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Yesterday I wanted to print something on my printer. The thing is the one with the big ink tanks that last for your entire life. It ran for 2 years. I hit "PRINT" and it said, "it has the wrong paper". I have been using that same paper since Carter was President. Then it said something about parameters, then WyFy. In other words, it just didn't want to work so I went and had a large Vodka because I can't deal with these things.
I just want a printer with a big "ON, OFF" switch on the front and a button that says "WORK" and the thing works. I don't want it connected to the internet, I don't want choices of color or black and white, fonts, italics, underline, orientation or anything else.
I just want it to print whatever I send to it, exactly how I send it. If I send it in color I want it in color, if I send black and white, I want it to print in black and white. I don't want any options and I don't want to see a screen. Just on and off and WORK.
No one seems smart enough to make a printer like that.
I just want a printer with a big "ON, OFF" switch on the front and a button that says "WORK" and the thing works. I don't want it connected to the internet, I don't want choices of color or black and white, fonts, italics, underline, orientation or anything else.
I just want it to print whatever I send to it, exactly how I send it. If I send it in color I want it in color, if I send black and white, I want it to print in black and white. I don't want any options and I don't want to see a screen. Just on and off and WORK.
No one seems smart enough to make a printer like that.
I don't think I've had a printer at home in over 10 years, lol. I do have a laptop I bought in 2019 because I owned a second business (Gym) back then and I used it for banking/paperwork, but I'm not even sure where in my house it is right now. I saw a meme the other day that said boomers don't realize that nobody under the age of 30 owns a printer (I'm 42) it cracked me up. I have dinner with my folks on Wednesdays and they often tell me about struggles they're having with things like their computer, printer, or stamps. Stamps? What is a stamp? Mail? that pile of fire starter the man in the white truck keeps litering on my front porch? haha. The only checks I have written in the last 15 years were the monthly rent bills I used in 2019 for that Gym I owned because they did not accept electronic payment.
Paul B
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So yesterday was an exciting and expensive day.
Our Daughter graduated college over 20 years ago and a few years ago went back to Fordham Law School and yesterday in Manhattan she was sworn in as a full-fledged lawyer.
That part is great. But we had to go into Manhattan to see this big deal 15-minute ceremony.
We now live on eastern Long Island, about 60 miles from the city. It is impossible to park there, so we take a bus. It's called "The Hampton Jitney" and looks like a Greyhound bus.
It was very cold and pouring rain. My wife is handicapped and uses a walker. I help put her shoes on and she wanted to wear these red shoes which I told her (Repeatedly) were no good for that type of day. Due to her MS her foot doesn't fall flat on the ground and the shoes kept coming off after about every 5 steps forcing her to walk with one shoe and I have to get down and try to put the stupid (Inappropriate) shoe back on.
Anyway, we get on the Jitney which costs about 60 bucks. The thing went fine for about 50 minutes, and it was bumper-to-bumper traffic, so we were not getting very far, but we traveled about 30 miles. We are going slow and through the rain and fog I see smoke. (We are in the last seats of the bus) At first I figured it was from all the rain, but now I smell antifreeze. We pull over to the side of the highway, and the driver gets out, and I hear him open the engine hatch in the back of the bus.
That is never a good sign. He gets back on the bus and informs us that it is stuck. He calls for another bus to pick us up, but it will take over an hour to get to us. GREAT.
We all get out of the bus in the rain and I asked the driver if I could see the problem. I figured with my shoe lace and my wife's shoe I could possibly fix the problem. I looked in, and it was a huge diesel engine. Antifreeze was shooting out of the cylinder block and head, so the thing blew a head gasket, which required the engine to be removed. My shoelaces and my wife's shoes were not enough to do the job, so we called a UBER.
We had to walk off the highway and my wife walks very slow, especially with one shoe. The normally 5 minute walk took about 20 minutes to get to a place we could wait for the UBER and we were cold and soaked
The car comes, $80.00. So we get on the bumper to bumper traffic highway and in an hour make it into the city.
We get to the Courthouse and go through the metal detector etc. And meet our Daughter and our Son N Law.
She is all decked out in her red outfit for the swearing in and looks beautiful. WE are very proud of her.
After the ceremony, we took them out to dinner in a Keens steakhouse on 6th Ave. Which opened in 1885.
I don't hardly eat steak even though this is the most famous steakhouse in Manhattan and looked for fish. They had one fish on the menu. Dover Sole which I like until I saw the price.
$70.00 for a piece of fish that looks like flounder. I thought that was a bit much so I went for the cheaper meal of "Giant" shrimp for $42.00. The 5 Giant shrimp were normal-sized small shrimp and they were almost ten bucks a shrimp.
My Son N Law ordered a $160.00 steak.
