Is your life (right now) what you thought it'd be, when you were at school?

[LovingJo]

I'm talking about the age of around 15/16 ish..

I don't know if this is different for men and women, but I know that when I was at school, I used to want the stable home, be in love, have a nice house, kids etc...

But of course, things change.. LIFE changes.

Things happen that you never expected to happen.

How has your life differed from what you thought/hoped it would be?

Is it better, or worse than you thought?

Is it going to change, or are you just on a completely different path now, and you're going with it/happy with it?

I could never have imagined my life would be where it is now, going through even half of what I've been through.. BUT, it's made me who I am.. For better or worse.

Much love ❤️

Yes, it's pretty much how I expected it to be - explain why

No, it's completely different to what I thought it might be - explain why

I didn't really think that much about my future back then - explain why

Other - please explain

Updates

+1 y

Come on people, where's the 'why'? 🤔😁

[FunkyMonkee]

No fucking way in hell!! I sort of came close on part of it but the bulk of the rest of it is pure shit!!
I figured I'd be married with kids by the time I was in my 30's or 40's, except for a grand total of 11 years (over a span of 19), I never even had a girlfriend!!
I expected to have been a drummer in a famous rock band, I got SOME of that: a modicum of fame, mostly locally, and we were working on our 3rd album when we broke up 18 years ago.
I expected to spend my whole life in the house where I grew up but, thanks to my ex-sisters, I got severely fucked out of that!! I at least jokingly expected to live at least to 120 years but, I've recently been told I might not even make it to 70, mostly BECAUSE of my being fucked over by my ex-sisters!
I figured I'd be quite rich but, I've been dirt poor nearly my entire life.
I figured I could EASILY get a job in a record store or radio station (what else would I do, having been collecting records all my life and now having over 62,000 of them from the past 120-some years?) but, NO ONE will take a chance on me in either sort of job so, I've had to take dozens of shitty part time jobs doing shit work that I didn't even know how to do before I got those jobs!! (About a year ago, I did a rough estimation of how many jobs I've had over the decades and, although I know there were a few that I missed back then, so far, the count is something like 65 jobs!!)
I've been "storing up" loads of knowledge and trivia all my life to pass on this vast store onto my kids but, it's looking like I'll never have any!!

[nolabels]

I'm sorry you haven't had kids, Funk.
If you want to be a severely wore out old SOB, there's still time if you want to, if you can find a willing partner.
Having a kid at 39 wore my ass out and I was in pretty good shape.
I've been wondering what's gonna happen with all of my stuff when I'm gone, guitars, other instruments, tools, fishing and hunting equipment, everything.
My son has no interest in any of it.
I don't know if he says that just to piss me off. I don't know.
It does hurt to hear him say that.
There's family stuff from the 1800s that I'd like to keep passing down at the very least.
But I'm the one who didn't want kids anyway, so really, what difference does it make?
My nieces and nephews have no interest in history or possessions either.
They have a totally different mindset than my generation.
I say that once you break the chain of possession of family items, or fail to pass on knowledge of family history, it's gone, and there's no getting it back. That's cheating the generations to come, to my way of thinking.

Your record collection and knowledge of music blows my ever-loving mind.
That's an awesome achievement.
The fact that you can think of tracks and apply them to people's situations here on G@G is awesome, too.

[FunkyMonkee]

@nolabels I almost had two kids in the early `90's. Either one would've turned 30 next year.
I'm like you. I have no one to leave my stuff to!! No one to pass my family history on to. I've had 2 lawyers tell me last year that I need to make Will or my ex-sisters are gonna get all my stuff and the only thing they'd do with it is sell it and get even MORE money they don't deserve, or trash it! I was hoping to at least leave it all to my surrogate little sister but she wouldn't want to have to deal with it, either and, as far as I know, doesn't want it. 62,000 records, a least 1000 cassettes, 5 setts of drums, two sets of tabla, at least 4 basses, 5 synths, one electric guitar and maybe 4 or 5 acoustic, two porta-studios, most of my Mad collection, a couple hundred DVD's, 6 or 8 computers, my stereo (what's left of it), the car and this house, if I'm EVER allowed to keep it!! And loads of other stuff. There would've been a SHIT LOAD more, had I been allowed to stay in MY house, as mom intended, or at least take all of the stuff with me!!
As for the history, I'm planning on writing a book of, basically, my life story. I've had a few people tell me that I had a really interesting life and it'd be a great story line for a movie so, we'll see! Originally, I was just gonna make it about the history of my band but, it seems as though most of what I'd talk about in just THAT story would have to be prefaced with stuff in my life. Or, not that it'd have to be prefaced but, I'd end up telling about all that stuff, anyway to explain stuff I was gonna say about the band so, might as well just go whole hog on it I'm just not sure if I should just write it or record myself telling it.
I'm pretty sure I've got some stuff from the 1800's, too! I'd LIKE to get my grandmother's record collection but, I think my cousin, Connie, has that! It's about 50 to 75 of those old Edison discs that are so thick, they stamped the record numbers on each one into the outer edge of the record!!

[FunkyMonkee]

@nolabels I also still have a bunch of grandma's old Christmas ornaments!! As they were very thin glass, most of the time, a few of them have broken over the decades but, I still have most of them. There was also a collection of her leather postcards that she kept. Mom found them about 40 years ago and got one of those flip book things that most people put pictures into and she put those post cards into it. It sits on a desk or table and it has two curved "gold" wires sticking up out of the platform and a couple dozen clear plastic sleeves to slide the pictures (post cards) into so, when it's full, you can just flip each one over on the wires to look at them and the plastic protects them.

[nolabels]

Leather postcards?
That's something I've never heard of.

[FunkyMonkee]

@nolabels Yeah, they made them out of leather about 100 years ago. They also made records on post cards about 60 or 70 years ago but, most of the ones I've seen are from Russia or other such countries. It's like those records you'd get on the backs of cereal boxes. They're just slightly bigger than a standard post card and they have a picture or place to write on one side and the other has a 2 to 5 minute recording, probably just someone talking about the area the card comes from.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Way cooler than what I imagined. I never appreciated the concept of making money past a certain point. We grew up poor. I had a puppy and a bike though, so I had everything I ever needed or wanted. It was my mom that felt inadequate though. I knew I wanted to make more money than she did, because I wanted to be able to take care of her, so I got good at cooking and became a rather well paid sous chef making pretty good money for where I lived. Actually, in college I was making more than a lot of adults with careers, so I was happy.

9/11 happens and I go off to do other things, eventually doing jobs that I didn't even know existed, having so much fun I thought I ought to be paying them to let me do it, and making sick money in the process. Now I own multiple homes and my mother has a 6-figure annuity in her name so she got to retire early and she's never going to have to worry about whatever bill comes in. I have some wonderful rescue kittens and have been fortunate enough to find some wonderful charities along the way and other outlets to use to give back.

