Having to have back fusion surgery and hoping you don't wake up.
Please, please change your outlook, Jim.
The mortality rate for the kind of surgery I had last isn't very good. I recall saying a brief, unspoken prayer as they were taking me to surgery. Just something to the effect of "please, Lord, don't let them lose me on the table".
i know of one other guy who had the same surgery that week. He didn't make it.
My point is put your faith and trust in Whomever you pray to. It will generally provide comfort to you. And all of us here on the forum are gonna be pulling for ya and hoping for the best possible outcome.
Well, my darling child bride suffers from chronic back pain so I'm kinda familiar with the discussion regarding not waking up at all after surgery. It doesn't apply to my wife but some people would look forward to it. I think Jim was referring to this.....
I think you're probably right, @jlmarta . As someone who's experienced unrelenting back pain, I sympathize. I always tell people that "the first 5 years was the worst". It'll make you old before your time.
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I hate when you put together a simple step by step diagnostic instruction manual for work and some d!ck has to email back that what I put wasn't the correct procedure, because it skips a few steps.
So my questions were, Does it accomplish the same results? By leaving out those steps, is anything missed? Is it worth spending an extra hour and ending up with the same results?
So then this person replies that they know it saves time, accomplished the same results, but it's not the manufacturer's procedure.
That's when I stop, go to my office, grab some gauze and tape it to my forehead, so I don't hurt myself when I beat my head against the wall.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
I hate when you ask someone a yes or no question and they give you the deer in the headlights look and take 5 minutes to answer you. It's a simple yes or no. How hard is that? Nod your head for yes, shake your head for no.
And then when I go, "Ok, that's a no." They get all bent about it.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Idiot landscapers and their customers. Two guys, across the street have just spent 3 hours with leafblowers removing the leaves from under the arbor vitae. It would have taken me 1/2 hour with a rake instead of 6 hours. Happy Earth Day!? Next, the neighbor will have them truck in cedar bark mulch.
I hate when you put together a simple step by step diagnostic instruction manual for work and some d!ck has to email back that what I put wasn't the correct procedure, because it skips a few steps.
So my questions were, Does it accomplish the same results? By leaving out those steps, is anything missed? Is it worth spending an extra hour and ending up with the same results?
So then this person replies that they know it saves time, accomplished the same results, but it's not the manufacturer's procedure.
That's when I stop, go to my office, grab some gauze and tape it to my forehead, so I don't hurt myself when I beat my head against the wall.
Been there so many times. But I am retired now and I don't give a flying xxxx
But my favorite was "If they have an SOP why am I writing one?".
May 16th, 1986 I hurt my back working on Tank track.
Still hurts, and I still never know when it's going to f(*&ing spasm and REALLY hurt for a week or two.
Sigh...
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I hate that I've reached the age when my hips require that I take ibuprofen after s e x.
Well, maybe hate's too strong, at the very least it's a mixed blessing!
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May you have a plentiful variety of ibuprofen in your future.
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Getting to work early only to find out supply truck has not even left the Distribution Center. Could have slept in a couple hours. Plus it puts everyone else behind on a shortened Holiday week.
Having to jump off the vHerf before finishing my cigar and my beer to pull an all-nighter for work. Now I don't know if I should try and sleep or just stay up.
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Having to jump off the vHerf before finishing my cigar and my beer to pull an all-nighter for work. Now I don't know if I should try and sleep or just stay up.
I've been there and done that way too often in the last few years. My advice is to sleep now asap, but no more than four hours. After that get up and get active. Try not to be grumpy. If you are grumpy anyway,..... do not speak, do not make eye contact, stay busy doing man stuff. (cigars and whiskey,) and don't go to bed early tonight.
one of the cigar etailers had a breach a few months ago, I suspect everyone's cc#s made their way to some dark web site. Got a notice from the etailer right after it happened saying they were offering free identity protection; I would have preferred they had better protection on their 'puters themselves.
I know who you're talking about Edward... sorry you got stuck in that mess. I had never bought from them before the breach, but I have since, thinking they ought to be the safest place now.
I've had many a customer call up to place an order who said: "You already have my credit card on file" "No, we don't keep them," I reply. Why not?" they ask. This is why. I just jot down their numbers, shred them when done. Not worth the convenience.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
one of the cigar etailers had a breach a few months ago, I suspect everyone's cc#s made their way to some dark web site. Got a notice from the etailer right after it happened saying they were offering free identity protection; I would have preferred they had better protection on their 'puters themselves.
Which is why I use prepaid Visa for purchasing online. If they get my credit card info, next month I will have used it up and gotten a new one and the info they get will be useless.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Anti-fat guy weather, I love the heat, but 100 degrees sucks.
The internet requires that I be offended by your body-shaming yourself. Or is it outraged? I can never remember. How can I become PC if I can't keep these things straight?:p
At 240+, believe me when I say I feel your pain.
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Anti-fat guy weather, I love the heat, but 100 degrees sucks
Just think about the snow shovel last winter Jim. When I am riding to work at 105○ I think about the coldest day I rode last winter, doesn't make me sweat any less but in my mind I am in a happy place
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The mortality rate for the kind of surgery I had last isn't very good. I recall saying a brief, unspoken prayer as they were taking me to surgery. Just something to the effect of "please, Lord, don't let them lose me on the table".
i know of one other guy who had the same surgery that week. He didn't make it.
My point is put your faith and trust in Whomever you pray to. It will generally provide comfort to you. And all of us here on the forum are gonna be pulling for ya and hoping for the best possible outcome.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
It'll make you old before your time.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
So my questions were,
Does it accomplish the same results?
By leaving out those steps, is anything missed?
Is it worth spending an extra hour and ending up with the same results?
So then this person replies that they know it saves time, accomplished the same results, but it's not the manufacturer's procedure.
That's when I stop, go to my office, grab some gauze and tape it to my forehead, so I don't hurt myself when I beat my head against the wall.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
It's a simple yes or no. How hard is that?
Nod your head for yes, shake your head for no.
And then when I go, "Ok, that's a no."
They get all bent about it.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Wannabe politicians who get in the way of their own feet.
Budweiser.
Electrical outages.
Poachers.
Ticks.
People who abuse animals.
But my favorite was "If they have an SOP why am I writing one?".
Still hurts, and I still never know when it's going to f(*&ing spasm and REALLY hurt for a week or two.
Sigh...
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Well, maybe hate's too strong, at the very least it's a mixed blessing!
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I've been there and done that way too often in the last few years. My advice is to sleep now asap, but no more than four hours. After that get up and get active. Try not to be grumpy. If you are grumpy anyway,..... do not speak, do not make eye contact, stay busy doing man stuff. (cigars and whiskey,) and don't go to bed early tonight.
If they get my credit card info, next month I will have used it up and gotten a new one and the info they get will be useless.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
The internet requires that I be offended by your body-shaming yourself. Or is it outraged? I can never remember. How can I become PC if I can't keep these things straight?:p
At 240+, believe me when I say I feel your pain.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain