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  1. Pride is the never-failing vice of fools - Alexander Pope
  2. But......... if you like how life is going then keep doing the same stuff for the same results. If you feel ‘it ain’t broke - etc.
  3. Guess this is the corollary to: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.........../
  4. 1st off very sorry to hear about your situation. I have 3 fused cervical vertebrae and do understand this arena. Have you looked into intrathecal pain pumps? They are indwelling systems specifically devised for situations like yours and may be a good choice for serious pain management. Others have mentioned physical therapy and I agree here too........ but it seems like a long shot given your description. The goal there would be for you to get enough core strength to better support your spine. Also, the appliances employed to fuse your vertebra are pretty tough once healed. I’ve heard of Harrington rods breaking but those are used in full length spinal fusions typically to stabilize scoliosis as opposed to spinal fusions. As for marijuana give it a try. I’ve heard various responses to mj therapy. Others should hear your story. Getting old is not for sissies. As we age things wear out and erode away. Weird things grow where they shouldn’t and press on things that hurt. All of life’s various bumps take their collective toll. Personally I work diligently at the gym to remain strong and try to keep agile..... and I still ache daily. Just had the shoulder replaced. It had zero cartilage remaining. It rattled, creaked and hurt so bad all the time that it limited my life. It was going to freeze completely if nothing was done. 2 months posted op and my range and motion is near normal. It still hurts but in time that too will end. As for addiction to the pain meds. I’d say use them wisely. They’re working on new drugs all the time. Pain is big business and any breakthrough drug would be worth megabucks.
  5. Yours is a question, and a concern, many more people should consider when dealing with many drugs and interests and activities. Essentially you do not want an external ‘thing’ controlling your life through the coercion of a maniacal dependency. This understanding alone and a commitment to this goal is adequate in my mind, and you clearly do have this understanding in play. Culturally society keeps a fuzzy benchmark for addiction. When a drug renders a person witless and vulnerable becoming addicted to it is considered bad. Thus opioids are relegated to the dark side even if when properly used they clearly have genuine merit. Not so with nicotine. Nicotine does not massively alter behaviors but it surely is addictive and any adult can buy the stuff otc at will and nicotine has absolutely no practical application for humans (other than $$$). Personally I believe you should weigh addiction wariness based upon age and need. Take the popular sleep aid Ambien. The medical community works hard to keep people from becoming dependent on Ambien for sleep. Well, for a 25 year old this makes sense as they should not require nightly sedation to get adequate sleep (see Michael Jackson). But for the elderly who commonly physiologically struggle with sleeplessness why not afford them the drug and any dependency simply to get them solid sleep as they age? As for physicians and ‘pain’ subscriptions they know only what the patients advise. This is how many obtain their recreational pain meds - they lie, and when they run out of gullible docs they turn to other drugs and supply avenues. But it the real key is this question you have posed here. In your case you have a real need and ready access to real relief....... and if this is your only recourse use the stuff and be less concerned about addiction. IMHO opioids have been far too loosely prescribed....... especially with young people. Why? Because young people heal and once healed the pain goes away. So what if they suffer some short term pain? Pain is a valid feeling....... not desirable, but valid. Expect pain in your life. Expect it after surgery. Learn to live with short term pain, yes even short term excruciating pain. It will get better and it will be gone and you will not have any need to unwind, or serve an addiction. As for the unscrupulous pushers intent on profiting from addicting others - execute them just as ruthlessly as they prey upon the lives of others. Drugs can be wondrous when applied properly. It is horrific how subhumans seek to profit from their abuse.
  6. There’s a single Klipschorn on Craigslist in Seattle for $750, just so ya know. Update: There was one for sale there last week. Gone now. Sorry..... just saw this post for the 1st time today. Good luck.
  7. Um...... I don’t pay for Pandora. I tolerate the few ads and their arbitrary ‘shut-downs’. All in all it is just me being lazy as well as cheap. That said Pandora gives a pretty nice mix...... until they start looping the same stuff. Then I change channels til I sicken of that selection. Have friends who subscribe to Pandora and they tell me that Pandora interrupts their music more than they do mine. We had Pandora mix up tunes around Pink Martini and greatly enjoy those works.
