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    Happy New Year to all you Insane Addicts. Oh! And to those of you who think you are normal too!
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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    Thanks. 2 hours from here at Jack's Place. (Fireworks are going off in the distance as I type)

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    One of my dogs is afraid of fireworks. She's already in the closet in our bedroom...
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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    - -- The Buddha

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    Happy New Year to all you Insane Addicts. Oh! And to those of you who think you are normal too!
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    You know you're getting old when you're on a computer chatroom at midnight rather than somewhere else.

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    New Years....that is when my brain starts doing weird shit with dates. Not simple shit like dating stuff 2018 in 2019, but dating things like June 14, 2014, when it is January 21, 2019. Have no idea why that happens. I guess because I never really know the date to begin with. Anyway, Happy New Years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    You know you're getting old when you're on a computer chatroom at midnight rather than somewhere else.
    OH, the irony.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    New Years....that is when my brain starts doing weird shit with dates. Not simple shit like dating stuff 2018 in 2019, but dating things like June 14, 2014, when it is January 21, 2019. Have no idea why that happens. I guess because I never really know the date to begin with. Anyway, Happy New Years
    This is what happens when you are retired. Dates no longer have any meaning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    This is what happens when you are retired. Dates no longer have any meaning.
    So you admit that you can't get a date; because they have no meaning to you.

    ED a problem??
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    (shaking head)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    (shaking head)
    I KNEW YOU WERE JUST A BOBBLE HEAD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
    I KNEW YOU WERE JUST A BOBBLE HEAD.

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    He must not have known that he was just a bobble head and now that I "let the cat out of the bag, so to speak, he's groaning in misery.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    One of my dogs is afraid of fireworks. She's already in the closet in our bedroom...
    Yeah, I've never had a pet that enjoyed Independence Day and New Year's. The herd leader of the original pygmy goats that I had as a kid hated being cooped-up in the barn (we didn't lock them in, so they came and went at their discretion). He would only go in there to eat, or when the weather was bad enough that he couldn't escape it by being under the trees or the back porch. He also would go in the barn to hide from the fireworks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    One of my dogs is afraid of fireworks. She's already in the closet in our bedroom...
    That's pretty normal. Whether it's just because of their hearing, or an instinct to take cover from such phenomenon, I don't know. Some have the issue with thunderstorms in the same way. I live on a lake, and certain neighbors use any holiday excuse, to shoot a few off over the lake. They even did it on Labor Day. They bug me, so I can only imagine how a dog must feel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    One of my dogs is afraid of fireworks. She's already in the closet in our bedroom...
    Give CBD oil a try ...it really helped our pups with the fireworks/storm anxieties....as well as some of the age related "woes"...**

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