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[traveller777]

Trying to avoid it. Multiple projects today I have been putting off. Procrastination is at an end. Work time.

I must have bought some bad coffee for my keurig. It seems to have no effect this morning.

 

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[Blak bart]

I got fancy stuff....royal roast !!

 

[pepperj]

I must have bought some bad coffee for my keurig. It seems to have no effect this morning.

Ya need something under the hood boy.
You know that all show and no go thing is true.
Now for myself it's a power supply.

 

[traveller777]

Ya need something under the hood boy.
You know that all show and no go thing is true.
Now for myself it's a power supply.
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Looks good. My coffee of choice is dark roast by Red Roasters in Rickman. They only use shade grown coffee from mountains in Matalgapa, Nicaragua. I have been there a couple of times. Spent a night at German immigrants coffee plantation on a extinct volcano/mountain there. In my opinion, best coffee in world but all according to taste. They lay the coffee beans out in the sun and turn them with wooden rakes. Or at least they were still doing that ideally 2000s.

 

[releventchair]

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Just a few things I found today. Any one know what that thing was in the last two pics?

Not sure.
A linkage to something.

Some tractors have/had pull rods to operate the choke and another for the starter to allow operation from the operators station / seat.

Here's the type (first pic.) on my Farmall Cubs. No clevis like your piece , but a clevis can straddle an item being moved. And when threaded allow adjustment.

Second picture is a Farmall 560 throttle linkage.

Your piece was obviously used to move something.
Lots of stuff got moved though! L.o.l..

 

[ARC]

I gave up drinking the coffee.... and gave up dipping the grounds in my lower lip and carrying a spit cup...

And gave up chopping the grounds to a smaller size...

now i just snort the grounds straight from the measuring spoon.

:P

 

[Toecutter]

I love me some good coffee

 

[Toecutter]

So cute!


Meet my daughter’s dogs: from left to right, Indie, Chihuly and Trixie.


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Beautiful puppers! I can just imagine all the sass from that bunch

 

[releventchair]

Another example of old linkages.

 

[JVA5th]

Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was eh. Didn't do much and spent a lot of it splitting my oversized almond tree rounds. Had a rough night so anxiety is through the roof tired of whatever is going on with my brain to cause my sleep issue. I'll be alright though.

 

[traveller777]

Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was eh. Didn't do much and spent a lot of it splitting my oversized almond tree rounds. Had a rough night so anxiety is through the roof tired of whatever is going on with my brain to cause my sleep issue. I'll be alright though.

Sorry for troubles JV.

 

[JVA5th]

Sorry for troubles JV.

No worries just part of my life. I'll be fine.

 

[releventchair]

 

[JVA5th]

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Mine is like that unfortunately. For me my sleep used to be the one time I felt true peace. Now it's taken away so my levels of being upset are way up there. I mean I'm trying to be okay. But I just can't figure out how people cope with this kind of thing. I mean I know so many have it worse and I don't like to seem selfish heck I don't know why I'm so weak and get obliterated by my anxiety disorder. I just feel mentally exhausted. My mind when I'm trying to sleep and get these weird random thoughts that make no sense I start to think what if something is going wrong and just a lot of what ifs. I wish I was able to handle this better and feel bad that I'm weak when it comes to this.

 

[releventchair]

Mine is like that unfortunately. For me my sleep used to be the one time I felt true peace. Now it's taken away so my levels of being upset are way up there. I mean I'm trying to be okay. But I just can't figure out how people cope with this kind of thing. I mean I know so many have it worse and I don't like to seem selfish heck I don't know why I'm so weak and get obliterated by my anxiety disorder. I just feel mentally exhausted. My mind when I'm trying to sleep and get these weird random thoughts that make no sense I start to think what if something is going wrong and just a lot of what ifs. I wish I was able to handle this better and feel bad that I'm weak when it comes to this.

I'm not qualified to diagnose or recommend treatment.
Something should shave the edge off it though in my unprofessional opinion.

I was prescribed Cymbalta years ago for nerve pain following amputation.
Being an anti anxiety /depression medication I got off it. Due to handgun laws and not wanting the stigma directed towards me and conflicting with gun laws...
I can say it shaved the highs and lows from emotion range. A midrange result so to speak. No , not drooling or unable to use my brain. Yet other pain meds affected my abilities...

