Dave I have a small inner tube just for this, I will try to remember to bring it by later
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Dave I have a small inner tube just for this, I will try to remember to bring it by later
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Used homemade hemorrhoid donut. Sounds great!
@JohnVee and @roadstr6. get a tens unit off of amazon. I paid 32 bucks for their most popular model, with a bazillion different settings for both tens and ems. really helps loosen up muscles.
about 4 weeks ago, I tweaked my back opening a window on the house. no cool extreme sport story, or saving the world...just opening a freaking window with my arms outstretched over some storage bins. my back went pop, and it took my breath away.
two weeks at a chiropractor, and they had me about 90%. then I spent the weekend of the 18th setting up stuff for my daughters wedding. sunday morning, I couldn't get out of bed. hurt to breathe, walked like a 90 year old guy with a cane. chiro worked on me all week last week, and I've been living off the tens unit at home.
about 4 weeks ago, I tweaked my back opening a window on the house. no cool extreme sport story, or saving the world...just opening a freaking window with my arms outstretched over some storage bins. my back went pop, and it took my breath away.
two weeks at a chiropractor, and they had me about 90%. then I spent the weekend of the 18th setting up stuff for my daughters wedding. sunday morning, I couldn't get out of bed. hurt to breathe, walked like a 90 year old guy with a cane. chiro worked on me all week last week, and I've been living off the tens unit at home.
Well, I've always been a firm believer in "If it really doesn't matter to you, just do what she wants." I sold that amp and bought a smaller amp about 2 years ago; I still haven't turned it on to see if it works... I still play my acoustic guitars, though. Unfortunately, electric guitars really amplify how awful of a guitarist I am!
NCFJ
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I remember a guy named Walter Cronkite and others like him . They reported the news, the (facts). There were segments of Opinion, they were presented as opinion, not as News. You could watch the local news and the world news and have a rough idea of what was going on. Here is the really cool part, You formed YOUR opinion based on the (facts) presented. Same was true with the NEWS paper.
Now, in order to find just the plain facts you must watch/read through several different sources and formulate your own opinion of what the facts are. Many people tend to formulate facts that fit an opinion they already have.
I also remember when the election cycle for President started maybe a year out. Now it's a full time job, year after year for many of them. You watch, the day after the election the big loser and supporters will start whining and others in their party will start lining up for 2024, a paid position.
What all this has lead to for me is less and less time devoted to giving a damn, not a good result. I tend to tune it out and just focus on some things on which I have a little control. I must admit that I do get a laugh from it all from time to time.
Now, in order to find just the plain facts you must watch/read through several different sources and formulate your own opinion of what the facts are. Many people tend to formulate facts that fit an opinion they already have.
I also remember when the election cycle for President started maybe a year out. Now it's a full time job, year after year for many of them. You watch, the day after the election the big loser and supporters will start whining and others in their party will start lining up for 2024, a paid position.
What all this has lead to for me is less and less time devoted to giving a damn, not a good result. I tend to tune it out and just focus on some things on which I have a little control. I must admit that I do get a laugh from it all from time to time.
@NCFJ they want you to tune out. I have been tuned out for years. 2012 was the first election won through social media engineering. 2016 it was taken to a whole new level and 2020 will be that again on steroids and started in 2016. 24/7 AI algorithms only showing you things that will get you to vote for x or against y. And most news (sort of real and really fake) now written by NLG (Natural Language Generation ).
CRazy stuff going on - Trump rules social media, crushes 2020 Democrats
CRazy stuff going on - Trump rules social media, crushes 2020 Democrats
David70FJ40
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@NCFJ I will agree with you to a point.
Uncle Walter Concrete, the "most respected man in TV journalism" was a master at twisting public opinions. One fine example is: During the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, I was there Northern "I" Corps, Uncle Walter Concrete decided to tour the Vietnamese countryside after all the fighting was essentially over. During his short stay there, he in all his military wisdom, decided the war was unwinnable and announced one night on the CBS nightly news what his conclusion was which helped to spark an increase in the anti-war demonstrations. These demonstrations did not go unnoticed in Hanoi and convinced General Gap, the North Vietnamese General, to continue no matter what. (Read his book, that decision is detailed in there.) The NVA were soundly defeated as were the Viet Cong with a rushed retreat back to the north.
BTW As a fact, the American military never lost a major engagement in Vietnam during the time we were there. That fact has never been stated on any news show ever!
