Went and had an MRI done this morning on my lower back so they can see exactly what is getting pinched off and where.

Hopefully.

I heard lots of stories about people freaking out over the ordeal.

It makes all kinds of noises but being a mechanic and a Heavy Metal fan I actually found them to be almost melodic and like individual pieces of a Heavy Metal/ Industrial Grunge type song.

I almost fell asleep inside the thing.

I swear the thing reminded me of the Vacuum Heat Treat Ovens at the joint I used to work at.

I used to have to climb inside a pipe about the same diameter and drill out broken bolts and shit.

So Claustrophobia ain’t a thing with me in the first place.

I’m just very seriously hoping they can put a finger on the sections of my lower back that are pinching the nerves causing me all the misery I have lived with the last 40 years and either tell me YES they can fix it or NO they can’t so I can make the decision to fucking retire and be done with it.

So very conveniently, my lower back has been out for three days already so maybe that will help them see what’s messed up.

It has gotten more and more unstable here lately so I have to be super careful about the things I do.

I still don’t know what options I have with the blocked arteries in my legs either, there are still appointments, procedures and Consultations with the Cardiologist yet to be done and that, more than my back, is going to be driving whether or not I throw in the towel.

If they can’t fix my legs then I am all done wrenching and pretty much anything else for that matter.

For now I wait.

It will be at least 24 hours before I see anything on the MY CHART thing under TEST RESULTS.

Then another week before I see my Doc so she can dumb down the results into some form of English so that I can figure out what they are seeing.

I like pictures. Then I don’t need the interpretations so much.

There seems to be a trend of lots and lots of people heading North from the South.

This is where the Californians are going.

Here is where the Illegals are heading according to their Free phone tracking info.

In case you aren’t aware, the U.S./Canadian border is pretty much WIDE OPEN except for the most popular entry/exit points.

Now the Canadians have pretty much been ass raped by their Government who is damn near openly Communist at this point and it is only getting worse by the day seemingly.

I’m no GeoPolitical/Migration Trend expert and I haven’t slept in a Motel 6 for quite a while but I have been around a while and do have a very diverse interest in a lot of different things.

I don’t think it’s going to take an expert to figure out what is going to happen long term with this trend of Mass Migration from the South to the North.

It’s not like there is some magic line that separates the countries on the continent except on paper and at a few selected sites they like to call Border Check Points.

Nope, pressure always tries to equalize.

Squeeze from the South and look what happens at the North end.

Despite the obvious political reasons why our Southern Border is WIDE OPEN, I would like to point out that it’s not like we don’t have the room.

This is a big country with lots of Wide Open spaces.

Plenty of Real Estate as it were.

It’s the freaking INFRASTUCTURE that can support modern human life that we don’t have.

And there lies the rub.

More and more people are going to struggling over less and less available resources that support modern life.

The problem I see is that the people who were born and raised in the United States take those resources for granted because they have always been there.

The people coming here by the millions haven’t always had things like running hot water at the flip of a handle.

Therefore, they will be more than happy to do whatever it takes to obtain and retain that while most Americans couldn’t even tell you where it comes from.

The people coming here are dirty, disease ridden and are used to living in brutal environments.

Brutal as in Kill Or Be Killed kind of environments.

Most Americans can’t even begin to imagine the conditions these people live with every day.

That’s why Americans are about to get the lesson of a Lifetime.

If you think the Inner City Crime is bad now, you haven’t see anything yet.

What I am talking about is the level of violence and the butchery that the Mexican Cartels have been using for years showing up on Americans news casts here very, very shortly.

The kind of thing Google Image Search censors so badly that they will not show any of.

People literally butcherd like sheep and left to rot as a message not to fuck with the wrong people.

Imagine these are human heads instead of sheep heads and you will get an idea of what has been going on South of the border.

I am not joking and those kinds of images are very conveniently and absolutely censored so that you are kept nice and unaware of the real world out there.

This, is what Joe Freaking Biden with Barak Obama’s hand up his ass is allowing to happen here.

You are at war whether you know it or not and you had better harden up Nancy because there is unimaginable horror coming to the town you live in and it’s on it’s way RIGHT NOW.

Remember, the Gun Grabbers want you to be completely unarmed and defenseless against these invading forces.

You do not have enough ammo and you are not prepared for invading forces with zero moral restrictions.

You may need a few new shovels also.

The Law of the Jungle is going to be the New Normal.

UPDTE, Here’s a video my friend Irish sent me so you can see what scumbags our so called Border Patrol officials are. They are the ones calling the shots here.

I felt that all to familiar tickle in the back of my throat on Friday and no amount of gargling would make it stop.

Sure as shit by Saturday I was sick with a head/chest cold.

I slept almost all day and all night Sunday.

Got up this morning to get ready for work feeling like I had been drug through a knot hole backwards.

I made it all the way to the point that I sat down to put my boots on.

As I sat down I was basically staring off into space, leaning up against the arm of the recliner while feeling as weak as a kitten and basically detached from time and space.

I came to enough to decide that I wasn’t going to work even if I am getting close to not having enough PTO to cover it because of all of the doctor appointments.

