RowdyRebel

Seeing as how I typically ignore signs posted about what I most likely am carrying concealed somewhere on my person, I tend to try not to do anything to draw unwanted attention to myself or encourage any interaction with unhinged snowflakes that might cause me to have to use what I'm not "supposed" to have on me...so if I'm somewhere masks are required, I'll put one on. If they aren't required, I don't. I have some good ones, too..."Let's pretend this mask is useful"..."safety theatrics"..."false sense of security"..."mandatory mask"..."covid-1984"... Got a good laugh at the hospital, too...got the idea from Denny Hamlin when he won a race and had a big ol' grin printed on his mask. I found some that had about the same color/texture/style beard as I do. So, when we arrived at the hospital, I had a serious-looking bearded face mask on...all of the way up to the room and until the baby popped out. Then, I turned around into the corner (nurses all thought I'd got sick and was about to hurl) and changed masks to a big toothy grin bearded face mask. It's been the talk of the town around the maturnity ward. Even laid the big toothy grin mask on my daughter's face and snapped a picture..."she looks just like her daddy!" Is the caption as I've been sending it out to family & friends. 😂

I've been enjoying my boy...most kids want to snuggle up with a stuffy, but not him. He wants his monster truck. If I'm out mowing, he wants to ride on the tractor with me...and if I'm using the push mower, he's right behind me with his bubble mower. He loves using his wrenches to "fix" his toy trucks, and when it's time to feed the dog, he takes his dump truck in to haul the dog's bowl over to the feed bin, he scoops out the food, and hauls the dog bowl back in the dump truck. And yes, not even 3 yet and he's already been behind the wheel of my trucks driving around the field out back. He does pretty good...definitely his father's son. This baby girl is like her mother...when she decides it's time to do something, it's got to be done NOW. I still can't believe how fast everything happened once the process started. My boy, her water broke at 6 am, mild contractions started hitting around noon, and gradually increased in frequency & strength until he popped out just before 3....about 9 hours total. If I had been on the road, she could've EASILY got herself to the hospital. This one was an hour and a half start-to-finish...and even if she had been in the car, engine running, ready to roll when it all started, she wouldn't have made it to the hospital before things got real. SO glad I was home...would've been bad news if I hadn't been.

So my wife's belly was getting a little bigger as we were anticipating the addition of another limb to the family tree. It was getting close, and I was getting nervous being at work and all...30 minutes past the hospital which is already 30 minutes from the house...and that's IF I'm at the shop. If I was out making my rounds, I could be just about anywhere in about an 80 mile radius. Saturday, my boy helped me mow. Although he TRIED napping on the tractor, I did my best to keep him awake. He was still wound up like the energizer bunny until well after midnight. I'm FINALLY able to crawl into bed about 1/4 to one, but that didn't last long. My wife wakes me up saying her water is breaking. I look at the clock and it's 1:37...it's going to be a long night. So we jump into action...get dressed, get the Suburban loaded, move the boy into his old room (where grandma has been staying since she moved up here until she can find a place of her own) and let her know what was going on. We're on the road by 2:00. Wife stands up in seat, obviously in a lot of pain, and says she's having a contraction. I look at the clock...2:06. Next thing I know, she's doing it again...and it's only 2:08 and we're still (under normal circumstances, we'd still be 20-25 minutes out). Let's just say I put my foot in it a little, and boy will that Suburban RUN! We were pulling into the hospital at 20 after...pull up to the ER entrance, jump out, run in, grab a wheel chair, head back out to get the wife...run her back inside to talk with the girl behind the plexiglass while I go park the truck. I run back inside and have just enough time to shoot a text off to my mom saying "It's time" before a nurse from the Maternity Ward got there (opposite ends of the hospital) to escort us up. Once she saw how fast & strong the contractions were coming, she's RUNNING while pushing the wheelchair, on the phone telling them to "get a table ready". We make it to the Maternity Ward and I see her make the turn into room 254...same room we had my boy in (at 2:54 PM 3 years ago this next Sunday). I look up at the clock and it's 39 after 2. I tell the wife "You've got 15 minutes to squeeze this thing out!" I just thought it'd be cool to have a second kid at 2:54 in room 254. Alas, though, that didn't happen. Baby girl arrived fashionably late at 3:10 AM. Typical. We menfolk are always waiting on a woman in one way or another. Anyway, I'm a proud poppa again. Been stuck here at the hospital with all of this virus crap going around, they're pretty strict about folks coming & going. Boy is hanging out with grandma at the house. I'm getting ready to head home to get him...told him I'm going to need his help for a very important job. Grandma has to work today, so he gets to help me bring momma and his baby sis home. I'm just glad I was home. Doubt her mom would've got her to the hospital in time, and she was in no condition to drive herself. Depending upon what else was going on in the county, an ambulance may not have even got to her in time by the time she realized she'd need one. I think we're done after this one. I'm getting too old for this...😓 I'd upload some pics, but I have to go through & make room for some more attachments...or find someplace to upload them to so I can link. Might be a while, as it's a little hectic around here lately.

