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Ram27 Offline
#301 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 6:27 AM EST
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New page.............

New day................


Hello Saturday...............ram27bat
MACS Offline
#302 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 6:43 AM EST
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Mornin' Ram. I slept in... didn't get up until 7.
deadeyedick Online
#303 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 6:44 AM EST
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Happy Saturday ya varmints.

Cowboy caviar last night, explosion this morning.
8trackdisco Offline
#304 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 6:55 AM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
I had the same issue Eight,had the shock treatment done and put on Xarelto . So far no issues. Another follow up appointment this Wednesday. Wishing you a speedy recovery.


Shock treatment. Yikes. Hope it is working for you. That wasn’t one of the options offered to me. Mine were #1 Three different medications, #2 cardiac ablation surgery, or #3 pacemaker. Going for option #2 near the end of November.

Once they get in there, the success rate is somewhere around 70%. The downside with surgical intervention (other than the 29% chance of it not working) is it often only works for a period of time (as little as five years, on average seven).

Ridiculous.
Ram27 Offline
#305 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:00 AM EST
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As noted, wishing you a speedy recovery Eight.
deadeyedick Online
#306 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:04 AM EST
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My older brother had the ablation procedure about a year ago. He is one of the 70%ers I guess. Very active riding bikes, splitting wood, etc.

Hope it works in your case brother.
8trackdisco Offline
#307 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:42 AM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
As noted, wishing you a speedy recovery Eight.


And also with you.
8trackdisco Offline
#308 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:43 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
My older brother had the ablation procedure about a year ago. He is one of the 70%ers I guess. Very active riding bikes, splitting wood, etc.

Hope it works in your case brother.


Thanks, Ded. It’s been a journey.
8trackdisco Offline
#309 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:50 AM EST
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Alright.
A little breakfast and footie, then off to visit a friend at the hospital. Have known him since kindergarten. A great guy who never bitches about his disability. Can certainly aspire to be more like him.

42 and sunny.

30nein.
Gene363 Offline
#310 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 10:02 AM EST
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Good Saturday Morning to All! It's 72° on the way to 87° today.


Pray for a great result and a fast reovery for Eight.
DrafterX Offline
#311 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 10:12 AM EST
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Cool Dudes...
DrafterX Offline
#312 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 10:15 AM EST
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Step-father did the pacemaker thing about twenty years ago.. at the time they told him it would give him another 10.. so he's got that going for him... FIL wears one now too.. wishing you well Eight.. Mellow
Cheno Offline
#313 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 10:31 AM EST
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Morning, soccer game done for the oldest, really wet and cold field. Another hour and on to the next soccer game for the middle child.
dkeage Offline
#314 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 11:20 AM EST
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72 and partly cloudy. High 75. On the patio with a Bloody Mary and a PLPC watching football and the smoker.


Take care of yourself Russ! Pray
deadeyedick Online
#315 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 12:59 PM EST
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Some close games today.

Maryland/Ohio St
Red River shootout
Palama Offline
#316 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 1:15 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Shock treatment. Yikes. Hope it is working for you. That wasn’t one of the options offered to me. Mine were #1 Three different medications, #2 cardiac ablation surgery, or #3 pacemaker. Going for option #2 near the end of November.

Once they get in there, the success rate is somewhere around 70%. The downside with surgical intervention (other than the 29% chance of it not working) is it often only works for a period of time (as little as five years, on average seven).

Ridiculous.



Prayers for 70% and longer than 7 years.
rfenst Offline
#317 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 1:25 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Shock treatment. Yikes. Hope it is working for you. That wasn’t one of the options offered to me. Mine were #1 Three different medications, #2 cardiac ablation surgery, or #3 pacemaker. Going for option #2 near the end of November.

Once they get in there, the success rate is somewhere around 70%. The downside with surgical intervention (other than the 29% chance of it not working) is it often only works for a period of time (as little as five years, on average seven).

Ridiculous.


Clean up your incoming pm box so I can send you a pm about this kind of stuff.
rfenst Offline
#318 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 1:32 PM EST
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85F/65 today and 76F/58F on Sunday. Can't wait for things to cool down to unseasonably cool temps forr the next couple of days, even thou it could easily just be a teaser.

Went to Costco to return something, pick up some Rx, bread and berries (rasp and black).

Just watching Oklahoma v Texas right now while I await the bigger game tonight. Texas better get its chit together right away or it will suffer a huge upset.

Wife is at a conference all day and half-day tomorrow.

