I didn’t get a Denny’s breakfast for my b-day because I didn’t know about it and mostly because Denny’s is in the opposite direction of where I work by 25 miles - that’s a lot of gas to burn for a free breakfast. But I did get a free burger from Red Robin because I’ve got their magical royalty card, so there’s that.
Meanwhile, I’ve discovered that 60 doesn’t feel much different from 59 - mentally, I’m still in my teens, so there’s that. 
Happy belated to you FCM!
Yep Im still an 8 y/o boy at heart myself.
Words to live by and a good reason to take the news with a grain of salt unless they’re announcing that Godzilla is on your block!
Is it still brrr weather there? We have a little snow on the ground but it’s supposed to get up to maybe 44 today. You going jogging or bobsledding today?
A balmy 26F today (today’s high in Cowtown). 44F is positively spring. Enjoy!
Snow-shoveling again altho only an inch overnight. Yay! Bobsledding sounds so much more exciting tho! Dusting off the luge for future snow …
Having been a healthcare provider for 40 years darkened my funny bone. I don’t often share that side of myself here, dor fear of being misunderstood.
I did, howerver win the gross picture thread a few years ago with a picture of my necrotic finger.
Just think how much fun you could be having as a true 15 year old if your mother had waited until Feb/29! As for the burgers, you could have gotten a bag of Krystals or White Castles and have one every hour for most of the day and still be hungry.
Link? 
BTW, glad to see you here. I never did (to remember) tell you that it took learning that PICU was for a special ICU unit (premies?) for me to quit seeing Pick-u-Nurse as in Pick-your-Nurse. Did you get many laughs out of MASH*?
It’s for pediatric ICU, not premies, or at least rarely. I did take care of a 480 gram little guy that had to have immediate, complicated open heart surgery.
Yeah, since I was a USAF corpsman before the movie came out, I could relate.
I couldn’t find the gross out thread, I think it was around Halloween two or three years ago. If you like I do still have the picture…:eek:
Thanks for the memory jog on “Pediatric” which I should have thought of – but didn’t.
Did the little guy survive? When my oldest son was born my brother and I would look over the kids on display in the nursery window and our attention was drawn to a pair of twins who had been a little premature. One was huge, in the 13 pound range (is that reasonable? – I can’t be sure) and the other was tiny (in the 3 pound range). We calculated that the mother was still hauling a load – a big one – with their combined weight. But we nicknamed the big one either Boomer or Bomber and kept watching him for a few days. The big one didn’t make it but the little one did.
One cool sidetrack from this sidetrack is that when my son was in grade school we learned that two of his classmates (both girls) had been in that nursery at that same time. Nothing came of that in terms of their sharing any special bond but it was still neat to us parents.
picunurse, by me being “country” I used to read it as “pickie-yunie.” Don’t feel bad though, there’s somebody on here named epbrown something and to me he’s “eyebrow.”
Another congrats to the birthday babies.
I’m 63 but mentally I’m about 11. Since that’s the last time I remember feeling smart, I think I’ll stay there.
Zeldar since you’re in Nashville, are you familiar with The Farm? Got any up-close-and-personal tales to tell about that? (From an old Freak.)
Down here in the boonies of Southern Merrylande, we have neither Krystal nor White Castle, but it doesn’t matter - I don’t like Krystal and I don’t think I’ve ever had White Castle. I’m not a big fan of burgers, but sometimes, it’s what I want.
Given unlimited choices, I’d go for seafood just about every time.
I know about The Farm, but that’s about it. Not long ago one of the Nashville news channels had a story about how the older crowd was finding it harder by the year to get working new people. There are still enough folks to keep it going but the produce and farm products are making it hard to sustain as a profitable endeavor.
To quote the wiki article:
And in case y’all didn’t know about it, not far from The Farm is the Elephant Sanctuary at Hohenwald. Also a neat place.
But to be honest, Becky2844, I’ve never been to either place.
That’s got to be more healthy! Is there a favorite chain seafood place for you or do you go for the real thing?
Around here it’s Red Lobster, Captain D’s, and Long John Silver for chains and Florida Seafood Kitchen gets good press for a sit-down place. We lean toward Captain D’s for carry-out.
What I love about the South esp TN is all the mom&pop ‘Q joints. Your nose leads you to them! I think I like that kind of place (and the fried chickie joints) better than chain restaurants. "Ho’ Made Pie" always struck me as funny too!
We have a neighborhood 'Q joint that I can smell from my house - the smoker is right out in the parking lot of the joint. Nothin fancy just good eats.
I prefer the local places - Capt Leonard’s is a couple of miles away, altho they’re closed till March. Sadly, some of the local places suck - we went to one called the Drift Inn that was supposed to be so great, and it was mediocre at best. Never went back. No Capt D’s around here, but I think there’s a Long John in Lex Park, so 10-ish miles away, and Red Lobster (which is barely acceptable in my book) is about 25 miles away.
I wish we had good BBQ around here. That’s the only thing I miss about Florida - we had a bunch of good places near us, but here, not so much. Alas…
Amen to all of that! It’s almost like if they sweep the floors and wipe the windows then the food can’t be as good as the stuff in those dumps. Sadly, the clean-but-bland places are running the joints out of business. Especially so with the 'Q places. You have to go to the out-of-the-way parts of town or out in the country on the “blue highways” to get that 'Q you describe. A dying (but not dead) art.
Y’all get “sweetea” just by sitting down at a booth where you’re at?
No sweetea without asking, but they do offer “both kinds” at the McD here in Cowtown IL.
On 70 going from IL to MO there is a “Mile Hi Pie” place just off the hiway that my sister and I checked out once. The pie is just a lot of whipped cream but the family style chicken and pork chops and greens are good. Lots of those “throwed rolls” places as you get into MO also. We always seek out these places. The hand made burgers are always the best!
And yeh, too bad the chains are running them out, but in these off the beaten path places they still crop up if I look hard enough.
That’s a good thing. Every now and then I’ll spot a title on one of the food networks touting things like “greasy spoons, dives and joints” and will watch it hoping for some laughs. I forget which channel has the surprises, but one of them focused on the really special drive-220-miles-just-to-eat places that are nationally (if not worldwide) famous.
Loveless Cafe in Nashville (almost out of the county on the west) is such a place but its long suit is breakfast.
Do you mind posting a link to “Cowtown IL” so I can figure out if you’re talking about Chicago or a real 'nother place?
I really enjoy throwing curve balls at people. We were out the other night with some new friends and I mentioned that I’m taking guitar lessons. The woman says, “Oh, acoustic?” Me: “No, electric.” She: “You don’t look like the electric guitar type.” Me: “Oh, I’m a rocker and always have been. Right now I’m learning the intro to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’” She: “Oh, the old English tune!” Me: “No, the more recent Led Zeppelin tune.”
Blank look.
“Robert Plant? Jimmy Page?”
Blank look and head shake. Well, there’s one avenue we won’t have in common.
When you say “new friends” your story would suggest people our age who managed to duck the entire British Invasion decades or else those who don’t know that Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings. Or, perish the thought, kids younger still.
I’ve been around people like that and it’s hard to locate the common topic. What did you fall back on to have a conversation? Or did you?