  8. Bosco-d-gama

    Yikes!

    Got weary of the Christmas music and searched about for a comfortable genre to enjoy. Settled on hits from 1966 through Pandora. After a bit of time it dawned on me that if this were 1918 we’d be involved in WW1 and I’d prefer listening to tunes from the civil war. YIKES!
  9. Just presume the safe to be a loss. Beware also that some safes will lock down ‘tougher’ if someone tries to breech them incorrectly. So torches, hammers etc may have their downsides. Certainly diligence and power tools will eventually work but with some effort. Too often folks buy safes that are overkill for their purposes w/o considering such dilemmas. Had a neighbor who installed a floor safe that rusted shut because of the moisture in the basement. Upon his demise the family tried to access the thing after many decades of sitting idle. The combination lock worked but the door was fused tight. They had it jack hammered out and got it opened and megabucks later found it to be empty. Saw that many times especially with safe deposit boxes. Too often retold stories embellish wealth realities and all that’s in gramps sd box are old pictures and childhood memories. Unsure about the magnet. It is worth a try. But think about it.......... if a simple magnet could open a safe then thieves would be in hog heaven. The gang locks on safes can get insanely complex. The combination frees up the handle which requires a solid 90 degree turn to crank levers and armatures to free the door from as many as 8 bolt latches. Safes are secure.
  10. The lock should have a singular spot that can be physically accessed to activate the release mechanism. There should be a single location to drill through to access a portal and the manufacturer should be able to assist in identifying this spot usually located adjacent to lock on the front door. They may not want to divulge this as it will allow you info to access all of these safes. This is what a locksmith knows and will likely do for $$$. This is the easiest way to break into a safe. Removing hinges, etc will not work. I worked for Diebold as a locksmith long ago and got exposed to many locked up things from vaults to safes and so forth. They all have their alternate access routes for use when all else fails. Good luck.
  11. Obviously it’s the season of holiday music and we listen to artists we may not otherwise frequent. Johnny Mathis has claimed much fame for his seasonal offerings. Anyhow after hearing one of his songs I decided to investigate the mans history. His youth was steeped in 2 areas, singing and sports and he was serious about both endeavors. Mathis was a high jumper, a really good high jumper. He was so good that he was slated for the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. At under 6 feet tall Mathis was able to leap over 6.5 feet. His high jump rival growing up in San Francisco was the 7 foot tall Bill Russel of later NBA fame. His music career took off just as he was headed to the Olympic training facilities and his immediate success ended his athletic aspirations. Who’d have guessed?
  12. I seriously doubt if either group deployed your logic (right or wrong) in their decisions or their intentions. Bottom line: 😔 Wrong choices do not ever excuse more wrong choices.
  13. I have a son who’s ruined his life with drugs and I know too many families with similar tragedies. Being cavalier with drug analogies is offensive, personally for myself. Also I feel it lightloads drug use/abuse - and - ‘crack’ is among the worst drugs to become involved with. It was an irresponsible name to begin with. I hope that nobody ever has to see their child shriveled and wasted. Every drug zombie is a victim and every dealer is a murderer. Feel free to call me a ‘snowflake’.
  14. I wanna hippopotamus for Christmas......
  15. I had a PS Audio conditioner in-line for awhile. They employ a huge and heavy toroidal coil to even out variances in line currents and they do work and will make a noticeable difference where currents vary. When I got my Accuphase amp it came with a line conditioner built in and I removed the other unit. ‘‘Twas then that I noticed how silent my equipment was when sitting idle. The PS conditioner has a very soft transformer hum that was a permanent part of the background room noise because it was always powered up. Listen for this as you shop for product. I do still own the power conditioner. We use it in our stained glass work for the same reason - everything runs consistently. It will even accommodate short power outages as the transformer acts as one big capacitor.
