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My lady's family lives out of state and I'd trust Putin before my own family. All my friends are in my home state. So we don't really have anyone here to help. We need someone for 4 days. Someone in the community suggested a woman who provides animal care at your home. We specifically need her to take care of the bunny. Rabbits are not easy animals to care for. She needs constant food every day. If there's a slip up in her diet she will die in 24 hours. A rabbit's digestive system has to be constantly flowing or they'll develop GI Stasis. This is what causes so many rabbits to suddenly and unexpectedly die. I think with my careful instructions this sitter will take care of the bunny just fine. What makes me uneasy is having someone with a key and access to the home for 4 days. Even a professional can be a bad person and make copies of the key and/or steal. We don't really have a choice though. Curious to see if anyone here has done this and how it went.

We just saw scarier people throughout the month of June. This little guy isn't scary.

I love Dobyns and I've never broken one of their rods, but I see a lot of people breaking them on the Dobyns Facebook page.

We can hear a lot, and we will during our lifetimes. No matter how it seems or how it looks, I'm not discounting your post or being a contrarian. But I have to say 2 things: If what you hear is reality, and what Hollywood shows, I'd be in a creepy castle or mansion like looking building, with overcast skies, an English doctor asking me a lot of questions, and I'd have a spouse being carried away in a red dress while she's screaming and crying because I'm being held down by doctors to force medical necessities down my throat. Waiting until it impacts your life negatively means a lot of hard years and a lot of life destroying decisions. It usually takes the hard times so people a lot smarter than us have something to examine to provide a diagnosis, though. I appreciate you any which way man

Thank you for saying that. I generally don't think anyone cares. Nobody gets disability income or divorced for no reason. Not entirely sure what this means, but I know you must mean well. A few paragraphs doesn't share everything nor will I. A divorce and a couple hospitalizations later, and a woman who put me in my place, was a godsend.

I wanted to revisit this because I think it's important to do so. At first I thought, "Is this the appropriate place for this?" So I backed off. But if not amongst friends, in a tight knit community (not just as a Bass Resource thing, but as a bass fishing community in general thing), with a group of like-minded people despite our various different walks of life, then where? I've fished some this year, but so far my season hasn't gone as planned. I haven't even seen the water in longer than I care to admit. Why? I don't know. Schizophrenia Spectrum Illnesses take something from people that nobody yet has been able to coherently explain to me. I don't think there is an explanation. I'm not talking about hallucinations or delusions. I think when most people think of these illnesses, they think of the Hollywood stereotype where we're all living in fantasyland and are hospitalized for life. That's not the reality. Those are an extreme minority of people with these illnesses. Those symptoms for me are largely controlled with medication, and they were never the Hollywood version of the symptoms to begin with; much more mild. When you're talking about the extremely rare Schizoaffective Disorder that I have, which is Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder existing side by side, each making the other worse, it's not just the manic episodes that need address; it's also the crippling depressive moods, which are much like chronic depressive mood disorders. Those get glossed over because manic episodes can have serious consequences. Uncontrolled, they can and will absolutely ruin a life. But the main problem is NONE of that. There's something else that nobody can describe. The best I ever see is the words "cognitive difficulties." But this isn't even a proper description. I'm absolutely not tooting my own horn, but I have an IQ of 139. Schizophrenia Spectrum Illnesses aren't mental retardation illnesses, and they don't cause it. That's what "cognitive difficulties" would lead you to believe, though. These illnesses do SOMETHING (whatever that something is) to us that doesn't make any sense. We just don't fire on all cylinders like we should. The green of the trees don't look like they should. The light of life doesn't shine like it should. The will to do things isn't there like it should be. Taking care of oneself doesn't seem like a huge priority. Having fun doing the things you like doesn't sound entertaining. This sounds depressive, no? But it's not that. It's different. It's really a different thing altogether. I know; I suffer the depressive mood swings. Whatever this part of it is, that's why most Schizophrenia Spectrum Illness sufferers end up disabled. We've figured out how to control, in most cases, the typical Hollywood symptoms, but the aspect the professionals can only describe as cognitive because there are no better words we have yet is something we don't know how to treat or if we even can. You ever know a punk teenager who seems to lack all motivation? It's like that, except we're not punks and we want to be motivated. My season just hasn't gone the way I imagined, but neither has my summer or anything else for that matter. On the bright side, we do have a 5 day cabin and lake getaway coming up in a little over a week with the kids and some friends, so that's definitely something to look forward to.

