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Sunoverbeach Offline
#251 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 10:48 AM EST
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Good news, Dan, or at least the start of it
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#252 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 10:51 AM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Been a rough couple nights but someone was cutting onions in the room with me this morning.

Been taking care of a former coworker who suffered multiple cardiac arrests and exhaustive resuscitation. 99% of the time these cases do not end well. But everything, every minute of downtime, every step of the process it was all perfectly executed for optimal chance at that 1%. I have never seen a more perfectly executed effort in the same circumstances. Even in ideal conditions, this one is in the top 10. This is jackpot level luck.

This morning before I left, they were able to reliably nod yes/no and move all 4 extremities to verbal command. Still a very long road ahead, but we cleared a major hurdle. There will be more obstacles to come, but the big "if" has passed. There are several more big ones tho...

I'm overjoyed this morning. Small step and may be getting too excited considering the big picture, but so far they're still a player for that 1%.

it's why you do this.
very nice.
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#253 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 11:33 AM EST
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Job well done danm! Iffn’ it is me next time please feel free to pull the plug 🔌
corey sellers Offline
#254 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 11:49 AM EST
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It's back
deadeyedick Online
#255 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 11:53 AM EST
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Bury it. Rain is causing me to smoke at the local today. New cigar.
MACS Offline
#256 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 1:28 PM EST
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Yup... raining. Prolly cuz I washed my car yesterday. d'oh!
Palama Offline
#257 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 2:12 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Yup... raining. Prolly cuz I washed my car yesterday. d'oh!


Didja wax it too? That normally guarantees rain for me. 🌧
victor809 Offline
#258 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 2:16 PM EST
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30min of burpees and other miserable crap... Mile swim.

Now I'm heading to some volunteer training for a film festival.
Ram27 Offline
#259 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 2:24 PM EST
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Prime Video " Hunters ",on episode 4.
Pretty pretty pretty pretty good. 👍
Cathcam13 Offline
#260 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 2:31 PM EST
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Loads of canned spam in the feeds today. Perhaps I should give my cousin a call, he works with the Cyber crimes division.
rfenst Offline
#261 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 3:31 PM EST
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52/66 Beautiful day! Just got back from a bunch of errands, including Total Wine. Love that place. Now for a little tv, then a nap.
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#262 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 6:10 PM EST
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Went to a park that said it would reopen Fall of 2019 on their website. Still closed. Maybe the Commie 13 should investigate. I hear there is a commemorative Lenin tree there honoring the revolution.
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#263 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 6:52 PM EST
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Back to work.

Hopefully it ends on a high note again.
MACS Offline
#264 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 6:57 PM EST
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Didn't get up until 8am... had coffee... sat in the recliner for hours dozing in and out... ate leftover spaghetti... took a shower and put on fresh PJ's.

One helluva Saturday!
tonygraz Offline
#265 Posted: Sat, Feb 22 2020, 7:27 PM EST
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Welcome to retirement and you are on your way to 200.
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#266 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 1:36 AM EST
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Sunday Sunday Sunday
corey sellers Offline
#267 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 8:36 AM EST
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Morning gents
deadeyedick Online
#268 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 8:57 AM EST
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I can see clearly now the rain is gone. Whistle

Need to get the last of the garden planted today but first a hike.
Speyside Offline
#269 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:24 AM EST
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So is it a bright sun shining day? Jimmy Cliff wants to know.
8trackdisco Offline
#270 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:39 AM EST
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victor809 wrote:
Now I'm heading to some volunteer training for a film festival.

Fluffer?
MACS Offline
#271 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:42 AM EST
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Alright, after yesterday's lazy-ass day... I gotta get motivated with this coffee and get to the gym.
rfenst Offline
#272 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:52 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
Alright, after yesterday's lazy-ass day... I gotta get motivated with this coffee and get to the gym.

Why would you ruin a good weekend of doing nothing? I am not getting out of my pj's (unless I must go somewhere).
MACS Offline
#273 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 10:11 AM EST
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LOL! I've been doing very little for a month, Robert.

Fishing season is almost upon us.
8trackdisco Offline
#274 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 10:12 AM EST
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Yesterday was ups and downs. Great Mushroom & Swiss burger with wife in a one horse town 20 minutes away. Went up to God's Country to check in on the reported flood warning for the river. Still frozen solid other than some puddling along the banks. Property in good shape. Chocolate Brownie Cheese cake and coffee for dessert.

Great day until, on the way home we got the call that my son ran a stop sign and t-boned a woman and her son. The woman driving was in some pain but talking. She declined medical transportation. Her kid didn't away a word- probably in shock.

If he's driving 1 mph, he hits her right in the driver's side door and its Game Over.

Blessed.
Ram27 Offline
#275 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 10:46 AM EST
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Sorry to hear Russ, thankfully no major injuries. Hope things work out for your son.
MACS Offline
#276 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 11:56 AM EST
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*sigh*

Glad everyone is okay, Russ. I bet the kid is quite shaken up.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#277 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 12:15 PM EST
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Good to hear no major injuries. Definitely got lucky
rfenst Offline
#278 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 12:19 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Yesterday was ups and downs. Great Mushroom & Swiss burger with wife in a one horse town 20 minutes away. Went up to God's Country to check in on the reported flood warning for the river. Still frozen solid other than some puddling along the banks. Property in good shape. Chocolate Brownie Cheese cake and coffee for dessert.

Great day until, on the way home we got the call that my son ran a stop sign and t-boned a woman and her son. The woman driving was in some pain but talking. She declined medical transportation. Her kid didn't away a word- probably in shock.

If he's driving 1 mph, he hits her right in the driver's side door and its Game Over.

