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Where the hell is everybody? This board is so quiet I am beginning to wonder if y'all didn't die. I'm 78 and in poor health. But still, when I come here, I find it has been anywhere from 4 to 8 days in between posts. Don't tell me your life is so hunky-dory that you have nothing to post about.
I've been busy trying to figure out how I'm gonna pay off this credit card debt for that last trip to Seattle. Right now it looks like I won't be going next year. Just cannot afford the free VA medical. Besides the cardiologist doctor in Seattle told me with the amount of stent I have, diabetes, overweigh, and 78 years old. That he could not and would not do bypass surgery because I had a poor chance of surviving operation.
I think maybe he didn't wanna screw up his win loss score of patients on his bypass operation table. I still have three appointments in Manila this November. Manila. OPC only cost me airline tickets and two nights in a hotel. That whole trip will only cost me about $800 a lot less than that trip to Seattle which cost between $25,000 and $35,000. The Seattle VA OPC trip takes me the rest of the year to pay it off. Nothing I dislike more than spending the credit card companies money and then worrying about how the hell I'm gonna pay it off. There's not too many guys that live more than 78 years old anyway. I've had a pretty good life. Lots of troubles lots of difficulty to figure out how to get by them. That left me with nothing more than a bunch of wisdom that nobody wants to hear about. I got that wisdom because I recognized the same problem once I've made it again.

Actually (knock on wood...) I've got nothing to bitch about at the moment.

Most of the things I do for entertainment don't seem to generate any traffic here.

Don't feel bad Paul. I spent 4 1/2 years writing my autobiography and you spent almost 5 years proofreading it for me. It only generated a few posts on here. The three or four books that I gave away here only two post made reference to my book.
Not sure if I even wanna post some very good news that happened in my family two days ago in Alaska.

Not sure why that is, Jim.

I suspect part of it is the limited number of members to begin with, and the fact that many that ARE registered aren't very active, if at all.

I still try to check in when I can. We are in the process of Moving 108 Miles south of the farm. We are supposed to close on this house in late November. Tammy and the german shepherd are going to the new house Sunday to set up house keeping. I plan to float back and forth.

I decided to keep the home farm, at least for another year or two. See how things go, and how bad I miss it.

Will stay in touch.

Gene