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Post by Chris Johnson on May 19, 2015 15:51:22 GMT -5
Do you smoke/drink?
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Post by iamjumbo on May 20, 2015 6:25:37 GMT -5
Dumbest stunt you pulled as a kid? hell, that would take ten pages. i did so much that i never should have survived. one of the dumbest things was using a bicycle inner tube in a tree as a slingshot. we would play war that way. that was artillery. it would throw a rock a couple hundred yards. one time, my brother was attacking, and i yelled, "watch out mikey" just in time for him to look up and get smashed in the head. he had to get eight stitches. one time, i took out a neighbor's kitchen window a hundred yards away, and the rock landed on the kitchen table where she was drinking coffee. she wasn't pleased |
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Post by Prime on May 20, 2015 6:27:30 GMT -5
^Is it wrong that I laughed out loud at those rock stories?
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Post by iamjumbo on May 20, 2015 6:34:08 GMT -5
for thirty years, i drank a twelve pack or better every day. weekends would be a case or so, usually counting what i drank at the bar. when i had the first back surgery, i was in the hospital for six days, and got two beers for lunch, and two for dinner, doctor's orders, because he didn't want me to just stop and have the surgery. it really wouldn't have mattered. the night before 9/11, hazel was coming home the next day from one of her little sojourns to the pokey. i drank my four 40ounce cobras. i didn't drink another beer until new year's eve 2004, when i drank nine beers at my brother's. i haven't had a beer since. there have been many times that i've thought about how good a beer would be, but, i've got over 3700 days without a beer, and i don't want to start counting again. unfortunately, i've been smoking since i was sixteen. that is coming to an end though. last week, when i went to the doctor to refill my prescriptions, i decided that i should have a chest xray, since it had been two years. the doctor couldn't see anything wrong with the xray other than the copd. but, the radiologist called him and told him that, comparing this one with the one from two years ago, there was a change. so, the doctor sent me for a cat scan. i have a mass in my lung that is probably cancer. they won't know until they do a biopsy. i go to see the pulmonary specialist this afternoon. i bought a blu fake cigarette yesterday. when the cigarettes and tobacco that i have are gone, i won't buy any more. that will be about three or four more days, so i can wean myself off it |
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Post by iamjumbo on May 20, 2015 6:35:49 GMT -5
^Is it wrong that I laughed out loud at those rock stories? not at all. they are funny. they just weren't so humorous at the time. i got my ass blistered both times |
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Post by Prime on May 20, 2015 6:36:40 GMT -5
I'm proud of you for stopping all that drinking. Damn, a case a day?
You can maybe try nicorette gum.
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Post by iamjumbo on May 20, 2015 7:48:54 GMT -5
I'm proud of you for stopping all that drinking. Damn, a case a day? You can maybe try nicorette gum. naw, a 12 pack a day during the week. i'd get a 12 pack on the way home from work, and finish it at 8pm, when i'd go to bed. i hated having to go to work with a hangover, and avoided it as much as possible. i'd start at ten sunday morning, and quit by six. i hope to just quit it. i quit doing drugs and drinking, the cigarettes are a bit tougher, but, this episode brings a bit of reality home, and that should be enough incentive, even if it turns out that it's not cancer |
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Post by Prime on May 20, 2015 9:33:53 GMT -5
I couldn't even do 12 bottles of water or soda. That's a lot of liquid.
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Post by iamjumbo on May 20, 2015 9:53:10 GMT -5
I couldn't even do 12 bottles of water or soda. That's a lot of liquid. hell, back in my glory days, i'd do the six pack trip whenever anyone wanted to lose twenty bucks. you have to drink a six pack in less than ten minutes, and stay sitting on the barstool for half an hour. you have to drink at least a glass of beer while you're waiting for the half hour to end. after the half hour, you can go piss. the trick is to drink four in five minutes, so you can take five minutes to drink the other two. i'd never do it for less than twenty bucks |
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Post by xea989 on May 20, 2015 10:59:46 GMT -5
I could never hold that much liquor either.
What's your favorite travel spot?
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Post by iamjumbo on May 20, 2015 11:08:05 GMT -5
I could never hold that much liquor either. What's your favorite travel spot? a big one. along the west coast north of santa rosa, california. eureka all the way up to british columbia |
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Post by Prime on May 21, 2015 5:40:57 GMT -5
Do you write for fun?
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Post by xea989 on May 21, 2015 5:41:06 GMT -5
What's your current drive?
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Post by iamjumbo on May 21, 2015 6:27:57 GMT -5
i used to. i always wanted to write an autobiography, but, they would probably put it in the science fiction section. most of my life would not be believable to most people. so, i gave up that idea. i spend most of my time writing, on forums, etc. debate is my favorite past time. |
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Post by iamjumbo on May 21, 2015 6:32:09 GMT -5
What's your current drive? i don't know if i understand the question as asked, but, i will assume that, by drive, you are referring to obsession. since i have been back here, ten years, and before that since it is the main reason i came back here, i have wanted to go to the grand ol' opry, go to gatlinburg, and go camping in the smokies, and going to the derby. i haven't been able to. now, since last week, my current drive is to stay alive long enough to do them |
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