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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Say what you want, but Adam West will always be Batman to me. Yeah, it was campy, but when I think of Batman, I picture the later Mr. West.
Last night , I reached the end of an era for me. Well , sort of. I mean , probably not completely , but mostly. (Dang it Sharky , quit your darn blithering and get to the point.) This was one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make in a while. Staring over the precipice into something unknown for me. Any way , last night , I finally retired my faithful servant of over 16 years. He had severe limitations and wasn't even slightly technologically capable. He couldn't use a camera or a map and had not even the slightest clue what the internet was. He couldn't understand simple conversation and had to have every command individually inputted into him. Sometimes I would have to hit him in the same spot 4 or 5 times just to make a point. Even with all of his limitations , I will miss him dearly. He had accompanied me on all my travels. He went with me to all my construction sites and weathered all of the pit falls involved there. Falls , drops and being laid on when he couldn't get out of the way. He survived baking sun , freezing rain and even being dropped into wet concrete. He was so old that absolutely NO information could be retrieved from him. Yes , last night , I finally retired my trusty old flip phone.
So I have entered a new age now. I can take pictures , videos , access maps and even the internet in addition to making calls and texts. So what incredible piece of modern technology did I replace him with. Another flip phone. This dinosaur isn't extinct just yet. Besides , since I'm still working construction , I need something that will fit in a pocket and cant be destroyed by a ham handed plumber.
So I have entered a new age now. I can take pictures , videos , access maps and even the internet in addition to making calls and texts. So what incredible piece of modern technology did I replace him with. Another flip phone. This dinosaur isn't extinct just yet. Besides , since I'm still working construction , I need something that will fit in a pocket and cant be destroyed by a ham handed plumber.
Last night , I reached the end of an era for me. Well , sort of. I mean , probably not completely , but mostly. (Dang it Sharky , quit your darn blithering and get to the point.) This was one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make in a while. Staring over the precipice into something unknown for me. Any way , last night , I finally retired my faithful servant of over 16 years. He had severe limitations and wasn't even slightly technologically capable. He couldn't use a camera or a map and had not even the slightest clue what the internet was. He couldn't understand simple conversation and had to have every command individually inputted into him. Sometimes I would have to hit him in the same spot 4 or 5 times just to make a point. Even with all of his limitations , I will miss him dearly. He had accompanied me on all my travels. He went with me to all my construction sites and weathered all of the pit falls involved there. Falls , drops and being laid on when he couldn't get out of the way. He survived baking sun , freezing rain and even being dropped into wet concrete. He was so old that absolutely NO information could be retrieved from him. Yes , last night , I finally retired my trusty old flip phone.
So I have entered a new age now. I can take pictures , videos , access maps and even the internet in addition to making calls and texts. So what incredible piece of modern technology did I replace him with. Another flip phone. This dinosaur isn't extinct just yet. Besides , since I'm still working construction , I need something that will fit in a pocket and cant be destroyed by a ham handed plumber.
I'm with ya brother. Keep on flippin'!
For a while here I thought this was going to be an old car story. Right up to the wet concreteLast night , I reached the end of an era for me. Well , sort of. I mean , probably not completely , but mostly. (Dang it Sharky , quit your darn blithering and get to the point.) This was one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make in a while. Staring over the precipice into something unknown for me. Any way , last night , I finally retired my faithful servant of over 16 years. He had severe limitations and wasn't even slightly technologically capable. He couldn't use a camera or a map and had not even the slightest clue what the internet was. He couldn't understand simple conversation and had to have every command individually inputted into him. Sometimes I would have to hit him in the same spot 4 or 5 times just to make a point. Even with all of his limitations , I will miss him dearly. He had accompanied me on all my travels. He went with me to all my construction sites and weathered all of the pit falls involved there. Falls , drops and being laid on when he couldn't get out of the way. He survived baking sun , freezing rain and even being dropped into wet concrete. He was so old that absolutely NO information could be retrieved from him. Yes , last night , I finally retired my trusty old flip phone.
So I have entered a new age now. I can take pictures , videos , access maps and even the internet in addition to making calls and texts. So what incredible piece of modern technology did I replace him with. Another flip phone. This dinosaur isn't extinct just yet. Besides , since I'm still working construction , I need something that will fit in a pocket and cant be destroyed by a ham handed plumber.
. Yep, there are still flip phones out there. Some people are returning to them after buying smartphones and deciding that's too much connectedness.
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Any who can see my phone on the interwaves or however it works sees Gwen's Sonic Screwdriver.
Presale for Dead & Company tickets began today as I found my way to vascular imaging. Blood pressure cuffs on both arms, both ankles and both great toes. And some ultrasound probing with the machine that goes PING it's not an exclamation point it's a bang so we have Ping bang bang
Confirming there is definitely blood circulation happening, from what I saw and heard. Even swish swish noises recorded. Did not wonder until now what kind of groove I can pull from my pulse. Looked up this moment to see a cardinal directly in my point of view. Not much for avian taxonomy, but the red is pretty much a giveaway. Here's to Cardinal Puff for the first time this evening.