I have no respect for Uncle Walter Concrete or Hanoi Jane, both have American blood on their hands
That is an example of fake news and it continues today. Our opinions are made by people who twist the story to suit their needs and desires. I form my own opinions from several sources and avoid the national news outlets like the plague. As I remember my dad saying, don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.
Rant over!
Uncle Walter Concrete, the "most respected man in TV journalism" was a master at twisting public opinions. One fine example is: During the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, I was there Northern "I" Corps, Uncle Walter Concrete decided to tour the Vietnamese countryside after all the fighting was essentially over. During his short stay there, he in all his military wisdom, decided the war was unwinnable and announced one night on the CBS nightly news what his conclusion was which helped to spark an increase in the anti-war demonstrations. These demonstrations did not go unnoticed in Hanoi and convinced General Gap, the North Vietnamese General, to continue no matter what. (Read his book, that decision is detailed in there.) The NVA were soundly defeated as were the Viet Cong with a rushed retreat back to the north.
BTW As a fact, the American military never lost a major engagement in Vietnam during the time we were there. That fact has never been stated on any news show ever!
I have no respect for Uncle Walter Concrete or Hanoi Jane, both have American blood on their hands
That is an example of fake news and it continues today. Our opinions are made by people who twist the story to suit their needs and desires. I form my own opinions from several sources and avoid the national news outlets like the plague. As I remember my dad saying, don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.
Rant over!
WTF Vegas! Is smoking mandatory?!? Got lung cancer walking from room to taxi stand!
Vegas damned airport...”sorry mr. Sanchez, you can’t check your bag until 4 hours before your flight departs, com back in an hour and we can check you in”. Grumble grumble, wait an hour, back in line...”sorry mr Sanchez, it’s 7:09 and we can’t check you in until 7:11. Come back in a few minutes”. Not making this sheeeet up.
Finally fawkers let me in. And voila! There’s an Amex centurion lounge! Eureka! “Sorry mr Sanchez, we have a 3 hour policy, can’t enter the lounge until 3 hours to your departure time”. Me “u kidding me? I only use the lounge for a long layover!” So, what the fawk Vegas, your airport sucks.
Finally fawkers let me in. And voila! There’s an Amex centurion lounge! Eureka! “Sorry mr Sanchez, we have a 3 hour policy, can’t enter the lounge until 3 hours to your departure time”. Me “u kidding me? I only use the lounge for a long layover!” So, what the fawk Vegas, your airport sucks.
LMAO
I've always said Vegas airport is great.... if you like slot machines.... that's about it.
So getting old sucks. Not even that old at 38
May have to get surgery on my AC joint in my left shoulder. Found out earlier in the year I virtually have no cartilage left there. Dr is confused as to why this is at my age but an old injury from my teen years combined with about 5 years of daily lifting 100+lbs tires over my head about 100 times a day at my old job may have something to do with it. I got a steroid injection which helped for a bit but the dull never ending pain is back now. It also seems to be causing pain my chest wall and left arm, that combined with a bad case of acid reflux made me think I was having major heart issues. Dr is fairly sure that isn't the case as all my tests she can do come back negative, even with my high cholesterol that my body naturally makes (starting to have to cut back on animal products hard due to this, sucks bad)
Going to see my cardiologist again that I saw a few years back after some severe panic attacks led me to believe I had heart issues back then. Going to do a stress test to rule it out then discuss options for my shoulder. Most common is opening up my shoulder, "dremeling" off part of my bone and having scar tissue fill the void, which makes it almost good as new. Just about 2 months of major pain anytime I move my shoulder while it heals and scars up.
Good times. This issue has made any car and home projects completely halt recently. Also making driving an issue since I generally steer with my left hand since most of our vehicles are stick shifts.
My boo hoo moment is done, back to the regular rants.
May have to get surgery on my AC joint in my left shoulder. Found out earlier in the year I virtually have no cartilage left there. Dr is confused as to why this is at my age but an old injury from my teen years combined with about 5 years of daily lifting 100+lbs tires over my head about 100 times a day at my old job may have something to do with it. I got a steroid injection which helped for a bit but the dull never ending pain is back now. It also seems to be causing pain my chest wall and left arm, that combined with a bad case of acid reflux made me think I was having major heart issues. Dr is fairly sure that isn't the case as all my tests she can do come back negative, even with my high cholesterol that my body naturally makes (starting to have to cut back on animal products hard due to this, sucks bad)
Going to see my cardiologist again that I saw a few years back after some severe panic attacks led me to believe I had heart issues back then. Going to do a stress test to rule it out then discuss options for my shoulder. Most common is opening up my shoulder, "dremeling" off part of my bone and having scar tissue fill the void, which makes it almost good as new. Just about 2 months of major pain anytime I move my shoulder while it heals and scars up.
