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RDCanecutter

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  1. Thanks for all the help, everybody. All is good. SS payment (My "Crazy Check" per Mrs. Canecutter) already in the bank. Medicare A and B in the bag. Got Medicare D and Gap plan starting July 1st with BCBS, and enough drugs left in the bottle to squeak me over the line.
  2. Almost certainly worth more than the metal. Probably not telling you anything you don't know, but you want a specialty shop instead of a bullion one. No idea if they charge extra or not, I mean, seems like they'd want first shot at anything good. Most likely need to call ahead to make sure their "knowledge dude" is there that day. Two cigar boxes I figure will take about an hour to see if you've got some key dates. Good luck!
  3. I had a bike-ride through Vermont gat hi-jacked into a three-day drunk in Tallahassee. One buddy had snared a girl who was a sorority president who enlisted her friends as dates for the rest of us. Didn't even involve a kiln explosion.
  4. To be honest, not sure what's great about the other side of that bridge either.
  5. It looked like a good place to raise a family.
  6. RDCanecutter replied to Hate's topic in Lulz
    I feel the urge to recreate 1990s trips where I had a $700 budget (I guess twice that now) and yet managed to cross Mexico and have a good time. I guess the missing piece is convincing my son to act like he's 10 again.
  7. Back then I got stopped a time or two and barely spoke Spanish, so some 18-year-old soldier would get disgusted and just wave me through. At those stops there were usually some teenage girls just hanging around like it was payday. Made friends with a bartender in Zacatecas, and she nixed my backroad plans south of there, went through Aguas Calientes instead. Probably why I'm here now.
  8. That's kinda guaranteeing I'll make it to 95, hmm...
  9. There was a time in my youth when I thought I-65 between Montgomery and Mobile was a soul-crushing pine-tunnel drag. Then I went west of the Mississippi. Have done the KC-Denver crawl. Various Texas forever-drives. Honorable mention: Amarillo-Del Rio-Laredo (spooky.) Best dead zone was Saltillo to Zacatecas. Had my radio searching for stations, forgot about it, then shit myself when out of nowhere it started yelling in my ear as it caught a station. There was one oasis restaurant halfway along with a tree growing inside the building. Probably still there.
  10. Yeah I've felt about the same most of my life. I told the lady I didn't want to take something and later get in trouble for moving heavy things around or hiking on a long trail. She was supremely unconcerned. "Stage 4 cancer qualifies you."
  11. Kill it. Welp, I learned that my cancer meds were going up to $7,700/month in June, so I put on a tie and jacket and strolled into the monolithic Social Security building without an appointment. Told em my situation, and they took pity and set me up for SS and MC right there on the spot, and gave me a handful of Disability forms to fill out at home and come back with Monday morning. Apparently Stage 4 Cancer is considered a disability. Everybody I tell about this is acting like I simply walked into Mordor. I can't even claim Jedi Mind Tricks-- they wanted to help me. Next step is to sign up to Blue Cross where they say they can get me the drugs for about $4,700/year.
  12. Welp, I learned that my cancer meds were going up to $7,700/month in June, so I put on a tie and jacket and strolled into the monolithic Social Security building without an appointment. Told em my situation, and they took pity and set me up for SS and MC right there on the spot, and gave me a handful of Disability forms to fill out at home and come back with Monday morning. Apparently Stage 4 Cancer is considered a disability. Everybody I tell about this is acting like I simply walked into Mordor. I can't even claim Jedi Mind Tricks-- they wanted to help me. Next step is to sign up to Blue Cross where they say they can get me the drugs for about $4,700/year.
  13. Move stealing to first priority, and you have PFC Canecutter's standing orders.
  14. Me: 65, fairly active, Stage 4 Cancer mostly laying low, but drugs run us up to the limit on the deductable and we make too much to get aid. May need radiation at some point in the near future, maybe not. I heard there are different versions of Medicare, would like to know people's actual experience, thanks.
  15. Turn him over to the seal justice system.
  16. There was a time where I could have done that sentence with half as much English. But I have had decades to recover.
  17. They told me one donor dropped thousands of dollars, if that's one of y'all, thanks! And thanks if you dropped $5. We have completed art for concept of characters, plus chapters 1-6. I have been told not to share any of it until the site goes online. Heard today that they need art for chapters 7-12. If the French language would just keep changing, we could be talking lifetime employment.
  18. It's been 5 years since I was expected to take jargon seriously. I look back from this serene mountain top back down at the swamp of ambition where wallow the captives of Slack and quaint actual meetings, and I think... ...fuck it. Truth be told never think about that shit at all. I've got FPF set up if they get through my FOF and whichever of my NCOs is HMFIC knows how to take a mob of PFCs from OSUT and turn them into soldiers or at least SP4s. Go back to TOC and aquire me some pogey bait.
  19. Losely related.
  20. That was my life for a couple of years. A friend opened a store 15 miles away. How long did it take to drive there and visit? About a month if you've got the non-stop shits. I would sometimes take several days to mail a package (post office 1/2 mile away) because on the way there I Could Tell It Was Coming. Turn around, clench up, try to get inside to the toilet. At some point they switched my meds. Shits went back to normal. Maybe something similar will happen to you. Or maybe I'll go back to shit-inducing meds. This stuff is nothing if not interesting.
  21. The first go-round where they thought I had 5 pounds of Stage 2 tumor, and I woke up with tubes coming out my guts hooked up to "bing" machines, yeah it was kinda depressing. We'd been binge-watching a 1960s TV show and all I could think about was how many of the actors had keeled over from cancer. Everything about it was depressing and worrisome. Then two years later it turned out that I actually had Stage 4 all along and we went into full Red Alert mode, then came the first scans and the new drugs were working? Happy Time. Quit all the regular jobs that made me unhappy, turned totally to stuff I liked. I mean, what else are the options? Banzai.
  22. Thanks Carl. It's mostly through pure brute force. In my 6th Scottish Zoom class now, and started up my Duolingo lessons again, testing out of levels until I hit one I couldn't fake my way through and now the green owl haunts me on my phone. Did make a minor breakthrough-- when the instructors send emails they are typically in Gaelic with an English translation farther down. Last time I didn't need the translation at all, except for one weird old Gaelic word: Sùm. It was Zoom.
  23. Well throw them out too. [fiddle starts playing.]
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