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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Come on bro bad, you're supposed to be @BadExample !
Thank you @GonePlaid ! That really made me laugh!
Good evening GOF's. Roll call, front and center! Report that all toes fingers and appendages are accounted for.... My what a trap we as guys can fall into sometimes.... tonight we were having dinner. Carey is feeling better but tonight she was kind of hurting. Well, I made the mistake of wanting to watch something besides Dr. Rocky Mountain Vet or Dr. Pol or animals. I said "Please no Animal House tonight..." well that's all it took-- she blew her stack! So I went for a drive to my office to get my new laptop set up.
I know most of you have probably already migrated to Windows 10 but I just got my Windows 10 Dell laptop set up tonight. It's taken me a month and a half to learn all the nuances of the operating system especially in a corporate environment... @BadExample you know what I'm talking about LOL. Well, the laptop is unbelievable. Intel i7 8th generation with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB drive. The thing has a solid state drive and the memory is DDR3 so the whole thing is just a little hot rod. And the laptop has a 12" screen, is about 1/2" thick, and weighs about 2 1/2 pounds.
So, I've played enough. I have to go home and make peace with the Boss and apologize for picking on her while she had a stomach ache about her animal shows. I always have to remember how lucky I am that she's still with me when I watched her helplessly while we flew in a medivac to Seattle. It makes everything else seem so trivial.
We're going shopping and poking through our little town tomorrow. I always enjoy taking Carey out and us riding around together. She makes a very good riding partner. We used to go on long trips together and I loved it.
The more I talk about it-- the more I want to get home! You GOF's have a good weekend, and I'll talk to ya later...
I know most of you have probably already migrated to Windows 10 but I just got my Windows 10 Dell laptop set up tonight. It's taken me a month and a half to learn all the nuances of the operating system especially in a corporate environment... @BadExample you know what I'm talking about LOL. Well, the laptop is unbelievable. Intel i7 8th generation with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB drive. The thing has a solid state drive and the memory is DDR3 so the whole thing is just a little hot rod. And the laptop has a 12" screen, is about 1/2" thick, and weighs about 2 1/2 pounds.
So, I've played enough. I have to go home and make peace with the Boss and apologize for picking on her while she had a stomach ache about her animal shows. I always have to remember how lucky I am that she's still with me when I watched her helplessly while we flew in a medivac to Seattle. It makes everything else seem so trivial.
We're going shopping and poking through our little town tomorrow. I always enjoy taking Carey out and us riding around together. She makes a very good riding partner. We used to go on long trips together and I loved it.
The more I talk about it-- the more I want to get home! You GOF's have a good weekend, and I'll talk to ya later...
All here, but with a lingering cough from the flu I had these past couple of weeks. Today is the first time I felt like pickup my bass to continue learning songs for a duo I am working on, with an old friend (he is a great singer and keyboard player). I may even play some guitar in the band.
It's odd. Even at work more people seem to get sick more often. Even the young people. Hearing them cough and sneeze etc. I don't remember everyone always having some sort of cold or virus when I was younger. It seems like this is in the last five or seven years.
Hope you have fun with your gig, @Jeff Scott !
We're all getting older, let alone, the grumpy fart part of it all! 
I mean, just look at me (my avatar).
I mean, just look at me (my avatar).
I've had Flu and one cold in the last ten years. I attribute a lot of that to daily doses of liquid Solgar B12 with B complex and 5k units D3.
Yup , fingers and toes all accounted for. Looks like the old band leader has decided he's not going to book around my new band and has given me my walking papers. It's amicable so no problem there. Heck , I already have almost as many bookings with the new band for this year as I had with the old band last year.
If any of you haven't heard of a band called Lake Street Dive , I highly recommend you check them out. Singer has the best set of pipes I've heard in a while and the stand up bass player will knock your socks off. She plays elec. bass too but I haven't heard any of her stuff on that.
Been lucky weather wise so far this year. Haven't had to break out the snow blower yet. Bunches of rain but no snow so far. (Sharky is furiously knocking on wood as he types this.)
Loving the new 2 12 AV so far. About five gigs under its belt and it handles everything the old 8 10 did with ease. Think I'll donate one of my 8 10s to Gatorbait the next time he gets back in town. Hehehehehe , he's living in Denver right now and freezing his nads off. (Still furiously knocking on wood.)
I know I don't post in here a lot but I have been following the thread. Hope all is well with everybody. Happy new year. Let's all try to make the best of it.
Wait.... what.....is that a snowflake I see outside my window?????? ****!
If any of you haven't heard of a band called Lake Street Dive , I highly recommend you check them out. Singer has the best set of pipes I've heard in a while and the stand up bass player will knock your socks off. She plays elec. bass too but I haven't heard any of her stuff on that.
Been lucky weather wise so far this year. Haven't had to break out the snow blower yet. Bunches of rain but no snow so far. (Sharky is furiously knocking on wood as he types this.)
Loving the new 2 12 AV so far. About five gigs under its belt and it handles everything the old 8 10 did with ease. Think I'll donate one of my 8 10s to Gatorbait the next time he gets back in town. Hehehehehe , he's living in Denver right now and freezing his nads off. (Still furiously knocking on wood.)
I know I don't post in here a lot but I have been following the thread. Hope all is well with everybody. Happy new year. Let's all try to make the best of it.
Wait.... what.....is that a snowflake I see outside my window?????? ****!
A good dose of vitamins never hurts.
If you want to get sick, maybe you’re not associating with the right people.
I hate it when I get on a crowded elevator or subway and some numbskull jumps on and starts sneazing all over everyone.
We put off going to the country this weekend because the roads looked they were going to be too icy.
Going through Christmas turkey withdrawl. Craving meat.
Going through Christmas turkey withdrawl. Craving meat.
Modern society:
Young people have had their immune system coddled by their parents. Never allowed to get hot, cold, rained on or touch a germ. Wash their hands ever 15 minutes. Eat out of a bleached kitchen. Then when they fly the coup and live on their own, they enjoy the freedom, no longer have the bleached kitchen and enjoying their new found freedom, shorts an T shirts in the winter. If still on healthcare from their parents, they continue eating antibiotics when they get the sniffles. They eat bad food.
Meanwhile, their elders, the 30 somethings, heat their house to 78F, go out into sub-freezing weather to a cold car, drive it to work, now shivering and heat the cars interior to 90F. Then park and walk a ways in the cold, building up body heat, go into the 72F building and walk a ways with their coat on. Then they have a meeting with the 20 somethings and exchange germs. They sometimes serve bad food at the germ exchange. They don't sleep.
The 40 somethings get all caught up in their mid life crisis and all bets are off.
Then the GOFs, have a naturally declining immune system and get caught in the crossfire.
I keep my house at 60F, run the AC all winter in the datacenter. Refuse to go to meetings. Now that I have a Jeep with heat, it might throw everything off!
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