The first of these furballs I ever met was a gray tabby named Farruco, and it effectively turned into a lifelong fondness for the entire species. Sadly my childhood home was too cramped to keep pets.
One of my friends had a turtle... :unsure:
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The first of these furballs I ever met was a gray tabby named Farruco, and it effectively turned into a lifelong fondness for the entire species. Sadly my childhood home was too cramped to keep pets.
One of my friends had a turtle... :unsure:
A funny coincidence... both Boom by The Bay and the new Permitless Concealed Carry Law starts tomorrow around here... The former is just fireworks, the latter is just scary...
As they say... when in Rome...
My two fur babies sleeping...
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Just so you know, I reminisce and post a lot when I'm nervous, so I have some spinal surgeries in the week ahead after the 4th of July... the last one cost me 3 paralyzed toes (I was lucky) and I hope these go off without a hitch, so indulge my scattered brain, but such is life... as someone said before, "It sux to be old."
Umm... I now think I remember what I stopped by for... oh yeah!
The fur babies above are named "Skye" (mellowest best friend I ever met) the shepherd and... well the tabby he was left by some tenants who left him homeless and I believe called him "tree top" ...why I don't really know... :unsure: ...he does seem to answer to "Shithead" when I bring him food every morning... come to think of it, he perks right up when I don't even call him anything!
He has 6 claws on each of all 4 paws, so he's kinda special. :)
Maybe we should have a naming contest! He's only about 12 yrs old.
Sorry to leave you hanging, but it seems my mind works like that now.
Just lie back and think of America :gunsmilie Shouldn't be too hard, I see two compelling reasons to stay positive on that picture.
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Best of luck, and prayers things go well, Stehle.
Being old certainly does suck - seems I spend all my time rehabbing from something...
As anon says, stay positive - it's what we have left, you see.
And, just cuz you may not have seen this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f75Vet_sJNo
Who would have known squirrels can weasel their way out of trouble too.
Awww... Thank you both so much for the smiles and laughs just now!!! :)
And no, I hadn't seen either one! Thanks! :D
I wonder how the other three amigos are doing... Meg, Idol and our intrepid world traveler Cab, who I can only hope still has a big smile on his face!
What a weekend and week... I started this morning with big breakfast... truth be know, I haven't experienced one of those in many years!
Inspiring calm, you both know some of my history... when it comes to adversity... well hell yeah, I should change my middle name to "Survivor".
Now I have this warm and fuzzy feeling all over... then again.... it's probably just that big breakfast. ;)
You just need to take a dump....
Yeah... {chuckles} ...yeah you may be partially right. :)
If I where to put my finger on anything it would probably be that my meds and that big meal didn't agree.
I'm going to go back to my espresso and a cup of juice in the morning or at least before noon. I just wasn't thinking.
The hospital just called to confirm July 5th for my first surgery. {sigh}
At this point I just want to get it done.
I am hard to take at the best of times, but add pain into that equation...
Perhaps it was the super moon, air, heat or other factor but by 2pm yesterday I was toast. Yeah perhaps today will be better. :happy:
Let us know how things went soon as you can, sir.
“Matches? Matches? We don’t need no stink’in matches!”
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If you do care to indulge tonight… please keep safe my friends and let’s not forget our furry friends, loud noises and bright flashes can be very scary to them, so please keep them safe and sheltered also. The same may also apply to folks around you that may suffer from PTSD, so again be kind and aware of your surrounding fellows. :)
@j2k4… I certainly will, Thanks! :)
Meg was shanked by the Comcast repair guy. Cab is fighting Wagner on the frontlines with a bazooka that fires bald eagles and was not available for comment. As for that other person...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAM7OeFpgoE
All the best for today's procedure :flowers:
It's all good as long as your means of celebration stays under the threshold for domestic terrorism ;) Pleasantries aside, happy belated July 4th to all gringos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ClsQsZ9uI
Yeah, I'm still alive. :) It was "easy peasy" filling papers out awake, then out like light... waking 3 hours later not knowing who or where I was. (Typical for me.) ;)
So far... not a lot has changed with me... equilibrium may have took a hit... cognitive abilities may have also taken a hit, ice packs on the incisions are fun, no additional paralysis as of yet.
