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I just made one of my better pots of turkey sausage gumbo. 

And Tday turkey was great @proninja. Dry-brined and quartered is probably going to be my new go to. A perfectly roasted fresh bird is a beautiful thing.Also, starting the breast quarters early was a great tip. 

 
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Dalai Lama‏Verified account @DalaiLama

What is important is not so much how long you live as whether you live a meaningful life. This doesn’t mean accumulating money and fame, but being of service to your fellow human beings. It means helping others if you can, but even if you can’t do that, at least not harming them.

2:31 AM - 24 Nov 2017

 
RC94 said:
Yes, and he didn't think it was an emergency and he said it's not broken, but to be safe get x-rays if I want, which I will do if it doesn't get a little better by Monday.  I saw him yesterday.
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You dead yet?

 
I did about eight hours of snowshoeing today, which is approximately eight more hours than any reasonable person should do (sorry for the math, @General Malaise).  The good news was that I was out with seven members of SAR (and three other normal people), so when I keeled over and died my family could have had a quick body recovery.

 
kevzilla said:
It was 75 here today; many of us were no-shoeing.
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We have these things called "mountains" here.  Some of them are big, and when you go up them, it gets cold and even snowy.  I recommend viewing them from a distance instead.

 
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krista4 said:
I did about eight hours of snowshoeing today, which is approximately eight more hours than any reasonable person should do (sorry for the math, @General Malaise).  The good news was that I was out with seven members of SAR (and three other normal people), so when I keeled over and died my family could have had a quick body recovery.
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I’ve never gone snowshoeing, but I once kicked a tennis racquet over and over until it got stuck on my foot and it was also very tiring. So I think I get where you’re coming from.  

 
so.....my neighbors son crashed into my fence, technically the HOA's fence, last week at around midnight, the night before i went to mammoth.  scaring the crap out my wife.  it's a POS and was half rotten already (wood fence)  he propped it up and we left it there all week.  his dad and i looked at the fence this morning and we(mostly them) are going to try and mickey mouse it back together.  there should be some horrible digging involved that i already said would be good for his son.  they are my favorite neighbors, so i am not involving the HOA. :unsure:   i will make sure to drink some beers while they work.  yay home ownership!

 
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DA RAIDERS said:
so.....my neighbors son crashed into my fence, technically the HOA's fence, last week at around midnight, the night before i went to mammoth.  scaring the crap out my wife.  it's a POS and was half rotten already (wood fence)  he propped it up and we left it there all week.  his dad and i looked at the fence this morning and we(mostly them) are going to try and mickey mouse it back together.  there should be some horrible digging involved that i already said would be good for his son.  they are my favorite neighbors, so i am not involving the HOA. :unsure:   i will make sure to drink some beers while they work.  yay home ownership!
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mickey mouse would be proud.  fence is stronger than it was, it's a bit ugly on my side, but i don't really care.  the dads did most of the work, i didn't feel it was my place to boss his kid around.  i did bust his balls a bit.  my parting words were, don't ####### run into anything else, ok?  he sent his wife to buy me beer.  pretty good outcome.

 
krista4 said:
Gliding down a mountain might be more fun than trudging up it, were it not for the falling.  Skiing for me involves falling. :(  
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Long story:

Started skiing when I was 8 or 9. My dad put skis on me and my little brother and pushed us down the hill then went into the lodge to drink. Get to the bottom and have to take the rope tow back up. Grab the rope and bout ripped my puny arms off and knocked me over. Operator guy yells at me. I finally figured it out and we did that the whole day. Dad drove us back hammered, drinking grasshoppers and cranking country music through a blizzard.

Next time up my dad buys us lessons. After one day we were stone cold killers. Everyone on the mountain was now a target. So began my addiction to skiing.  I skied until I was about 27. My deal was I liked to ski extremely fast and lots of jumps.  This ended one night on Mt hood. 