Good times. This issue has made any car and home projects completely halt recently. Also making driving an issue since I generally steer with my left hand since most of our vehicles are stick shifts.
My boo hoo moment is done, back to the regular rants.
That sucks. I hope you get better soon.So getting old sucks. Not even that old at 38
May have to get surgery on my AC joint in my left shoulder. Found out earlier in the year I virtually have no cartilage left there. Dr is confused as to why this is at my age but an old injury from my teen years combined with about 5 years of daily lifting 100+lbs tires over my head about 100 times a day at my old job may have something to do with it. I got a steroid injection which helped for a bit but the dull never ending pain is back now. It also seems to be causing pain my chest wall and left arm, that combined with a bad case of acid reflux made me think I was having major heart issues. Dr is fairly sure that isn't the case as all my tests she can do come back negative, even with my high cholesterol that my body naturally makes (starting to have to cut back on animal products hard due to this, sucks bad)
Going to see my cardiologist again that I saw a few years back after some severe panic attacks led me to believe I had heart issues back then. Going to do a stress test to rule it out then discuss options for my shoulder. Most common is opening up my shoulder, "dremeling" off part of my bone and having scar tissue fill the void, which makes it almost good as new. Just about 2 months of major pain anytime I move my shoulder while it heals and scars up.
Good times. This issue has made any car and home projects completely halt recently. Also making driving an issue since I generally steer with my left hand since most of our vehicles are stick shifts.
My boo hoo moment is done, back to the regular rants.
Yeah, good news is that once done and fully healed I should never have this issue again and regain full strength and range of motion. So it is one of the better joints to have issues in. Bad news is it is 2 months of lots of pain doing really anything and the cost isn't causing me to smile. LOL.
But if I ever want to really work on cars at all with my left arm again or drive a stick off road, let alone play with my nieces and nephews it needs to be done at some point. I may put it off till next summer as I should have quite a few bills fall off at that time.
The diet change is a different matter all together. My body naturally over produces cholesterol which was never an issue in my younger years but since im approaching 40 my doctor wants me to really cut back on my cholesterol in my meals. So I've been cutting out quite a bit of animal products, down to at most one serving of it a day. Lots of grains and fiber along with plant sterols in the pill form have taken its place. I've never disliked veggies so it isn't a huge deal and will never fully get rid of meat, especially fish, but If I am talking like this next time you see me you'll know why.
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That sucks all around. But you are educating yourself and that's the most important thing as you get old. Here is another, very interesting source:
This book will blow your mind. Easy quick read. Basically the food pyramid went into the government upside down and correct and came out as the pyramid and incorrect and that incorrect information has messed up an entire country when it comes to what we should eat because everyone trusted the government.
Amazon product ASIN 0984755128
Found this in 2010 and never looked back. Works for me, Everybody is different. Mostly paleo-ish eating plan.
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Amazon product ASIN 0984755128
Found this in 2010 and never looked back. Works for me, Everybody is different. Mostly paleo-ish eating plan.
How to Eat According to the Primal Blueprint
In my recent Context of Calories post, I explained how the different macronutrients we eat at each meal (fats, proteins, and carbohydrates) have different
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So getting old sucks. Not even that old at 38
May have to get surgery on my AC joint in my left shoulder. Found out earlier in the year I virtually have no cartilage left there. Dr is confused as to why this is at my age but an old injury from my teen years combined with about 5 years of daily lifting 100+lbs tires over my head about 100 times a day at my old job may have something to do with it. I got a steroid injection which helped for a bit but the dull never ending pain is back now. It also seems to be causing pain my chest wall and left arm, that combined with a bad case of acid reflux made me think I was having major heart issues. Dr is fairly sure that isn't the case as all my tests she can do come back negative, even with my high cholesterol that my body naturally makes (starting to have to cut back on animal products hard due to this, sucks bad)
Going to see my cardiologist again that I saw a few years back after some severe panic attacks led me to believe I had heart issues back then. Going to do a stress test to rule it out then discuss options for my shoulder. Most common is opening up my shoulder, "dremeling" off part of my bone and having scar tissue fill the void, which makes it almost good as new. Just about 2 months of major pain anytime I move my shoulder while it heals and scars up.
Good times. This issue has made any car and home projects completely halt recently. Also making driving an issue since I generally steer with my left hand since most of our vehicles are stick shifts.
