And no I wasn’t kidding about the stitches looking like tie wraps…
So she’s spending most of the day asleep on the couch or getting fed, or getting her pain and other meds…
And she said to say thank you to all those who texted, emailed, and called, even if she doesn’t know y’all 🙂
And speaking of meds, DO take pain meds as prescribed, to actually mitigate the pain so that healing begins. Toughing it out does no one any good… And take the anti-nausea pills too, they are prescribed to keep you from throwing up the other meds!
Of note, I didn’t mention it earlier, but one thing you want to make sure is in place is a limited power of attorney for medical when anyone goes in for surgery. Thankfully, it was not needed; but safe is better than sorry if something had happened.
The deck is ‘almost’ done (thank you RAIN, I got a day off)…
I’m mid-50’s have a decent job, two decent kids trying hard to make their own way in the world today, and a lot of frustration with what is happening to the US of A. Being from the South, I hunt, fish, and shoot guns; so that immediately makes me one of those “rabid rednecks” to quote some out there. I did have a pickup, but it’s hard to park it where I work, so I drive a Pontiac… sure do miss the truck though… sigh…
As a retired military type, it really hurts to see the crap we are putting the folks in service through today. I lived through that in Vietnam, and I take the time to thank every Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Marine for their service when I get the chance. Most of the kids (I’m Southern so I can say that) are doing the best they can with what they have. They believe in the job they and others are doing in the Sandbox, and are pretty upset by the media coverage they get.
Anyway, I’m going to try this for a while and see what happens… thanks for reading and commenting…
Old NFO
Not much has changed, I’m older, now back to driving an SUV; but everything else is pretty much the same…
I’ve made a lot of friends both through this little blog, and met a great group of people in meat space too!
And I’ve had a blast (literally in some cases) shooting with many of y’all, and hope to meet more of you in the real world!
1039 posts with this one, 199 loyal readers- Thanks to each and every one of you! About 400,000 visits (splitting the Sitemeter stats); and the most popular post was the one I did on CFL bulbs…
Go Figure…
And linking DOES work! Thanks to Lawdog, Murph, Brigid, Uncle, Tam, Peter, Jay G, Paw and all those others who link to me.
Thanks again for putting up with me and reading and commenting, it IS appreciated!
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Went to my favorite Thai Restaurant in Waikiki last night (Keos) and ordered what I ‘thought’ was just pieces of fish in green curry, instead out comes the whole damn fish!!!
And it took THREE of us to eat all of it…
So, finished dinner, off to the airport, and a battle with TSA over my @#$^& PEN of all things…
Carteach gifted me one of these fantastic pens, and of course the TSA idjits at Honoruru thought it was a weapon… sigh
So they made me put in my backpack and ran it back through the xray… WTF???
So red-eye to SFO (no sleep), rent-a-wreck and off I go with TWO cups of coffee heading up to see my daughters…
An hour later, another cup of coffee and I need to get off 101 before I run over/into something, so I jump off and go via Calistoga and over the Calistoga Grade (FUN road), which woke me up VERY quickly…
So I’m winding over, around and through the hills, when I hear a snarling exhaust coming up behind…
Passing area about 1/2 mile later and a REAL Lotus 7 goes by me like I’m sitting still. Old gent driving, smiling ear to ear, driving gloves and all; the passenger? Not so much… more like PURE terror 🙂
Another couple of miles and an old Triumph TT and a BSA 650 Lightning go squirting by too (and also ridden by old farts)…
At the daughters, so it’s na… zzzzZZZZZ
Oh sorry, must have nodded off there…