Nothing else really going on.
BuckyB93 Offline
#319 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 1:57 PM EST
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My Dad has a pacemaker and a good friend of mine (my Massachusetts adopted Dad) has a pacemaker. It's one of the miracles of medicine that is keeping them alive. Handful of years ago my Dad had to get his replaced since the capacitor or something was getting near it's replacement date. Putting one in and replacing one is regular stuff nowadays. Go in the morning, get it installed and your home by suppertime assuming there is no complications.

When my Dad got his replaced they asked him if he wanted the old one back. He said "Sure." They sent it out to get sanitized and decommissioned or whatever then engraved his name and replacement date on it as a souvenir. Kinda funny if you think about it.

Tree Uno NINE!
DrafterX Offline
#320 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 3:59 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Some close games today.

Maryland/Ohio St
Red River shootout



OU pulls it off... and there was much rejoicing... Mellow
BuckyB93 Offline
#321 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 4:21 PM EST
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Badgers were on Peacock and had a chance to watch them (in between a nap and doing laundry). A win for Bucky.

Wisconsin 24
Rutgers 13
HockeyDad Offline
#322 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 4:27 PM EST
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Go Astros
BuckyB93 Offline
#323 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 4:30 PM EST
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While digging in of of my boxes that was long forgotten about, ran into my corncob pipes and a dozen or so pipe tobaccy blends in mason jars. I drifted away from smoking a pipe about 5 yrs ago. Not intentionally, I just slowly faded away from the it. Might be time to get back into sparking up the pipe again.
danmdevries Offline
#324 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 4:46 PM EST
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Same here bucky. I got into it because it was cheaper than daily cigars but now I only smoke 2-3x/mo so I went back to cigars. As they run out I may pick up the pipe again. Some of those tins of English blends should be fantastic after sitting sealed for 3-4 years.
danmdevries Offline
#325 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 4:48 PM EST
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Split more wood today. Wood shed is half filled just from one tree. And there's still 15ft of that tree sticking out of the ground. It's too big at the bottom to cut with my 14" saw cutting circumferential I'll have to wedge it out to get the bar through. Probably a next year problem. Everything that was laying on the ground is now split and stacked or on fire in the burn pit.
BuckyB93 Offline
#326 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 5:52 PM EST
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I might have to dig out a burn pit in the back yard or buy a fire pit. Fire pit thingies are probably on sale now that winter is coming.

I currently work at a place that makes furniture and we have tons of scrap wood all the time. Mostly solid oak hardwood and Baltic birch plywood. Good firewood stuff plus the oak pallets they come on.

I've tossed out some of my plastic cutting boards and replaced them with some of the furniture oak butcher block wood scraps. It's not that I don't like the plastic ones but I like wooden ones better. Season them with some mineral oil to start then repeat periodically and they work great.

Maybe I should do it as a side gig. Make 1 inch thick oak butcher block cutting boards and sell them. Nah... too much work. I'll just make a some for myself, family and friends rather then trying to sell them.

One of my Mom's cutting boards that she still uses is made from oak. It's cut into the shape of a pig. That thing is probably older than I am and is still going strong..
MACS Offline
#327 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:11 PM EST
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You can get 55 gallon drums off of FB marketplace, offer up, or some other type of thingy for about $20-$25 bucks.

Burn barrel... done and ya saved a lotta $$.
DrafterX Offline
#328 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:15 PM EST
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Pretty cool how they make those... Mellow
danmdevries Offline
#329 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:26 PM EST
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Macs is right. Burn barrel is easier/more contained than a burn pit. I did that for a long time before my burning needs outgrew barrels. Or rather my laziness outgrew them. I don't feel like picking up sticks and burning them every time I mow so I dug a pit and threw them in there. Once the pile is taller than me, then I light it up and do a full walk of the woods picking up sticks.

Drill a few water drain holes and some air vent holes in the bottom side and a full barrel of sticks will have it glowing red.

The last barrel I picked up I cut 1/3 off and welded some legs on it, used it as a patio fire pit. The other 2/3 went out in the woods for stick burning. But with how much I burn that barrel didn't last long.
8trackdisco Offline
#330 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:54 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Clean up your incoming pm box so I can send you a pm about this kind of stuff.


