Cadillac Jeff
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Best to ya JW---hope yer brother get's well soon
so waht ya doin today?
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CWLONGSHOT
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RBHarter
West Central AR
Pulling for your brother .
My stepsons are facing a little harsh life reality , not to take away from JW at all . I didn't know the gentleman , he has been in poor health for a year or more , he was their grandfather on their father's side . He passed last night .
I guess he was about the only one including her X that treated her well at all .
Pardon the following as whatever it is and a coping mechanism ....
It funny all the people I've really known and spent time with that are gone were born 1901- War babies , depression babies , the greatest generation , and now the boomers are disappearing . Here I am "seriously guys you gotta take better care of yourselves I'm still raising kids here " . Then I realized that it's not only possible but likely for me to be a great grand parent in the next 5 years ...... How's that even a thing ? I mean I didn't even get here until lap belts were a manufacturer requirement for passenger cars . Then it occurs to me I'm closer to a 40 yr class reunion that should probably be a decade half school reunion just to get enough show up to make it worthwhile . Every now and then I check myself , my own mortality and all . Health wise I'm about 10 yr ahead my Dad . Never smoked , don't drink half of what he ever did mostly because I'm hung over with more than 3 bottles of beer . High BP from Mom's side and Stock Brokers syndrome .
I'm tired of being treated like a criminal .
I'm tired of being ID'd to pay my bills . Who the hell else is going to pay them ?
I'm tired of being called names . I wish they'd make up their mind whether I'm a racist bigot or a ni----- lover cause my 30 something fire is about to break my pushing 60 yr old hand on somebody's nose .
I'm really cranky about a vax pass even being a thing ........
Just let me be , you want me in a party arm band fine I'll wear my religious marker .
Yes by all means let's make cars so safe we can't get hurt , leaded crystal causes cancer you know .
It's probably a mid post midlife crisis , but it sure makes me cranky .
My stepsons are facing a little harsh life reality , not to take away from JW at all . I didn't know the gentleman , he has been in poor health for a year or more , he was their grandfather on their father's side . He passed last night .
I guess he was about the only one including her X that treated her well at all .
Pardon the following as whatever it is and a coping mechanism ....
It funny all the people I've really known and spent time with that are gone were born 1901- War babies , depression babies , the greatest generation , and now the boomers are disappearing . Here I am "seriously guys you gotta take better care of yourselves I'm still raising kids here " . Then I realized that it's not only possible but likely for me to be a great grand parent in the next 5 years ...... How's that even a thing ? I mean I didn't even get here until lap belts were a manufacturer requirement for passenger cars . Then it occurs to me I'm closer to a 40 yr class reunion that should probably be a decade half school reunion just to get enough show up to make it worthwhile . Every now and then I check myself , my own mortality and all . Health wise I'm about 10 yr ahead my Dad . Never smoked , don't drink half of what he ever did mostly because I'm hung over with more than 3 bottles of beer . High BP from Mom's side and Stock Brokers syndrome .
I'm tired of being treated like a criminal .
I'm tired of being ID'd to pay my bills . Who the hell else is going to pay them ?
I'm tired of being called names . I wish they'd make up their mind whether I'm a racist bigot or a ni----- lover cause my 30 something fire is about to break my pushing 60 yr old hand on somebody's nose .
I'm really cranky about a vax pass even being a thing ........
Just let me be , you want me in a party arm band fine I'll wear my religious marker .
Yes by all means let's make cars so safe we can't get hurt , leaded crystal causes cancer you know .
It's probably a mid post midlife crisis , but it sure makes me cranky .
Mitty38
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Prayers going out @JWFilips .
Looks like while I have been partying and playing you've been busy working at recycling @CWLONGSHOT . Silver cornbread, who'd a thunk it.
Card party is over they went home and took all the leftover venison.
Got to try out the Rossi earlier. Works good enough, I need to get it out more and get accustom to the sights and feel of the gun before Rabbit season.
Finally Got a new Lee 4die Carbide set in taper crimp for 9mm. So I can trash my rigged up, pieced together wore out set, and load proper.....
Sizing a few 9mm brass before laying down. Will primer tomorrow. Then have to cast some more 90 grain. Plus dig out the ones Fiver sent me.
As soon as I get my expander from NOE I can load 9.looks like that might be a couple months so may just try some loads without it.
Looks like while I have been partying and playing you've been busy working at recycling @CWLONGSHOT . Silver cornbread, who'd a thunk it.
Card party is over they went home and took all the leftover venison.
Got to try out the Rossi earlier. Works good enough, I need to get it out more and get accustom to the sights and feel of the gun before Rabbit season.
