HAHA reminds me of my mom, I swear she can burn boiling water :)

But I bet is all in the prep and the diet of the GP. Ever eaten grass fed beef from calf to slaughter vs grass “finished”. Its night and day, I can see why grass fed is so expensive.

And I love dark meat on chicken, hope to be able to try it someday!

I love lamp

Fish? Thats wild, I wouldn’t have expected that!

In Peru they are a food staple… So not totally useless.

I am utterly SHOCKED!

Oh wait, its just another idle Saturday and business as usual… If this guy makes it past the primary its going to be a disaster.

It makes sense, consider how close human and canine have lived to close together for how many thousands of years.

Oh I have a story to build off that dogs LOVE stinky things.

When I was in college I worked summers on my Uncles septic truck. We used to pump out in a really rich area. So we are at this really nice house and these 2 beautiful golden retrievers come bounding out of the house to say “hi” w/ the home owner.

These dogs were pampered, they smelled amazing, perfect coats, so lovable. So we got the hose in the tank I’m horsing around w/ the pups while my uncle is talking to the home owner.

Now we had a rule on the truck. We use the same hose to go in the hole. All the others link to the truck, best practice to keep them “clean”.

I start dragging the hoses back, “clean” hoses first and the last is the poop hose. One trick to clean to tank side of the hose (a short hose) was to roll it as you drag it back to “clean” the poop end off on the grass. No one ever noticed until today.

As I dragged it back those two goldens made a bee line to the path the hose was being dragged and went right on their backs rubbing in all the nasties into their fur. Home owner was horrified, his beauties were covering themselves in the black water of their septic tank.

My uncle said it happens all the time. And needless to say that homeowner never brought his dog out in our other visits.

tl;dr Dogs will rub themselves in septic nasties when you put the hoses back after a pump out.

My buddy let his dog out one morning and he would come back inside no matter what. So he goes to investigate, finds the dog playing with what looked like a weird “ball”.

It was a human head. He lived next to a decent sized highway and a mobster was murdered and they disposed of the body parts along it. The head was the first bit that was found. Investigators doubted the other parts would have been found w/o is pupper going full on cadaver dog.

Its all good, sometime my typing style gives off the wrong vibe :)

I have no intention of using it in an offensive or defensive way. It would be a cool piece of kit to add to my COMBLOC collection.

M1117 is far superior I agree, but I can’t get on. They are still in service and likely not going to be offered up to civilian collectors. And if they are they are going to be wicked expensive.

I get what your saying, tanks for me are too damn big. Also I have a soft spot for light recon vehicles like the BRDM and Ferret (Both buddies have a Ferret, so cool).

I figure BRDMs have light armor for small round ammunition as they are built to observe and get the hell out of dodge if they make contact. Also BRDMs have 8 wheels (4 hidden) and can traverse water. How cool would it be to go fishing of one?

I got two buddies that own 100s of tons of armor chopping at the bit for this to end. They have all logistics in place, just need the war to end. I hope to piggy back with them for a BRDM. They are planning on tanks, yes plural tanks to add to their collections.

Also when the russians lose all that surplus armor will hit the market. I always wanted a BRDM.

I read that russia is having a hell of a time rebuilding T72’s and T84’s due to when they were stored they got stripped out for their copper and other valuables during the fall.

Thats wild, none of those resources were around when I was that age.

I sat in a meeting, it was late here so I hit a west coast meeting. Nice group of folks, it was helpful hearing others talk about being sober and the issues before and after. Definitely will keep exploring as I get a better feel for the community.

I remember @ 7-8yo going to the local convenience store with a note to buy my mom cigarettes.

Dang there are a ton of them up there!

Ok I’ll give it a go and let you know how it goes after. Than you again!

Gah I wish I was near one of those cities, I’m not to far from DC though… Thats a heck of a drie though.

I will say today has been better than yesterday. Kept busy, started taking a vitamin B complex per a lot of the big med/sobriety sites. Got out of the house for a bit, next will find a local meeting. Its slim pickin’s unless I want to drive over an hour.

Now about calling, I’m terrible about that, rather an introvert when it comes to talking to strangers.

But right now its one moment at a time. Keeping everything low stress and low sensory overload. The last two falling offs was socializing too much too fast IRL. Felt great and was whats the harm in one… Then 2 two weeks later I’m back at it at the same levels.

Kinda why I’m slow on the meetings/seeing trusted friends atm.

Maybe she’s “Taking it back”

“Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!”

https://youtu.be/J-9wPdoiP30