I was night skiing with a buddy. We would go to the top, ski the moguls on top then tuck it straight down the steepest part . You'd hit 60-80mph. This particular night it had been a sunny day so the snow had partially melted then refroze as night fell making for fast and yet icy conditions. My first time down once I got to the steep part I tucked it and was probably going about 50 when I hit an ice ridge so hard that my right binding popped, so now I'm going 50 on one ski. A second later I hit another ice ridge and my left binding popped then I did the "wide world of sports" slammed face first (no helmets back then) into the ice and got knocked out. This was about 50 yards to the right of the chair lift. 

Eventually I woke up, I'm guessing it was 30 seconds. I sat up and the people on the chairs started clapping that I was alive. My skis were up the hill 100 yds, both poles bent in half, hat and gloves and goggles everywhere. I couldn't breath. I had broken several ribs. I slowly got all my stuff and skied down to the lodge. I didn't ski again until i was 44.

Fast forward to 6 years ago. 3 of my 4 kids are old enough to ski so I decided to teach them. This meant I had to get a new gear. I was surprised how much the tech had changed in 15 years. But the new skis were much easier. I actually had to relearn since the. technique for the newer skis is different. I can still ski fast but I've found I'd rather make lots of turns and ski steeper stuff.  Now my kids are all intermediate to advanced and I really enjoy going up there with them. We go 20-30 times per year. I wear a helmet now. I rarely fall. Skiing is the best, it's changed my life for the better because when everyone is tired of the rain I'm excited about the snow.

 
tommyboy said:
Long story:

Started skiing when I was 8 or 9. My dad put skis on me and my little brother and pushed us down the hill then went into the lodge to drink. Get to the bottom and have to take the rope tow back up. Grab the rope and bout ripped my puny arms off and knocked me over. Operator guy yells at me. I finally figured it out and we did that the whole day. Dad drove us back hammered, drinking grasshoppers and cranking country music through a blizzard.

Next time up my dad buys us lessons. After one day we were stone cold killers. Everyone on the mountain was now a target. So began my addiction to skiing.  I skied until I was about 27. My deal was I liked to ski extremely fast and lots of jumps.  This ended one night on Mt hood. 

I was night skiing with a buddy. We would go to the top, ski the moguls on top then tuck it straight down the steepest part . You'd hit 60-80mph. This particular night it had been a sunny day so the snow had partially melted then refroze as night fell making for fast and yet icy conditions. My first time down once I got to the steep part I tucked it and was probably going about 50 when I hit an ice ridge so hard that my right binding popped, so now I'm going 50 on one ski. A second later I hit another ice ridge and my left binding popped then I did the "wide world of sports" slammed face first (no helmets back then) into the ice and got knocked out. This was about 50 yards to the right of the chair lift. 

Eventually I woke up, I'm guessing it was 30 seconds. I sat up and the people on the chairs started clapping that I was alive. My skis were up the hill 100 yds, both poles bent in half, hat and gloves and goggles everywhere. I couldn't breath. I had broken several ribs. I slowly got all my stuff and skied down to the lodge. I didn't ski again until i was 44.

Fast forward to 6 years ago. 3 of my 4 kids are old enough to ski so I decided to teach them. This meant I had to get a new gear. I was surprised how much the tech had changed in 15 years. But the new skis were much easier. I actually had to relearn since the. technique for the newer skis is different. I can still ski fast but I've found I'd rather make lots of turns and ski steeper stuff.  Now my kids are all intermediate to advanced and I really enjoy going up there with them. We go 20-30 times per year. I wear a helmet now. I rarely fall. Skiing is the best, it's changed my life for the better because when everyone is tired of the rain I'm excited about the snow.
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I :heart:  this story.  Not so much the part where you nearly died, but the rest of it.  Great for you to get your kids started early and into something you can all enjoy together.  I so wish I had skied as a kid, but growing up in Indiana...  

My first ski trip was as a freshman in college with my boyfriend and his family.  They were from Massachusetts and had had winter homes in Vermont their whole lives, so had been skiing forever.  On my first trip with them, my boyfriend tried to teach me.  Big mistake.  All I remember is I was crying and he was yelling, "What is it that you don't understand?", so I marched* down the mountain and enrolled in a beginner class with a bunch of six-year-olds instead.  Over the four years we dated I got to be OK at it, but never great.