I was super fat as a kid, got in decent shape for high school (because I knew if I didn't I'd never get laid), got in better shape for the military, then even better shape afterwards, last weekend I did my first ever half-marathon while carrying 32lbs on my back, then dropped the weight and did another half marathon "since I was already there" so I could say I did my first marathon. I've got friends all over the world that I can count on to stack on the corner and clear a building with me and I've had a lifetime of experiences that it'd take a lot of people generations to do.

I honestly wish everyone could have at least half the happiness I've had.

[nolabels]

Wow, man.
You are full of gratitude!
That's great!
Then you have me all concerned about myself over here.
This may be what one might call a "moment" for me.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@nolabels I nearly died last year. I remember asking why i was so cold and I kept trying to pull the blanket up, then I asked why is it so cold in here?

Somebody replied "Because you're dying. Stop moving. I'm in your heart."

Gotta make every moment a moment, or you may not get another moment.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@nolabels Guy named boobliker may be reaching out to you. He's in the area (yours) and before said the only prob was his lack of truck ball, so since you got that covered...

Keeping my fingers crossed

[nolabels]

I'll probably add more to this later, but the puppy and the bike thing grabbed my heart.
They were my two favorite presents as a kid.

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep @FunkyMonkee
OK.
Thanks.
I haven't heard yet.
I'll see if I can find him.

For a second, before I noticed your username on this post, I thought that FunkyMonkee was messing with me with the boobs and balls being talked about.
Lol.

He has a way of doing me like that, all in good fun.

You're a good guy.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@nolabels thanks man... if the boobs guy falls through... i'm still looking. i want you to take pictures of the water when you get out there. hold one when you're missing the water. it's not the same i know, but i had my mind wiped after a bad TBI and couldn't remember anything... sometimes photos are nice to have. somebody told me a long time ago to leave everything better than you found it. i guess there'd be a fair amount of debate as to how successful I've been, but don't stop me from trying none.

[nolabels]

That's a moving story.
I can picture myself in that same type of situation.
You're right about being mindful of every moment.
My trouble is that I keep letting that realization slide into the background until it punches me in the gut again.

[nolabels]

@boopboopbeepYou sure seem like you're on the ball for having had TBI.
I don't understand your request for a photo: "i want you to take pictures of the water when you get out there. hold one when you're missing the water."
I'd be happy to do what you'd like if I understand properly what that would be.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@nolabels I figure the first one knocked stuff loose and then the second one settled everything back in ;)

I just want you to have a picture of being on the water that you can hold on those days when you're not. when you're stuck i a room for long periods of time it's nice to have that memory palace to explore, and having a photo you can touch engages another sense, which makes the memory more vivid

[nolabels]

I see what you're saying about the photo.
I already have tons of those types of pics.
I thought you were wanting me to take pics to send to you, which I'd do.

[Potteplante]

Absolutely not and thank the gods for that. Around 15/16 I was in boarding school, which gave me a break from heavy drinking and drug use - at least when I was there. (The joints we smoked before cleaning duty doesn't count). I did have hope and dreams there that maybe, I'd be able to work in a factory and have a semi normal life and be married to my on/off then 33 year old "boyfriend", whom I married at 18 and divorced at 19. The periods I was not at boarding school and the heavy drinking and drugs where in the picture - I didn't look brightly at my future.

My life is SO much better than I could've imagine despite of hardship and sorrow. I'm clean and sober - joints still hang on tho, I'm educated and working a job I'm passionate about, despite of losing people I loved - I'm forever grateful for having the opportunity of having them in my life.

[JaxiCats]

It’s entirely different, I thought I’d be in my own place right now with only my pit bull but I now have a mini schnauzer, 2 cats and a fish. I’m also engaged which I didn’t expect to happen and 15/16 year old me didn’t think I’d have any interest in the goofball from sophomore year Latin class and that he would be the one to slow save me from myself (still trying to) nor did I think that I’d want to have a family with said person, I didn’t think I’d be dealing with loneliness and losing my uncle or helping a whole family heal from the loss of 2 family members 6 months apart…its a lot and I miss everyone I’ve lost, I didn’t think I would go to prom, thought I WOULD go to college (I didn’t)

[nolabels]

I had planned on being a bachelor. I had truly planned for bachelorhood and was on that course of life until age 34.

My then-future wife appeared unannounced in my life, stuck her foot in my door, and turned my world upside down. After a little while, I told myself I liked her, then I think I actually did like who she was representing herself to be.

Until the day we both said, "I do".

She then became her true self, taking the vow to mean that she'll "do" whatever she damned well pleases, now that her name was on everything I had strived for and accumulated.

Then a kid, unwanted by me, came along. So, yeah, trapped by her wily ways from day one.

That was more than 30 years ago.

I've tried to make the best of things every step of the way. There comes a time, though, when the truth has to be faced. I walked, eyes wide open, right into a trap.

I'm stating it here and have done so on G@G in the past. Occasionally someone here will dare to declare me to be a lousy husband and father. I'll not engage with such persons. They don't know me or my situations. I blocked one such person here a few weeks ago. She just would not leave me alone. I'd be happy to look for the question where I was assaulted by this person to show the extent of irrationality that was displayed by her.

I'm here to share experiences and have some fun, not defend my life.

That being said, there's no telling what would have become of me if my original course was unaltered. Maybe things would have been worse.

If only I had that fateful day back.

Cheers!!!

[BoopBoopBeep]

I'm so sorry you went though this my man. Before you get married again, remember, half of zero is zero. You shouldn't have anything in your name and there should be a prenuptial agreement as a backup for whatever you get down the road.

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep Thanks, man.
Things are as they are.
My health is failing, so I'm stuck.

I don't mean to completely denigrate my wife.
She does have her good qualities.
It's just that I've been living her life, not mine.
A lot of guys say that, but don't really mean it.
I say it, and I mean it.
She can't even see it or admit to it when I show her the evidence.

I think she's mentally ill in some fashion.
That's life.

Thanks again.

[FunkyMonkee]

Moan, moan, moan!! (J/k)

[BoopBoopBeep]

What do you like doing brother? Go do it. Live your life. She may not join you along the way but you can do it alone. You want to go skydiving? F it... go. If you're on your way out what do you have to lose?

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee
A question was asked.
I answered.

Crab crab, crab!!! (J/k)

It's always good to hear from the Funk!

[FunkyMonkee]

Thanks! Same here!! Sorry I've been away the past 3 days but, it wasn't my choice. Once again, second time in a week, the mods got pissed at me for answering a question honestly and they froze my account for 3 days each time!!
First, some girl asked how to give a blow job so, I told her!! The mods got pissed about my answer and kicked me off!
A few days ago, another girl, quite possibly the same one, asked how she can go about being the one to start a relationship with a guy rather than her having to wait for him. Again, I told her, I basically said that she should just try kissing him!! And, if she wanted any other advice on it, PM me because the mods hate when I respond to questions here in the land of the free!! Moments later, frozen, again!!
Now, what's all this about you might not be here much longer?

[FunkyMonkee]

If I go "poof" again, you know why!!

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep
I gotta be careful what I say here, FunkyMonkee might jump in again with some more wisecracking. Lol.

