Maybe start stroking with the left, DB?

Banana bread is awesome :nod: Love the stuff!


Tell you something, what can I tell you? Oh I know, I can tell you that I love Pixies, even when I'm not here for long periods of time.

I've missed having FWM here!!!!

A lot of us have missed her. :boohoo:


But it's great to be looking up her, .....I mean seeing her here again. :cabbagep::

What he ^^^^ said.

Yeah. :boink:

The gauges for my ranchero still haven't come in. I'm getting somewhat impatient.

Had my first series of pain (or rather anti-pain) shots today. Keep your fingers crossed for me for a good result!

Steroids or Lidocaine (type)? I've had both and gotten good results with both.

Low-dose steroids, lidocaine, and something called Traumeel, I think. Things feel different today, and somewhat better...I'm afraid to jinx it by saying too much!

Floating better than in the pool at Trump?

Taumeel is excellent stuff!

Nothing so entertaining :), but while things are still in flux today, I feel 85% of (what I remember as) normal, which is nothing short of miraculous for me. I will do 4 weeks of treatment, one treatment a week, but I am feeling optimistic for the first time in a such a long, long time. Chronic pain is a nightmare you think you're never going to wake up from, and after over 5 years, I was there...which is to say, in the pit of despair. To have hope is such a gift.

It's going to be another beautiful day in the heartland. Sure hope Mother Nature remembers how she did this so that she can give us more of it all the way until next spring. :boink:

^^ Yes indeed! ^^

I have opened up the downstairs windows and turned off the ACs for the first time in several weeks. :thumb:

Glad to hear you are feeling up. My best Grams used to say, "you get used to hanging, if you hang long enough." I always feel like that about my long term health issues and when suddenly you begin to feel better it is such an awakening.

I recently went off a drug that has made me sick for 15 years. I feel like a completely different person.

Hope you continue to feel relief!

Thanks, Lil--that's it. When I was telling the pain people my story, and how long this has been going on, they could barely believe it. But when you're in the middle of it, you think that eventually you're going to turn the corner, so you keep at it, and suddenly, years have passed. You don't realize it until you tell someone else that it's been so insanely long. But having just a few days of some relief has brought me back to myself. I realized, "Hey! I AM fun, relaxed, and positive...I remember now." I thought that had been lost forever; it was just buried under pain, exhaustion, and the depression brought on by both.

Glad to hear you're feeling better, too! Wow! 15 years is way too long.

Glad to hear the 2 of you are pain free!!!!^^^^^^

Preparing for the onslaught of "outlaws" visiting us soon!

I don't have rabies. :p

Then stop biting dogs.

There seems to be a wide gap between what the insurance co. thinks it should cost to replace my hail damaged roof & what the roof repair folks say it really costs. Like <$7000 vs. <$10,000. :argue:

Do they operate on the "three quotes" system?

I went and got my eyes tested....new glasses coming.

Sounds more like the 3/4 system. :banghead:

Insurance, the only form of gambling I know where the House decides whether you have won, and if so, how much.

Had some really delicious Indian food last night.

I broke a fuel filter off in my carb in the ranchero. Now I can't get the threads out. Can we all say "F******************************************CK!" ?

Just got up from a nanna nap to hear i missed a call from my upover buddy, whom i miss lots!!

I got the carb fixed and back on the ranchero.

Way to go, Lord Snow! :thumbs:

Don't cheer yet, I still have to change the in line fuel filter and clean out the tank. I don't think gas is supposed to be red.

I still can't believe my daughter is an adult. Her voter's ballot showed up in the mail the other day. :o

It happens. My niece is growing so fast. She's starting pre-k this year.

I got to meet my idol, inlay genius Larry Robinson, this weekend at the Healdsburg Guitar Festival. He makes me want to never pick up a saw again...and inspires me to do it anyway. :)

AZ, you can do anything you put your mind to. You're that wonderful.

Thank you--that's very sweet. :kisser: I work at it, but the man has 35 years practice and a steadier hand than I; even if I worked at it every day, I doubt I'd ever be able to catch up in this lifetime.

And I daresay I put my mind to you from time to time, m'lord. ;)

My baby is attending her 10th yr class reunion............

I just watched a couple of episodes of "Pie in the Sky", a Brit cop show centering on a restaurant. Quirky, but good.

WOW AZ. :faint:
Larry Robinson goes beyond talent and defines 'artisan' at the highest degree. Japan has respect for such people and makes them National Treasures.

You've got plenty of time. At the very least it's something to aspire to.