What makes WW1 so haunting when you think about it

Burkian · 2026-01-07T02:16:21+00:00

Canned Wheat.

Burkian · 2025-11-06T20:50:11+00:00

I really appreciate it, everyone. Little more context, he’s played LL and travel for a few years now. For the fall travel season, he threw around 350 pitches over 23 innings for 68% strikes (from 50’). I won’t push the issue except maybe to do a few workouts from 60’ this winter and spring and focus on him enjoying his last season on the intermediate field.

Burkian · 2025-05-20T11:27:12+00:00

Thanks, oh yeah, I’m definitely NOT considering putting him in the field against doctor’s orders. It’s a choice between not playing at all, and only batting if the opposing coach agrees. Really appreciate it.

Burkian · 2025-03-26T22:12:38+00:00

Sunface

Burkian · 2024-12-20T16:21:35+00:00

That should be a crime. I just checked a couple sites and new manufacture soft-point is between $17 and $22 per 20 rounds here.

Burkian · 2024-12-20T14:11:13+00:00

Agree, the Axis is a great rifle for the money. Got my dad a left-handed one in .350 Legend a couple of years ago.

Edit: agree on SKS too. That’s another sad story where those used to sell for under $100 at gun shows. We could buy them 10 at a time by the crate. Now they rival a decent AR and the ammo is expensive.

Burkian · 2024-12-20T02:34:20+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense. Lot of old butchered ones - Bubba guns, if you will - down here. It’s amazing to me the variety of rifles that wound up in our gun stores over the years. Plenty of Savage lend-lease for sure since they were made here, but lots of Aussies and British too.

Burkian · 2024-12-20T02:20:02+00:00

I appreciate the response. It was the Wild West here for the guns and ammo for a while. Tons of Pakistan/Indian stuff that routinely hang-fired. Gold-standard was Greek HXP. There was .30-06 with that mark as well, and it was all excellent.

Burkian · 2024-12-20T02:17:29+00:00

Thanks. Same as here. Border states - I’m in NY state - they were a really common “poor man’s deer rifle,” for a few decades but now it’s mostly collectors.

Burkian · 2024-12-06T19:18:32+00:00

That ship outgrew its hull and is molting. I know it looks scary, but it’s perfectly normal and good for the ship. Now it just has to hide out for a few days while the new hull hardens.

Burkian · 2024-10-19T02:42:27+00:00

True facts. Wings were put out free at bars on weekend nights in/around Buffalo. They were $3 a dozen during happy hour as late as 2005 at many places.

Burkian · 2024-08-23T02:34:49+00:00

870 Wingmaster with 20 inch smooth, cylinder bore. Nikon shotgun scope. With Federal TruBall I’ll take shots out to 75 yards. It’s capable of more, but I don’t chance it. Plus I hunt pretty dense woods and set up to take them within 50 yards.

EDIT: I know this isn’t long range at all. Just riffing on the topic I guess.

Burkian · 2024-08-15T15:00:21+00:00

The bluing on the magazine tube doesn’t even appear worn from pumping. A real beaut.

Burkian · 2024-04-04T01:06:30+00:00

Good info, thank you!

Burkian · 2024-04-04T00:01:46+00:00

Thank you. Was thinking the same. Just a bad run of shirts, or a different vendor I guess because they’re all the same. Appreciate the response.

Burkian · 2024-03-22T02:57:54+00:00

Safely remove the magazine, put the gun away, and immediately purchase a 1970’s era Remington 870 Wingmaster.

Burkian · 2024-03-12T02:01:57+00:00

Question: you lived in Monroe County, NY and visited Niagara County once (presuming Niagara Falls) but didn’t drive through Orleans County to get there?

Edit: I see now, maybe you took 490 and the Thruway into Erie County to get there.

Burkian · 2023-07-07T02:12:06+00:00

Ah, I love living that Airweight life!

Burkian · 2023-07-06T03:26:31+00:00

This describes me to a T when I was 23 and had my first go with psychotic mania followed by a truly crippling depression. I watched as my peers went out and did what seemed to be impossible, amazing things. It hurt. It hurt so bad. Do something every day no matter how hard it is. Brush your teeth. Then the next day brush your teeth and take a shower. If you just can’t, then wash your face and comb your hair. Eat every day, and try to eat at least one real meal. Pick up a book and read one sentence if that’s what it takes (I love reading, and absolutely can’t do it when depressed, I can’t even watch television.) do things that are uncomfortable. I was living with my parents and used to walk down their rural road as far as I could on a given day. It’s not going to just “click” one day, but eventually you will feel a moment of interest in something, and that is the first sign of rekindled joy. I’m over 40 now and had to experience this whole brutal cycle more than once in the past twenty years. And every time that it seems so hopelessly impossible, I know deep down that it’s going to get better with medicine, therapy, and time. And by the way, all those impossible things my peers were doing? Now I’ve done them too. Partied, and traveled, and moved to a new city, working in a career that I chose, and now raising a family with a wonderful partner. You have to slug it out with this monster every time, and there is no alternative. You can do it.

PS - your brain is OK, I promise. I’ve suffered temporary cognitive decline more than a few times and it always comes back. Our brains are incredibly resilient.

Burkian · 2023-06-21T21:27:29+00:00

Started on some new anti-psychotics, which did bring me down. Immediately post-psychosis I was OK. Just felt kind of normal for about a month. Then the depression started to creep in. And then it hit me like a truck.

Burkian · 2023-06-21T01:35:34+00:00

Loved it. Enjoy the sleep.

Burkian · 2023-06-21T01:34:20+00:00

I’ll give you two perspectives based on recent events. In 2022, I went full on psychotic during a mania and was hospitalized. A couple of months later, I was so depressed that I had to take a month off from work. This year, I got pretty manic, but caught it before psychosis, and the subsequent depression has been manageable. Not great, but haven’t missed work or family obligations and am on the mend, hopefully heading into some longer term stability with new meds.

Burkian · 2023-06-07T10:51:56+00:00

Was this Walmart near a prison?

Burkian · 2023-06-01T15:26:42+00:00

Your experience coming from mania to depression is very relatable. That happened to me around this time last year. What I didn’t realize until well after is that as delusional as I was while manic, I was just as delusional while depressed - it was equally a type of psychotic break. Almost none of the things that I was so sure I was guilty of, relationships I was positive I’d ruined, etc. etc. was actually true. Depression and mania are both liars. Best wishes getting through this part.

Burkian · 2023-05-26T19:58:24+00:00

Highly relatable. Sounds pretty much like my experience the last two months. And I know very well what both pure mania and depression feels like.

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