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Ton_Til

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Ton_Til

Should have opened the single barrel this one is just ok to me.

pgprescott

Ton_Til said:

Should have opened the single barrel this one is just ok to me.

I dig that 12 yo KC but KC in general isn’t for everyone. Maybe revisit after it gets some air. 

Ton_Til

pgprescott said:

Ton_Til said:

Should have opened the single barrel this one is just ok to me.

I dig that 12 yo KC but KC in general isn’t for everyone. Maybe revisit after it gets some air. 

Its still good for sure but I have been liking the higher proofs lately. The single barrel is 120. Gonna go hunt down a penelope barrel proof tomorrow

loco_engr

& water

Ton_Til

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap

Not enough after reading and assessing the way things have played out in Uvalde-So I was just planning on LEO with this until recent enlightenment here:

Now heading for escape velocity given all that is coming forth.  No words can explain the law enforcement response.
Hope this does not torpedo this thread. 

ColbyLang

Truth Frank. Sometimes it hurts. Enjoy that EHT

lousubcap

Dealing with the facts/truth is the best and only way to understand any event big or small.  If the facts/truth identify shortcomings then taking action to fix those as that is the way to make things better.  
As an organization or individual you are either getting better, standing still or regressing.  Your call-  and if you are good with standing still in the business world your competition is after you.  FWIW-

Hook_emHornsfan_74

Don’t know why it’s sideways. 9.1%. Pretty good beer.  Brewery out of Dallas.  ESP after 4 old fashioned’s

TechsasJim

Watching my #8 Red Raiders on an early struggle.   This should be uplifting.  

saluki2007

I guess I will jump on the band wagon…

Ybabpmuts

@JohnInCarolina

Where is that beer from? I'm very close to NH and I'd like to try their beer. 

MotownVol

JohnInCarolina said:

John, you seem to enjoy craft beer as much as I do.  I’m going to have to meet up with you in Asheville one of these days.

saluki2007

JohnInCarolina

MotownVol said:

JohnInCarolina said:

John, you seem to enjoy craft beer as much as I do.  I’m going to have to meet up with you in Asheville one of these days.

Be happy to do that!  I love that city.  Burial is probably my favorite brewery in Asheville but there are so many great ones.  

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

@JohnInCarolina

Where is that beer from? I'm very close to NH and I'd like to try their beer. 

Other Half brewing in Brooklyn:

https://otherhalfbrewing.com/location/brooklyn-ny/

They are shipping these days.  If you’re close to NH then I bet you’re close enough for them to ship to you.  The beer is as good as it gets.  

MotownVol

I agree that Burial is great.  Wife drops me and brother in law on Patton Ave. and picks us up 6 hours later at Burial.  Makes for a great day in my favorite town.

Ybabpmuts

JohnInCarolina said:

Ybabpmuts said:

@JohnInCarolina

Where is that beer from? I'm very close to NH and I'd like to try their beer. 

Other Half brewing in Brooklyn:

https://otherhalfbrewing.com/location/brooklyn-ny/

They are shipping these days.  If you’re close to NH then I bet you’re close enough for them to ship to you.  The beer is as good as it gets.  

Thanks John. I live in Newburyport Ma which is a fifteen minute ride to nh border, and just over twenty minute ride to Maine border.  I'll def order some from their site.

Ton_Til

Leopoldstoch

shtgunal3

pgprescott

lousubcap

Pacing after a bourbon blind tasting that concluded around an hour ago with my 34 yo son.  

The Bardstown Bourbon Company Fusion 6 Series was the consensus winner and the McKenna 10 yo anchored the offerings.  
As always it was an enjoyable event.
A nod to @JohnInCarolina as the Empire of Pain is in the background.  A great read.  Only around 1/2 through but an eye-opening story.  

Ybabpmuts

I'll second the empire of pain book. Having been on Oxy for 13 years straight (all legal via pain management dr, and for the last six of those years at a massive 600mg's a day) and going through the brutal detox process, it was really, really hard for me to read how that all happened, the sacklers, the FDA, the doctors, the heavy marketing, the denial of it's addictive properties, all of it. I read it after I was off pain meds for almost a year. It bothered me so much that afterwards, I sat down and wrote a two page poem about it in maybe 10 minutes. Not one of my stupid silly poems either, this was about death, the sacklers, the FDA, the defamation of Richard Sackler, their data collection, the pill mills, the bankruptcy tactic, almost all of it is in there. It's the only serious poem I've ever written, simple in form maybe, but it's pretty angry and dark. I pull it out every now and then and re-read it, and it still bothers me.

TechsasJim

lousubcap said:

Pacing after a bourbon blind tasting that concluded around an hour ago with my 34 yo son.  

The Bardstown Bourbon Company Fusion 6 Series was the consensus winner and the McKenna 10 yo anchored the offerings.  
As always it was an enjoyable event.
A nod to @JohnInCarolina as the Empire of Pain is in the background.  A great read.  Only around 1/2 through but an eye-opening story.  

Great quality time with you son and your picking order is about as I would have guessed it would be w/o being there.   

Great way to pass a day Cap!    

TechsasJim

Unfortunate bottle kill, enjoyed this one and need to find another.   

Ybabpmuts

Feel like I should quantify my previous comments about the opioid usage.  In that same time period of 13 years that I was on Oxycontin, I also had 13+ major operations, so the pain meds were necessary at the time, and I followed all of my doctors orders, was very careful about following the prescriptions, and all applicable laws. I had (and still do) a team of various orthopedic surgeons at my disposal, as well as my rheumatologist, internists, primary care, pain management specialists, psychiatrist (I thought that was a good idea considering all the meds I took, and what I was going through in general) etc. In a sense, I fit the profile that the drug was originally intended for, I have two lifelong, painful conditions, that have no cure, and I would need long term pain management. ALL of my doctors knew how much I was taking and none of them seemed alarmed by it, the general sense being that it was medically necessary and that Oxy was less addictive than other pain medications.

I became increasingly concerned about the amount that I was taking over time and eventually made the personal decision to get off of it all together and then to reassess my baseline pain level. I didn't confer with my doctors, I just got fed up with it all, and found a place to detox up in Maine. It's hard to describe what the detox process was like. (I'd lose 37 pounds over the next six weeks) and how extremely difficult it was to go through. If anybody has read Keith Richards autobiography, there's a good description of how he detoxed from heroin in that book, and it's as horrible as he described it to be. 

Still the best decision I made though. My biggest problem now is that I'm still in a lot of pain every single day, and the disease that ate both of my hip joints and both of my knee joints, is also in my ankles and elbows. I'll require more major surgery over time,, and the thought of going through that without pain medication, or taking it for operations and risking addiction again, is a haunting thought indeed. I wouldn't wish any of this on the worst person that I know.

Apologies for the long post, especially to those that have heard a lot of this from me already, but I felt like I needed to describe why I was on the Oxycontin, vs someone that used it to get high or escape, etc. I know some of you probably already think I have a screw (or two) loose, but there are no drugs involved (to be fair, I'm still on enough drugs to choke an elephant, but none of them have a psychoactive or addictive component).

paqman

Ybabpmuts said:

I know some of you probably already think I have a screw (or two) loose

Maybe just a little bit 😂🤣 but this post looked like there was an actual human being behind the keyboard.  Some of your other posts are looking like a mix of human/AI/bot 🤷‍♂️

I have family members that are struggling with pain and opioid addiction, not a fun place to be for sure.