I’ve man sculpted my inbox (lobbing a real softball up). Ready for incoming (gross).
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#331 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:56 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
OU pulls it off... and there was much rejoicing... Mellow


How can an OSU guy even type that?
BuckyB93 Offline
#332 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 8:26 PM EST
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Not sure a burn barrel is what I want. I'm not looking to do an inferno. Thinking of something maybe knee high that you could sit around in lawn chairs and roast marshmallows or just spark a camp like fire. Then look into the sky and contemplate the world's problems and solve them.

Maybe a 55 gallon barrel cut lengthwise and propped up off the ground with some bricks or blocks to motar it in but that is too much work that I'm willing to put in. I don't have a grinding wheel to cut it up the barrel nor have the time or energy to make a brick saddle to put it on. Maybe buy a 55 gallon barrel and a plasma torch to cut it in half. If you're gonna do it, go all in. Then what the frank am I gonna do with a plasma torch when done?

Ok... back to reality. Prolly just buy a fire pit thingy. It wouldn't get used frequently just now and again.

This will require a lot of thought... Something to sleep on. Wouldn't want to make a rash and important decision like this on the fly. It will need some deep thought and maybe some yoga (never done yoga, surprised I even know how to spell yoga).
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#333 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 9:26 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
How can an OSU guy even type that?



I support OU until they play OSU... and any Big12 team in the Bowl games... Mellow
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#334 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 9:26 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
How can an OSU guy even type that?

Agreed. It’s like “the Chefs won.. yay afc west”




Uh….no
DrafterX Offline
#335 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 9:30 PM EST
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I've got about a 5' diameter pit in my yard.. it's about a foot deep surrounded by landscaping bricks.. have to shovel it out a couple times a year but it's no big deal... Mellow
BuckyB93 Offline
#336 Posted: Sat, Oct 7 2023, 10:13 PM EST
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Michigan kicked Minnesota's ass.

Michigan 52
Minnesota 10

I don't follow college sports much but just learned that Peacock streams the Big 10 football games so had it on in the background while doing other stuff around the house.
If given the choice I'd root for Michigan over the Gophers. Why the heck would you pick a gopher as a mascot? Plus I'm pretty anti Minnesota on most sports.

From a football stance, I have a genuine dislike of the Vikings for example. When I grew up the next door neighbor was a huge Vikings fan. The Purple People Eaters were a force to be faced twice a year when my Packers kinda sucked. Also the across town high school rival, Memorial High, school colors was (probably still is) purple. Maybe I need a therapist to work though my dislike and scars induced from the color purple.

Nah.. I'll let it ride. It's just a color (but purple sucks, Mr. Purple is on another job)

At least I'm not Mr. Pink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5KhfJHF_4
MACS Offline
#337 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 6:11 AM EST
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Mornin' dudes... gotta find a little motivation.
Cheno Offline
#338 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 7:24 AM EST
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Happy Sunday funday!
Ram27 Offline
#339 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 7:26 AM EST
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Three Three NINE.............


Sunday greetings all.
8trackdisco Offline
#340 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 8:32 AM EST
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38 degrees.
The inevitable has arrived.
MACS Offline
#341 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 9:20 AM EST
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Predictions are that North FL sees some sub freezing temps this winter. Was 57 on the dog walk this morning.

I needed a light jacket!
Gene363 Offline
#342 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 10:58 AM EST
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Good Sunday Morning to All! Brrrr it's 57° on the way to just 70° today.
MACS Offline
#343 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 12:14 PM EST
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Yep... only 70 right now. I like it!
8trackdisco Offline
#344 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 12:56 PM EST
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Arsenal 1 Man City Nil.

Unexpected pleasure.
Ram27 Offline
#345 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 5:34 PM EST
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Evening greetings one & all.............

Watching the EAGLES playing the RAMS (ram27bat )

Because it is " The RAMS" cheering for both ! Applause
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#346 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 5:50 PM EST
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The family went to synagogue this morning to dance with the Torah for the Jewish holiday of Simcah Torah. I know there are lots of people in Israel right now who wanted to celebrate but couldn't, so we tried to celebrate for them. Plus, who doesn't want to drink bourbon with their Rabbi at 10 AM on a Sunday?
Ram27 Offline
#347 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 6:02 PM EST
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Well the EAGLES WIN! Applause
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#348 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 6:12 PM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
Well the EAGLES WIN! Applause


Congrat, Ram.

The Vikings are giving the Chiefs a real problem.
8trackdisco Offline
#349 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 6:27 PM EST
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Thankfully K. Cousins finished the game like K. Cousins.
MACS Offline
#350 Posted: Sun, Oct 8 2023, 7:19 PM EST
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Let's go Niners! Woot
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