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Yeah @kat What he said.

Oh I don't know any details on this but you're right- don't walk - run - away fast and don't look back! 🫣 You're going to find someone awesome, soon, I know it! Hang in there hun you're an awesome person and you deserve to be happy! Don't sell yourself short ❤️🤠👍

My son turned 17 today. 364 days until he can finally come live with me. Happy Birthday, son! Hang in there, won't be long, now! 🤠👍

~~~~~ Yeah, I was checking into this. There seems to be a server error. Not sure if it's a data center thing or weather related, but I'll see what I can do.

It was so awesome to see Tron & C.J., along with a mess o' my wonderful friends at my Birthday gathering last Friday (the 7th). I can't ignore Tron for being her awesome (and sneaky) self and being a living example of the phrase "love is a verb." Tron, you are a very bright light in a very dark (not in a fun way) world. I can't thank you enough. ❤️

I agree. I don't like being tied to possessions.

Less is more sometimes.

I am definitely going to have to move closer to work because the drive killed me. I'm excited for the stock options, though!!

Thinking I'd really like to visit the D somehow, on my upcoming trip to Hell, I mean, Indiana, this coming week/weekend. Unfortunately, I don't think I can afford to. I have to keep my trip short due to the responsibilities of owning a ranch, and the fact that we can't depend on other people to do things properly. However, if somehow we can afford the gas and time, I will make every effort to head that way! Not very often I get East of the Mississippi, so if I can visit Detroit I'd sure love to. Oh well, we'll see!

Best of luck to you! You got this! 🤠👍

Job starts tomorrow. My nerves are on high alert.

My friend since age 4 and I want to go see Masters of The Universe. Nostalgia.

My degree came in the mail today. It really helped my mood improve.

So I should have posted this before I left so instead of what I'm about to do I'll just go over what I just did - The wife and I just officially hiked to the summit of Pike's Peak this last week! Wednesday-Friday to be specific. Took 3 days total, 2 going up and 1 going down. 13 miles one way, 26 miles round trip. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g33537-d12713610-Reviews-Barr_Trail_to_Pikes_Peak-Manitou_Springs_El_Paso_County_Colorado.html It kicked our asses though, that's for sure! Not in the shape we used to be. Definitely want to tackle more, so we're starting to go for more hikes, and work our way back up to where we were just 10 years ago. Getting old sucks, but what sucks even worse? Getting passed going uphill to Pike's Peak, by 70 & 80 year olds. Seriously, I lost count of how many, obviously 65+ year olds actually passed us like we weren't even moving, on the way up the mountain. That's how I wanna be when (if) I get that age!

Maybe go to Planet Fuck This, I mean Planet Fitness. Oops. Need coffee.

I'm free! I'm done. I'm done. Masters degree complete✅️ 20 year goal but who's counting. Also, glad I got all my work in before this latest cyber attack on canvas.

New hair!!!

I'm about to go remind my cat, for the billionth time, that just because I happen to be on vacation and home right now, that Doesn't mean he's getting fed 600 times a day.

The older I get the less I can tolerate alcohol. Honestly I don't even drink anymore for this exact reason. Can't handle the hangovers anymore. Not worth it at all. I don't even remember the last time I had a sip of alcohol but it's been years! Smoke weed every day though 🤠👍

Feels like I fell off the face of the Earth for a couple of days there. But it felt good to see my father Friday. It feels so surreal seeing how I am just like him, not having grown up around him. But it's nice to know where I get so many of my traits from. Turns out, he was the party person in my parents relationship. And at 80, he still doesn't know how to slow down. Feels like I'm looking at where I'm headed in the future me...😆

Warning***I look like the product of if an elf and a cabbage patch doll had a threesome with Cupid. Still fun times. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18KYuAaBSG/

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Watching my cat, bat a clothes hanger down the hall 🤣

Shit sleeps ? I thought it all it did was stink .

Thinking about how many times it'll take for a person to land this insult correctly. I don't think it gives the sting one would hope for💀💀

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Something ? 😇

~~~~~ That's a straight up YIKES moment of imagery there. Also, regarding images, see if it is trying to upload as an attachment or being added to a saved album. The attachments have a limit max storage limit. The albums currently do not.