Not really. Only bad part about where I live is the laws are written for $#!+cago by corrupt little wannabe tyrants who are continually reelected by fools because they're democrats and fully corrupt. 'Round here, even before concealed carry was "legal", the sheriff's policy was to not care unless you were causing trouble. "Just don't let the state boys catch you" was how they dealt with otherwise law-abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment Rights. I haven't even had to "wait" when I purchased any of my last few guns. Hell, even the courts are reluctant to enforce the ridiculousness that comes from up north. About 15 years ago, some punks pumped gas & drove off about 60 miles northeast from here. Gas station owner grabbed his pistol & gave chase. Back then, the instant he left his property with the loaded & NOT encased gun, he was committing a felony. He caught up to them, stopped them, and held them at gunpoint 'til the cops arrived. He could've been charged with unlawful use of a firearm, aggrevated assault with a firearm, along with a few others. Down here? Nothing. He just had to take a short little BS class over when deadly force is appropriate and when it isn't. Had this happened 300 or so miles further north, he'd still be rotting away under the prison. In this end of the state, the powers that be still seem to be able to differentiate between good people & criminals, and treat them accordingly...not opposite of what would be sensible to do like they do up north.

That's a great way to end up cuffed & stuffed. The fact that it's only a toy doesn't matter...you'll be charged the same as if it were real. You'd be better off just carrying the real one and not drawing undue attention to yourself. If you really wanted to mess with her, could've just leaned out the window & started coughing...but then you'd probably be charged with making a terrorist threat & end up at club gitmo.

Those "poofed" cases are still active, where the patient tested positive, but has neither recovered nor died. And yes, liberals are disgusting.

Which explains perfectly the penchant of the unions for supporting democrats...along with WHY the union membership is an extremely small portion of the work force. People who work hard and earn their keep have no use for the slackers the unions & democrats represent.

Perhaps the members who disagree with the politics of the union ought to vote in leaders more in line with their beliefs? Continually electing the same corrupt leaders while expecting a change in attitude or direction isn't far off from the definition of insanity: repeating the same thing over & over again expecting different results. It just isn't going to happen.

Almost as funny as the pics of Dr. Fü©küp at the ball game without his mask on & sitting in between 2 other people without proper "social distance"...

There have been a ton of narators over the years...been airing since 1984.

Won't be long & I'll be busting out my Dukes of Hazzard DVD's...

When you've got a 2 year old, there's a lot of stupid. They seem to like it. I refuse to have baby shark or anything else annoying like that on when I'm in the house. Luckily, he seems to gravitate towards anything with monster trucks or trains, so it's not too bad.

Looking for something NOT completely stupid to put on the TV since it's 1,000,000 degrees outside with 1,000% humidity...found the original Thomas & Friends on the Roku channel...narrated by George Carlin. Hell, this is the $#!+ I used to watch as a kid...I can deal with this. Never realized George Carlin voiced a kiddy show. I was all of 5 in 1984 when this first aired.

Well, I mean, he IS just practicing...

BP 122/72. My eyes are good, too...Right 20/13, Left 20/13, Both 20/10. Yup...I can read the bottom line on the eye chart with both eyes. Read the next-to-the-bottom line with each single eye. Like I said...pretty sure the doc was trying to be funny.

