clayton86

Get professional help if haven’t already. As men we tend to not seek the mental health help when we need it. I know it took me a long long long time to reach out to a therapist. I started to go to the VA for mental health this year. Same issues severe depression and a little anxiety. I’ve gotten better about it since going. I used to just go fishing or to the range for my own version of therapy it helped for most my life but the last few years fishing wasn’t helping at all. Range worked for a different take of group therapy but ammo and shooting gets expensive and it only freed my mind for a hour or two. I'm kinda against taking meds but that’s just me I know it helps a lot of people. Closest I get to meds is tums when I have heartburn haha. When I was younger I used to drink heavily to cope now I rarely drink, a 6 pack will last me months where in my 20s a 30rack a day was easy.

This past week we took a break from installing security systems and cameras for customers and put a new deck on the bosses house.

Wednesday my boss sent us home early due to air quality and we were working outside. Work in Rochester I guess from what my boss said RPD was stopping people that were running trying to exercise telling them walk home and stay inside.

I’m gonna tell her that’s what she didn’t do causing it to explode and to do that next time. I googled how to actually do it she wasn’t wrong it can be done she just skipped an important step. Poke a small hole in bottom of the shell before putting it in the cup of water and microwaving it.

My fiancés reply to an incident she had the other night. She texted me at like 1130 at night that she made a big mess for herself. I woke up in the morning saw the text and asked her what she was talking about. She said nothing but the microwave and the stovetop under it was really really clean. Went down stairs to make my breakfast before work and sure enough they were spotless deep cleaned. Asked her why she decided to clean them so well in the middle of the night. Her reply “ I wanted hard boiled eggs and……” I cut her off and asked her sarcastically “did you really microwave an egg?!?!” She said that she saw it online that you can make hard boiled eggs in the microwave so she tried it and it blew up. I started laughing and told her duh everyone knows you can’t microwave an egg. I learned that the same way she did when I was a kid but knew it was gonna happen I was just being a troublesome boy for my mom. Now all weekend I’ve been making comments “it says it online so it’s gotta be true” every chance it get. She doesn’t think it’s as funny as I do.

I need to lose some weight my doctor at the VA wants me to also. They don’t want me to lose as much as I want though. I told them I want to get to my post coma weight which is also what I weighed post deployment 8years prior to being in coma. I would have to lose 50lbs or so to get to that weight they said just try and get down to 190-200 which is only 20lbs to lose. Did a diet few years ago with fiancé and we lost weight and kept it off for a little bit but are now both the biggest we’ve ever been in our lives not huge by any means but just big. good luck with yours

I use thermal for coyotes. The old flir had that red hot feature the pulsars I run now just do white hot or black hot. used to have night vision before jumping to thermal. There’s no hiding from thermal though. I’ve got several videos through the scope smoking coyotes. I got the set up 4 years ago ran me $7k for the scope and scanner. Pulsar helion and thermion.

I had an oops with my old iphone4 getting wet several times. I swear the old iPhone was built better than the new ones. I shattered the screen when deployed it fell out of a HMMWV and hit pavement shattered the screen. Paid haji $5 in Kuwait City to put a new one on and worked like new. Once back I was fishing and leaned over to land a steelhead and had it in a chest pocket and it fell out and landed in the river. Rice trick got it working again. Then when kayaking I accidentally kicked it overboard in 8 fow and soon as I heard that splash I instantly knew what happened. I saw it on bottom emptied pockets and dove in and got it. Paddled back to shore put it on dash of my truck to dry in the sun. Once done fishing that day I drove around blasting the heat in July to dry it. It worked doing that for 2 days. phone still works last I knew/tried I can’t find a charger for it anymore and one I had is chewed up. I used it as a iPod while working on my rod building.

Get checked out like others have said. my right hip bothers me from time to time especially when weather changes like fall to winter winter to spring. I’ve already got a big plate holding my pelvis together. I guess the screws holding the plate have extra bone growth around them that’s in the hip socket I guess. They said they could go in and remove the plate and screws and grind the bone growth but it’s high risk. Told me to live with the discomfort and come back when I’m older if it’s unbearable this was when I was 32 I’m 36 now.

I used to swear quite a bit being military then working in the trades and trucking. I’ve cut back I don’t swear nearly as much as to. my fiancé on the other hand “duck” is every other word out of her mouth even around our daughter. I’ve made comments about it and she says she tries not to around her but then the next breath is f this f that F off lol. then theirs my nephews and step son 14 and 15 year olds they curse so much it’s insane. Playing video games and just talking they would make a sailor or trucker blush with the words that come out of their mouths. Fiancé used to make a big deal of them cursing but then they pointed out that every other word out of her mouth is a curse word and I had to agree with them and she doesn’t care anymore.

Anyone frog gig/hunt? Fiancé and daughter saw a huge bull frog on way home this evening and grabbed it from the road. It’s pretty big takes up 3/4 of a 5 gal bucket bottom. Step son wanted to keep it and try to make frog legs. She told him no need more than just the one so he asked me to go get more. Had to tell him it’s a no go season for them isn’t till June 15th. Fiancé asked how you get them when hunt them because this one was extremely easy to catch just got out of the car and grabbed it. I told her shoot them with a .22 or spear them. She was confused since this big one was easy to catch. I told her while normally they are in a swamp not the road. Could see the lightbulb in her head light up and she said “well yeah that makes sense it was right after a bridge” So now I’m thinking I need to get into it. I’ve had frog legs before and they were good.

I used to go to an air show every summer with my dad. The airport it was held at is a small one a lot of the military jets couldn’t land or take off from it or something so they would do low flybys only planes on the ground were usually ww2 planes. They stopped hosting the air show like 20+ years ago. It’s back this year though which is awesome when I saw the poster that Batavia air show was back this year I instantly got flooded with memories. I’ve got pics in my dads old photo albums of us(me) looking at all the planes I was probably 6-12 years old in the span of going.