Finally Got a new Lee 4die Carbide set in taper crimp for 9mm. So I can trash my rigged up, pieced together wore out set, and load proper.....
Sizing a few 9mm brass before laying down. Will primer tomorrow. Then have to cast some more 90 grain. Plus dig out the ones Fiver sent me.
As soon as I get my expander from NOE I can load 9.looks like that might be a couple months so may just try some loads without it.
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery and prayers to your brother Jim!
RB- Echoes of my own thoughts!
On the drunks and druggies- I haven't given up on them, anymore than I've given up on the foster parent/adoptive parent program just because we haven't even hit the 50% (25%?) success mark with the 4 we took in. The problem I have is the same as the gun control/gun crime issue- the people who end up bearing the cost are not the criminals committing the crimes! If there was a way to take all these people, broken as they are, and put them in an effective treatment program with good success rates I'd be all for it. As it is, I almost got fired or trying to help a drunk with a wife and 6 kids who had the misfortune to also be a supporter of the losing faction between two Republican cliques while employed in a small towns highway dept. I'm a "rescuer" by nature. But sooner or later reality hits you in the face and your compassion level bottoms out. WE can't make them change, only THEY can make themselves change. You guys figure a way to mandate that that doesn't involve pain and discomfort, or at least the fear of same, and I'll vote for you, send you $$$, pass out your card, whatever. Until then we're stuck in a society that shut down the churches for the plague but kept the liquor stores open, that hands out free needles but not free insulin, that talks about how if we save even one life it's worth giving up an enumerated right but sees the right to kill millions of babies as an unwritten right in the same Constitution, that says masculinity is "toxic" but a 17 year old can wear a skirt, say he's a girl and then rape a girl in a school girls restroom!
I don't have answers to all these issues, but they are never far from my mind. I suppose I'm preaching to the choir and I'm also a real downer, but sadly, for you all, you're about the only normal people I have a chance to converse with. Lucky you! As RB said, pardon me for all this, but it's a coping mechanism.
RB- Echoes of my own thoughts!
On the drunks and druggies- I haven't given up on them, anymore than I've given up on the foster parent/adoptive parent program just because we haven't even hit the 50% (25%?) success mark with the 4 we took in. The problem I have is the same as the gun control/gun crime issue- the people who end up bearing the cost are not the criminals committing the crimes! If there was a way to take all these people, broken as they are, and put them in an effective treatment program with good success rates I'd be all for it. As it is, I almost got fired or trying to help a drunk with a wife and 6 kids who had the misfortune to also be a supporter of the losing faction between two Republican cliques while employed in a small towns highway dept. I'm a "rescuer" by nature. But sooner or later reality hits you in the face and your compassion level bottoms out. WE can't make them change, only THEY can make themselves change. You guys figure a way to mandate that that doesn't involve pain and discomfort, or at least the fear of same, and I'll vote for you, send you $$$, pass out your card, whatever. Until then we're stuck in a society that shut down the churches for the plague but kept the liquor stores open, that hands out free needles but not free insulin, that talks about how if we save even one life it's worth giving up an enumerated right but sees the right to kill millions of babies as an unwritten right in the same Constitution, that says masculinity is "toxic" but a 17 year old can wear a skirt, say he's a girl and then rape a girl in a school girls restroom!
I don't have answers to all these issues, but they are never far from my mind. I suppose I'm preaching to the choir and I'm also a real downer, but sadly, for you all, you're about the only normal people I have a chance to converse with. Lucky you! As RB said, pardon me for all this, but it's a coping mechanism.
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We are suppose to have a big storm coming in soon and there were several chores around the place that needed done before it arrived.
Well, the grand kids and great grandkids showed up yesterday and took care of most of them for us.
The garlic patch was tilled and planted.
Wood was moved from the pile to under the lean-to of my shop.
The leaves were raked from the lawns and hauled off.
Kindling was cut and placed in the shop for easy access.
Our great grand daughter and her friend planted the garlic and did some house keeping for us.
It is good to have close family members that help us as we get older.
Well, the grand kids and great grandkids showed up yesterday and took care of most of them for us.
The garlic patch was tilled and planted.
Wood was moved from the pile to under the lean-to of my shop.
The leaves were raked from the lawns and hauled off.
Kindling was cut and placed in the shop for easy access.
Our great grand daughter and her friend planted the garlic and did some house keeping for us.
It is good to have close family members that help us as we get older.
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
We---Mrs. G. & I often wish for family that is close to do all the wonderfullness with----but the one we think/wish for is never the one's that show up!---Mrs, G has never had kid's & mine from a VERY early age, 2 daughters.........
