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Sandman

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  1. 10 hours ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

    Pop can be tiresome at times.  He has plenty of money at 75 but insists on telling me about how he bought a 3 pack of underwear for a $1 on Ebay.  If Mom was still around he wouldn't be this cheap.  

    I have a brother???

  2. My dad (70) had a procedure to see why the blood flow to his feet was so bad. He had a stent put in his leg a while back but his feet just won't heal (diabetes). He's already lost part of one foot and the other is looking poor.  Well, they decided that he needs to have a bypass in the leg. Either they'll use what veins they can salvage or they'll use some from a cadaver. This is a pretty big setback, we thought he was on the road to normalcy again. He just can't heal up. He also won't take care of himself, particularly his diet. He doesn't care for a diabetic diet so he just eats fast food all of the time. He know better, he was a medic for almost 30 years. He just doesn't seem to give a shit anymore. My sister lives a block away, so she sees him all the time and she's about at her wit's end. 

    I don't have a great feeling about this latest news. I fear this is the beginning of the end, he'll slowly just fall apart and then he'll be gone. I used to think he'd go another 10 years but now I wonder if he'll make it more than a couple.

  3. On ‎4‎/‎10‎/‎2018 at 8:33 AM, deadshank said:

    At the doc with wife so she can have a procedure done this morn.  

    Why do people bring their entire family to the doctor?  I’m not talking about a single mom with young children.  I’m talking mom, dad and 2 grown-assed kids in their 20’s.  

    And then they all get up together to go out into the elevator lobby and the reverse skate 1 minute later only to do it all again 6 more times in 10 minutes.  

    Sit down and quit going in and out the danged door.  

    (Daughter is pretty cute FWIW)

    I can only speak for myself but my sister and I go when my dad has a major procedure. He's not doing well and you never know if it could be the last time you get to talk to him. 

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    If this doesn't just reach inside you and crush you every single damned time you hear it, I don't want to know you.  I mean that.  If this doesn't reach you that way, you probably aren't someone worth knowing.

     

     

     

    C'mon, man. I'm at work, you're gonna make me look like a huge bawl-baby. 

    This show makes me think of my grandfather. He died a few months before I was born, so I never got to know him or ask about his service in WW2. My dad and his brothers said he wouldn't talk about it, except with his buddies he served with. 

  5. 1 hour ago, zman13 said:

     

    This bothered me also. There was news footage from the 80's from different sources (NBC, ABC, etc) and it all had the same translucent lines at the top. So they obviously took the footage and applied some filter to make it look "vintage". That crap bothers me. Just let the video be old. Why do you need to modify it to look "old"? I think they don't trust the viewer to realize that it's old so they have to add clues. 

    Honestly, I just assumed that they got a lot of this footage from folks that recorded this at home, and maybe one source with a shitty VCR had most of the tapes.  I know news stations keep tapes for years but they can't keep everything. Maybe some of the master tapes got lost or destroyed.

  6. 17 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    Sandman, hoping the first sentence in your post helps answer the last one. But, I can tell you the list of unhappy and anxious people that have everything on paper looking great is quite large.
    How many times have we heard, "He had it all. What could possibly have been wrong?"

    I'm not licensed to do anything except hunt, fish, drive a vehicle, and spray chemicals. That's it. I am going to be the very first one to admit I don't have answers. I won't run off because you are hurt, but the most I can do is some mental first aid. If I am at the car wreck I am getting the hell out of the way when the EMTs roll up. They are equipped with the training and tools to do the job. I am not. I can't fix anyone. I tried. For ten years I tried to fix my ex. I could compel her to go, but I couldn't make her want to. It took me a long time to figure that out. About all I can do is listen and keep pointing you in the direction of professionals.

    I really think it will. I felt like I was in a really good place after I was done with counseling last time. Maybe I'm like a car that just needs a new timing belt every 50k miles or so. Nothing wrong with that IMO.

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  7. I'm returning to counseling this week. I last went 2 years ago for my anger issues. I really feel like I've left those behind but they have been replaced with anxiety. I'm almost scared to leave my house sometimes. Driving is almost terrifying. Last night, I felt like there was an immense amount of pressure on me, not physical but emontional. And that's stupid, I don't have any real pressure! Sure, I have the standard suburban Dad BS: mortgage, car payments, ect. but nothing like REAL PRESSURE, like "how will I feed my family" or "I need to steal to afford my kid's medication". I'm in the best place of my adult life, personally and financially. So why do I feel like I'm standing at the bottom of an impending avalanche sometimes?

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