Forty Rod SASS 3935
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Ain't technology wunnerful?
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if some of us could see these things without having to sign in to some BS site?
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13 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
It really wasn’t a bad day so far. I took Schoolmarm and the dog up to my Mom’s today for a belated birthday celebration.
Hatfied and Kale, the youngest grandson, came up too!
I had a secondary purpose in going. Mom had asked me to replace some door knobs. That didn’t go as planned. The place has settled over the years and those doors are out of alignment, so the bolts don’t slide into the strikers anymore. It’s a modular home and cheaply made. The door frames are lightweight and made mostly of plywood. 😡
I tried relocating the striker on one door, but it’s going to require more materials and more time and tools than I had with me today.
So! One of the birthday presents I intended to give her isn’t being delivered just yet!!
I’ll only offer a minor GRUMP this time!
My house was built in '93 and has those same door problems. I've started a remodeling project and they are the next things to get done.....starting with the doors that get me in and out of the house.
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Think how fast Jerry would be if he didn't have to wait for all those mechanical bits and pieces slowing him down while they were recycling.
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I'm smarter than some folks (most? I won't say that because I'm also very humble.) and not as smart as others, but nobody can be smart about everything all the time. I have had attacks of stupidity from time to time.
I've also been unbelievably lucky most of the time. God has been very good to me most of the time. Once in awhile He slaps me down when I get too cocky or too complacent.....or sometimes just to make sure I'm still awake.
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I had a surplus Singer 1911. I didn't know it was worth a ton of money so I traded it for parka so I could go skiing.
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ot my money back with a real apology.
The lady that helped my yesterday doesn't work there anymore. (it was her last day because she is moving to Ft. Lauderdale to be with her family. She already has a job lined up there.)
The lady who runs there drapery shop found the drip irrigation parts I need while the idiot who runs the garden shop and told me just yesterday that no such thing existed anymore stood there scowling at us both. I called the assistant store manager and reported this to him.
I stopped at Hobby Lobby and a nice lady in the framinfgdepartment found the paint I was looking for, then walked me up front and opened a register for me.
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On 3/27/2025 at 5:31 AM, Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 said:
Sounded better than some of the garbage a lot of kids listen to nowdays.
Amen to that.
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10 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
You're expecting baseball rules to make sense? Silly boy!
Baseball rules are like virtue among prostitutes and rank among second lieutenants: non-existent.
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I got a call from a nice lady at Lowe's. after twenty minutes followed be some of the people I dealt with, she saved a customer for Lowe's.
I'll go in and get a cash refund and keep my card....and hopefully will get to meet her in person. They recorded all the crap, reviewed it. It was suggested that some heads rolled over it not at Lowe's but at the contractors who messed it up.
I'm satisfied so far that they are doing all they can to make it right.
I had already called some other people to do the drapes, but I'll still go to Lowe's before I even consider their big orange competitor.
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I got up and went to breakfast with the Marine Corps League. That was the only bright light in my entire day.
Some of the reasons (in no particular order):
Culver's had run out of malt vinegar, but didn't see fit to mention it until they delivered the food.
I had ordered some drapes from Lowe's. They postponed my measurement appointment twice and both times notified me on the day of the appointment.
Someone sent a man on Monday to measure the windows. He was a flaming idiot and I had to tell him what to do and how to do it.
I was to go back to Lowe's yesterday for a estimate for the job. They didn't know what I was talking about because once they take the order a contractor takes over.
Lowes called the contractor and told me they would call me.
Lowe's called me back and said the contractor had cancelled the order because they didn't understand the directions and measurements. The contractor didn't notify Lowe's nor me.
I told Lowe's to cancel the order and refund the $45.00 that I paid to get the job started. That stared an argument the escalated to two supervisors. I ended up telling the last one to cancel the order and my Lowe's credit card.
I went to three so-called garden supply stores to get pieces for my drip water system. None had the parts individually but had a package of dozens of parts that I don't need. I'll hand carve them before I spent $45.95 for a bag of crap that I don't need.
I got a package of two bathroom candles from Amazon. One of the two was broken...the second time in a row over three months that this has happened. Amazon is sending another one free (The supplier didn't pack them at all...just a couple of wads of paper in a flimsy box. NOT Amazon's fault!).
On the way home I stopped at Hobby Lobby for a small bottle of silver colored enamel. Not ANY size or brand of silver paint, except for spray cans, in the entire store. REALLY? I picked up several other items and ended up in one of two open check-out lanes. There were four people ahead of me, the first two were together buying all kinds of fake flowers and such and arguing over every piece. The other lane was moving a bit faster but had a dozen in line. After twenty minutes I took my dog (who loves the people at Hobby Lobby) and her "foot protecting rug" and pushed the cart with the stuff I was going to buy out of the line and walked out.
