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Sandman

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  1. I want this shit for my roof. Fuck hail storms.
  2. I'm going electric soon, just trying to decide which one. My options are limited due to my height/size, most have no headroom. The Mach-E is too narrow, the Ioniq 6 just sucks. I like the Ioniq 5 ok, but the Model Y just seems nicer inside. I'm really just trying to decide on getting a new Y or a used one. Either way, I have to travel out of state. Tesla can't deliver in Oklahoma and there aren't any used ones worth a shit around here (IMO). So I either buy a new one and drive to Kansas City to get it, or drive to Plano and get a nice used one. I'll admit, neither option is very enticing.
  3. I don't think he'd agree to that but more importantly, I don't think he's far enough along for it. I do think he has a good chance of dying if he has another heart attack but who know if or when that will happen? As to the CHF, how long would that take to do him in? I have no idea. His brother had a ton of heart issues and was sent to hospice. But he lived long enough to where the facility rep went to him and said he was going to be kicked out, they needed room for people who were going to die soon. He passed the next day.
  4. My dad was at skilled nursing for a few days, then had some AFIB and was taken back to the hospital. They put him in some vest thing that is supposed to shock his heart if needed, it has a little box you have to fuck with the keep from getting shocked. They said he needs to wear it for 3 months. Well, he's back at home and has now taken it off, said it was crushing his chest. He refuses to go back to skilled nursing "They tried to kill me! Their cable tv package sucks!". He's mad that the home health RN won't give him a shower. He won't eat much but he needs to get some protein. He's currently in the middle of congestive heart failure to boot. Oh, and he told my sister that he won't be going back to the hospital. I guess he just wants to fade out, I dunno. At this point, I'm so frustrated that all I can do is laugh.
  5. I see Pontiac Grand Prix pretty regularly, they made them till 2008. 2 Chevys I never see anymore are the Corsica and the Beretta. I wanted a Beretta so bad when I was 16.
  6. I see them more than my first car, a Ford Tempo. Those fuckers have been erased like when Disney+ gets rid of one of their shows. Never to be seen again.
  7. I've seen newly hired supervisors do that shit before and it never ends well for them. "I gave you a lower score because if you get a perfect score, it's impossible for you to improve!". One chat with the higher-ups and they get in line real quick. You want to ding a shitbird? Fine, just don't fuck around with the money of the people that do all the fucking work.
  8. You think Elway is scared? He just fucking killed a guy he called his friend, he'd straight up eviscerate a total stranger.
  9. Found a certified used car online that I was interested in. I had a carmax offer for my current car, so I went to this dealership to see about making a deal. They lowballed the shit out of my trade by the tune of $8k. I said no fucking way and showed them the carmax offer I had. They came up $1200, I said no. Then their final offer was still $4k under the carmax offer I had. They said they can’t compete with carmax or carvana and that he would be “taking a loss” to meet that price. I said no deal and then he said I should go sell my car and come back. I said sure, wait here for me and left. Fuck that shit. I guess I’m just gonna drive my car into the ground before I bother doing this again.
  10. Driving in to the office this morning, I saw a guy on the shoulder of the interstate on a BMX bike. I thought "there's no way..." but yes, he started peddling like a mad man and got in the right-hand lane. I didn't see if he lived or not, as traffic had sped up.
  11. Sandman

    London

    I just did mine Friday night, used the official app. Took under 2 minutes to process, cost $22. Hardest thing was taking the selfie, can't have any shadows or glare.
  12. She's married and has a kid. Guess she forgot the benadryl that day.
  13. This happened to my kid. She never had an issue till high school, then all of the sudden she'd break out in hives and have trouble breathing after she ate chili or pulled pork. Took her for a bunch of (expensive) tests and they saw that she has an allergy but couldn't pinpoint why. A few years later, my kid was reading about it and found that tick bites can cause you to become allergic to meat. Her grandfather has a ranch in BFE where they go out hiking around, probably got it there. She has it under control pretty much, takes Benadryl with her everywhere and avoids things that set her off. She read that it can go away after a while, sometimes. Fingers crossed.
  14. I was visiting my dad and we got to talking about food we haven't had since my mom passed in 2007. I mentioned salmon patties and he got a look of pure ecstasy on his face. "ohh, your mom's salmon patties...". We'd always have them with mashed potatoes and white gravy. I told him when I was about 8-9 years old, I could see on the plate that there was only enough for me to get one patty. Dad always got two. I said I used to count down the days till they thought I was big enough for two. Sadly, by the time mom thought I was ready for two, I needed three LOL.
  15. 4-5 years ago, I tried the email route: Give me your out the door price on this car. Salesman said if I wasn't coming in to see the car, then he wasn't going to talk to me. I never heard from them again.
  16. So you want the entire board to go away?
  17. Every time I see someone at work who has brought their lunch in a tied off plastic grocery bag, it just makes me cringe. I can't explain it. Get a lunchbox, they're not expensive.
  18. Last time I ate subway was several years ago. I remember that I wasn't disgusted, but it felt like I wasn't eating real food. Like maybe I was served some fake food that they use on display at furniture stores.
  19. The worst part is watching him. He had a hell of a time coming out from the anesthesia and was acting weird. Crying out for help, not knowing where he was and then falling asleep again. I'm back at work today and my sister said he was telling old stories and then getting emotional about his father, who died in 1973. Then sleeping again. But he's doing better, ate some food. He'll have to go to skilled nursing for a while to get back on his feet (literally). He needs PT and someone to watch him during the day, as he's still weak from blood loss.
  20. Sometimes mom would make a big skillet of white gravy and a stack of toast. Then you tear up toast into pieces and pour the gravy all over it. I never thought about asking why there weren't biscuits, even though we had biscuits and gravy every so often.
  21. Test results are in: internal hemorrhoids and diverticulitis. Tomorrow, they're going to put in an implant for blood thinning, the Watchman? Also doing a little heart ablasion. Just a whole slew of shit.
  22. I'm pretty sure I haven't been to a theater in 8 years. Haven't missed it at all. Pretty sure that all of the theaters I used to go to are long gone now.
  23. I've already looked for his post in the divorce thread. Nothing yet, but it's coming.
  24. I was stone cold asleep when my phone rang at 0130, probably the deepest sleep from which I have been awakened unexpectedly. I saw my sister was the caller and I knew something bad had happened. Dad was taken to the heart hospital with chest pains and trouble breathing. He was sleeping, so I went down there a little later. He had a mild heart attack, caused by blood loss. Turns out he's seen some blood in his stool the last 3-4 days, off and on. He said he didn't say anything because "it went away". Please note that my dad was a medic in the military for 25+ years, then spen 17 years as a cardio-cath tech. So he should know better. He got a few units of blood and feels much better. He's getting scoped from every orafice in the next day or two to find the cause of the blood loss.
  25. Took my daughter's car in to get the A/C fixed, it took 3-4 days before they got to it. They called and said it was done, she picked it up and went to work that night. She called about 30 mins later to tell me it quit working again. I call the dealer in the morning and he says they can't get to it for a week, I said you told me it was fixed and took my money, you should prioritize my fucking car. They claimed that was just impossible. I never did business with them again.
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