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   PID: Synchronet 3.18a-Win32  Jun 26 2020 MSC    
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   Don,   
      
    DL> In my case...back in the 80's...it was endless marriage this...marriage   
    DL> that. Just bothering with that was enough to drive anyone crazy.   
      
     It's like the taglines "Marriage is SAME SEX -- the same sex all over   
   again!!", and "Sex is a Misdemeanor. The more ya miss, da meaner ya get".    
      
    DL> Know fully well about the loneliness. Am by myself & have no one to   
    DL> talk to...except for on here. Add on all the garbage from someone   
    DL> else...that Mystic Rat was right...don't marry or sleep with anyone   
    DL> else with more problems than you have.   
      
     I have my ham radio, square dance, and BBS friends, but that's it. I   
   talk to a lady friend who lives with her boyfriend. I keep them informed   
   about bad weather, as their dachshund (who is spoiled rotten, and thinks   
   of me as "his uncle"), doesn't like thunder crashes, gunfire, firecrackers,   
   etc. -- can't say that I blame him. I took the BBS down overnight just after   
   nightly maintenance, due to approaching thunderstorms...and they were all   
   over the region today. There were several severe thunderstorm warnings,   
   numerous flash flood warnings, and even a tornado warning for a storm that   
   was 40 miles to my southwest, moving northeast. The thunder didn't end here   
   until 6pm local time.   
      
    DL> Yep! It's almost to the point that you better hope you have a taxi   
    DL> there & back. In terms of parents...been estranged from those Klan   
    DL> scumbags others call family for 30 years & am better for it. Don't even   
    DL> know who's still alive or dead or care. They are not part of my life or   
    DL> even want them to be part of any type of my life.   
      
     The facilities here will NOT let you take public transportation, because   
   of the liability issues. You have to have an individual bring you there,   
   stay there while you're in prep, surgery, and recovery, then take you home,   
   and stay with you overnight. Otherwise, you have to do as I do...spend the   
   night in the hospital...which the insurance companies don't like to pay   
   for...but they refuse to consider that "I basically have no family left".   
      
     My brother is in worse physical shape than I am, from a freak motorcycle   
   wreck not 3 months after my wife died over 13 years ago, that nearly killed   
   him. He was impatient, went to pass a car that was going too slow for his   
   liking, and a mailbox on the side of the road caught the handlebar of his   
   motorcycle. It stopped...he didn't...flying off it onto the pavement. He   
   had shorts on, but nothing else...not even a helmet. He broke his shoulder,   
   ankle, and elbow, plus fractured his hip. He's lucky to be alive...and is   
   so bummed up now with arthritis, that the pain meds don't even work for   
   him, anymore.   
      
    DL> 1st time with stones was the only time I've been given morphine. Even   
    DL> 30 years later...never had another shot...since it's the greatest stuff   
    DL> in the world & I would abuse it like crazy.   
      
     They gave me that morphine, and it shut my colon down. It was a bear to   
   "clear the plumbing" as it were. :P   
      
    DL> At least 1 good thing...we have our toys there & can't get them taken   
    DL> away. Even have a half bag of fake corn chips beside me on the   
    DL> desk...so I have food. ;D   
      
     As long as I can do my hobbies at the computer, I'm content. Of course,   
   when the weather is bad, like it was today...I try to catch up on sleep.   
   Of course, when the weather radio alarm is constantly going off, that   
   kind of squelches that idea. The thing is, if it's a possible tornado   
   to my southwest, I'm going to stay awake for it.   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ... Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?   
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