doug rr wrote:an amazon order that i was looking forward to arrived just now..they sent the wrong thing i have to send it back...every thing is ruined now
did they send you a turkey for thanksgiving?
they sent a complete set of old baseball cards instead of the box of football cards wax packs...same year, different sport..anyway, its a thing with me and my 3 good friends..we sit around the table and open boxes of cards and drink whiskey..i still have a few other to open incase they don't show up in time..
why don't you, me, and a couple of other knuckleheads from these parts sit around and open boxes of old mad magazines or something while we drink scotch or take some gummies?
for years i've had a thread idea about doug opens cards with rm'rs and other famous friends..maybe one day it will happen
What's wrong with baseball cards?
absolutely nothing..they sent the wrong order..we're starting a baseball card opening club soon if you're interested
I am
I've never been invited to anything in my life so I'm excited
Vitalogist wrote:As a hotel manager, you can imagine the amount of beige I’ve seen in my career.
doug rr wrote:an amazon order that i was looking forward to arrived just now..they sent the wrong thing i have to send it back...every thing is ruined now
did they send you a turkey for thanksgiving?
they sent a complete set of old baseball cards instead of the box of football cards wax packs...same year, different sport..anyway, its a thing with me and my 3 good friends..we sit around the table and open boxes of cards and drink whiskey..i still have a few other to open incase they don't show up in time..
why don't you, me, and a couple of other knuckleheads from these parts sit around and open boxes of old mad magazines or something while we drink scotch or take some gummies?
for years i've had a thread idea about doug opens cards with rm'rs and other famous friends..maybe one day it will happen
What's wrong with baseball cards?
absolutely nothing..they sent the wrong order..we're starting a baseball card opening club soon if you're interested
I am
I've never been invited to anything in my life so I'm excited
doug rr wrote:an amazon order that i was looking forward to arrived just now..they sent the wrong thing i have to send it back...every thing is ruined now
did they send you a turkey for thanksgiving?
they sent a complete set of old baseball cards instead of the box of football cards wax packs...same year, different sport..anyway, its a thing with me and my 3 good friends..we sit around the table and open boxes of cards and drink whiskey..i still have a few other to open incase they don't show up in time..
why don't you, me, and a couple of other knuckleheads from these parts sit around and open boxes of old mad magazines or something while we drink scotch or take some gummies?
for years i've had a thread idea about doug opens cards with rm'rs and other famous friends..maybe one day it will happen
What's wrong with baseball cards?
absolutely nothing..they sent the wrong order..we're starting a baseball card opening club soon if you're interested
I am
I've never been invited to anything in my life so I'm excited
Can we convene in your The Shining basement?
my basement has never been so shiny yes
Vitalogist wrote:As a hotel manager, you can imagine the amount of beige I’ve seen in my career.
my wife has been fighting a cough and congestion since last Friday. she tested herself for covid twice but came up negative both times. for the last couple of days, i've felt an annoying tickle in my throat. seems to be getting gradually worse.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
dad wrote:my wife has been fighting a cough and congestion since last Friday. she tested herself for covid twice but came up negative both times. for the last couple of days, i've felt an annoying tickle in my throat. seems to be getting gradually worse.
Everyone in my family had the same thing. It started as strep. May want to get tested for that if your throat gets worse. Otherwise it’s a respiratory infection - ours lasted for about two weeks.
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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dad wrote:my wife has been fighting a cough and congestion since last Friday. she tested herself for covid twice but came up negative both times. for the last couple of days, i've felt an annoying tickle in my throat. seems to be getting gradually worse.
Everyone in my family had the same thing. It started as strep. May want to get tested for that if your throat gets worse. Otherwise it’s a respiratory infection - ours lasted for about two weeks.
My kid has this too, almost done. Cough has lingered but doc says there’s nothing to worry about
i'm pretty sure it's just respiratory. however, i am susceptible to strep.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
We got off the plane in Orlando yesterday morning with the youngest Weaseling having a cough, sore throat and lots of sinus issues. Made a call to one of my providers and by 1pm or so picked up some antibiotics and such for her.
She was around kids that had flu and strep all weekend so we were fearing the worst.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
wease wrote:We got off the plane in Orlando yesterday morning with the youngest Weaseling having a cough, sore throat and lots of sinus issues. Made a call to one of my providers and by 1pm or so picked up some antibiotics and such for her.
She was around kids that had flu and strep all weekend so we were fearing the worst.
ah, bummer. hope those abx kick in and she's on the mend.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
wease wrote:We got off the plane in Orlando yesterday morning with the youngest Weaseling having a cough, sore throat and lots of sinus issues. Made a call to one of my providers and by 1pm or so picked up some antibiotics and such for her.
She was around kids that had flu and strep all weekend so we were fearing the worst.
ah, bummer. hope those abx kick in and she's on the mend.
She got a good night’s sleep and has already had two doses. She’s a whole different kid today.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
- C. Montgomery Burns