I did it. I rented a place, in my old building to be closer to work.

About to drink more from this massive cup of coffee.

As much as I hate to actually admit this - I actually enjoyed my trip to Hell (Indiana). I stayed away from the bad parts (Porter County, Lake County, Chicagoland to be specific) and stuck to the only area in Indiana I actually like (Culver, Bass Lake area) and you know, I had a really good time! I took my son camping and we spent a few days just chilling at the beaches (both Culver and Bass Lake have lakes and beaches) and I timed my trip so we could attend both towns' annual festivals. They had car shows at both festivals, but the Bass Lake car show was far superior. My son absolutely loves cars, so I'm pretty sure his face was sore for a week. He was smiling so hard all day; especially at the end of the car show when they all took off one by one, doing burnouts and what-not, that kid was grinning ear-to-ear! 🤣 I managed to spend some time with my parents and mend some of the broken ties we've had over the years. Did a little yard work, cleaned the roof and gutters since pops is getting a little too old to be up on a ladder. It was good for the wife, as well, as she only ever saw Indiana in the wintertime, I wanted her to see it in the summer when it's actually nice. One thing we both hated was the humidity. God almighty was it humid. It seemed like we were in a sauna from the moment we crossed the Kansas state line, all the way to Indiana, and didn't get a bit of reprieve until we crossed back into Colorado 2 weeks later 🤣 We have definitely become acclimated to dry, arid climate. Idk how people tolerate that kind of humidity, that is insane. Especially since we just came back from a 3 week trip to Arizona where it was 118 degrees but tolerable because it was so dry. I'm sad that I didn't get to make it to Detroit, but I'm sure it'll happen someday soon. It would be cool if I could time it for an event of sorts and have some sort of plan rather than just showing up and winging it. Maybe if there's ever another "gathering" or reunion of sorts, I could plan accordingly, that would be awesome! All in all it was a great trip, though. Got to spend much needed time with my son. Oh, and I almost forgot the best part! I passed TWO milestones with my son this trip, as I got to teach him how to shave AND how to drive! That's honestly why I had to make this trip. My parents are doing a fine job raising my son (after they went behind my back and stole him from me by lying to the court telling them they didn't know my whereabouts, and adopting him (this is a whole 'nother story) ) But they are letting him down, in many ways. I could go on about this all day but they are in their 70s and have acted like they were in their 80s since they were in their 50s (if that makes any sense) but they have "I'm too old for that" excuses for days . . . Which, apparently includes teaching him how to shave, how to drive, you know, simple everyday things a young man needs to learn to survive? Yeah, none of that. He's being homeschooled which would be great, but for whatever reason the online homeschooling he's doing doesn't allow you to "work ahead" so he's still going to be a "Senior in High School" when he turns 18. He misses public school for the socialization aspect and I totally understand where he's coming from as I grew up in that house, too, and they live in the country so it's not exactly easy to just go to your friend's house when you're at minimum 3 miles away from town. Hence why they don't want him getting a driver's license and hadn't taught him how to drive, yet. He will be 17 next month. When I was a kid if you didn't have your DL on/around your 16th birthday, you were a "dork" 🤣🤷 At any rate, they are the stay at home, never leave except to go buy groceries and drag my son off to church on Sundays (which he hates btw but can't tell them that or they'll probably stick him in a boys school or something) and that's it. My parents have no friends aside from my ass-kissing sister that they go see every once in a while. So in turn my son is stuck in that house on the computer 24/7 with no friends to hang out with in-person and nothing to do besides games and schoolwork. This is why the wife and I decided it would be best to take him camping while we were there and we were right, he had a really good time and it did wonders for our relationship. I told him when he turns 18 he can withdraw himself from his online "homeschooling" and move in with me here in Colorado, on my 80 acre ranch w 3bed 2bath home with a bedroom ready and waiting for him, and he can enroll himself in the public High School out here. It's a ranch community type school, it has very high ratings, excellent curriculum, no drug problems like the schools in Colorado Springs, and it's all new and very nice. He could get to meet some of the local kids from our community and make friends, and graduate like a normal kid. I told him all of that and his face lit up. He's super excited to come live with his dad where he belongs. I only wish I could make it happen sooner. I will never forgive my parents for what they did. If only I had the money for an attorney, and the heart to possibly throw my parents under the bus for committing what is essentially fraud by lying to the court to get custody of my son. . . I digress. . . Anyway, I'm glad I made that trip. My next plan is to go back to visit for Thanksgiving, and hopefully, somehow, convince my parents to let him stay with me in CO until Christmas. Oh, did I forget to mention they have never, not once in the 11 years I have owned this ranch, come to visit me OR allow my son to come visit me? Yeah. . .

~~~~~ Evanescence!!! OMG! Enjoy every minute.

We finally went to the beach today!

Mostly, we're not sure if we're going to keep it and Snowbird to AZ in the Winter and come back to CO for the heat of the summer, but eventually I think we will live in AZ full time. For now the property in CO is always going up in value so the longer we hold onto it, the more it'll be worth, if we ever choose to sell. For now we have the option to stay at her cousin's and an option to buy a chunk of the 250 acres they bought. Our ranch in CO also needs a new well - a huge investment - so we're trying to decide if we want to fix the well at a cost of 50-100k, or just buy more land from her cousin. Either way will be good, though! Pretty much can't go wrong buying land, these days. Well, depending on the area of course, but out here, land just keeps going up in price, never down , so there's that.. Also it will take years to move our ranch, if we choose to move it all. I figure at least 3 or 4 of the biggest Penske truck loads, and that's conservative and if we broke everything down into pieces and packed the trucks like Tetris 🤣

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Being old is fine, but being old and feeling old, sucks big time.

I remember when my goal weight was "Buffalo Bill would kidnap me size" and now that I am I'm wishing for normal psychopath would kidnap me size. Progress not perfection.

Thank you.

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~~~~~ Today is much better. Nicer outside. Functionality returning, slowly, but surely...

I do at least really like my professor she's awesome and running for office in her town somewhere in New York. She just published a book on homelessness. She's smart as hell and real, no bs, no sugar coating, and also hilarious.

