Darth Yoda Posted October 1, 2010 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Posted October 1, 2010 Tried rubber snakes placed in obvious places?
Shamu Posted October 1, 2010 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Author Posted October 1, 2010 Darth Yoda Tried rubber snakes placed in obvious places? Have actually tried rubber snakes to scare birds from my ripening cherry tree. Snakes lost. It's an amazing sight. Birds know exactly when cherries are ripe for picking. They swarm the tree and strip it bare or damage what's left behind. Large cheese cloth cover works best. With a raccoon if it's not the right type of snake I think the raccoon might just look at the snake as free food. Raccoons are tough and smart. Sometime when feeling better I will have to tell the true story of a pet wild raccoon, an ice cream cone and the family pet cat. I will only say this for now........ the cat lost. I am making way to many typos in my posts and spend a lot of time on corrections. Must be the damn concussion.
2_MANY_BEERS Posted October 1, 2010 Member ID: 96 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 108 Topic Count: 1049 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 8817 Content Per Day: 1.53 Reputation: 3309 Achievement Points: 62219 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 19 Birthday: 06/30/1954 Device: Windows Posted October 1, 2010 Sorry to hear the racoons kicked your ass. If you would of called me I would of rifle naded them out of there. You wouldn't have a house no more though. Hope ya get better man.
killgirl Posted October 2, 2010 Member ID: 687 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 10 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 442 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 17 Achievement Points: 2604 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/03/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 24, 2019 Birthday: 02/21/1970 Posted October 2, 2010 Awww. what happened to the family cat?
Shamu Posted October 2, 2010 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Author Posted October 2, 2010 killgirl Awww. what happened to the family cat? Everything wound up fine just a story I will tell eventually. Tried doing it here but I am making too many typos...... the concusison I think or old age really does have me in it's grips. Will try again another time.
tsw 8.5 Posted October 2, 2010 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 144 Topic Count: 538 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 17596 Content Per Day: 3.11 Reputation: 42684 Achievement Points: 152322 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 692 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Posted October 2, 2010 typos thats getting old and being a true idiot .that is right you might not be in the clan but you fit right in ..hope you feel better soon. Awards
Shamu Posted October 3, 2010 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Author Posted October 3, 2010 tsw 8.5 typos thats getting old and being a true idiot .that is right you might not be in the clan but you fit right in ..hope you feel better soon. Kidding aside I never knew the impact a concussion could have until now. I hate making typing or spelling errors because I believe your grammatical presentation is a direct reflection on you as an individual. We tend to slaughter the English language without even trying let alone with a concussion. If we did not have spell check god only knows what my posts would be like. I used to box and play tackle football, with and without pads, and have been knocked silly few times in my years but never experienced anything like this. When someone now tells me they have a concussion I will have significantly more sympathy than I would have before my own current experience. I can however tell I am getting better. When I stand up I only have to stand still for a minute or so before the room stops spinning. In bed, when rolling side to side, I have to hang on for fearing of falling out until the dizziness subsides. All of which I can see improving daily. I was also told by the Docs to expect much of this. Certainly an odd experience for anyone who has not personally experienced it before. Trust me, words alone cannot define it.
Shamu Posted October 6, 2010 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Author Posted October 6, 2010 Okay, the Coon vs The Cat story. When I was a young teen I used to spend my summers at a home my parents were building in the Pocono Mtns. of PA. I was only 13 or so and on my own during the week. My parents came up on weekends to work on the house. When not eating pre-prepared food my Mom had made I would often go to a local Bar / Restaurant for some Italian food using money I had earned from doing odd jobs for neighbors. I was quite good and sawing and splitting wood. No chainsaws then, just a good old buck saw, sledge and wedges. I never got an allowance, always earned my money and was allowed to spend what I earned. Anyway Joe and Delores ran the restaurant and sort of welcomed me into their family. They also had two kids younger than me and the family Tomcat as a pet....if you could even call it a pet. Basically it just lived there. Some evenings after they closed the store we would sit out back and Delores would get us ice cream cones. Well, there was also a raccoon who had become domesticated and would come over to us and beg for food. Needless to say he found us as easy pickings. The restaurant always had something to be offered from leftovers. One evening Delores decided to give the raccoon her ice cream cone to see what he would do. Well that raccoon took that Ice cream cone and sat there holding it like the rest of us and thoroughly enjoying himself. Looked like he knew just what to do with an ice cream cone. All is well until the old Tomcat comes on the scene. I don't know what got into that cats mind, jealousy maybe, but he came up behind the raccoon and took a swipe at it with his front paws. Well that raccoon turned, growled, dropped the ice cream cone and chased after the cat. Old Tomcat thought he was smart and ran up the nearest tree, a place of safety I suspect he thought. Well he was wrong. That raccoon started right up the tree after him. Slower than the cat but making steady progress. By now all us humans were carrying on trying to discourage the raccoon from pursuing the cat. The raccoon obviously had no command of the English language and continued his pursuit of the cat. Up the tree they went, my guess about twenty feet before the cat started out on a branch. No matter the raccoon continued pursuit. Soon they are close and both making noise, the raccoon a growling sound and the cat hissing. Well that raccoon continued closing on the cat until the cat fell out of the tree and beat it for parts unknown. The raccoon at this time figured he had made his point to the cat, came back down the tree and resumed eating the ice cream cone which was now just lying melted on the ground. The raccoon ambled off when finished and needless to say that event has been retold many times. Both cat and coon showed up on other days but if the coon was there first you would not see the cat. If the cat was there first the raccoon would still come and the cat would leave. I am sure the cat felt the raccoon did not follow the rules and never should have been able to climb that tree. After I got older and began hunting with Joe it was always a story that had to be told at the hunting camps we visited. Always worth a few laughs no matter how often told. What's missing here is hearing Joe tell the story. He was Italian, emotional, and not in full command of the English language. Add to it the expressionism of the Italian people and you can only imagine the laughs it got. Joe himself would have tears in his eyes from laughing before he was done telling. Anyway, one of my cherished childhood memories.
