Tank birthday, 55+ years

[Paul B]

So good news. My car is fixed and it was practically free. $450.00. I thought it would be at least a grand and I wouldn't have done that job for $450.00, that includes the State Inspection.

He said they fixed the drain but I doubt it. He said it is the windshield camera that I installed. That thing is designed to stay on because if the car gets bumped, it automatically records but I think it hardly uses any power when the car isn't running.

So now, I will look for a circuit that is dead when I shut off the car. I am pretty sure the car will go dead again but I will carry around a jumper battery for a while just to make sure.

Jeep can't fix the transmission problem on my wife's car for another week but I don't need it. :cool:

Meanwhile, my reef still looks like a produce stand and I have been using my diatom filter every day to suck out algae. I have 15 gallons of water I collected out east in the Atlantic and I will add 25 gallons of fake water to it to do a water change. I still can't walk to far (as I found out this morning when I tried to do my 2 mile walk and almost had to call paramedics to get me home after a quarter of a mile due to the pain) :anguished-face:

And I can't lift anything heavy but I do my water changes with a pump so there is no lifting. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[smitten with ocean life]

i bought your marine aquarist book, paul, and am enjoying it. gives me the giggles! i want to lend it to my brother when im done because i know he would enjoy it too. your way of doing things reminds me of him :smiling-face:

 

[Paul B]

your way of doing things reminds me of him :smiling-face:

Is he bald? :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[Rocks reef]

Hair loss is a sign of wisdom Paul.

 

[Paul B]

Yes I know. The people with their hair still growing has all that hair bunched up inside their head. You think clearer after it all comes out giving your brain more room. Thats the medical explanation. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[BeanAnimal]

your way of doing things reminds me of him :smiling-face:

So your brother refuses to share is copper fish crafting talent with his admirers as well...

Was he by chance given weird pills to take in the military?

 

[Rocks reef]

Yes I know. The people with their hair still growing has all that hair bunched up inside their head. You think clearer after it all comes out giving your brain more room. Thats the medical explanation. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

You are sir are correct! However, mine is migrating to my upper back as my brain grows and pushes out my hair. I wonder what the IQ of the guys with the man buns is? They have a lot of hair covering their brain housing group meaning their brains aren't growing enough.

 

[Rocks reef]

So your brother refuses to share is copper fish crafting talent with his admirers as well...

Was he by chance given weird pills to take in the military?

Interesting Bean. Weren't they experimenting with LSD on soldiers back then too?

 

[Paul B]

A lot of people were experimenting with LSD on themselves then. I don't hear of that drug any longer. (Maybe people can't spell it :cool:)

Many people also sniffed glue then. You would see guys walking to school with the bag of glue on their faces. One genius I knew couldn't get glue anymore so he sniffed Carbona cleaning fluid.

We now have a name for those guys. That name is deceased. :anguished-face:

Yep, all those guys I knew who did that, are now dead, and there was quite a few of them.
We were losing so many guys in Nam that I guess they wanted to die before they went. And they did, and it was a horrible death. :confounded-face:

I didn't sniff glue, take LSD or even smoke Pot and I grew up in a rough neighborhood in a rough era. I was probably one of the very few people in the 60s who didn't. I did smoke cigarettes then but so did just about everyone else.

They gave us so many free cigarettes in Nam that I used them to fill sandbags because they were much lighter than sand. Cigarettes are not a good filling for sand bags which accounts for some of the shrapnel I had in me.

There is a reason we use sand. Those trees behind me are jungle. WE are in a large clearing here.




This is that LZ from a helicopter.



My "house", whats left of it after a particularly devastating battle which is why many of the sand bags are gone. Rockets and mortars will do that. All sandbags



Those bags around me here are filled with sand and I filed every one of them myself along with thousands more. That is the main reason I am still here. That and I don't quarantine my fish or give away too many really beautiful copper fish to Beans :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[Paul B]

I can't go on my morning walk today. My hip won't let me. :confused: Back to the pain Mgt Dr.

