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Old 10-30-2021, 09:39 PM
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Is the reduction in pain due to P.T. ? .

It's good to hear you're doing better, now go shred some tires ! .

I did a bunch of yard works Thursday and am still sore .

It's forecast to rain Monday so Ill get back at it tomorrow, see how far I can get .
Just getting started at things is half the battle with aging. At least recently with me.

I may have to find a treatment center for a recent yard sale junky addiction as well. I select carefully in my mind. Still run across buys that are hard or impossible to resist.

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Old 10-30-2021, 10:33 PM
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The reduction in pain is from healing. I am working out hard enough I am getting sore from that like you do from exercising muscles not used much for a while.
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Old 10-31-2021, 12:01 PM
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Post Physical Pain & Yard / Tag Sales

I had to stop looking at yard sales over a decade ago, I stopped the swap meets too .

I think I'm bumping into the physical discomfort of not working enough ~ my Sweet is always telling me to BE STILL ! but I am not getting things done as much as I'd like and after one day of work I'm sore for several more .

She says to give it up and stop playing with / working on / riding and driving my oldies, I hate new vehicles with a passion and know I'll have to quit one of these dayze but not yet I hope .
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Old 11-06-2021, 07:43 PM
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I was planning to race tomorrow. I told my Mrs. a few days ago but today when I told her i was planning to run tomorrow she did not remember the other day, so I decided not to run. I will take the grandson if he still wants to go though.
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Old 11-07-2021, 12:22 AM
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I had to stop looking at yard sales over a decade ago, I stopped the swap meets too .

I think I'm bumping into the physical discomfort of not working enough ~ my Sweet is always telling me to BE STILL ! but I am not getting things done as much as I'd like and after one day of work I'm sore for several more .

She says to give it up and stop playing with / working on / riding and driving my oldies, I hate new vehicles with a passion and know I'll have to quit one of these dayze but not yet I hope .
I have come face to face with. The fact that I just cannot do what I could. I am healthy but the drive and energy have gone. I have started to farm out jobs that five years ago would not have fazed me at all. It is just the reality of being eighty years old in six months probably. Things just are not getting done as fast as usual either. I never had a backlog like I have now. It was difficult to comprehend that I will be farming out a lot of it. Or it will not get done. That is exactly what I have started to do.

I will try to still keep going as best I can. What I am experiencing probably hits us all at some point. Many at less than my age as well. My problem was it started a couple of years back and I tried to ignore it.

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Old 11-07-2021, 09:03 AM
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Post Do You Best

Yep ;

I'm havin the devil of a time keeping up with the general maintenance of multiple vehicles and don't know any Mechanics I truly trust to do things right .

Spending time with the grandkids is great ~ I never met mine, they simply didn't care, I cannot fathom this .

I take my Forster boys out as much as I can too, always feed them, this makes them want to go even if they have no idea what they're going to do .

Expanding horizons prevents the mess America is in now .

Children or the future, never forget this .
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Old 11-07-2021, 03:23 PM
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I was planning to race tomorrow. I told my Mrs. a few days ago but today when I told her i was planning to run tomorrow she did not remember the other day, so I decided not to run. I will take the grandson if he still wants to go though.
We went down and got to watch the action for an hour or so. It was one of those days that kept chopping my legs out from under me.
1. I woke up in the night and set the stove timer to get up in time to go. I got a bit confused and set it for an hour too soon (I'd like to blame this on the time change but I think it was just operator error.
2. So I arrived at my son's place an hour early. I just reclined the seat a bit and took a nap until 7 am.
3. Then we took off for indy. I had checked my fuel in my dodge for the day and made sure it was full enough to go and come back. But I took the 250 Ml and it did not have sufficient fuel.
4. So I got off to fuel up on the west side of Indianapolis. After trying to operate the pump five times I discovered there was script with prompts put in an out of the way place. With that info I tried again and failed.
5. So I went to a different pump in the same station and found they required me to go inside. I went to another place.
6. I got back on the highway and stopped the first place showing to have diesel. I got off and found the station had no diesel pumps. So I went across the street to one displaying a price for diesel. But I found the entire station with some 20 pumps had bags over the nozzles.
7. So I got back on the highway again and next time found a pump which worked and filled up.
8. So we got to the event site, parked and got out to look around. We talked to a few people who were glad to see me and my handsome grandson.
9. So they started the event and ran for about 45 minutes. There was a stoppage of the event. These stoppages are common and usually is a scoring computer glitch or something unplugged.
10. After a while the course workers started coming in. This has never happened before.
11. I soon learned that the event was stopped because a course worker had been stuck by a car. No details were available but five emt vehicles converged. I decided to head home as it seemed quite possible there would be no more runs today.

