Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[BadExample]

I have a genetic clotting condition. It is going to kill me before any other ailment you can name. Maybe tomorrow, maybe many years from now, just not today. So, I keep in regular contact with my doctor to make sure the rat poison levels are proper. I don't abuse myself, but I don't necessarily over-constrain myself, either. The avatar says it all: kick back, loosen the tie, push back the hat, and enjoy a cold one.

That sucks. A nice lady who just left my department has something simular. Shes a walking stroke victome. He veins in her brain are growing like spider veins like crazy. Reveiled by a headache that didnt go away then an MRI. Doc said she could have a major stroke tomorrow or live forever. So she went to grad shool.

 

[fnordlyone]

Yeah! What's up with them letting people rebuild in obvious fire zones! That drives up everybody's insurance!
This is what we hear every time a hurricane hits (it's been a long while, now-- this was just a land based storm): Why let them rebuild in a flood zone? I don't want to subsidize idiots living in a swamp! Touche' on much of it, but why rebuild a city in Tornado Valley? Why reopen Pacific Coast Highway, since every time it rains there are mud slides?
Hell in a hand basket, but don't cry for me! I live on high ground and my fall tomatoes seedlings are progressing nicely. I
missed a week of work because I couldn't get off the gravel road/canal (don't have a boat).
No, I will not be calling FEMA (those guy SUCK),
f!

 

[B-string]

Ahem. I haven't been here in awhile, but I thought I was #117? Have I been given the boot for lack of activity?

WTH? I really don't know how that happened? The list program auto updates and won't close without saving.

Please accept
#129 BEADG63 with my apologies.

 

[99Z3]

Took this photo the other day..

 

[BEADG63]

WTH? I really don't know how that happened? The list program auto updates and won't close without saving.

Please accept
#129 BEADG63 with my apologies.

No problem, Mr. B-String. But now I'm REALLY grumpy... #129 it is. I'll change my sig to reflect the new number. Thanks.

 

[99Z3]

I guess no one noticed that odd office door!

Took this photo the other day..
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[beans-on-toast]

Yeah! What's up with them letting people rebuild in obvious fire zones!

They turned a fire zone in my neighborhood into a parking lot.

A park next to it is a toilet for every dog on the street. Most owners pick up but you really want to stay off the lawn. I see kids playing on the grass. I never tell them to get off the lawn.

 

[G-Dog]

I guess no one noticed that odd office door!

The one with the spiral staircase to it? Yes, that is unusual.

BTW, one my bands in high school was called Spiral Staircase, in the 60's when it was hip not to use ''The''. Other band names were less catchy.

 

[Biggbass]

We hosted a family reunion last year. Our place is 3 acres with an aerobic septic system.
One of the guest dads is known for burying his face in his iPhone everywhere he goes and on this day sat in a patio chair oblivious to the world, until I walked up to him and quietly
mentioned, close to his left ear, that his 7 year old daughter was running thru the sprinklers. He looked up and shrugged his shoulders and went back to whatever he was
obsessed with on his phone. Then I added, "that's the septic sprinklers".
Now, between you and me, those septic sprinklers disperse 99% purified water. But he didn't know that. His reaction was priceless and maybe it taught him to keep an eye on his kid and put his damned phone away every once in a while.
Now get off my lawn!

 

[iiipopes]

I guess no one noticed that odd office door!

Office door? To me it looked like a fire escape.

 

[beans-on-toast]

...one my bands in high school was called Spiral Staircase, in the 60's when it was hip not to use ''The''. Other band names were less catchy.

Band names had to have a deep meaning in the late 60's. I was in a band called Transit. We came up with the name while standing at a bus stop.

 

[99Z3]

Well it could be.. i took that pic on the fly!

Office door? To me it looked like a fire escape.

 

[99Z3]

King Kong Lives!

 

[beans-on-toast]

When I was a kid, I always wanted a monkey. They used to have ads for them at the back of comic books. That and WWII surplus jeeps.

 

[99Z3]

And your submarine!

When I was a kid, I always wanted a monkey. They used to have ads for them at the back of comic books. That and WWII surplus jeeps.

 

[BadExample]

I'll have to find and scan pic of the pet monkey I had in the Philippines.

 

[beans-on-toast]

And your submarine!

Too big to fit in the bath tub.

 

[99Z3]

Swimming pool your parents had for those special get togethers!

Too big to fit in the bath tub.

 

[BadExample]

You could get seamonkeys and make them worship or get flushed.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Swimming pool your parents had for those special get togethers!

My swimming pool was at the YMCA. They didn't allow floatation devices.