RiverDave
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I have been at 1/4 throttle since Sunday because I've been sick... As Stacy so eloquently put it "The Man Cold"... By 1/4 throttle I mean literally just doing the bare minimums to get by, and anybody that needs anything from me (at least in my mind) is gonna wait until I feel better. LOL.
(manufacturers you can skip till the end if you don't have the time to read it all).
I have to send a plate and a title to Tony from DCB for a little trailer he bought off me.. it's gonna wait.
I have to send a plate and a title to Cigarette for a trailer under a boat they bought from me.. it's gonna wait..
I can list about 30 things of equal importance between personal shit, and business shit that I was gonna do on Monday / Tuesday.. it's all gonna wait.
If I got the sniffles and a soar throat, maybe some dry respiratory, sorry about your luck.. That shit is gonna wait.
The good news is with all the random shit 3 kids bring home from school.. I almost never get it. I'm bobbing, weaving, and Dancing like a butterfly n stinging like a bee. I couldn't tell ya why.. Could be that I'm smart enough to use my own cup / the same cup for an entire day or two and don't drink off random things or a 100 other random things I do that might be a little "weird".
Random example.. (I got more if ya want em.. LOL). I use my pinky to punch in pin codes on the machines at the grocery stores, liquor stores, and gas stations for purchases.. (Think about it.. even if you're a smoker that digit gets nowhere near your mouth or face).
I'm by no means a hypochondriac, but I will say that I am the guy that even if I take a nap, I have to wake up and take a shower. If I'm machining (mental / sweat a lot) or doing any kinda labor where I'm sweating, then I'm definitely taking a shower again before I do anything else. On the flip side of that I have no problem wearing a shirt that I've worn the day before too dinner, I don't care if it's got a salsa stain on it from lunch.
Anyhow that's a long boring intro and I wanted to share something that happened tonight that put me on "tilt." Which would be the reason for this post.
Earlier tonight my sinuses were a little worse than they have been for the last 4 days.. No color or anything just a kinda pressure. Stacy has this Steam machine that you put your face into and you put a Vicks little thing in it and it helps clear you up. Well I was huffing on that thing like a water bong earlier and thinking to myself "Where the fuck has this thing been all my life?" I'm thinking of how great this thing is gonna be when I finally overcome this smoking thing to help expand lungs and clear out all the bullshit (that is most likely currently going to save my life if I get the vid).. Anyhow I have never seen anything like this before and I'm pretty excited about it.. (It's the little things ya know)
Well it's later tonight and I'm thinking I'm gonna do that again. There's one of these little fiber biscuit things next to it and I can't tell if it's used up or not by looking at it so I hold it up to my nose. I can't smell anything, so maybe it's a goner. But I accidentally touched my face with it, and within a few seconds this thing is giving you that kinda "Vicks vapor burn" under my nose.
Now I know what your thinking.. Because believe me as I sat there kinda doing the math on this thing I pretty much came to the same conclusion. In that 3 second period it felt like an eternity.
"If that thing was done... then I shouldn't be feeling shit on my skin. If I can't smell it, then we just opened the can of worms.... here we go."
Now I'm not one of those dumbass people that is gonna hide something or pretend everything is ok because "I don't feel bad." I'm very well aware of how serious that can be, so the first thing I did was tell my wife "I can't smell this."
We are pretty prepped for any situation, whether that's zombies, food shortages, illnesses, etc.. I'm not gonna say we are full on preppers, but I'll say with regards to anything except the illnesses I have plans and have prepped for just about everything. When it comes to the illnesses, my wife could probably open a pharmacy with the shit she has on hand, and as far as Covid goes.. I've been to Mex enough times I could probably cover myself and "framily" (friend family) when it comes to covid if it came right down to it...
--------------------- Covid Test ----------------------
Stacy jumps in the cabinet and grabs one of the ample (they send them to you for free by the way) covid tests that we have on hand.
Now comes the interesting part.
This person I share a bed with, sit next too, will clean up my tissues if need be is all of a sudden in a - Keep your distance - style attitude. Which I totally get, and I probably would be too.. My response is "we are all fucked at this point.. I've been sneezing all over this house, I've touched literally everything, including kids which gave me this god damn cold... which might not be a cold?"
The test takes 15 minutes to process.
Fuck it.. I walk to the garage and go grab one of her seltzers.. There's no beer in the house because I haven't gotten more since last weekend, and the last beer I had was "all of them" Saturday night when we were camping.. .
I would like to say my mind was racing, but it really wasn't. To tell you the truth I normally think pretty quick, and if anything my world kinda slowed down a bit.
I'm in the garage alone, and I thought about how I woke up this "afternoon". I woke up depressed.
Now I don't know how everyone else's mind works, but I go down rabbit holes pretty quickly... So then I self reflect on the week, and yep.. depressed. Then pushing it back further.. yeah had a great time on various vacations, but still... if we are being honest? depressed when I wake up in the AM when I'm at home.
