so waht ya doin today?

Ian

Ian

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My grandfather had that in the late '90s, upper lids curled under and lash rash made him miserable and was scarring his corneas especially during REM sleep. A simple laser surgery tightened the skin right above the lash line and peeled the edge of his lids back into proper wiping position.
 
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obssd1958

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Went to an estate sale auction today, over in eastern Oregon. They had everything from a 1968 c10 Chevy pickup, to an almost complete leather and saddle making workshop, to reloading and swaging equipment, to guns and tools, and even sold the house and property. I got there at 10 AM and didn't leave until almost 4:30.
Didn't bid high enough to buy any of the guns, but I did end up with quite a few of the reloading and swaging tools and dies. Also bought two shelves of reloading manuals and gun books, including a couple of books by some Elmer guy.
Spent way too much, but it was a beautiful day to be outside!
 
Ian

Ian

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Dang, man, you're going to have to come up with a really good story about slipping on a banana peel after saving a young family from a carjacker....
 
JWFilips

JWFilips

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Well Last night I had a terrible night! I bet I overdid the yard work one day after my Chiropractor visit. Went to bed sore & took some Advil which usually worked. About 1 1/2 hours later work up badly hurting from my butt cheeks down to my ankles! in both legs. I couldn't move without crying out in pain. Karen got up and got a pill and said "take this or she would give a real reason to scream!!!"
Well I popped it in my mouth and laid back down and waited for the pain to subside. In 20 minutes I must have gone to sleep because I didn't move until 8 am when I got up! She finally came clean with the truth when we got up. She had some pain pills that she still had in the cabinet, left over from her knee replacement surgery. She had given me a Percaset ( spelling?) Knocked me out for the whole night.
She said she only use 2 pills after the first night & day after surgery and could not take more of them after that because the made her very ill. She remembered that she never disposed of them.
When I learned what they were I made sure to only use good old Advil and cut back on the strenuous outside work until I get through 5 more visits to the Doc!
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Sounds like you needed that kind of high octane pain med. Most of the Percosets that I've seen are a low to moderate dose of Oxycodone mixed with about 325 milligrams of Acetaminophen (Tylenol). Like most opiates, you may have to take in a little prune juice if you want to stay regular. Opiates apparently anesthetize the colon.
Don't know what the laws are in Penn, but if I remember right, in KaliforiaStan, you had to keep opiates in a lockable box or cabinet.
 
Brad

Brad

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Percocet is usually 5mg oxycodone and 325 mg of acetaminophen. It does come in a 7.5/3325 and 10/325 as well but the 5/325 is what is used well over 50% of the time.
It can be constipating as it does have the side effect of slowing the motility in the colon. That side effect is used to good effect in loperamide (Imodium) which is an opiate but it does not cross the blood brain barrier well and therefore at therapeutic doses it does not have a risk of any “high” or addiction.
 
fiver

fiver

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couple of bottles of champagne with that perc, and you'll sleep as well as stay regular.
hopefully not overly regular while your still sleeping.

somehow i ended up in Pokie again today.
seen the shortest car parade ever, went to a Rodeo for a while, stopped at a junk nobody needs fair, had lunch, then stopped at a farmers market that had a live band.
chit chatted with a very pretty young lady for almost a half hour about a few things, and will eventually end up buying some Tobacco plants from her, as well as a couple of hot [meh] pepper and egg plant plants.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Took my boat in for another sonar on Friday, picked it up today. Sometimes things you think you know for sure turn out to be incorrect. I always filled my trailer tires to 50 lbs. psi cold. I recently noticed the right side tire was wearing badly already with about 7,000 miles on the trailer. When I put my cheaters on and got on my hands and knees I saw I was supposed to be running 65 lbs. psi in them. I filled the tires to 65 lb.s at a gas station. That reminded me to work on my air compressor when I got home.
When I walked around the boat I saw monofilament line hanging out of the propeller of the 90 h.p. Suzuki. When I got home I pulled the prop and was happy to discover the line had not made it down to the prop shaft seal. Re-installed the prop and moved on to project #2.
That was cutting up 8 red, orange, and yellow bell peppers. I smoked half of them and put the other four in the fermentation jar. After the first 4 smoked for 4 hours they also went in the jar. Now I wait a month to let them ferment. The resulting sauce will be a smoky, funky, fermented pepper sauce with no heat.
Then I replaced the blown out head gasket on my Porter-Cable air compressor. When I unwrapped the graphite gasket set I found online, one of them looked like it had a hair across one end. When I attempted to pick it up it started to fold and a crack formed. One of the two gaskets in the cylinder head looked to still be useable. So I replaced the blown lower one and reused the upper gasket. Reassembled the compressor and test ran it. The used upper gasket blew out as the tank hit about 70 lbs. I tore it back apart, put a piece of electrical tape over the crack in the new gasket. Reassembled the compressor again and this time it held to the full 135 psi. Not sure how long that jury rigged patch will hold. I may contact the replacement gasket seller. I think the new gasket was already cracked when I attempted to pick it up.
Not a bad day all in all.
 
Ian

Ian

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I spent all day making a rammer for my Isaac Haines rifle, very last chore. Snakeoil had purchased three 20 some years ago and included them with the kit, they were perfectly straight and beautiful....but sawn instead of split. I grabbed the first one and bent it back and forth, working from one end to the other and about the third time I bowed it it snapped clean in half like a pithy stalk. On to number two, same deal. I saved the third one for other projects than rammers and grabbed the last wonky, wavy 3/8" one I had left from the extras I had purchased from Kibler. Worked it over getting the worst of the kinks out of it using an arrow wrench, put an end on it, pinned it, sanded it down to size, stained, and finished it.

Off to pack, leaving early in the morning to meet friends at the range two hours away and hopefully burn lots of black powder tomorrow.


 
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glassparman

glassparman

"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
Went to the Lexington, OK shooting range this morning in the rain. They have nice shooting tables under cover.

I got a couple boxes of Privi 7.5x55 Swiss in the mail so I had a huge itch to go try out my new-to-me Swiss K11 I got at the Tulsa Wanenmacher show a few weeks back.

I have determined that people don't bother picking up their brass. 9mm everywhere! I also found a box of 38 spl and a box of 357 brass both in their factory boxes, setting on top of the trash.

Maybe I'll start going out to clean the range every couple weeks to pick up trash and brass.
 
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