Thanks.
I hear you and I've been doing a little better lately with my illnesses.
Until a couple of weeks ago, I had been literally bedridden in pain for the last year and a half.
The scores of doctors that I've been going to can't figure out what's wrong with me.
By the grace of God, one good doctor (finally), and a loving helpful sister, I'm doing a bit better and am trying to get my strength back.

I love fishing from my boats on rivers and lakes, building cigar box guitars, playing guitar, fiddle, banjo, and accordion. Fixing anything that might need fixing. I like to do a lot of stuff. Some of that I can do. I haven't driven in a long time, so driving to take my boats out to go fishing is still off the table, but it's what I most want to do.
Scratch that, moving out of the suburbs and to the country where I can be on the water in minutes instead of driving for hours to get to the river is what I really want.
My wife is finally agreeable to that now that our son is grown and out of the nest.
If I hadn't gotten married, I'd have been living in the country 25 years ago.
At my age and with my health problems, that's a tall order to get a new home place set up the way I would like it to be.
Maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't.
If I didn't want more out of life, I guess I'd be done for.

[nolabels]

Our son moved out last week. I'm proud of him. He's got his CPA and is doing well in many regards, but unfortunately, he and I have never, ever gotten along. So, that tension in our house is no longer there.

I never wanted kids, so even though I love him, and I tried my darndest to make things good between us, it's always been tough.
Lest anyone think that my wish to not have kids is a selfish one, nothing could be further from the truth.
I had very selfless reasons to not want kids.
That's a topic for another time.

My wife and I actually are getting along a bit better since our son is now on his own.
I still don't see us doing the horizontal bop anytime soon, but it could happen.

Yeah, things might be getting better.

When I originally answered this question, I decided to just lay it all out there for the world to see.
It felt good to get it all off of my chest.
I'm not looking for sympathy.

Maybe somebody else out there will see my post and then feel able to unload some stuff from their own lives here on G@G.

The longer I'm here, the more I consider G@G to be kind of like therapy.
Better than therapy in some ways.
I keep making more friends here.
That doesn't happen in therapy.

If you read this, thanks for taking the time to do so.

Thanks also for your support.

I wish you the best in your own endeavors.
Friend.

nolabels

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee I don't think things are as bad as me checking out of Hotel Earth anytime soon, but I have been really sick for a year and a half.
The doctors can't figure it out.

The land of the free, you say?

I can never figure out what the mods here are thinking.
That sucks that you got locked out.

I had a post removed the other day for the first time.
Somebody asked how good people's most recent masturbation session had been on a scale of 1 to 10.
I told them that I had a good one at 9.5, adding the warning that you really don't want to try to go above ten.
The human body just couldn't survive such a thing.
Of course, I did describe how my body would be found, adorned with an assortment of masturbatory toys.
I thought it was funny.
Somebody else apparently did not share my view.
I went back and talked about it a bit as a reply on the post you put on that question.

I have no idea if someone complained or if they pulled it on their own.

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee I'd pay money to see you "go poof"!
I think it'd be quite amusing.
As long as we get you back at the end of the show!

I couldn't resist that statement.
The thought occurred to me.
It begged to be brought to the page.
I acquiesced.

I guess you mean you getting locked out again.

[FunkyMonkee]

My dog needs fixed! Can you fix my dog?

[FunkyMonkee]

I never got on well with my dad, either! NOTHING I did was ever good enough for him!! And my brother could do no wrong!! If the girls ever did anything wrong, I got blamed for it!!
Back in Feb. `89, XTC put out a new album and there was a song on it that dealt with the shit I'd been going through all my life. One night, I suppose it was after dad screamed at me again, I decided to copy down the words to that song by hand, as if I'd written the song myself. and left it on the kitchen table over night where he could see it first thing in the morning, like I'd written it and forgot to put it away. From that day on, we never had a problem!!
www.youtube.com/watch
No more horizontal bomp? Have yo tried the Ubangy Stomp?
www.youtube.com/watch
Have you tried group therapy
www.youtube.com/watch

[FunkyMonkee]

Well, that's the point! doctors don't know shit!! All they know how to do is put you on drugs!! I might know of thing or two that could help! Mom had cancer all over her body! HUGE purple and green marks all over her back and chest!! As soon as I found out, I ran to the grocery store next to the hospital and bought a couple things I needed to make her a cancer cure and started giving it to her twice a day the very next day! Within about 2 weeks of her hospital stay, her Dr. came in and said (and I quote), I don't know what you're doing and I don't want to know but, whatever it is, keep doing it because your cancer is going away!
Can you imagine that? A cancer Dr. NOT wanting to know how to cure cancer?
I think I saw that post of yours. Is that the one that had all the gooey white stuff all over it?
It's the culture we live in! I've been noticing it for decades!1 EVERYONE ELSE can say WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT but, as soon as I do the same, I'M the one that gets into trouble for it and they slide right by!!

[FunkyMonkee]

Well, I HAVE done magic and was even part of a magic show a few years ago!
Yes, getting locked out, again. I'm thinking about stating each of my comments here with something like, "Okay GAG, I'm gonna say something! Get ready to block me!!"

[BoopBoopBeep]

Brother I sincerely hope things work out for you as best they can. You're in my prayers. I wish you were in MO I'd take you fishing. In your boat of course since I don't have one, but you know...

Somebody out there has to be near you. Where are you?

Rally the troops. Let's find somebody who can take this man fishing!

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee I fix male dogs.
Just put a rubber band around their nuts.
In a couple of weeks, FIXED!

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep I'm in MO.
Saint Peters.
How about you?
You should see the smile on my face right now!

[FunkyMonkee]

As for fishing, we used to have a summer home on Buffalo Creek. walk out the front door, run about 200 feet and you're in the creek!!
It was a fairly nice 2-story place my dad's family built in the `30's with an old dirt road behind it, the nearest neighbor was about a 5:00 walk. Because it was at the base of a narrow valley, t. v. and radio reception weren't very good. We had to sell the place in the late `70's and the guy that bought it let it go to shit!! I've never been up there since but I saw a picture of it a few years ago after Hurricane Katrina hit and flooded the place. As far as I know, the guy that bought it never uses it. The grass is at least shoulder high and the house is practically falling apart. If you're into fixing things up, and this clown is interested in selling it to you...

[FunkyMonkee]

Uh oh! I see future fishing buddies!!

[BoopBoopBeep]

I'm in KC... where's St Peters?

[BoopBoopBeep]

Crap that's St. Louis. Medically I can't go that far right now. FML what are the chances you'd be on the complete opposite end of the state. I'll talk to my docs.

In the interim, who is in St. Louis/southern Illinois?

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Not much for fishing, but like being on the water. Problem now is my blood pressure stays around 85-90 over 60-65. Doc's are still trying to get that adjusted. Can't drive that far... tend to pass out. That's not particularly good at highway speeds. That's part of the reason I do the ruck marches every weekend, at least once... Trying to get the blood pressure back up to normal range. Lowest I've been is 63/45. They were like how are you still talking, much less on a treadmill.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep Start playing drums!

