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goodbye to you...!

right foot xray.jpg ...soon.

not really looking forward to "no walking" on it for 6-8 weeks.
think i'll try to put a few lbs in the bank over the next month.
 
overlandflyer said:
think i'll try to put a few lbs in the bank over the next month.
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Is this to prepare for hospitalisation, putting on extra pounds to fend off hospital food? Or am I reading it exactly the wrong way round? Whichever, best wishes for this to go excellently. (farewell, little bit of metal! :waving: )
 
overlandflyer said:
wound up getting a 3 lb version for $15
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Just noticed that, it was a real bargain. I don't know of any place to buy venison here. Do you like it? I know it's pretty low calorie, and probably better than crow.

When we lived in Florida I knew people who lived adjacent to a Wildlife Refuge, they kept us supplied with poached venison. Deer hunting is big in Utah, but I gave up big game hunting (warm blooded anyway) years ago, don't have much urge to restart.

Sorry about your foot, can you get back into biking? It's easier on the feet than walking, or seems to be anyway.
 
aiminglow said:
Is this to prepare for hospitalisation, putting on extra pounds to fend off hospital food? Or am I reading it exactly the wrong way round? ...
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well, yes... sort of backwards. it's not the food, it will be the lack of my major exercise, walking. i'm about a mile from the ocean, another ½ mile to the fishing pier and if i walk the entire pier, it's yet another mile (BIG pier!), so i do this 4 mile walk a few times a week, though some days i catch the bus home to cut off the last mile. senior fares rock...! so metaphorically i was considering at least staying in the low 160's until i go in for the operation. going to have to be fairly sedentary for a few months.

the worst part about this metal is that it has turned my left foot into a size 10 whereas my right foot still is a 9. i nearly walk out of my right shoe every once in a while when my feet are in the bony state and i have a bunch of still decent condition old shoes i haven't worn since that fix got put in.

alligatorob said:
... I don't know of any place to buy venison here. ...
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i can only remember having venison once... a German restaurant in town had it on the menu. with the Ralph's purchase, it was a smaller "version" of the rib roast. (san serif fonts play tricks with my vision sometimes, too). wow... venison, version & vision in the same paragraph. fun with words...!
 
overlandflyer said:
well, yes... sort of backwards.
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Thank you for sorting me out! :) Great to be living so close to the sea - a two-mile walk is a good length - long enough to feel like a real walk, and not so long as to be tiring, unless you're carrying loads of fish or seaweed. (We have a long pier in South Australia, too! But I don't think a mile long.)
 
walked to the pier yesterday... it's actually only goes out about 3/8 mile, there there is a "T" section at the end, so if you walk the length + the T, it's almost exactly one mile. i spent a bit of time at the end watching a sea lion playing and when i add in people watching, the time seems to fly by. the last thing on my mind is thinking about the exercise.

got to see our "tree" for the first time, too...

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about 5 years ago we had a normal looking, fairly straight tree, but apparently there was a lot of negative feedback and since then they've caved to the Charlie Brown Tree coalition. the annual Christmas parade is next weekend... i think it might still be getting decorated. we've had about 8-9 days of rain over the past few weeks.

some people complain about the fencing, but out of practicality, within the first few blocks there are over a dozen bars. more or less, preventive stupidity.
 
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i felt like i was visiting the quantum world this morning.
i saw 161.5, but after grabbing the camera, the uncertainty principle took over...

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That Heisenberg guy's got a lot to answer for! (Well done, on the low-low 160s!)

I don't follow what Charley Brown Principle is, though, or how it relates to a bendy Christmas tree.
 
wow... 1965... 12 years old... yeah, that sound's about right... :santa:

actually now that i look at it, Whoville might define its heritage better... it's anything but puny.

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i think the bottom line with the merchant's assoc who run the Christmas events, is the bottom line, ... the tree is always donated.
 
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not sure if it was the first Christmas, but what i remember most was seeing A C.B. Christmas in "living color". my ultra-conservative dad stunned us all by getting one of the first RCA color TV sets. not many shows were even in color yet. for quite a while i can remember some of our neighborhood friends coming over to catch Disney and Johnny Quest. ...this morning i watched Morning Joe on my phone for a bit. even Dick Tracy would be jealous of today's tech.
 
My father was an electrical engineer who worked for RCA in the 50s making TVs. He however didn't like the idea of having a TV in the house, we were one of the last in the neighborhood to get a TV at all and I didn't have a color TV to watch until I was in my 30s, I had no TV from the time I left the house at about 18 until then. You are right about today's technology vs the old, hard to imagine watching a little poor quality black and white with only 2 or 3 channels to choose from. Sometimes I wish I could go back to a time when I had no TV at all, but I am addicted now.
 
my worst stint of TV watching was definitely at college. located in a valley, we got three channels, two in the UHF band and all signed off at 11:30PM.

it's worth looking up the music of the Vince Guaraldi Trio, too...

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as he used to say... "i'm happy to work for Peanuts."
 
There we go - the video came up saying "blocked... on copyright grounds", but I tracked it down, and looked at it tonight. I agree that your tree looks a lot more like the Seuss tree than the Charlie Brown one! :)
 
on the road for a few weeks.
finding out how hard it is to eat healthy when you count on restaurants presenting things like this...
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veggies... must be good, right?
not one appetizer that didn't involve some sort of deep frying.
i was almost tempted to see how they did this...
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while i can see, "half a sandwich" ... but "half a burger"?
i am getting to see a good mix of Christmas decor...
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hotel spring scale.... I WANT TO BUY IT... !!!

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