Then I didn't ski much again until I was in my late 30s and dating a guy who was 13 years younger and really into snowboarding (and, as it turned out, drugs and cheating on me), so we went to Whistler and this time I was smart enough to start with a snowboarding lesson.  Except it turned out that my group lesson was with a guy who had never snowboarded before but was literally a professional skateboarder, and a guy who was an expert skier and had snowboarded before.  When I saw how this was going to go, I marched* down the mountain and spent the rest of the time in après-ski instead.

*Fell

 
DA RAIDERS said:
so.....my neighbors son crashed into my fence, technically the HOA's fence, last week at around midnight, the night before i went to mammoth.  scaring the crap out my wife.  it's a POS and was half rotten already (wood fence)  he propped it up and we left it there all week.  his dad and i looked at the fence this morning and we(mostly them) are going to try and mickey mouse it back together.  there should be some horrible digging involved that i already said would be good for his son.  they are my favorite neighbors, so i am not involving the HOA. :unsure:   i will make sure to drink some beers while they work.  yay home ownership!
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my son's friend came to stay with us over Thanskgiving weekend.  he and my 2 kids broke two doors in my house this weekend while horsing around.

:hot:

 
Big thing skiing is confidence. I have my kids master the easy stuff where it's just boring for them before I push them to something harder.  

Spend the day in the easy green runs and just work on making really good turns in a rythm. Make big sweeping turns then short fast turns. When you get really good at body control then move to slightly steeper stuff.  

 
tommyboy said:
Big thing skiing is confidence. I have my kids master the easy stuff where it's just boring for them before I push them to something harder.  

Spend the day in the easy green runs and just work on making really good turns in a rythm. Make big sweeping turns then short fast turns. When you get really good at body control then move to slightly steeper stuff.  
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So its basically, how progressed up the chain of illicit drugs?

 
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I'm constantly astonished at how many drivers seem to have no clue that they are supposed to move over to allow faster traffic to pass. 

In related news, it's a good thing I didn't have a rocket launcher with me while driving across the PA turnpike today.

 
i was a total ski bum as a degenerate youth.  the movie, aspen extreme, was my dream existence.  i went to colorado every winter, skied mammoth any chance i could.  i had olympic dreams, lolz.  i got pretty damn good.  i too, loved to go as fast as humanly possible, and would hit any jump in sight.  @tommyboy i majorly f'ed my knee up when i was 20 or so, had no insurance or money to speak of, so just let it heal as best it could.  it would swell up like a mofo every day i skied.  i didn't care.  ice and booze did wonders.  eventually, my knee got so bad, i couldn't really ski anymore. :cry:   then my aunt sold her condo in breckenridge :cry:   life moved on and i didn't ski much for around 15 years. :cry:   i missed it terribly.   

my daughter was born and i really really wanted to share the absolute bliss that i felt when on the mountain.  so, when she was 3 we went mammoth.  they had no boots small enough for her, so i skied with her on my chest in a fancy baby bjorn type thing.  she loved it!  my knee did not.  but i could still rip it pretty damn well.  

knee surgery was now a possibility and i went for it.  unbeknownst to me,  i chose the same dr as tom brady.  we had surgery one day apart.  LAM!!  the dr said my ACL was vaporized, there was no sign of it in my knee.  meniscus, gone.  all sorts of fancy damage.  he slapped a dead guys achilles tendon in there and after 20 months of rehab and whatnot, i was ready to give skiing another shot.  miracles do happen and my knee was nearly fully functional again, and i could sort of tear it up like the old days.

fast forward to the last 3 years and i have infused my love for the mountains and skiing into both my wife and my daughter.  my kid loves it nearly as much as i do.   i have her take an all day lesson at least once year, NEVER try to teach a significant other or your kid how to ski. @krista4  it never ends well.  she's getting pretty good and will follow me anywhere on the mountain. :D  

i never would have dreamt that some of my favorite moments ever while skiing would come skiing with my little girl.  it is the absolute best!

