The GRRRRRRRRR Thread

A few words from an old man. When you're young, you think that certain people will be your friend forever -- no matter what. But people change. They go through different stages of life at different times. They get caught up with different issues. Life presents a huge variety of challenges and distractions. The downside is that you will almost always be losing friends. The upside is that you'll almost always be gaining new ones. Don't sweat it.

Now I'm going to drink my prune juice and climb into bed.

My cat Rufio insists upon laying on my chest while I'm asleep with his butthole dangerously close to my mouth. Quacker.

^I think that thread is titled Pizza Flavor Combo thread.


Grrr to work being 68F! Quack it is cold in here!

I have to get up at 5 am tomorrow to drive to Atlanta, pick up some NHRA merch from a warehouse, and drive back to Charlotte. It's going to be a long day.

I hate that feeling you get when you walk out your front door and walk to your car and you see water coming from the garage.
I instantly thought of that episode of The Sopranos, only I was trying to move all our shiz out of the way from getting wet.
Yeah, mawfawkin' hot water heater was leaking from like 5 places saturday as I was leaving house to go watch foosball game with a bunch of friends. Wasn't shiz I could do, except close the gas and water vales, until yesterday.
FYI. If this happens to you:
If you have a gas water heater, call your power company and they will give you a free electric one. If you have an electric one, call your gas company and they will give you a gas one.
So the heater was free, just had to pay $250 for electrical work and $375 for plumbing work (and power company has a contractor they use who changed it out, took the old one from my house, and arranged the electrical work to be done). The good this is, if it happens again 20 years from now and I end up renting this house out, I can swap back to gas and the gas line will already be there so it will be even cheaper.

I researched tankless water heaters and they are not worth the investment. $1200 - $400 discount + $1200 for installation. The savings would take 20 years to make up for the extra cost and that is essentially the predicted life of the unit. I couldn't do it anyway, because it has to be installed outside the house and that side of the house is on the neighbor's property line.

Oh no man I wish you a speedy recovery. Good luck with everything.

Good Luck JJ!

I hope you will be okay and I'm sorry you will have to miss Odd Future

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it! I made sure I brought my iPad to do just that ITM.

Who says I'm skipping Odd Future kicker? I might have to rip out my IV and escape this hospital like greaser, Dallas Winston. I never miss a rumble!

Doubt I'll be leaving this bed until Friday at the earliest though. Currently riding the morphine train so it's not so terrible.

Get well soon JJ but in the meantime enjoy the morphine and not pooping

Jones! I just saw this - crashed my Tuesday. I really, really hope it's nothing serious and that you're doing better from whatever happened. I'll be thinking about you.

You guys are too kind. Thanks again for the words of encouragement! Definitely made my day easier.

Your posting from the hospital. Hard core.

My little 18-year old brother, my best friend in the entire world and the person I love more than absolutely anyone else in the world, has cancer. I just found out this afternoon, and it still feels surreal to say/type out.

They're doing surgery to take out one of his lymph nodes tomorrow morning to run tests to see if it's gotten into his bone marrow, so we'll know exactly what kind of cancer it is on Monday (the test results take 48 hours). They think it's either lymphoma or (if it has gotten into his bone marrow) leukemia.

This is the worst day of my life.