So it was a great day (almost) even though I could have bought a but load of Copperband Butterflies for the $700.00 + it cost me. Including the ride there
You may have to click on the Xs to see pictures. If you can't see them, just make it up
Our Daughter graduated college over 20 years ago and a few years ago went back to Fordham Law School and yesterday in Manhattan she was sworn in as a full-fledged lawyer.
That part is great. But we had to go into Manhattan to see this big deal 15-minute ceremony.
We now live on eastern Long Island, about 60 miles from the city. It is impossible to park there, so we take a bus. It's called "The Hampton Jitney" and looks like a Greyhound bus.
It was very cold and pouring rain. My wife is handicapped and uses a walker. I help put her shoes on and she wanted to wear these red shoes which I told her (Repeatedly) were no good for that type of day. Due to her MS her foot doesn't fall flat on the ground and the shoes kept coming off after about every 5 steps forcing her to walk with one shoe and I have to get down and try to put the stupid (Inappropriate) shoe back on.
Anyway, we get on the Jitney which costs about 60 bucks. The thing went fine for about 50 minutes, and it was bumper-to-bumper traffic, so we were not getting very far, but we traveled about 30 miles. We are going slow and through the rain and fog I see smoke. (We are in the last seats of the bus) At first I figured it was from all the rain, but now I smell antifreeze. We pull over to the side of the highway, and the driver gets out, and I hear him open the engine hatch in the back of the bus.
That is never a good sign. He gets back on the bus and informs us that it is stuck. He calls for another bus to pick us up, but it will take over an hour to get to us. GREAT.
We all get out of the bus in the rain and I asked the driver if I could see the problem. I figured with my shoe lace and my wife's shoe I could possibly fix the problem. I looked in, and it was a huge diesel engine. Antifreeze was shooting out of the cylinder block and head, so the thing blew a head gasket, which required the engine to be removed. My shoelaces and my wife's shoes were not enough to do the job, so we called a UBER.
We had to walk off the highway and my wife walks very slow, especially with one shoe. The normally 5 minute walk took about 20 minutes to get to a place we could wait for the UBER and we were cold and soaked
The car comes, $80.00. So we get on the bumper to bumper traffic highway and in an hour make it into the city.
We get to the Courthouse and go through the metal detector etc. And meet our Daughter and our Son N Law.
She is all decked out in her red outfit for the swearing in and looks beautiful. WE are very proud of her.
After the ceremony, we took them out to dinner in a Keens steakhouse on 6th Ave. Which opened in 1885.
I don't hardly eat steak even though this is the most famous steakhouse in Manhattan and looked for fish. They had one fish on the menu. Dover Sole which I like until I saw the price.
$70.00 for a piece of fish that looks like flounder. I thought that was a bit much so I went for the cheaper meal of "Giant" shrimp for $42.00. The 5 Giant shrimp were normal-sized small shrimp and they were almost ten bucks a shrimp.
My Son N Law ordered a $160.00 steak.
So it was a great day (almost) even though I could have bought a but load of Copperband Butterflies for the $700.00 + it cost me. Including the ride there
You may have to click on the Xs to see pictures. If you can't see them, just make it up
AZBigJohn
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Congrats to your daughter, Paul! And to you and the misses, for raising such a fine young lady!So yesterday was an exciting and expensive day.
Our Daughter graduated college over 20 years ago and a few years ago went back to Fordham Law School and yesterday in Manhattan she was sworn in as a full-fledged lawyer.
That part is great. But we had to go into Manhattan to see this big deal 15-minute ceremony.
We now live on eastern Long Island, about 60 miles from the city. It is impossible to park there, so we take a bus. It's called "The Hampton Jitney" and looks like a Greyhound bus.
It was very cold and pouring rain. My wife is handicapped and uses a walker. I help put her shoes on and she wanted to wear these red shoes which I told her (Repeatedly) were no good for that type of day. Due to her MS her foot doesn't fall flat on the ground and the shoes kept coming off after about every 5 steps forcing her to walk with one shoe and I have to get down and try to put the stupid (Inappropriate) shoe back on.
Anyway, we get on the Jitney which costs about 60 bucks. The thing went fine for about 50 minutes, and it was bumper-to-bumper traffic, so we were not getting very far, but we traveled about 30 miles. We are going slow and through the rain and fog I see smoke. (We are in the last seats of the bus) At first I figured it was from all the rain, but now I smell antifreeze. We pull over to the side of the highway, and the driver gets out, and I hear him open the engine hatch in the back of the bus.
That is never a good sign. He gets back on the bus and informs us that it is stuck. He calls for another bus to pick us up, but it will take over an hour to get to us. GREAT.
We all get out of the bus in the rain and I asked the driver if I could see the problem. I figured with my shoe lace and my wife's shoe I could possibly fix the problem. I looked in, and it was a huge diesel engine. Antifreeze was shooting out of the cylinder block and head, so the thing blew a head gasket, which required the engine to be removed. My shoelaces and my wife's shoes were not enough to do the job, so we called a UBER.
