@BadExample good morning sir! We let you sleep in this morning for beauty's sake today.... was wondering when you'd drop by to create some mischief... 
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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I've been almost constantly working, sleeping or sick. Sometime all three at once! Feeling better now... for about a day. I've been on and off here, mostly heckling or just reading. Got some cool documentaries watched over the past few weeks.
Aviation fans, check out the Nevada Triangle on netflix.
Aviation fans, check out the Nevada Triangle on netflix.
My my, we are in top form today GOF's. Did we all have our Wheaties?
No, MiraLax.
Thanks, I'll check it out tonight.
I've found that between Comcast raising our bill again, causing me to cut back on their cable TV services and signing up for Netflix and Amazon Prime, I hardly watch regular TV at all any more.
We watch lots of cable. I'm watching lots of war history on Netflix. Everything goes up in price except wages and retirement funds!
Cable has a strangle hold on TV. The local Fox Sports channel got in a spitting match with our cable provider so now our local Seahawks fans can't watch football live, and both the station and the cable provider are blaming the other. Big business doesn't care who gets stomped in their turf wars. Consumer always loses.
Watching more Netflix myself, I'm so sick of the endless idiocy of commercials on "lower channels." I've developed an interest in watching WWI documentaries which I find on Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Youtube TV. It was the first "modern" war and the level of hideous physical casualties was overwhelming. The weapon technology was too far advanced against the war protection technology. It's interesting to me to see how people lived such simple, analog lives, I almost feel like Robert Duvall in Twilight Zone's "Dollhouse" episode, where he stares into a turn of the century dollhouse and dreams of being there living that life.
Back to your regular programming... (pun intended)...
Cable has a strangle hold on TV. The local Fox Sports channel got in a spitting match with our cable provider so now our local Seahawks fans can't watch football live, and both the station and the cable provider are blaming the other. Big business doesn't care who gets stomped in their turf wars. Consumer always loses.
Watching more Netflix myself, I'm so sick of the endless idiocy of commercials on "lower channels." I've developed an interest in watching WWI documentaries which I find on Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Youtube TV. It was the first "modern" war and the level of hideous physical casualties was overwhelming. The weapon technology was too far advanced against the war protection technology. It's interesting to me to see how people lived such simple, analog lives, I almost feel like Robert Duvall in Twilight Zone's "Dollhouse" episode, where he stares into a turn of the century dollhouse and dreams of being there living that life.
Back to your regular programming... (pun intended)...
We dropped cable in 1996. Best thing we ever did, next to having kids...
Now have paid subscriptions to Netflix, Crave and Amazon.
Add in YouTube, and that’s way more video than I can be bothered to keep up with.
YouTube gets a lot less viewing now that ads have gotten so intrusive. Clicked on a music video that had non-skippable ads at multiple points in the middle.
Not a music interview or a full-length concert, but a single song. Does it get any ruder and dumber than that?
Now have paid subscriptions to Netflix, Crave and Amazon.
Add in YouTube, and that’s way more video than I can be bothered to keep up with.
YouTube gets a lot less viewing now that ads have gotten so intrusive. Clicked on a music video that had non-skippable ads at multiple points in the middle.
Not a music interview or a full-length concert, but a single song. Does it get any ruder and dumber than that?
It took a stroke to get my attention! Been 12 years now no cigs but gotta have my black coffee and a couple nice sized Dirty Martinis before dinner. I do my best creative thinking during that time. I call that my "martini inspirations".
Thanks
Guy
I envy you. If I drink any hard liquor I have to go out to the shed to do it... until she's in bed.... lol..
I don't have a problem with hard liquor. It has a problem with me. It messes with my ability to move about, speak, or even sit in a chair. So I leave it alone nowadays.
I just carried 4 15's and 3 12's in their shipping boxes up to the attic. It's finally warmer and I feel better at the same time. I had to rest for a while. Now back at it. No where's that bottle?
Well, I'm grumpy as hell and apparently old (not farty at the moment though) cuz in about 12 hours I report to my dentist's office to have 2 teeth yanked out and an expensive but temporary bridge installed. There may be some bone grafting involved too, but won't know until they dig into my lower jaw. Then in 8 weeks, once my mouth it healed up from that onslaught, they do impressions for a permanent bridge and when that's ready they'll grind down a couple teeth on each side of the gap and cement the permanent bridge in and I'll owe the dentist about $10,000. No guarantee that I won't lose more teeth in the coming years either. I wonder at what point it's more economical to just have 'em all yanked out and replaced with full dentures.
Getting old really sucks sometime.
Getting old really sucks sometime.
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Lesson learned from observing and listening to those who came before me (and have sadly passed on)...keep every tooth you can, for as long as you can, even if they are mostly prosthetic replacement parts...dentures are no fun and bring with them their own set of issues. The only down side is that following this advice is often seriously expensive!
I checked into dental insurance when this all came up. They wouldn't cover this stuff and even if they did, the "best" policy I found capped the yearly benefits at $1500. I would have blown through that in my first appointment.
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It's REALLY important to read all of the details concerning dental insurance. They typically cover everything... except for all the stuff they don't cover
It's REALLY important to read all of the details concerning dental insurance. They typically cover everything... except for all the stuff they don't cover
Dentists are a bunch of Yankees..wait, WE are the Yankees, they are the Yankers
I can now say from experience that tooth extractions are not on my bucket list, but right at the top of my f__k-it list. Even with multiple Novocaine shots and the assistant graciously getting me higher than a kite on the gas, I hope to avoid repeating the experience ever again. Still not much fun tonight either. Glad I still had some Norco pills left after my last surgery.
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