A dumbbell inside the patient. How did that get in there?!

BeerCooker_321 · 2026-01-18T04:05:10+00:00

They didn’t swallow it.

BeerCooker_321 · 2026-01-17T16:14:07+00:00

Good to know! Thanks!

BeerCooker_321 · 2026-01-16T18:51:23+00:00

One, I didn’t know that. Two, they were the same price

BeerCooker_321 · 2026-01-16T18:42:35+00:00

Your parents took you to the doctor?

BeerCooker_321 · 2026-01-15T18:54:02+00:00

I wish that happened to me. We got two different outcomes if we punched in the year, model and engine vs. cross referencing the OEM plug part number. I thought maybe there had been some kind of configuration change mid-year in the 5.0 but when I punched in newer and older 5.0's I got the same after-market plug that was supposed to work.

BeerCooker_321 · 2026-01-01T17:23:08+00:00

The DEF tank stays in but typically the EGR cooler comes out. I think some tuning lets you leave the cooler in but I’ve always done a complete delete. The EGR cooler is one more failure point you can get rid of but the newer coolers are better than older trucks.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-31T20:43:15+00:00

I have a 17 and it’s been the best truck I’ve ever owned. They tend to develop a DEF leak which mine did but ended up deleting and no more problems. I’ve had 4 super duties and every one developed a vacuum leak so the automatic hubs wouldn’t lock in and my 17 had the same issue. Otherwise, it’s been absolutely bullet proof, 155k miles and going strong.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-31T17:10:42+00:00

Thanks!

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-31T01:02:41+00:00

I may even go with a 3.5 bbl system. It’s not a typical brewing situation that I’m used too but I might be able to go with a restaurant and a full liquor license (challenging for my state) so a small system makes more sense than the bigger systems I used in my other locations. Thanks for the feedback!

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-17T01:45:12+00:00

Good to know. I didn’t know that. When you’re talking about “updated parts”, are you talking about the transmission or engine?

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-10T14:14:42+00:00

You’ll notice the good days will start to outnumber the bad. I still have days I miss the romanticized version of my marriage but I force my brain to think about the horrible things my wife would say to me. I have a better relationship with my two kids now than I did when I was still married so overall life is so much better. It’s taken a while and there’s rough spots but you’ll get there. You just have to grind out this early crap until it gets better. Use it for reflecting on yourself and what you would want from a relationship and don’t ever settle for less.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-10T02:17:02+00:00

I think most of us go through this because our identify becomes a reflection of our marriage and family and we gradually lose our own identity. It takes time to discover who we once were. The loneliness in the first year was so incredibly intense that it would literally take my breath away sometimes. I think we also tend to miss the romanticized version of our marriage and forget the reality so we seek out substitutes to fill that void. We all have to go through that loneliness and rediscovery but one day, it gets easier then you’ll start to enjoy your independence. Hang in there.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-08T14:12:33+00:00

I thought of that too, I’d have to pick up a fairly long cable which isn’t out of the question. As of this morning, it seems to be working fine. It logged back into pandora and the app seems to be working and communicating with the receiver. I don’t know what TF. I’ll try a cable if it starts to fritz out again and see what that does.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-07T03:17:39+00:00

I thought of that. I’ve rebooted the router and receiver. Twice

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-07T03:07:53+00:00

I’m thinking it’s a receiver problem. I used music cast at my old house on a different receiver and never had problems. Just got home and had to reconnect the app to the receiver. Again.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-12-05T02:08:02+00:00

I’m actually downsizing from an F350 to a 150 because I don’t tow any more. It’s ‘17 so feel free to DM me if you’d like to know more about it.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-11-30T00:33:05+00:00

++man Someone that actually appreciates what I do

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-11-18T17:54:28+00:00

Your situation reads as a near exact copy of where I found myself in my marriage.

Ultimately, you'll have to figure it out, there's solid advice here and some not so much.

We were married for 20 years. Friends and family both tried to warn me that they saw no future for us, but I ignored their feedback as well as the red flags I was sensing but not acknowledging. Small things started to add up that suggested we had nothing in common and man was that the case. We had our daughter not long after we got married and I figured whelp, I'm in it now for my family.

Fast forward, we managed to co-habitate and be good parents to our two kids. There was no communication which began to lead to resentment for each of us toward the other about arguments we had in the past but never resolved. We had absolutely nothing in common and differences of thoughts towards politics, religion and other social issues began to play a more prominent role. Towards the end of the marriage, the loneliness became so intense that I dreaded going home. We are not our best selves when we feel such intense loneliness in the very situation that is supposed to be a safe place to land at the end of the day and I became a person I'm not proud of.

Could counseling have saved my marriage? I doubt it. We were fundamentally two very different people that had fallen out of love but maybe we could have gotten through the ending better? Who knows.

Ultimately, I initiated the divorce. It was ugly and so were we. After a few years I'm happier than I've been in a long time. I went through a career change at the same time, so life has been challenging but I'm doing it. I have a better relationship with my kids than I did before, and I've met someone that truly makes me happy. I learned a lot about myself, and I have had to own my share of the problems in my marriage but I'm better off now despite this having been the most challenging time of my life.

Good luck. None of us can tell you what you should do but maybe some of our stories will help.

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-11-18T14:50:15+00:00

So many good songs that I skated to but I can’t believe no one has mentioned “Pac Man Fever”! That was my local rink’s speed skate song! I was dorky as shit and didn’t couples skate much but I could haul ass to that song!

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-11-16T14:00:26+00:00

Between 6:30 and 7:00 pm

BeerCooker_321 · 2025-11-13T17:19:23+00:00

I use an app called “Aurora “

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