We had to walk off the highway and my wife walks very slow, especially with one shoe. The normally 5 minute walk took about 20 minutes to get to a place we could wait for the UBER and we were cold and soaked
The car comes, $80.00. So we get on the bumper to bumper traffic highway and in an hour make it into the city.
We get to the Courthouse and go through the metal detector etc. And meet our Daughter and our Son N Law.
She is all decked out in her red outfit for the swearing in and looks beautiful. WE are very proud of her.
After the ceremony, we took them out to dinner in a Keens steakhouse on 6th Ave. Which opened in 1885.
I don't hardly eat steak even though this is the most famous steakhouse in Manhattan and looked for fish. They had one fish on the menu. Dover Sole which I like until I saw the price.
$70.00 for a piece of fish that looks like flounder. I thought that was a bit much so I went for the cheaper meal of "Giant" shrimp for $42.00. The 5 Giant shrimp were normal-sized small shrimp and they were almost ten bucks a shrimp.
My Son N Law ordered a $160.00 steak.
So it was a great day (almost) even though I could have bought a but load of Copperband Butterflies for the $700.00 + it cost me. Including the ride there
You may have to click on the Xs to see pictures. If you can't see them, just make it up
Paul B
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This morning like all mornings I went for my walk. It was dark, pouring rain, cold and windy but those conditions don't concern a real Man. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:
I put on my yellow, full rain gear and set out
I started to see Earthworms and I like to collect them for my fish. I forgot my plastic bag and tweezers to make it easier to pick them up. But being it was cold, I put my hands in my pocket and found that I still had a zip lock bag from last year.
I didn't have a tweezer, but real Men also don't have a problem picking up worms so I collected about two dozen. I could have collected two hundred but this is a couple of months supply and if I get too many they start to croak.
I'm not sure if they starve, get lonely or miss Facebook so I don't want too many.
I got home and woke up my wife to tell her I collected a bag of mud encrusted worms to which she said "EEEEWwwwww, What are you going to do with them?" I told her I put them in her underwear drawer to warm them up before I put them in my worm box.
I will be making my own dinner for a while.
If you can't see the pictures click on the X. Or make believe the first picture if a rainy road and the second one is a worm.
I put on my yellow, full rain gear and set out
I started to see Earthworms and I like to collect them for my fish. I forgot my plastic bag and tweezers to make it easier to pick them up. But being it was cold, I put my hands in my pocket and found that I still had a zip lock bag from last year.
I didn't have a tweezer, but real Men also don't have a problem picking up worms so I collected about two dozen. I could have collected two hundred but this is a couple of months supply and if I get too many they start to croak.
I'm not sure if they starve, get lonely or miss Facebook so I don't want too many.
I got home and woke up my wife to tell her I collected a bag of mud encrusted worms to which she said "EEEEWwwwww, What are you going to do with them?" I told her I put them in her underwear drawer to warm them up before I put them in my worm box.
I will be making my own dinner for a while.
If you can't see the pictures click on the X. Or make believe the first picture if a rainy road and the second one is a worm.
Paul B
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Well yesterday wasn't a great day. Our handicapped elevator that I had installed for my wife croaked. As I was trying to repair it I heard my wife scream. She was opening an Amazon box with a big butcher knife and cut her hand right across the knuckle.
She needed stitches but I couldn't get her down the flight of stairs.
I managed to get her down with a neighbor which was difficult as she can't really walk and couldn't use her right hand to hold on because she was dripping blood and had to hold her hand up.
Of course I bandaged it but it was a deep cut so the bleeding wouldn't stop.
We managed to get her down and I took her to a Doc in the Box where they gave her 3 stitches.
Then I managed to get her back up the stairs and except for the elevator and some blood, all is well once more.
She needed stitches but I couldn't get her down the flight of stairs.
I managed to get her down with a neighbor which was difficult as she can't really walk and couldn't use her right hand to hold on because she was dripping blood and had to hold her hand up.
Of course I bandaged it but it was a deep cut so the bleeding wouldn't stop.
We managed to get her down and I took her to a Doc in the Box where they gave her 3 stitches.
Then I managed to get her back up the stairs and except for the elevator and some blood, all is well once more.
Paul B
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Good morning. It is a beautiful morning but I didn't get to go on my morning walk today. About 4:00 this morning, I heard my wife scream, and I found her on the floor. This is happening more and more now as MS doesn't get any better. If I knew she was going to get this disease I would have been a researcher because I'm sure I could cure this.
With a hundred years and billions of dollars, they are no closer to find a cure which I find "interesting" .
I don't know where all that money goes but I feel it was wasted. All the drug companies can come up with is a dozen or so very expensive medications that obviously don't work.
I realize there is little money in cures and billions in treatments but it is disheartening at the least. I don't think there is a treatment or cure for any neurological disease and nothing on the horizon.