P.T.S.D , I'll call it mild. Dogs bark. Loud noise ect. jangles my nerves. Not bad. But as if I'm hyped in senses.

If I lay on my left side at night my brain kind of races. With odd subjects. Not bad , but busy and distracting and no sense trying to interpret.
Right side? "Normal". Figure that out...

 

[JVA5th]

I'm not qualified to diagnose or recommend treatment.
Something should shave the edge of it though in my unprofessional opinion.

I was prescribed Cymbalta years ago for nerve pain following amputation.
Being an anti anxiety /depression medication I got off it. Due to handgun laws and not wanting the stigma directed towards me and conflicting with gun laws...
I can say it shaved the highs and lows from emotion range. A midrange result so to speak. No , not drooling or unable to use my brain. Yet other pain meds affected my abilities...

P.T.S.D , I'll call it mild. Dogs bark. Loud noise ect. jangles my nerves. Not bad. But as if I'm hyped in senses.

If I lay on my left side at night my brain kind of races. With odd subjects. Not bad , but busy and distracting and no sense trying to interpret.
Right side? "Normal". Figure that out...

That's odd for me it is worse if I lay on one side or the other too. I just don't like it is just a stream of randomness most the time I can't even recall it afterwards sometimes I can. Just as soon as I close my eyes and feel relaxed it can just start up and before I know it my thoughts get weird. Only way to explain it is kind of like a dream but you're awake and in thought form. If I get really anxious over it it gets worse.

 

[releventchair]

That's odd for me it is worse if I lay on one side or the other too. I just don't like it is just a stream of randomness most the time I can't even recall it afterwards sometimes I can. Just as soon as I close my eyes and feel relaxed it can just start up and before I know it my thoughts get weird. Only way to explain it is kind of like a dream but you're awake and in thought form. If I get really anxious over it it gets worse.

A busy brain spinning it's wheels. I hear ya on that.
Sometimes it seems like it has to sort out things it's own way.
I don't like the abstract seeming version though.

How I wind down at night matters.
No negatives , and calm routine is the best way.
I read a while to distract. Dwell on read topic to try not to let the mind wander after lights out.

Dog waking me up to go out midway through sleep lately changed things up recently but I fall out pretty quick after. A dog on the bed serves as an alarm too. I can close both eyes that way.
Seems like over a decade since sleeping till not wanting to keep sleeping. L.o.l..
Get good naps in instead. Now if I could just add one mid day...

 

[JVA5th]

A busy brain spinning it's wheels. I hear ya on that.

How I wind down at night matters.
No negatives , and calm routine is the best way.
I read a while to distract. Dwell on read topic to try not to let the mind wander after lights out.

Dog waking me up to go out midway through sleep lately changed things up recently but I fall out pretty quick after. A dog on the bed serves as an alarm too. I can close both eyes that way.
Seems like over a decade since sleeping till not wanting to keep sleeping. L.o.l..
Get good naps in instead. Now if I could just add one mid day...

I guess I just need to see my therapist again. I'm not going to feel okay till I'm told I'm alright. I've read around that things like this are nothing serious just some people are more prone to it but my anxiety won't calm till I know for sure something isn't going on that I should be concerned about. So till then I'm going to be worried something bad is going on with my brain.

 

[releventchair]

I guess I just need to see my therapist again. I'm not going to feel okay till I'm told I'm alright. I've read around that things like this are nothing serious just some people are more prone to it but my anxiety won't calm till I know for sure something isn't going on that I should be concerned about. So till then I'm going to be worried something bad is going on with my brain.

It is serious to you. That matters.
Hopefully your therapist and you are on the same page.
Meaning , we drop a car off for diagnosis or take a critter to a veterinarian , they understand what's wrong or they don't.
Then we can go from there forward.

 

[JVA5th]

On a more positive subject my odd rock shaped piece of iron will be looked at at 1pm today by a geologist in Stockton. Most likely will just be a man made piece if iron but eh doesn't hurt to have it looked at.