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David,

The video remindes me of Mel Brooks 2000year okd man,

08/13/23 08:37 AM

#27908

Very low water pressure at our house. This started around noon yesterday and continues today. Calls to the water utility company offer no explanation as to why or when it will be repaired but simply, "we are working on it". The pressure is so low no bathing is possible. You can brush your teeth or flush, but the tank fills up very slowly.

That said, yesterday we were startled when several fire trucks, entered our subdivision with sirens blasting. It was advertised that the fire dept was giving away free ice cream on signs prior to this in the neighborhood. Apparently, this is how they distribute the ice cream to the populace. The trucks were following an ice cream vendor. Sheesh. With no water pressure and then this parade of fire engines, my adrenaline was pumping at high speed.

We have no fire hydrants in our subdivision. Instead the engines tap into our water meters. How is that going to work if there is a fire and we have no water pressure? Oh well. Gonna be 108 here in Parker County today and winds up to 20 mph.

08/13/23 08:45 AM

#27909

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08/13/23 01:52 PM

#27910

David,

The dinner scene at 5:30 reminded me and Jo Ann of our 3rd date. We both had a big laff. Jo Ann was the one who had not touched her french fries.

08/13/23 10:14 PM

#27911

Martha and I visited Steve Keene today. Seemed about the same. Daughter Madison arrived shortly before we left.

08/14/23 08:20 AM

#27912

My son Christopher is in the hospital with sepsis. He is HIV positive, so his immune system was already compromised. I would appreciate your prayers.

08/14/23 08:36 AM

#27913

David,

I am so sorry your son is hospitized with such a serious condition! I hope they can get the sepsis under control and he gets better soon. My heart goes out to him, you and Martha.

08/14/23 11:51 AM

#27914

Lord forgive me for my previous blindness (and also my fellow ex-students together), but my eyes are really opened now. I'm selling off my current coin collection in order to buy silver and gold, including buying down my mortgage to make my payoff date in 3 years, using part of my savings. I had no real idea what was going on economically with the US (and other countries), including the CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) and the like. I've definitely changed my political affiliation toward the right, though I still won't vote for &%)$ - oh, I mean Trump.

I have several YouTube videos which have been helpful in opening my eyes, but I won't post a couple of them in order for me to be blasted as an end of times or religious nut, but believe me, they all fit together with what I've been viewing. Fortunately and unfortunately in most aspects, in the early 70s, Lisa and I were members of a church which I can now call a cult. But, we did learn quite a bit that we took with us when we left. Again, fortunately, we were actually allowed to leave.

I'm sure most of you will recognize the name of Robert Kiyosaki, so I will add this link here with one of his more recent videos he posted. (there are a couple of Robert's 'commercials' in it)
I'll be the first to admit that I am not an economics expert (and I don't play one on TV), but I'm catching up as quckly as I can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUY1rmVu3Mk&ab_channel=TheRichDadChannel

If you'd like a little more of this craziness to corroborate this premise, do a search on YouTube for vieos posted by Lynette Zang, the Economic Ninja, and/or the FedNow Service.

08/14/23 12:33 PM

#27915

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

David,

I'll include Christopher in my prayers. I'm sure the antibiotics will help him quickly, having him back on his feet very soon. My husband got sepsis too, one time, since he had ignored an infection I cautioned him to take care of with the doctor. He thought he just had gotten food poisoning. Nope! He started having light-headedness and chills, so I finally convinced him to go to a minor emergency clinic, as his blood pressure was dropping.

They told him he had sepsis and began the antibiotics immediately, as he admitted that he had goofed up.

Men!

08/14/23 12:51 PM

#27916

Ron Knight

Our prayers for Christopher's recovery.

08/14/23 01:34 PM	#27917
Rick Wilber David,this shows how uninformed I am...I had to look up the definition of sepsis. Everyone is praying and keep positive thoughts for a fast and complete recovery.

08/14/23 01:58 PM

#27918

Of all the times (30 or more since 2013) Lisa was in the hospital with pneumonia, most of the time, she also had sepsis. To show you how uninformed I was - we thought pneumonia was the worst of it. Of course when she was in the hospital, they started giving her large doses of antibiotics for the sepsis. It was kind of like they were keeping it on the 'down-low' to keep us from worrying too much, but they knew exactly what to do and they did it. I really didn't 'get' the severity of sepsis until about 4 years ago and it really was a jaw dropper at the time. We found out that she has an immune deficiency also, which we now know. She's being treated with an IGG infusion every three weeks. It's definitely helping to keep the pneumonia at bay, for the most part.

It's funny but we didn't find out the severity from the doctors. We just relied on Google to be our friend - that's how we found out.

(Prayers from our house for Christopher also)

08/14/23 08:16 PM

#27919

Jerry May

David,

Ellen and I are praying for Christopher, and you and Martha!~j&e

08/14/23 08:25 PM

#27920

Recent Robert Kiyosaki tweet, toward the end of July:

"GANG WARFARE: August 22, 2023 approximately 41 nations, possibly even France gang up in South Africa to “de Dollarize” the world. Proposal: BRICS nations will launch “bric” their money. 1 bric = 1 oz of gold=$3,000. Bye bye USA."

For those who are uninformed as I was a short while ago, BRICS boils down to Brazil, Russia, India, China and Saudi Arabia getting together to offer and use their own gold backed currency, much like most of the world has been using the US Dollar for many years.