Unchileno Posted October 6, 2010 Member ID: 101 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 110 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 8139 Content Per Day: 1.41 Reputation: 6768 Achievement Points: 61591 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: Android Posted October 6, 2010 wow...hope you feel better.. Awards
Shamu Posted October 6, 2010 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Author Posted October 6, 2010 UnChileno wow...hope you feel better.. Thank's to all the XI members and guests who have expressed their concern both here and in game. The brace is an annoyance and uncomfortable to wear when gaming. My head is pretty good except for occaissional battles with headaches that I was told to expect. I am making much fewer typos than before and take that as a good sign also. Wed. I will be scheduling my follow-up visits with Neurologists and Orthopedic Drs. Until those visits and probable cat scans not much new will be learned. Bottom line is I see improvement, I am already trying to figure out how to cheat with the brace and how I can sneak out of the house without wifey finding out....LOL. The fear pf paralysis has so far kept me on the straight and narrow path. The problem is cheating with the brace because you think you are better when you may not be as good as you feel. Even being a bit of a post whore helps pass time. This is being typed at 3:11 AM because staying in bed was very uncomfortable tonight. Seems if I get up and about a bit at night my back relaxes a bit and I can head back to bed.
Mazdarati Posted October 6, 2010 Member ID: 173 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1406 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 787 Achievement Points: 10075 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 02/08/1962 Device: Windows Posted October 6, 2010 Take care of yourself Shamu, hope you get better soon Mazdarati ~ Awards
pwrcrzy52 Posted October 6, 2010 Member ID: 103 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 698 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 3300 Content Per Day: 0.57 Reputation: 1604 Achievement Points: 25694 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 31, 2024 Birthday: 07/10/1952 Device: Windows Posted October 6, 2010 Wow sorry about your back and head get well soon . I'll see you in game ,and maybe go easy on you "NOT" LOL Awards
deerejon Posted October 6, 2010 Member ID: 842 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 62 Topic Count: 278 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3715 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 3153 Achievement Points: 28474 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 12/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 10 hours ago Birthday: 05/04/1965 Device: Windows Posted October 6, 2010 Shamu...Sorry to hear about the back...thats rough.....you gotta learn that we DO NOT bounce well anymore after a certian age....lol... I was challenged to a foot race by my daughter and fell and tore a pectoral muscle....i do not bounce well either.... Get better fast buddy.... DJ Awards
Shamu Posted October 27, 2010 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Author Posted October 27, 2010 First I want to thank all who have inquired about my well being while in game. It really shows the respect and courtesy XI members show to a guest. Rather than trying to talk over the game noises and bore those who don't want to listen I thought I would post an update. First my house is under repair to include significant modernization. I am closing in the fireplace and having a nice wood burning stove installed. Much more efficient and I can still enjoy the fire. The "chase, which surrounds the fireplace flue and that the raccoons chewed through to get in my house has all been replaced. In tearing down the old wood two more dead raccoons were found inside the chase bringing the total to 6 dead, one live trapped and released. The dead ones in the chase had been shot by my son but made it back to the hole. Take my word for it, a .22 is not the best to kill a coon. As for myself I am improving. Still get dizzy and have to watch my balance especially when changing from one position to another. Neurologist says all looks to be progressing normally and time should heal everything. Just don't know how much time it will take. Cat scans of my brain look good...and yes there is brain matter in there. Gaming still bothers me. I can get dizzy or nauseous if I play too long. Again Doc says this is not abnormal. It's caused by the screen motion and concentration on objects that may or may not be moving. No harm done playing just inconvenient. He also tells me not to go see any 3 D type movies for awhile. Says they can really trigger nausea and dizziness. My back is an issue...... it hurts. Just went to the Osteopath and he also says it is a matter of time. I have not taken many pain meds by personal choice except for bedtime to help me sleep. Sleep only lasts at the most 4 hrs. before back hurts to much to stay in bed. When up and about there is little problem. My recliner is a life saver for napping. He did write a prescription for Celebrex which I have taken for the first time this evening. Other than that it's Tylenol only at bedtime. I still have some Percoset but do not take them, drugs are not my thing if I can avoid them. Tried using a leaf blower the other day, not a good idea. Also hurt my back getting up off the cat scan table, that magnified the pain for a few days. I have a prescription for PT and will be looking into that this week. That's about it. Everything is going as well as can be expected and hopefully time and PT will take care of things. Again, thanks to all who have asked.
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