  16. 10 years ago I stepped into tubes for a short while. The Cary amp was supposed to be capable of performing well with the horns but did not deliver in the lower frequencies. So I began ‘tube rolling’ which got costly in short order. Then things started to burn out. So many tubes died dramatic deaths that I sent the unit in for a ‘look see’ service which found nothing. Disappointed I decided to go high $ and decided that solid state was the more dependable option. After much research I started into Accuphase products eventually settling on an E530 integrated. Really have not looked since but may still venture back into blending the Accuphase pre amp section with tube amplification. Sadly, as others have mentioned, I find the ears less discriminating with age so there’s not much upgrade motivation and this Accuphase is truly amazing by itself......... and it’s a tank. I listen daily for at least 10 hours and the performance has been flawless as well as superior. Still I wished I had the Fisher 500 my parents owned long ago. My sister got that and I doubt that it survived for long under her management. Oh well.
  17. Well, if you consider the front panel to be ‘art’ then the rear panel is required to make the ‘work’ complete. Like the box the toy came in - the whole package should matter. As a side note my son at one time collected the entire set of ‘collectible’ Star Wars Pepsi cans, all unopened and still full of beverage. Rather than redeem them for the promo prize $ of $50 he saved them thinking their value would rise. Last I checked the collection still had not surpassed that initial prize value as many souls had done the same thing. And we learned that nobody wanted or cared about the drink itself. We were advised the drain the cans from the bottom to rid the caustic liquid and preserve the intact ‘pop-top’. So, are pristine CD cases worth more with or w/o a pristine CD? What about n.o.s. CD’s?
  18. Seems like there should be some legal definition of a ‘sale’ price item. It’s obvious that stores will inflate prices then reduce them and call them ‘sale priced’ when in fact they’re charging more than typical. I’ve not seen much in the way of massively reduced prices on any ads this year. Methnx the real deals will occur after the holiday whence retailers envision the final opportunities to clear inventories.
  19. Bosco-d-gama

    Seatbelts!

    Talking with neighbor this morning. She got t-boned a month ago. The car flipped and slid for some distance. Only one door would open. Her and her 90 y/o mom survived with minor injuries. Seatbelts.
  20. Tough combination of ailments. Keep us posted. Nothing else constructive to do in any ICU. Sleep is your best friend for now and I know it’s not easy to accomplish there. You have our collective concerns and best wishes.
  21. Unless he can demonstrate how he saved anyone - outcomes are meaningless (to medicine) is my point. Without that knowledge we can’t repeat or predict similar outcomes. If we did know more clearly what worked we may be able to hone the drugs or the therapy approach and gain as much as possible. It sounds like they did attempt to study the stuff w/o adequate results.....and he did not like that.
  22. Statistics demonstrate results, not testimonials. Real break through treatments consistently improve outcomes. This guy seems to want to dispute rather than prove. Do ALL or MOST of his own patients survive?
  23. Research protocols require experimental designs able to be demonstrative of an outcome. The more a researcher can isolate ‘cause and effect’ the more valid the work and this will be shown in the statistics. Burzynski has failed on all accounts from what I read to validate his drugs or his applications of the drugs. None of his works passes peer review. He seems to be one of the oddballs, at best......... or a complete fraud at worst.
  24. Historically we watched ‘approved’ drugs turn out to have very serious problems. The ‘process’ is set up to validate drugs and treatments and regimens. The cancer ‘process’ now has a fast track whereby more promising treatments can get to sicker pts faster. I have witnessed charlatans dupe desperate patients and their families. That is truly horrific. We see tons of miraculous claims in our holistic markets. Essentially if it sounds spectacular then it had better be spectacular - consistently. Think of the initial cure for tuberculosis. Does western medicine have all the answers - nope. But compared to a century ago we fair pretty nicely.
  25. Too good to be true? If there was a panacea for any type of cancer it would be heralded and applied. And there have been some. Medicine has made great strides in cancer treatments and these are well documented. This does not mean that oncologists are all similarly competent. Unsure about this man personally. I do know there’s no silver bullet for cancer yet.
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