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Oh we're gonna get this little problem solved. What good's the internet if you can't, right? I posted a new question looking for people in St L/lower Illinois area. I'm going to hit up a couple other sites I know too.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@nolabels So i found a guy in the area, but he had the ball removed from his truck. You got a way to get the boat there if he comes out?

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep
It's a suburb northwest of St. Louis.
I-70, Exit 222.

You and FunkyMonkee have been so kind to me.
I'm appreciative of you guys paying attention to me.
Just having that is a huge spirit-lift for me.
I hope to pay it forward as you guys are doing.

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep Lol.
This thread is getting to have tons of tendrils.
I can't keep up.
You've got serious health issues of your own and here you are trying to make me happy.
God love ya, man.

[BoopBoopBeep]

We're gonna get you on a lake one way or another...

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep
My truck is all set up to go.

We could go anywhere from big lakes to my favorite fishing spots, Ozark rivers.

I have everything needed for 6 people to go fishing and be fully equipped if we wanted to have a fishing party!
My wife would have to live without her Tahoe in order to trailer my second boat if no one else has a truck.
I've been accumulating fishing equipment for 50 years.
My garage is darn near like a Bass Pro Shops warehouse.

Actually though, a fishing party hosted by me would be way more than I can physically handle.

It'd just be nice to have one person to go fishing with who can share in driving duties, would enjoy being on the water, and who would also be understanding if I get worn out easily, which I do.

This might happen!

Thanks, Boop!

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee Funk, I gotta say, man, you never fail to provide quality entertainment in Super Sized quantities.

I just now imagined you as being a six-foot nine-inch 7/11 Super Big Gulp gliding along through life, like Michael Jackson moonwalking.

(The Jeopardy theme song plays here in this space for several minutes as an interlude while I listen to XTC.)

Oh, man!!!
Tears were and still are streaming down my face from listening to "Hold Me My Daddy".
If only my son would allow that to happen.
I'm hoping that now that my boy has moved out, things might turn for the better.

My dad died at age 42 when I was 11.
I loved him so fucking much, man.
I still miss him really bad 53 years later.
Fuck, I'm a fucking blubbering mess right now.

I gotta pull myself together.

FUCK!

"Compose thyself, nolabels, ommmmmmm."
"That's better."

I'm glad you and your dad finally got worked out.
It was brave of you to leave those lyrics laying where he could find them.
That was a great approach, to my way of thinking.

My brother was 17 when Dad died.
Things weren't great between them.
I guess the ages my brother and I were when he passed made the difference in how we each remember him.

I was a little boy who adored his dad.
My brother was a teenager spreading his wings.

You're a good pal, Funk.

Is there more than one of you?
I don't know how the heck you crank out the commentary so fast!

The Funk is a phenomenon!

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee I remember you mentioning your mom's cancer once before.
That's an amazing occurrence.
I hear those kinds of stories here and there.
And of course, your mom's doctor not being inquisitive as to your remedy is typical.

I don't want to be down on doctors, but my gosh, except for one doctor who listens to me and tries to help as a general practitioner, the specialists tell me they'll help me, then they do their standard tests, tell me I'm fine and that'll be $15,000. "Next patient, please, nurse."

Regarding the blocking and yanked posts, the mods would do well to consider some context before taking action against posters.
It's ridiculous.

There are some websites that have become much more censoring of anything further "right" than "far left of center".
It won't stand.
A change is coming in this country back to normalcy.
It can't come too soon for me.

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee That sounds like a beautiful place.
It reminds me of a place that my friends and I had access to as teenagers and young adults.
It's a shame that your place went downhill with the new owner.
My old place is no longer the same, either.
Nothing lasts forever, I guess.
We can always have new places become treasured, though.

I'm in Missouri and plan on staying here. I like the types of fishing opportunities we have here.

As I recall, you're in Maryland, where my St. Louis Browns moved to many years ago to become the Baltimore Orioles.
My great-uncle was a pitcher for the Browns in the 1930s.
If I have my facts straight, he was the last major league pitcher to strike out Babe Ruth.

[BoopBoopBeep]

That's pretty cool about your great uncle. Missouri is awesome. Got stationed out here in 09 and fell in love with the place (and the prices)

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep That's great.
Let me say "Welcome to Missouri" 14 years after your arrival.
I'm glad you like it.
I've lived in the suburbs of St. Louis all my life.

I have what I would say is a healthy amount of state and city pride, not that I had anything to do with the way things are here except in my own little sphere of influence.

There are many types of geological landforms to suit different tastes. I love the Ozarks, myself.
It's not too terribly cold in the winter.

Anheuser Busch, current controversy aside, has done much for St. Louis, as well as the world in terms of municipal improvement. The late August Busch Jr. is regarded with very fond remembrance in St. Louis for his wise, philanthropic ways. His "wise ways" most likely provided him great tax advantages, but still, he's loved here.

The Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals.
Missouri is baseball territory for sure.

The "prices" I wouldn't know about, knowing nothing of other regional economies except what I read about, on the coasts mainly, I guess.

From where do you originally hail?

[BoopBoopBeep]

I work in D. C. where I rent a room for $750 and my twin bed touches three walls. A jr. bacon cheeseburger from wendy's is $4. Prior to that I lived in Raleigh, NC. Surprisingly not much cheaper. Better people though.

Now I have a 14 room house on an acre of largely wooded land backing into 25 acres of protected forrest. This would easily cost 8 mil in DC if you could even find it. It is officially the worst place I ever lived and that's coming from a guy that spent three years in the Sunni Triangle and 5 years in southern Afghanistan. Take either of those over DC any day of the week. If somebody told me I'd have to stay there til retirement I'd file for separation and go tongue mop the floor of the naughty massage parlors for $15/hour and at least be able to salvage some dignity that way since I could stream it for tips.

[FunkyMonkee]

Don't worry about it! We'll send you a bill.

[FunkyMonkee]

Quite alright! Ever since dad died, I can barely think of that song with eminating wet stuff from my eye bones. I played that song at his funeral and TRIED, between the tears, to read a short speech I wrote to commemorate him at the service!
I was the oldest of the 4 of us and always treated like the baby.
Have you ever heard my band?
Here's a typical Thin white Line show (only one song. It's one of the few covers we did but even as Bob (my singer) said, even the covers are originals.
You don't get to see much of me and the sound is shitty because camera guy decided to set it on a tripod DIRECTLY in front of the HUGE speakers (horns) that the sound was coming from.
www.youtube.com/watch
Just one of me but, sometimes I feel like two people. As I have no one here with me, I talk to myself a lot. But, I meet a better class of people, that way and,, I win all the arguments! No I don't! Yes I do!!
I type very fast! And I only use one hand!! You know what I'm doing with the other hand?
Holding the keyboard!!

[FunkyMonkee]

I know!! I TOLD then that the girl ASKED how to do blow jobs!! If they have issues with who I'm talking to or what I'm saying to them, they should take that up with ME, NOT just freeze me out without any kind of reasoning!!
YOU SAID IT!! The loonies are running the asylum!!