Anyway, my wife is not heavy but I cant lift her any more. I think between my age, and some of my 38 or so surgeries on my shoulders, knees and back kind of screwed me up in that department.
Since she can't move her right leg at all and her right hand is weak, she can't get up or even get into a position where I can help her up.
After 15 or 20 minutes on the floor I managed to get her up on the bed. So at 4:30 it didn't pay to try to get back to sleep. I hope tonight is better.
My reef tank still looks like an algae farm and I don't even have the time to clean it or feed them every day.
But they will get over it and the algae will abate on it's own and all will be good again.
53 years ago.
With a hundred years and billions of dollars, they are no closer to find a cure which I find "interesting" .
I don't know where all that money goes but I feel it was wasted. All the drug companies can come up with is a dozen or so very expensive medications that obviously don't work.
I realize there is little money in cures and billions in treatments but it is disheartening at the least. I don't think there is a treatment or cure for any neurological disease and nothing on the horizon.
Anyway, my wife is not heavy but I cant lift her any more. I think between my age, and some of my 38 or so surgeries on my shoulders, knees and back kind of screwed me up in that department.
Since she can't move her right leg at all and her right hand is weak, she can't get up or even get into a position where I can help her up.
After 15 or 20 minutes on the floor I managed to get her up on the bed. So at 4:30 it didn't pay to try to get back to sleep. I hope tonight is better.
My reef tank still looks like an algae farm and I don't even have the time to clean it or feed them every day.
But they will get over it and the algae will abate on it's own and all will be good again.
53 years ago.
Paul B
Premium Member
I just looked through some of my posts and I realize, not many of them are about fish. I'm Sorry. I will try to post something fishy.
I think I posted this 10 years ago. But it could have been this morning.
Fish are Smarter than We Are
Why do I say that fish are smarter than us? Well, think about it, we as 2 legged beings can go forward, backward, and from side to side. Fish can do that too, but they can also go up and down, and they can do that just by thinking about it and barely moving a fin. If we get up in the middle of the night because we hear a noise or are thinking about that Victoria Secret catalog on the table (not that we would look at something like that, I am just using that as an example and I know if you ever did look at it, it would purely be for research) But whatever the reason, we would run into walls, doors, windows and the lucky few of us may run into a beautiful cat burgler. But a fish would not run (or swim) into anything. Why? Because they have a lateral line that lets them know what is around them even in pitch darkness. Ever wonder why you could never catch a fish by chasing it with a net? If someone ran after you with a net, I bet they would catch you.
Everybody here who has a lateral line raise your hand, Higher. Thats what I thought.
Have you ever gone fishing, and you sit there all day putting worms on a hook and you don't get one bite? Then you get disquested and throw the rest of your worms in the water thinking that all the fish must have gone to a Myley Cyrus concert only to see 47 fish come up to devour all the worms you just dumped in. It happens all the time. They know there is a hook in there. But how?
Fish can do something else that "most" of us can't do. They can change sex. Then, if they get bored, they can change back. If we do that, it is very painful, (I would imagine) only works one time, is very expensive and leaves scars, (I think anyway, not that I know anything about that or am judging anyone)
I have some fireclown fish, well I had one for a long time and I decided to get another one.
That first one was either male or female, I have no idea, But then again I rode the Long Island Railroad for 40 years and many times I wasn't sure if I was next to a man or woman, but I digress. This fireclown sat there in a broken bottle for years and just looked out the glass at me. He (or she) kept guard over a nest and he would keep it neat, blow away detritus along with arrow crab poop. And there wasn't even another fireclown for, Oh I don't know 15 miles (I am guessing) Then one day I added another fireclown and they both fought. I don't know if they both thought of themselves as boys, girls or politicians, but then after a few years they started becoming friends, then they were more then friends if you know what I mean. So one of them became a female. (I could tell by her eyelashes and she started to smell better) Now I don't know what possessed that one to change into a female, but I do remember walking in front of the tank in my underwear. I don't know if that would have caused the transformation; my wife just tells me to get away from the front of the TV.
So fish are not as stupid as we think. If you had no thumbs to hold a pencil, how well do you think you would do on standardized tests?
Remember, we spend thousands of dollars on fish, then spend more thousands on rocks, then spend hundreds on medications, test kits, books, etc. Then we spend $12.00 for tiny cubes of clam or mysis to feed them. What did a fish ever do for you? Nothing right! Except die, jump out or get ich, Pop Eye or swim bladder disease.
Fish can do many things that we can't do. If we put some food in the tank, they will find it right away, I can't even find anything my wife puts in the refrigerator.
If a fish loses an eye, he barely notices and goes about his life as if he just had Lazac surgery. They get along fine just by relying on their lateral line. Fish don't even have to sleep, if we go like 3 days with out sleep we start hallucinating about Paris Hilton or worse, her dog, but if you leave the lights on, a fish will just stay awake and, Oh I don't know, think about changing sex.
