Hello, Geezer coming back to this forum. Paul B

Nice beach walk this morning. It was a dead, moon low tide. But no amphipods. It may be a little early in the season but those dead low tides only happen maybe twice a summer at the time I walk the beach, so I hope the amphipods return soon.

They may be a little to cold or worrying about the tariffs but I want to see millions soon
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Dustin07 said:
ha yes I know, I was just making a point that sometimes good habits and bad habits don't necessarily indicate our futures. I sometimes think the stress of knowing something can be worse than the something itself... (sometimes)
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This is true Dustin. As I get older I think of other things than I thought of even 20 years ago. Most of our lives we think about earning money, then think of the best way to spend it. Should we go on a vacation, buy another car, save for the kids college, buy a copperband butterfly etc.

At my age, I no longer think about money as I have enough. That may sound odd to some people but there are now things much more important. Of course, I worked hard from the time I was 12 and picked a profession where I would have a pension and put away money when I did side jobs.

My tank can't use anything else, I have 2 cars and my house is paid off. My Daughter graduated college 20 years ago and my Grand Kids certainly don't need me for financial support, but I hope someone instills some work ethic and Patriotism in them.

We don't go on too many long trips now due to my wife's MS. It is very hard to travel although we just went to Florida for 5 days. But it was difficult.

Kids have it way too easy now, and it is our fault. There is nothing wrong with working for what you want and not taking from your parents.
(I find that embarrassing, especially if your parents buy you a car)

My Daughter knows the most important thing I like in a person, is self-sufficiency. If I croak tomorrow, I know she won't need me as she always made her own money.

I don't believe in welfare except if you are too old to work, to sick or to injured. Everyone else on welfare who shouldn't be on it I feel should starve because I don't want to feed those people. Get a job like I did and if you have a reef tank and your on welfare, I don't want to talk to you :cool:
 
I think you and I see eye to eye on a lot of these things. I have high hopes for this new younger generation (Z), I'm seeing good things in them. much better than young millennials (I'm pinched between the oldest millennials and gen X, so I choose to identify as Gen X haha).

But:

Paul B said:
Kids have it way too easy now, and it is our fault. There is nothing wrong with working for what you want and not taking from your parents.
(I find that embarrassing, especially if your parents buy you a car)
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I am really confused by young people who choose to stay at home, move back home, or borrow from home. I always wanted independence but one of the things I'm seeing in the young gen, among those who are self sustaining, is not always that they mooch, but they are also seemingly content with less. There's lots of discussion on the plummet of fertility and testosterone in this generation and that could be part of it, but I have heard many people tell me how it's not possible for young people today to buy a home. I live in one of the most expensive regions in the States and I look at real estate all the time, and to be honest it's 100% possible for a person in their 20s to buy a home IF THEY WANT TO. When my ex and I bought our first house, I was 20 years old. There were 3 homes in our county that I could find within my price range (probably over 100 homes that a bank would lend me on). I picked the one in my home town and began my equity building journey.

Today I have a lot of kids in their 20s in my social circle, three of them are my step kids. They 100% could buy a home in puget sound if they wanted to. But they either don't want to go through the process, or don't want to commit, or don't want to "settle" for a "starter" home.

so I don't have a lot of sympathy for that. My first house was 540sq feet, one bedroom. We had 2 dogs and I had an electronic drum kit that I could fold up and put against the wall. I had a falling down 1 car garage built for a Model T back in 1910 that a logger used, and a BBQ on my backyard gravel driveway that faced the alley. a little picket fence, a shed, a peach tree, and a 20 year old wife. I do not for the life of me understand how anyones life is better than that.

Maybe the American dream itself isn't unattainable, it's just that peoples dreams have changed.
 