 

[BeanAnimal]

Relax and feel better Paul — maybe photos from your walk tomorrow.

 

[Paul B]

I made it to my front door and the pain was too much. Even for a real Man. I can't walk very far and need this fixed soon. I don't want to lose my Manly figure. :anguished-face:

 

[Rocks reef]

I made it to my front door and the pain was too much. Even for a real Man. I can't walk very far and need this fixed soon. I don't want to lose my Manly figure. :anguished-face:

I'm sorry to hear that brother. I hope you are on the mend soon! Hooah!!

 

[Rocks reef]

Paul,

Have you had a X-ray or MRI of your hip yet?

 

[Subsea]

Interesting Bean. Weren't they experimenting with LSD on soldiers back then too?

Indirectly, I was a drug dealer for the CIA in Cambodia as we distributed opium, which was the currency of the day, to friendly villagers. I was the aircraft maintenance crew chief and local villagers were a part of the maintenance department as we robbed Peter to pay Paul. With a squadron of five AC47 gunships, we maintained three operational gun platforms to support 82nd Airborne Rangers that dealt with the Khamire Rouge & NVA hardened regulars that defeated the French Foreign Legion.

Our gunship, affectionally known as “Puff the Magic Dragon” was converted from an old cargo aircraft used to fly over the Hump in 1942:

“When the Japanese closed the Burma Road, the US devised an initial plan that called for sending 5,000 tons of supplies each month over the Hump into China as soon as possible. American C-47s delivered the first, small load of supplies in July 1942. It was a meager beginning. If the resupply effort was to be greatly expanded, airfields would have to be built, pilots would have to be trained, and transports would have to be manufactured and ferried to the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater.”

“The air transport task in the CBI fell first to Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, commander of Tenth Air Force. The Ferrying Command was to deliver seventy-five C-47s to the CBI, but some were diverted to support British forces in North Africa. Of the sixty-two that finally reached the theater, about fifteen were destroyed or lost, and many of the rest were out of service for long periods due to a shortage of parts and engines.“

I was in the USAF from November 28, 1966 till November 27, 1970. At 19 years old, I was full of
“P.I.S.S & Vinegar” and while stationed at Rhein Main, Germany, I volunteered for four 90 day tours into Cambodia.

When I returned home after 4 years, both of my younger brothers had become small town “pot dealers” and I joined the crowd. After partying for 2 years, as a drug dealer of pot & LSD, the DEA caught up with me and I spent 2 years in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana. Steve McQueen stared in a docudrama entitled “The Farm” and it was close to the reality that I saw there.

My partner in crime older brother was a pHd chemist and the US Army drafted him in 1962 to chemical weapons division where they experimented with using LSD in artillery shells as a delivery system. His part of the experimental project was discontinued as the Army could not control people’s response to LSD.

I now volunteer in two prison ministries:
God of Hope & Behind the Walls.

 

[Rocks reef]

Indirectly, I was a drug dealer for the CIA in Cambodia as we distributed opium, which was the currency of the day, to friendly villagers. I was the aircraft maintenance crew chief and local villagers were a part of the maintenance department as we robbed Peter to pay Paul. With a squadron of five AC47 gunships, we maintained three operational gun platforms to support 82nd Airborne Rangers that dealt with the Khamire Rouge & NVA hardened regulars that defeated the French Foreign Legion.

Our gunship, affectionally known as “Puff the Magic Dragon” was converted from an old cargo aircraft used to fly over the Hump in 1942:

“When the Japanese closed the Burma Road, the US devised an initial plan that called for sending 5,000 tons of supplies each month over the Hump into China as soon as possible. American C-47s delivered the first, small load of supplies in July 1942. It was a meager beginning. If the resupply effort was to be greatly expanded, airfields would have to be built, pilots would have to be trained, and transports would have to be manufactured and ferried to the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater.”

