Yes there are. Here's to having a massive heart attack or brain aneurysm. Something that will pretty much kill me before I hit the floor.
Man, what a great weekend. Did some urban hiking/ walking yesterday. Little grilling last night. mid 70s and sunny all weekend.
Last night my husband asked lil B to give an example of a great invention. "Poison!" B replied cheerfully. Then, B went on to explain about killing rats and mice. I was almost on the floor, suffocating with laughter. I mean, lil B has a point.
It’s not the weekend and I’m not drunk, but I just logged in and read through hundreds of my old posts. The window into my mind over a decade ago is wild. Glad to recognize a few names still posting here.
Really good, especially compared to how I was doing when I was posting here last. Since I was last really active in 2014 I spent years wallowing in depression and eventually had a total psychotic break and tried to kill myself but failed. Went to inpatient psych treatment then a few years working my bullshit out. Went back to school, left the military and changed careers, moved a couple of times, fell in love and got married, got a dog, got a house, and just generally got a life. Basically just been on the up and up for a while. What's new with you? It looks like the board still has a solid group posting after such a long run, it's honestly impressive the longevity this has had.
@Cult I'm so glad you're doing well! Sounds like your life did a 180. I'm glad you hung on and came out on the other side. Things are going. So many details that make up a life. Since you last posted I have moved across the country and had a baby. Things are good for me and mine, and getting better all the time. I say this as a person who just exited winter. That's probably why I am in such a hopeful mood. By mid summer I'm gonna be full on manic. Check on me next Christmas because I might be in some form of hibernation and need my pulse taken.
It's an odd thing really. We share a decent portion of our lives while also having relative anonymity and yet, I could tell you what is going on in most of the regular posters lives. I've been here since the beginning (even back to the TMMB) and only know maybe 3 members real names lol.
Obviously he hasn't been around in ages, but I still have a wood cutout that katokoch made for me years ago that's displayed in my home office.
I've always wanted to send him my Dad's guns and have him redo them in some sort of beautiful wood stock.
I sold a discontinued window regulator to Toytoy a few years ago. Anyone know whatever happened to that guy? His posts were pure gold.
I talked to him about making a new stock, to replace a cracked stock for me, back in 2015. He said he was already backed up well over a year. We talked and it was a common stock, still available from the manufacturer, so that's what I did. Even though the gun held sentimental value, it wasn't worth doing the level of work he was doing at the time. Hope he's still putting out beautiful work.
Not my territory in terms of hobbies, but you only need eyes to see the guy is a truly gifted artist in what does. My dad is like that— he can oil paint landscapes and seascapes that are incredible and so far above and beyond my talent. And I was the “art kid” in my grade when I a kid.
I was trying to come up with a better way than to say “wow” and that sums it up perfectly. Those gun stocks are amazingly gorgeous.
I imagine at some point in the distant future he's going to be a big name on whatever the equivalent of Antiques Roadshow is. "Oh! You have an original Kato Koch!"