@MikeBales My name is also Mike and with the triple bypass I had last year I have a lot of tolerance for decaf coffee, non alcoholic beer, turkey bacon and its cousin turkey sausage.
@ChrisRBarron same after bypass surgery 7 months ago and have not regretted it once. I would say it gets more normal than โeasierโ. I feel like you have to experience all the seasons & all the things you used to do without alcohol. Takes time for others to adjust to your new normal as well.
I dropped out of college and got a job at a ski resort. First lift operator, then lift mechanic, and then I built ski lifts in the summers (for a few years).
Anyway, I'd have to get up in the early ass morning so I could drive up the mountain and get the lifts running so ski patrol could do their avalanche mitigation stuff--which I always wanted to do but I wasn't a good enough skier and I probably should't have been allowed to play with explosives at that stage in my life.
So I'd be up early in the AM. Before listening to Art Bell on the way to work, I'd watch the ABC early AM news while I was getting ready (because I couldn't afford cable).
Anderson Cooper was one of the anchors. They paired him up with this super serious uptight girlboss Anchor.
But Cooper didn't give a fuck. He knew nobody was watching (and he was also a fuck-you-money mega-trustfund kid) so he'd say whatever the fuck he wanted to say.
Cooper was always trolling the girlboss anchor. She was probably an insufferable bitch, and I think the crew joined in on the trolling.
One morning they were covering a probe/rover that had just landed on Mars. They ran the clip, then girlboss presented another story (as anchors do).
Cooper interupted her, held his finger to his earpiece, and said, Sorry Megan (or whatever her name was) but we have a breaking transmission from the Mars rover.
Megan (let's just roll with Megan here) was tapping her ear piece and giving a WTF? look because she didn't hear the producers in the booth.
Then Cooper said, We have video. Let's go live to Mars.
And then they played a clip of Marvin the Martian from Loonytoons.
Cooper busted up laughing, I could hear the crew laughing, I was laughing and rolling on the floor of my dirty apartment, and Megan looked like was about to cry.
Nobody watched that show. I feel like I was the only person in the world who saw that.
Early morning jobs man...
The job of the Supreme Court from 1960 to 2020 was to advance the progressive agenda.
Libs have been out of power for 5 minutes and theyโre screaming hysterically how there need to be consequences.
Go ahead, do it, and then the whole edifice can be torched. Libs have way more to lose on this than they have to gain.