SLX MGL is great for this. SLX XT is really good too but I like it best going down to 10lbs, not really 6-8lbs.

I've shared this on BR a few times. One time I was fishing a lipless crankbait along a line of cattails near the bank. A strong gust of wind threw my bait into the cattails. I pulled and pulled until the lure was freed and it slingshotted back into my face at the speed of a bullet. It hit less than an inch below my eye. Complete miracle that not only did the hook avoid penetration, but that it avoided my eye. I've never fished without glasses since then. Probably, I would say, 7 years ago?

I couldn't say for sure in this particular situation, but I know for a fact shady behavior isn't beneath TW. Other than the credit card hacking situation, I returned a reel for exchange not too long ago because it just wouldn't dial in no matter what I did. It was an SLX XT. I have several of these reels and love them, so I know it wasn't me. When I got the "new" reel in exchange, it was the exact same reel I returned. I know this for a fact because the reel I sent back had a very unique scratch on the side from a lipless crankbait hook. This reel had the exact same scratch in the exact same spot.

I keep them for resale and to collect.

I'm learning how to talk to my teenage daughter in a language she understands.

If they're alive, they need to eat. Unless they're boiling it's not too hot.

No idea. I only cook good food. When my lady makes brussel sprouts the whole house smells like dog fart.

And ya better pay em like it if want to keep them around. You can't be paying people less for skilled trade than the 19 year old makes for selling chicken nuggets. If they can't understand that then owning a business probably isn't in their best interest.

I'm not guaranteed 70, 75, 80 or whatever. I'm guaranteed the moment, and I make the most of it. Nobody who works 40 hours should struggle to live to begin with, and nobody who works 40 hours (which let me remind you is FULL TIME ALREADY) is a lazy bum who is destined to live off other people's work.

Yup. Don't really care what the job is. More money for easier work is the logical answer. Also will never understand people who brag about the hours they work. Literally nobody cares or is impressed by the fact that you're working your life away. I was always content with 40 hours. 4 10 hour shifts was best. Life is far too short to be the guy volunteering for OT constantly. Nobody on their death bed wishes they had worked more hours. They always wish they had spent more time with family and doing the things they loved. The love of money is not in me.

It's never a concern for me. I'm just not fishing in strong wind, period. Fishing is supposed to be fun, and I have other hobbies. Fighting the wind isn't something I'm going to do. It's miserable.

Chick Fil A around here pays $19.50/hr. I can sit on a forklift for $28/hr easily (and I did before disability [mental illness]). $18 for that kind of labor in this world isn't gonna cut it. I rail against the entitled, spoiled, certain politically leaning brats as much as anyone, but in this case, it truly isn't worth it. Places are actually paying now, and for minimal work. Heck, my dad went back to work for something to do and just walks around an Amazon facility making sure people are being safe for $23/hr. I wouldn't break my back either. I'll sell chicken nuggets for the $19.50 before I break my back for $18.

Best I've ever done is 2 brats and a burger at a cookout, and then 2 more brats later that night from the leftovers. And I regretted every bit of it. I couldn't imagine how long it takes these guys to digest all of that food.

The ghost of George Washington checking in on America today Yep, this is what you fought for, old fella Meanwhile, me in my back yard knowing there ain't no way the old man upstairs is keeping that flood promise and I don't blame him one bit

You do this with courage. I simply open a Pringles can last night that was meant for a cabin trip in a couple weeks and I'm a horrible person.

If they're the screaming, cussing, threatening type, out comes the phone camera and their idiotic behavior is posted everywhere for the world to see. If they're the normal type of human who politely asks for you to move on because they have kids who swim around the dock and don't want a snagged hook to injure them, or explains how their boat has been damaged before, then be a decent human and move on. In a case like this: "Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's moral" and "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."

Y'all have hair? Haven't been able to relate to that for 15 years.

When I was a lot younger I used to drink a bottle of whiskey a night. No virus can compare to the rivers of mud that causes the next day.

It used to be that Norovirus was the main concern on cruises. You couldn't pay me to pack myself into a floating toilet in a disease riddled, post-Covid world.