Another weird thing about fish is that tropical fish, for the most part, are beautifully colored. Why is that? Is it to attract a mate? to scare predators? to look good in magazines? No. Why? Because where fish live, the only color you can see is blue. If you decend down in the ocean about 40' everything becomes blue because blue is the only color of the spectrum that gets through that much water. (It is either 30' 40' or something like that, I am a diver but I never take a rueller with me and I forgot the depth that colors disappear, work with me here)
So all fish appear blue in the sea.
A copperband butterfly would be blue with darker blue bands, and red appears black. (I got a moray eel story with blood and all so if you didn't hear it, remind me) So their color is a mystery. The fish probably know why they have those colors but no one else does. Yes, I realize some people think they know, but trust me, They don't, and some people think they know everything.
Also while we are seriously thinking about this, why do fish from temperate (or cold water) have drab colors?
Ever see a bright red or blue flounder with yellow stripes? I didn't think so, but why not? I don't know, but I bet you never thought about it. I did. Think about it, people from tropical countries are not bright purple, yellow and blue, but tropical fish are. People from New York, Alaska and Greenland are the same colors as people from every where else. Why are fish so special?
Why are there no copperband butterflies in Florida? You would think with all the bilge water from ships some of them would get here as invasive species. But no, what do we get for invasive species? Snakeheads that eat everything imaginable, carp, that invaded every river, stream, brook, lake, sink, bathtub and coffee pot everywhere in the world. Those things could live on a damp sponge. Zebra mussles that clog pipes and taste like snot, Japanese shore crabs that snuck into every square inch of coastline on the eastern US, and lionfish that are eating all the small native fish. So why can't we get invasive copperband butterflies, square anthias, sailfin tangs, bangai cardinals, mandarins, ruby red dragonettes or Swedish Supermodels?
This is just one more thing I don't know. There is a whole plethora of things I don't know. An unimaginable vast expanse of knowledge I don't possess. I mean we could go on about what is at the end of the universe and we would all have different opinions, sort of like ich threads. I think at the end of the universe is a brick wall with tar paper on top of it, and beyond that are strawberry fields forever. Prove me wrong.
I guess we should save some room for your thoughts and then we could start on why invertebrates are smarter than we are. Well, smarter than "some" of us anyway.
I think I posted this 10 years ago. But it could have been this morning.
Fish are Smarter than We Are
Why do I say that fish are smarter than us? Well, think about it, we as 2 legged beings can go forward, backward, and from side to side. Fish can do that too, but they can also go up and down, and they can do that just by thinking about it and barely moving a fin. If we get up in the middle of the night because we hear a noise or are thinking about that Victoria Secret catalog on the table (not that we would look at something like that, I am just using that as an example and I know if you ever did look at it, it would purely be for research) But whatever the reason, we would run into walls, doors, windows and the lucky few of us may run into a beautiful cat burgler. But a fish would not run (or swim) into anything. Why? Because they have a lateral line that lets them know what is around them even in pitch darkness. Ever wonder why you could never catch a fish by chasing it with a net? If someone ran after you with a net, I bet they would catch you.
Everybody here who has a lateral line raise your hand, Higher. Thats what I thought.
Have you ever gone fishing, and you sit there all day putting worms on a hook and you don't get one bite? Then you get disquested and throw the rest of your worms in the water thinking that all the fish must have gone to a Myley Cyrus concert only to see 47 fish come up to devour all the worms you just dumped in. It happens all the time. They know there is a hook in there. But how?
Fish can do something else that "most" of us can't do. They can change sex. Then, if they get bored, they can change back. If we do that, it is very painful, (I would imagine) only works one time, is very expensive and leaves scars, (I think anyway, not that I know anything about that or am judging anyone)
I have some fireclown fish, well I had one for a long time and I decided to get another one.
That first one was either male or female, I have no idea, But then again I rode the Long Island Railroad for 40 years and many times I wasn't sure if I was next to a man or woman, but I digress. This fireclown sat there in a broken bottle for years and just looked out the glass at me. He (or she) kept guard over a nest and he would keep it neat, blow away detritus along with arrow crab poop. And there wasn't even another fireclown for, Oh I don't know 15 miles (I am guessing) Then one day I added another fireclown and they both fought. I don't know if they both thought of themselves as boys, girls or politicians, but then after a few years they started becoming friends, then they were more then friends if you know what I mean. So one of them became a female. (I could tell by her eyelashes and she started to smell better) Now I don't know what possessed that one to change into a female, but I do remember walking in front of the tank in my underwear. I don't know if that would have caused the transformation; my wife just tells me to get away from the front of the TV.
So fish are not as stupid as we think. If you had no thumbs to hold a pencil, how well do you think you would do on standardized tests?
