The
Squamidian Report – Feb. 4 / 12
Issue #506
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The Ontarion
Hi All,
Would you believe I’m finally getting some pain-free use out of my left arm!! Way back about 2 weeks before Christmas I had fallen on the ice and landed on my back, but somehow managed to wrench both shoulders, again. I’ve wrecked them several times over the years. Right shoulder stopped hurting a couple of weeks ago, unless I move it wrong or try to use it in any way what so ever. Now, finally, my left shoulder and arm have stopped throbbing. Still need to be very careful how I move it, and use it. The wrong movement still sends sharp pains out my arm(s), and still causes ugly grinding noises to emanate from the shoulder joint, but, I can now go about my day without having to grit my teeth and endure. One of the issues I was having was playing my guitar. Any of the recordings I’ve done since that fall (all of CD Volume 2) have been quite problematic. Fifteen minutes or so at any given time was about all I could take when trying to hold an instrument or play the instrument. Some of the track recordings were so painful I’d have to give up and try again later. But, things are now getting better. I can now reach my hand all the way out to the tuning heads on my guitar with hardly any teeth gritting and only a small amount of shoulder grinding noises. So, and here’s the really good part, by the time I put the bike back on the road at the end of the month or in early March, I should be able to reach the handle bars without having to get my arms swinging like a pendulum in order to get my hands all the way out to the grips.
Do you remember the radio controlled airplane that Ryan gave me?... the one I crashed into a zillion pieces when I tried to fly it? Well, I had put it all back together and even picked up spare parts for ‘next time’. I had not tried to fly it again because one of the lessons I learned was that Styrofoam is brittle when it is cold, and when you crash a cold, Styrofoam model airplane, it shatters into a heartbreaking pile of pieces. However, I had put the plane back together and have had a chance to taxi it up and down our street a few times. With the roadway nice and dry and relatively clean I can stand at my driveway and run the plane up and down the street for quite a distance. It gives me the opportunity to practice controlling the thing, at least from a steering point of view. It also brings out any father’s who are home that have young kids. They can’t resist. Funny thing when vehicles go by, if it’s a woman driving, she just looks straight ahead and keeps going. If it’s a man driving, he usually rolls down the window and stops to chat so he can ask questions about the plane etc. I guess that’s the difference between men and women, men like fun stuff, woman not so much.
However, all good things must come to an end. We started having really nice weather with sunshine and temperatures above +10 where the Styrofoam is nice and flexible instead of brittle. So, I headed down to the ball park fields and gave flying another try. I’m pretty sure I was within the wind capabilities of the plane, and I did manage to get airborne several times. However, each time ended with a rather bad landing. Damage was minimal and a few minutes of repairing got the plane flyable again, although admittedly incrementally more shabby looking. On what would turn out to be the ‘final’ flight of the afternoon, I lost control and stalled it again with about the same results as the last time it was in a zillion pieces. It is now in a zillion pieces again. I brought it home in a bag. Interestingly, my glued joints from last time all held, it broke at new places. So, I guess I’ll be fitting and gluing it back together. Might as well use as much of the old carcass as I can before I start to crash my replacement parts. That is of course if I can get it back together, if not, I’ll use the new parts. Such is life.
doug
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THE ONTARION REPORT
Hello everyone!
Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day!
I’ve got a beautiful feeling, Spring is coming our way!
Hahahaha…..! Just what is happening with our weather these days? I say it’s just like Doug has said in times gone by, there is no such thing as “Global Warming”! It’s nothing but a big money making hoax perpetrated by political and business big wigs to add to their incredible fortunes. This winter and the strange weather we’ve been having right across Canada is nothing but another one of those funny mild cycles that happen once every couple of decades or so! It just so happens that it has come at a time that coincides with all the hype and BS that the likes of Al Gore and his billionaire cronies have been spreading for their own greedy means! The average citizen doesn’t have a clue whether what they’re preaching is true or not and tends to put too much stock in their supposed knowledge and fact based speeches. Guys like Al Gore were smart enough to see the writing on the wall when it came to environmental fear mongering and took advantage of every gullible uninformed person on this earth. They saw an opportunity to cash in on something huge and they did just that! I think the Nobel people should yank their “Prize” right out of Al Gore’s billion dollar pocket and expose him for the fraud he is! We’ll have many more “normal” winters in the near future and then things will once again turn to a mild winter or two and we’ll all have flashbacks about the days when everybody was fearing that we’d be flooded out when the Polar Ice Cap was supposed to melt way back in the 2010’s to 2012’s! Well guess what, it didn’t happen and it’s not going to happen, not for a few hundred more years! At least I don’t believe it will and neither does Doug and who do you trust more, Al Gore or Doug and Greg? LOL!
Sorry Doug, maybe I’m sticking “our” necks out on this one but if the ice cap does melt by the year 2050, I’ll concede that Al was right and I’ll humbly take back everything I just said!
Last week Carol dropped me a note telling me not to be bragging about our mild snowless weather because I was going to jinx it and we’d suddenly be bashed by huge snow and ice storms which she said were starting as she typed her warning to me! Well Carol, I guess for a brief moment you thought you were right and I had jinxed our mild weather. In fact, you actually had me feeling a tad guilty for causing the little snowstorm you were seeing out your window as you typed. However, deep down in, I had faith that it would melt in short order and we’d be looking at green lawns within a few days and guess what, I was right once again! Not that I’m a know it all but don’t forget, me and Dave MacDonald both ride motorcycles and he’s a retired weather man so ya gotta figure, with that in mind, my predictions might just be a tad more accurate than yours would be by looking out the kitchen window! LOL! I also used to shoot groundhogs when I was a teenager so I had a connection with those little weather predictors as well! Pretty impressive weather resume` eh Carol?
Next time you want to know if it’s going to rain on your birthday or some other important occasion, just drop me an e-mail and I’ll be glad to check with my sources for you!
LOL!
That’s it for this week folks!
Thanks for tuning in and I’ll look forward to talking to you all again next time in The Ontarion Report!
Bye for now.. Greg
PS: Something To Think About>
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
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Have a good one..
the doug
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