[FunkyMonkee]

My grandmother used to spend a lot of her time at camp (that's what we called it). She called it, Shangri-La. She loved that movie, "Lost Horizons" and chose that name after the place in the movie.
My cousin, Doug, used to live in St. Louis, or very close to it. He died of pneumonia 2 years ago but the rest of his family is still there.
No, we're about a 2 or 3 hour drive from Baltimore. Bob, another of my cousins used to live there. He's in Gettysburg, now but, I don't know the address. I think it's 87 or something
My uncle was Lt. Col in the Air Force and they have a special display for him at Soldiers & sailors hall across the street from Pitt's Student Union where my ex-fiance had a very small part in a locally shot movie starring Ann Bancroft. Here's a story someone wrote about him a few years ago. Below are pictures. In the group pic, he's standing second from left.
That pitcher thing would be pretty cool!! Something to be proud of!! My dad was stationed with the actor, John Payne in the Air Force. He played the lawyer that proved Santa Claus was real in "Miracle On 34th St.".
https://www.starduststudios.com/frank-mcquaid.html

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee That's awesome man! Thanks for sharing. Great movie.

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep You do have a way with words, there, Boop.
Would I be correct in assuming that I can thank you for military service to our country?
If so, consider thanks and gratitude to be extended to you from me.

That's great that you have a nice home place. It sounds nice.

If I get well enough, I'm hoping to find at least 50 acres in SE Missouri to build a home and be close to Clearwater Lake and the Black River.

That's a bummer about your blood pressure issues.
Do the doctors know a cause?
This thread has gotten so long I can't quickly find where you mentioned it.

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee Cool stuff, Funk.
It's great to hear stories like those.
Lost Horizons is a great movie.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@nolabels 3 years in Iraq, 5 in Afghanistan. Dragons strike with fire. appreciate the sentiment, truly. better men and women did so much more for less. i came home with all my parts and a buncha fruit salad for my uniform, couple other things i'm really proud of that i'm not putting on the internet, but suffice to say i f'ing loved every minute of it. except the putting my buddies in boxes part, of course. It was an honor to be there. Never felt so at home. even the close calls. just didn't feel right to not be there, having somebody else there in my place who may not be as good.

You're going to find your 50 acres nolabels. I know you will. Just gotta have faith and take it one day at a time.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I had a massive heart attack a year ago. The enzyme or protein or whatever that measures heart damage... normal is like 4-8... micrograms or ppm or whatever they measure it in. 50 is considered a coronary event has occurred, mine was a little over 64k. one of the docs said i had the highest number he ever seen on somebody that could still answer questions. i told him i always been one to go big or go home. a large part of my heart died, haha literally this time not just in the "i thougt that poem in high school was crappy" sort of way... so the rest of it has to pick up the slack. Don't smoke, kids. Because I was so active beforehand I just walked in and said, there's a weird feeling in my chest, bp was 150 over 110, pulse was 80bpm which is super high for me. Used to be 110/75 and my resting heart rate was 44. In cardiac rehab i was taking a stress test and started at 38bpm only after i swore to them i wasn't feeling faint or nothing. they thought i was physiologically weird but they were some good people let me tell you. First time there they were like, goal is to be able to walk 100 feet and not pass out. Nah... don't have a lot of time for that nonsense. Stuff's been trying to kill me for 20 years tell the heart attack to take a number.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I finally got to where they'd let me sign up for 5k races as long as i walked them... so i walked them with a 30lb pack. they didn't say anything about not carrying stuff. then i did two a day, which i figure was still only 5k at a time so we're still good. a little under 2 weeks ago i carried that pack on my first ever half marathon. took it off... did the other half of it. got a cool little award from the race director for competing my first marathon. this lady asked me when i did my first half, so i looked at my watch... was like i reckon about 3, 4 hours ago now. you folks seemed pretty cool so figured didn't make sense to skip out early. i want to do the boston tough ruck.

I didn't want anybody to have to try to explain to my rescue kittens why I don't come home and play with them anymore, so had to give death a raincheck again. I've given him enough business over the years it was a professional courtesy of sorts.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep No problem! Glad you liked it!

[FunkyMonkee]

Thank ya! By the way, my singer was in Viet Nam, it's what eventually killed him. He was exposed to agent orange and he ended up getting cancer from it and died 10 years ago at the age of 59. Because he was so small, he was a tunnel rat. He could fit through the corrugated pipes better than anyone else.

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee You could get yourself one of those keyboard holders, then you could do something else with that other hand. 😎
You once showed me a YT video of you guys at an outdoor venue, with concrete seating, I think.
A couple of others, too.
I told you that that song was a bit too head-banging for my taste.
You seemed surprised to hear my opinion.
It was good, just too much something for me.
I've got a very fine line where I think something's too head-banging for me.
I love this one even though the sound is shit.
It'd really be great if the sound could be cleaned up.
Unbelievably high energy, man!
Was the deal with the bass player at the start what I think it was?
I thought he was having a cigarette issue, but it looks like people were helping him take some "medicine". 😉
Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Been there, done that!

I was thinking about you earlier tonight, about a drummer being the timekeeper for the band.
I was listening to Montrose - Space Station #5.
Towards the end, the tempo accelerates over maybe a minute or so to a really high rate.
That's when I thought of you.
How tight a drummer has to be to achieve something like that.
That was recorded back in the 1970s.
I also used to see them in concert doing that song.
There aren't any digital tricks makin' it happen.

Your drumming impresses the shit out of me.
Tight.

[nolabels]

Do you study other drummers?
I was wondering if you have any thoughts on Aynsley Dunbar's technique.
He's one of my favorite drummers.

Another one is Nathan Followill from Kings of Leon. There's something about his technique that really grabs me.
He's more of a timekeeper than having Aynsley Dunbar's flash and inventive solos, but Nathan injects what I call actual "melody" at key points in a song in his drumming.
I'm not a drummer, so it's hard for me to put it into words.

I don't know if you're into KOL, but I put forth this theory about them and ask people about it when I get the chance:
I've noticed that each guy is an equal member of the band, none having any more power than any of the others.
I think that's because KOL is three brothers and their cousin, or if you think of it the other way around, a guy and his three cousins who are brothers. 😁
I've seen them in videos where they're just fucking around, not on stage.
They don't take shit off of each other, but they love each other, too.
I think that's what makes them so great, in my opinion.
They're each like, "Fuck you, this part is mine and I'm running with it, deal with it, bro."
Then they do it and everybody is like, "Yeah, that's fucking great, man!"
I love it and them.