Pretty sure he was joking...he DID give me another 2 year card. Figure if he was serious about it he would've cut back on the time the card was good for in order to get me in again to take more of my money before I expire. Just thought it was an odd joke for a doctor to be making.

Went in for my DOT physical the other day, and the doc asked me if I had a family physician or primary care doctor. I said "Only you, every other year for my check-up." His response? "Well in that case, you'll be dead soon."

Well, I haven't seen firefighters riding on the back of the truck in a LOOOOONG time...

Now tell, as Paul Harvey used to say, the REST of the story! The flu gets its .1% death rate by assuming the total number of cases, NOT actual lab-confirmed cases. The China Virus death rate is only including confirmed positive tests, as well as unconfirmed-but-presumed deaths. In other words, for the common flu they inflate the denominator. With the kung flu, they limit the denominator while inflating the numerator. Lets see the death rates using the same standards. We won't, because it wouldn't fit the narrative that this is some super-deadly mega-threat to humanity.

Apple: A person with a specific serious health condition and taking the neccessary precautions around them to ensure they don't have issues with that known condition. Orange: Making general concessions to your liberties in order to MAYBE not pass on a disease you almost certainly don't have by wearing a ridiculous mask with questionable effectiveness. Then, when you look at the people who ARE wearing masks, few if any are actually wearing them properly...and they're the most likely to get mad if somebody else isn't wearing one. If it isn't covering both your nose and mouth, AND forming a good seal around your face (whether it's improperly sized, you happen to have a beard, or any other reason), it's ineffective. If you can't stop figiting with it, touching it (cross-contaminating it with anything/everything you've touched) it's doing you more harm than good...because we're told it ISN'T doing anything for the person wearing it. Get the virus onto your mask by touching it after you had your hands all over a contaminated surface and now you're breathing in the virus. Congrats. NOW you're infected! They've said the higher viral load you're exposed to, the more severe the disease hits you, so when all of the virus you would've expelled gets trapped in your mask to be sucked right back into your own lungs, guess who ends up having a severe form of the illness! Your incompetence caused your infection, and your need to virtue-signal turned what would've been a mild/asymptomatic case into a severe one.

Apples & oranges.

The flu hit every year, killing a similar percentage of people. Do you wear a mask every flu season? Hell, just think how "healthy" we all could be if we all just lived inside sterile rooms, never venturing outside, doing all of our work from "home" over the internet with everyone scared of their own shadow thinking it "might" get them sick! After all, if you are never exposed to any germs, bacteria, or viruses, you'll never get sick! ...until one slips through. Then you're dead, because your immune system isn't up to the task at hand.

Big difference between conserving resources to have them available for use in an effort to defeat pure evil in this world vs wannabe tyrants ordering people to throw away their life's work & any ambitions they might have while they burn through their life's savings, unable to work for months on end because of a virus which the vast majority of people who get it won't even realize they had it, a smaller group will have mild symptoms, an even smaller group will have a severe reaction, and an extremely small fraction of a percentage will die. Notice how the media has shifted from their death count over to number of cases? First they got people all worked up over how "deadly" it was...small number of tests given only to the worst-of-the-worst cases, and not surprisingly, many of them died. HOLY SCHNIKES THIS THING IS A KILLER!!!!!! Now, tests are plentiful, and anyone who wants one can get one. They're finding a ton of "new" cases...but not much change in the death totals. The numerator hasn't changed much...but the denominator has risen significantly. So instead of 3/10 people dying, it's 3/1000...and suddenly the narrative is lost. Time Magazine actually explained all this 4 months ago: https://time.com/5798168/coronavirus-mortality-rate/

The W.H.O. is a joke. Their actions and guidance proffered up during this pandemic only proves this simple fact. At this point, if they told me the sky was blue it would require independent verification.

So does he have a pair of X chromosomes, or an XY? Dollars to donuts, he's XY (he has a son, which the ONLY way he could've fathered a male child is if he had a Y chromosome to pass down). SCIENCE tells us he's a male.