Remember, we spend thousands of dollars on fish, then spend more thousands on rocks, then spend hundreds on medications, test kits, books, etc. Then we spend $12.00 for tiny cubes of clam or mysis to feed them. What did a fish ever do for you? Nothing right! Except die, jump out or get ich, Pop Eye or swim bladder disease.
Fish can do many things that we can't do. If we put some food in the tank, they will find it right away, I can't even find anything my wife puts in the refrigerator.
If a fish loses an eye, he barely notices and goes about his life as if he just had Lazac surgery. They get along fine just by relying on their lateral line. Fish don't even have to sleep, if we go like 3 days with out sleep we start hallucinating about Paris Hilton or worse, her dog, but if you leave the lights on, a fish will just stay awake and, Oh I don't know, think about changing sex.
Another weird thing about fish is that tropical fish, for the most part, are beautifully colored. Why is that? Is it to attract a mate? to scare predators? to look good in magazines? No. Why? Because where fish live, the only color you can see is blue. If you decend down in the ocean about 40' everything becomes blue because blue is the only color of the spectrum that gets through that much water. (It is either 30' 40' or something like that, I am a diver but I never take a rueller with me and I forgot the depth that colors disappear, work with me here)
So all fish appear blue in the sea.
A copperband butterfly would be blue with darker blue bands, and red appears black. (I got a moray eel story with blood and all so if you didn't hear it, remind me) So their color is a mystery. The fish probably know why they have those colors but no one else does. Yes, I realize some people think they know, but trust me, They don't, and some people think they know everything.
Also while we are seriously thinking about this, why do fish from temperate (or cold water) have drab colors?
Ever see a bright red or blue flounder with yellow stripes? I didn't think so, but why not? I don't know, but I bet you never thought about it. I did. Think about it, people from tropical countries are not bright purple, yellow and blue, but tropical fish are. People from New York, Alaska and Greenland are the same colors as people from every where else. Why are fish so special?
Why are there no copperband butterflies in Florida? You would think with all the bilge water from ships some of them would get here as invasive species. But no, what do we get for invasive species? Snakeheads that eat everything imaginable, carp, that invaded every river, stream, brook, lake, sink, bathtub and coffee pot everywhere in the world. Those things could live on a damp sponge. Zebra mussles that clog pipes and taste like snot, Japanese shore crabs that snuck into every square inch of coastline on the eastern US, and lionfish that are eating all the small native fish. So why can't we get invasive copperband butterflies, square anthias, sailfin tangs, bangai cardinals, mandarins, ruby red dragonettes or Swedish Supermodels?
This is just one more thing I don't know. There is a whole plethora of things I don't know. An unimaginable vast expanse of knowledge I don't possess. I mean we could go on about what is at the end of the universe and we would all have different opinions, sort of like ich threads. I think at the end of the universe is a brick wall with tar paper on top of it, and beyond that are strawberry fields forever. Prove me wrong.
I guess we should save some room for your thoughts and then we could start on why invertebrates are smarter than we are. Well, smarter than "some" of us anyway.
wvned
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Well time comes for us all. It always wins.
We watched too many of those doctor shows like Marcus Welby MD where anything could be cured in an hour.
I have been to 2 neurologists and 2 specialist neurologists and have 4 opinions from I just take the drugs for mood elevation to have more drugs to take between the drugs you have now. One thinks I have 2 things and gives me pills for both of them.
I had a brain scan with contrast. One says it's normal and one abnormal.
When the young people talk about science, I snort loudly. This gets me in trouble freqquently. I don't much care anymore.
Get one of those things that is the pretty stainless version of an engine hoist. You run a sling under her and then lift her hydraulically by pumping a handle. Rolls around.
We took care of my parents and they both passed at home. I am pretty sure we were the last generation willing to do that. I have a son that passes out if I get a bleed. I cut myself with a chefs knife and yelled for help. He ran into the kitchen and back out yelling he was going to pass out. I call what children get now pubic education because that's seems like all they know now. The mother of the twins has a digital thermometer she reads the bath water with. She cant feel it with her hand. She has no self confidence. One of our grandchildren is 5 and not potty trained yet.
The passing of knowledge from one generation to the next has been stopped. Monkeys and some other animals can learn to do things and use tools. It is never taught to the next generation. Only man could do that so our children could accomplish more than us. That has been stopped as near as I can tell. Medicals issues, car problems, general handyman things around the house. It's all becoming impossible to deal with because nobody knows how anymore.
I could go on....way, way, way on.....no point really.
The accomplishments of the people from the one room schoolhouses far exceed the people raised with computers everywhere. WWe are returning to the flat earth.
I wish you well Paul. Get some help to come in. If you hurt yourself lifting her you will both be in assisted living.
We watched too many of those doctor shows like Marcus Welby MD where anything could be cured in an hour.
I have been to 2 neurologists and 2 specialist neurologists and have 4 opinions from I just take the drugs for mood elevation to have more drugs to take between the drugs you have now. One thinks I have 2 things and gives me pills for both of them.