[FunkyMonkee]

Where would I put it? The computer sits on the floor, the monitor sits on top of it and they keyboard either stays on my pillow or next to my bed (if I'm in it).
What kind of things, you mean like, pick my nose or scrape lint out of my naval?
Sorry you had to sit through a repeat performance. (Holy shit!! I nearly choked to death!! I JUST put a piece of candy in my mouth and, while moving it around in my mouth it suddenly went SHOOTING down my throat!! Luckily, I was able to force it back up with no trouble at all but, WHY THE FUCK do these things like to go shooting down my throat? This is the second time one nearly did it in the past month!! The one in the circular venue outside was in front of the college I used to go to.
Which one did I send you before, "Balancing Act" or "Under The Blades Of Love" I can see how you'd think Balancing Act was a bit headbanger.
That's Erin, some friend of hers, I guess, decided to get up on the stage and feed her some fruit, cherries, I guess. I think they were just holding her smoke for her while they fed her.
Thanks loads!! I wish I could still be playing!! Without Bob, the band can't exist.
I've been playing drums since I was in the womb!
I HAVE noticed that I tend to speed up JUST A LITTLE, at least in the beginning of a song. I just have it set in my head that it SHOULD be this speed but Bob might count it in a tad slower so, once we get it going, I might speed up slightly, especially if I'm all excited and ready to go!! Most often, you can notice it but, if you play the end of a song and then just the beginning, you'll notice the difference. A number of drummers are like that but, some are much more noticeable.

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep That's a hell of a story to tell and a hell of a story to read.
That's the explanation, then, I guess, for your low blood pressure.
Your determination to come back is inspiring, man!
Walking marathons with 30 pounds (screw the metric system, I say) after a massive heart attack!
That takes some big ones!
You gotta keep those kittens safe, too.

My story is nothing like that, but yeah, things have been physically excruciating for a year and a half, peaking unbelievably over the last three months, having me in tears from the pain.

I was always an active guy, but with pain at a constant 9.5 the last few months, I've been bedridden.
If I'd try to engage in normal activities, I'd be immediately floored from the pain throughout my body.
My blood pressure will go through the roof, then bottom out to being undetectable on my home blood pressure machine, with me shivering uncontrollably for hours no matter how many blankets my wife can put on me.
My body temp will drop to 95F when that happens, too.
I have stents in my heart, but the cardiologist says my heart is strong.
The doctors keep doing test after test but can't determine what the exact problem is.
Two and a half years ago and again, two years ago, I had COVID, very badly.
After "recovering" from COVID, on some routine blood tests, I was told to immediately go to the ER, where they found me to be riddled with blood clots in my legs and lungs. They treated that and I got a bit better, but my SO2 levels remain usually in the 80s.
The doctors say that they suspect that it may be due to effects of COVID that they're just beginning to discover, the blood clots, body-wide autonomic nervous system damage that affects everything about how my body functions, the heart, GI function, psychological effects, body-wide nerve pain, the list goes on.

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep
A few weeks ago, a doctor finally prescribed a med that has reduced the pain from a constant 9.5 to a manageable 6 to 7.

Thank goodness, although my stamina is low, over the last few weeks I've been able to slowly resume some normal activities.
Chores around my home have gone undone over the last two years, so making things right around the house have been my goals, but I do want to go fishing.
That'll happen.
I know it will.

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee
I'm going to get one of those wall-mounted articulating keyboard holders that you can swing in front of or away from you as needed.
You never can tell when a nostril may be in need of extrication of dried mucus.
Or other bodily appendages that may require attention every now and then.

I thought the bass player was a chick at first, then I wasn't sure.
Don't tell her that.

I don't remember which video it was that you linked me to previously.
I'd have to go look at what you have out there

Did you see the second chunk of my post asking you about a couple of other drummers?
I see that I didn't tag you on it.
The entire post was too long to submit, so I had to break in two and forgot to tag you for the second chunk.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@nolabels
COVID is such a MF. We lost so many people at work (4 I think in my office alone). When I got it i was tired. I was watching a movie one night with rescue kitten #1. She had been playing and was in my lap asleep. I didn't want to disturb her. I don't know if you've ever been choked out before, but it felt like that. A blood choke. No panic, just calm sleepiness. Didn't make any sense to me because it was early. Each scene I found myself jerking back awake. Then I realized I wasn't breathing if I didn't actively think about it... like it no longer was automatic, even when I was becoming oxygen deprived. Now it's like 2300. I set an alarm for ever ten seconds to remind myself to breathe because I figured things were pretty shite, and when I go to the hospital I may not come out, so I wanted my last moments on the outside to be with my kitten curled up in my lap. We always get up between 0300 and 0330, so when she got up I went to the hospital and they told me I was an idiot. Joke's on them. I've had that said too many times for it to have any sting. Anyway, they gave me IV monocolonal antibodies and I kid you not I walked out of there 4 hours later like nothing happened. Lotta good the vaccine and boosters did me, but... you know. I wonder how many people (especially old people) died becaues they just went to sleep and their body forgot that breathing is important. When I told my doc she was like "odd, i've never heard of that." I'm like yeah cause they probably didn't set a timer.

Still I hear people talk about "there is no covid" or "it's just like the flu." I want to punch them in the throat. Shoryuken style.

[FunkyMonkee]

I had most of this written 4.5 hours ago when my computer decided it couldn't figure out what the fuck it was doing and froze on me (at least as far as the Net) so, I gave up on waiting and went to eat. 4 hours later, I get back here to find that it STILL can't figure out what the fuck it's doing!! So!!!
I don't know that you can call it studying any drummers except maybe Bill Bruford, the king of drums. Others that inspire me are Simon Phillips (second only to Bill), John Bonham, Keith Moon, Adam Woods (The Fixx), Adam Brzhezinski (sp?) (Big Country), Clive Bunker (early Jethro Tull), Terry Chambers (early XTC), Ringo, Stewart Copeland and Tim Alexander (Primus). I forget why but, I wanted to post this video here and that's why I got froze nearly 5 hours ago!! https://youtu.be/asAa1_N_rso
I've heard of Dunbar but, if he's not the drummer for The Doors, I have no idea who he is.
I've heard of KOL but I don't think I've ever heard them.
We didn't take much shit from anyone, either. We DID have a little minor in-fighting, to a degree. Not that we ever came to blows but, for instance, I didn't like a lot of the shit Jason did and I suppose it's vice versa, too. And, a few of our bass players didn't exactly get along 100% with me but, we were a band and it was our job to play this music we wrote for all those people that came to see and hear us! So, we'd get up on stage and do our respective jobs we were expected to do on stage and never let any of our dislikes get in the way of the music. In a way, it WAS a kind of job in that, even though you might not like this person or that, you HAD to do your work WITH THEM to get the work of the company done! Also, in a way, we were kinda like King Crimson in that: each of us was responsible for our own parts, nobody else's, and it was up to each of us to see to it those parts got played the way they needed to be played!

[FunkyMonkee]

Possibly a dumb question but, do you use salt?