Blessed.

Glad he's OK. Did he have much pd?
8trackdisco Offline
#279 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 1:02 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Glad he's OK. Did he have much pd?


Hard to determine. He hit the vehicle directly on the rear wheel, driver's side. Structurally it doesn't look too bad. Its determining if there is damage to the wheel, knocked out of alignment or frame damage. His front end is smashed up pretty good. Airbags did not go off (not sure how I feel about that). No fluids spilled.

Yes Shawn he was fully shaken. The most traumatic thing he has been through as far as I know.

Thanks for the well wishes, Ram,
8trackdisco Offline
#280 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 1:05 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Good to hear no major injuries. Definitely got lucky


He later thanked me for not killing him.

MACS Offline
#281 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 1:09 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
He later thanked me for not killing him.


Indeed... that would have been my first thought, too... "Awww, sh*t... dad's gonna kill me!"
Sunoverbeach Offline
#282 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 2:04 PM EST
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With proper parental conditioning, I think that's always the first thought. Or maybe the second, after "Holy sh*t! I didn't kill myself"
MACS Offline
#283 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 3:04 PM EST
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I've got some skirt steak marinating in a citrus/olive oil combo... garlic, cumin, oregano, salt, pepper, and cayenne.

That'll get grilled later when it's done marinating for a few hours.
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#284 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 3:20 PM EST
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Too tired to cook... Carl's Jr...
delta1 Offline
#285 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 3:26 PM EST
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my first accident, at 20 years old, I backed into a Porsche 911 Carrera in a restaurant parking lot in Hollywood...crushed his rear bumper, tail-light assembly and rear quarter panel....minimal damage to Dad's car...

owner was very gracious and said that's why we have insurance...Dad not too happy...
corey sellers Offline
#286 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 3:28 PM EST
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2 slabs of ribs and a beer can chicken on the smoker.
Ram27 Offline
#287 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 4:17 PM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
Prime Video " Hunters ",on episode 4.
Pretty pretty pretty pretty good. 👍



Interesting twist to the story in final episode.Think
corey sellers Offline
#288 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 4:19 PM EST
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8trackdisco Offline
#289 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 4:20 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
my first accident, at 20 years old, I backed into a Porsche 911 Carrera in a restaurant parking lot in Hollywood...crushed his rear bumper, tail-light assembly and rear quarter panel....minimal damage to Dad's car...

owner was very gracious and said that's why we have insurance...Dad not too happy...


My first was going off a 15 mph curve at about 60. Narrowly avoided hitting a silo, tore up the guys lawn, and packed my engine full of sod. Of course I left the scene of the accident. Top speed in the departure about 15 mph.

A few guys at the party did turf removal, bent the engine fan back into place. An hour later I was back on the road.

1973 Buick Century... made of armor.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#290 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 6:03 PM EST
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Mine was backing a 75 Buick Apollo into a shiny new Mercury Sable owned by my basketball coach. He'd bought it two nights before. My legs still hurt from the running

My scariest was hitting black ice and ending up "driving" sideways down the road with oncoming traffic. Remembered that slamming on the brakes would put you in a ditch so that's exactly what I did
MACS Offline
#291 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 6:14 PM EST
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I didn't get in any wrecks as a kid, that I recall... I left home less than 2 years after I got my license and didn't return the the USA until I was 21.

First wreck... sitting at a stop light and some d1ckbag illegal in an old pickup hit me and pushed my car into the one in front of me. Then he promptly hit the gas and fled for the border.
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#292 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 7:21 PM EST
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My first was following (too closely) the guy in front as he made a left hand turn at an intersection. He stopped quickly when a pedestrian entered the crosswalk and I didn't. Busted radiator and busted sixteen year old.

Many more after that but that was the last time it was my fault. No, really!
dkeage Offline
#293 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 7:26 PM EST
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I’ve never had an accident with another car. Hit a few ditches when I was young, and a guardrail a few years ago in a tornado...
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#294 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 7:31 PM EST
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Mine was in a 76 Cutlass Salon.. beautiful car.. car pulled out in front of me when i was cruising about 110.. missed the car but ended up upside down in da ditch... i was 19..alcohol mighta been a little factor Mellow
MACS Offline
#295 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 8:15 PM EST
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Lido..... WHOOOOOOAAAAAAAOOAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
USNGunner Offline
#296 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:09 PM EST
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Glad the boy is well. Cars can be fixed. I rear ended a john boat once. Long story. LOL
Palama Offline
#297 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:20 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Mine was backing a 75 Buick Apollo into a shiny new Mercury Sable owned by my basketball coach. He'd bought it two nights before. My legs still hurt from the running

My scariest was hitting black ice and ending up "driving" sideways down the road with oncoming traffic. Remembered that slamming on the brakes would put you in a ditch so that's exactly what I did


Small world, my Dad had a 2-door '73 Apollo. I crashed it in '74 or '75, trying to show off. Car was fixed but my Dad was not very happy with me.
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#298 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:23 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
.. I left home less than 2


Dude... Never knew you were homeless. You've rebounded nicely.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#299 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:31 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Small world, my Dad had a 2-door '73 Apollo. I crashed it in '74 or '75, trying to show off. Car was fixed but my Dad was not very happy with me.

Your mistake was using an Apollo to show off. Think I was able to do 0-60 in about 15-20secs. Only thing it was good for was eating gas. Which is ironic since I believe Buick released he Apollo as a "compact" for better gas mileage
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#300 Posted: Sun, Feb 23 2020, 9:32 PM EST
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1974 Buick Riviera Classic... with the 454. I had to buy my mom tires, but I never wrecked it.
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