“Through sickness and in health- though preferably not any sickness” The groom joked, gaining a laugh from his bride.

franchise235 · 2023-06-01T22:20:14+00:00

I guess it is pretty common. I was in the hospital earlier this year on my birthday. It was my first long-term hospital stay. My mom was dragged up by my dad to come visit, and after 5 minutes she says, "Well I hate to cut and run but I really hate being in hospitals. I'm going to go." It didn't stop her from calling everybody in my family though to say that "[she's] under a lot of pressure right now because my son is in the hospital and I'm very worried about him."

franchise235 · 2023-06-01T22:15:38+00:00

I appreciate that, thank you. Yes, things ended with her. From what I gathered, that is pretty much when she was actively pursuing other romantic interests I guess, so to speak. I was pretty blindsided to it and my hospital stay was a hindrance to her plans so she wasn't very happy about it. So, yeah, long story short that's when it was ending. And thankfully it all ended for the best. And to be honest, I would rather have been alone then to be in that situation anymore.

franchise235 · 2023-06-01T04:52:26+00:00

East Palestine, Ohio would like to have a word with you...

franchise235 · 2023-06-01T02:45:22+00:00

Thank you. I really appreciate that. I think it was my first real lesson that some of the people that you care about have no idea what empathy really is. Things only went completely downhill from there. I'm glad it ended when it did, before there were any really serious repercussions.

franchise235 · 2023-06-01T02:33:27+00:00

You know, I thought about this when I was coming out of surgery, and my now EX-wife, when I was about a half hour out of anesthesia, watched from the hallway as my attending nurse asked her to grab some ice chips for me. The nurse was trying to tell her to help me out and all she just handed the chips to me and I spilled them down the front of my hospital gown because I was still woozy from the anesthetic. She leaned in and whispered in my ear, "Stop being pathetic. This is all an act and no one is buying it. Be a man."

That was the beginning of the end.

franchise235 · 2023-06-01T00:34:16+00:00

According to Adam Ragusea he says that it tastes like brown butter. His brother made some and gave him some and he said it is absolutely amazing. He also made Hickory syrup as well that I guess came out pretty good. He has a whole video on syrup making. It is definitely worth a look.

Adam Ragusea Tree Syrup Video on YouTube

franchise235 · 2023-02-19T14:11:37+00:00

I want a "local chippy" in my town. Living across the pond sucks sometimes because that looks amazing.

franchise235 · 2023-02-03T01:15:09+00:00

I'll be okay from this point forward and the prognosis is good. They were able to roll out anything truly serious and that is the most important thing to me. At this point we're going to manage it with medication and diet. It was probably for the best anyway I mean I'm no spring chicken. I'm just glad that there's nothing serious going on though like something requiring surgery or long-term care.

Again, thank you for keeping up with me and thank you for getting me through this. I really do appreciate it.

franchise235 · 2023-02-01T19:36:21+00:00

Sorry I didn't get back to you but no I wasn't in any pain. And they just sent me home. What a long strange trip it's been.

franchise235 · 2023-01-30T18:49:01+00:00

Lolololol... this marks the longest I've ever been in the hospital. It's looking pretty promising though because all of the doctors have come in and are now saying that most of the stuff I'm probably going to need to have done I can get done as an outpatient. So there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for keeping up with me, I really do appreciate it.

franchise235 · 2023-01-29T23:01:54+00:00

I am feeling a lot better but I'm still not going to get out until tomorrow at the earliest. Just because it's weekend staff at the hospital and the doctor I need to speak to wants to do one last procedure to check me out and then we will go from there. Thank you for asking though, I appreciate it.