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't really have a place to put something like that. The wall in front of me is at least 4' away and the one next to me is at least 3.5" away. The one behind me is about 15' and the one on my other side is maybe 7' or 8' away.
I used to have to do a lot of booger pickin' in my first 40 years and then, suddenly, for some reason, I hardly ever had to do it again!! except on very rare occasions, I doubt even once or twice a year, I haven't had to do any gold digging in a LONG time!! Used to be, me and Ol' Ben Lucas used to have a LOT in common!! www.youtube.com/watch
How could you miss those buxom tits!! She's a classically trained cellist.
Yes, I saw part two of the drummer posts. I DID respond but, just before I could finish the last of it and click the send button, the computer froze for nearly 6 hours!! I had to kill the online tab and open a new one which, thankfully, still contained everything I had open before the freeze-up!! Is this what they were always referring to when they warned about global cooling?
No matter, I figured you were talking to me when you asked about drummers.
I forgot to mention in my last post here, I never noticed it before but, you're the same age (give or take a few months) of my brother, Bob! Well, how old he'd be if he was still alive. He jumped off a bridge about 10 years ago.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep My neighbor's entire family had covid right after it hit here and all they took to get rid of it was Robitussin CF and Tylenol. He's in his mid 70's, she's in her mid 80's, her mother just turned 100 3 weeks ago and their daughter is in her 50's.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Yeah one of my coworkers had it three times. Of course, another one was found dead a his desk and three more died at home. There's just SO many different paths and mutations it takes.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep HCQ cures it. I don't see what the hang-up is about taking it to stay alive.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Yeah, except no, because the guy they found dead at his desk had taken HCQ. Tha's what I'm saying. SO many differences in outcome and variants and how people are reacting to everything.

[nolabels]

@BoopBoopBeep That forgetting to breathe thing I've had pretty much my whole life to a somewhat lesser degree, and it was much worse when I was actively sick with COVID. It keeps getting worse in general.
My brother's observant ex-wife, when I'd be in her presence, would frequently slap me on the back and tell me, "Breathe, Bobby!", when she would see that I'd stopped breathing. Yeah, it's weird. I'll wake up from sleeping and my arms and legs will be numb from having super-low SO2 levels. I'll have to lay there and pump air into me before I'm able to move. Fun times.

I haven't seen it here lately, but there was a long period of time on G@G where if I mentioned that I had COVID, there'd be a bunch of nasty commenters telling me I'm delusional or worse. Nasty. Like you, a decisive punch is in order for those entities.

I got sick pretty bad again when getting the two Pfizer vaccines. I've said no to the boosters.

When I was sick with COVID, I was just flat-assed turned away numerous times when seeking medical help. No oxygen, nothing. Go home, stay home, leave, we can't do anything for you, I was told. Lovely.

There was one interesting thing about having COVID. I had some really wild hallucinations that lasted for days, and I'd talk out loud to my hallucinations.

I have an idea to create a piece of art that's inspired by one of my hallucinations. I've been refining the design on paper and in my head until it really fits what I saw. It'll need to be a three-dimensional thing when it's done. It's a very simple thing, but it will need to be executed properly for its meaning to be clear.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep Maybe he didn't take it in time. It sounds like a pretty fragile bug, to me. Sunlight kills it, ultraviolet light kills it, alcohol, Robitussin CF, HQC, Ivermectin, vitamin D might be on the list, and probably a few other things I've forgotten about.

[FunkyMonkee]

https://youtu.be/t7WNip7cVy0

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Hahhah love the youtube video!

Sunlight, UV, alcohol kills us too if you do enough of it :P Robitussin the jury is still out on

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep Hey, it cured Ron and the rest of his family!!

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Jeremy?

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep Hopkinson.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Haha... well good for him i guess... whoever that is

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep My neighbor.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Do I use salt? Not anymore.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee "My neighbor"... how gloriously random! Well played!

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep We lived 3 doors away from each other so, because of us, our whole town was tilted in our direction! Between the two of us, we've got just under 100,000 records.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep I forget which one of you I asked but, whoever it was was talking about blood pressure being too high so, I can tell you that salt contributes to that so, its best to switch to pink salt. You can have as much of that as you want and it won't hurt you.

[nolabels]

@FunkyMonkee Interesting track. Is that a tough beat to keep in proper time?

Here's the opening paragraph on Aynsley Dunbar from Wikipedia:

Aynsley Thomas Dunbar (born 10 January 1946) is an English drummer.[1] He has worked with John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Journey, Jefferson Starship, Nils Lofgren, Eric Burdon, Shuggie Otis, Ian Hunter, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Whitesnake, Pat Travers, Sammy Hagar, Michael Schenker, UFO, Michael Chapman, Jake E. Lee, Leslie West, Kathi McDonald, Keith Emerson, Mike Onesko, Herbie Mann and Flo & Eddie.[2] Dunbar was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey in 2017.

I know him from Journey's first four albums. Awesome drummer. I've heard that his reliability about showing up caused him to move around somewhat. I can relate to that.

I liked Ol' Ben Lucas.
I've never heard it before.

How do you know all of this old stuff? Do you just buy crates of old stuff and listen to every track. It boggles my mind what you come up with.

I'm sorry about your brother. That's rough, man.

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee pink (himalayan) salt will still raise blood pressure. it's still sodium chloride, it's just chemically purer than that white shiz in the shakers

And my problem is the BP is too low anyways ;)

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee Thats awesome about the records brother. 100k is impressive

[FunkyMonkee]

Do you mean, "Eleven"? It CAN be tricky if you don't know what you're doing or how it works. They called it that because it's written in 11/16.
I see, so, he's NOT with The Doors. Yeah, that'd be a pretty big hassle for most musos. I hear Spike Jones was notorious for having his band mates show up ON TIME!! even if they were a minute late, they'd be fired on the spot!! One night, we had a bass player like that! It was a pretty important gig for us at a major local venue where mostly big stars play! (I helped run sound there for a while and worked with Johnny Winter, Joydrop, Julian Lennon, Tood Rundgren and Adrian Belew.)
Well, we all showed up in plenty of time for the gig but Sharyn didn't show up until minutes before we went on and, to top it off, she was VERY drunk!! Later, we found out her boyfriend, who was in another local band, got her roaring drunk and made her show up late to fuck us over!1 Well, all it did was fuck HER over!! After that gig, Bob fired her!! That's when we got Erin to replace her.
Another night, almost a decade later, we were playing a gig in Erie and everyone but Toby decided to show up! No message saying he couldn't make it or decided to quite or was busy getting a blow job or had mysteriously died and won't make it! NOTHING!! Well, the show started, we had no bass player so, we pulled some guy out of the audience, took him back stage while My 3 Scum and Lollipop Factory were on and taught him as much of our stuff as he was gonna need for the night and we went on with him! We never saw or heard from Toby ever again!! Last I heard, about 8 years ago, he's in Florida!
On that song, Kinky had Eric Clapton playing the slide dobro solo in the middle of the song. That's why Kinky said, "Pick it, Eric!" See if you can guess who he's got on this song?
https://youtu.be/MVHNivz3T3o

[FunkyMonkee]

Lol!! No, it just comes with years of listening to records and committing all this info to memory.
Thanks! In a way, I miss him and I'm pretty sure my ex-sisters wouldn't have fucked me over if he was still around and he sure as fuck didn't deserve what happened to him his last 12 to 15 years but, he WAS a prize asshole the last decade or so of his life!! First, I got a lot of shit from dad, then I fixed that problem and my new brother-in-law started giving me loads of shit!! He died a few years later (basically killing himself) and then my brother took over being the family asshole!! I guess you could say that, after he died, my sisters took over!!