I had a brain scan with contrast. One says it's normal and one abnormal.
When the young people talk about science, I snort loudly. This gets me in trouble freqquently. I don't much care anymore.
Get one of those things that is the pretty stainless version of an engine hoist. You run a sling under her and then lift her hydraulically by pumping a handle. Rolls around.
We took care of my parents and they both passed at home. I am pretty sure we were the last generation willing to do that. I have a son that passes out if I get a bleed. I cut myself with a chefs knife and yelled for help. He ran into the kitchen and back out yelling he was going to pass out. I call what children get now pubic education because that's seems like all they know now. The mother of the twins has a digital thermometer she reads the bath water with. She cant feel it with her hand. She has no self confidence. One of our grandchildren is 5 and not potty trained yet.
The passing of knowledge from one generation to the next has been stopped. Monkeys and some other animals can learn to do things and use tools. It is never taught to the next generation. Only man could do that so our children could accomplish more than us. That has been stopped as near as I can tell. Medicals issues, car problems, general handyman things around the house. It's all becoming impossible to deal with because nobody knows how anymore.
I could go on....way, way, way on.....no point really.
The accomplishments of the people from the one room schoolhouses far exceed the people raised with computers everywhere. WWe are returning to the flat earth.
I wish you well Paul. Get some help to come in. If you hurt yourself lifting her you will both be in assisted living.
Good morning. It is a beautiful morning but I didn't get to go on my morning walk today. About 4:00 this morning, I heard my wife scream, and I found her on the floor. This is happening more and more now as MS doesn't get any better. If I knew she was going to get this disease I would have been a researcher because I'm sure I could cure this.
With a hundred years and billions of dollars, they are no closer to find a cure which I find "interesting" .
I don't know where all that money goes but I feel it was wasted. All the drug companies can come up with is a dozen or so very expensive medications that obviously don't work.
I realize there is little money in cures and billions in treatments but it is disheartening at the least. I don't think there is a treatment or cure for any neurological disease and nothing on the horizon.
Anyway, my wife is not heavy but I cant lift her any more. I think between my age, and some of my 38 or so surgeries on my shoulders, knees and back kind of screwed me up in that department.
Since she can't move her right leg at all and her right hand is weak, she can't get up or even get into a position where I can help her up.
After 15 or 20 minutes on the floor I managed to get her up on the bed. So at 4:30 it didn't pay to try to get back to sleep. I hope tonight is better.
My reef tank still looks like an algae farm and I don't even have the time to clean it or feed them every day.
But they will get over it and the algae will abate on it's own and all will be good again.
53 years ago.
Please excuse me for saying this in polite company, but you Sir, won the lottery there. She looks like a Hollywood Starlet.
or because I have to pee
I feel like you haven't watched enough of the news in the last 5-10 years
Ok ok I'll keep my politics out of it haha
you know whats funny is this is why I don't like testing. I don't like getting blood work, I won't want to know. I see guys like Arnold and Sylvester who did all kinds of drugs and steroids and are alive and well in their 70s+, Castro who was well into his 90s smoking cigars since age 13. Sometimes I think we're better off not knowing, but then I contradict myself and tell every single woman I meet to get their mammograms because in August of 2023 my wife had a bad one, leading to a mastectomy Dec 5th of 2023. She gets an MRI or mammogram every 6 months now and I wouldn't have it any other way because her health and longevity is so important to me and yet I feel like not knowing my own situation is better for my health. "do what I say, not what I do?"
@Paul B I love your posts.
Paul B
Premium Member
Wvned, That post was very deep and I appreciated it.
This line you wrote is so true. My Son N Law doesn't even know which end of a screwdriver to use to bang a nail in with. The young generation is totally lost. We send them to college so they can lose their common sense and creativity and the more they go, the dumber they get.
My Daughter has two friends who are married to each other. Both are doctors. Between them they have $500,000.00 in college debt which they will never be able to pay off.
No one wants to do any actual work any more. No one wants to get their hands dirty. No one wants to be a plumber, electrician, welder or carpenter. Those jobs pay more than most white collar jobs, you get a pension, free health care, normal working hours and a definite retirement date. What's not to like?
Instead they go to college for 10 years and come out to live with their parents because they want to be a computer programmer along with 8,000,000 other people. I just don't get it.
I didn't go to college, (there was that War thing) but with my high school education I have two patents and wrote two books, plus I never hired anyone to do anything and that includes all my plumbing, electrical, welding and cars (unless it was a warranty thing)
Life (and fish tanks) seem so easy for me except for the sickness part and helping our loved ones as we age. That is what is important. In the last 4 years I lost 5 of my close friends. We are all getting old, I just hope I can stay healthy enough to keep helping my wife.
Paul B
Premium Member
I am also well into my 70s.
