What did you accomplish today?

[raratt]

I usually don’t watch much of friday qualifying unless i’m at track lol. Same with Sat. I usually always watch sundays on dvr. But being the finals i’ll watch a little more than usual

Friday evening qualifying is the most important I think, but it's a craps shoot if they play it or not. Putting off airing Sat qualifying to before the finals on Sun is stupid.

 

[Aeroknow]

Friday evening qualifying is the most important I think, but it's a craps shoot if they play it or not. Putting off airing Sat qualifying to before the finals on Sun is stupid.

It’s a crap shoot when you’re at Sonoma for friday qualifying. It’s like every other year they’ll actually race top fuel after dark, which is the main reason i’d go. Everytime i’ve been to friday qualifying at pomona(dad lived in pomona for years) they finished the funny car and dragster qualifying runs at night. At Sonoma, bunch of fucking pussies that complain about noise, even though they live pretty far away from the track. It’s stupid.

 

[raratt]

It’s a crap shoot when you’re at Sonoma for friday qualifying. It’s like every other year they’ll actually race top fuel after dark, which is the main reason i’d go. Everytime i’ve been to friday qualifying at pomona(dad lived in pomona for years) they finished the funny car and dragster qualifying runs at night. At Sonoma, bunch of fucking pussies that complain about noise, even though they live pretty far away from the track. It’s stupid.

I guess it scares the grapes.

 

[tangerinegreen555]

IK it's not the same as your Dad talking but the Library of Congress has a real interesting oral history Vet's program. It's chilling, listening to some of these guys relating their days/weeks/months at Guadalcanal, Okinawa as well as the European theater. Their stories pale to some of the ones from the trenches of WW1.

About | Search | Veterans History Project | Programs | Library of Congress

The Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans...

www.loc.gov

World War I: The Great War | World War I (1917-1918) | Serving: Our Voices | Veterans History Project Collection | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

So massive was the destruction wrought by this conflict that many thought it would be the war to end all wars--hence the eventual designation of it as “The Great War.” The United States had over 4.7 million men--and several thousand women--in uniform during WWI. These collections are a treasure...

www.loc.gov

Cool, I'll save the link.

My dad used to hook up once a year with his outfit for get togethers. They actually printed a book with everyone's name in it and where they went from mid 1942 until the end. I doubt if anyone is left at this point, dad would be 101 now.
I know I have that book stored in the attic of his old house where my daughter now lives. I'll have to go attic hunting when it gets too cold to work outside.

Everytime I go up there I wind up spending hours running into things I forgot about. There's a box of Japanese family pictures, religious items, little Jap flags, documents, etc., that were recovered from dead soldiers, my dad saved them. They kind of show the other side was human and it was their government that sent them to fight. Pictures of wives and children, mothers and fathers, etc., that they never saw again. I was fascinated looking through them as a kid.

I still have my dad's discharge uniform. He brought over in a suit bag one day 20-25 years ago worried that my mom would throw it away or something. Lol. No chance of that.

 

[Aeroknow]

I still have my dad's discharge uniform. He brought over in a suit bag one day 20-25 years ago worried that my mom would throw it away or something. Lol. No chance of that.

Nice!
I’m gonna make a trip down to SoCal for christmas to visit family. We were all gonna go last christmas but then the fire. I was going to surprise my cousin with my grandpas ww2 canteen.@BarnBuster thx again!
That cousin of mine has shitloads of my grandpas other stuff from the wars and from the other years he was enlisted. Not that the canteen isn’t safe with me, but i’ll let him add it to the collection.

 

[SSGrower]

I still have a fondness for Lowes paper over insulation.
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Lol, not in the house of course but I do seem to spend a lot of time in here in shed 1.

I sorta pegged you as a concrete guy.

 

[curious2garden]

I definitely read this post while sitting on the terlitt

Then you must have room for another pound of Mussels and the debauch continues

 

[lokie]

I usually don’t watch much of friday qualifying unless i’m at track lol. Same with Sat. I usually always watch sundays on dvr. But being the finals i’ll watch a little more than usual

 

[raratt]

discharge uniform.

I have mine, but there is no way I can fit in it. I get that my waist isn't what it used to be, but my shoulders are too wide is the problem. How does that happen?

 

[tangerinegreen555]

I have mine, but there is no way I can fit in it. I get that my waist isn't what it used to be, but my shoulders are too wide is the problem. How does that happen?

My dad couldn't come close to fitting in it. He weighed 185-190 most of his life.

He was discharged at 142 after 3 years of island hopping and jungle fighting and he got malaria before antibiotics were in widespread use. He said they gave him quinine for it and was sick for weeks in Australia where they sent them for treatment. He was never able to donate blood because of it.

 

[Chunky Stool]

 

[curious2garden]

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Where have you been?

 

[Metasynth]

Several pounds of enormous king crab legs have been added to the conquest

 

[Laughing Grass]

popcorn ain't a brand, it was an old man...who made shine, and pretty damn good shine.

old smoky isn't shine, it's craft liquor....after they cut shine, it's still at least 160 proof. it has to "hold a bead" on a jar, it will do something similar to the legs wine makes on a glass if it's high enough proof, if it doesn't, it's not strong enough....

Lol “take the hair off a wooden leg”. I don’t think we’re allowed to have that high of alcohol content here.

It’s been all weed all weekend for me. Got the harvest bagged and everything cleaned up. Moved the seedlings into the buckets and made some cannabutter with popcorn bud. Not sure what I’m going to make with the butter.

 

[Laughing Grass]

I made chocolate chip cookies. They look better than they taste.

 

[Metasynth]

I made chocolate chip cookies. They look better than they taste.

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They’re beautiful, are they medicated?

 

[Laughing Grass]

They’re beautiful, are they medicated?

Thanks! There’s 1lb of cannabutter in them. I used all the fluffy buds under the canopy for the butter. I just ate one and have no idea what I’m in for lol

 

[Metasynth]

Thanks! There’s 1lb of cannabutter in them. I used all the fluffy buds under the canopy for the butter

Wow. 1 lb in 23 cookies? Wow...lol, gonna be some good cookies

 

[BobBitchen]

Thanks! There’s 1lb of cannabutter in them. I used all the fluffy buds under the canopy for the butter. I just ate one and have no idea what I’m in for lol

 

[Singlemalt]

Thanks! There’s 1lb of cannabutter in them. I used all the fluffy buds under the canopy for the butter. I just ate one and have no idea what I’m in for lol

Holy shit. It's going to be a wild ride, you'll just want to stay home, preferably holed up in the closet