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Morning all. We have a lot of scrub oak in our area, green all year long and drop pollen or sap or acorns, whenever they feel like it. I have 2 ash trees the one in back is heavy with seeds and the one in front is about to shit pollen all over the place. In a few months we will have ash sprouts growing everywhere.

 

thankfully we only have about a month of this crap then you can keep vehicle clean again. i'm not cleaning off decks or anything until it's done though, and by the way good morning in cali

 

Ditto Blue! Hang tough. My dad's a 35-year cancer survivor, my mom is a two-time cancer survivor, and my wife is now in that club too. It can be done. Today's treatments have come a long long way too.

 

now that's positive encouragement! love to hear people beating it

 

it's life. sometimes it's incredible sometimes it sucks ass but we're in it together whether we agree on things or not.

 

At this point, I'm just a little upset over the fact that I THOUGHT things were about to get better.....The 1 to 2 month treatment and recovery for the prostate thingy lingered on for 7 months, and merely transitioned into what will be a year+ ordeal. I'll deal with this.....Just pissed off at the moment. Just the first phase of the emotions that cancer brings. I'm finding out that I'm no different than anyone else....When they tell you that you have cancer, you have an immediate shock, followed quickly by a denial, followed by anger.....where I'm at right now. Not "beat up the dog" angry, just pissed off/bad mood angry. This shall pass. I'm already in the defiant/I'll beat this shit mode. My dad raised me to NEVER wallow in self pity. You won't catch me saying "why me"......Like I said, I'm no different than the other millions of people who have to deal with problems every day. Plan is to channel my anger towards this disease in a positive way.....This crap ain't gonna keep me down.

 

This is my truck back in February when it started here. And this is two weeks ago running the blower at work.

 

woo hoo there you go bud! i can understand some of the feelings. that's how i felt when was diagnosed with diabetes (grandma died from it). i've been fighting this carap for over 10 years now but i'm affraid no matter how hard i've tried next week dr will have me on insulin. all this crap just sucks but don't have time to feelo sorry for myself just move on

 

I'm sorry to hear about this Blue, like others have said keep putting one foot in front of the other. Thoughts and prayers from my wife and myself to you a and your family.

 

Anyone need some fluorescent light bulbs

 

No Susan, but thanks for asking.

 

Have you upgraded to LEDs?

 

yes.... found them on sale, but still one box short They were on sale until last night and I didn't get to ordering more

How're you doing Rob?

 

I'm good, but not napping well this afternoon, so here I am on TW, again.

Do you have to buy whole fixtures or can you get direct replacement bulbs? I've been meaning to look into this, but my current stash of bulbs for in the garage will last me a year or more.

How are you Susan?

 

These are the ones I got - on sale - saved a few $ per box.
TCP LA1050KND6 LED A19 - 60 Watt Equivalent Daylight (5000K) Light Bulb - 6 Pack
by TCP

You can buy just light bulbs or fixtures. The kids bought this http://www.homedepot.com/p/Hampton-Bay-Brushed-Nickel-LED-Oval-Flushmount-DC032LEDA/204490456 when I was out there and you'd have to replace the whole thing. That thing is BRIGHT!!!! They put it on a dimmer and it's great.

Hope you can get some sleep - I know the feeling all too well not sleeping

Other than not sleeping the best, I'm good... Not getting much done but

 

Thanks for the links, I'll have to start researching a bit.

Sorry about the sleep, I take it your neck is still giving you chronic pain?

 

anytime

No, actually the neck is doing much better. Biofreeze has helped tremendously!!!! much better than the stuff I said worked. the biofreeze is 100% better than the other.

 

That is awesome to read! able even.

 

You'll want daylight bulbs for the bright light. Some of the stores down here have some out so you can see the difference and there is a big difference between daylight and soft light and whatever the others are.

 

yes, yes it is!!!!