I have never had such a day.

Tom
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Old 12-15-2021, 07:29 AM
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I later learned that the worker was not hurt too seriously. He went home later from the hospital.
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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.
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Old 06-04-2022, 09:59 PM
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So I am heading out tomorrow morning to run at Walesboro near Columbus on the old air field owned by Cummins.
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Old 06-06-2022, 08:35 AM
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I ran yesterday. It was about 90 degrees out there. I struggle with heat. I did pour water on my head between runs and around my neck etc. The car bodywork was so hot I could not touch it without gloves.

The car ran perfectly until the fifth run when it came up with a dead battery. I had left the ignition on between runs so It is probably driver error.

I was pretty rusty.
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Old 06-06-2022, 02:13 PM
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I’m guessing in your formula Ford, correct? I don’t think you’ve ever said anything about racing the Cobra.

On lifestyle changes, I have 99.99% removed ice cream from my diet. I used to be nuts about Häagen-Dazs. I went through about a year of unpleasantness with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, approx October 2020 to October 2021. I managed to beat it, chemotherapy and diet improvement. I had gone off on a prolonged and asinine Häagen-Dazs binge during a nasty heat wave a month or so before I started showing symptoms. Saturated fat has statistical correlation with NHL, and I don’t mean the National Hockey League. Attributing some of my recovery to improved diet is not highly scientific, but I had good indication that I was turning the corner even before I started chemo. I went ahead with the chemo though because a few friends have gone that route and a few years later seemed right as rain. Andrew Weil now recommends chemotherapy along with improved nutrition.

For what it’s worth, another esoteric diet item but I think it’s right on the money is the use of “resistant starch.” I have a mixture I take either at night, or in the morning if I haven’t done it for a while. My mix is evolving, but at this point it’s a tablespoon each of Big Bobs potato starch, plantain flour, and psyllium husk. And a teaspoon of turmeric, a half teaspoon of cinnamon, and some Matcha powder.

There has been a lot of research on this, university trained nutritionists hate it, well, I’ve only encountered two that really hate it, but they are pretty persuasive on how much they don’t like it.

The stuff feeds your intestinal flora, the good bacteria (happy face, balloons and confetti). It supposedly increases your insulin sensitivity and gives you excellent colon health. Bowel movements are excellent with the stuff, I mean epic, a pleasure. I hate constipation, oh my God I hate it.

I offered this up in case it might help someone, I know it seems a bit loopy, I wouldn’t present it if I hadn’t experimented a lot with it. Helps to reduce appetite also. My older sister has been seriously overweight for a long time. She’s in pretty good health all in all, but she’s prediabetic. She lost 15 pounds the first month she started doing this. She backslid a little bit but is sticking with it. This article is pretty good:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/resistant-starch-101
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Old 06-07-2022, 03:05 PM
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Time with your grandson or grandsons is very important to them. Often they emulate the better values we have as a result. Sometimes we can help with any issues they are having. Your interests can also expand their own horizons as well.
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Old 06-07-2022, 03:25 PM
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Thumbs up Grand Children

Yes, I agree time spent with them is very important .

I never knew my grand folks, they didn't care I guess .

My son's mad at me and won't tell me or anyone else why, he doesn't allow me to see my grand kids, very sad .

He claims I was a great father, showed him the world and taught him to be independent but with holding my grand kids is a childish jerkhoff move that only hurts them .

Interestingly, I'm the favorite uncle whenever I visit my siblings kids and my Foster boys all call me 'Grandpa' and brag to the other kids from broken homes....

IMO, the more points of view children have, the better able they are to make choices and separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak .
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Old 06-08-2022, 10:48 AM
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my oldest is a trump loving R. Her and her husband and two daughters gang up on the grandson who is in tune with me. He won't back down.

I try to always give him positive reinforcement.
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Old 06-08-2022, 06:41 PM
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Unhappy Lifestyle Choices

That's sad but they choose this, no one makes them unhappy, afraid and angry .

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