p.s. i still haven't gotten the moron out of my system, i wear a helmet these days and managed to crack one entirely in half last year.  my wife thought i was dead.  ski patrol, once they established i was ok, thought it was awesome and were calling each other, to come see the old idiot's helmet.  and then i nearly broke my arm ripping the trees on linclon mountain @-fish- on a deep powder day.  hit 59 mph last year.  this last trip, 51 mph.  i freaking love it!!  :loco:   :crazy:  

tldr/  skiing is awesome and dangerous and a hell of a lot of fun for the whole family.  wear a helmet  

 
DA RAIDERS said:
i was a total ski bum as a degenerate youth.  the movie, aspen extreme, was my dream existence.  i went to colorado every winter, skied mammoth any chance i could.  i had olympic dreams, lolz.  i got pretty damn good.  i too, loved to go as fast as humanly possible, and would hit any jump in sight.  @tommyboy i majorly f'ed my knee up when i was 20 or so, had no insurance or money to speak of, so just let it heal as best it could.  it would swell up like a mofo every day i skied.  i didn't care.  ice and booze did wonders.  eventually, my knee got so bad, i couldn't really ski anymore. :cry:   then my aunt sold her condo in breckenridge :cry:   life moved on and i didn't ski much for around 15 years. :cry:   i missed it terribly.   

my daughter was born and i really really wanted to share the absolute bliss that i felt when on the mountain.  so, when she was 3 we went mammoth.  they had no boots small enough for her, so i skied with her on my chest in a fancy baby bjorn type thing.  she loved it!  my knee did not.  but i could still rip it pretty damn well.  

knee surgery was now a possibility and i went for it.  unbeknownst to me,  i chose the same dr as tom brady.  we had surgery one day apart.  LAM!!  the dr said my ACL was vaporized, there was no sign of it in my knee.  meniscus, gone.  all sorts of fancy damage.  he slapped a dead guys achilles tendon in there and after 20 months of rehab and whatnot, i was ready to give skiing another shot.  miracles do happen and my knee was nearly fully functional again, and i could sort of tear it up like the old days.

fast forward to the last 3 years and i have infused my love for the mountains and skiing into both my wife and my daughter.  my kid loves it nearly as much as i do.   i have her take an all day lesson at least once year, NEVER try to teach a significant other or your kid how to ski. @krista4  it never ends well.  she's getting pretty good and will follow me anywhere on the mountain. :D  

i never would have dreamt that some of my favorite moments ever while skiing would come skiing with my little girl.  it is the absolute best!

p.s. i still haven't gotten the moron out of my system, i wear a helmet these days and managed to crack one entirely in half last year.  my wife thought i was dead.  ski patrol, once they established i was ok, thought it was awesome and were calling each other, to come see the old idiot's helmet.  and then i nearly broke my arm ripping the trees on linclon mountain @-fish- on a deep powder day.  hit 59 mph last year.  this last trip, 51 mph.  i freaking love it!!  :loco:   :crazy:  

tldr/  skiing is awesome and dangerous and a hell of a lot of fun for the whole family.  wear a helmet  
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I prefer injury stories where the body parts are harvested from pigs

 
cosjobs said:
you should form a club with @St. Louis Bob @RC94and @proninja. The Willful Neglect of Skulls posse or something.
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speaking of willful neglect of skulls...ski patrol wouldn't let me move for at least a half and hour.  i answered all their questions correctly.  they offered a ride in the basket, i declined and skied down accompanied by ski patrol.  spent an hour or so in their medical area, very slight headache.  went upstairs to chill for another hour or so.  during which i did a phone consult with my cousin, who is a dr.  called the mammoth hospital to price out an MRI.  $4500 with insurance, $1500 cash, neat insurance :mellow:   having had a few concessions over the years @RC94 i sat for another hour or so with no symptoms.  so went back out with a new rental helmet. #shredthegnar

 
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