~~~~~ Girl Scout Cookie time. Would you like me to get you a couple of boxes. Makes things better.

omg i'm late. Happy birthday! thanks for everything you do

~~~~~ I love it!!!

I am thinking about getting a room for awhile for real.

I know yesterday I saw it was supposed to be clear this week but later in the day it said snow all week, now it's probably another exploding tree. I'm over this cold shit. First day it's warm I'm sleeping outside. I'm never going in the house this spring and summer, I'm going to live outside lol.

About to chauffeur to Rochester Hills.

What in the World happened. Made some time for myself to have some fun on Saturday. Sunday froze everything and services went wonky as the Wind caused outages and a weather disaster in the fur baby zone. Spent most of Monday trying not to freeze to death while repairing a roofing cover on the Hutch. The rest of the Shelter Zone is hit, but it will have to wait until the World thaws out. All the damage is literally frozen in place. 🤷‍♂️

Welp, one more year and she's 30. Today is her 29th. It's so crazy to grasp. I'm very proud of her and her brother.

~~~~~ I'm not sure if you got the wrong idea from my suggestions, but I have no intention of changing the members area of this forum which is why I spent so much time trying to find software that will keep the features we are used to. We are going to lose this current format regardless of what is or is not done. Members here have already created cliques, blocked other members and only communicate with members they "like". The SSL is because at least 5 members create and currently sell their goods in other locations. So why can't their own "community" back them instead? DGN got a ban against it a little over a decade ago because the site was promoting seller sites without permission. I do not intend to make the same mistake in any shape form or fashion. I keep hearing about people wanting to breathe life back into things, well, it definitely has to start somewhere regardless of if it's something that stands the test of time or not. I'm only interested in self-hosting which is why I test out software packages to determine if it is a fit or not. Unfortunately, that is a time consuming process to test everything it has to offer, so I don't enter into something like that lightly. My goal is to create an environment that people will want to hang around in without compromising what we stand for.