I have had some severe health problem crop up over the weekend and I still have eye surgery today. I may not post for a few days as my left eye will be patched and my other health concerns are addressed. Thank you for your understanding.

UPDATE: I am home after eye surgery, the optho surgeon had to access my eye in two different places to remove the vitreous detachments and I am now wearing a eye patch, just call me Redbeard, the porch pirate… I will be wearing the patch for about a week and have another appointment next Monday to remove the sutures he placed, 24 in total.

My other health concern is I have one kidney, my left. My right kidney never developed past a certain size and it was removed two years ago. Now, my Left is failing, it is down to 29% efficiency, which means I will be on dialysis when a spot opens up… yeah. There is a turnover and he expects me to be able to start in two weeks, welcome to socialized medicine. I can alleviate that by driving to Portland three times a week, at least a four hour drive. The doc is putting me on a strict diet and I have to go cold turkey on coffee, that is going to be difficult! I explained to the doc this morning on the phone, he called me and I have an appointment tomorrow besides, I explained coffee keeps me from strangling people and keeps me socially acceptable. Suck on pebbles he retorted… I have a cool doc!

Crap, your blog hosts are falling apart in real time in front of ya.

The Briden-Roen Sawmill in Rollag Minnesota.

I can tell you right now, every swingin’ dick working in this sawmill is a better man than I am.

Apparently it runs on 3 antique Case steam engines and as you can plainly see, one of those is still in a functioning tractor.

This video is from 2021,

I have no words.

Holy Sheeeeeit.

Turn the volume down and watch until the end.

I drove myself up to the vascular surgeon’s office yesterday so they could pull 26 staples out of my groin and leg.

I also found out that giant sore on the bottom of my foot has finally healed up even though it is still tender as hell.

A little TMI for ya.

Then I had to stop on the way back and put some gas in the Big Red Beastie at $4.79 a fucking gallon. I put $40 in it and called it good, I’m not going anywhere anyway.

After that I had to stop and pick up some fucking pills before I could come home..

Speaking of pills, my Primary Doctor’s office called me 3 days ago to inform me that according to some blood tests from 3 weeks ago, I am now Pre-Diabetic and asked me if I would like to start taking another pill.

I take 12 fucking pills now every morning. I thanked them for the info and declined. We shall work on some dietary changes first, thankyouverymuch.

As it is, all I want to do is sleep all the time.

It never fucking ends.

In some Good News, I got woke up by a text from my son this morning informing me that we are Grandparents again. His wife had a baby girl this morning.

Very cool.

This guy dares to tread where no one else will.

I would imagine anyone over 60 will not be the least bit shocked by this news.

We are also basically the only ones who give a fuck because anyone younger, doesn’t fucking care, it was a done deal before they were born and didn’t share in the NATIONAL outrage and mourning.

I love this fucking guy, he speaks my language and he does it very well.

I can’t keep my thoughts in order long enough to free speak like he does right off the top of his head.

I agree that Trump ignores this ongoing threat at his own peril.

They quite literally set him up in Butler Pennsylvania to be shot in the head on live television just like they did John Kennedy and every single motherfucker involved in that except the patsy trigger puller is still walking around free to start plotting another attempt.