This is where I usually type a lot of stuff & then erase it......
I am a recovered alcoholic----9 years last sep.11 ----without recovery I would not be alive, I got real bad befor I got help...I am better for it but lost so much on the way!
Not sure where I was going with that????----but only that the prosess on recovery will work---but only IF the person seeking is really looking for it-- I now know all the things I can "never" do so I can do all the "allway's' do things ! Yes life is hard ----- kinda like alloy/ ya make it that way yerself.
Anyway I can tell ya this tho---- I am glad I found this place & finally joined up,!
Still coping, Jeff
PS-----any you guy's want to go fishin or go shoot some just let me know you are wellcome here!
This is where I usually type a lot of stuff & then erase it......
I am a recovered alcoholic----9 years last sep.11 ----without recovery I would not be alive, I got real bad befor I got help...I am better for it but lost so much on the way!
Not sure where I was going with that????----but only that the prosess on recovery will work---but only IF the person seeking is really looking for it-- I now know all the things I can "never" do so I can do all the "allway's' do things ! Yes life is hard ----- kinda like alloy/ ya make it that way yerself.
Anyway I can tell ya this tho---- I am glad I found this place & finally joined up,!
Still coping, Jeff
PS-----any you guy's want to go fishin or go shoot some just let me know you are wellcome here!
Cadillac Jeff
Well-Known Member
thank you
& that's all I have to say about that
Jeff
& that's all I have to say about that
Jeff
RBHarter
West Central AR
You have my respect JWG .
Growing up we had several recovered/ing alcoholics in our close circle .
My Grandfather was a habitual drinker out of routine . He just stopped one day .
My Dad smoked a while but quit in 1968 . He said in the late 80s that occasionally he still had the want of a cigarette and countered with a mental image .
One alcoholic friend drank hot water socially at Christmas parties and the like , a tool I guess .
Another just didn't drink , but he was the "don't offer me a drink if I can't drink until I pass out" . He was perfectly happy to just not drink .
In 8th health classes we were taught by I suspect a closet or recovery alcoholic . The information basically taught that if it touched your lips a second time and you weren't completely repulsed by it you were an alcoholic ........ I don't know what to do with that now but Ms and I drink so little , mostly because I get hungover so easy , that I guess I can live with being a practicing alcoholic ..... Pun and humour intended from the lighter side of a serious issue .
Growing up we had several recovered/ing alcoholics in our close circle .
My Grandfather was a habitual drinker out of routine . He just stopped one day .
My Dad smoked a while but quit in 1968 . He said in the late 80s that occasionally he still had the want of a cigarette and countered with a mental image .
One alcoholic friend drank hot water socially at Christmas parties and the like , a tool I guess .
Another just didn't drink , but he was the "don't offer me a drink if I can't drink until I pass out" . He was perfectly happy to just not drink .
In 8th health classes we were taught by I suspect a closet or recovery alcoholic . The information basically taught that if it touched your lips a second time and you weren't completely repulsed by it you were an alcoholic ........ I don't know what to do with that now but Ms and I drink so little , mostly because I get hungover so easy , that I guess I can live with being a practicing alcoholic ..... Pun and humour intended from the lighter side of a serious issue .
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
Used to drink my share of beer. Got type II diabetes, figured out real quick that insulin and alcohol don’t mix well…
Quick smoking 10 years ago but it still cost me part of a leg…
Lost 50+ pounds after giving up beer and cigarettes. I’m in better health now at 67 than I was at 47, got the medical test numbers to prove it.
Wish now I’d never started doing either one.
Got no problem with people that drink or smoke, as long as they don’t drink and drive. I respect other peoples personal choices, but I know what works and doesn’t work for me.
Quick smoking 10 years ago but it still cost me part of a leg…
Lost 50+ pounds after giving up beer and cigarettes. I’m in better health now at 67 than I was at 47, got the medical test numbers to prove it.
Wish now I’d never started doing either one.
Got no problem with people that drink or smoke, as long as they don’t drink and drive. I respect other peoples personal choices, but I know what works and doesn’t work for me.
JWFilips
Well-Known Member
Have not gotten any updates today on my brother....Thank you folks for your kind words of comfort.
Ridiculously warm here today! Used the day to store more of the summer items away.
Overnight we are to have 40 MPH sustained winds and will be at 30 degrees in the morning. Very crazy weather!
Ridiculously warm here today! Used the day to store more of the summer items away.
Overnight we are to have 40 MPH sustained winds and will be at 30 degrees in the morning. Very crazy weather!