I would have not only been completely useless, I would have been a danger to myself and my co workers in that state.

I called in and went back to bed at 5:30.

I just woke up at 10:30 to find the Wifely Unit sick as a dog with the same shit I have been fighting.

It’s twenty after 11 right now, it’s absolutely beautiful outside and now my lower back is out too for no good reason.

Life is good.

Because it sure beats the alternative,.

Now if you will excuse me, I have a bunch of catching up to do.

This is well said and yes, it touches home quite squarely in my case.

I am also becoming acutely aware that my time is here is limited and will try to keep these words in mind.

Just sit back and watch it burn at this point.

It’s too far gone and it is completely out of control no matter who says different.

The weather has finally warmed up. It went from being in the low 30’s at night to the 70’s and it’s supposed to get to 96 freaking degrees here Sunday.

I’m thinking it must be a combination of the warm weather and the FOUR new medications I am having to take now, along with NEW AND INCREASED DOSAGES!, that caused me to feel dehydrated all day yesterday.

It was so bad that for once I was actually drinking…..

Water.

Not something I usually do. I know what fish do in that stuff, know what I mean?

Anyway, so I’m drinking water.

Lots of it.

I came home and started drinking more water.

I finally got over feeling dehydrated but still finished the bottle I had opened anyway, just about a half an hour before I went to bed.

Any guesses as to what happened after that?

Anyone?

Bueller?

Yes, that’s right, nature did it’s thing and I wound up getting up four times in two and a half hours to go take a leak.

So now it’s like two thirty in the morning and I finally drift off pretty good. I get up at five.

Danged if I know what time it was because I was asleep but I started having this weird dream.

Nightmare actually.

I still shudder just typing this.

I dreamed that Joe Biden and his wife showed up at our place and I had to be nice to them because they were guests.

Except it wasn’t Jill Biden that showed up, it was Nancy Pelosi as FJB’s wife.

Next thing I know, old Joe and Nancy are digging through all my stuff.

In the bedroom, in the closet, pretty soon we were out in the garage and they were poking their noses into everything and just throwing shit over their shoulder. For some reason I had to stand there and let them do all this because I had to be nice because they were house guests.

That ugly bitch Nancy kept turning around and asking me questions about my stuff and she was like two inches from my face and I could smell Vodka and Old People.

I kept gagging but had to be nice.

Pretty soon they are done digging around in my stuff and we are all sitting in the living room and that’s when I woke up.

I was so freaked out that I sat up and swung my feet over the edge onto the floor and just sat there for a few minutes trying to get that out of my brain. Eventually I laid back down and went to sleep but it felt like it had only been five minutes and my alarm went off.

Lemme tell ya, it was a very long day today.

Call a Social Media Influencer, the rest of us are busy.

I don’t know how this is going to work but following the link from The Burning Platform, we find this straight from Tucker Carlson.

Yeah I have a problem with some of what he says.

Twitter is the last great bastion of Free Speech?

Bullshit.

Allow me to present the fact that The President Of The United States of America was kicked off of Twitter.

Full stop, I rest my case.

There is no need for me to bring up the THOUSANDS of Conservative voices that were Shadow Banned and Outright Banned, at the request of Public Servants, Shadowy Government Officials, Intelligence Agencies and Zealous Twitter Employees over a period of SEVERAL YEARS.

So good luck to ya Tucker but ya might want to be a little more careful when Rah Rahing Twitter when we on this side of the political spectrum feel that it’s more like a Government Sponsored Echo Chamber rather than some inclusive love fest where everyone has a voice.

Because we know different.

I have a few things I have to do today and I didn’t see any posts scheduled from CederQ so I thought this would be a good time to open it up for everyone.

As we are well aware, our very way of life is under attack 24/7 at this point and it is virtually impossible to keep up with the events that seem to unfold like they are coming out of a fire hose.

It has been a while now since we have had an open thread that started at a decent hour and gives folks a chance to report on events in their AO, their feelings on what is going on etc. so have at it. I would like to see some of the LURKERS pipe in here so we get some fresh perspectives too. Don’t be afraid, we don’t bite.

Works for me.

White House Names Kamala Harris ‘AI Czar’ to Save Humanity from Artificial Intelligence

That stupid bitch can’t even spell AI.

It’s this guy, right here.

You know That Guy.

The guy who’s life has gone to shit in general and who’s had an especially shitty day.

The one we all have either known or can point to right now who we always kinda paid a little attention to out of the corner of our eye.

You know what I’m talking about, the guy everyone at work voted for Most Likely To Go Postal.

There is a guy where I work now that almost universally gets labeled as a potential Mass Murderer by every single person who gets asked what their first impression of him is.

I am not kidding.

The minute I laid eyes on him it was the first thing that came to my mind.

Nobody knows how many of those guys are out there and every freaking day for the last three years a straw has been added to that Camel’s back.

Keep your head on a swivel and try to stay away from That Guy.

These days Situational Awareness isn’t just something you used to see people talk about in forums that you had to go searching for.

For the days of standing in line at the Supermarket Daydreaming are long gone.

That kind of thing is what separates the statistics from the living now.