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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. I matched my home course low-round with a 69 last Thursday. 16 straight pars, eagled the par-5 17th and birdied the par-3 18th. I'm 66 and hopeful that I can keep myself fit enough to shoot my age someday. Have any of you done that?

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  2. 8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Calling it nonsense is a great way to continue to stigmatize mental health issues in this country. 

    Maybe it's a poor choice of words, I don't really think so, but when my medicine is working I know that those thoughts were nonsense. It's when I'm stressed and those thoughts take over that I can't see how nonsensical they are.  Bourdain has been a favorite of mine for many years. This one hurts. Fuck mental illness.

    @cactusflinthead started a thread about this shit that helps a lot of us. I welcome anybody that is struggling to find it and join in the discussion.

    http://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/280-depression-ocd-and-whatever-else-ails-you-between-the-ears/

     

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  3. 13 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Are we really hoarding blantons now? Lolll

    I'm not hoarding it but I buy it whenever I find it for a fair price, $60 or so. I only find 3-4 bottles a year in KS that aren't marked up too high. I have 1 3/4 bottles on the shelf currently.

  4. 15 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

    I think I will not really ever retire. I will switch to hourly consulting and do 15 to 20 hours a week. I enjoy the technical problems but can't wait to be done with management. It just is a drag. My friend that opened the office with me is retiring in three years and is going to increase the number of cattle he runs.

    I do think outside interests besides food and drink are key. My dad plays tennis every day and said it's not enough, so he reads, attends music events, and does lots of traveling. Obviously you have to save enough to do that but retirement as just sitting around doesn't sound good to me.

    This is what I am going to do starting September 1. 

  5. 3 hours ago, BurntOrangeCrush said:

    Well, to be honest, I have no memory of either of my TBI's. Just the aftermath. I did have loss of executive function, and you're right, that's the worst part. Mine happened 7 years ago, and I have gotten a lot better. I have to take meds twice a day. My neurologist tells me that when you have a frontal lobe injury or when cells die, that after time, your brain redirects and corrects functions as time goes on. Initially I had to wear a leg brace because my foot wouldn't function properly, I had shitty balance, and I could not feel some skin on the left side of my body. 

    Then out of the blue, my foot could function and I regained some sensation on my left side.

    The brain is complicated as hell and every case is different. You have had a traumatic injury and your symptoms are a lot more complicated than mine.

    But don't lose hope man. The brain and body have a biological way of correcting and surviving. Trust your doctors and stay positive. That's the hardest part. I will send good thoughts your way. 

    Just chiming in to say that it can get better. Wife was in a car crash in 1988 and the first 5-10 years were pretty rough but her condition has improved to the point that if you didn't know her before the  wreck you might not know she had TBI. Her personality is WAY different than it was before and some of her senses have been jacked with. She can hear a mouse fart from 50 feet but she can't smell a damned thing. Hang in there SKJ.

     

     

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  6. Team PC as well. Having to shit in  a community latrine was my biggest fear of being drafted back in the 60's. Having to go to war played no part in my fear. Luckily, I drew a number in the high 200's and never got the call. Growing up rural, I can crap anywhere outside. Put up some walls and it changes everything.

  7. 14 hours ago, Longhorn Al said:

    It's in 3 different places right now due to lack of storage.  But my parents are building a barndominium as we speak, and will have the room to house the Scout. That way I can get it all in one place and work on it.  The last thing that stumped my progress was a bent shackle mount on the frame.  I need it cut off and a new one welded on.  I don't own a welder and have never learned how to weld (something I'd like to learn).  The guy building the barndominium said his guys would do it whenever we want.  That's one problem fixed.

    Nice. I was hoping that it wasn't abandoned. I just started a rebuild of my '75 IHC 200 3/4 ton 4x4. My wife wants me to restore it to look like her Fathers truck but the regular cab is shot. I have a Travelette body(four door crew cab) but the frame is too short to have much of a flat bed or box if I go that route. I'm scouring craigslist and IH clubs to find replacement sheet metal to take it back to original. I also have a '73 Travellall with straight tin but I would have to shorten the frame of the 200 to crash the two together. Decisions, decisions. I retire in September so I have several projects to keep me busy.

    I still have a few Scout parts laying around and have a couple of collectors in the area. When you get back to the rebuild, let me know if there are any parts you need and I might be able to help you out.

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  8. On 5/9/2018 at 9:27 PM, Longhorn Al said:

    BTW, installed the Flowmaster cat-back system with the Super 40 on my 2015.  It's not aligning properly, so I need to keep adjusting it.  The drivers side just sticks out too far.  Currently, I'm sliding the passenger side tip out so it somewhat matches, but I hate doing it this way.  If I get everything 100% seated and adjusted, and it's still off, I may just sawzall an inch off the long side.

    I was getting an average of 21.3-21.7 mpg on the highway before the exhaust.  Now I'm getting about 22.5.

    Whatever happened to your IHC rebuild? That's a thread that you should resurrect.

  9. My wife found out last night that her brother has cancer. It was found early, it is very treatable and his prognosis is good. But it shocked us both and made us reflect on our own mortality.  I have been listening to the Hip all morning. Fuck cancer.

     

  10. On 3/29/2018 at 6:43 PM, Chooky said:

    Had to wade into a creek to wrap a chain around a dead and bloated cow.  The oily, rainbow film of death juice floating around the cow was almost as awesome as being in the water while it was 38 degrees outside.  Ah, nothing like country life.  

    Sorry I missed this when it was fresh. It got me thinking about cattle and creek experiences. Back in '74 when I was a newlywed working for my FIL on his ranch, the wife and I went out after a big rain and high water to fix watergaps. I don't know where they came from but several of them had 8' t-posts. Too tall for me to drive in with a driver so I had the bright idea to put her on my shoulders and let her pound the post (sounds dirty but it wasn't). It was going fine until she locked her legs to get more power and choked me out. We went down in a heap and I had to get stitches in my scalp from the bigass creek rock that I landed on. Okay, let me hear yours.

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  11. I posted earlier that the pasture situation in the Flint Hills was looking dire because of the drought. Luckily, we have had some welcome rains over the last couple of weeks and the hills are looking nice and green. The stock ponds are still low because there hasn't been much runoff but maybe we have cracked the seal on the rain thing. There is nothing prettier than a newly stocked pasture with rich, green, post-burn bluestem. I need to go out this weekend and take some pictures to show you what  makes these pastures so special.

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  12. My golf cart, 1991 Club Car, was making a little noise because the muffler shell was full of rust holes. A new one cost about $200 so I took a piece of galvanized sheet metal that was laying around the shop and clamped it in place. She purrs like a kitten now and the repair cost less than $10 for high-temp gasket silicone and a couple of clamps. 

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  13. I have never spent more than $100 for any outdoor power equipment. Everything I have I picked up at garage sales or craigslist. I find what I want with an engine problem and it's even better. Small engines are remarkably easy to repair and ebay is full of cheap repair parts. I have a pair of John Deere STX38 mowers and spent $75 each. First one had a broken hood and the guys wife was ashamed to be seen on it. I've been using it for about 10 years without a hood. The second had a deck with rust holes and dents. A couple hours with a  welder and large hammer and it works just like it should. I can't imagine that a $$$ mower would cut my grass any better.

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