Paul B
Premium Member
I think I did Dustin. But when I met her about 55 years ago, she looked like this, so how could I not want to marry her.
I was fresh out of the Army and came right home from Vietnam. My job as a mechanic at Oldsmobile ended because that dealership went out of business so I was on Federal Unemployment and had to do side jobs. I can't believe someone like her married a Lug Nut like me.I lucked out in many ways and our marriage is very strong. After 51 years we still love each other just like when we met and are also best friends. I would do anything for my wife and I think she would do anything for me. And now that we are a "little" older, that really counts.
(If you see an X, click on it)
We have been very lucky (except for that MS thing). We still have almost all our friends from high school and a few from grammar school.
We downsized and sold our house 6 years ago to buy this condo because it has no stairs, a huge pool and the ocean 90 yards away and the place costs half of what my house cost and the taxes are less than half. It was also brand new. Whats not to like?
I feel bad now, especially for young people because I think they just don't know how to cope. Maybe it's their parents fault for giving them so much. I feel my Dad dying when I was 10 instilled something in me that made life easier. (Combat kind of did that too).
I was a Sargent in a combat zone at 19. Todays 19 year olds are kids.
Today, kids don't get drafted, they don't go into the services and many live off their parents. I find that unfortunate. There is money all over the place, you just need to be a little smarter, cunning, neater and faster than the next guy. Most importantly, you have to be nice to people and of course do a great job and if you screw up, don't charge them.
We go to many restaurants and if the wait staff is friendly, we go back more often.
When I used to do side jobs, like plumbing, carpentry, electric etc. I would always go the extra step. If I had to damage a wall, I painted it, if I was working on a car, I would wash it or clean the engine. I always had way more jobs than I could do and had to turn away people.
Going to years and years of college will not automatically get you a good job. It's all a state of mind. You can make as much money as you want. It's all up to you.
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wvned
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I have told many a young man I know more wealthy people that started with a shovel who showed up when they said they would and did what they said they would do than ones that started with a college degree.
I have 2 college degrees. I got them after working 20 years. So does Jill. She is a pharmacist. I worked full-time while I was getting them and we paid for them as I went. We paid for our sons to go. A rocket surgeon and an educator. Jeanna had full scholarships for all 7 years. She has some loans but I do not think she will have any trouble paying them. She is a vet working in Nashville. She and her husband make twice what Jill and I did in our best year right at the start. They are having fun. He goes all over for his job. England, Australia, They just got back from Colorado. Jeanna can go too is she can get off.
Our 2 sons have homes and kids and all that stuff.
Time to go take the pills so I dont have to correct every other word I am typing.
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I have 2 college degrees. I got them after working 20 years. So does Jill. She is a pharmacist. I worked full-time while I was getting them and we paid for them as I went. We paid for our sons to go. A rocket surgeon and an educator. Jeanna had full scholarships for all 7 years. She has some loans but I do not think she will have any trouble paying them. She is a vet working in Nashville. She and her husband make twice what Jill and I did in our best year right at the start. They are having fun. He goes all over for his job. England, Australia, They just got back from Colorado. Jeanna can go too is she can get off.
Our 2 sons have homes and kids and all that stuff.
Time to go take the pills so I dont have to correct every other word I am typing.
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Paul B
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Wvned, thats because you brought up your kids correctly.
Our Daughter also bought her own car and first apartment. She worked and I find that the most important thing you can do. I personally would not take a nickel from my parents (when they were alive) If I asked my Dad for a few cents to go to a toy or candy store, he would give it to me, "after" I shined his fish scale encrusted shoes or did some other chore. That taught me the value of money.
When we wanted to get married we had a big New York wedding which we (mostly me) paid for with money I worked side jobs for. Our families offered to help pay for our wedding but I refused. I feel if you want to get married and have a big wedding, that is on you. Your parents should enjoy the money they worked for and I would be totally embarrassed if I took money from them.
I also bought our home 5 years later.
I also would rather give things away than keep them myself which is why all the profits from my 2 books go to Wounded Warriors or MS research.
At my age, I don't need more money, I need more health for my wife and friends as that is worth far more than money.
Our Daughter also bought her own car and first apartment. She worked and I find that the most important thing you can do. I personally would not take a nickel from my parents (when they were alive) If I asked my Dad for a few cents to go to a toy or candy store, he would give it to me, "after" I shined his fish scale encrusted shoes or did some other chore. That taught me the value of money.
When we wanted to get married we had a big New York wedding which we (mostly me) paid for with money I worked side jobs for. Our families offered to help pay for our wedding but I refused. I feel if you want to get married and have a big wedding, that is on you. Your parents should enjoy the money they worked for and I would be totally embarrassed if I took money from them.
I also bought our home 5 years later.
I also would rather give things away than keep them myself which is why all the profits from my 2 books go to Wounded Warriors or MS research.
At my age, I don't need more money, I need more health for my wife and friends as that is worth far more than money.
