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4 all the way…and I would pull off that charred skin and scarf it down, and then stick the remnants in the fire to be charred again…yum!

As an old fan of X-Files, I was always annoyed when Fox and Dana would drive up to a building at night: the building had some lights on both exterior and interior so it seemed the power was working. They would go inside and enter the room they were looking for and immediately turn on their flashlights to start searching the room...this always annoyed me because I just wanted to yell "HEY, turn the light switch on, there's obviously power in the building!" But I guess they needed to create suspense.

Thanks mininghorn88. I have a total of 667 autographs of 220 different HOFers, which obviously means that I have multiples of most. There are 117 HOFers that I don’t have yet, primarily because they’re too expensive and/or very rare.

I’m not much of a boot wearer, even though I grew up in Wharton County around a lot of farm and ranch folks. I have one pair of pointed toe boots that I bought at the old South Congress Cowtown Boots store about 35 years ago. I finally decided I would like another pair, so I bought this pair of python skin boots a couple of weeks ago across the border in Nuevo Progreso…cost was $134 and quality looks really good to my untrained eyes…name-brand python skin boots run about $300+ in the states, so since I’m generally a cheapskate, I’m happy with the purchase.

I’ve been lurking on shag and surly going back to about 2015. As a 64 year old guy, I was finally inspired to make my first post earlier today on the “getting old sucks” thread, providing some advice on afib and cardio ablation. So, I thought I would continue to introduce myself and share some photos of a couple of my favorite pieces of Longhorn memorabilia: my personalized M. Brown and D. Royal autographed photo, and my 1969 National Champs mini-helmet with autos of Royal, Worster, Koy, Speyrer, and Street. Another hobby is collecting autos of Baseball HOF members, I’ve also attached a photo of part of that collection.

Hey mchookem, I can share some of my experiences with cardiac ablation procedures for afib. I'm a 64 year old male, and I've experienced afib most of my adult life. In my 40s it began to occur more frequently, so my cardiologist had me taking flecainide as a "pill in the pocket" whenever an afib event would occur...the flecainide would usually return me to normal rhythm within a day. It finally reached a point where the afib was occurring very frequently, so in 2011 (when I was 52) I had the cardiac ablation procedure...it kept me basically afib-free for the following 2 years, but by the end of year 3 the afib had returned fairly frequently. The flecainide would generally help, but by early 2022, I started having extended afib events and medication was not helping any longer. So in September 2022, I had another ablation procedure, and I have been totally afib free since then (1-1/2 years, cross my fingers). I've been told that sometimes multiple ablation procedures are needed, but my cardiologist seems confident that with the recent ablation my afib has been permanently eliminated. If you're in the Austin area, I highly recommend Dr. Paul Coffeen with the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia group...he performed both of my ablations. In my old age, I have developed PAC (premature atrial contractions) which is basically an occasional skipped heart beat, but the doctors tell me that is fairly common for us older folks and is not related to my past afib. I've been lurking on Shag and Surly going back to the Malikmas days (2015), and have been wanting to begin posting some, so you're afib post was the one that finally drew me out. As an old guy, I'll definitely be posting on this thread fairly often, I'm also well-experienced with the colonoscopy procedures (I've had 6 or 7 so far). I'm a 1982 UT architectural engineering graduate, and have been a diehard Longhorn fan since I was in 3rd grade (when I first really began understanding sports), and I was totally hooked after the 1969 national championship. And yes, I like cats, that's our girl Boo in my profile picture. I hope this helps!