My son completed his last requirement to receive the BSA Den Chief Service Award tonight. He (we) have been working on this service award for almost two years. It is a difficult service award to get. His Pack gave him a gift card as well. He said it felt good to finally earn something he had been working toward for a long time. I’m proud of him.
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"Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It's only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it--probably doesn't; I don't--but he knows it's so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it."
originally posted by xd45man: Today is my wedding anniversary. I started strolling down memory lane and so I'm having a good day so far.
Happy anniversary
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May 17, 2023, 08:07 AM
Beancooker
New hire showed up on Monday and came back Tuesday.
Potential new hire interviewed with the department managers and started Monday, also came back Tuesday.
quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
May 17, 2023, 08:56 AM
dry-fly
Well, summer vacation is almost here…one more week and our 11yo daughter will be out. Always fun to have 2 or 3 months off.
"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway." Steve McQueen...
Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell
June 14, 2023, 07:09 PM
trapper189
I won the internet today!
We’ve been coming up to MI for the summer for 15 years. There’s two houses on the property, my parents’ and ours. Since my parents were here for six months at a time, they ran a phone line (over 1,000’) to their house and have a whopping 6mbps DSL connection. We’ve always used our cell phones.
Every year though, I’ve thought about connecting to my parents’ internet service 600’ away through the woods. Today, I did it. I used a 5GHz wireless bridge with to units that have 23dBi high gain parabolic dish antennas. I placed one inside my parents’ house connected to their switch and one inside our house connected to my laptop. These are supposed to be line of sight, but I figured I’d give it a shot. It worked, I got the full 6mbps on my laptop. Should be awesome when I mount them outside, trim some tree branches, and we get fiber next year.
June 14, 2023, 07:25 PM
YooperSigs
Rode the Pan America to the LGS today. Pleasant ride but chilly. 53 degrees!
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
June 15, 2023, 08:08 AM
tleddy
Thanks for this little song!
I just got out of an 11 day hospital stay, 6 in ICU, with diffuse pneumonia and a blood infection—- dodged the reaper again at age 82! Now at home with ampicillin every 6 hours around the clock for a month.
That little song has VASTLY improved my mood and outlook! A thousand thanks again!!!
No quarter .308/.223
June 15, 2023, 08:44 AM
Sig2340
At the gym I weigh myself. I do so on the first and fifteenth of the month.
This morning I learned that since January 2022, I have lost 108 pounds. I am now 21 pounds less than I weighed in January 2000. I was 40.
I’m also capable of longer aerobic output (>60 minutes at 85% max heart rate) and physically stronger (save my left shoulder which is FUBAR).
All those are huge positives in my life.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
June 15, 2023, 08:53 AM
ArtieS
Congratulations 2340! That's a huge achievement.
You lost a mini-me!
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
June 15, 2023, 09:33 AM
Sig2340
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Originally posted by ArtieS: Congratulations 2340! That's a huge achievement.
You lost a mini-me!
If I make my lowest end state weight, I will have lost 48% of my body weight.
ETA: I do not foresee making that weight.
Then I fully expect to die, to lose the other 52%. This message has been edited. Last edited by: Sig2340,
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
June 15, 2023, 02:49 PM
flashguy
Watching the fairly new kittens (7) in the back yard when I feed them. They're feral and skittish but are getting more used to me and don't run off when I come out. Maybe one day they'll be more socialized (their mothers are).
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
June 16, 2023, 04:19 PM
sigfreund
Now that I’ve posted in the “funk” thread, here’s my personal feel good for the day:
At the end of the initial several-day handgun training for an agency new hire who previously retired from the armed forces, retired from a state law enforcement agency, and worked in court security for several years, he said the firearms training was “the best” he’d ever received: the sort of thing that makes it all worthwhile.
► 6.0/94.0
I can tell at sight a Chassepot rifle from a javelin.
June 16, 2023, 05:10 PM
6guns
^^^ Then you HAVE to keep doing it, John!
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June 16, 2023, 05:51 PM
JYuma
Put a bluebird house up last week on the fence post behind the house and a nesting pair have already moved in.
Went through Liberty, MO today on 152 highway at rush hour where there are about 10 stop lights within 3 miles and hit every one green.
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June 18, 2023, 08:12 PM
vthoky
Today was a great day.
The weather was beautiful, I got to spend a couple of hours kayaking with my "other brother," and I'm sitting on the porch now with a nice beverage and a mild breeze. The neighbor's beagles are quiet, the birds are chirping, and I have tomorrow off from work.
I'm warm enough, cool enough, certainly well-fed. Today on the river I got a few minutes to watch three does and two fawns play and eat nearby. I set all of the daily worries and piddles aside and got to stare at the water and the trees.
I'm neither a saint nor a Bible scholar, but today brought Psalm 118:24 to mind: "This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it."
Toss that funk aside for a while, friends. Today has been a beautiful day.