Presale for Dead & Company tickets began today as I found my way to vascular imaging. Blood pressure cuffs on both arms, both ankles and both great toes. And some ultrasound probing with the machine that goes PING it's not an exclamation point it's a bang so we have Ping bang bang
Confirming there is definitely blood circulation happening, from what I saw and heard. Even swish swish noises recorded. Did not wonder until now what kind of groove I can pull from my pulse. Looked up this moment to see a cardinal directly in my point of view. Not much for avian taxonomy, but the red is pretty much a giveaway. Here's to Cardinal Puff for the first time this evening.
Memory loss is a fact of life for me. Let me tell you about yesterday. Needed to go to Walmart for Claritin, Our drug store to pick up prescriptions and post a birthday card at the in store post office. That was the plan.
Picked up my keys from the peg in the kitchen. Put on my coat and boots. Couldn't remember where I put the keys. After looking around the areas of the house where I had been I found them in the pocket of my jeans!
Went out to my Jeep and put the empty shopping bags in the back. Got into the drivers seat and drove to Walmart. After, I couldn't remember what I had done with the Birthday card. Drove home to search for it. Looked in the back of the Jeep and eventually found it under the bags I had loaded! The rest of the plan fell into place, luckily. It took me two hours to do half an hours errands.
Picked up my keys from the peg in the kitchen. Put on my coat and boots. Couldn't remember where I put the keys. After looking around the areas of the house where I had been I found them in the pocket of my jeans!
Went out to my Jeep and put the empty shopping bags in the back. Got into the drivers seat and drove to Walmart. After, I couldn't remember what I had done with the Birthday card. Drove home to search for it. Looked in the back of the Jeep and eventually found it under the bags I had loaded! The rest of the plan fell into place, luckily.
It took me two hours to do half an hours errands.
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Memory loss is a fact of life for me. Let me tell you about yesterday. Needed to go to Walmart for Claritin, Our drug store to pick up prescriptions and post a birthday card at the in store post office. That was the plan.
Picked up my keys from the peg in the kitchen. Put on my coat and boots. Couldn't remember where I put the keys. After looking around the areas of the house where I had been I found them in the pocket of my jeans!
Went out to my Jeep and put the empty shopping bags in the back. Got into the drivers seat and drove to Walmart. After, I couldn't remember what I had done with the Birthday card. Drove home to search for it. Looked in the back of the Jeep and eventually found it under the bags I had loaded! The rest of the plan fell into place, luckily.
It could have been worse. Your errant behaviour might have been to forget to put on your pants and wind up being handed your cards and pinched at Walmart for carrying your packages while being in your birthday suit.
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My wife came to me a while back, after dunking her 3rd iPhone in less than a year.
Her requirements?
- Full-on waterproofing.
- Armoured and nearly impossible to break.
- Easy on her aging eyes.
- Cheap.
Ulephone Armor 6. It was cheap (under $200), Chinese, and rather crappy:
- Good camera, but no HDR or digital stabilization.
- Slow-ish processor.
- Huge.
- Heavy.
She loves it.
There are videos of them being run over by cars, dropped into pools, etc. A year-odd later, it has a few scratches but it's still going strong.
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Yesterday?......
Stop that!
What!?! "Not supposed to use exclamation points anymore"!?! What's up wit dat!?! Who sez?!? And why for not!?! I gots to know! I can't live, if living is without them!!
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True story:
My first wife was a grade school teacher, and had a thing about wrinkles. Ironed her work clothes every morning, and always left her skirt off until just before she had to run for the bus.
One morning in February, she heads off into a blizzard.
She's standing shivering at the bus stop. Got her hood pulled down over her eyes, heavy boots, sheepskin mittens, briefcase wrapped in a plastic bag, etc.
An old guy walks up, points down at her bare legs under her slip, and says "It's a bit breezy for that, isn't it?"
Hey!....We could have the makings of a mediocre song here.....All my troubles were so far away.
As a kid I used to have bad dreams of going to school and forgetting my pants. That and they changed the seating plan on a day that I was home sick.
I retired 14 years ago after 32 years as a teacher. My recurring bad dream is that they've remodeled the school, and I can't find my own classroom. A couple of my fellow retirees have the same dream.
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The editor of a newspaper I hold no mean acquaintance with had a chronic case of short fuse temper. One day he blew his stack bigly enough to leave the building and walk it off. When he returned - rather a long time later - he was even angrier than when he left. For he left without ID and the fine constabulary picked him up as a match for a missing Alzheimer's patient.
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I bought the video of "So Far" (this is an excerpt, it's a groove of an hour to spend) before I actually owned something I could play it on. Asked the biker dude next door if he's like to see it and made friends on the spot.
... edit now that I see it (Bobby's shirt looked familiar) I realize I was at that show. New Year's Eve it was and I got a kiss at midnight
The DVD and CD of this are firmly in my collection and I don't have trouble watching. It's a peak show.
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