It would seem a lot has changed here in my brief absence... a cap on downloads. Two per 24! WTF... yeah, I need to or plan to donate again... :O ... somebody must need the money. :rolleyes:
Ya know, visiting so many forums each day both being public and private just as a simple user, daily or hourly caps probably doesn't bode well in the great scheme of things... of course
I'm usually mistaken in these things {sigh} What do I know. :01:
My new HMO is pretty sweet, this whole episode costed me nada... they are trying to branch out in other states, not on TV commercials that I have seen as of yet; as far as I have
seen, so if you are of an age... well, feel free to inquire. (They have even tentatively asked me to sit on a community board!... they have no idea what they're asking! :noes:)
I always liked this FST forum, it was so... international. We'll leave it with having one Mexican grandma, nine half Mexican aunts and uncles, a mother who was born in a British colony in S.A.
grew up and went to school in the Caribbean islands and taught her son never to play with matches.
Visited many times both west and east... a favorite was Cozumel... walking up Mayan pyramids, which you may know is quite difficult for me, but again I digress.
I think I'll throw a few posts up to see what also may have changed for me... mentally. ;)
@anon Thank you for a few chuckles today... always remember, you... have a brain and voice. Like so many others I've viewed here over the years. ;)
Tis good to read you, sir.
Let's see if we're still board-worthy...:)
I played with matches.
Without incident.
Put on some good shows, too.
Of course, I was told not to as well.
Wow.
Never got beyond garden-variety larger-than-legal-in-my-state stuff; nothing like what you're talking about.
One time my buddies and I were on a cliff above the Stonington Peninsula in Upper Michigan, and the crowd that had gathered below us to watch the fireworks shows across Little Bay De Noc in Escanaba and Gladstone (a couple of miles away) ended-up turning their lawn-chairs around to watch ours instead.
We were terribly self-impressed. :D
Relative to AI, I've had reason to wonder if it is messing with me - my political leanings have occasionally attracted unwanted attention.
Some funny things have happened, here-and-there.
I have a friend who was in DC on 1/6/21 who received a visit from the FBI; he subsequently told me - among other more relevant subjects - they inquired about ME.
I've seen Demon Seed and The Terminator and 2001: A Space Odyssey and War Games and Electric Dreams and Transcendence so I know how this turns out.
How can I put this… a few things haven’t gone as expected with the surgeries. The pain, though different, or moderating, (more of an annoyance now), is a constant reminder and keeps me at odds mentally.
I have one surgery left a few months from now and I hope for the best.
I truly believe my memories or my mind may be slowly degrading. I know the signs.
For some reason I was hoping AI might help with my journals and manuscripts to tell one last story… probably asking too much… perhaps not human enough… {chuckle} …we’ll just have to see.
I just wanted to thank you all here now that I may have interacted with for the fun, smiles and laughs and putting up with my sorry ass indeed …a good run, should it come to that.
Hopefully, I’ll pop in from time to time if things change for the better, but this post will stay. I have a routine you know! ;)
Anyways...
“Thanks!”
When one chapter closes, a new chapter begins.
You're not done yet, Stehle...;)
This honestly makes me very sad so I prayed to God to spare you and take Meg instead.
Greetz from Dubai.
Liked Doha better.
Off to KSA next.
Bye.
PS: In all seriousness,just spent a week in Lisbon and surroundings. Really liked it. Would highly recommend if you have not been already. Fuck Spain.
There are always good reasons to keep going, Stehle. A sunrise. A laugh with (or at) friends. Pets-- I am constantly surprised at how much joy my rats give me. Movies. Books. Pissing off people you don't like. Beer. Idol says a hand job from a complete stranger after performing in a drag show. Shay says rolling around in a pile of money. Anon goes on covert missions. RealtY bathes in the blood of innocents.
The point is to find something good each day.
I can't remember what I was going to post - I'm sure of that much.
something something bringing up post count
Meg wants to know if anyone can tell him how to dispose of a vagrant's body if there aren't any convenient rats around to make the death look like natural causes.
Speaking of vagrants, anyone ever hear from/about Macky?
I assume when anyone from Japan drops of the face of the Earth they either watched the wrong videotape or went into a haunted forest or got nuked by the U.S. If a giant monster ate them it I think it would have made the news
in for one
BTW the earth is not flat.
So... What did I miss?
Everything...
Seems that I am in the same boat... ;)