My boo hoo moment is done, back to the regular rants.
I hear you bro. Have been going through a lot of that this year myself that you've probably read about in this thread, and I'm 7 years younger than you. Getting old is painful, lol
The diet change feels hard at first, but it becomes natural in time. I've been doing it for 3 years now. Can't remember the last time I've had meat, and don't miss it.
I totally feel your pain. I'm still on self imposed light duty after tweaking my back twice in a month. First kick to the groin of my health and wellbeing as an adult, and it sucks. Sadly, it has not shown down the need to help lift and move my wife around with her medical issues. I'm probably one tweak away from a blown disc, which would be no bueno.
I've had to place a bunch of maintenance work on my GX on hold, and listening to one of my front wheel bearings groan a little more each week. The parts have been here over a month (wheel bearing hub assemblies, towing break kit front and rear since I'd be in there removing all the brake stuff anyway...), and I cant even begin to think about crawling, wrenching, kneeling, and lifting. I'm even leery on doing a simple oil change and u joint greasing out of fear I'd be stuck under the truck, unable to slide out.
gettin old ain't for wusses, that's for sure.
I've had to place a bunch of maintenance work on my GX on hold, and listening to one of my front wheel bearings groan a little more each week. The parts have been here over a month (wheel bearing hub assemblies, towing break kit front and rear since I'd be in there removing all the brake stuff anyway...), and I cant even begin to think about crawling, wrenching, kneeling, and lifting. I'm even leery on doing a simple oil change and u joint greasing out of fear I'd be stuck under the truck, unable to slide out.
gettin old ain't for wusses, that's for sure.
This book will blow your mind. Easy quick read. Basically the food pyramid went into the government upside down and correct and came out as the pyramid and incorrect and that incorrect information has messed up an entire country when it comes to what we should eat because everyone trusted the government.
Amazon product ASIN 0984755128
Found this in 2010 and never looked back. Works for me, Everybody is different. Mostly paleo-ish eating plan.
How to Eat According to the Primal Blueprint
In my recent Context of Calories post, I explained how the different macronutrients we eat at each meal (fats, proteins, and carbohydrates) have different
Yep i've been a partial paleo dieter for many years, way back to Mark's website infancy and when he actually had time to chat with me about various things, lol. One thing I will say that' i've pretty much always said is everyone responds to certain diets differently. As long as you are being smart just about any diet can work for you unless your body type, genetics just doesn't vibe with it. That's why every diet out there has "tons" of info and data backing them up. For know though after keeping a two month food log with portion sizes, etc my doctor has said that my body is just naturally making too much cholesterol for it to continue to be healthy so I need to take out food cholesterol and change my diet for 3 months while keeping a log (food and exercise, that second one is proving harder due to shoulder, chest, arm pain) and then retest to see if there was no, a small, or a huge difference and then we can work on modifying my meal plans if needed. Its not like i've gone completely in the opposite direction just subbed out meat for smaller portions, better quality and more veggies which i've always loved. The hardest part is getting the right amount of fiber that my doctor wants me to get for these three months. Most high soluble fiber foods aren't paleo friendly.
Yep to a degree i've always lived with some kind of joint pain. Its a common thing with tall people like us. From massive growing pains to just being contorted into strange positions in seats, or other things that shorter people find normal, for hours upon a time and having residual pain from it. This, like yours I imagine, is different and just something i'm finding out I can't just work through in the gym or ignore, etc....
Sucks for sure
Yeah my biggest grip isn't so much the pain but the fact that I really want to get some projects done when time allows but just can't do it right now or I feel so bad the next day even typing at work is a pain.
Just another thing in life to get through and over.
@lt1fire Agreed on the eating plan per person. Everyone responds differently.
As far as typing most systems now have voice to type. New word has it over on the right, dictate. Pretty accurate. Google docs has it too.
And funny side note - the really young set that has grown up with siri and alexa will only do talk to text and supposedly that is going to cause issues in the future. Systems that were built for typing will have be fitted with talk to text in order for them to work.
As far as typing most systems now have voice to type. New word has it over on the right, dictate. Pretty accurate. Google docs has it too.
And funny side note - the really young set that has grown up with siri and alexa will only do talk to text and supposedly that is going to cause issues in the future. Systems that were built for typing will have be fitted with talk to text in order for them to work.
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Won't work in our document generating program..... that and i'd have to talk for hours which I don't really want to do LMAO. If me and my coworkers were sitting there talking at our computers all day I think we would murder each other before the day is out.