A few hundred yards, still in the parking lot, a three tooth temporary bridge broke and fell out.
Just a few blocks from home there was a traffic accident: two cars and a huge SUV...in the middle of a major intersection (3 lanes east and west, 2 lanes north and south, one turn lane at each one. Between the fire engines, police cars, two ambulances and a half million stupid lookie-loos and almost as many pedestrians it too forty minutes to get a lane or two open so we could get around the mess by going through parking lots (and cleverly driving a half a block on a sidewalk) I finally got home.
A half hour later all my fire alarms went of so we evacuated to the driveway and called 911. Fire fighters arrived in about five minutes. (they are only 3-4 blocks away) and checked everything out. They found that my five month old seven alarm fire alarm system had a faulty unit. They went around that one somehow, called the manufacturer and got a new unit sent under warranty to arrive tomorrow.
Finally I left a message for my dentist and got settled in. I went out to check my mail box. No mail. It's 7:00 pm. I haven't had an empty mail box on 39 years.
A neighbor brought my mail over this morning.
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ho was stupid enough to let the a--hole touch a gun?
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19 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
Take him to a Grumpy Lunch Bunch.
Baldwin? At the lunch?
I sincerely doubt he'd live long enough to put in his order.
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Totally crappy day....one day after one of the best days I've had in along time.
I should have know not to expect anything else.
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Poor baby has PTSD? Let me take him on a day long tour of places I go and the people there. Just he and me and the people he'll meet. Not one of his comfort puppets to shield him from the truth. I'll show him PTSD and make him cry like a little girl before that day is done.
Of course I don't think he has the ba.......guts to even think of such a thing.
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Absolutely the funniest movie ever made. I watch it at least once a year.
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have never eaten Canadian bacon. Does it taste like "our" bacon?
Is it leaner? I'm fed up with buying a pound of bacon and ending up with half meat and half fat.
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I played Patrick Henry in a fifth grade assembly. The teacher, Henry Cooper, said "just say it firmly. You don't need to raise your voice".
That was my first time on stage...but far from my last.
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How good is it?
Who does it?
What does it cost.
I want to add my DIL to a pic that she wasn't in because she hadn't married my son yet.
She's part of the tribe now, though....thank God.
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Just now, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I always got MY WAY....as soon as my wifr told me what it was>
I always got my own way....a.s soon as my wife told me what it was.
If that looks like a double dip to you it's because it is!
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On 3/13/2025 at 8:45 PM, Alpo said:
I always got MY WAY....as soon as my wifr told me what it was>
On 3/13/2025 at 8:45 PM, Alpo said:
I always got my own way....a.s soon as my wife told me what it was.
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3 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
Boy, you guys seem to know a lot about burying/hiding bodies.
I know nothing. I saw nothing!
I know nothing. I saw nothing. I didn't do it. I wasn't there. She said she was over eighteen.
Five statements that served me well over the years.
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I found a German .22 revolver, a real POS, on a school ground as I was walking to work. After school I took it the police station. I went in, told them I had found a gun, it was in my car, and I wanted to turn it in. Two cops walked me out to my car and I found myself looking down the barrels of two guns. A third cop came out handcuffed me and searched me and my car.
They questioned me and got all pissy when I demanded an attorney (my wife's boss) be present. I was yelled at, cussed at, threatened, and insulted, asked totally unrelated questions, insulted, and generally harassed. Finally an officer who was assigned to the campus of yhe school and knew me quite well, came in, questioned two of the cops, an HE called my wife's boss.
After four hours I was turned loose without any comment from the jackasses that had tried to violate almost ALL of my constitutional rights. Mister Jaffee sent a letter to the police Chief, the City Council and Mayor, every news paper ,TV, and radio he could think of, the California State Bar Association, and anyone else he could think of.
I was suspended from my teaching job without pay and never set foot in that school again. I had a friend pick up my personal belongings.
After two weeks I got a note saying "We are sorry for your inconvenience and any misunderstanding that there was." No punctuation and lousy English.) It was on OPD stationery, but was unsigned.
That was California about 2008.
If I ever find another gun I will carefully take it without touching it, shoot a couple of holes in a school house or church with it, and hide the gun in the Police Chief's back yard or in his car....and make an anonymous phone call to a TV station.
I had no use whatsoever for California cops and never will.
Arizona LEOs are a totally different breed and I have nothing but good contact with those I have met here.
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Interesting Site About the NY National Guard
in SASS Wire Saloon
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Really?
A military recruitment center on a college campus?
In New York?
With a woman commander?
Unbelievable!
Do I see a bit of a rising sun in the east?