's a contract and a promotion!
......................But, we've hired this girls who's 12 and has no experience, put her on better wages and she has the same position as you.

We are going to give you $1000 back on your tax!
......................Your car is going to cost $1400 to fix

Your power bill is only $400 this quarter!
......................But we didnt charge you correctly last quarter, so you owe us $700!

scorching my groove today (and days gone by and days to come, I'm sure)

"Login with Facebook"

Fuck that. I'm a Facebook hostage. My minimal participation there is because there are people there that I care about that have drunk that particular kool-aid, and the bulk of their current events are noted there.

In my opinion, they've lost sight of the wisdom of this aphorism:

"If you're not the customer, you're the product."

What are you paying for Facebook? Probably nothing. What is Facebook giving you? Facebook itself, probably nothing. Most folks are digging the information provided by others. What is a customer? Someone who pays in exchange for goods or services. You do the math.

Fuck me, V, I soooo relate to that. Every so often I feel compelled to go and check in with people, but within a few visits I've had a bellyfull and don't go back for ages.

What's scorching my groove today: stupid shit that really shouldn't be scorching my groove. Stuff that I know isn't personal but somehow, inexplicably, still feels like that way. Along with other random nonsense.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.

Ugh... bless his heart, but my dad is an idiot.

He has never held a garage sale in his life, and apparently assumed that everything would be magically sold at the end of the day. So he casually mentions to me at 9:00 this morning that he told the new owner she could move in first thing tomorrow, since of course we'd be completely out by then.

FFFFFUUUUUUUU---

I call the realtor to get the new owner's number.
I call the new owner and she says yes, she was indeed planning on starting tomorrow. I warn her that all is not in fact well, but I will do my best. She allows that we could maybe leave a few pieces in the garage for a few days, but, you know, she wouldn't prefer it.

I call a half dozen consignment stores.
I take pictures of the furniture that I assume at this point will not sell, which is quite a lot of it.
I email said pictures to said consignment stores.

I call half a dozen moving companies, but the earliest any of them can come pick up this crap is 9:30 tomorrow morning.

I begin getting replies from consignment stores, all saying they are not interested in the furniture at all.
Finally, I get a lucky break and the last one says they'll take it.

I say I will have a moving company bring it tomorrow morning.
Oh no, they say, they won't have space in the warehouse for another week and a half.

FFFFFUUUUUUUU---

My 60+ year old mother and I move all the furniture into the garage by ourselves. My brother arrives just in time to see us finish. We load all three cars to the brim with little stuff, and caravan to Goodwill.

But there are still several huge containers of trash and recycling, and my dad's utility company is a bunch of Nazis who won't take anything more than your one allotted bin. So I realize I will have to go back to the house later tonight and load it all up in the minivan, because our garbagemen are nice and will take anything you put out.

But the good news:

1.) We will still be officially out of the house on the 31st, which was the contractual requirement, regardless of what my idiot dad told her. So no payment penalties.
2.) Mr. Clod offered to do the final trash run for me, since I had to do all the other work for this garage sale fiasco, and all he had to do was stay home and play videogames with the kids. So that was nice.

You need a drink.

....

I've learned that there are two categories of garage-salers.

Those who are having the garage sale to make more money.

and

Those who are having the garage sale to make more space.

Oh Clod, think of all the money you're saving, staying toned without paying for a gym.;)

OK, life isn't difficult enough with the constant doctors appointments, dealing with school staff who no longer have a clue (since they let the one teacher who was awesome leave for another position at another school district) and simply enable the current situation instead of PUSHING for improvement and a whole host of a million little things that virtually no one else understands. sigh - anyway ...