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep That ain't what I heard.
Table salt (the white stuff) is part salt, part sand and part glass so, it gets into your blood stream and the glass in it scrapes away at your veins and the blood clots up in there to form a scab to heal that and that's how blood pressure gets screwed up.

[FunkyMonkee]

@BoopBoopBeep Thanks! Ron's got about 36,000, I've got over 62,000.

[FunkyMonkee]

One of you two started a message here with, "No fucking way in hell!!" but, I'll be fucked if I can find it!! I was just told that the site was getting an overhaul in the next 3 hours. Let's hope they fix this shit so I don't have to keep HUNTING for the comments directed to me!! When I click on a comment in my list, I expect to be taken TO THAT comment, not just the page in general and then I have to blow several minutes looking for the comment!! If other sites can take me directly TO a comment, there's NO reason this site can't!!

[BoopBoopBeep]

@FunkyMonkee I would not trust anything on that website about the salt. There's literally none of that that's true, and none of that describes the actual causes for increased BP in a high salt diet, on which there is literally tons of research done.

[Bricealan]

I have to say, completely different. Living here in CA was a lifelong dream, owning my own home, learning to fly, learning to "Jump" (skydiving) Owning a self driving, electric car, scuba diving, learning music, (violin, piano) yoga etc etc etc.

I know with all of that said... and it sounds braggadocio, I know, but I NEVER in my wildest imagination, living in Ohio, thought, that I would ever be able to do those things. Moving here was the best thing that ever happened to me in my life... and I never dreamed of this when 15 or 16...

[sage2021]

My dreams growing up were just like yours. To have a loving husband, family, house, enough money, etc.

But here I sit, as an old woman asking myself how my life could have been better. It just wasn't in the cards for me - ever. And now I am old and it's too late to change anything.
Plus with all of this craziness in America, I just lay low, and strive for a less stressful life.
Good luck to you 🍀

[midnightmoon05]

Not at all. I never plan my life much so at that age, I had no idea what the future would be. Married? divorce? kids? career? nothing lol...

15/16? I was in HS, helping my mom rise my little sister who was 5 or 6. going to school, working in a supermarket... that was my life.

Now, I am living a good life. no complains.

[ohsheeT]

To be honest I forget what I thought LOL but I do know that life changes and life changes every day life changes in a Split Second we could be heading One Direction and the next moment we're headed another Direction it's all the obstacles that come into your life that make you take those different paths and you just have to be prepared for it and go with it or fight it and go against it

[Leapfrog00]

It's not even close. I thought at least spending all that time getting good grades in high school, I'd go to college, but it was too expensive. I worked a few jobs, trying to get by, lived with a narcissistic aunt, last year I was homeless, yeah, I don't see much future!

Last year I started writing a book series, and finished 3 books so far, but becoming a professional writer, that's probably a goal I would never reach. I don't have much luck!

[Simslover92]

Let's see, I am certainly not in the career field I thought I would be in and the pay sucks as well as the job. My love life is just getting started when I thought I would have had a couple of relationships by now and getting married or married with kids by now.

So yeah definitely not what I thought it was going to be at 15/16 years old.

[Billlewis]

The biggest difference, between the life I thought I'd have, versus the one I do have, is that I never would have believed that the key to my happiness is to focus all my energy, all my efforts, resources, etc on pleasing the female. Once I came to the realization that the only reason for my existence is to serve the female -- and oftentimes the superior alpha male who's enjoying sex with her -- it was as if a light came on in my mind, and I suddenly understood everything.

[Andres77]

My life is beyond anything that I could have imagined at that age. I was given the opportunity to live my childhood dreams in my profession, and that’s all I had ever hope for, but then life continued on, and I was able to do more and more and more and some of it was wonderful and some of it was horrible.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

No, it's completely different to what I thought it might be - explain why
living with a relative is a rough road because she doesn't want to help herself.

[msc545]

My life is very different than I expected. I have grown up, and I never expected to have the very intense experiences and the amount of responsibility that I have now. It is boh gratifying and terrifying simultaneously. I cannot imagine my life without it.

[Paris13]

****My Life is Pretty Much What I Wanted and More. Blessings from God. xxoo

[Anonymous]

I planned on being wealthy , married with children, jet setting around the world on business, taking elaborate vacations a few times a year, owning several properties, maybe a boat, having a body like Arnold Schwartzenegger and being basically the go to guy in the family for all things.

I am none of these things.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

I just went with the flow till my engineering.

I have started thinking now. I am late, I know. But I cannot change the past, can I now…😭😁

[runnerboy]

It is for me but I'm only 17 so 15 or 16 was not too long ago. I did loose my virginity which was a big step in my life.

[Sparkie460]

Back then I thought I'd be an auto mechanic for the rest of my life. Due to an injury I had to change career paths and I became an electrician. Other than that I think my life is what I expected.

[exitseven]

I had expected to be an Air Force pilot and maybe an astronaut. I ended up a network engineer. I never expected to be , married and I didn't care if I had kids. I have 3 kids.

[MrCommodore]

Yes its roughly where I wanted to being terms of my key objectives, but maybe not in every way.

[MrCommodore]

@LovingJo you make it sound like your life has been challenging and eventful, would you say for good or bad?

[YourExLover69]

50% yes though I wanted a degree which I graduated but currently I'm not getting a job in the same field. I should be earning far more than my present one

[Mansearching]

Nope. Not at all. I believe it could have gone either way.

[TallAnon]

Pretty much, honestly, not much to explain; Just living life

[jamesgoldman]

Pretty much the same as predicted excluding the numbers by now I wanted a Rolex

[EpicSnail]

Way way way worse. Didn't even have the imagination to picture it getting this bad.

[Anonymous]

From the beginning I'm sure at any cost i don't sacrifice my freedom... so my path is clear and I'm enjoying my freedom.

[LiamJHayden]

At 15? No, I could not imagine losing both parents within the next four years.

[dragoblack]

Pffft no. Never did i think i was going to be a brain damaged hermit with body problems

[Twalli]

I'm doing medical coding which I didn't even know existed when I was in school.

[Anonymous]

No. It's so much better than I imagine it would be.

[SnowedIn]

Absolutely hellllllllll no.

[SnowedIn]

The "why" is a novel... and one that I'm not ready to write.

[Kingofkings1992]

I voted c. I refuse to explain why just to be a rebel

[Anonymous]

Absolutely knew I was going to have s big juucy dong when I grew up and handsome stud muffinator

[CubaPirate]

If I'm honest then it's probably a lot better

[Bklynbadboy12]

My career yes but my love life no

[SawerBrown]

More or less Yes

[DizzyDesii]

Far from it

[LavLavLuv]

No.. not really

[Jamie05rhs]

Hell no.