That is true Dustin. You can buy anything you want if your not to lazy and have a little ambition. I bought my first house when I was 29 I think. That was in 1979. I was an apprentice electrician making minimum wage which was $1.25 an hour. At that time, my house in Nassau Long Island cost me about $79,000.00 which sounds cheap today but most of my friends paid less than $30,000.00 for their homes. My first house recently sold for $1,000,200.00

That was 6 years after I sold it and moved to this smaller condo. I wouldn't want to pay for that now. It would cut into my copperband budget. 😁
 
Paul B said:
That is true Dustin. You can buy anything you want if your not to lazy and have a little ambition. I bought my first house when I was 29 I think. That was in 1979. I was an apprentice electrician making minimum wage which was $1.25 an hour. At that time, my house in Nassau Long Island cost me about $79,000.00 which sounds cheap today but most of my friends paid less than $30,000.00 for their homes. My first house recently sold for $1,000,200.00

That was 6 years after I sold it and moved to this smaller condo. I wouldn't want to pay for that now. It would cut into my copperband budget. 😁
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I was going to say, that $79k house was fairly expensive I'd think for the time! My folks first place was a couple years later closer to $23k if I remember correctly with an interest reate of where around 23-29%. I can't remember exactly but dad still pulls out the original paperwork from time to time. it's worth about half of that one you mentioned is worth, at just over $600k today.

Funny thing is it's my home town. a girl reached out to me on facebook a couple weeks ago and asked if I had ever lived at that address (we moved out in 1992). They had a fire and had to gut the walls. inside the walls she found some old books and trinkets I must have somehow trapped inside the caverns of the houses belly as a 5-7yr old :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

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Very cool. When I took some of the walls down in my first house I found a newspaper from 1959. There was all sorts of articles from the President. Dwight D Eisenhower. It had an advertisement for a Chevrolet and said it was still under a thousand dollars.
Pork chops were like 23 cents a pound, it was interesting even though I was born in the 40s so I remember 1961 pretty well. :)
I kept it for many years until it fell apart.
 
when I was a kid mom drove us around in her '66 Mustang she had bought in high school for I think less than $2,000. Brand new I think the car sold for $2500 (?) today you can't buy part of one for less than double that 😄 😄

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Unfortunately today is not starting off well. Yesterday my wife got a bout of Trigeminal Neuralgia. She gets this occasionally and it is supposed to be the worst pain a Human can get. It feels like someone is ripping your gums out and there is no cure. Anyone can get it but it is very common with MS.

If you don't have MS there is a surgical treatment but that doesn't work with MS. It is called the "Suicide" pain because people used to kill themselves as there was nothing they could do. She has had this 5 or 6 times and it is not a good thing. It's freekin horrible.

Now I am waiting for the pain Mgt. Doctor this afternoon. She gives her some shots in her face. (not very pleasant, but that is the only thing she could do. She has already had Gamma Knife but that takes weeks to feel better and doesn't last long.

I just took her to get the stitches removed from when she cut her hand last week.

It's just one thing after another.

Why Trigeminal Neuralgia Is Considered The “Suicide Disease”​

September 26, 2021 by arizonapain
trigeminal neuralgia

Of all of the pain conditions that chronic pain patients experience, there are arguably none worse than the pain of trigeminal neuralgia. Often called the “suicide disease” because of the intense pain, higher rates of suicidal ideation in patients with severe migraines, and links to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders, trigeminal neuralgia is pain that spreads over the face and down the neck, triggered by even the slightest breath of wind across the face. This condition is commonly misdiagnosed. It’s important to understand what it is, common symptoms, how it’s diagnosed, and trigeminal neuralgia treatment that may work.
 
Thanks guys. She is still sleeping so I don't know how she feels.
Horrible affliction. Yesterday the Pain Doc gave her a couple of shots right in the nerve in her cheek. That usually calms it down for a while. But she had it last week and the shot didn't work. She now has to go for a radiation thing. She had Gamma Knife years ago but that takes weeks to take effect.

The first time she experienced it I had to call 911 for an ambulance and they put her in the hospital to knock her out as there was nothing they could do.

This falling is almost a daily occurrence for her but at least she didn't get hurt. But nothing is as bad as the trigeminal neuralgia. I feel so bad for her. She doesn't deserve this as she is a good person. Let some murderer or child molester get it.
 
It rained last night so on my early morning walk I went armed with a plastic bag and tweezer. I picked up about a dozen earthworms.

