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Post by TKennedy on May 1, 2024 9:31:45 GMT -5
First leg of our North Carolina journey starts soon. St Paul Chicago.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 30, 2024 20:52:26 GMT -5
Not sure I want to know.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 30, 2024 16:44:31 GMT -5
Will I still rock at 80? The jury is still out........ Russ and I will let you know if it’s possible in about eight months.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 30, 2024 12:03:05 GMT -5
I wouldn’t give that guy a loan. I am astonished at the maritime fleet many of the folks on our lake have. A hundred grand plus flotilla that can only be used four months out of the year.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 29, 2024 21:32:22 GMT -5
Well maybe it’s time for some religious themed levity -
I was at a retired doctor’s dinner Sunday. We started telling funny war stories at our end of the table. The hands down winner was from an OB/Gyn doc.
It seems she had a mid sixties widow of a minister and she herself was one as well. She presented with a massively expanded abdomen and announced she was pregnant. Studies revealed a huge uterine fibroid of state fair winning size.
When told of the diagnosis she didn’t believe it. She admitted to being years into menopause and not having had sex for even longer. When asked where the baby could have come from she said “God put it there”.
Even after surgery she apparently still remained skeptical of the diagnosis.
On a more serious note I think the social aspect of going to church and being an active part of a community with similar beliefs is huge as one ages, develops various maladies, is possibly widowed, and slowly becomes more socially isolated. It definitely helped keep my mother in law, a devout Catholic alive, happy, and positive for 99 years.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 29, 2024 11:35:55 GMT -5
Me too, Happy Birthday F.C.!!
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 29, 2024 11:35:07 GMT -5
A late felicitation! Happy birthday Steve!!
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 28, 2024 11:25:40 GMT -5
I came of age just before all that hippy stuff so I think my values were more in line with parents. They evolved based on life experiences but I did not have adulthood forced on me the way those that came of age during the depression and the global strife that followed did. We have a tendency to cast that era as kind of a utopia for America and it probably was if you were a white Christian male. Women, and minorities might have a different take. It does seem that with the current status of evolution towards adulthood it may not be too long before it becomes the new minority
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 27, 2024 9:47:58 GMT -5
We are getting ready for our first real adventure since Pat’s stroke and my tinnitus last fall. A road trip to High Point NC for a grandson’s college graduation next week. I think it will be good for us. We are adapting, still a ways to go but optimistic.
I had my mechanic run the new Subaru up on the lift yesterday to be sure the front suspension looked OK after hitting the barstool on the interstate last week. It looked good and he had some replacement plastic snap rivets to further stabilize my repair job on the sprung front quarter panel.
Much needed rain all weekend. Got my dock in and the lake is actually not down as much as I expected.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 26, 2024 22:35:41 GMT -5
He is one jazz guitarist who allows you to take your wife (who hates jazz) to a live show and at the end she’ll want to dump you for him.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 26, 2024 16:48:08 GMT -5
I am kind of in poorly informed agreement with the court just based on common sense. This is probably the time to clarify a definitive description of the limits of presidential immunity for future challenges. If it results in the delay of the trial so be it. There is always the November court of public opinion.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 26, 2024 15:58:10 GMT -5
Folks that make a living pontificating about social/political topics and festering anxiety amongst their audiences without offering any concrete solutions and with no real responsibility for their opinions have always annoyed me a bit.
I remember taking a case to the OR at midnight or the early AM and walking through the ER waiting room where the TV was tuned to some late night talk show or news channel and some dude was babbling and probably being paid handsomely. I thought "man, I sure chose the wrong gig!"
All we can really change is the way we interact with the world in our little sphere of influence. If we can pull that off in a way that makes someone's day a little better for having encountered us we've done a lot. Not easy but a noble work in progress eh?
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 26, 2024 12:47:15 GMT -5
Just to set the record straight, you can cut someone with a cast saw if used too aggressively but then you can bill them for fixing the cut.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 23, 2024 16:18:36 GMT -5
Love playing the descending G scale in Friend of the Devil. That song outlasts 90% of songs of that era. A standby in all my sets for farmers markets to senior centers. I know any number of players who pair it with blackberry blossom. In my banjo playing days we did that.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 23, 2024 15:42:34 GMT -5
I read a little book by Willie a while back, it had some good jokes. A couple -
At Christmas time a mailman knocked on a resident’s door to deliver a package.
He was greeted by a beautiful wife in a skimpy nightgown who grabbed him, let him to the bedroom and they had passionate sex.
She then took him to the kitchen and made him a nice breakfast and gave him a dollar.
The stunned mailman said something to the effect of “lady what the heck was that all about?l
She replied “Well I asked my husband what should we do for the mailman this Christmas? He said f#$! him, give him a dollar.”
“Breakfast was my idea”
A collector of western art commissioned a famous artist to paint a large work attempting to depict Custer’s emotions at the Little Big Horn.
After a long wait with numerous phone calls the work was unveiled.
It depicted Custer on a small mound surrounded by hundreds of Indians having sex.
The collector was furious but the artist suggested he read the small brass plate on the bottom which read “Never In My Life Have I Seen So Many F#$!!’n Indians”
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 23, 2024 11:06:12 GMT -5
Nice ride!
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 22, 2024 23:01:09 GMT -5
One of my faves is the Rice and Skaggs album. Tasty.
Here’s a cut-
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 22, 2024 22:58:05 GMT -5
Wow, scary stuff Terry. But on the bright side, you might have discovered a new career in auto body repair. Even my wife said it looked pretty good.
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 21, 2024 17:04:03 GMT -5
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Post by TKennedy on Apr 20, 2024 22:26:11 GMT -5
So I am driving down 694 west near the 100 interchange cruising along about 65 in traffic last Thursday and catch something out of the corner of my eye and its a big chrome barstool with a cushioned seat and back bouncing down the interstate into my lane. I couldn't brake or swerve so I hit it with the left front of my brand new Subaru. I watched pieces of it flying down the road in my mirror.
Moderage damage to the car front end and drivers door but it could've been worse. (4K estimate) About a quarter mile down the road I saw a pickup with a couch and easy boy stuffed in the back hanging over the edge. i am guessing it came from that dude.
You just never know that lies ahead eh?
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