We are at less than one minute into this thing in case you are wondering right now what the time line is like since the time I shoved a swab into my brain on both sides of my giant schnaazzz...
RD
(manufacturers you can skip till the end if you don't have the time to read it all).
I have to send a plate and a title to Tony from DCB for a little trailer he bought off me.. it's gonna wait.
I have to send a plate and a title to Cigarette for a trailer under a boat they bought from me.. it's gonna wait..
I can list about 30 things of equal importance between personal shit, and business shit that I was gonna do on Monday / Tuesday.. it's all gonna wait.
If I got the sniffles and a soar throat, maybe some dry respiratory, sorry about your luck.. That shit is gonna wait.
The good news is with all the random shit 3 kids bring home from school.. I almost never get it. I'm bobbing, weaving, and Dancing like a butterfly n stinging like a bee. I couldn't tell ya why.. Could be that I'm smart enough to use my own cup / the same cup for an entire day or two and don't drink off random things or a 100 other random things I do that might be a little "weird".
Random example.. (I got more if ya want em.. LOL). I use my pinky to punch in pin codes on the machines at the grocery stores, liquor stores, and gas stations for purchases.. (Think about it.. even if you're a smoker that digit gets nowhere near your mouth or face).
I'm by no means a hypochondriac, but I will say that I am the guy that even if I take a nap, I have to wake up and take a shower. If I'm machining (mental / sweat a lot) or doing any kinda labor where I'm sweating, then I'm definitely taking a shower again before I do anything else. On the flip side of that I have no problem wearing a shirt that I've worn the day before too dinner, I don't care if it's got a salsa stain on it from lunch.
Anyhow that's a long boring intro and I wanted to share something that happened tonight that put me on "tilt." Which would be the reason for this post.
Earlier tonight my sinuses were a little worse than they have been for the last 4 days.. No color or anything just a kinda pressure. Stacy has this Steam machine that you put your face into and you put a Vicks little thing in it and it helps clear you up. Well I was huffing on that thing like a water bong earlier and thinking to myself "Where the fuck has this thing been all my life?" I'm thinking of how great this thing is gonna be when I finally overcome this smoking thing to help expand lungs and clear out all the bullshit (that is most likely currently going to save my life if I get the vid).. Anyhow I have never seen anything like this before and I'm pretty excited about it.. (It's the little things ya know)
Well it's later tonight and I'm thinking I'm gonna do that again. There's one of these little fiber biscuit things next to it and I can't tell if it's used up or not by looking at it so I hold it up to my nose. I can't smell anything, so maybe it's a goner. But I accidentally touched my face with it, and within a few seconds this thing is giving you that kinda "Vicks vapor burn" under my nose.
Now I know what your thinking.. Because believe me as I sat there kinda doing the math on this thing I pretty much came to the same conclusion. In that 3 second period it felt like an eternity.
"If that thing was done... then I shouldn't be feeling shit on my skin. If I can't smell it, then we just opened the can of worms.... here we go."
Now I'm not one of those dumbass people that is gonna hide something or pretend everything is ok because "I don't feel bad." I'm very well aware of how serious that can be, so the first thing I did was tell my wife "I can't smell this."
We are pretty prepped for any situation, whether that's zombies, food shortages, illnesses, etc.. I'm not gonna say we are full on preppers, but I'll say with regards to anything except the illnesses I have plans and have prepped for just about everything. When it comes to the illnesses, my wife could probably open a pharmacy with the shit she has on hand, and as far as Covid goes.. I've been to Mex enough times I could probably cover myself and "framily" (friend family) when it comes to covid if it came right down to it...
--------------------- Covid Test ----------------------
Stacy jumps in the cabinet and grabs one of the ample (they send them to you for free by the way) covid tests that we have on hand.
Now comes the interesting part.
This person I share a bed with, sit next too, will clean up my tissues if need be is all of a sudden in a - Keep your distance - style attitude. Which I totally get, and I probably would be too.. My response is "we are all fucked at this point.. I've been sneezing all over this house, I've touched literally everything, including kids which gave me this god damn cold... which might not be a cold?"
The test takes 15 minutes to process.
Fuck it.. I walk to the garage and go grab one of her seltzers.. There's no beer in the house because I haven't gotten more since last weekend, and the last beer I had was "all of them" Saturday night when we were camping.. .
I would like to say my mind was racing, but it really wasn't. To tell you the truth I normally think pretty quick, and if anything my world kinda slowed down a bit.
I'm in the garage alone, and I thought about how I woke up this "afternoon". I woke up depressed.
Now I don't know how everyone else's mind works, but I go down rabbit holes pretty quickly... So then I self reflect on the week, and yep.. depressed. Then pushing it back further.. yeah had a great time on various vacations, but still... if we are being honest? depressed when I wake up in the AM when I'm at home.
We are at less than one minute into this thing in case you are wondering right now what the time line is like since the time I shoved a swab into my brain on both sides of my giant schnaazzz...
RD
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