Late last year I decided that we were going to try and reduce some of the meds that my son is on.
Called the endocrinologist who monitors his sodium levels among other things to discuss. I wanted to have some tests done to have a baseline of his status for future comparison. They refused to discuss over the phone - gotta see the patient in person BEFORE they'd order the tests.
So we make the appointment & go to the doc mid November. She says: Oh, we cannot support that decision (to reduce meds) without doing a host of blood & urine tests first. Grrrrrrrrrr - THATS WHAT I CALLED FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE! (Bites tongue) Oooook! We leave unsatisfied and disgruntled AND had to pay a larger copay as his medicare no longer covers as much as it used to.
Call the testing facility & set the appointment for a few weeks out. I pull him out of school to go get the blood & urine work. Major hassles in communication, long lines & asst other BS till finally the blood is drawn. (higher copay here too) Call the doc back and schedule ANOTHER appointment. Nothing available till Feb. (WTF???)
Wait another three months and finally go see the doc again in March. Explain the entire situation all over again.
She says "I have never, in all my years (older woman) seen anyone successfully reduce their dosage ... blah blah blah..." I tuned her out at that point. WTFE lady. Left. Oh had to pay the increased copay AGAIN.
(Mentally added her to the list of medical professionals to prove wrong)
On the ride home I told him - We're gonna try something, you up for it? etc. Rinse repeat dozens of times over the next few days/week.
Finally, I think he's got it and he's on board. We had the tests done and have the baseline. It was a frikkin hassle, but we got the data we wanted.
I was to call in August for the 6 month appointment and followup.
I decided to call to today to get the doc to order the lab tests so that we could have them to discuss at our appt. in Sept. (seemed logical) Many hassles, spoke with three different people until I finally get the story. She is out for the month of July and is leaving the practice in August. WTF initially, then I thought 'great' we can have a more proactive and responsive doc ... maybe. Schedule an appointment with his NEW endocrinologist and ask about having new tests done so we can compare the data from Feb with the ones I'll have done in Aug. . . Looooong pause with papers shuffling. We have no record of any tests from Feb. We have something from April of 2011. Are you effing kidding me? She looks again. Sorry, no records here. At least we got the appt. set.
Call the lab (THE SAME LAB) to set an appt and to check on the ones from Feb. We have no lab work from Feb. We do have some from last Nov. though. WHAT??? We didn't have any lab work done in Nov. '11 WTF?
Long pause, put on hold. Blah blah blah. Look, just send EVERYTHING you have over the last three years to Doc X. Oh, sorry we cannot do that without the patient approval. Also, we don't save that info for that long.
I had to hang up the phone. I was this >< close to going ballistic.
I'll take a breath and reflect upon the hours wasted and try again tomorrow. Maybe the lab fairies will find the info by then.
My groove, it is officially scorched!

Our camping truck the Riverpig may be dead ,
Any body know any thing about Deisel engines , spec about piston rings ???

My Hard Drive Took a Shit!!!

I just paid $395.00 for a new hard drive. I have been without a computer for a week. I had to go to the library to check my email and facebook I'm sorry I did not come here, but my time was limited.

This fucking mac has cost me over $500.00 in the last month First it was the fan, now the hard drive. I still like it better than any PC.

We did not try to save any thing from the old HD so I lost all my pictures. I just spent the last couple of hours loading all my software.

FUCKING MAC!!!

$395 for a hard drive?

classicman, you're a better man than I am.

I would have gone ballistic well before the bulk of that crap happened. YOU know more about your kid than they do, overall. And that absolutely counts. You might not know how to interpret his EEG, or his sodium levels, etc. Those things are important. Details like that are important. But no one else in the whole world knows your son like you do, not his mom, not himself, certainly not any of these doctors or technicians who specialize narrowly.

KEEP AT IT. You know this already of course. He's a lucky boy to have such a devoted and determined Dad.

$249.00 For the hard drive, the rest was labor and tax.

God Classic, that's so frustrating.

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Originally Posted by classicman

Long pause, put on hold. Blah blah blah. Look, just send EVERYTHING you have over the last three years to Doc X. Oh, sorry we cannot do that without the patient approval. Also, we don't save that info for that long.

I'msorryexcuseme whatthefuck?

1.) Ain't no way that shit isn't digital. They have it. They most certainly do save it for liability reasons. It may be old enough that it's backed up on a drive somewhere off-site, but they definitely have it. Get Medicaid receipts to prove labs were paid for in Feb., and threaten to sue them for Medicaid fraud if they can't come up with the evidence that they actually did the tests they were paid for.

2.) Patient approval? WTF. You are the patient (his legal guardian, same diff.) You have a legal right to your own medical records. Nevermind sending them to the doctor, they have to give you copies of them if you demand them (though they may get to charge you an admin/copying fee.) Show up in their office and refuse to leave without them. And insist each time that you receive copies of all results from now on.

I'm so mad on your behalf I could spit.

Thanks V, that means a lot. You know me well enough... They are only 10 minutes away.
I was dressed and on my way there when I took pause and decided to let my emotional rage subside.

@Clod. I have about a 2 foot stack of medical papers, results and assorted crap. These are literally
the only results I don't have a copy of. They gave me a hassle about getting them back in Feb and Dan
needed to lie down. They were to mail them to me. My bad for not following up.
I needed copies of everything for the effin lawsuit from the little fuck who is suing him anyway.
(Hmm... maybe I gave them to his defense atty.)

