Whats brown and stickyBTW, I apologize for interrupting a much more serious conversation with photos of sticks. I really thought I'd have it by myself tonight, and been gone a good hour wrestling with another website.
And FYI (I've been encouraged to tell my story so everyone could get to know me):
I've never served in the military, but I am VERY thankful and grateful to everyone who has, you have my utmost respect. It is my considered opinion that veterans, and especially disabled vets, should be treated like ROYALTY. If the federal gov't bureaucracy as a whole wasn't so damn busy wasting money through ineptitude and bad policy and/or lining their own pockets as much as possible, there would be plenty of resources to devote to those who deserve it... Vets, physically disabled people, mentally ill people, and the Elderly and infirm.
Anybody of "sound mind and body" needs to get off their aff, get out and work hard... to support themselves, their families, and their communities.
I've never asked for nor directly received one dime from the federal gov't., as far as unemployment, disability, or welfare - I don't feel like I deserve it nor am I owed anything. I understand I get plenty from this country - like... well, everything from protection from enemy invasion to protection from a bad food chain, and much more.
I do not, however, need the government to protect me from myself.
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Life is just a tire swing
-and-
I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
(sorry... Buffet is playing at the moment)
We usually have more than one topic going at a time. Keeps it interesting moving along! You were just picking up & continuing a topic, & I'm glad you did! It's pretty routine here, after all, this is a Porch!BTW, I apologize for interrupting a much more serious conversation with photos of sticks. I really thought I'd have it by myself tonight, and been gone a good hour wrestling with another website.
And FYI (I've been encouraged to tell my story so everyone could get to know me):
I've never served in the military, but I am VERY thankful and grateful to everyone who has, you have my utmost respect. It is my considered opinion that veterans, and especially disabled vets, should be treated like ROYALTY. If the federal gov't bureaucracy as a whole wasn't so damn busy wasting money through ineptitude and bad policy and/or lining their own pockets as much as possible, there would be plenty of resources to devote to those who deserve it... Vets, physically disabled people, mentally ill people, and the Elderly and infirm.
Anybody of "sound mind and body" needs to get off their aff, get out and work hard... to support themselves, their families, and their communities.
I've never asked for nor directly received one dime from the federal gov't., as far as unemployment, disability, or welfare - I don't feel like I deserve it nor am I owed anything. I understand I get plenty from this country - like... well, everything from protection from enemy invasion to protection from a bad food chain, and much more.
I do not, however, need the government to protect me from myself.
[/soapbox]
Life is just a tire swing
-and-
I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
(sorry... Buffet is playing at the moment)
Thanks Ken_A, appreciate the info and look forward to meeting and getting to hang out a bit with some of the Porch Group. We'll have to figure out some way we can identify each other since I presume there will be Tons of folks thereyep. Just don't have any batteries in your checked baggage. if you put your mods all in a mod case of some sort (makeup bag with full zipper works), and all your eliquid bottles are labeled you should have no issues.
Except for finding those of us from the porch that will be there
heh - a bar dog maybe... if his wife lets him out to bars...
but here is a reminder of what you quoted:
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I can sure relate to that statement; that should reflect in my name Slow ...Lucky devil! I'm a lot slow every day!
but I guess the main thing is that we're still here. Slow or not
So much fun! And a great family to boot! Sounds like a wonderful life!Well.... since ya asked so nicely... get out your
This year, we'll have been married 25 years! Two kids - son 20, daughter 18.
And here’s how the second half (the best half) of my life started, long but still the Cliff’s Notes version:
At 33 years old, I was a never-married, confirmed bachelor – and determined to stay that way.
H*ll, I was having too much fun!... footloose and fancy-free as it were.
On a glorious Friday morn in early spring of '88, I was on my motorcycle cruising the back-way to Atlanta to spend the weekend with a former college girlfriend, who was the manager of a very “in” restaurant in Buckhead.
I stopped in a small town to whiz and stretch my legs, and thus fate took full control at that point.
Sitting in the shade of a huge oak tree having a smoke, I noticed a pay-phone booth about the time I realized I was in the hometown of a former college buddy. I looked up his number, called him, and he insisted I come by his shop for a talk. He had retired early from a career as a cropduster pilot (he says Ag Pilot), and now owned a small-engine repair shop.
As we sat there reminiscing, his phone rang. He answered and talked for a few minutes. When he hung up, he looked at me with a big grin and said:
“Geno, you want a job?”
“Doing what?”
“Two things you love most – flying and photography.”
I ‘bout fell off my stool!!!
“H*ll yeah!... where do I sign up?!”
I went and applied, got the job on the spot, jumped on my scoot, and went on to Atlanta.
Came back on Monday, rented a small trailer-house deep in the woods, far outside of town… and proceeded to have the best summer of my life.
We flew all over west GA – practically the whole side of the state west of I-75, from the north at the GA/Tennessee line and south to ~Albany doing aerial photography jobs. Lake Allatoona is breathtaking at 3000'. At the time, I had a valid student pilot license, and the commercial pilot who owned the Cessna 172 started letting me pilot the plane once we were off the ground. Before long, I was topping off the tanks at daybreak, pre-flight checking the plane, taking off and landing, and having a ball! All of our photo shooting was between 3-5000’ - but some days, headed home after we’d finished for the day, we’d climb out to about 7000’ and cut up “just a bit”. I went in knowing a 172 would do a power-on stall and some other lazy stuff, but I never would have thought one would do hammer-head stalls, barrel rolls, chandelles and such!!! Wow! What a blast we had that summer! We never did anything that either we or the airplane couldn’t handle though - no loops, snap rolls, Immelmann’s or Cuban 8’s!… mostly just low-G stuff – we didn’t want to rip the wings off the thing!
It was a summer job and at the end of the season I rented a building in town and started a small computer business, through which I met my future wife. She called me one morning in tears. It was the days of DOS, little green-screen monitors, 10mb hard drives, Wordstar, and Lotus 1-2-3. She had developed a spreadsheet to track chemical use in the canvas dying plant where she worked. The day before the fateful phone call, she had used the File Viewing function of Wordstar to do a little housekeeping – deleting files on her hard drive to clear up some space. Well, she had inadvertently deleted command.com and config.sys – two files necessary for the computer to boot – and the next morning it wouldn’t! She thought all her hard work in those files, critical to the plant running smoothly, were gone for good! I went out and booted the computer with a 5 ¼” floppy, copied the two files to her hard drive, edited config.sys a bit, and all was well again.
Being that she is a pretty redhead (two of my most desirable traits in a woman), we ended up dating a couple of years, got married, bought a house and she gave me two fine kids (ok, I helped a little, but my part was the fun part)... and I’ve been here ever since!
Considering I’m so damn proud of my kids I could bust, I’m considering bragging on them some, and maybe even posting a pic or two… later.
Y'all keep 'em straight out thar....
What are the requirements for labeling juice? DIY I mean. What kind of label, & what has to be on it?
Me too. I just wish I knew a little (lot) more about what he really thinks. Bombast and snarky remarks are entertaining but, in choosing a president I think a little more info is required... what's particularly amusing (or unsettling, depending on how you look at it) .. he's likely right .. I've never considered myself anything more than Independent .. what happens in the Vote Booth Stays in the Vote Booth .. although I admit to leaning left ..
Given the choices we will have come November, I will vote for whomever I think will be best for America .. even if I have to choke to do it, I'll still vote .. I believe those that don't vote have no right to opinionate after the fact ..