When I made this post originally it got pads and rotors. she wants to trade it in for something different says to many people have her car(Mazda CX-9) hate to break it to her but unless we sell the house and live out of the car she’s not gonna get a rare car lol.

I’m not sure she is constantly loaning her car out to her sister. I remember like back in late February looking at the back of the inspection sticker seeing the mileage when she got the inspection early January vs how many mile it had at the time and she put like 12k on it in a little over a month. Which blows my mind because they both work together at the college not 5 miles from where we live and the sister lives closer. I said something at the time about it and got the “idk we both just drive the kids around to friends houses it’s just mileage what’s the big deal”. Had one of the wheels off last night since it was flat putting the spare on it and checked those pads. Not the culprit of the noise but they were more than 1/2 gone.

Reviving my old thread trying to remember exactly when I did her brakes last. She needs them again thought I’ve been hearing the squealer when she pulls into the driveway. I had to drive it last night and yup needs brakes again it’s not metal on metal again with the pad sheared off but it’s getting close. At least the weather is finally better to be under car for brakes and oil change.

I’m on a seafood diet well it’s see food and eat it

Had mine removed 12 years ago. Mine bursts from the stone being so big or something. Was in a ton of pain one night bad stomach pains I chalked it up to finally being state side after being gone a year on deployment to just food change and all the alcohol I was consuming. Was so bad my wife at the time and her boyfriend(yeah….see alcohol consumption above haha) ended up coming to get me and took me to the hospital. Gave me some good drugs did some scans and came in and prepped me for emergency surgery or something. All that went down between 2am and 6am I was home later that night all in the same day.

I was out yesterday fishing and geese on nests all over the creeks I fish. I usually fish near the mouth of Lake Ontario so there’s tons of geese and cormorants all over. The geese are annoying and dumb I had 3 that were fighting or what ever they are doing chasing eachother right infront of my kayak. Get like 2 feet from them and they squawk and try and fly go like 20’ and just go on about till I almost bump them again. Can’t cast infront some times because of them. Creeks big enough to go around me but noooooooo let’s play defense. I’d try and just go around and they would swim ahead so I can’t. A spot I hit a lot has swans but they are friendly I suppose. Never used to be but I think they’ve gotten used to people. They don’t puff out wings and try and intimidate anymore. Lots of times the one will swim along side the kayak almost petting distance at times literally touching along side the kayak. I’ll actually probably fish this spot today in a little bit. Geese thought we used to be able to shoot like 6 I think the limit was a day now it’s 1 it’s not even worth setting up for geese. If we get a loner into our duck spread we will whack it but not often we get loaners or they are spread out enough to single out just 1. They say numbers are down but sure don’t seem it fields will be covered with em can’t even see the ground there’s so many geese.

I’ve always wondered. My aunt knows the family tree a little I guess I always ask her about people when I run into some one else with same last name. Not a lot of George’s out there so when I meet some one with same last name it’s always “maybe cousins” haha. My grandma on moms side always said she was the lost princess of Russia or what ever. Anastasia or something my younger sister believed her for a bit but time frames don’t match my grandma was just crazy. I've thought about doing the DNA thing but I don’t exactly trust who ever it goes to. Kinda like the bill Burr thing. I just say I’m a mutt if subject comes up.

I do the Exxon Mobil rewards I’ve got $23 earned so far. I’ve already cashed it in once a few months ago when I had $50 earned filled my tank for nothing out of pocket at the time. I’ve gotten “lunch” with it a few times and by lunch I mean a can of monster and Reese’s big cup.

When fueling up your vehicle are you a fill it up till it stops or just do said amount at a time? My fiancé only ever puts in $10-20 at a time. Where as I fill it up, like this time of year with no fishing and no hunting I fill my truck once a week. Once fishing rolls around and then hunting it’s like 2x a week I fill up. I get about a month of 1x a week if weather isn’t playing nice like this year. Like this morning taking our daughter to school she said she needed gas her light was on. She ran her errands when I went to my doctors appointment and when we both were home I was in her car again and she didn’t even have 1/4 a tank. I made the comment to her I thought she needed gas and she replied she got some I forgot she never puts a lot in. I understand when money is tight only putting a few dollars in. When you can afford to fill up though fill up I think you spend more doing $20 every time you wanna go somewhere. She doesn’t think that though.

I tried tequila once back in the day when I was in high school…yeah yeah lol. One shot and instantly puked haven’t touched the stuff since lol. When and if I drink since it’s rare that I do I stick to my whiskey and bourbons.

Get called Clay a lot since the guys at work are to lazy to pronounce the ton at the end of my name haha. My grandma always called me Clay also but that was it. My best friends name is Clay so everyone else has always called us by our actual names. Shared birthdays and name known eachother since Pre K so 33 years or so. When I worked retail at runnings in the sporting good section being a big bass fisherman the manager gave me the nick name Okeechobee. Never fished there or even been there but that’s what he called me and everyone else started calling me that. Even now 3 years after I quit working there I will stop in and soon as he sees me sometimes on a camera he will get on the PA and announce that I have entered the building haha. My daughter gets called princess a lot but idk if I’d say it’s her nickname just what her spoiled butt gets called lol.

Aren’t the new ones able to start with a usb or what ever. Where I work now we do the security cameras at a bunch of dealerships and one had like half dozen kias/Hyundai stolen over a weekend because you can start them with like a flash drive or something.

Great night to kick off the NYS fox pro coyote hunt. Wind is supposed to die down later when I plan on heading out after this dinner thing my fiancé planned trying to hook up two of our friends is over it’s been crash and burn thing so far haha. Lots of long layers tonight when I get out.