Either way, I will be there tomorrow. I'll at least start in a better frame of mind. How things end - who knows.
Sigh - in the long run I'm doing whats best for him. He's down from 5 a day to two a day. Fuck it.
I guess if he gets the blood work done now and its OK, it really doesn't matter what the results were in Feb.
Still too pissed to start thinking about it again tonight. Its on the list for tomorrow.

Probably wise of you to cool off before going in to confront them, but now that you have ... roast the suckers.

And what Clod said.

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Originally Posted by classicman

@Clod. I have about a 2 foot stack of medical papers, results and assorted crap.

I hear you, man. I know it's not the most masculine thing in the world, but I highly recommend getting a massage. (From someone good, not one of those stupid spa places. Call a chiropractor's office and ask who they'd recommend.) Be good to yourself. You're doing a hell of a good job.

Masculine? Me? lol

Anyway. I've gotta get some work done and then head over. I'm in a much better place today.
If I had gone over yesterday, it would have been bad. . . .

Receptionist: "Hello, may I help you?"
Me: ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR FUCKING MIND?!
:shotgun: .... :apistola: .... :angry: .... :sniper: .... :rattat:

Our camping truck the Riverpig may be dead ,
Any body know any thing about Deisel engines , spec about piston rings ???

So the Pig is dead , $4-6000 for a new engine , haveing it towed back here so we can figuer out if we want to part it out or scrap it .
FUUUUUUUCK !!!!

Sorry, Zippy. That sucks.

Yeppers , im here trying to figure up the time and effort of dissembling the beast and Craigslisting various parts or just towing it to the salvage yard

Crap, pretty pricey fix.

KBB value on the truck best case ( witch this truck aint ) is $3500 ,
the $4-6k is parts Only then a few Hundred to install ,

Lets see i see local Craigs list prices for the utility bed around $800 ,
and a call to a Local scrap dude said $5-600 ,
Hmmmmm ,,,,,,,

do not put a $5000 motor in a $3000 truck.

Might be worth it to put your bed on a beater?

do not put a $5000 motor in a $3000 truck.

Thank you Jim , i figured that part out

Might be worth it to put your bed on a beater?

Naa , if i keep the bed i'd make it a camping trailer ,
frankly i want to get rid of it all and find a jeep or sum such

Stuck in Midway airport for the next 5 1/2 hours! :eek:
Southwest has bailed, no available plane ... now daughter and I will miss the campfire dinner tonight. No earlier available flights and my checked bag (has sleeping bag etc) won't get to Denver until 6:15 anyway.

Well, it is what it is. Eating calamari and trying out a weird cocktail. :D

Maybe if I have two cocktails, they'll find a plane for us sooner ...

ps sorry to hear about your truck, Zippy. That sucks.

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Originally Posted by zippyt (Post 821896)

Lets see i see local Craigs list prices for the utility bed around $800 ,
and a call to a Local scrap dude said $5-600 ,
Hmmmmm ,,,,,,,

Just because people are asking $800 for their utility beds doesn't mean they are selling them for that.

If this were ebay, I'd tell you to look at the completed auctions to see what they sold for.

has anyone ever heard of a father competing with his daughter(s) as though they are his sons? My father does this. Has always done it.

On our recent trip to Maine he got pissed that my sister and I could read a map. And road signs. You know, the way you do.

He flipped out in the car, ordered me to pull over (on the Me turnpike) and when I didn't immediately pull over (where was I to pull over on the turnpike???) he hit me. While I was driving 80 mph DOWN THE TURNPIKE.

I can't figure this guy out and I've known him for 48 years.
Does anyone else have a father like this?

Old men are expected to get crotchety, especially when they sense their own mental faculties declining and don't want to admit it.

Old men do not get to hit people. Has he always hit you?

Yeah, I'm his whipping girl.

He was really mad at my little sis who was navigating while I drove but he hit me, ostensibly b/c I wouldn't pull over the second he commanded me to.

I realize old men get crotchety as their mental faculties decline but he's always been a bully and he particularly hates me. He has always believed in his own divinity, his "superior" intellect, his "Keen engineering mind," (Said without a hint of irony or humor). When I was a little girl learning math he would "teach" me math by doing certain processes in his mind without explaining them and I would be baffled as to how he came up with the answer and not understand and he would laugh at me and just say that he was much, much smarter than me. Of course he was - I was seven years old!!

He bullied me my whole life - and he's doing it even now. My mother does what she does best - she pretends nothing is happening. She's the definition of Helpless.

He's in complete denial about his decline. He THINKS he's as sharp as he ever was and he's soooooooo not. His memory goes back about ten minutes while my mom's goes back about two min. so he thinks he's okay.

It's a good thing my family never owned any guns. We'd all be dead.