“The air transport task in the CBI fell first to Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, commander of Tenth Air Force. The Ferrying Command was to deliver seventy-five C-47s to the CBI, but some were diverted to support British forces in North Africa. Of the sixty-two that finally reached the theater, about fifteen were destroyed or lost, and many of the rest were out of service for long periods due to a shortage of parts and engines.“

I was in the USAF from November 28, 1966 till November 27, 1970. At 19 years old, I was full of
“P.I.S.S & Vinegar” and while stationed at Rhein Main, Germany, I volunteered for four 90 day tours into Cambodia.

When I returned home after 4 years, both of my younger brothers had become small town “pot dealers” and I joined the crowd. After partying for 2 years, as a drug dealer of pot & LSD, the DEA caught up with me and I spent 2 years in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana. Steve McQueen stared in a docudrama entity “The Farm”.

My partner in crime older brother was a pHd chemist and the US Army drafted him in 1962 to chemical weapons division where they experimented with using LSD in artillery shells as a delivery system. His part of the experimental project was discontinued as the Army could not control people’s response to LSD.

Wow Subsea! Thank you for sharing that. I'd have loved to have met you when I lived in Austin and listen to your stories. I bet you have quite a few my friend!

 

[Paul B]

Have you had a X-ray or MRI of your hip yet?

Yes I just had it Tuesday. No breaks but it feels like a crack so she said I need to go back to pain Mgt and she gave me a note to show the Dr, exactly where to pump me full of chemicals. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

 

[vlangel]

Indirectly, I was a drug dealer for the CIA in Cambodia as we distributed opium, which was the currency of the day, to friendly villagers. I was the aircraft maintenance crew chief and local villagers were a part of the maintenance department as we robbed Peter to pay Paul. With a squadron of five AC47 gunships, we maintained three operational gun platforms to support 82nd Airborne Rangers that dealt with the Khamire Rouge & NVA hardened regulars that defeated the French Foreign Legion.

Our gunship, affectionally known as “Puff the Magic Dragon” was converted from an old cargo aircraft used to fly over the Hump in 1942:

“When the Japanese closed the Burma Road, the US devised an initial plan that called for sending 5,000 tons of supplies each month over the Hump into China as soon as possible. American C-47s delivered the first, small load of supplies in July 1942. It was a meager beginning. If the resupply effort was to be greatly expanded, airfields would have to be built, pilots would have to be trained, and transports would have to be manufactured and ferried to the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater.”

“The air transport task in the CBI fell first to Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, commander of Tenth Air Force. The Ferrying Command was to deliver seventy-five C-47s to the CBI, but some were diverted to support British forces in North Africa. Of the sixty-two that finally reached the theater, about fifteen were destroyed or lost, and many of the rest were out of service for long periods due to a shortage of parts and engines.“

I was in the USAF from November 28, 1966 till November 27, 1970. At 19 years old, I was full of
“P.I.S.S & Vinegar” and while stationed at Rhein Main, Germany, I volunteered for four 90 day tours into Cambodia.

When I returned home after 4 years, both of my younger brothers had become small town “pot dealers” and I joined the crowd. After partying for 2 years, as a drug dealer of pot & LSD, the DEA caught up with me and I spent 2 years in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana. Steve McQueen stared in a docudrama entitled “The Farm”.

My partner in crime older brother was a pHd chemist and the US Army drafted him in 1962 to chemical weapons division where they experimented with using LSD in artillery shells as a delivery system. His part of the experimental project was discontinued as the Army could not control people’s response to LSD.

Wow Patrick, the journeys we take and the path God uses in our lives. I am sure that God did indeed use those experiences in your life as He doesn't waste anything we go through.

 

[ScottJ]

Wow Patrick, the journeys we take and the path God uses in our lives. I am sure that God did indeed use those experiences in your life as He doesn't waste anything we go through.

^^^ Very beautifully said.

 

[Rocks reef]

Yes I just had it Tuesday. No breaks but it feels like a crack so she said I need to go back to pain Mgt and she gave ne a note to show the Dr, exactly where to pump me full of chemicals. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

Is it in your hip socket or more sacroiliac joint pain?