The tweezer just makes it easier to pick them up on the wet street. I slip one side of the tweezer under the worm and lift. No, I don't skeve worms and have no issues picking them up, but they look so delicious, if I had them in my hand, I may eat some. 🤮

I store them in my wife's underwear drawer. :oops:

I will chop them up into bits size pieces and my fish will love me. I have been feeding my fish worms since Eisenhower was President. Google him.
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Next week I have an appointment with a shoulder surgeon. He replaced my left shoulder but now my right shoulder is jealous so I'm pretty sure I will have to get the right one replaced. I lost count but I think this will be my 38th surgery.

If you get to my age and didn't break or tear most of your bones and tendons, you didn't work hard enough or have enough fun.

I will try to do this soon, in the summer when all my friends are here in case I need help with my wife. (which I know I will). She falls a lot and I have trouble helping her up now, but with two bad shoulders, It will be "interesting" to say the least.

She also can't do almost anything and I will be useless for a while. More useless than I normally am. 😁
 
This weekend we went to our daughter's house because our 12-year-old Grand Daughter was in a play.

This is the view
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from our daughter's house.

(I hate Manhattan) Anyway, this is my granddaughter getting her makeup on for the play. She thinks she is one of the Rockettes.
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Here she is in the play. The play was Shrek

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As we were waiting outside this tiny woman walks up to me with a small shopping cart filled with an Electrolux vacuum cleaner and the hoses and associated pipes. She wanted to know if anyone could fix a vacuum. On the street in Manhattan.

Anyway, from a strap around her neck laying on her stomach she had what looked like a curved 5 gallon fish tank with holes in it. I looked close and she had a parrot in there. I have seen parrots in cages but never in a fish tank. The poor thing was laying on the bottom of the tank because it didn't have a perch.

The woman was asking everyone if they could guess how old this bird was. I really didn't care because I was there for my Grand Daughter so I said 70 years. My wife guessed 50 and our Daughter said 40. She said "you are all wrong" it's 35.

OK, like who cares. Then she asked me if I wanted to photograph her with this parrot. I said, "No". Then she asked a few other people, and no one really cared to take a picture of this Ferengi-looking woman with this stupid bird, as we were all waiting for our kid's performance and didn't want to fix her vacuum cleaner or look at the stupid bird. Most of us have seen a bird before.

She was surprised, as she said she travels all over the place, is very famous, and people all want to take pictures of her and this bored-looking bird. It looked like the bird was trying to stick its claw down its throat to make itself puke.

You only see these crazy people in Manhattan.

After the play we went to an eclectic restaurant where I ordered a tiny "cup" of French Onion soup that cost $16.00. Maybe they mailed the onions from France. My Grand Son sot some very small pieces of steak that you could get in Burger Kind for four bucks but there it was $45.00

The Uber cost me over $300.00 round trip.
 
Paul B said:
Next week I have an appointment with a shoulder surgeon. He replaced my left shoulder but now my right shoulder is jealous so I'm pretty sure I will have to get the right one replaced. I lost count but I think this will be my 38th surgery.
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if you get bored and want to do the research, Joe Rogan was talking on a recent podcast about having phenomenal results with stemcell treatment on a shoulder that many surgeons told him needed surgery. I don't know a whole lot about it beyond that, but he swears by it. of course if it's a bone on bone type issue that might not apply, I think the treatment is more aimed at soft tissue.


Paul B said:
The Uber cost me over $300.00 round trip.
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:oops::oops:
 
Dustin, when the surgeon replaced my left shoulder he told me it was one of the worst he has ever seen and has a picture of it on his phone which he sent me. He said the inside is supposed to look smooth like an egg. When I saw mine, I thought I was looking at a NASA photo of the moon. It was all cratered and no smooth areas. I am a righty so I assume my right shoulder is worse. It is very painful and more so when I am not using it like to wave at a pretty girl. Or even more so when she smacks me. :oops:

I already had a few surgeries on that shoulder so maybe those Home Depot toggle bolts are getting rusty. :unsure:
 
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