08/14/23 08:42 PM

#27921

Thanks for prayers for Christopher. He is getting another round of antibiotics. It doesn't seem to be life-threatening. They started addressing it fairly quickly. He has abdominal and back pain, but it seems manageable. We are encouraged.

08/15/23 09:05 AM

#27922

David C.

Glad to hear that Christopher is not in any immediate danger, and hopefully getting better soon!

08/15/23 09:30 AM

#27923

Lowell Tuttle

Wishing Chris the best here. Sepsis is serious in my experience.

08/15/23 01:05 PM

#27924

Kurt Fischer

I did something interesting on Sunday.

While carrying a heavy potted plant from the front of our house, I tripped over a rock and went down on the sidewalk. The edge of the pot was driven into the bottom of the fingers on my right hand while the back of the hand was driven into the sidewalk. Five hours later, I was finished in the ER. 26 stiches, 14 on the pointing finger and 12 on the middle finger. Looks like something out of a Frankenstein movie. My science oriented daughter was very complimentary regarding the doc's ability to push the insides back in before the stitches.

As Winnie the Pooh would say, Oh bother.

Life lesson: Don't overestimate your physical abilities at this age.

Lesson Two: Tell the wife the plant looks great where it is.

08/15/23 01:07 PM

#27925

David,

You need to add Steve to the prayer list. For his recovery.

I plan on going to see him tomorrow. Does anyone want to meet there

08/15/23 03:37 PM

#27926

Jerry May

Wayne,, David has him up on the list.

Kurt, So sorry about your nasty fall. I have mentioned this before, but as a reminder......we should all be cognizant of our surroundings, but more importantly look at where you going! The fall hazard for folks 65 and older increases to 1 in 4!

08/16/23 01:47 PM

#27927

Kurt,

Thanks for the painful (to you) reminder of what not to do!! Hope you heal quickly!

All,

Thanks for the concern over son Christopher. We saw him yesterday evening, and he seemed OK to us White cell count is lingering around 18, but that must not be too bad because they are releasing him today, presumably with some good antibiotics.

This parenting thing never seems to end!

08/16/23 04:05 PM

#27928

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

David,

It is SO true that the 'parenting thing' never seems to end.

Our daughter was just at our house the other day begging for some money to "tide her over" with some money issues plaguing her. We have always been available for such measures to help out, and she is always grateful, but is never-the-less embarrassed to ask for help.

Such is the circle of life and parenting.

Kurt,

Best wishes with quick healing! Hope the hand with the two-fingered stitching is not your writing hand. Ouch!

I tripped over my cat not long ago, as I carried a tall box of goodies, and ended up with a blackeye, which was very attractive in our Christmas pics!

08/16/23 05:05 PM

#27929

David,

Good news about your son Christopher!! I am so glad he is better! Yes, you are always a parent. It never ends. We love them though, through thick and thin, no matter what.

Kurt,

Ouch! I am impressed you can type a post! Your hand must be very sore! Hope it heals well and you feel better soon. As for falling...I was told not to fall at all since I am on blood thinners for AFIB. So far since starting them a year and a half ago, no falling or coming close to falling. Knock on wood. I use a walking stick when walking the neighborhood, just to be sure. The roads are not level and it makes me feel more secure. I look like mother time though....

08/16/23 05:10 PM

#27930

Tommy:

At the time, we just new them as "The body", though about 25 years later, (through an internet search) we found a listing that referred to them as "The Move". They had churches all over the US, and they had "Farms" (in the Wilderness, as they referred to it) all over the world. For instance, Lisa's grandmother went to a farm in a town called Edmonton in Canada, but they had them in Alaska, and South America as well.

We actually learned quite a bit about the Bible since we were not like some cults, in that we were not told to ONLY listen to the preachers. We we were allowed to read the Bible so it was at least based in Christianity. It was not uncommon for a service to last 3-4 hours. Lisa's grandmother was the original point of contact. Women/girls were not allowed to wear short skirts and couldn't wear pants. Six Flags was outlawed since it was "of the flesh" due to the excitement. Lisa always found ways to convince her mother to side step many of the rules. It was as much "do not" as the dos. The end of times was preached heavily from the 60s through the 70s so they saw higher steps of education as not necessary.

Most everyone sold everything they had and gave the money to the church. Their leader at the time was Sam Fife and he even preached that he was not going to die, but lead everyone to heaven. I don't remember when, but he actually did die in a plane crash. Others in the church just took over. Doctors were discouraged as they only believed in God's healing hand.

Luckily, Lisa's father was an electrical engineer, and he told his wife and mother in law that they were NOT going to a farm and he was NOT going to quit his career for them. The semi-funny part of this is that in the early 70s (as most of you know, I was a musician), I was growing my hair pretty long, as was the style for some in those days. Her grandmother told me that God wanted me to cut my hair. I replied "Well, when he tells me, I'll cut it off.' A bit later she actually said that I couldn't worship in that church with my hair that long. So, I took her at her word and we left the church. Being that it was in the mid-70s, though I believed in Jesus, God, etc. we just stopped going to that church. I dived head-long into the counter culture we all heard of.

This is about as much as I can readily remember, in that it ocurred forty or more years ago.

08/16/23 10:00 PM

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