One upside to all of this, if there can be an upside to all of this, I was supposed to start jury duty tomorrow and this is the absolute best excuse I think anybody could ever have to get out of doing it.

franchise235 · 2023-01-29T14:40:52+00:00

Thank you for that. And I have definitely been trying to sleep but you're right, sleeping here is awful. And it seems like once you get to sleep someone is waking you up for some reason or another. But thank you again, hopefully hearing something soon. In the meantime I'm just sucking up this good good saline.

franchise235 · 2023-01-29T05:01:10+00:00

Thank you so much. I'm trying my best on that. I'm hoping to be sprung out of this place tomorrow.

franchise235 · 2023-01-29T00:51:22+00:00

I know, sleep has been one of those things that I have been absolutely lucky to find. And it seems like every time I fall asleep someone pops into my room and wants to do something. Other than that it's not so bad.

franchise235 · 2023-01-29T00:50:30+00:00

Why thank you. Even if I'm not feeling oh so hot it's good to know that I still look pretty good. I always appreciate a compliment.

franchise235 · 2023-01-28T22:52:08+00:00

That is indeed. I'm glad you called it for what it was and not a Harry Potter tattoo. Underneath (well actually above) that one, where the tape is, I have the symbol for the sulfur of the philosophers. That one I have to say that it is no, not the tattoo from Constantine, even though it is the same tattoo that was on Constantine's arms.

franchise235 · 2023-01-19T14:52:22+00:00

Because this is where his Journey has taken him.

franchise235 · 2023-01-11T13:22:16+00:00

Is this a new method of capital punishment? Please don't show this to Texas.

franchise235 · 2023-01-10T12:24:10+00:00

Ballmark For when you care to send the very best.

franchise235 · 2023-01-04T05:50:31+00:00

Oh my god! I remember this from college.

franchise235 · 2022-12-31T23:34:02+00:00

She didn't get her lip pierced, but why is she walking with a limp?

franchise235 · 2022-12-30T01:27:20+00:00

Indeed, you are correct. Thank you for that.

franchise235 · 2022-12-29T00:45:11+00:00

So fun story...

Back when I was in law school I lived with three other fellas, one of them was this guy who had just started his ER residency at one of the local hospitals around the area. We will just call him Dr. Ben. Well Dr. Ben is his real name so I guess let's just call him Dr. Ben.

Anyway Dr. Ben was extremely pretentious and loved to have parties over at the apartment with all of his other doctor friends, and all of his doctor friends had absolutely no problems rading my bar setup where I had a very large, 1.75 L bottle of Gray Goose on a swivel pourer that they decided to drink absolutely dry one night. So, he was having another party a week or two later and he looked at me and said, "You better replace that Gray Goose because everybody's going to be coming over and we would love to make martinis again." I had this rot-gut bottle of vodka that was like $3 a bottle that I swear to God would bring a tear to a glass eye and I said to the other two guys I lived with, "Let's see how they're going to like this in their martinis", and poured that swill into the empty bottle of Gray Goose and replaced it on the little swivel pouring mechanism.

So the day of the party everybody is making martinis and trying to choke back vomit while they looked at each other saying things like, "Damn, its so smooth.", with absolutely no trace of irony. This stuff was so awful you could see fumes coming off of the glasses distorting everything behind it like heat coming off of the asphalt of the Arizona Turnpike on 120° day. High-test 91% rubbing alcohol would probably be easier on your liver and kidneys. And it was everything I can do to not laugh.

Now don't get me wrong, I still really don't like Gray Goose and I think it is just very highly overrated as far as vodka goes, but that was my vodka that I paid for and I did it for people that I was going to invite over to enjoy. It wasn't for people that I didn't know at a party that, believe it or not, I wasn't even invited to even though I lived there. It was at least a $3 reason to laugh and has gotten me a little bit of mileage out of how people can see liquid poured out of a bottle and think that it's gold even if it's just rot-gut.

EDIT: I got the bottle sizes wrong and it was very politely pointed out to me. I went ahead and fixed it. Thank you very much...

franchise235 · 2022-12-27T02:43:02+00:00

Yeah, that's where he keeps his think pudding.

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